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Apatite from
Buck Hill, Parnassus, Augusta County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Buck Hill, Parnassus, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:626574
Long-form Identifier:1:3:626574:8
GUID (UUID V4):f8a57f41-4bb4-4846-884a-8b6d05170cc1
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
60.6km (37.7 miles) North Garden Mine, North Garden, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
63.4km (39.4 miles) Giles-Hite Prospect (A. T. Stratton Prospect; Hight Prospect; Hite Prospect; H. M. Giles Prospect; Shelton Prospect; H. H. Harvey Prospect), Roseland, Nelson County, Virginia, USA
64.4km (40.0 miles) American Rutile Quarry, Roseland, Nelson County, Virginia, USA
66.9km (41.6 miles) Alberene Soapstone Quarry, Alberene, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
67.4km (41.9 miles) American Cyanimid Wood Pit (S. V. Wood Tract; B. F. Camden Tract; Thomas Wood Deposit), Roseland Anorthosite, Amherst County, Virginia, USA
68.8km (42.8 miles) Old Dominion Soapstone Quarry, Old Dominion, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
68.9km (42.8 miles) U. S. Titanium Company Mine (Warwick Prospect; American Cyanamide Piney River Mine), Roseland, Amherst County, Virginia, USA
71.5km (44.4 miles) Smith Prospect (J. D. Smith Tract), Roseland, Amherst County, Virginia, USA
71.9km (44.7 miles) Buffalo River Prospect, Roseland, Amherst County, Virginia, USA
77.9km (48.4 miles) Gillespy Prospect, Roseland, Amherst County, Virginia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGY OF THE BUCK HILL S Y E N I T E I N T R U S I ON , Augusta County, Virginia B Downloaded by...State University] at 09:33 19 February 2013 uck Hill is a small, elevated ridge located just east of...the 7.5-minute Stokesville Quadrangle, Augusta County, Virginia. In this area, forty-one dikelike intrusions...found in Augusta, Highland, and Rockingham counties, Virginia, and bordering Pendleton County, West Virginia...positive topographic feature known as Buck Hill (fig. 1). The Buck Hill intrusion is a nepheline-natrolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
not detected. Additional minerals noted include apatite (less than 100 pn in length), goethite (sprays...MICROMINERALS FROM BLACK JACK CANYON, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA. E. Grundel, 2000 S. 2d St., No. 8, Arlington...mileposts 162 and 163 near Black Jack Canyon, Greenlee County, Arizona. The specimens are found in the vesicles...Graham Counties,Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines, county geology map series 3-4. A NEW OCCURRENCE OF CUBIC...5 Volume 78, March/April2003 119 San Benito County, California; Tamvatnei, Siberia; and near Gulsen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
May/June: Uvite, Powers farm, Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, New York; Steven C. Chamberlain specimen, Michael...albite, Kestral Pocket, Smoky Hawk mine, Teller County, Colorado; Martin Zinn specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Gold and quartz, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California; Scott Rudolph specimen, Jeff Scovil...York, 222–24 Alamandine, New York City, New York County, New York State, R. B. Cook, 244–52 Amethyst, South...York, 225 Antigorite, New York, 225 Apatite-(CaF), New York, 225 Apatite, Colorado, 422; New Mexico, 498;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS (PART GOOCHLAND By PHILIP East Derry, COUNTY In N edge of the James R...Extensive gold mining formerly on ex­ treme W and county line around Rte 605 to Rte 606. There are several...Tellurium, i.e. Big Sandstone and Little veins. Gold Hill veins cross as well as Shaw (Back Field) vein. Largest...as well as the small tributary branches. Shannon Hill Gold Ms. (Tagus Min­ ing & Milling Co.). Op. only...adit was driven 400 ft. into the Oak Hill vein while Maple Hill had 300 ft. of drifts. Hydraulic mining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and...mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and...Anthony Robert Kampf (b. 1948), D. Leicht, 126-28 Apatite, California, 162 Aragonite, Missouri, 227; Utah...Tourmaline Discovery at the CryoGenie Mine, San Diego County, California, 156-68 Clifford Frondel (1907-2002)...Millerite from Barrick Goldstrike’s Meikle Mine, Elko County, Nevada, C. Jones, J. Jones, S. Kulinski, 129-31;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TEXAS By RALPH L. ERICKSON ABSTRACT The Tertiary Buck Hill volcanic series, about 4000 feet thick, covers...structurally downwarped Marfa basin in which the Buck Hill volcanic series accumulated. The volcanic series...Boquillas formation Page Tertiary system 1361 Page Buck Hill volcanic series 1361 1354 Pruett formation 1362...region include Goldich and Elms (1949) in the Buck Hill quadrangle, Goldich and Seward Figure Page 3...which Goldich and Elms (1949, p. 1143) named the Buck Hill volcanic series. Six months was spent in the field
Journal (issue)
on limestone along r~:t~JQ.\{t;_t:l'!'P_erland County, 5 miles southwest of Carlisle. Photo courtesy~'of... Greene County, with 12 major underground mines planned, may become the "numero uno" county for coal...headquartered at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston~ Virginia. The NCIC is specifically dedicated to hunt for...A wooded area southeast of Colebrook in Lebanon County contains a unique geologic feature. An unusual...- Located in the woods north of Lawn in Lebanon County is this unusual example of the weatheri ng of diabase
Report (issue)
about 10 miles. The area is principally in Roane County. Ore has been mined in many places along the west...about 9 miles, lying partly in Roane County and partly in Rhea County. -Much of this strip is in the bottom...bordered by a fault for about 5 miles. Near the county line on the outcrop the rocks dip 20° to 30° SE...driven on the strike of the bed from both ends of a hill until they meet; then the ore is milled down through... NORTH CHATTANOOGA. . At North Chattanooga, or Hill City, Clinton ore occurs in thin beds. The ore is
Journal (issue)
formations and mineral resources o f an area, such as a county, requires a great many man years. Yet when a planner...describing a landslide in Baldwin Borough in Allegheny County. A development consisting of ten single family...development was obtained by phone from the Allegheny County Planning Department. - 102011 1 1 1 -< S lruclure...the center of Pennsylvania is located in Centre County, two and a half miles southwest of Bellefonte....quartzite gossan from Bald Eagle Mountain, Centre County. A representative sample of the many tons of float
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rare-earth pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake...on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991). i i • I...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence..."specimen quality" questionable occurrence Angelina County Lufkin, 1 mile N of Lufkin in railroad cuts, in...(petrified wood) (Folk et al., 1961). Baylor County Aransas County Aransas Pass area, Intercoastal Canal
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals
Report (issue)
(Geology)—Texas—Presidio County. 2. Domes (Geology)-Texas—Brewster County. 3. Geology—Texas—Presidio County. 4. Geology—Texas—Brewster...Geology—Texas—Brewster County. I. Corry, Charles E., 1938—II. Geological Society of America. III. Title:...2-2. tact sae ci sats cemeteries Pe eaten te eee Buck HilliGroupi gn ic tn ee een anette eran eee erie...eee nen en Solitario igneous suite 22, teen ee Buck Hill Group 5.0625. Gee ees eee a 26 pH| 27 28 28...circular breached dome on the Presidio-Brewster county line, 16 km northwest of Terlingua, and about 24
Book (volume)
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
Book (volume)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oil Corporation No. 1 Dora Roberts well, Reeves County, W. A. Waldschmidt (personal communication) identified...beds of limestone crop out on the north slope of a hill west of the Fort Davis-Toyahvale highway 4.74 miles...conglomerate between the Boquillas formation and the Buck Hill volcanic series (Tertiary). The conglomerate is...trunks 2-3 feet across. Upper part ends at top of hill covered by lava debris 104 5. Flinty-appearing cream...ranch the formation is 136 feet thick, and on the hill 3 miles southeast of the Jeff ranch it is only a
Book
CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...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...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1 p.pm.) in the feldspar, biotite, augite, or apatite of the ph&mic csledonisn rocks of Western Scotland...showed that there is an increase in normative apatite, ilmenite, magnetite, albite, and orthoclase in...intermediate gabbro, and aplite. The felsites of Baro Hill and Mt. Houghton (l-1, 1.4 and 0.8 p.p.m. MO) are...Springs basalt Butoherkniie Hilf bmalt Buck Hill syenite Pot&o Hill andesite Cromen trachyte Mitchell Mesa...molybdenum are from the Buck Hill quadrangle in west central Brewster County. They have been described
