 | | Journal (issue) | | COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY Richmond, Virginia Virginia Minerals Published...Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 VOL. 48 MAY/AUGUST 2002 NO. 2/3 A GUIDE...GEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY John Marr and Roy Sites Virginia has a very interesting and varied geologic history...in unique and exotic geologic terranes. Across Virginia, the landscape exhibits all rock types: igneous...the Division of Mineral Resources ofïŹces. 10 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES VOL. 48 Figure |  | | Journal (issue) | | DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...amazonite, fine moonstone, and topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise...minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which have been used as gemstones and decora...report. Many of the localities will be familiar to Virginia mineral collectors. Someof the areas mentioned...collect minerals. There has been much written on Virginia mineral localities but no reports are available |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | the coverâTurquois 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) | | the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Pleaoc teturn this publication to the Virginia Geologieal Survcy whcn you havc no further uce for it...COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSTON ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Deposits of Virginra BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 COMMONWEALTH, OF VTRGINIA STATE COMMISSION...COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN, State Geologist Bulletin...33 Pegmatite Deposits of Virginia BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 RICHMOND: DrvrsroN |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Syenite and Related Hooks of the Blue Ridge Region, Virginia," by T. L. Watson and J. H. Cline. Bull. Geol...pyroxenite, and a quartz-felspar-epidote rock. "Zircon-bearing Pegmatites in Virginia," by T. L. Watson. Trans...vol. lv, pp. 936-42, 1917. Pegmatites from Amelia County contain zircon, with beryl, helvite, allanite,... columbite, and monazite, while those from Hanover County are specially characterized by zircon and rutile |  | | Report (issue) | | western belt has been traced from east-central Virginia for 600 miles southwestward into Alabama; and...the results of this work in the five states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and...General features The Piedmont province in northern Virginia has a width of about 40 miles, increasing southwestward...reconnaissance surveys are incomplete. Geologic maps of Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama, on a scale of 1:500,000...granitic gneisses shown on the geologic maps of Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama have been given formational |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | basaltic magma. " The Nepheline Syenites of Haliburton County, Ontario," by W. G. Foye. Amer. Journ. Sci., vol...the rocks of Mount Ascutney, Red Hill, and Essex County in New England, and to the bosses of the Monteregian...Syenite and Related Hooks of the Blue Ridge Region, Virginia," by T. L. Watson and J. H. Cline. Bull. Geol...pyroxenite, and a quartz-felspar-epidote rock. "Zircon-bearing Pegmatites in Virginia," by T. L. Watson. Trans...vol. lv, pp. 936-42, 1917. Pegmatites from Amelia County contain zircon, with beryl, helvite, allanite, |  | | Report (issue) | | ............................13 Northern Area: Virginia to Long Island..............................14.......................15 Isolated Newark rocks- Virginia-Maryland..................16 Other possible Early...Description of gravity lows within the Coastal Plain of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York...1982), North Carolina (Zietz and others, 1984), Virginia (Zietz and others, 1977), and Maryland, Delaware...for convenience: Georgia to North Carolina and Virginia to New York. Plates 2 and 4 are interpretive maps |  | | Book (edition) | | GUIDE (Cross-seaion at right) CHRYSOBERYL EPIDOTE PERIDOT SPHALERITE CORUNDUM FELDSPAR ^ PHENACITE...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900...Siding in St. Clair County, 20 miles northeast of Bir- mingham. One found in Lee County in 1901 weighs 4^...have a cornfield at Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Va. A 3 carat stone, bought by a Knoxville |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | News, Va., of the Gem and Mineral Society of the Virginia Peninsula. Sam Brown, of Upper Montclair, N.J...Lapidary Guild, N.C. Gem & Mineral Society ol Virginia Peninsula, Tri-State Rockhounders, Georgia Mineral...Mineral Society 2nd: Gem and Mineral Society of the Virginia Peninsula Ctf. of Merit: Tri-State Rockhounders... Odditiesâ1st: Gem and Mineral Society of the Virginia Peninsula Ctf. of Merit: Tri-State Rockhounders...Lapidary Society 2nd: Gem and Mineral Society of the Virginia Peninsula 3rd: Gem and Lapidary Society of Washington |  | | Journal (issue) | | NOVEMBER 1992 VOL. 38 INTERESTING USES OF STONE IN VIRGINIA - PART I Harry W. Webb' and Palmer C. Sweet e...and soapstone have been or are being quarried in Virginia. Some 350 interesting uses of dimension stone...rock types quarried for dimension stone uses in Virginia include amphibolite schist, conglomerate, diabase...soapstone. The quarrying of most dimension stone in Virginia is uneconomical today because of the relatively...and uses of various types of dimension stone in Virginia. Architectural terms are defied in the Appendix |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Darry, N. H. 0 3 0 4 1 (PART 16 SPOTSYLVANIA...SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY Bordered on the N by the Rappahan nock and Rapidan Rivers. T h e N edge may be submerged...number of gold operations r u n n i n g across the county from N to S. These are mainly placers and rather... sphalerite, galena, wulfenite, van adinite. Virginia Fin Co. "in N W corner of Co. nr Rappahannock... Indefinite mines, probably all gold. Chicago-Virginia M. Higgins M. Johnston M. Pullman M.