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Selenite from
Hoosier Quarry, Salem, Washington County, Indiana, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Gypsum var: Selenite
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Selenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hoosier Quarry, Salem, Washington County, Indiana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:359770
Long-form Identifier:1:3:359770:5
GUID (UUID V4):b0322e84-12a4-44cd-852e-47fe4e462050
Nearest other occurrences of Selenite
32.4km (20.2 miles) Lehigh Portland Cement Co. Quarry, Mitchell, Lawrence County, Indiana, USA
41.1km (25.5 miles) Floyd County Stone quarry, Floyd County, Indiana, USA
43.8km (27.2 miles) Wyandotte Cave, Crawford County, Indiana, USA
58.3km (36.2 miles) U.S. and National Gypsum Co. mines, Shoals, Martin County, Indiana, USA
58.7km (36.5 miles) Harrodsburg, Monroe County, Indiana, USA
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along old IN-37, near Harrodsburg, Monroe County, Indiana. Note the semispherical opening, lower left...are now broadly described as the Borden Group in Indiana, the Fort Payne, WarsawSalem, and Borden formations...commercial geode mine at St. Francisville, Clark County, Missouri. This specimen appeared on the dust jacket...quartz geode, from a locality near Revere, Clark County, Missouri. Cincinnati Museum Center specimen (No...from Sheffler’s geode mine, near Alexandria, Clark County, Missouri. Fred and Sue Keitel specimen, Terry
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first re­ ported occurrence of smythite was from Indiana ( E r d , 1957), where it was found as inclusions...geodes. Other species reported as occurring in Indiana, 136 ROCKS AND MINERALS { RICHARD E . RUSSELL... 4 cm across; Meshberger Stone, Inc. quarry, Bartholomew County. Richard Russell specimen and photo....largest crystal 3.5 cm across; Berry Materials quarry, Jenn­ ings C o . J . Kielbaso specimen; R . Russell...Stone C o . quarry, Jasper County. Vernon Swanson speci­ men; Richard Russell photo. Indiana minerals
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SALEM LIMESTONE AND ASSOCIATED FORMATIONS IN SOUTHCENTRAL INDIANA by THOMAS G. PERRY, NED M. SMITH...SMITH, AND WILLIAM J. WAYNE Indiana Department of Conservation GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Field Conference Guidebook...Guidebook No. 7 1954 STATE OF INDIANA George N. Craig, Governor DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Doxie Moore,..._______________ SALEM LIMESTONE AND ASSOCIATED FORMATIONS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA By Thomas G. Perry...Geological Survey, Indiana Department of Conservation, and Department of Geology, Indiana University, CONFERENCE
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Fossil and Mineral Trails Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5...knowledge and enjoyment of this great owners, mine and quarry operators and science by collecting. Thanks too...species of fossils have been collected in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported finding...and Huron virtually surrounding it. Illinois and Indiana are bordered in part by Lake Michigan, and Ohio...peninsula of Michigan. Southern Illinois, southern Indiana and southern Ohio have milder winters than the
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF INDIANA by RICHARD C. ERD AND SEYMOUR S. GREENBERG Indiana Department of Conservation GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Bulletin No. 18 1960 STATE OF INDIANA HAROLD W. HANDLEY, GOVERNOR DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION...________________________________ MINERALS OF INDIANA BY RICHARD C. ERD AND SEYMOUR S. GREENBERG PRINTED...PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA September 1060 _____________________...______________ For sale by Geological Survey, Indiana Department of Conservation, Bloomington, Ind. Price
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State Park 201 West Riverside Drive Clarksville, Indiana 47129 agoldstein@dnr.in.gov Figure 1. Twinned calcite...calcite, 8 cm, Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo....Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers...Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level. There are some noteworthy mineral...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden
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caves and karst of indiana Samuel S. Frushour IN coNJUNctIoN WItH tHe Indiana Geological Survey WItH...coNtrIBUtIoN BY Julian J. Lewis and Salisa L. Lewis INDIANA UNIVERSITY PR ESS Bloomington & Indianapolis GuideTCAKOI...publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, Indiana 47404-3797 USA iupress...800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 © 2012 by The Indiana Geological Survey All rights reserved No part of...Formation of Indiana Caves 3 Cave Deposits and Cave Minerals 8 Cave Climate 13 The Cave Fauna of Indiana (by Julian
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serpentine for trade). Joseph E. Balaban, Old Hoosier Crts. 2-7, Bloomington, Ind. (Aurichalcite xls...104 - 29th St., N. W., Paris, Texas (Will trade selenite rosettes and calcite filled geodes). Sowle's,...^ all ^ categories). ^Tre 14, Don Stent:, 412 Salem Ave., Spring Lake N J . (New Jersey and Virginia...locality should be a tiny settlement or area, give ks county. Give as much information as you can so we may...a b l e : 2 A few groups of the Kittitas County, Washington gold crystals a t from two dollars — t o
