 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALOGY OF The Granite Mountain Syenite PULASKI AND SALINE COUNTIES, ARKANSAS Within the last few...from the syenite pegmatites of Granite Mountain. HENRY L . BARWOOD Arkansas Mining and Mineral Resources...Resources Research Institute Arkansas Tech University Russellville, Arkansas 72801 A C O M P L E X P L U T O...Saline County to the city limits of Little Rock in Pulaski County. The outcrops in Saline County are weath...the northeast forms a promi nent ridge ("Granite" Mountain) and contains four active and many inactive |  | | Journal (issue) | | Notebook: Martin Marietta Jones Mill Quarry Hot Spring County, Arkansas - Fall, 2000 Art Smith 9118 Concho...Mid-state or Midstate quarry o n the southeast outer na nk o f Mag ne t Cove. The quarry processes metamorphic...activity, but I w,iid not expec t to see how much the quarry complex had sprawled to the west of the original...a coniste nt hard roc k a nd the by-passing o f rock that was less desirable. usually that whic h had...Rutile (1 mm) on orthoclase, Jones Mill Quarry, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, photo by the author. Continued on |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals, Arkansas also boasts an array of other minerals, as evidenced by this county-by-county description...continued with mining in north ern and western Arkansas and Magnet Cove during the Civil War, and peaked...in full swing and the demand for and price of Arkansas quartz crystals has skyrocketed. In October 1987...exploited. Continued interest in and study of Arkansas minerals, par ticularly the microminerals, will...for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting. Particular thanks goes to these hardcore |  | | Book | | Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I •( 11 o •« c »««ou cxi ju4«iO«J...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute Quadrangal...Quadrangal Map index. V Contents and Locality Index Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types....Location 1 Montgomery County quartz deposits................. Other Montgomery County quartz mines...... |  | | Journal (issue) | | collecting localities. Thus I was excited (though a little skeptical) to learn of a nearby quartz collecting...Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most...particularly prevalent south of Donalda in the Drumheller area which is home to the well-known Tyrrell Museum,...After receiving comments that the Goodall Farm Quarry, also known as the Sanford vesuvianite locality...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea |  | | Journal (issue) | | the most well-known mineralized veins within the area described as the Central Kentucky Fluorspar District...From A Collector's Notebook: On to the Northeast, Arkansas Collecting-Fall 1999 Art Smith 9118 Concho Street...near Lake Greeson and Mount Ida quartz ~ Our Arkansas collecting trip started early in October, ednesday...after noon. We hit the dumps and moved a bit of rock, but were disappointed and found just a couple of...headed eas t w ith no fur-ther tops. We got to Little Roc k Just be fore complete darkness and checked |  | | Journal (issue) | | PAGE FROM A COLLECTOR'S NOTEBOOK: 3M BIG ROCK QUARRY, ARKANSAS COLLECTING TRIP - FALL 1998, Part 1 Art...Street Houston, Texas 77036-6742 - Our last Arkansas Collecting trip started about a month earlier...group gathered at the 65th Street Denny's in Little Rock at 7:00 AM on October I. _The_encroachment of...proceeded to the 3M Big Rock Quarry in the nephelinc sycnite of Granite Mountain located less than I mile...mile away. Last year, our visit to the Granite Mountain syenitc quarries was almost monomineral with boulders |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (1985), North Carolina (1985), Indiana (1986), and Arkansas (1988). Each of the pub lished indices has differed...particular state or area, and to find out who else may already be working on that area. The ultimate result...the locality listings. C O L O R A D O , Chaffee County California mine, west of Nathrop (near head of...fluorite, topaz. I N D I A N A , Allen County May Stone and Sand quarry (Ardmore plant, France Stone C o ...pyrite, calcite. P E N N S Y L V A N I A , Chester County French Creek mine (includes old Keim [lower] and |  | | Journal (issue) | | the MidstateQuarry Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...in the Midstate Quarry located just off the southeast flank of Magnet Cove. This quarry is in the altered... The Stanley Shale is a dark, hard fine-grained rock that contains numerous fractures