 | | Journal (issue) | | SLIOKY QUARTZ CRYSTAL. HA DDALI NECK, CONN. COLLECTION 01" JAMES W. DAVIS, PORT CHESTER, N. Y. aTHEe—...is very abundant, occurring in a vein of smoky quartz, having for walls Epidosyte rock. it also penetrates...liancy of color of those crystals found in the smoky quartz. Nathan iel Cook obtained many beautiful specimens...that from Piedmont is said to form a small vein in gneiss about one inch wide. This particular locality I...this mineral has not been found in situ here in gneiss, as the original locality in this coun— 66 ‘ |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hill through the southern, famous for its gneiss quarries and mineral de posits, and Tim’s Hill lies...granite, with frequent occurrence of large veins of gneiss, which have been extensively quarried for curbing...anthophylite, apatite, aquamarine, autunite, aventurine quartz, beryl, biotite, bis muth ochre, bismutite, bog-iron... oligoclase, orthoclase, pied montite, pyrite, quartz, torbernite, tourmaline, and zircon. The above...past seventy-five years, explored the old hills, quarries and openings, so that at the present time one |  | | Book | | Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...in 2002 in a calcite-carbonatite vein intruding gneiss, together with very large Baveno-law-twinned crystals...Alberene and Old Dominion quarries, Albemarle County. In these two soapstone quarries, tabular ilmenite crystals |  | | Book | | Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Fluorite crystals from the People's...Czech Republic Pages 248-249: Gold crystals on quartz from Brusson, Valle d'Aosta, Italy NOTE TO THE...similar characteristics. H U o o E— Below left: Quartz crystals that have freely developed inside a cavity...minerals found as contact twinned crystals are gypsum, quartz and spinel. Penetrating twins are typical in fluorite...the rotation of two crystals. Above: crystal of quartz twinned by contact. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES Below: | | | Book | | Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Ruorite crystals from the People's...Czech Republic Pages 248-249: Gold crystals on quartz from Brusson, Valle d'Aosta, Italy NOTE TOTHE...characteristics. ;z 0 f- u ;=> p 0 p::: f- Below left: Quartz crystals that have freelv developed inside a cavity...minerals found as contact twinned crystals are gypsum, quartz and spinet. Penetrating twins are typical 'in fluorite...the rotation of two crystals. Above: Crystal of quartz twinned bV contact. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES Below: |  | | Book (volume) | | 4. GRAPHITE. (8) Graphite occurs, with gneiss and quartz on A.Johnson's farm E. from Feastcrvillc,...mine near Shimersville, Lehigh Co. It occurs with gneiss at Paxon'sfarm, near Feasterville, Bucks Co. ...(29) Fluorite occurs at the Kleckner limestone quarries near HalColors: green, purple and pink. Imperlietsville...vermilion, earthy incrustations occur at the gneiss quarries at Frankford, Philadelphia. MELACONITE. 16...MENACCANITE. Occurs massive at George Hammit's quarries, one mile East Kdge Hill furnace, Montgomery Co |  | | Report (volume) | | mineral content, and origin___________________ Gneiss and granite___ _ ______ ________ 7 9 9 9 ' 11..._________________________ 43 Geologic observations at the quarries, by T. Nelson Dale_______ 45 Microstructure____________________...Inclusions _________________________________ 47 Plicated gneiss structure_________________________ 47 Granite ...discussion Continued. Geologic observations at the quarries Continued, Page. Segregations__l_.____ '.____...Geodes______________________________ 51 Secondary quartz on joint faces______________ Veinlets of zeolite_______________ |  | | Report (volume) | | .............................................. Quartz veins............................................discussion Continued. Structural features Continued. Quartz veins...................................................................... 51 Descriptions of quarries................................... 51 Baltimore............................. 54 Descriptions of quarries................................... 54 Woodstock............................. 56 Descriptions of quarries .................................. 57 Port Deposit |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SIM SM471. Figure 47 (above). Orthoclase with quartz and adularia from Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn. 6...reddishbrown, measures 55 mm across, and is perched on a quartz matrix. The backside is incomplete, but the front...1888). Colorless apatite-(CaF) crystals on a smoky quartz matrix were recovered from a site one block from...crystals are found filling seams in schist and gneiss. Many apophyllite-(KF) specimens have been recovered...long in the pegmatites that cut the schist and gneiss. The locality at 190th Street and Amsterdam Avenue |  | | Book (edition) | | gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Fine quarries at Tallahassee falls on Tallapoosa river in sili...Tallapoosa, Chambers, and Randolph gold occurs both in quartz veins and in surface gravel. The gravels were partly...thoroughly worked over some forty years ago. The quartz veins have also been worked at many localities...Randolph county ; also found in small "quantity in quartz pebble beds overlying Coal Meas ures near Fayette...rock" outcrop. Chewacla lime works—a porphyritic gneiss quarried for mill stones. Grindstones are made |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontenac Quarries Limited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . .. . Black R a pids, Higley Lake quartz crystal d e posits . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melochville quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . Shawinigan and St-Maurice quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . St-Marc -des -Carrieres quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Report (issue) | | published and unpublished data on dimension stone quarries, prospects, and historical sites in the southern......................................5 Historic quarries...............................................................................8 Fraser Range — gneiss, charnockite, and mafic granulite ................................43 Wombarella Creek — granitic gneiss ............................................................107 Nanutarra red and white marble quarries ............................................. |  | | Book | | l28)--One mile north of the center of Alford. Vein of quartz, aeveral feet wide, traversing limestone and con~aining...(Coles Brook limestone) with acoessory plagioclase, quartz, diopside, tremolite, and chondrodite, and secondary...(76l42017'08 t' ,73 02'34"}65)--Quartz-plagioclasemicrocline.bioti te gneiss. Acc>essory minerals: clinozoisi... magnetite, muscovite, hornolende. 'Actinolite Gneiss >and Cpondrodite Limestone (76(locality uncertain}ltl)--westward...pyrite, Plrrhotite, ahd calcite in hornDlendle gneiss. Eaat of Center Pend, oa fara ot M.J. ~lder.an |  | | Report (volume) | | examples_________________ Fluidal cavities in granite gneiss.________ Fluidal cavities in small dikes or veins_____...England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product__________ Method of tr...The granite railroads_______________________ The quarries, their granite and finished product_______ Caledonia...________ Geology of Byegate quarries__________ Quarries ________________________ Groton____________________________...Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product Continued. Vermont Continued. Page. The quarries, their granite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | black olivine-enstatite rock and the inclosing gneiss. Professor Emerson says :9 “A gainst the olivine...pegmatites of granitic composition in which feld spar quarries have been opened are fairly abundant over parts...mica (muscovite, biotite, and lepidolite), and quartz, the other minerals reported are garnet, leucopyrite...black olivine-enstatite rock and the inclosing gneiss. Here it occurs abundantly in granular anorthite...stituent of the Hatfield tonalite and of the Pelham gneiss, but the finest crystals are found at Grilbertville |  | | Report (issue) | | Quarry 74 Flat Shoals . . • . • • . . . 76 Granite-Gneiss . • . , • . . . • 77 Mrs. M. J. Hill's Property...So The H. W. Hill Property. So Other Outcrops of Gneiss . 8I The T. B. Tigner Quarry • . 82 Coweta County...Quarry . • • • • . 9r Foliated Granite (Granite-Gneiss) • 94-96 Pike County . . . . . . . . . • . . •...• III-143 Stone Mountain and Its Quarries . . II3-II9 The Quarries of the Adjacent Lowland Belt . . ...Lithonia Area of Contorted Gneiss 125-143 The Rock-Chapel Mountain Quarries . 128 The Jake Chupp Quarry |  | | Book (volume) | | ..377 North Carolina – Spruce Pine – Little Switzerland Area Map .....................379 North Carolina.........................511 Virginia – Leesburg quarries Site Map .....................................................................557 Appendix B - Quartz Family Gemstones ................................includes granites, schists (mica, garnet, graphite, quartz), and gneisses, as well as numerous granite pegmatites...gemmy minerals, petrified wood; area limestone quarriesCalcite, Celestite, marble; SIXMILE (hamlet |  | | Report (issue) | | York, tind on the location, and ownership of the quarries of building stone, Ayas published by the State...in it, on the extent, location and statisof the quarries^ and on the markets and use of the stone in cities...incorporated in the descriptive notes of the quarries, so far as space would permit. The work of collecting...series. The desirability of a larger our leading quarries sufficient. Want their extension. is so evident...III. Descriptive notes of quarry districts and quarries. I. . 228-255 Crystalline rocks GraniteS;, |  | | Report (volume) | | Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...County, extensive quarries near Birmingham and Bessemer. Talladega County, several quarries. Clay (brick)...Gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Quarries at Tallassee Falls in Elmore County. Galena. Calhoun...Talapoosa County (auriferous), at Hog Mountain. Quartz. Friable quartz rock in Chambers, Chilton, Lee, Macon,...Valley, may be suited for glass sand; not used. Quartz (sand). Monroe County, near Claiborne. Road metal |  | | Report (issue) | | occupied parts of two field seasons. All of the large quarries were visited, and notes of their location, extent...extent, geological relations and ownership of the quarries, and their statistics of capital, plant, labor...facts bearing on the geological horizon of our quarries. statistics. ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;...formations Descriptive notes of quarry districts and quarries I. 18 18 Calciferous Sandrock 3. 17, _ Catskill...Limestone Slate Appendix Index : Statistics of Quarries 45-143 45-93 45-51 51-57 57-71 71 7 1-85 71-78 |  | | Report (volume) | | of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...County, extensive quarries near Birmingham and Bessemer; Talladega County, several quarries. Used for road...Gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Quarries at Tallassee Falls, in Elmore County. Galena....County, near Guntersville. Gas. See Natural gas. Gneiss. See Granite. Gold. In metamorphic rocks, Chilton...Tallapoosa County (auriferous), at Hog Mountain. Quartz. Friable quartz rock in Chambers, Chilton, Lee, Macon, |  | | Book | | perfect, and abundant, sometimes in very white quartz. Beryl, large crystals in graphic granite, also...Schorl, black, masses sometimes contain fragments of quartz, and feldspar. Feldspar, sometimes white, granular...banks of the Androscoggin, be- tween strata of gneiss. sometimes in crystals, generally Epidote, manganesian...granular or compact, in veins traversing granite, gneiss, greenstone, &cc. Hornblende, fibrous, in large...limestone, sometimes in granite and gneiss, ; limestone, with Granular Quartz ; it forms a stratified ruck of |  | | Book (volume) | | ..............................458 Appendix B - Quartz Family Gemstones ................................includes granites, schists (mica, garnet, graphite, quartz), and gneisses, as well as numerous granite pegmatites...⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet...AREA: c lead mines⎯Galena; d sand & gravel pits⎯Quartz gemstones; e iron mines⎯Hematite, Magnetite, Pyrite...Pyrite, etc.; f limestone and dolomite quarries⎯Barite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of Co.), area⎯Barite |  | | Book (volume) | | ..............................460 Appendix B - Quartz Family Gemstones ................................includes granites, schists (mica, garnet, graphite, quartz), and gneisses, as well as numerous granite pegmatites...⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet...AREA: c lead mines⎯Galena; d sand & gravel pits⎯Quartz gemstones; e iron mines⎯Hematite, Magnetite, Pyrite...Pyrite, etc.; f limestone and dolomite quarries⎯Barite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of Co.), area⎯Barite |  | | Book | | Subparallel Biotite, potash feld- Volcanic Absence of quartz Dark green to black color Texture flow amphibole...Grainy Hornblende, olivine, pyroxenes Absence of quartz augite, Olivine present Plagioclase, Coarse ... or other py- roxene Granite Light Grainy Quartz, feldspar. mica; speckled Granodiorite Light ...Pegmatite Light grains promi- Quartz present Diorite with quartz Extraordinary mica, feldspar, ...speckled A Olivine, Jointed, vesicular; color out quartz pyroxene. plagioclase Felsites Light Grain |
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Gneiss quarries, Riveo, Maggia, Vallemaggia, Ticino, Switzerland