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Amber from
Pleasant Ridge, Greene County, Alabama, USA


Locality type:Ridge
Classification
Species:'Amber' (not an IMA approved species)
Comments:Variety type: Walchowite
Colour:Yellow to Browm
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amber data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pleasant Ridge, Greene County, Alabama, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:960382
Long-form Identifier:1:3:960382:0
GUID (UUID V4):b477607f-a47b-4ce7-b24c-a8fc413a93c2
References
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Report (issue)
[Roche], Duck Nest [Springs], and Dread and Terror [Ridge]. In written usage, words in the specific part of...Alley (ridge), Butlers Toothpick (pinnacle rock), Titans Piazza (hill), and Devils Racepath (ridge). The...Winnebago, Kodiak, The Maiden, Mauna Loa, Scarce of Fat Ridge, Bull Run, Devils Hopyard, Shiloh, Caintuck Hollow...locality, or civil division (city, village, or county) named for a physical feature is always listed...information is usually self-explanatory, for example: county seat. Feature Class (second column) The terms listed
Book (volume)
............... xi Mineral Locations by State Alabama ....................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map .....................................................................................2 Alabama Stream Map ............................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ..........................................
Book (volume)
.................v Mineral Locations by State Alabama .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States ALABAMA Alabama comprises two geological regions. The northeast...California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced its own gold rush, largely unprofitable...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham
Book (volume)
.................v Mineral Locations by State Alabama .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States ALABAMA Alabama comprises two geological regions. The northeast...California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced its own gold rush, largely unprofitable...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham
Report (issue)
listed in alphabetical order by county and by fields within each county (column 1). This column includes...two or more counties, a reference to the other county(ies) is given. The field location (column 2) includes.....................• 1 2 Statistical Data by County Adams... . • . 5 Arapahoe ..• 9 Archuleta .. 11...Fields - Cumulative Production through 12/81. Field-County Cross Reference List .....•.........•...•...•....•..•.. 57 58 59 60 61 62 Figures 1. Colorado County Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Meshberger Stone quarry, Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana; Richard RusseU specimen and photo. significance...(far left). Ara~onite speleothems, Cave, Calaveras County, California; James Patton photo. Moanin~ Downloaded...Cl)'stlll 5.5 em long, Sweetwater mine, Reynolds County. Missouri; Ten')' Huizing spec:imen and pboto....France Stone Company. Custar quarry. Custar, Wood County. Ohio; Neal Pfaff specimen. Terry Huizing photo...cm high. Meshberger quam', Columbus. Bartholomew County. Indiana; Richard Russell specimen and photo.
Book (edition)
something shining in a clay bank. It was a piece of amber. When the Freys got the specimen home and washed...of the Freys, the Harvard scientists named the amber-entombed insects Sphecomyrma freyi, or "wasp-ant...the Science Museum and Planetarium of Palm Beach County in 1969. 8 FOSSILS FOR AMATEURS These examples...pond, or the Freys might have placed their bit of amber on the shelf. The Florida collectors might have...professional paleon¬ tologists. Sphecomymta freyi, in amber, the primitive ant that appears to be a link between
Book
through Itasca and St. Louis Counties into Lake County. Hibbing is about the center of this historic area...replaced by dark hematite. Near Calumet in Itasca County abundant mollusks, arthropods, and sharks teeth...Iron Range is mostly in Crow Wing County, extending into Aitkin County. In 1936, near the town of Crosby...Superior 14 EVELETHO IRON WEEWATIN _W 57 LOWS COUNTY to Duluth Y The Mesabi Iron Range dump. Binghamite...found in veins at the west end of Loon Lake in Cook County. Uv BSL 0U/Sac0 CARLTON CO Island Lake go
Report (issue)
impurities at the White Rose gas field in western Green County, Indiana. TI1e gas is produced from Devonian carbonate...showing pipeline distribution in southern Spencer County, Indiana ....................... ................commercial quantities of natural gas in Delaware County, east-central Indiana in September 1886 (plate...Hancock, Shelby, Rush, Decatur, Franklin, Sullivan, Greene, Martin, Pike, Gibson, and Vigo. (The last six...supply for large communities such as Marion in Grant County. The estimated average daily production of gas
Report (volume)
topography............................................. Alabama......................................................................................... Shelby County..................................................quadrangle...................................... 3 Alabama-Georgia................................................................................ Russell County, Ala.; Chattahoochee and Muscogee counties, Ga...quadrangle...........'............................. Lake County..................'......,.....................
