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Lodestone from
Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA


Locality type:Census-designated Place
Classification
Species:Magnetite var: Lodestone
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Magnetite1 photo of Lodestone associated with Magnetite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Lodestone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1595942
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1595942:7
GUID (UUID V4):13fa7f16-5e38-4377-86a2-a52a38862a59
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Other Paper
MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS: COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS, STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS...Jr. and J. Michael Howard MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS: COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS...Michael Howard 16001 Vimy Woods Road Mabelvale, Arkansas 72103 E-mail: jmichaelhoward@sbcglobal.net ©...Additional Magnet Cove Mineral Occurrences……………………………… 49 Part 2 – Minerals of Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County...County, Arkansas and Vicinity……………………..... 49 Part 3 – Briefs of the Important Mineral Locations of Magnet
Report (issue)
AGES Brochure Series 004 Magnet Cove A synopsis of its geology, lithology and mineralogy. Brookite...Angela Chandler 2007 Arkansas Geological Survey, Bekki White, State Geologist Magnet Cove is an area of unusual...presence of lodestone in the soil and from its basin-like shape. It is located in northern Hot Spring County...County, Arkansas, about 12 miles east of the city of Hot Springs. U.S. Highway 270B (Arkansas Highway 51)...51) passes east-west across the center of the Cove. The Cove lies at the eastern end of the Mazarn synclinorium
Journal (issue)
............................... 78 MAGNET COVE AND LODESTONE. SATIN SPAR FROM BURNTFORK, WYO. By...MINERALS MAGNET COVE AND LODESTONE By H. E. WHEELER Magnet Cove is located in Hot Springs County, Arkansas...approximately 15 miles East of Hot Springs and fifty miles South of Little Rode. The "Cove" is an elliptical bowl...conspicuous in winter since the trees within the Cove are altogether of deciduous character. The highest...that flows through the Cove into Ouachita River on the South . The term "Cove" may be a bit puzzling
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1931 Vor,. 16 A PARAGENETIC MAGNET No.8 CLASSIFICATION OF THE COVE MINERALS KrNrqprn K. LaNnBs....Specimens of lodestone, aegirite, eudyalite and other minerals from Magnet Cove, Arkansas, have found...detail. Contributions to the petrogenesisof the Magnet Cove area were made by H. S. Washington in the first...the origin of the minerals. Magnet Cove lies in southwest central Arkansas in the Ouachita Mountains physiographic...good highway connects the area with the city of Hot Springs, which lies about 12 miles to the west. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FLUORESCENT SODALITE AND HACKMANITE FROM MAGNET COVE, ARKANSAS1 Hucn D. MrsBn.nNnJnwnr,rJ. Grass, Geol...sodalite are found in the tinguaite rocks of Magnet Cove, Arkansas: a blue sodalite that fluoresces a purplish-blue...OCCURRENCE Magnet Cove, or "The Cove" as it was known to the early travelers, is situated in Hot Spring County...County, about 12 miles east of Hot Springs, in southwest-central Arkansas, near the boundary between the...the Ouachita Plateau. The igneous complex at Magnet Cove occupiesan area of about 5 square miles and is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAGNET COVE, ARKANSAS By CARL M. WELCH South Dakota School of Mines Box 1 197, Rapid City, S.D. 57701...57701 Magnet Cove has been an area of of punishment since much walking will great mineralogic interest since...the presence of lodestone basic hammers and chisels plus shovels, or natural magnet in the soil and its...The Cove is located in desirable, and a screen and a gold pan northern Hot Spring County, Arkansas could...used. A good knapsack is of about 12 miles east of Hot Springs and 7 prime importance. miles northwest of
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...r r 1 0WH4T «MII( ' I I ►UCAJ4I s;r_ I HOT tAAIHC SCVICA I CA A *T I JCffCASO* ' *«< AHS...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.
