 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Montana Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015...2015 K NOWN AS THE TREASURE STATE, Montana is rich in mineral and gemstone localities. The state motto...with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside the Co. line in...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...distribution in NW Georgia, but most important occurrences are in the vicinity of Cartersville and Cave |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | zektzerite, all from Washington Pass in Okanogan County —which are known only from the state; the others...in Snohomish County, ferritungstite from Germania mine near Fruitland in Stevens County, and paulingite...from Rock Island Dam near Wenat chee in Douglas County. In addition, many localities pro duce fine-quality...two. Whereas metal mining has led to the discovery of some of these mineral occurrences, most of the notable...is intended primarily as a quick reference to occurrences that have produced or are currently producing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | “strategic mineral.” These and other graphite occurrences in the state have produced, and in some cases...Mineral Museum and the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences Michigan Technological...from Leib’s Moonstone mine, Bloomingdale, Essex County. This specimen (8 cm across), collected by Schuyler...Silliman noted that he was unable to visit graphite occurrences at Ticonderoga and at Roger’s Rock “from want...commercial mining of graphite currently taking place in the United States, graphite mining formerly occurred |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 07:55 02 December 2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse...certain of their accuracy, but for some of these occurrences, the exact locality is unknown to us. Please...sedimentary rocks; (2) mineralization in fractures that cut across preexisting rocks; and (3) minerals in crystalline...rocks. This grouping tends both to put similar occurrences together and to indicate something about their...occurrence (e.g., the zinc deposits of the Balmat district). The type of occurrence is indicated at the end |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of...of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...level. There are some noteworthy mineral occurrences in the sedimentary rock that encompasses more than...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8 km off Browns Road: beryl (Furcron |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | settlement was initially spurred by the lead-zinc mining in its southwest comer, a heritage preserved by...Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and the Wausau area (Falster 1987)...marcasite. A major mining district, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district, was in these rocks...barite, and copper minerals were found. Mining in this district ceased in the late 1970s. A branch of the...zircon), particularly in the Wausau area of Marathon County (Falster 1987). Middle Proterozoic quartzites (1 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ^s ON ^ - - ^ ^ ^ r ^ Mineral Occurrences ' ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED '&„. Abbreviations: xl—...the numerous tungsten mines in the Darwin, Inyo County, California, area."—note from James H. Richardson...from where the two men were killed in the railroad rock cut at the Thomaston Dam, Thomaston (Litchfield...1959, from Herbert H. Baldwin, RR 2, Paper Mill Road, Harwinton, Conn. The specimen is a grayish-green... Tiny brassy-yellow pyrite xls, tiny brownish titanite (sphene) xls, and small masses of dark bronzy-yellow |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ......................................... 139 144 146 153 158 163 169 . 172 174 Montana..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Report (volume) | | a clearer and more comprehensive view of the occurrences than 3 4 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES...it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | nesota sounded the death knell for metal mining in Connecti cut. Now, trap rock, marble/limestone, sand... limestone q u a r r i e s , Beaver B r o o k district, Danbury: barite, calcite, graphite, microcline...Collis P. Huntington State Park, off Codfish H i l l Road exit: albite, bertrandite, columbite, quartz, schorl...pegmatite q u a r r y , B r a n c h v i l l e , Mountain Road: albite and muscovite mixture (obsolete: cymatolite)...inaccessible), Dodgingtown, Newtown, off Purdy Station Road: albite, bertrandite, beryl, quartz, including var |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ^ . Abbreviations: x l — c...xline masses of ankerite have been found in a road cut south of Centreville, Bibb Co., Ala. ALASKA —...following addition to "World News on Mineral Occurrences' as the first of many California localities which...graphite in schist may be obtained in a road cut on Little Tujunga Road, 8.8 miles north of its junction with..."Graphite from Little Tujunga Canyon (road cut on Little Tujunga Road), Los Angeles Co., Calif." — on label |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lower Paleozoic TRAVIS A. PARIS 5604 Malmsbury Road Knoxville, Tennessee 37921 taparis@msn.com Figure...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... minerals, and mineral resources of the state. Mining has been an important part of Tennessee industry |  | | Report (volume) | | of published knowledge) including the chief occurrences of 445 mineral species UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...main part of the report describes the chief occurrences of 445 mineral species, 42 of them first found...location and means of access to all the metallic mining districts in the State, as well as a large number...descriptions of new 1ninerals, or of mineral occurrences, have later been found to be in error. The purpose...on paragenesis or the meanings of the mineral occurrences. To have included all such facts would have made |  | | Book (volume) | | California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the jades of Alaska, British Columbia,...10001 Van Nostrand Reinhold Limited 1410 Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario M1P 2E7, Canada Van Nostrand...and discusses those species which are primarily cut as gemological curiosities with little or no regular...and Park Historian Lloyd Abelson in the case of Pipestone National Monument. Information on gems and gemstones...helpful in providing informa- tion on gemstone occurrences or directing the author to useful references |  | | Book | | NaFe(SiOs)2. Monoclinic. Prismatic crystals. Cleaverage—district (110.) Brittle. Luster-vitreus. Color-brown or...Gives a sodium flame. Nearly insoluble. COMANCHE COUNTY: SE%, Sec. 4, T.3N., R.15W. The xtals are i to...side by granite, AGATE (See Quartz) CANADIAN COUNTY: South Canadian Rivers. In the gravel bars of...the Also in sand plant waste dumps. CIMARRON COUNTY: Secs. 7, 8, 9, 10; T.5N., R.2E. Cimarron Meredian...widely scattered in the Black Mesa area. DEWEY COUNTY: Agate is found 2 miles east of Seiling in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | does have some important mineral localities. Early mining included the exploitation of bog iron ore for the...cobblestone roads prevents Vermont from being a giant mining state today, but in the nineteenth century, cobble...com prehensive listing of Vermont placer gold occurrences would give the false impression of an extraordinary...The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi cant locality in the state...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Principal Localities in the Middlesex County Region in Connecticut Unclassified Material Page...Directions to the Mineral Localities in the Middlesex County Region in Connecticut .... Additional Locality...booklet devoted to the mineralogy of the Middlesex County region. Invaluable assistance in preparing the... calcium, and sodium THORITE-Thorium silicate TITANITE-Calcium titanosilicate TOPAZ-Aluminum fluosilicate...Connecticut. At the Strickland Quarry in Middlesex County, ambly gonite occurs as white cleavages and crude |  | | Report (issue) | | COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing interference growth, from Lake Lanier...Geophysical studies Hydrology Economic geology Mining directory Environmental studies Engineering studies... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT............................................ 115 Titanite ............................................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | N o comprehensive list of Missouri mineral occurrences has been published since Leonhard (1 882), updated...location a~ included at the end of each entry. Adair County Chariton River (40-04-05N 92-4 I -23W). septarian...septarian concretions about 2 miles north of the Macon county line. CALCITE crystals enclosing bundles of acicular...hematite, quartz (Broadhead 1873b, 1877). Audrain County Mexico, in fire clay pits and spoil piles: PYRITE...University Library] at 19:58 29 October 2014 Barton County McKarrow’s coal bank (37-37N 94-28W), 2.5 miles |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...California and the Sonoran desert of Arizona, the lake beaches of the Middle West, the broad plains and...beauty by cleaning and trimming them; some he will cut into jewels, and some he will use to enrich museums...sciences. Many men and women, children too, who cut gems, collect crystals or fossils testify that a...remain." On my own table is a section of agate, cut and polished, its concentric rings of rose, ivory |  | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...William J. Brunet set out to trace three ilmenite occurrences mentioned in late 19th-century literature. One...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...and Edenville, large, fine crystals of spine!, titanite, amphibole and pyroxene have been found since...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely |
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