 | | 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 ....3/. 0/0% (!2$). -!33!# 05,!3+) %8 !. $% 2 Illinois Mineral Locality Index 7)..%"!'/ /',% #!22/...(above). Map showing the counties in Illinois, courtesy the Illinois Geological Survey. 96*2: 405...at 19:53 09 October 2014 T he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary |  | | Report (volume) | | Georgia..........Dr. S. W. McCallie, Atlanta. Illinois...........Mr. F. W. DeWolf, Urbana. Indiana.....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Book (edition) | | mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurs as a dense, eggshell-like veneer over the County (in Eastern California), is 12 porous and fragile...sediments containing County, is in southern Connecticut. these specimens. ILLINOISā"Enclosed you will find...geodes found at Grey's quarry, We now have evidence that Paoha Is- Hamilton, Illinois, these are my favorites...to Grey's Quarry always be happy ones. Hamilton, in W. Hancock County, is in western Illinois. KANSASāFrom...Wellsville, Kans."āon label. Wellsville, in N/E Franklin County, is in eastern Kansas. MONTANAā"I want to tell |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens were received, one white and the other dark gray, and both contain tiny, brassy-yellow grains of...of the many quartz slabs we found. From Tellar County, Colorado." ā on label. 30 PLEASE SEND THEM I...iron ore, chiefly goethite with some limonite and hematite, is found in red, yellow, or ocherous clay. In...Hunter Street, Atlanta, Ga. Editor - A. S. Furcron. ILLINOIS ā R. Pickens, 610 N . Martin Ave., Waukegan, 111...colorless cleavable mass of calcite embedded in gray limestone. Minutely thin "hairs" of pale brassyyellow |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | road cut along old IN-37, near Harrodsburg, Monroe County, Indiana. Note the semispherical opening, lower...formations in Kentucky, and the Warsaw Formation in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. Geodes occur primarily in...commercial geode mine at St. Francisville, Clark County, Missouri. This specimen appeared on the dust jacket...quartz geode, from a locality near Revere, Clark County, Missouri. Cincinnati Museum Center specimen (No...from Shefflerās geode mine, near Alexandria, Clark County, Missouri. Fred and Sue Keitel specimen, Terry |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and ļ the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmļ¾jasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. lineļ¾rock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1Ā½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatļ¾jasper. CARTERSVILLE:...CARTERSVILLE: ļ area barite pitsļ¾Barite, Geodes, Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Iron minerals; ļ area mines, as important |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................... 105 107 115 Illinois.................................................Atlanta. Idaho______.Mr. Robert N. Bell, Boise. Illinois-_____.Mr. F. W. DeWolf, Urbana. USEFUL MINERALS...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.; |  | | Book | | Mineral Trails Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem...knowledge and enjoyment of this great owners, mine and quarry operators and science by collecting. Thanks too...new species of fossils have been collected in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported... Michigan and Huron virtually surrounding it. Illinois and Indiana are bordered in part by Lake Michigan...and the Keweenaw peninsula of Michigan. Southern Illinois, southern Indiana and southern Ohio have milder |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collect a few specimens. "The locality is the Jeffrey quarry located 1/2 mile outside North Little Rock city...city limits on State Hwy 65 in Pulaski County, Ark." ā letter dated July 31, 1963 from Richard Purifoy,...Fontana, Calif. The 3x4 inch sawed, rounded dark gray mass is a section of a large calcite nodule. It...of dark brown limonite with a loosemass of dark gray hardened clay. It is the clay that causes the rattling...one geode Mr. Stech found small pellets of dark gray clay, plus small fragments of dark brown limonite |  | | Book | | Jefferson Co. Hematite BIRMINGHAM, Jefferson Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24...Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount...Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I COAL CITY,...Co. Hematite DUDLEYVILLE, Tallapoosa Co. Asbestos, with Corundum FORT PAYNE, DeKalb Co. Hematite FREDONIA...Magnetite GADSEN, Etowah Co. Hematite GAYESVILLE, Cherokee Co. Hematite HANOVER, Coosa Co., (near) Feldspar |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens received was a greenish quartz and two rocks ā gray phyllite and reddish mica schist. ARIZONA ā "I am...brown limonite. Wickenburg is in N / W Maricopa County in western Arizona. xlineācrystalline tain a... The Dallas Gem Mine is in southern San Benito County in western California. COLORADO ā "Would you please...surface shows the interior cently found in San Benito County, here to be an attractive moss agate of pleasing...combination (brown, gray and dark the crystal, I'm sure you will agree that gray)the term "astonishing" |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | National City, Calif. La Jolla, in western San Diego County, is in S / W California. COLORADO ā A most attractive...Co., Colorado." Gladstone, in northern San Juan County, is in S / W Colorado. "This specimen represents...Stafford, in northern Tolland County, is in N / E Connecticut. ILLINOIS ā "Enclosed you will find a geode...specimen which comes from the Gray Bros. Quarry near Hamilton, Illinois." ā sent in by Bill Frier, 816...xls in gray calcite geode. The xls fl. yellow ā both waves. Hamilton, in western Hancock County, is in |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...397 by I. V. Pekov The Minerals of West-Central Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Garvin & G. Tribbey The minerals of the Hunting Hill quarry, Rockville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . ....nalcime intergrowths have been observed. Sharp, gray to white, trapezohedral analcime crystals up to...3 mm, in a cavity in yellow manaksite with dark gray aegirine and brown sphalerite, from the Palitra |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | found along the Cahaba River in Shelby County, Ala. The colors are gray with red veins, red and yellow buff...Calif., has sent us a nice loose shark's tooth, gray in color and \y2 inches long. The label ROCKS AND...vein in white dolomite at Danbury, Conn." 248 ILLINOIS ā The following letter, dated April 6, 1956, comes...ago I spent some time in Pope and Harding Co., Illinois, seeking out some good to unusual fluorite and...'Teche' our Boxer, spent Easter Sunday near Hamilton (Hancock Co.), 111., combing the bluffs along the R |  | | Book | | ....243 APPENDIX II: MINERAL SPECIES LISTED BY COUNTY ...............................248 ABOUT THE AUTHORS...Marquette County include the Presque Isle body, the Yellow Dog body in the northern part of the county, and...Ishpeming. Several bodies also occur in Dickinson County near the mouth of the Sturgeon River. A distinctive...outcrops in the SWĀ¼ section 27, T44N, R31W, Iron County, about 1.6 kilometers west of Lake Ellen, and about...inclusion (xenolith) in the kimberlite consists of buff, gray, and black fossiliferous dolomite similar to that |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral has been mined quite extensively in Clay County, Alabama, from one end to the other. It is quite...south of Antimony Peak, near Hollister, San Benito County, California. While it might sound like exaggeration...stilbite xls in dark gray mica schist. 196 Garnet: massive pale pink; also red in gray mica schist. Gypsum...Gypsum (selenite) : white encrustation on dark gray (stained brown) mica schist. Pyrite: Brassy-yellow masses...hunting with my father, and some friends, at Gillette Quarry, Haddam Neck, Conn. While going over the old dump |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ala. "Item 2. Limonite and hematite are stripped mined in Crenshaw County, Alabama, and specimens collected...by the farmers. "Limonite and hematite are to be found on most any county road south of Montgomery (Montgomery...Crenshaw CountyāDavenport, Highland Home, Bradenton and Petrey are all small towns in Crenshaw County near...near which limonite and hematite are found." (to be continued) ARIZONAāFrom the Wickenburg Mts. in Yavapai...Mineral Occurrences."ārecent letter from Howard V. Hamilton, 1340 Crandall Ave., Salt Lake City 6, Utah. "StibiotantaliteāSb |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard...Sevier County (Coskren and Lauf 2000). The following index is arranged alphabetically by county. It is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fairbanks, Alaska. Two small sawed slabs, one a dark gray (almost black) and the other a deep green were received...some specimens of quartz that came from a rock quarry in North Little Rock (Pulaski Co.), Ark. This quartz...confirmation of my guess as to the rock I found in Marion County, Florida. "I say it's jasper, flint and agate....of a type called moss agate ā brown moss in dark gray chalcedony. A nice specimen. Many nice specimens...Cartersville (Bartow Co.), Georgia. The large Riverside quarry produced some excellent specimens of platy barite |  | | Book (volume) | | Illinois ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors...in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin...the famed Coal Measures so often mentioned in Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsāÆagate, jasper, rare |  | | Book (volume) | | Illinois ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors...in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin...the famed Coal Measures so often mentioned in Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsāÆagate, jasper, rare |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cleavage) ; vanadinite (lustrous, drusy, brownish xls on gray quartz rock). ARKANSASāThe following item was sent...of Western Grove,in the N.E. section of Newton County. All these are in N . W . Arkansas. "It happened...a very large and interesting one from Lawrence County, Arkansas." CALIFORNIAāEmmett Klopfenstein, Box...strongly radioactive microlite occurs at the Slocum quarry in E. Hampton. A few of the octahedral crystals...whose amygdules were filled with gray opaque chalcedony. ILLINOISā"I would like to inform you of some |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountain, Trinity County, Calif."āon label. Island Mountain, in the S / W corner of Trinity County, is in N ...Meriden are in northern New Haven County in central Connecticut. ILLINOISāFrom George A. "Rocky" Evans, 510...3 miles south of Niota, Illinois. One specimen was a small but very nice gray geode. The other was a group..."ā on label. Niota is in northern Hancock County of western Illinois. INDIANAā"I found a small new wash...stay inside during summer. My husband works in a quarry where he finds some nice fossils." āletter dated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on the Post territory which covers most of Yuma County, Arizona, and a small area in California."āletter...Liggett military reserjade deposits in (Monterey County) Cali- vation are some of the very few found on...Middlesex signed to conserve the stone for removal County, Conn., was sent in by Richard by legitimate collectors...Gillette thorization and have utilized methods of Quarry. They were found in a mixture excavation which...label. GEORGIAāThe following garnets from Coweta County, peared On p. 9 Of GEORGIA NEWSLETTER, Spring 1956 |
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