 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimen material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun tain...is of Ordovician age. The gravel pit (actually a quarry) is 3 miles north of Mount Ida off U.S. 270 near...flank. The wavellite is typical of other Montgomery County Locations which differs from the more common Dug...Dug Hill material from near Avant in Garland County. Here it occurs in various shades of light green with...stable matrix. Variscite has been reported from the quarry, but none was observed in recent material. A few |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Month for April. Some of us have found it in Virginia, and more of us can seek it when we return to...little-known facts about this mineral. Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, No in-person social events...Newsletter Prehnite, O&G Southbury Quarry, Southbury, New Haven County, CT. Photo: Bob Cooke. the specimens...through many shades of green. The Upper New Street Quarry was active from 1893 to 1925, although specimens...Prospect Park Quarry, Paterson, NJ. Bottom: Prehnite with babingtonite, Roncari Quarry, East Granby, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hampshire; and Willimantic, Windham County, and Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Gem-quality epidote...to 35 cm have been found at Eden Mills, Lamoille County, Vermont (a traditionally cited locality more accurately...described as the Belvidere Mountain quarry, Lowell, Orleans County). Epidote crystals to 5 cm have been...mines of Chester and from near Norwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; various other Massachusetts epidote...locality near Roseville, Sussex County. Epidote is widespread in the Virginia Piedmont and Blue Ridge Provinces |  | | Journal (issue) | | time to renew your membership in the Northern Virginia Mineral Club if you have not already done so....membership dues to the following address: NORTHERN VIRGINIA MINERAL CLUB PO BOX 9851 ALEXANDRIA, VA 22304...$50 check has been sent to Heartland Hospice in Fairfax, VA. Committee chairs are STILL needed: Volunteer...President organizes the meeting The Northern Virginia Mineral Club of the Board of Directors and manages...(9yrs old), and Patricia Rhodes. The Northern Virginia Mineral Club Wayne Sukow presents Robert Winsor |  | | Journal (issue) | | I’ve only seen the lovely purplish hue. Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our June speaker...for other minerals, are French Creek in Chester County, PA, and the Blackbird District in Idaho. Both...Erythrite mineral data. Wikipedia. 2019. Erythrite. Virginia—Rutherford Mine #2, permanently closed in 1998...Pegmatite Minerals From Rutherford Mine #2 in Virginia June 24 Program Our June program will feature...bluestone associated with Potomac marble in the Culpeper Basin, along with books and quarrying tools brought |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hunting Hill Quarry SUNDAY May 4th: May's field trip is to the Rockville Crushed Stone Inc Quarry for grossular...email Robert or call Robert at 703-431-8547. The quarry manager has set a limit of 20 participants. There...our club members signed up for the Montgomery County Club field trip on May 18th, please be considerate...a parent or legal guardian. This is a hard rock quarry and you will need heavy boots, hard hat, safety...Field Trip Report Manassas Quarry 2 Field Trip Report Nat’l L’stone Quarry 3 April Agenda April Speaker |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Brothers quarry, Prospect Park; McDowell's quarry, Upper Montclair; and the Francisco Brothers quarry, Great...Lambertville) and two Hudson County localities, Laurel (Snake) Hill quarry, Secaucus, and Fort Lee. The...The geology and mineralogy of the two Hudson County localities have already been described in detail by...Localities: Historical Background Bergen Hill, Hudson County The area known as Bergen H i l l consists of several...located in Paterson; Prospect Park quarry in Prospect Park; McDowell's quarry in Upper Montclair; and the Francisco |  | | Journal (issue) | | September newsletter. Stilbite is brown, and stellerite is orange/brown in color. Program: Vice President...for email and mailing address). The Northern Virginia Mineral Club October 2010 THE MINERAL NEWSLETTER...as the show, Sat 10-6, Sun 10-4. The Northern Virginia Mineral Club Silent Auction on Sunday 2 PM. Rob...stalwart club volunteers take everything back to our Fairfax storage unit and put everything away carefully...give thanks to my fellow Northern Virginia The Northern Virginia Mineral Club October 2010 THE MINERAL |  | | Journal (issue) | | 23 Mar NVMC Meeting 04 April Field Trip Vulcan Quarry Manassas 25 April Ben Clement Mineral Dig (Kentucky)...Manassas Quarry Northern Virginia Mineral Club collecting trip to the Vulcan Manassas Quarry at 8537 Vulcan...meeting for members to sign up. The Vulcan Manassas Quarry is known for prehnite, calcite, apophylitte and...and best of all, it's local. Stellerite found at the Vulcan Manassas quarry in April 2008 Contact Ted...time to renew your membership in the Northern Virginia Mineral Club if you have not already done so. |  | | Journal (issue) | | Explore our website! October Meeting Program: Virginia Mineral Project (details on page 5) In this issue...Field trip report: Manassas quarry .................. p. 17 Manassas quarry geology, part 1 .............morphologies. Let’s explore it together. Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Ancient Uses and Etymology... Botryoidal hematite from the Red Mountain Mine, Augusta County, VA. Photo: Bob Cooke. Hematite rose on quartz...specimens came from Chubb Lake in St. Lawrence County, NY, in the late 1990s. Like many other showy hematites |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kárnten, Oostenrijk ; op verschil lende plaatsen in County Antrim, Noord-Ierland ; Talisker, Isle of Skye...Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado ; Houghton County, Michigan ; Paterson, Passaic County en tal van andere...andere plaatsen in New Jersey ; Cowlitz County, Washington, U .S .A . . Mont St . Hilaire, Québec , en Bay...Bikita-pegmatiet, Rhodesië ; Foote mine, Kings Mountain, County, North Carolina, U .S .A . N afgeleid van de...Hautes-Pyrenées, Frankrijk ; Giant ' s Causeway, County Antrim, Noord Ierland ; St . Turpet, Zwarte Woud |  | | Book (volume) | | beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep |  | | Journal (issue) | | region at the western margin of the lsidis impact basin at 3:07 (UTC) on December 12, 2006, near 21.9 degrees...World's Largest Reddingite Crystals Found at Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine Van King PO Box 90888, Rochester...locality for reddingite is the Abidja N. Fillow Quarry, Branchville village, Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut...reported the first rcddingite from the Bennett Quarry and provided a bulk, wet-chemical analysis: MnO...2000 kilomcters in the Nili Fossac-southcrn lsidis Basin region. This argues for extensive pre-existing clay |  | | Book | | United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of...ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and |  | | Book | | (phillipsite and wellsite), and stilbite (barrerite and stellerite). 6/ ZEOLIlES DEFINED ANALCIME GROUP Analcime...chemical compositions. STiLBITE GROUP Stilbite, stellerite, and barrerite all have the same framework and...or monoclinic sectors in the same crystal. In stellerite, calcium is the only exchangeable cation and...orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic sectors. Most stellerite, stilbite, or barrerite crystals are not purely...is considered the only species in this group. Stellerite and barrerite are orthorhombic varieties of stilbite | | | Book | | (phillipsite and wellsite), and stilbite (barrerite and stellerite). 6/ ZEOLIlES DEFINED ANALCIME GROUP Analcime...chemical compositions. STiLBITE GROUP Stilbite, stellerite, and barrerite all have the same framework and...or monoclinic sectors in the same crystal. In stellerite, calcium is the only exchangeable cation and...orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic sectors. Most stellerite, stilbite, or barrerite crystals are not purely...is considered the only species in this group. Stellerite and barrerite are orthorhombic varieties of stilbite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Native gold from the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne County, California......................................Burr Adularia from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland ................................OF PHILIP RASHLEIGH, O r M ENAB1LLY, IN THE COUNTY OF C O R N W A LL, ESQ, M .P . F . R .S . AND F... v.8/#6 California Issue Benitoite, Gold, L.A. County Museum, Himalaya mine $7 Circulation Manager ...$7 v.I5/#5 Jacupiranga mine (Bra zil), Jensen quarry (CA), Cunha Baixa mine, Paulkerrite $7 v,15/#6 |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described |  | | Journal (issue) | | anglesite and native sulphur occurs in the Dene quarry at Cromford (Braithwaite, 1983). The association...siderable amount of blasting on the face of the quarry. This was difficult owing to the fact that previous...money order to: Crystallography Dept C Box 12 Fairfax, VA 22030 399 J l t f iN illU llffl): .. Bourget...Eagle’s Nest mine, Michigan Bluff area, Placer County, California. Smale collection and photo. F igure...10 cm across, from the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California. Smale collection and photo. REFERENCES |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Vanadinite from the J. C. Holmes claim, Santa Cruz County, A rizona........................................currence. Sometimes a village or township and a county, or a village and a state have the same name and...hap pens that the village or city is not in the county of the same name nor even in the state. For example...minerals. Chester is also a large city in Delaware County. We have frequently run across minerals from Chester |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...NEPTUNITE from the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Buzz Gray collection; photo by Harold...uarry, B ohr Pit— see B oron Pit B o r o n P it (Quarry) EopHoe M ecropoKjieHHe o r Kaphep “B op” B orshchovochny...im orphite, jam esonite, leadhillite, quartz, stellerite 56°03 160°38 Volcano K am chatka Sal am m...Apophyllite, calcite, heulandite, m ordenite, stellerite, stilbite, thom sonite 57°40 136°04 Tow n |  | | Book (edition) | | abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...Pennsylvania, and at Chervonograd, LvivVolhynia basin, Ukraine. AM 61, 338, 1976. Achavalite * FeSe (2 |  | | Journal (issue) | | deposits o f the Seventy-nine m ine area, Gila County, Arizona. University o f Arizona, Tucson, Ph.D...Federal C enter Denver, C olorado 80225 The Gold Quarry mine, an active open-pit operation in northeastern...conditions o f the area are typical o f the Great Basin high desert: 45 to 60 cm o f snow and tem peratures...was discovered beneath 76 m o f unm ineralized basin-fill by rotary exploration drilling. Following com...rocks covered in m ost places by late Tertiary basin sediments (West, 1976; Stewart, 1980). M iner alization |  | | Journal (issue) | | society members have taken parties into the same quarry or mine to look at the same granite or rock face...dark limestone. Location: Old dump near Backdale Quarry, Calver. Peak Dist. (probably originates from nearby...November were devoted to minerals of Coldstones Quarry. Dave Green showed some very good photographic...draft an article for publication about Coldstones Quarry and its mineralisation. As Christmas approached...LionelBurchCB Five members and two guests met at the quarry offices at the appointed time, on a cloudy but |  | | Book | | 5.95 and quickly informative.”— “Practical Virginia Kirkus RANGE GUIDE TO MINES AND MINERALS A by...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...will help you prospect and explore any state and county. etc., for mineral deposits in Finding Suitable |
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Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Culpeper Basin, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA