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| ...... 434 COLLECTING SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES IN FLORIDA. By James G. Manchester .........................Whole No. 125 COLLECTING SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES IN FLORIDA 0 By JAMES G. MANCHESTER INTRODUCTION Many years...labelled "Chalcedony Pseudomorph after Coral, Tampa, Florida." This particular specimen was so attractive...been spent collecting minerals in the vicinity of Tampa, the writer feels that a brief description of one...Middle Atlantic States and the experience in the Tampa area is the rulmination of all previous collecting |
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| Alabama 35486. Downloaded by [University of Florida] at 14:34 04 August 2017 CHALCEDONY PSEUDOMORPH...AGATIZED CORAL By HARRIET CALL (Chips and Facets) In Florida, the varied and numerous species of quartz, agate...agatized coral, found only in Hillsborough Bay at Ballast Point, Tampa, Florida. The best time to hunt for...westerly winds help to sweep the water out of the bay and away from the shore for the lowest tide. The...specimen. Some semi precious looking material like sardonyx, black onyx, carnelian, or agate may ap pear |
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| geologic map of the Roosevelt Hot Springs area, Beaver County, Utah, is now on open-file at the Utah Geological...AGATIZED CORAL By HARRIET CALL (Chips and Facets) In Florida, the varied and numerous species of quartz, agate...agatized coral, found only in Hillsborough Bay at Ballast Point, Tampa, Florida. The best time to hunt for...westerly winds help to sweep the water out of the bay and away from the shore for the lowest tide. The...specimen. Some semi precious looking material like sardonyx, black onyx, carnelian, or agate may ap pear |
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| FIFTY YEARS OF MINERAL COLLECTING FROM MAINE TO FLORIDA By JAMES G. MANCHESTER (Address at the Mineral...presented me. with a quartz crystal from Herkimer County, New York, and from that day to this minerals have...exposed at low tide on the shore of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. This boulder, after being broken...rounded and the rock deposited on the shore of the bay. That this crystal should remain loose in the pocket...memory is the Diamond Hill section of Herkimer County, New York, noted for the remarkable quartz crystals |
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| mineral-collecting area. rugged in spots, amethyst West Bay near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, is one of many beaches...hunters. in 11 lllus. 9. Ballast Point on Hillsborough Bay in Florida is accessible at low can search...landing at Digby. When exploring on the beaches on the Bay of Fundy, watch the tides. Never let children wander...baroque jewelry. The one prolific spot was in Florida where carnelian and agate pseudoniorphs after coral...could once be obtained at Hillsborough Bay which is part of the larger Tampa Bay. It is at the east end |
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| 1 POSTSCRIPT BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 ti CHAPTER 13 Florida..... .......... _........_........._______.......Connasauga, Chattanooga, O c a nee, Ye l l o w Florida: S u w a n e e , Withlacoochee, E s c a m b i a...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...carnelian in the United States. Collectors in Florida found agatized corals of record size in areas considered |
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| Fie. 1. The ancient cameos \Vere carved from sardonyx, carnelian, and agate by J. S. Klauber, fan1ous...replica, Gilmore claims that the stone ,vas sarcl or sardonyx, a reddish-bro,vn agate type of chalcedony, named...action was that other sections of tl1e city and county of Los Angeles soon began organizing their O\vn...for minerals and agates. With the exception of Florida, there is no public domain on the eastern seaboard...thirtee11 states. A little over 9 per cent of Florida is still owned by the federal government, but the |
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| ............................................. Florida Black Coral Jewelry — Emily Danker . . . Diamonds...Mineral and G m Show (5th Annual) of the Rockland County Min eral & Gem Society, Inc., to be held at Rosary’...Norwich, N. Y. 13815 (Off of Route 12 or 23 on County Road 32) Chairman: Mrs. John A. Coleman, R. #3...Chairman: Frank Cox, 390 W. Orange, Cocoa Beach, Florida 32931 Oct. 12, 13, 1974 — 8th Annual FranklinSterling...official State Highway Map as well as individual county road maps, both of which are available from the |
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| ..........................................138 Florida ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map .......................................... |
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| customers MINIMUM ORDER $5.00 • WE PAY POSTAGE USA on Items This Ad e 10 DAY RETURN PRIVILEGE e SATISFACTION...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County. 8th Annual " Bouquet of Gems and Minerals" Show...Cleveland Avenue to San Carlos Boulevard, Fort Myers, Florida. New displays, machinery; supplies for gem cutting...-• ..., ·- - -- -- - . -=--- - # J-318 Ball Point Desk Pens, in your choice of: Black with Blue Ink...Highway 550 to 109-t l\1agnolia Street, Clermont, Florida. Catalog available fo r 16c nandling charge. Specialize |
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| agatized coral was collected at Ballast Point in Hillsboro Bay in Tampa, Florida. It was collected in the early...early 1960s. This coral was from the Tampa formation laid down during the Miocene epoch. The bubbles...Moss Drive, P.O. Box 740252 Houston Texas, TX 77074 USA Tel : +1 832 641 5014 ; +234 803 715 8372 Fax : +1...situation within the Amazon could soon hit a tipping point. The Amazon is a hotspot of biodiversity and a buffer...impacts that include mass extinctions. Case in point: the end of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago as |
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| ..........................................121 Florida .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |
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| ..........................................121 Florida .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |
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| ····························905 VESUVIANITE CRYSTALS FROM ESSEX COUNTY, N. Y. By E. B. Rou iey 906 MONAZITE OCCURRENCE...contact ·with the VESUVIANITE unless it be at the point of convergence of the prisms in the " fansha ped"...the next right Perhaps not the best from a view point hand road ¾ mile west of here. The of minerals collected...) Take the next left hand road (a to a certain point which I shall quote and di rt road) and folio :1...line of travel a given number of degrees from any point. An alidade I believe it is called . You won't need |
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| material. It not amiss here, incidentally, to point out that the constituents of concrete, which are...vegetable fibers. This specimen came from Orleans County, Vermont. Galena is the most important ore...silicified coral is taken from the coastal waters of Florida. Many states, especially Arkansas, have reported...to the point where fragments of the mineral are seen. This process repeated until at some point on the...People in the area of Tampa Bay on the the Florida Gulf Coast go to Ballast Point to collect coral. Texans |
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| Vernon of the Florida Geological Survey kindly arranged the loan of photographs of Tampa Bay silicified...of St. Paul, Minnesota, by Guy Wilson of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and by A. L. Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken... . . . . . . . . Orbicular jasper cabochons Tampa Bay coral geode Turritella specimen Polished agate |
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| MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and Mexico. Every...with a square hammerhead on one end, and a pick point on the other. These can be bought at any large hardware...for splitting rock, and one chisel with a square point. Often a large pickax, a sledgehammer, large and...rockhounds who left gates open and cut fences to the point where the ranchers are liable to welcome you with |
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| the same properties, That is brief and to the point, concentrating on the essential criteria. First...recent ex- Figure 8. Azurite from Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Azurite is a Cu-containing mineral found in the...mineral was first described) or after a landscape, county, or region in which the type locality was situated... Figure 10. Spessartine from Nathrop, Colorado, USA. Spessartine is named after the type locality near... Centre of symmetry A centre of symmetry is a point in the crystal in which a face can be ‘mirrored’ |
