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Variscite from
Kelly Bank mine, Lyndhurst-Vesuvius Mining District, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Variscite
Formula:AlPO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Variscite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kelly Bank mine, Lyndhurst-Vesuvius Mining District, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:85513
Long-form Identifier:1:3:85513:6
GUID (UUID V4):e15df6e3-1c6a-440c-86a8-270bebd115ff
Nearest other occurrences of Variscite
79.9km (49.7 miles) Willis Mountain Mine, Sprouses Corner, Farmville Mining District, Buckingham County, Virginia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
H E L L Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 Introduction Light-blue earthy...dumps of the abandoned Kelly Bank iron-manganese mine in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Because of its light...crystallized tur­ quoise from Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia (Mitchell, 1977), and also it is unlike gem...a similar geological environment in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Montgomery, 1969). The purpose of...E E L A N D 10340 Holly berry Drive Richmond, Virginia 23234 and new Virginian turquoise and to describe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Phosphate Minerals in the Vesuvius, Virginia, Area and Notes on the Type Locality of Rockbridgeite HENRY...Z E L A Z N Y Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 Top: Kidwellite...100/im. Both specimens are from the Dixie mine near Vesuvius, Virginia. 20 ROCKS AND MINERALS There are...west foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Vesuvius, Virginia. Iron and manganese ores were mined intermittently...intermittently for over a century in this area, and the Dixie mine was once the largest producer of iron ore in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE DIXIE MINE Rockbridge County, Virginia The Dixie mine in Rockbridge County, Virginia, has yielded...strengite. Figure 1: Dixie iron mine, circa 1900 (Watson, 1907). Rockbridge (ount> L A N C E E . KEARNS...Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 D. A L L E N P E N I C K Virginia Division of Mineral Resources...Resources P.O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 Figure 2: Locality map. 42 ROCKS & MINERALS T H...Rock­ bridge County, Virginia, about 1.5 miles southeast of Vesu­ vius in the Vesuvius 7.5-minute U S
Journal (issue)
Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia CONSULTING EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault...Virginia's Kelly Bank Mine Richard S. Mitchell Howard R . Freeland 219 A General History of Zinc Mining in...stones only. In most instances, stamps depicting mining only (no rocks or minerals) have been excluded...collecting rocks FUI July 15, 1978 4 sh Emperor gold mine and gold ore BRAZIL June 8 1974 40 c sandstone...sandstone cliffs January 13, 1969 40 c Emperor gold mine and gold ore FRANCE July 8, 1975 September 27, 1969
Journal (issue)
Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia CONSULTING EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault...Virginia's Kelly Bank Mine Richard S. Mitchell Howard R . Freeland 219 A General History of Zinc Mining in...stones only. In most instances, stamps depicting mining only (no rocks or minerals) have been excluded...collecting rocks FUI July 15, 1978 4 sh Emperor gold mine and gold ore BRAZIL June 8 1974 40 c sandstone...sandstone cliffs January 13, 1969 40 c Emperor gold mine and gold ore FRANCE July 8, 1975 September 27, 1969
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals are a traditional...3-cm-tall wavellite from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas; kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd photo...Limestone Company quarry, Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The 2.8 × 2.7 × 1.5-cm specimen...traditionally includes such species as crandallite, variscite, turquoise, and the apatite group. Wavellite is...Day Township, Saratoga County, New York; another at Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island; and one
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l
Journal (issue)
February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Box 25046 Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA AND JOSEPH E. TAGGART, JR. M.S. 973, U.S. Geological...Box 25046 Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA The turquoise group has the general formula: Ao...deficient) faustite. The turquoise from the Kelly Bank mine, Rockbridge Co., VA (Mitchell and Freeland, 1978;...obtained some turqoise (USNM # 97340) from the Bishop mine, Lynch Station, VA that had been studied by Schaller...varieties of 'coeruleolactite' from the Rindsberg mine, Katzenelnbogen (als0 spelled Katzenellenbogen)
Report (issue)
