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Halloysite from
Willis Mountain Mine, Sprouses Corner, Farmville Mining District, Buckingham County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Halloysite
Formula:Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Halloysite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Willis Mountain Mine, Sprouses Corner, Farmville Mining District, Buckingham County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:368420
Long-form Identifier:1:3:368420:7
GUID (UUID V4):c2fa1978-0baf-48fa-a44e-eeb48c41007b
Nearest other occurrences of Halloysite
30.3km (18.8 miles) ⓘBaker Mountain Mine, Madisonville, Farmville District, Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA
80.3km (49.9 miles) ⓘAndalusite locality, Alta Vista, Campbell County, Virginia, USA
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Report (issue)
sillimanite, and andalusite____________ History of mining. _____________________________________________________..._ ________________ Virginia - __ -__ _ ___________ Farmville district, Buckingham, Prince Edward, and...39 Kyanite deposits Continued Virginia Continued Farmville district, etc. Continued Rock types Continued...__-___-_____- __ Willis Mountain and vicinity____________ Woods Mountain and vicinityBaker Mountain-Madisonville...Mountain-Madisonville area____ Leigh Mountain __ __ _ _ Southern Prince Edward CountyOrigin of kyanite deposits Other
Report (issue)
the cover—Turquois 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 (article/letter/editorial)
Kyanite Quartzites in the Piedmont Province of Virginia: Evidence for a Possible High-Sulfidation System...Geology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 AND MATTHEW A. PASEK Department of Planetary...world’s largest kyanite mine is hosted within kyanite quartzite at Willis Mountain in the Piedmont Province...Province of Virginia, and numerous smaller bodies occur throughout this region. Most occur in the Ordovician...central Virginia, and the only active kyanite mine in the United States is at Willis Mountain in Buckingham
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No. 2 '\ NON-BAUXITIC ALUMINA RESOURCES IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet and William F. Giannini , ABSTRACT...contain appreciable amounts of alumina ( 4 0 3 . The Virginia Division of Mineral Resources has completed a...34 counties and independent cities throughout Virginia were examined, sampled and the samples were analyzed;...or analyzed. Previously published analyses of Virginia coals indicate appreciable amounts of alumina...levies, nationalization of many foreign bauxite mining operations, and cartels among alumina producers
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Procedures Members who’ve participated in Northern Virginia Mineral Club auctions know that they are a lot...rule; items with multiple bids on The Northern Virginia Mineral Club November 2010 Bid Slips - Please...line and bring one for each item The Northern Virginia Mineral Club NAME BID __________ __________...countless thousands of fossils each The Northern Virginia Mineral Club November 2010 THE MINERAL NEWSLETTER...to protect it during the winter. The Northern Virginia Mineral Club After a long, hot day of digging
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YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...by Prof. John G. Smock, and that for the Eocky Mountain region by Mr. C. Whitman Cross. To these gentlemen...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und
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• • • • • • Grade and Reserves •• • • • • • • • Mining and Beneficiation • • • • • • • Calcination .....individuals, firms and organisations, as well as to the mining and geological departments, both in Commonwealth...origin. The Henry Knob kyanite deposit4 in York County, South Carolina, was previously considered to be...Henry Knob deposit, as well as others in the same district, is thought to have been formed by the metamorphism...beneficiation of disseminated schists is that at Willis Mountain, Virginia, where very large reserves containing
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boundaries of the mineral industry are clear: the mining and milling of feldspar, for example, belong to...does not. But how does one draw the line between mining and manufacturing where brine from a salt well...districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies, and give production...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many...government may even decide to go directly into mining, as Saskatchewan has done with potassium minerals
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Geology and Virginia Richard V. Dietrich Professor of Geology and Dean School of Arts and Sciences,...University Press of Virginia Charlottesville Qt z.^.z THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA Copyright © 1970...by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia First published 1970 Standard Book Number: 8139-0289-4...America To Frances, Rick, Kurt, Krista, and Virginia 161781 Digitized by the Internet Archive in...natives of Virginia and visitors to the Commonwealth—who are interested in geology and in Virginia. It attempts
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present of mining and metallurgy of lead . . . . . . . . . . . 18.7.2. Past and present of mining and metallurgy...hampering our access to mineral deposits, such as mining depth controlled among others by the geothermal...Hewett in 1927 who was able to demonstrate that in mining countries exploitation, export and import of metals...passed its climax. At the very end the domestic mining industry can no longer cater for the needs and...looked up in various publications such as the “World Mining Data”, a yearbook issued by Weber and Zsak (2007)
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present of mining and metallurgy of lead . . . . . . . . . . . 18.7.2. Past and present of mining and metallurgy...hampering our access to mineral deposits, such as mining depth controlled among others by the geothermal...Hewett in 1927 who was able to demonstrate that in mining countries exploitation, export and import of metals...passed its climax. At the very end the domestic mining industry can no longer cater for the needs and...looked up in various publications such as the “World Mining Data”, a yearbook issued by Weber and Zsak (2007)
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5.95 and quickly informative.”— “Practical Virginia Kirkus RANGE GUIDE TO MINES AND MINERALS A by...stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K
