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Fuchsite from
Willis Mountain Mine, Sprouses Corner, Farmville Mining District, Buckingham County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Fuchsite
Formula:K(Al,Cr)3Si3O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyriteⓘ2 photos of Fuchsite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Mica Group1 photo of Fuchsite associated with Mica Group at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fuchsite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Willis Mountain Mine, Sprouses Corner, Farmville Mining District, Buckingham County, Virginia, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:369496
Long-form Identifier:1:3:369496:1
GUID (UUID V4):ad45941b-f3e5-4d65-a25e-56ea3d3baf1b
Nearest other occurrences of Fuchsite
30.3km (18.8 miles) ⓘBaker Mountain Mine, Madisonville, Farmville District, Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA
33.6km (20.9 miles) ⓘUnnamed Kyanite Mine (MRDS - 10179626), Baker Mountain, Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA
38.1km (23.7 miles) ⓘMadisonville Deposit, Charlotte County, Virginia, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l
Journal (issue)
February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kyanite Quartzites in the Piedmont Province of Virginia: Evidence for a Possible High-Sulfidation System...Geology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 AND MATTHEW A. PASEK Department of Planetary...world’s largest kyanite mine is hosted within kyanite quartzite at Willis Mountain in the Piedmont Province...Province of Virginia, and numerous smaller bodies occur throughout this region. Most occur in the Ordovician...central Virginia, and the only active kyanite mine in the United States is at Willis Mountain in Buckingham
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from Virginia by RICHARD S. MITCHELL Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...same county. I t also has been observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and...world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is coated...radioactive. The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described...the classic locality which is on Little Friar Mountain, near Albite {cleavelandite variety). Cleavelandite
Report (issue)
the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho­ tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound
Journal (issue)
Procedures Members who’ve participated in Northern Virginia Mineral Club auctions know that they are a lot...rule; items with multiple bids on The Northern Virginia Mineral Club November 2010 Bid Slips - Please...line and bring one for each item The Northern Virginia Mineral Club NAME BID __________ __________...countless thousands of fossils each The Northern Virginia Mineral Club November 2010 THE MINERAL NEWSLETTER...to protect it during the winter. The Northern Virginia Mineral Club After a long, hot day of digging
Journal (issue)
SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR VISIT OUR MINE-KEEP WHAT YOU FIND...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard
Book (volume)
(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Dosen ONN/ QBI96-40247 Trade Distribution by Mountain Press Publishing Company P.O. Box 2399, Missoula...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout
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Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout... most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing gravels in Montana is beginning...operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine, Laytonville, CA; Ralph...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache
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5.95 and quickly informative.”— “Practical Virginia Kirkus RANGE GUIDE TO MINES AND MINERALS A by...stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K
Report (issue)
ee as Edited by Kula C. Misra 3 KENTUCKY ay VIRGINIA\ ee fi MCA SOT TENNESSEE RANDATHER QUNTAN...Kula C. Misra _———— VIRGINIA KENTUCKY OVERLAP \ GRANDFATHER TENNESSEE ~~ MOUNTAIN KIOKEE BELT SOUTH...the South-Central Sulfide Mineralization along Mountain, Cleburne Co., Marc OF CONTENTS Metal Deposits...Copper Anomaly at the Peachbottom Deposit, Alleghany County, North Carolina (John E. Callahan, J. Hatten Metal...Carolina Robert Butler) District, 78 Southernmost at Four Gold Slate Belt Mine, 97 F. Hollister)
Book
boundaries of the mineral industry are clear: the mining and milling of feldspar, for example, belong to...does not. But how does one draw the line between mining and manufacturing where brine from a salt well...districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies, and give production...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many...government may even decide to go directly into mining, as Saskatchewan has done with potassium minerals
Book
United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
present of mining and metallurgy of lead . . . . . . . . . . . 18.7.2. Past and present of mining and metallurgy...hampering our access to mineral deposits, such as mining depth controlled among others by the geothermal...Hewett in 1927 who was able to demonstrate that in mining countries exploitation, export and import of metals...passed its climax. At the very end the domestic mining industry can no longer cater for the needs and...looked up in various publications such as the “World Mining Data”, a yearbook issued by Weber and Zsak (2007)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
present of mining and metallurgy of lead . . . . . . . . . . . 18.7.2. Past and present of mining and metallurgy...hampering our access to mineral deposits, such as mining depth controlled among others by the geothermal...Hewett in 1927 who was able to demonstrate that in mining countries exploitation, export and import of metals...passed its climax. At the very end the domestic mining industry can no longer cater for the needs and...looked up in various publications such as the “World Mining Data”, a yearbook issued by Weber and Zsak (2007)
Report (volume)
KING, ELISABETH S. LOUD, MILDRED CHALLMAN MEAD, VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN, and GEORGIANNA D. CONANT PART 1. BIBLIOGRAPHY...KING, ELISABETH S. LOUD, MILDRED CHALLMAN MEAD, VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN, and GEORGIANNA D. CONANT INTRODUCTION...Oftedahl, Margaret Cooper, Margaret E. Barcroft, Virginia E. Rees, Henry J. Ferry, Karlyn Shoemaker, and...are as follows: COLORADO. Mineralogy. Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R....Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous
Book (edition)
DURRIE & PECK, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION...only by name. in uses of minerals and their mining, their countries, modes modes of application...American localities of Minerals, notice of Foreign Mining Regions, Mineralogical Implements, Weights, Measures...aster, star.] HavThe ing the appearance of a stai mine. An oxyd having an acrid within. Alkali. Containing...of the simple blowin Gallery. horizontal A A mining. pipe. Gangue, 204. Inspissate. Gelatinize
Book (edition)
yr>cr 1857, by PLCK D the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut (QE372. 18^7 EARTH SCIENCES...especially dwelt upon. in the arts of ores in mining, their modes of reduction, the yield of mines in...LOCALITIES OF MINERALS, . BRIEF NOTICE OF FOREIGN MINING REGIONS, . . . MlNERALOGICAL IMPLEMENTS, WEIGHTS...aditus, an entrance.] horizontal entrance to a mine. The material under chem* blowpipe examination...simple blowhorizontal passage in Gallery. A A mining. Gangue, 204. Inspissate. Gelatinize, 67. Intumesce
Book (edition)
by DUEEIE & PECK, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut BENHAM * SON, PHCtTEBS... modes of application The value of ores in mining, their modes of reduction, the yield of mines in...localities of Minerals, Brief notice of Foreign Mining Regions, . . . Mineralogical Implements, Index...70 impleshape,] 54. horizontal entrance to a mine. A A ; A : Amygdaloidal, 339. Anhydrous. [Lat...Infusible. Gallery. A horizontal passage in mining. Gangue, 204. Inspissate. Gelatinize, 67. Intumesce
Book (edition)
application in the arts have value of ores in mining, their modes of reduction, the yield of mines...localities or Minerals, — Brief notice of Foreign Mining Regions. Chap. X. — Mineealogical Implements, ...an entrance.] The horizontal entrance to a mine. An oxyd Alkali, and taste, having an acrid...simple blowGallery. horizontal passage in A A mining. pipe. Gangue, 204. Inspissate. Gelatinize...ingredients present. [Sax. lasdan. to lead.] In mining, a vein of mineral substance ; usually a vein of
Book (edition)
by DURRIE & PECK in the Clerk's Office of the District Stereotyped by J. H. New BENHAM, Haven, Ct...application in the arts have value of ores in mining, their modes of reduction, the yield of mines...LOCALITIES OF MINERALS, BRIEF NOTICE OF FOREIGN MINING REGIONS, CHAP. IX. 211 233 243 247 250 257 259...aditus, an entrance.] horizontal entrance to a mine. An oxyd Alkali. and taste, soda. Alkaline...simple blowhorizontal passage in Gallery. A ; A mining. Gangue, 204. Inspissate. Gelatinize, 67. Intumesce
Book (edition)
BSc, PhD, MIMM, FGS Fonnerly Senior Lecturer in Mining Geology University of Leicester THIRD EDITION...PUBLISHING 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ UK 550 Swanston...former in response to the changing situation in tin mining following the recent tin crisis and the latter...the subject, and the intending practitioner of mining geology would be wen advised to accompany his study...journals as World Mining,* the Mining Journal, the Engineering and Mining Journal and the Mining Magazine,t
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OF MI N E RA LO G Y, INOLUDING OBSERVATIONS ON MINE~, ROCKS,. REDU'CTION OF ORES, A.'ND Tll.B - - ...especially awelt,. upon. The value of or'ea in mining their modes, of redtHJ:ti~n, tha yieid of !mines...LOCALITIES OF MzNERAI.S, , BRIEF NOTIO~_.O F FOREIGN MINING REGIONS, • • • MINER:ALOGIOAL IMPLlalENTS, • •...COINS, • • • • • TABLES FOR nm DJtTEBMINATION OF MINE&ALS, • • • INDEX, • • • • • • • • 323...Monometric, 39. to &tand upon, earthy or alkaline : Mountain limestone. _A limestone material. and draining
 
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