Report (edition)
STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 MINERAL SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised...Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised 2007 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL...Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F...three-day trip to the Little Rock, Hot Springs, and Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
best be identified by its attraction to an iron magnet. It is found in basic igneous and metamorphosed...magnetic property. Lodestone (loadstone) variety of magnetite is in itself a natural magnet which when freely...the earth's poles. Magnet Cove near Hot Springs, Arkansas is noted for its lodestone of remarkable strength... was held to the ground by the attraction of lodestone to the iron nails in his shoes and staff. Magnetite...Chester, Vermont; good clusters occur in Millard County, Utah. Often times part of the ferrous oxide in
Catalog/List
Clinton, Magnetite, Essex Co., 7. Quartz Crystal, Arkansas. 8. Milky Quartz, 9. Smoky Quartz, N. Y....and of attracted a will attract magnet by a is and is magnet retained by possessed by iron ...hardened substances. Lodestone, magnetic steel, a when variety of natural magnet. Brown or Iron...flexed wire native (22). graphite same but is spring into are position again they as exceedingly...N. Springs, Col. Maine. gray, Berks Agate, Hot Penn. Co., Quartz, Bowdoin, Germany. oxide,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGICAL MAP OF MAGNET COVE, ARKANSAS Downloaded from gsabulletin.gsapubs.org on August 9, 2015 I1...AMERICA IG N E O U S C O M PLEX O F M A G N E T COVE, A R K A N S A S BY HENRY S. WASHINGTON (Presented.................... 396 Part II.—Petrology of Magnet Cove................................................ 390 H . S. W ASHINGTON— IGNEOUS COMPLEX O P MAGNET COVE P a r t I.— G eo log ic S t r u c t u r e o...T O R Y The igneous rocks of Arkansas, especially those of Magnet Cove, have become classical through
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Corporation of America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York T he technological development of mankind...possessing significant polarity (like a magnet) is known as lodestone. _ Magnetite is isometric (4/m32/m)...famous Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County (see Cook 2008 and references therein) was the...Essex County; excellent sharp octahedra to 2 cm have been collected at Port Henry in the same county. The...of America’s No. 4 mine at Balmat, St. Lawrence County, is well known for lustrous magnetite crystals
Report (edition)
STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 S P EC I ES O F A RKA N SA A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard \ 1987... / ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist s·' , STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...23 SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION...State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman...field trip to the Little Rock, Hot Springs, and Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
•'olume I! iVumber THE EARTH, A GREAT a MAGNET.' BY DR. J. A. FLEMINC,, M. A., F. 1•. S., ProfeSsor...partic'ularsamplecame from a place called..• Magnet .Cove, in Arkansas,:in the United States; but it=is very...differently to the same end of a second fixed lodestone. Whatever Asiatic peoplesor early nomadtribes...discoveredconcerningthis directire power of the lodestone,or its "verticity," as Gilbert afterwards called...the cleareststatement ot the law of behavior of magnet poles to each other. THE E`4RTH, ,4 GRE,4T M•I
Book
M>f*es MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE v MAP OF ARKANSAS Rur Reproduced on a reduced scale from map by...1 /. I y & ..vu. t u.vy UNIVERSITY OF I Arkansas," Washington, D. C., 1 907. , / \/ QUATERNARY...Mississippian ECONOMICS & SOCIOLO, Rocks MINERA IN ARKANSAS INCLUDING A REVIEW OF OIL AND GAS CONDITIONS...MINES, MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE STATE OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 1922 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page...Features Principal Arkansas Minerals and Their Location by Counties Counties of Arkansas and Their Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystallographer, a chemist, and a spectrographer. ARKANSAS: Mr. Hamilton, of Vandergrift, Penn., sent in...steel, is going to be mined quantitatively at Magnet Cove, Ark.—first significant magnetite operation in...contain between 75,000 and 150,000 tons of ore. Magnet Iron Co., will do the mining and plans to produce...Engineering News, June 12, 1950. (Editor's Note: Magnet Cove, in Hot Springs Co., Ark., is one of the world's...mineral localities. It is especially famous for its lodestone (a variety of magnetite which is the ore that