-Probably |  | | Report (issue) | | known deposits in the United, States only those in Virginia are of commercial importance. These have been...made the subject of a special report 2 by the Virginia Geological Survey, which was preceded by a preliminary...Geology of the titanium and apatite deposits of Virginia: Virginia Geol. Survey Bull. 3-A, 308 pp., 1913. 3...3 Watson, T. L., and Taber, Stephen, The Virginia rutile deposits: tJ. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 430, pp.... The region of Amherst and Nelson counties in Virginia, the Bay St. Paul area in Quebec, Canada, and |  | | Report (volume) | | GWENDOLYN W. LUTTRELL, MARILYN L. HUBERT, and VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ...ted States. I. Hubert, Marilyn L. II. Jussen, Virginia M. III. Title. IV. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1564 1986...Gwendolyn W. Luttrell, Marilyn L. Hubert, and Virginia M. ,Jussen INTRODUCTION This lexicon contains... 147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 17, T. 85 N., R. 7 W., Linn County, Iowa. A-L Peak Rhyolite Oligocene 1. New Mexico |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Sciences , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , Rlacksburg, Virginia, 24061 Published...Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Rlacksburg, Virginia 24061 Downloaded...(1987) modeled the data available for onshore Virginia, including the data previously analyzed by James...operation in the Valley and Ridge near Franklin, West Virginia, at distance 475 km along the transect. Using...modeled by Holbrook et al. (1994). Onshore in Virginia, James et al. (1968) correlated the regional-scale |  | Mixon, R.B., Powars, David S., Ward, Lauck W., Andrews, George W., McCartan, L., Edwards, Lucy, Poag, C. Wylie (1989) Geology and paleontology of the Haynesville cores; northeastern Virginia coastal plain. Professional Paper 1489. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp1489 | Report (issue) | | Paleontology of the Haynesville Cores Northeastern Virginia Coastal Plain Llthostratigraphy and molluscan...of the Haynesville cores Outer Coastal Plain of Virginia, by R.B. Mixon, David S, Ppwars, Lauck W. Ward...George W. Andrews Mineralogy of the Haynesville, Virginia, cores, by Lucy McGartan Dinoflagellate cysts...Tertiary formations, Haynesville cores, Richmond County, Virginia, by Lucy E. Edwards Foraminiferal stratigraphy...paleoenvironments of Cenozoic strata cored near Haynesville, Virginia, by C. Wylie Poag U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL |  | | Report (issue) | | VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Tnour.s Lnorvanp Warsow, Pn. D. DIRECTOR Bulletin...Geology of the'Titanium and Apatite Depositrs of Virginia Bv Tnorues LuoNeno Wersow eNo Srrpnex Tannp ...Vrncrnre I9I3 ,//l' ,4 BULLE'I'IN III-A VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAI, SUITVEY. Piney Rir-er near Rose's...of rutile area in Amherst and Nelson Counties, Virginia ' ' in pocket " ' X'rontispiece IL Piney River...Granite-gneiss overlain by mantle Cbmpany's mine, Nelson CountY. of feldspathic facies of syenite from VIII. X'ig |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineralogist, the Bulletin and Special Report senes, county reports, and maps. A list of the Division's available...that the collection should remain in the City and County of San Francisco and be open to the inspection...Tuolumne County and half an ounce of placer gold (#3008 ) from Jenny- Lind, Calaveras County. On February...case 132. Brown to black colored wolframite and County Exhibits Next to the Dana section of the mineral...numbered 69 through lll inclusive, are devoted to county exhibits and occupy a large and important part |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...worn rocks along eastern streams and rivers f o r epidote, unakite, blue quartz, agate, chalcedony, petrified...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing |  | | Report (volume) | | to the Knowledge of the Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia, by "William "Morris Fontaine. 1883. 4°. xi, 144...meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S. "Williams...cents. 16. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 86 pp....57 pi. Price 25 cents. 38. Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky, by J. S. Diller. 1887. 8°. 31 pp. 1...Bituminous Coal Field of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, by Israel C. White. 1891. 8°. 212pp. 11 pi. Price |  | | Book (volume) | | beds, excavations, etc.ïŸSelenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...ïŸgray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.ïŸpetrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: ï 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...of rd. a few yds., outcropïŸRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts, |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.âŻcone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Toddâs Ford, a mineral depositâŻHematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarriesâŻoilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodulesâŻPyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |
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