and mineralization...veins. This hard shale makes for good construction rock, but for the average collector, mineral collecting...aboufo:s mmlong, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, photo by the author. Middle& |  | | Journal (issue) | | material from the Black Pine Mine near Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana. Well known for the excellent veszelyite...testing gold. Major areas covered include Southeast USA, California, Australia, Canada to Alaska, Britain...from the estate of Mr. Benjamin Ackerman of Glen Rock New Jersey, a specimen caught my attention. The...all and my first inclination was to file it in the rock garden. Then a familiar hemispherical surface with...Ackerman material was definitely from the Paterson area but he chose to use the general locality of "Paterson" |  | | Journal (issue) | | and calcite, 11/2 inches across, Knippa Quarry, Uvalde County, Texas, photo by the author. Tucson 1999...Posey Mine (San Juan Co., Utah, USA) and Planet Mine (La Paz Co., Arizona, USA). That from Posey Mine is composed...the I0th Maine Mineral Symposium at the Senator Inn and Conference Center in Augusta, Maine. This annual...experience in mining and selling gems in Oxford County; Vandall King (the expert on Maine minerals); and...on-line demonstration! We always have a talk on some area outside the Northeast, and this year Ted Johnson |  | | Journal (issue) | | considered world-class. In I997. a group o f fiv·e Boston area collectors who frequently collect together at the...directed by one of the old employees of the mine to an area that had prod uced epidote crystals in the I960s...arrival, I got about one hour to check out the Holiday Inn which is across the road. I started by looking...than seeing a collection with little or no documentation . With a little effort, it is possible for a...the backbone of many great museum collections. A little diligence is all that is needed to keep a collection |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1 H0gtuavite crystals in matrix, near H0gtuva Mountain, Norway. New Mineral Finds in the First Half...Joe Cilen's collection from Goodsprings, Clark County. Nevada labelled as heterogenite which is well...reported occurre nce in Quartzburg District, Grand County , Oregon. The heteroge nite is not present on the...:walder Mine, Raston Buttes District. Huerfago County. Col o rado labelled as uraninite. The Schwartzwalder...Mohawk Mine, eastern part of Clark Mountain. San Bernardino County, CA. Whil e beudantite is known from |  | | Journal (issue) | | From A Collector's Notebook: Moat Mountain, Albany, Carroll County, Hew Hampshire-2000 Art Smith 9118...produci ng many of the class ical New Hampshi re granite miarolitic cavity crystal groups of smoky quartz... Bob Eastman had shop in a barn full o f Moat Mountain , pec ime ns and other local material located...locality has become an official collecting area in the W hite Mountain National Forest. This locality Continued...Continued on page 6 Fig. 1 Albite, micro, Moat Mountain, New Hampshire, photo by the author. New Mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | at Hastie's Quarry. A Page from-a Collecto,r's Notebook: More Finds at the Midstate Quarry Magnet Cove...Cove,Hot SpringCounty,Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston, Texas 77036 In April, 1998, Clyde...Malvern, Arkansas sent me some specimens he had received in trade from the Midstate Quarry, also known...known as the 51 Quarry, on the outer southeast edge of Magnet Cove (see Mineral News vol. 14, no. 4, ~998)...~998). Although this quarry has been active for several years it ~as only been since the operations have |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Volume Thirty-seven, Number Six Articles The Arkansas diamond rush continues! A book review and an update...PENTAGONITE crystal cluster, 4 cm, from the Wagholi quarry complex, Ahmadnagar, Poona, Maharashtra, India...volume 37, November–December, 2006 501 The Arkansas Diamond Rush Continues! T UÉÉ~ exä|xã , tÇwtÇhÑwtàx...diamonds in a kimberlite pipe near Murfreesboro, Arkansas. The site became the famous Crater of Diamonds |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wavellite Find at the State Pit Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston...from Mauldin Mountain located about 2 miles north of Mount Ida in Montgomery County. Arkansas has been mentioned...History The Mauldin Mountain wavellite locality has been producing most of Arkansas' wavellite specimens...1983). Most of these specimens have come from the County Continued on page 4 Fig. 1 Planerite with colorless...colorless wavellite, State Pit, Mauldin Mountain, Arkansas, photo by Art Smith. New Finds and other News |  | | Journal (issue) | | Three Interesting Silicates from the Laytonville Quarry, California Robert J. Lauf Oak Ridge, Tennessee...familiar with the monumental set ofreference books Rock Forming Minerals by Professors William Alexander...silicate minerals were discovered at the Laytonville quarry, Mendocino Co., California, Agrell and coworkers...collector. Geology of the Laytonville Quarry The Laytonville quarry, Mendocino Co., California, contains...