 | | Report (issue) | | University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Conservation and Survey...Gemstones of Nebraska: A Handbook for Students and Collectors Roger K. Pabian University of Nebraska - Lincoln...Lincoln, rpabian1@unl.edu Allan Cook University of Nebraska - Lincoln Follow this and additional works at:...K. and Cook, Allan, "Minerals and Gemstones of Nebraska: A Handbook for Students and Collectors" (1976)...Resources, School of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion |  | | Book (volume) | | Idaho, lowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, — ; Oregon, South Dakota, Washington...Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington...Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington...Idaho lowa Kansas Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oregon South Dakota Washington ...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of...of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden...McGrain 1982). Some of the veins are exposed by road cuts and by active quarries where minerals can still |  | | Book (volume) | | these coal seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | these coal seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | township quarry McFarland quarry Road-cuts, km 8.2 to 8.4, Highway 38 Road-cuts, km 9.3, Highway 38 Limestone...mine Sand Road (Card) quarry Dwyer brucite occurrence Godfrey -Westport occurrences Road-cuts at km 4.5...Westport Road Kingston (Bedford) mica mine Richardson feldspar mine Glendower iron mine Road-cut at km...km 10.9, Westport Road Hickey-Murphy lead mine Road-cuts at km 16.7, Westport Road McLaren phosphate mine...quarry Road-cut on Highway 38 at km 57.6 Eagle Lake (Blessington) mine Sharbot Lake road-cuts on Highway |  | | Book (volume) | | Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises 4,460’...Mesozoic era. Thus, as one travels westward across Nebraska they find successively younger formations appearing...disclosing spectacular bedrock formations. Northwestern Nebraska contains most of the gem fields in the state,...that rival the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the...town is well worth the rock hunter’s visit. Draws, cuts and breaks in the hills along the Minnechaduza Creek | | | Report (issue) | | quarry 6 McFarland quarry 7 8 3 Road-cuts, km 8.2 to 8.4, Highway Road-cuts, km 9.3, Highway 38 Limestone...38 38 Sand Road (Card) quarry 10 Dwyer 1] 1] Godfrey-Westport occurrences Road-cuts at km 4.5, Westport...Westport Road 12 Kingston (Bedford) mica mine 12 13 14 14 1D 1 16 16 17 Richardson feldspar mine...mine Road-cut at km 10.9, Westport Road Hickey-Murphy lead mine Road-cuts at km 16.7, Westport Road McLaren...calcite occurrence Long Lake zinc mine Gabbro quarry Road-cut on Highway 38 at km 57.6 17 brucite occurrence |  | | Report (issue) | | . . Road-cuts, mile 5. 1 to 5. 2, Highway 38... . ... . ... .. . . . . . . . . . . . Road-cuts, mile... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sand Road (Card) quarry.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Westport Road occurrences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Road- cuts at mile 2. 8, Westport Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richardson feldspar mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Report (issue) | | Madawaska (Faraday) Mine Dyno Mine Highway 620 road-cuts Paudash - Haliburton - Minden Bicroft Mine Silver...Davis Lake corundum occurrence Minden-Norland road-cuts Wilberforce Area Halo Mine Cardiff uranium mine...occurrence Wilberforce (Virginia) graphite mine Richardson (Fission) mine Dwyer fluorite mine Schickler...All-Metals mine Gibson Road (western) occurrence Gill quarries Highway 507 road-cut Fraser quarry Nu-World...Sound quarry Cruikshank quarry Wiarton-Oliphant Road quarries Albemarle zinc occurrence Hope Bay quarry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lower Paleozoic TRAVIS A. PARIS 5604 Malmsbury Road Knoxville, Tennessee 37921 taparis@msn.com Figure...left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard |  | | Book | | rocks scattered in their fields. Stop and look at road cuts, excavations, new construction, and sandy or gravelly...through Itasca and St. Louis Counties into Lake County. Hibbing is about the center of this historic area...although not in the original site. Stream beds, road cuts, ditches, and overgrown rock piles may yield some...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015 K NOWN AS THE...Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal...Beaverhead County, the pegmatites of Jefferson County, and the Snowbird mine in Mineral County continue...Highlands Centennial Nugget in 1989 in Silver Bow County. The seventh largest gold nugget found in Montana; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SUMMARY STEVEN C. CHAMBERLAIN Road-Cut Mineral Occurrences of St. Lawrence County, New York Figure 1. Fluor-dravite...collected by Edley Brown in 2002 from the fluor-dravite road cut. Michael Walter specimen and photo. 556 ROCKS...collected by Edley Brown from the Kents Corners road cut. Steven C. Chamberlain specimen and photo (syncroscopy...collected by Edley Brown from the Kents Corners road cut. Steven C. Chamberlain specimen and photo (syncroscopy...sites; therefore, one might expect that each time a road cut is excavated, interesting min- eral specimens |  | | Report (issue) | | Chelsea-Gatineau · Parkway occurrences Chamberlin quarry Road-cuts along Gatineau Parkway Sweeney Mine O'Neill Mine...Mine Denholme Mine Occurrences along Lac Ste-Marie Road Kornerupine occurrence Pritchard and Sparks Mine...Hazzards Corner marble quarries Pinewood Park Lake Road quarries Henderson and Conley talc mines St. Charles...