rhabdophane, wavellite, crandallite, turquoise, variscite, cacoxenite, beraunite, dufrénite, goyazite,...Distribution: In England, from Cornwall, at the Tretoil mine, Lanivet, near Bodmin, and at Wheal Pendarves, Camborne...Czech Republic. In the USA, in the Kelly Bank mine, east of Vesuvius, Rockbridge Co., and at the Burley...Burley pegmatite, Amherst Co., Virginia; from Girard, Burke Co., Georgia; on Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
12 Anthony, W., 12 Arizona: Mammoth, St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Arizona, 5; Minerals Named for Persons Associated...Barwood, H . L . : Phosphate Minerals in the Vesuvius, Virginia, Area and Notes on the Type Locality of Rockbridgeite...Butler, G . M . , 12 Butlerite, 12 Cacoxenite, Virginia, 22 Cahnite, New Jersey, 213 Calcite: Illinois...Denver Museum of Natural History, 58; Clear Creek County, 241 Coming Events: 38, 81, 177, 227, 273 Connecticut...148 Dick, A . B . , 257 Dickite, 257 Dixie mine, Virginia, 21 Downeyite, 73 Downey, W. F . , 73 Dugganite
Journal (issue)
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NationalScienceMuseum, Tokyo 160,Japan Wavellite, variscite, planerite as the first occurrence were formed...oxidation. The chemical analyses of wavellite, variscite, planerite from Toyoda, Kochi City, in sedimentary... wavellite to be a high fluorine material, variscite to be a nearly ideal one, planerite to be a copper-bearing...material, respectively. The X-ray powder studies on variscite and fluorapatite specify the former to be...attacked chert preferentially to quartz in veins. Variscite is found as very minute white to prisms of millimeter
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 (issue)
SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR VISIT OUR MINE-KEEP WHAT YOU FIND...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard
Book
what was probably one of the earliest hard-rock mining operations in the world. A necklase with a turquois...rather convoluted account of the prospecting and mining of this mineral (Pliny, 38:33): "It [cal/aina,...evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in...Dakota, especially at the Beecher Lode, Custer County, as masses up to 200 tons in weight; as rounded
Journal (issue)
, and D. R. Cook Hyalite from the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina ................................Brazilian localities, Virgem da Lapa and the Golconda mine, have produced remarkable crystals of hydroxyl-herderite...Company spodumene mine, near Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and from the Dunton Gem mine, Newry, Maine,...Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil (3)* 71-90% Golconda mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil (6) 53% Waldstein, Fichtelgibirge...Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria, Germany (1) Blue Chihuahua mine, San Diego County, 57-59% California (2) 67-80% Poland, Maine
Book (edition)
Peru, H Gypsum, xx 40 mm, Las Salinas, Peru, H Variscite, xx 5 mm, Iturnbiara, Brazil, H Rhodocbrosite...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada
Journal (issue)
Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185 by...M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .........................................Harris Monazite and caldoancylite from the Foote mine, North Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203...(1 inch) on antlerite crystals from the Southwest mine, Bisbee, Arizona. For more information on this recent...mineral collector’s cabinet. Examples in­ clude variscite and associated minerals from Fairfield, Utah;
Book (edition)
illustrations for SELLAITE, Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3...Currier Susie Davis Ray DeMark Paul Desautels Virginia Deshler Mary Dodds Adolph F. Dosse Steve G. Dulla...sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine
Book
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...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael...group, 13 cm, w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection;...York; the Helvetia district, Arizona; O ntario’s Grenville Province; the Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York;...Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin Island; the fluorite mines of Madoc, Ontario;
Book (edition)
California. Howard T. Evans: U.S.G.S., Reston, Virginia. Ellen W. Faller: Dept. of Geology and Geophysics...Long Island, New York. Victor Yount: Warrenton, Virginia. Josef Zemann: Institut fur Mineralogie der Universitat...Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN IA...PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming WA WV WI WY Provinces, Canada...Publisher, distributed by Williams Minerals, Rio, West Virginia Wies. Eysel. W., Min. Pet. Inst. Univ. Heidelberg
 
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