(Agrell, Bown, and McKie 1964). The Laytonville quarry exotic block represents a series of deep-ocean |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles , CA Joseph A. Mandarino...the sound of the trade winds? Why show lumps of rock when Kilauea itself can be shown sliding its hissing...much astronomy can one glean from staring at a moon rock in the American Museum of Nat4ral History on Central...clear that current management wishes to have as little to do with this collection as possible. How long...carried immediately above it and terminating in a little tabular 114 support on which the crystal can |  | | Journal (issue) | | old label indicated the locality only as Sonoma County, California. However in view of it's association...effervesces in HCl, in carbonatites and zeolite-carbonate rock in Khibina and Vuorijarvi alkaline massifs, Kola...know that George Gerhold and Anthony Kampf (LA County Museum) are preparing a CD-ROM of mineral data...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...Yedlin, is also featured. The consumer education area holds examples of all kinds of turquoise treatments |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...mineral localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia...............................sodium calcium phosphate hydrate from the Paterson area, New J ersey .....................................Simmons & F. J. Wicks Calcioferrite from the Moculta quarry, near Angaston, South Australia ................. from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and Bob Sullivan; |  | | Journal (issue) | | termination on the larger crystal on the front was a little odd looking (deformed?), that looks like it may...unlabeled specimen may be nothing more than a pretty rock. While sorting the minerals it was obvious to us...the Sceptre claims in his room at the Executive Inn and I purchased an apatite and a zoned smoky quartz...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone:208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com World...and more Come on over. There' II be lots of good rock talk, tours of Al and Sue's collection of crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $3.00 A Quick and Short Collecting Trip to Arkansas in April 2004 Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Having...Having missed this past fall's Coon Creek trip to Arkansas I was chomping at the bit to get up there and...Cove recreational area on Lake Greeson that is just north of Murfreesboro, Arkansas. He had already examined...examined and collected on the small area on the upper part of the dump that had only small rocks exposed...(Continues on page 3) ----2 Quick and Short Arkansas Collecting Trip in April 2004 (Continued from |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $3.00 A New Occurrence of Very Large Titanite Crystals at Lake Tahoe, Nevada Martin Jensen '--...actinolite and titanite may also occur. It was from one of these pegmatites that the large titanite crystals...page 2) Tucson Hotel Uproar Emerges as Executive Inn Show Self-Destructs Tony Nikischer tony@mineralnews...most mineral dealers participating at the Executive Inn show in Tucson left the E.I. with show promoter Martin...new shows at the Clarion Hotel and the Smugglers Inn. At the crux of the dispute was the apparent attempt |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rhodochrosite on sulfides, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado, Martin Zinn specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...November/December: Copper, Cliff mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum specimen...Manganese-BariumMineral Locality in Northern Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 320-25 Behierite, Wisconsin, 170 Beudantite...Mexico, 302 Beyer, J., Minerals of the Granite Gap Mines, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, 298-305 Biotite, Wisconsin...Mineralogy Chile, luanheite, 120-22 Chips from the Quarry, M. E. 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