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Sphalerite from
Howell zinc prospect, Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA


Locality type:Prospect
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Howell zinc prospect, Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:102545
Long-form Identifier:1:3:102545:3
GUID (UUID V4):99b0115a-4d6c-4957-b0a7-dd5662477d81
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
36.1km (22.4 miles) Unnamed PGE Occurrence (MRDS - 10048644), Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
37.4km (23.2 miles) Old Goose Creek Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
37.4km (23.2 miles) New Goose Creek Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
47.3km (29.4 miles) Middletown Quarry (Flintkote Company; Div. of M. J. Grove Lime Company), Frederick County, Virginia, USA
53.0km (32.9 miles) Millbrook Quarry (Haymarket Quarry), Haymarket, Prince William County, Virginia, USA
54.2km (33.7 miles) Bull Run Quarry, Conklin, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
54.3km (33.7 miles) Farmers Cooperative Limestone Quarry, New London, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
57.7km (35.9 miles) Dolyhyde Mine (Dolly Hyde Mine), Libertytown, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
59.6km (37.0 miles) Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Culpeper Basin, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
60.1km (37.3 miles) Unionville Mine, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF THE AND MINERALOGIC HOWELL FEATURES ZINC PROSPECT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, W. VA. JOHN C. LUDLUM ABSTRACT...Renewed exploration of an old zinc prospect in Jefferson County, West Virginia, in 1953 by the United States...States Bureau of Mines and TriState Zinc, Inc., led to a field study,sampling,and a petrographicstudy of...Valley and Ridge sectionsof Alabama,Tennessee,Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The prospectis developedin...fracture cleavageand persistentfeldspartypical in the prospect sampleshave not been recordedas characteristicof
Report (issue)
STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Zinc, Lead, and Barite Deposits and Occurrences in Paleozoic...ILLUSTRATION Plate 1. Preliminary metallogenic map of zinc, lead and barite deposits and occurrences, east-central...east-central United States TABLE Table 1. Zinc, lead, and barite deposits and occurrences in Paleozoic rocks...York Ohio Pennsylvania Tennessee Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin 18 20 22 26 40 41 42 43 47 53...and table are a compilation of information about zinc, lead, and barite deposits, prospects and occurrences
Book (volume)
Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along with lesser amounts of Beryllium, Cesium...pegmatite dike exposures and mines. BON HOMME & CHARLES MIX COUNTIES SCOTLAND to WAGNER, regional rd. cuts...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...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
Book (volume)
Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON... COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (volume)
Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON... COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book
locall - rs where amomeor prospectors m a y still prospect f o r gems mai t e a l s a n d a l s o fossils...is different in many respects :ollecting in the West, and also since some o f you m a y - : o t h e h...CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...Goochiand, Orange, B u r k e West Vi r g i n i a : Monroe, M o r g a n , Jefferson, B e r k e l e y Kentucky:...found. Vi r g i n i a : Orange, Henrico, Tazewell West V i r g i n i a : M o n r o e Kentucky: A d a i
Report (issue)
of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, V a. West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Morgantown, W...________ Tennessee marble belts______________ Virginia marble belts________________ Murphy marble belt________________...____ Valley and Ridge slate belt__________ West Virginia slate belt______________ Pennsylvania slate...______ Tennessee__________________________ West Virginia and other areas_ ___ ____ Resource potentia...Appalachia___________ 254 Sand and gravel, by Charles H. Maxwell, Donald J. Frendzel, and Robert G. Stansfield_
Report (issue)
............................. Northern Arkansas zinc-lead district .............. California ....................................... Ward district and West Ward area .................. White Pine (Hamilton).................................................. West Lead district ................................................................. Eastern Tennessee zinc district ............................ Central Tennessee....................................... Virginia and West Virginia ....................................
Report (volume)
KING, ELISABETH S. LOUD, MILDRED CHALLMAN MEAD, VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN and GEORGIANNA D. CONANT PART 2. INDEX...retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson, L. W., 1. prospect: McKinstry, H. E., Indiana, economic resources...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:
Book
265 273 279 299 iii Page Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming 301 311 315 321...University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont C') 5l/ C / Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Department of Conservation...Box 3667, University Station Charlottesville, Virginia oJ.d.d- O) . / Washington Piviiiiiou of ll~inQiii...e (S / West Virginia Geological a»8 Eeenou1ic Survey Box 879 Morgantown, West Virginia / ,.,, /2isconsin...northeast part of the Coosa Coal Field, St. Clair County, Alabama, by H. E. Rothrock. 1949. 69 B. 50 Well
Report (volume)
represents work done jointly by Ruth Reece King, Virginia M. Jussen, JohnS. Pomeroy, Elisabeth S. Loud,...North American continent, including Greenland, the West Indies, and other adjacent islands, and Hawaii,...represents work done jointly by Ruth Reece King, Virginia M. Jussen, John S. Pomeroy, Elisabeth S. Loqd...Div. Geology Reprint Ser.; Mineral Res. Circ.-Virginia Division of Geology Reprint Series; Mineral Resources...Va. Jour. Sci.-Virginia Journal of Science. Charlottesville, Va. Va. Minerals-Virginia Minerals. Charlottesville
Report (volume)
KING, ELISABETH S. LOUD, MILDRED CHALLMAN MEAD, VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN, and GEORGIANNA D. CONANT PART 1. BIBLIOGRAPHY...KING, ELISABETH S. LOUD, MILDRED CHALLMAN MEAD, VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN, and GEORGIANNA D. CONANT INTRODUCTION...North American continent including Greenland, the West Indies, and adjacent islands, and also Guam and...Oftedahl, Margaret Cooper, Margaret E. Barcroft, Virginia E. Rees, Henry J. Ferry, Karlyn Shoemaker, and...are as follows: COLORADO. Mineralogy. Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R.
 
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