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serpentine for trade). Joseph E. Balaban, Old Hoosier Crts. 2-7, Bloomington, Ind. (Aurichalcite xls...104 - 29th St., N. W., Paris, Texas (Will trade selenite rosettes and calcite filled géodes). Sowle's,...Maryland. (Fossils of all categories). Don Stelle, 412 Salem Ave., Spring Lake N.J. (New Jersey and Virginia...locality should be a tiny settlement or area, give its county. Give as much information as you can so we may...e us. MARTIN'S Gem & Mineral Studio 2 0 1 E. Washington Street Ann Arbor, Michigan Z i p Code 4 8 1 0
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serpentine for trade). Joseph E. Balaban, Old Hoosier Crts. 2-7, Bloorr.ington, Ind. (Aurichalcite xls...104 - 29th St., N. W., Paris, Texas (Will trade selenite rosettes and cakite filled géodes). Sowle's, 304...Maryland. (Fossils of all categories). Don SteHe, 412 Salem Ave., Spring Lake. N.J. (New Jersey and Virginia...locality should be a tiny settlement or area, give ks county. Give as much information as you can so we may...send stamp for list THE PHILMAR CO. Box 13421 No. County Branch St. Louis, Mo. 63137 44102 21T
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6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia... If you have ever had the desire to detonate a quarry blast or create an earthquake you will be able...Figure 7—Manganoan Calcite – Montreal Mine (Iron County, WI). Figure 3 (left) - “Wonderful World of Agates”...mineral specimens from the Montreal Mine (Iron County, Wisconsin). Most of the specimens came from the...An unusual specimen from the Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, Wisconsin) is a sheet copper (figure 6). One of
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about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is...in California recently I visited the Los Angeles County Museum in Los Angeles to see the famous collection...in Los Angeles can walk across the lawn to the County Museum for another thrill—the display of some of...Leadville (Lake Co.). Colo., almost at the end of Lake County, I found a specimen of small radiating chrysocolla...of Culloden, and one mile S. of the Monroe-Lamar County line. The cordierite occurs in knots and irregularshaped
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Soil-Drummer Silty Clay Loam Series 46 47 47 * Indiana Stone-Salem Limestone River-Wabash River 49 50 * Iowa...Fossil-Saurophaganax maximus Crystal-Hourglass Selenite Dinosaur-Acrocanthosaurus atokensis * Oregon ...Stone-Amethyst Stone-Blue Granite 106 107 128 128 * Washington Gem-Petrified Wood Fossil-Columbian Mammoth ...derived from the geosciences and law libraries of Indiana University, Bloomington campus. The undertaking...made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of
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banks, stream beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep
Report (issue)
Resources of the Blue River Group (Mississippian) of Indiana BULLETIN 52 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL STAFF OF...Resources of the Blue River Group (Mississippian) of Indiana By DONALD D. CARR, R.K. LEININGER, and MARGARET...PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA: 1978 ST ATE OF INDIAN A Otis R. Bowen...River Group in Indiana 71 Appendix 2. Underground mines in the Blue River rocks in Indiana 72 Appendix 3...from the Blue River bedrock area on file at the Indiana Geological Survey 73 Appendix 4. Selected published
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Indiana Geological and and Water Survey Indiana University Revised 2021 DEDICATION To the memory of...Graveyard Cave, Harrison County (front cover) Ladder Cave, Washington County (back cover) IN DIANA GEOLOGICAL...Circular 8, "Caves of Indiana," by Dick Powell is an iconic publication of Indiana geology for the general...many, it was a pathway to understanding caves in Indiana. For others, it paved a pathway toward degradation...UNESCO-sponsored International Year of Caves and Karst, the Indiana Geological and Water Survey is releasing a digital
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Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway
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ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...Hawleyite and phosphate minerals from Bethel Church, Indiana, including a second occurrence for ferrostrunzite...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing...15 feet to the left, parallel to the wall of the quarry. This tube varied from 6 inches to 2 feet wide
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600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON...mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
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the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON...mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
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Schiefer . Page 76 . Page 87 Stop Tumbler Gas Washington Locality — Murphy . . Page 92 The Mineralogist...hundreds of collecting localities in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming. With maps and photos...THOMAS J. BONES 2713 Rossiter Lane Vancouver, Washington I first visited the Clarno nut and seed beds...the other Nations, but it would appear that the USA alone will soon fill the sky with numer­ ous types...eastern South Dakota near the town of Wagner, some selenite roses of unusual per­ fection were found in a
 
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