Report (volume)
Aires. Ark. Res. Devel. Comm., Div. Geology BulL-Arkansas Resources and Development Commission, Division...Geol. Survey Bull., County ser.; Repr. ser.-Virginia Geological Survey Bulletin, County series; Reprint series...magnetit~-ilmenite deposits near Lake Sanford, Essex County, N. Y.: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 940-D, p. 99-123...Electric smelting of ilmenite concentrates from Valley County, Idaho: U.S. Bur. Mines Rept. Inv. 5170, 18 p....Exploration of the Blue Metal Corundum property, Douglas County, Nev.: U.S. Bur. Mines Rept. Inv. 3895, 7 p. Birch
Journal (issue)
Springs, Colorado 8124 2 USA Phone: 719-539-4113 • Fax 719-539-454 2 SPRING 2003 MATRIX: A Journal...the Ropes Gold Mine. Near Ishpeming. Marquette County, Michigan 3 by Michael P. Basal HISTORIC MINERAL...21 HISTORIC MINERAL FEATURE Collecting in Magnet Cove: Letters from Clyde Hardin by Arthur S111irh...gold nugget from Lhe Ropes Gold Mine, Marquette County, Michigan. The specimen measures I .5x2.5 cm .... Photo by Jeff Scovil. See story. page 3. 1 SPRING 2003 " MATRI: • 2 EDITORIAL A MATRIX Update:
Book
Eye) Chrysocolla Citrine Diamond Lapis Lazuli Lodestone Malachite Sapphire Tigereye Topaz Turquoise Zircon...bonds of love. 15 EMERALD Emerald, the gem of Spring, has traditionally been associated with immortality...the Lord of the Universe. nl LODESTONE The dictionary defines Lodestone as “a strongly magnetic variety...the name given to Lodestone indicates how the power of attraction (which Lodestone displays for iron)...love. In Sanskrit for instance, the name for Lodestone, “chum-baka” means “the kisser?’ and in Chinese
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contain most unusual properties are lodestone, which is nature's only magnet. This mineral, being dark gray...and is found in abundant quantities in Magnet Cove, Arkansas. Three more minerals placed in this unusual
Journal (issue)
CRYSTAL CRDSS, HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS. --> qT 1-2 MINERAL COLLECTOR Estered asssssss-cis- Matter at...Trrrrl-arol: Lipnira Mrrierraraoosio.AL CLUB MAGNET COVE. BY FRANK HOWLAND. IN the year 1898 I made my...my first visit to the well known Magnet Cove of Arkansas. Leaving Little Rock at 4 A.M., I traveled via...Jo Road, it being the only road by which Magnet Cove and Hot Springs could be reached. The officials understanding...considered in Arkansas good farm ing country. - - - The morning was simply perfect. We reached Cove Creek station
Catalog/List
Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite...sodium potassium alumino-silicate Arizona Final County, Christmas Dark green cleavages in andesite ..
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bushveld complexat Bon Accord,Transvaal.8 This lodestone contained SiO2-.5o, TiO.o-•5.5o, Al•O••.42, Fe•Oa-63...379 Magnetite (Titaniferous magnesioferrite) Magnet Cove,Ark .................... 8.37• Magnetite q- small...ferromagneticferric oxide from Iron Mountain, Shasta County, Calif. SOME MAGNETIC PROPERTIES. The magneticwork...the origin of one of the materials from which "lodestone" may be formed. Sincemaghemitehasalsobeenfound...ferromagnetic ferric oxide from Iron Mountain, Shasta County, Calif., which was first describedby Sosmanand
Journal (issue)
Carolina). Chalcedony after interstices from Chester County, Pa., has been described by Vaux, G., 1935] ...Bastennes, France Magnetite after Brookite. Magnet Cove, Arkansas Pyrite after Chalcocite. Cornwall, England... Analcite after Leucite: II, C 2 Magnet Cove, Garland Co., Arkansas, 9492 Anglesite after Cerussite:...Silesia, 8678 Cervantite after Antimony: I, C 2 Kern County, California, 17240, 18383 (stibioconite ?) Cervantite...Also known from Paterson, New Jersey,3 Chester County, Pennsylvania,4 and Cornwall, England. Chalcedony
Catalog/List
radial groups on limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals...lapis AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...basic sulfate of aluminum and potassium Utah .Piute County, Tushar Mountains, Marysvale ----i'>ink crystalline...crystal vugs ALTAITE Lead telluride Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Cleavage plates in quartz with pyrite
 
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