Report (issue)
eyton Bend l«»ortont outcrops **~^- Crtths X County lints, t«etpt along water court** Towns and eommualtios...(altitude 4,^03 feet) and in the south tgr Big Buds Hill (altitude ii-,264 feet). She eastern hi£Oaad area...fence posts and trees on steep slopes lean down hill* 10 A natural masm* of soil conservation is effected...ome foot; they commonly follov the contour of the hill. Is sent tally concordami avmmits in the Pltuatree...the Horth Toe River are the summits ef Slippery Hill mmi mil Shoal nidge on the Carvers Gap sheet, and
Report (volume)
deposits of the Nightingale district, Pershing County, Nev., by W. C. Smith and P. W. Guild (published...Topaz deposits near the Brewer mine, Chesterfield County, S. C., by Carl Pries, Jr. (published in August...quicksilver deposits of the Del Puerto area, Stanislaus County, Calif., by H. E. Hawkes, Jr., F. G. Wells, and...Quicksilver deposits near the Little Missouri River, Pike County, Ark., by David Gallagher (published in October...of the Nightingale tungsten district, Pershing County, Nev.................................. In pocket
Report (volume)
-Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society Journal. Chapel Hill, N. C. Eng. Jour.-Engineering Journal. Montreal...Survey Bull.-Maine Geological Survey Bulletin. Augusta, Maine. Maine State Geologist Rpt.-Maine State...Bull.; County Rpt.-Maryland Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources Bulletin; County Report...Proc.-Virginia Academy of Science Proceedings. Charlottesville, Va. Va. Geol. Survey Bull.-Virginia Geological...Investigations. Olympia, Wash. W. Va. Acad. Sci. Proc.-West Virginia Academy of Sciences Proceedings. Morgantown, W
Book
he was using. The clay came from a site in Macon County, then called the Joree Mountains, now called the...Mines, Miners and Minerals Wedgwood used the Macon County clay in every piece ofjasper; his finest product...Stomp Mine, located on Rich’s Knob in Mitchell County, was an exception. Before the heading of the mine...Sink Hole Mine, located near Bandana in Mitchell County. The workings of the mine resembled a large railway...Miners and Minerals The Sink Hole Mine in Mitchell County, a meccafor rock hounds, wasfirst mined by the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3.0 2,2 7.6 Felsite (probably intrusive), Bare Hill, Mich. Feleite, Mt. Houghton, Mich. lower half of...not likely to aooount for muoh arsenic. Although apatite has not been separated from our igneous rocks and...Cottonwood Spring8 baa& Butchvknife Hill basalt Buck Hill aye&e Pot&o Hill aude&e Cromm trachyte Mitchell... A series of rocks from Buck Hill quadrangle in west-central Brewster County, described by GOLDICE and...are all high in phosphorus, but apparently the apatite makes little contribution to the arsenic content
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ +./8 ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5 ....and barite, 6 cm high, Minerva No. 1 mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. Figure 5 (above right).... Barite, 12.9 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. Figure 6 (right). Fluorite...Fluorite, 1.9 cm on edge, Minerva No. 1 mine, Hardin County. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing photo. Arthur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Southern California (MSSC) at the San Bernardino County Museum. One of the few groups to start formally...Other Micromineral Localities in San Bernardino County, Downloaded by [134.117.10.200] at 07:25 21 November...Show of the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania, probably found the Northminster...Friday, 4 April, at the Spring Hill Suites by Marriott in Alexandria, Virginia. In recent years this symposium...field trip. The group went with Tom Tucker to the Buck Hill, Stoutameyer Branch, and Sugar Grove localities
Report (issue)
is dark brown. Right: Nepheline crystals, Davis Hill, Bancroft. Specimen measures 21 cm by 20 cm. National...Lily Robertson occurrence Cancrinite Hill occurrence Davis Hill occurrence Princess sodalite mine Vardy...Genesee No. 2 Mine · Thompson Mine Hickey Mine Selby Hill sunstone occurrence National Graphite Mine McKenzie...occurrence Wilberforce molybdenite mine Liscombe apatite occurrence American molybdenite mine Desmont Mine...Mine Cudney occurrence Wilberforce (Virginia) graphite mine Richardson (Fission) mine Dwyer fluorite mine
 
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