| | Book (volume) | mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE, area gravels along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. ...BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE: area barite pitsBarite, Geodes...Geodes, Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Iron minerals; area mines, as important producersBarite, Manganese...extensive area depositsBarite, Graphite; US 41 bridge over the Etowah R., area Barite pitsBarite, geodes...geodes (crystal lines). KINGSTON, S, in area fields, streams, rd. cuts, etc.agate, (banded, various | | | Book (volume) | FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars...jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw formation... CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite...COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps...the United States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY | | | Book (volume) | FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars...jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw formation... CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite...COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps...the United States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY | | | Book (volume) | rivers, and outcroppings through the Quaternary gravel surfaces. Greatly eroded sandhills fan out across...Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout the more settled...Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area around the confluence of the Loup River with the...petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R., especially to the...wood, agate, jasper; in draws and washes and gravel beds of Spring Cr. and the Keya Paha R. agatized | | | Report (issue) | blasted, a test core drilled, a mine shaft sunk or a gravel pit dug—additional mineral discoveries may be made...gratitude. I also wish to thank the many quarry, gravel pit and mine operators in Iowa, and many private...Halotrichite ............................................ Hematite ................................................................................ Minerals from gravel deposits and drift boulders Epidote..............fragments of black sphalerite Polished stones from gravel pits. Epidosite rock with feldspar. Zeolite minerals | | | Book (volume) | CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek...COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington...(on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co. exposures of blue clay...FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite...SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA exposures throughout | | | Book (volume) | CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek...COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington...(on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co. exposures of blue clay...FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite...SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA exposures throughout | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | collecting heritage. Its numerous limestone quarries, gravel pits, strip mines. and rock outcrops are scattered...Formation, mined intermittently 1899-191 8: goethite, hematite (Garvin 1998). Waukon, Mineral Creek = Clem Byrnes...NovemberlDecernber 2002 405 Locality Cross-Reference Acme gravel pit, Muscatine Co. Downloaded by [University of...Creek, Shefield, Franklin Co. Bellevue Sand and Gravel Company, Jackson Co. Bellevue State Park, Jackson...Mound, Clinton Co. Guttenberg, Clayton Co. Hahn’s gravel pit, Muscatine Co. Harper quarry, Kcokuk Co. Harvey | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | More details can be obtained from the Paradise Area Chamber of Commerce, P . O. Box 82, Paradise, Michigan...where there are Ordo vician fossils in nearby gravel pits (in quire locally). For a change of pace, turn...Precambrian rocks, on Presque Isle (a fine picnick ing area). US-41 west out of Marquette follows the north...Champion mine, for high grade specimens of micaceous hematite and associated minerals. Just after Alberta,...and since up lifted. Many falls in the Munising area plunge over the Cambrian sand stone capped by a | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Szksjtirvi impact structure in the Precambrian shield area of southwest Finland (Fig. I). Because of their...Evolcanic Impact crater Granite > @ Karhiniemi esker pits Main directions of alacial transportation ' a...boulder train of impactites and agates (overshaded area). Proterozoic bedrock types are delineated according...bedrock represents a fairly typical Precambrian shield area. The northern and eastern part of Finland is largely...Agates (Fig. 2), observed in gravel pits in the Huittinen and Kokemiiki area some 30 km southeast of the | | | Book | archaeologists working in the remote Lake Rudolf area of Africa's Kenya found shaped stone implements...Sicilians were scrabbling for agates amor1g the gravel bars of the river Achates (now called Drillo),...moss agates of Montana's famed Yellowstone River gravel bars knows fully whereof Pliny spoke. Pliny also...fastnesses of the Southwest, visitors toured the area, bringing home beautiful rock souvenirs to be made...Petrified Forest National Monument to preserve the area from further destruction. The Great Depression of | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | found on nearly any rocky beach or gravel pits in the Key West area. These are some of things I offer...of Eatonton. Some amethyst has been found in the area but these quartz crystals are the only other minerals...inclusions in the quartz crystals are probably hematite. Hexagonal red. Not rutile — which is tetragonal...from several scattered pits on Catoctin Mountain. I was searching for these pits but was saved the trouble...botryoidal hematite occasionally found filling cavities in rock, also stalactitic and iridescent hematite, goethite | | | Report (issue) | teachers and students for geologic information in the area in Khich they live. In response to this demand in...Page Goethite Gold Gypsum Halite Halotrichite Hematite Jade Limestone Limonite Magnetite Marcasite Melanterite...Labradorite, Moonstone Garnet, Type II Occurrences. Hematite Ivory ] ade, Type II Occurrences. Nephrite ] ade...about the minerals and gemstones that occur in the area where they live. Others collect minerals and gemstones...to a long-obliterated mountain range; or to the gravel deposits of a former stream. This book will help | | | Book (volume) | and a Southern Section, covering a somewhat larger area around Harney Peak. The northern section is characterized...excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm Cr...wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds, etc. petrified wood...Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye... CUSTER: N, (1) near Laughing Water Cr., many area minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old | | | Book (edition) | .. New Discoveries ........ 6 6 6 HOT SPRINGS AREA ...... Cycad ............................. Sand...BEDS 11 OELRICHS AGATE BED .. 12 THE CUSTER AREA ......... Tepee Canyon Agate ... Garnets .........Pegmotite Minerals........ 13 14 15 16 19 RAPID CITY AREA............. Jasper Conglomerate ... Golden Barite..... 25 PIERRE SHALE FOSSILS . 27 THE MISSION AREA ......... Sand Calcite Crystals . 27 28 8 8 8...Items 38 38 .38 39 .39 39 THE RED HILLS-WELLINGTON AREA 39 .39 Gems THE FLINT HILLS Gems .............. | | | Book (edition) | Hobby S outh _. D akota 8 . Page Hot Springs Area Cycad .-' _ :. Oelrichs Agate Beds Rose Quartz...25 Golden Barite - 13 Black Agates The Custer Area Tepee Canyon Agate Page 8 12 Ardmore Agate Beds... Chalcedony 16 The Badlands 17 Northwestern Area 18 Sand Calcite Crystals ___ ._ 27 27 28 29... Pegmatite Minerals 21 The Central Area 32 Rapid City Area 24 Sioux Quartzite 32 State Park...Zeitner holds a fine Targe agate from the Iowa gravel deposits. ally — sented here. many who are | | | Book | up with the fast changing scene. This is a large area with hundreds of Opportunities for gem, mineral...learn the geology, mineralogy and paleontology of an area and look for similar outcrops to the better known...successful trip. 1. 2. Contact rock clubs in the area you propose to visit. Write to the Chambers of Commerce...bulletins of the area you are most interested in. > on Look up the names of rock shops of the area which you...many of the states. Some guide books may be for one area or for one type of field trip, for example invertebrate | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | ph—phosphoresces ayampa, just past the service station, a gravel road takes off, to the right. Here you leave the...found parallel to the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after...broken down, washed and distributed over much of the area that was the ancient gulf coast over a tremendous...likewise tremendous deposits of novaculite pebbles (gravel). Of course, both north and south coastal plains...Another consisted of small, black platy lustrous hematite xls with tiny smoky quartz xls, greenish garnet | | | Report (volume) | ---------------------.-------------Unclassified sand and gravel deposits.---.________________ Varved lake clays---...____-______-_-_--________-_-----___-_ Sand and gravel-______________________________________________... ABSTRACT The Norwood 7%-minute quadrangle, an area of about 55 square miles, southwest of Boston, Mass...possible Cambrian age in the southwestern part. The area has four distinct groups of late Precambrian(?)...Devonian or Carboniferous age underlies a small area in the northeastern part of the quadrangle. The | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | over the mine dumps. Most of the rock piles in this area are overgrown with brush and weeds making it difficult...road work. However a couple of good pieces of hematite and a nice cluster of barite crystals were found...digging two good specimens of pyrolusite. Specular hematite is quite abundant on the dumps. Continuing on...Negaunee are located the Cleveland Cliffs Mining Co. pits. Again no one was working due to vacation. From...jaspilite, a deep red rock banded with specular hematite, that should produce a good polish. Turning west | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Figure 1. Searching for Petoskey stones in a private gravel pit, Kalkaska Township, Kalkaska County, Michigan...Petoskey stone found by one of the authors (DR) in a gravel pit, Kalkaska County, Michigan. A. E. Seaman Mineral...is a pink hue that may be restricted to a small area of the stone or saturate the entire stone. Only...Locality map, prepared by William Besse. The shaded area in northern Lower Michigan shows those counties...for years, particularly in the Petoskey-Charlevoix area, where they once occurred in abundance. Although | | | Book (volume) | matrix, road cut, pegmatite, shoreline, quarry, gravel pit, prospect, mine, etc.). Let’s take, as an example...corresponding entry is as follows: 21. Tonopah area; from I-10 follow good unmarked road 3 miles south...extends from the north face of the mountain over an area 1.5 miles wide and 2 miles long; better specimens...map; in the directions, the first portion—Tonropah area—initially directs the reader to the closest municipality...Mountain. The third portion narrows the location area even more by identifying it as an alluvial fan with | | | Journal (issue) | Center GmbH Haberstrasse 7, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany Address for courier, express and registered mail:...Chennai, India Printer: Stiirtz GmbH, Wiirzburg, Germany Printed on acid-free paper Springer is a part...Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Printed in Germany days of publication of this issue. 14 Back volumes:...@ Orders and inquiries 17, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany Business hours: Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 8 p...holidays According 105280, 69042 Heidelberg, Germany from: subscriptions@springer.com springer.com/wikom | | | Book | is a square hammerhead on the other. raking gravel, poking about having a collection of minerals... to soil A often is or gravel, and a sieve when examining gravel much small shovel, the army...the friends trip Among them, there with the area you re planning to sound advice as give Plan...chosen are provided drawing to locate a collecting area, describe the condition of the roads, and mark out...Maine, around the town of Paris, and the rugged area north and east of San Diego, several years. stuff | | | Book (volume) | matrix, road cut, pegmatite, shoreline, quarry, gravel pit, prospect, mine, etc.). Let’s take, as an example...corresponding entry is as follows: 7. Orella Station area (a former watering stop of the Chicago, Burlington...cross tracks and go 3 miles west through Badlands area (negotiable for autos but four-wheel drive is recommended)...the directions, the first portion—Orella Station area—initially directs the reader to the closest municipality...follows that dim road westward for 3 miles through an area of badlands that can be traveled by auto, although |
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