Report (issue)
sand about 200 feet thick. To the south in Lee County, Miss., it interfingers with the more calcareous...the Mooreville Chalk and Blufftown Formation of Alabama and Georgia, the Black Creek Formation (in part)...Demopolis Chalk and basal part of the Cusseta Sand of Alabama and Georgia. The invertebrate fauna of the Coffee...Coffee Sand about 2 miles west of Katliff in Lee County, Miss. This exposure had yielded an especially...who guided me to the Coffee Sand exposures in Lee County, Miss. My colleagues of the U.S. Geological Survey
Report (issue)
feature that extended from Pennsylvania south to Alabama and Mississippi. Localized elliptical basins formed...the other, Black Warrior basin, was in central Alabama and Mississippi (pi. ISA). In the southern basin...from West Virginia through Tennessee to northern Alabama and Georgia, strata representing the latter part...70-100 miles wide, having a shelf on each side in Alabama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Although sediments of...central Alabama. The currently recognized abrupt south termination of the geosyncline in Alabama and Louisiana
Book (volume)
greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...coating molds of brachiopod shells in Somerset County. The restriction formerly placed on a mineral's...pesticides, from the blueberry barrens in Washington County will result in the formation of scorodite, symplesite
Report (issue)
International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...at the Crystal River quarry, Lecanto in Citrus County Florida. Collection Francis Benjamin; photo Jeff...twin on {1 OTI} from the Leiping mine, Guiyang County, Hunan, China. Collection Frederic Escaut; photo...on (0001} from St. Clair Lime quarry, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Collection Terry Huizing; photo Jeff...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA To Our Readers: As we established our company,
Report (volume)
R. Akita Univ. Mining Colt Jour. Akita, Japan. Alabama Acad. Sci. Jour. Ala. Journal of the Mining College...the Alabama Academy of Science. Auburn, Alabama Geol. Survey Bull.- Geological Survey of Alabama Bulletin...Ala. Alabama Geol. Survey Circ.- Geological Survey of Alabama Circular. University, Ala. Alabama Geol...Survey of Alabama Information Series. Alabama Geol. Survey Map- Geological Survey of Alabama Map. University...Ky. Kentucky Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky
Report (issue)
place, locality, or civil division (city, village, county, township, crossroad, and railroad siding) named...and the Virgin Islands: County (4th column) — This is the name of the county in which the listed entity...place, feature, or area lies in more than one county, the county listed is the one in which the center of...found; or in the case of a stream or valley, the county listed is the one in which the feature's mouth...land on the side of an elevation such as a hill, ridge, or mountain where the slope of the land rises sharply
Report (volume)
results. During the succeeding years nearly every county lost population, and the entire State, as is shown...production of the State one-half came from Crawford County. Lead and zinc are mined in the southeastern portion...civil townships, the number of townships in each county ranging from 5 in Wyandotte to 30 in Eeno and Sumner...local affairs is divided between the township and county authorities. In Kansas the only class of municipal...the townships and form primary divisions of the county. The people in cities of the third class participate
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...will help you prospect and explore any state and county. etc., for mineral deposits in Finding Suitable...detailed reports on special areas, according to county. The bibliography of the United States Geological
Journal (issue)
Menzies Pink topaz from the Thomas Range, Juab County, U ta h .........................................narration is helpful and concise. This is a very pleasant, inexpensive way to see and perhaps bu some fine...contents. The Brown Derby No. 1 pegmatite in Gunnison County, Colorado, is described by Rosenberg (1972). In...from other pegmatites (Ream, 1994). In San Diego County, California, only a few of the many gem pegmatites...one of the more interesting dike systems in the county, is a granite o f the Peninsula Ranges Batholith
Book
Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Gibbs) 14:283-298 ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244...phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...first. Alabama (by H. Barwood & B. Hajek) 9:388391 Notable gold occurrences of Georgia and Alabama (by R...microminerals of the Indian Mountain area [Georgia and Alabama] (by J.B. Gordon, Jr. & C. L. Hollabaugh) 20:355-362
Book (volume)
Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified...Maine's treasure chest; Gems and minerals of Oxford County, second edition: Quicksilver Publications, West...Maine Hugh Durgin, Blue Hill, Maine Leslie Eastman, Greene, Maine Rod Eastman, Ossipee, New Hampshire John
Report (volume)
................................ Altitudes in Alabama..................................................Arizona and Utah Railway. & V. Rwy..................Alabama and Vicksburg Railway. & W. P. R. R...... 1......City Railroad. A. G. S. R. R..................Alabama Great Southern Railroad. A., K. & N. Rwy.........Brook Railway. F. C. N. G. Rwy...............Fulton County Narrow Gauge Railway. F. E. C. Rwy...............Railway. N. A. Rwy................ ^.. .Northern Alabama Railway. N. C. R. R....................Nevada-Central
Book
long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...of Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
Report (Issue volume)
of the southwestern peninsula of West· morland County. The peninsula juts out into Chignecto Bay and...the following localities: southeast of Basswood Ridge; on the east side of Moore Lake; east of Gallop...Lands, Mines, Mining Sec., 1940, pp. 26-27. Mount Pleasant Mines Limited The ore occurs in veinlets or as...opened in 1962, is reached via the Rollingdam-Pleasant Ridge-Pomeroy bridge road. The mine office is at...shades of yellow, were found in association with amber fluorite, topaz, specularite and molybdenite in
Report (volume)
............ Louisville city survey (Jefferson County)............................... Cobb, Eddyville..... 537.919 Louisville city survey. JEFFERSON COUNTY. The bench marks in the following list were established... M. 6, at southwest corner of Dumesnil (?) and Amber streets, at foot of Twenty-eighth Street; drug store...along Eastern Kentucky Ry. to Argllllte. Greenup, county building, at right of entrance to clerk's office.......................................... Louisa County courthouse, north face, west side, in foundation;
 
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