(Highway 62) quarry Slate quarry Curtis quarry Richardson Mine Eldorado Mine Hobson-Nelson-Knob Mine Blackburn...McIlroy Mine Wallbridge Mine Stoklosar (Marmora Road) quarries Perry Mine Coe Mine Perry Lake mine Blakely |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | brown limonite. Wickenburg is in N / W Maricopa County in western Arizona. xline—crystalline tain a...from Mr. Delbert Oswald, who found the pocket in a road cut recently made near the old "Dallas Gem Mine"... The Dallas Gem Mine is in southern San Benito County in western California. COLORADO — "Would you please...surface shows the interior cently found in San Benito County, here to be an attractive moss agate of pleasing...term "astonishing" is not an exaggeraSan Miguel County is in southwestern tion ! W e were lucky in being |  | | Book (volume) | | regional rd. cuts, breaks, river banks, stream beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in...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...outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts, stream banks and gravel |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sphalerite IN BATH COUNTY, CENTRAL KENTUCKY WILLIAM J. SCHAUB 1908 Blairmore Road Lexington, Kentucky...The mineralization is exposed in a series of road cuts along Interstate 64 near Owingsville, Kentucky...approximately 40 miles east of Lexington. The road cuts of interest lie between mile markers 116 and 123...123. Mineralized vugs are accessible in road cuts between mile 116.2 and 116.5 and at the eastbound exit...off-ramp. Only fallen rocks have been studied from road cuts at mile 117 and between mile markers 122 and 123 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | layered wall rock in a road cut along old IN-37, near Harrodsburg, Monroe County, Indiana. Note the semispherical...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...mostly collected from fresh rock exposures in road cuts (see fig. 1), commercial digs, and active quarries |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi cant locality in the state...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...cm) were found in considerable abundance from a road cut near Montpelier (Washington Co.). This occurrence...lizardite magnesiohornblende magnetite manganite? marcasite? magnesite malachite margarite meionite melanterite...occurrences of many minerals vary from outcrops to road cuts, which often furnish fine micromount minerals |  | | Book (volume) | | Dolomite crystals, Fluorite (fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and the Wausau area (Falster 1987)...common minerals as quartz. calcite, pyrite, and marcasite. A major mining district, the Upper Mississippi...2015 Counties, where coarse galena, sphalerite, marcasite, calcite, barite, and copper minerals were found...zircon), particularly in the Wausau area of Marathon County (Falster 1987). Middle Proterozoic quartzites (1...Wisconsin mineralogy. The index is arranged county by county (fig. 1). Where possible, township and range |  | Huizing, Terry E., Richards, R. Peter, Clifford, Janet H., Cook, Robert B. (2017) Connoisseur's Choice: Calcite from the American Midwest, Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Rocks & Minerals, 92 (1) 46-63 doi:10.1080/00357529.2017.1241690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | American Midwest Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee C alcite is ubiquitous in the American...Tennessee Lead-Zinc district near Carthage in Smith County. Calcite from this locality is noted for high luster...cm tall, from the Ben Hogan quarry in Lawrence County, Arkansas. Terry Huizing specimen (No. TEH 273)...siltstone, and sandstone. Virtually any outcrop, road cut, or mine, especially in carbonate strata, may...the most significant for the Midwest as a whole. Nebraska, Minnesota, and North Dakota are not represented |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Postcard view of the Waukon iron mine, Allamakee County, cia. 1912. John Taylor collection. ARTHUR E ...Iowa Geological Survey. Localities by County Allamakee County Lansing, Lansing lead mines = Captain...in 1891 and abandoned shortly after 1900, adit, cuts, and shafts: anglesite, calcite, cerussite (crystals)...(crystals), dolomite, galena, goethite, hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz (drusy), smithsonite (Garvin,...yellow to purple color-zoned, cubic), gypsum, marcasite, pyrite, siderite, sphalerite (Prior 1994). Waukon |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | location a~ included at the end of each entry. Adair County Chariton River (40-04-05N 92-4 I -23W). septarian...septarian concretions about 2 miles north of the Macon county line. CALCITE crystals enclosing bundles of acicular...hematite, quartz (Broadhead 1873b, 1877). Audrain County Mexico, in fire clay pits and spoil piles: PYRITE...University Library] at 19:58 29 October 2014 Barton County McKarrow’s coal bank (37-37N 94-28W), 2.5 miles...PICKERINGITE, pyrite, siderite (Broadhead 1873b). Bates County Panther Creek, northwest of Rockville in coal deposits: |
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