 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 8y ARTHUR E. SMITH, JR. 9118 Concho, Houston, Texas Barite has been reported from super caprock formations...about 50 feet above the caprock at Hackley dome, Texas. (Stenzel, 1946). Crystalline masses 1 to 7 inches...and Mason, 1926). Both domes are in Hardin County, Texas. White to bluish gray barite oolites and pisolites...fluorescent matrix were found at Fannett dome, Texas. Small (up to 1 mm.) scalenohedrons and rhombohedrons...domes just above the sulfur zone. At Hoskins Mound dome, Texas it makes up to 50 percent of the composition |  | | Journal (issue) | | largest gold nugget from Continued on page 6 Fluorite Fig. 1 Large gold nuggets found by Valens St...Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036 âą In I 969 and 1970...on page 4 Fig. 1 White fluorite, 2 mm, Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas, photo by the author. ...Minero! News The Lost Gem Tourmaline Mine: the Royal Gorge No. 1 Mine, Eight Mile Park, Fremont Co., Colorado...I wrote in Mineral News about the gem tourmaline mine of the Colorado miner, C. A Beghtol. This long lost |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Texas mineral locality INDEX Whereas Texas is well known for its vastness, cattle industry, and oil...I T S T O P O G R A P H Y A N D G E O L O G Y , Texas, the second largest state, has produced relatively...famous localities. A s this article will show, Texas has hadâor currently hasânu merous mineral occurrences...produce good specimens; yet when specimens from Texas are sought in collections and dealers' stocks, few...some basic facts that help explain the situation. Texas has very little federal land in its mineralized |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pegmatites Lake Buchanan, Llano County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Str. Houston, Texas 77036 Ray Stegemoller...Box 201, Canine Road Marble Falls, Texas 78654 .7 l Llano County has long been known for its rare-earth...nl996 .. Texas resulted in extremely low water levels in Lake Buchanan...Mexico âą Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston, Texas 77036 In the fall of 1996 when I purchased part...former Chief Geologist for Texas Gulf at their Frasch sulfur mine at New Gulf, Texas, I noticed a small vial |  | | Journal (issue) | | stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series |  | | Journal (issue) | | d'Ossola, Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 âą 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...Springs County, Arkansas is Reclaimed and Collecting Ceases Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...Located on the east rim of Magnet Cove, the Christy Mine, fonnerly known as the Christy brookite locality...as big, or bigger. One location is in Campbell County, Virginia where huge ones up to about a foot long |  | | Report (issue) | | „ TEXAS ROCKS AND \ r - An Amateurâs Guide ;s ROSELLE M. GIRARD A b OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY V N IVERSITY...The University of Texas Austin, Texas Peter T. Flawn, Director Guidebook 6 TEXAS ROCKS AND MINERALS...Rock identification charts Descriptions of some Texas rocks and minerals Anhydrite .......................................... ....................... Fluorite ................................................Composition, hardness, and specific gravity of some Texas minerals Pace 25 26 39 40 43 43 43 44 45 46 47 |  | | Journal (issue) | | DeMark Malachite pseudomorphs from the Sir Dominick mine, Arkaroola, South Australia .......................... 99 by J. S. White Pyrrhotite nodules from Texas Gulf Coast salt d o m e s ........................Arizona 85740 COVER: GOLD from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. This specimen, about 7 inches...Cloud fluorite and copper mines located in the center o f the district. T The Red Cloud fluorite and...sedimentary rocks. Mining for iron, copper and fluorite in the Red Cloud district has taken place sporadically |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Arsenopyrite + gold Pyrrhotite Sphalerite Vein U, Th Fluorite Apatite Limicas Tourmaline Topaz Quartz I Quartz...plex do chro Complex AgPbAsSb sulfides site Fluorite Ca Galena Mg Quartz Chalcopyrite Fe II Chalcocite...Carbonate piles and hydrothermal veins with barite, fluorite, chalcedony, pyrite, and calcite are described...100 0 7 6 â100 O2 7.7 â157 â200 MHCOâ 3 Total mine mg/l ralization, g/l 1.6 400 330 1.2 200 1.8 +87...the HustonâSan AntonioâBrownsville tri angle of Texas on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Drilling in |  | | Report (volume) | | Geologic Bulletins 3, 4 (pt. 1). Knoxville, Tenn. Texas, University, Bureau of Economic Geology: Bulletins...Pass and Atlantic City mining district of Fremont County, Wyoming: Rocks and Minerals, vol. 11, no. 10,...Emery. . ° 3. Upper Permian stratigraphy of west Texas Permian basin: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull...Scott. 