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----------General geology of the Pilot Mountain-Fox Mountain region (Ramseur 7 t' Quadrangle) ------...----------Pilot Mountain porphyry gold system High-alumina deposits in Moore County ----------------...Hydrothermal alteration at the Brewer mine, Chesterfield County, South Carolina ---------------------...--6. Hydrothermal alteration atPilot Mountain, Randolph County, North Carolina ---------------------...---------------7. Soil sample analyses, Pilot Mountain area ---------------------------1. Page 3 III
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down from Mount Sinai, but the truths from Green Mountain National Forest (Vermont) generally differ from...“evenhandedness,” but it doesn’t work that way: when a land district has only six snowmobiles in the whole area, the...found by your club president asking the local district ranger for a “ policy statem ent” on mineral collecting...proactive in the regulatory process. Why should the district ranger (or anyone else) pay any attention to our...example of the reverse situation is that of the metal mining industry today, which has a goodly amount o f money
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$12.50 Histories of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina, William Byrd. $2.00 (tent...professional geologists who may fail to realize that we “mine” such common materials as sand, gravel, and clay...industrial diamonds, chiefly from the Bakwanga district of the Belgian Congo, where the placer operations... MINERALS nage per year as the coal and metal-mining industries combined. The US. Bureau of Public Roads...tonnages: several mills in the Quebec asbestos district can each handle as much as 15,000 tons of crude
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United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese
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professional geologists who may fail to realize that we “mine” such common materials as sand, gravel, and clay...industrial diamonds, chiefly from the Bakwanga district of the Belgian Congo, where the placer operations... MINERALS nage per year as the coal and metal-mining industries combined. The U.S. Bureau of Public...tonnages: several mills in the Quebec asbestos district can each handle as much as 15,000 tons of crude...beneath the California desert, and the asbestos district of eastern Quebec. The student of geology will
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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...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....Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous
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MINING WORLD CATALOG, SURVEY & DIRECTORY NUMBER Blue Pages Pink Section Yellow Pages DIRECTORY INDEX...231-26] > 68 United States Mining in 1960 State-by-state report from and MINING to zinc Alaska to Wyoming...Shipments by mines for 1958, 1959, 1960 B96 Open Pit Mine Production ef 3 Technological ; Advances Tons...Tons mined and stripped & 99 Underground Mine Production from 1955 through 1960 > 101 Geology and...—==erererr Ofslo(Seep colitetol Mining Open Pit Mining World-Wide Mining Reports Africa-Asia-Caribbean-Europe
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INSTITUTE METALLURGICAL New York 1949 OF MINING ENGINEERS Copynicur, 1949, py THE American ...and the consequent more elaborate mining methods; the need for mining ores of lower grade, resulting...heavy concrete structures such as dams, for stope mining, explosive demolitions under special conditions...20 Turkey: Kalah. .. Gumuch. Samos..... USA. Virginia... Chester, Mass..| New York New York ...hydrous mica. This kind is mined in New York and Virginia in the United States. Feldspathic emery is similar
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economically. As a part of our response to the Mining and Mineral Policy Act of 1970, the Geological...resources into minable reserves-"rock in the box," in mining parlance; a few examples are the discoveries of...equivalent of the southeast 3 INTRODUCTION Missouri district can be expected to turn up in the future ; the...mid-1950's on the west side of the Southeast Missouri district resulted in the discovery of the large unexposed...part of the district. With the phoenixlike rejuvenation of the Southeast Missouri district, the Viburnum
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especially dwelt upon. The value of ores in . mining, their modes of reducti~n, the yieid of .mines...LOCALITIES OF MINERALS, . BRIEF NOTICE OF FOREIGN MINING REGIONS, • • . MINERALOGICAL IMPL~ENTS, • • • •...66. AcICULAR, [Lat. The horizontal entrance to a mine. Alkali An oxyd having an acrid taste, and caustic;...ingredients present. Lode. [Sax. lredan, to lead.] In mining, a vein of mineral substance ; usually a vein of...molybdic acid. Monoclinate, 33. Monometric, 32. Mountain limestone. A limestone of the lower part of the
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DURRIE & PECK, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION...only by name. in uses of minerals and their mining, their countries, modes modes of application...American localities of Minerals, notice of Foreign Mining Regions, Mineralogical Implements, Weights, Measures...aster, star.] HavThe ing the appearance of a stai mine. An oxyd having an acrid within. Alkali. Containing...of the simple blowin Gallery. horizontal A A mining. pipe. Gangue, 204. Inspissate. Gelatinize
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yr>cr 1857, by PLCK D the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut (QE372. 18^7 EARTH SCIENCES...especially dwelt upon. in the arts of ores in mining, their modes of reduction, the yield of mines in...LOCALITIES OF MINERALS, . BRIEF NOTICE OF FOREIGN MINING REGIONS, . . . MlNERALOGICAL IMPLEMENTS, WEIGHTS...aditus, an entrance.] horizontal entrance to a mine. The material under chem* blowpipe examination...simple blowhorizontal passage in Gallery. A A mining. Gangue, 204. Inspissate. Gelatinize, 67. Intumesce
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industri a l expansion. "Agriculture waited on mining, the need of foodstuffs stimulated farming; a complex...For years British Columbia called h erself the mining province, and she had a right to the name.' lt...seventeenth century. Small coal mines were opened in Virginia and Ohio early in the eighteenth century and in...1800. All these deposits, along with goJd from Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, aided early industrial...considered to be a natural accumulation of useful mine ra l materials that can be profitably extracted
 
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