5. Upper Cretaceous unconformities in Texas: Texas Univ. Bull. 3501, January 1, 1935, pp. 141-149...zones in the Negaunee iron formation of Marquette County, Mich.: Jour. Geology, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 113-132 |  | | Report (volume) | | Portland, Oreg. Geophysics vols. 5, 6. Austin, Texas. Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Division...96 (nos. 4-13), &7-103, 104 (nos. 1-4). Houston, Texas. Oklahoma Academy of Science Proceedings vols. 20...Tenn. Texas Academy of Science: Proceedings vols. 21-24; Transactions vols. 23, 24. Austin, Texas.' Texas...Station, Texas. Texas Geographic Magazine vols. 3 (no. 2), 4 (nos. 1, 2). Dallas, Texas. Texas University...Circulars 2-40; Publications 3945, 4101. Austin, Texas. 10 BIBLIOGRAPHY O'F NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY, |  | | Book | | grouped like the petals of a flower. Cleveland County, Oklahoma. Minerals Past and Present (75 percent)...uses of fluorine-chiefly derived from the mineral fluorite (CaF2)-have been greatly expanded. The fluorocarbon...40 feet long; weight estimated at 90 tons; Etta Mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. PHLOGOPITE MICA: Crystal...14 feet wide; weight approximately 90 tons; Lacy Mine, Ontario, Canada. QUARTZ: Milky white crystal; close...and oxygen atoms. One-ton crystal; Bob Ingersoll Mine, Keystone, South Dakota. COLUMBITE: Transparent |  | | Report (issue) | | Tennessee___________________________________________ 88 Texas -----------------------------------------------..."Metallo" derives from the Greek "metalleion"-a mine, after "metallan"-to search for; hence, metallogenic... rutile. Another departure is the use ofF for fluorite rather than Ca (which would signify a calcium...used ones, giving alternative names or principal mine or mines where they may help the user identify the...the entry. Terms such as district, area, mine, or prospect are added to many names to give additional |  | | Book (edition) | | {110}. Frei quently observed on galena (PbS) and fluorite (CaF»). Figure 79,d = (a: a: «a), {110}; 7 = (a:...Figure 83, h = (a: a: a), Observed on copper (Cu), fluorite (CaF2), and halite (NaCl). Fig. 80. Figure ...and 99 show three cubes representing crystals of fluorite (CaF 2) (Fig. 97), sphalerite (ZnS) (Fig. 98)...clearly that six, and through Fig. 99 only three. fluorite has the symmetry of the hexoctahedral class, sphalerite...crystal of the mineral spinel. A penetration twin of fluorite is shown in Fig. 283. Here, two cubes have intergrown |  | | Report (issue) | | Tennessee________________________ USTN _________ 67 Texas ---------------------------- USTX _________ 68 Utah...(HIDDEN CREEK AND BONANZA MJNE) APEX ARGONAUT MINE ASHLOO MINE ASITKA PEAK (ASITKA) ASPEN GROVE AREA ASTLAIS...BARRINGTON RIVER AREA BASQUE BAYONNE MINE BEAVERDELL AREA (HIGHLAND-BELL MINE, ETC.) BENSON RIVER AREA (EMPIRE...BETHLEHEM MINE, VALLEY, ETC. BIRCH ISLAND (REXSPAR) BLACKHORN MOUNTAIN BLUE GROUSE MINE BLUEBELL MINE COMMODITIES...AREA BOOTJACK LAKE (CARIBOO-BELL) BOSS MOUNTAIN MINE BOULDER CREEK BRALORNE AND PIONEER MINES BRANDYWINE-DORITY |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | 1970 SURVEY SOCIETIES LIBRARY University of Texas At San Antonio The present version of the bibliography...Orleans, Louisiana 10 Rice University, Houston, Texas ' Wy oh - FOREWORD Preparation of this bibliography...Louisiana Anadarko Producing Company, Houston, Texas Consultant, Lafayette, Louisiana Superior Oil Company...Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas in the United Luis Potosi, States, and Nuevo Vera...Rose section in the Canyon Reservoir Comal County, Texas [abs.]: Houston Geol. Soc. Bull., v. 9, no. |  | | Book (edition) | | (Tpi), Pliocene-Miocene, near Edna, San Luis Obispo County, California. 1'/1e aspltaltic sands are underlain...the Anacacho limestone (Cretaceous) of Uvalde County, Texas. This material, which underlies an area of many...recovered in the Minerva fluorite mine in southern Illinois, from the fractured fluorite-bearing rocks of Chester...rocks, such as the Spraberry formation of western Texas ( described on p. 121 ) . Kerogen, under a microscope...are published in July by World Oil, Houston 1, Texas, and in December by the Oil and Gas Journal, Tulsa |  | | Report (volume) | | cientifica Circular Classe classification Company, County Collections Committee Communications Comparative...vols. 1-7. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Field Museum of Natural History: Botanical Series...of America (Inc.) Year Book vols. 6-9. Houston, Texas. National Research Council: Bulletins 90-96, 98...Okla. Oil Weekly vols. 68-96 (nos. 1-3). Houston, Texas. Oklahoma Academy of Science Proceedings vols. 7-9...4-9), 9-11 (nos. 1, 3); Supplements 10-13. Dallas, Texas. Photographic Engineering [formerly American Society |  | | Book (edition) | | e 0.20 Turkey: Kalah. .. Gumuch. Samos..... USA. Virginia... Chester, Mass..| New York New York...Creek, Rabun County, Georgia; at Corundum Hill, Macon County, and at Webster, Jackson County, North Carolina;...Carolina; at Clover, York County, South Carolina; and in Gallatin County, Montana. A few other deposits...in Canada in 1876 in Raglan Township, Renfrew County, Ontario. There are three recognized belts....Counties, Ontario. The middle belt, in Peterborough County, 25 miles to the south, is a club-shaped area about |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...built for heavy off-highway service in construction, mine, quarry and industrial tons For work under large...the 1961 FOR 1960 Blue Ribbon Equipment U. S. MINE Awards Services Supplies REVIEW L. Rice Henry...Nevada New Mexico Oregon South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Washington Wyoming Editor Field Editor Jamaica |  | | Book (edition) | | maintain ore reserves, and in the proper location of mine workings to avoid caving ground. In the future he...descriptions. He also tells us that Hannibal had a silver mine, named the Baebulo, in southern Spain, in a mountain...minerals Miscellaneous Composition Rock matter Fluorite Apatite Pyrite Marcasite Pyrrhotite Arsenopyrite...amount of gold. For example, the Alaska Juneau gold mine mined with profit ores that contained only 0.00016...product. Consequently, the properties that deterÂŹ mine the commercial use of nonmetallic products are multitudinous |  | | Book | | are not likely to underestimate the role of the mine and of the miner in the modern industrial world...brought to mind by reference to a coal mine or a copper mine is that of a vast labyrinth of underground...is â : INTRODUCTION 3 Yet today the term "mine" may be applied with equal justice to the great...producing oil or gas well can be referred to as a mine in the strict usage of that term, yet each carries...Throughout ony. the text the writer will use the terms "mine" and "mining" in the broadest sense, including |  | | Book (edition) | | âą t --âą- """"" ' The Lornex copper-molybdenum mine and plant, Highland Valley, British Columbia. (By...measurements have been retained in specific cases such as mine levels when measured in feet, values of gold and...developing an annual ton of new copper capacity from mine through the refinery without intrastructure costs...fold in three years. As an example, the " Surface Mine Control and Reclamation Act,' ' which was initially...resources in the future.'' In 1977, a surface coal mine regulation that greatly restricts the areas of strip |  | | Book (edition) | | and Rabun County, Georgia. Between 1900 and 1905 the corundum deposits of Gallatin County, Montana, were...worked to a small extent. The Corundum Hill mine, Macon County, North Carolina, is about 8 miles northeast...on Cullasagee Creek, and is the largest corundum mine in the United States. The mineral occurs in a peridotite...From the beginning of operations 'IJ,ntil 1900 the mine produced annually f!'OO to 800 tons of cleaned corundum...include the Behr mine, which had the best equipped corundum mill in the state; the Isbel mine, where the mineral |  | | Book (edition) | | maintain ore reserves, and in the proper location of mine workings t o avoid caving ground. In the future...alluYial n1ining in pain: " Gold is not only dug from mine , but likewise collected; .. and containing gold...produced by "·ashing than by digging it fro1n the mine..." (H. C. Han1ilton and \\7 . Falroner.) ).lany...descriptions. He also tells us that Hannibal had a .. ilYer mine, named the B aebulo, in southern Spain, in a mountain...X X X X Silicates Miscellaneous Rock matter Fluorite Apatite Pyrite J\1arcasite P yrrhotite Arsenopyrite |
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