 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AN OVERVIEW Rhode Island MINERALS & COLLECTORS F. WILLIAM MILLER Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford...A L SPECIES and many varieties occur within Rhode Island. Part of this abundance is attributable to the...Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...towns of Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport...Newport County. The greatest number of species and varieties appear in the Northern Zone. Miller attributes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | coming up from Mexico but the fine selenite and azurite of last year is finished, the truckers say. There...more. "The Glove Mine is located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, near the little town of Amado, on the...inches in length. They come from Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado (altitude of pocket where found over...inches in size, comes from Devil's Head, Douglas County, Colo. Microcline {feldspar). Nice loose xls, averaging...received. These come from Devil's Head, Douglas County, Colo. Garnet (spessartite). Small but gemmy, deep |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | vanadinite (lustrous, drusy, brownish xls on gray quartz rock). ARKANSASâThe following item was sent in by Byron...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." CALIFORNIAâEmmett Klopfenstein, Box...plenty of zoisite. One of the dumps near the old lime Kiln is still full of massive topaz, but it's not...strongly radioactive microlite occurs at the Slocum quarry in E. Hampton. A few of the octahedral crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | phâphosphorescence ALASKA â "Here are two pieces of rock that I picked up on the beach near Kenia, Alaska...coal. It it? The green piece is a chip from a large rock." â item from Mrs. Knute Carlson, Box 702, Wasilla...Conn., in a lot blasted up for a foundation. The rock was a mixture of chlorite-feldspar with some quartz...results. When first found the operator of a local rock shop said they were zircons. Then another shop weighed...vicinity that I believe will be of interest to other rock collectors. As far as I know these are new finds |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CHIPS AND BITS FROM SOCIETY BULLETINS RHODE ISLAND The Rhode Island Mineral Hunters, Central Falls, had...Field Trip to the Danalite locality and to the Conklin Quarry. ALABAMA Mr. Webster Hipp spoke to the Alabama...Alabama Mineral and Lapidary Society, Birmingham, on "Rock Hunting Out West". GEORGIA Graves Mountain was the...its Field Trip at the Sparvetta Quarry on Route 1 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton. . . . The Gem Cutters Guild of Baltimore |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Ute Mountain Gem & Mineral Society. Montezuma County Annex Bldg., 103 N. Chestnut. Info.âJohn Ferrin...Mineral & Jewelry Festival sponsored by the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. Oxford Fair ground...Oregon. Annual Campout and Swap sponsored by the Rock & Arrowhead Club of Klamath Falls. Pacific Power... Mineral, & Jewelry Show sponsored by the Long Island Mineral & Geological Society. Mattituck H.S., Main...Vassalboro, ME 04962; 207/873-7816. Jury 27, 28â Lincoln City, Oregon. 50th Annual Showâ"The Wonderful World |  | | Journal (issue) | | Nuristan, Afghanistan; Neptunite from San Benito County, California; Spinel from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald...Becker, Thcson, 1976. Dave W ilber and Larry Conklin, Tbcson, 1979. 10 ⊠K. ENGLAND David P. Wilber...specimens that his rockhound father had found while ârock huntingâ in the Bishop area of California. That...world. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County was particularly interesting among the museums...working for gem dealer Ron Romanella in New York; and Rock Currier (owner now of Jewel Tunnel Imports), with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | slab of a rock I picked up immediately outside Anchorage, Alaska. An unusual feature of the rock, and there...Maricopa County on Route 80, 5 miles S / W of Gila Bend and the mine is off the road to Painted Rock Dam....country for dumortierite is near Dehesa, San Diego County, California, where beautiful specimens, violet...old maps or directions for reaching BranchviUe Quarry that will take you to U.S. Route 7 between Danbury...specimens as attested by the very fine lustrous, rock crystal geode section from Brummett Creek, Brown |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises...overlooks both Colorado and Wyoming. The subsurface rock strata of the entire state are all undisturbed sedimentaries:...borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming line is good rock hunting country, especially along the southern slopes...of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive rock beds east of the Orella railroad sta. ranks among... The Sandhills Museum in town is well worth the rock hunterâs visit. Draws, cuts and breaks in the hills |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals. Most...minerals of collector interest, including malachite, azurite, cuprite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite...Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke, Washington County. It has also...at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut; as good micromount material at the...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as |  | | Book | | 21:98100 Abstracts of the FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Azurite and other copper carbonates (chairman: K. Wenrich)...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...ALASKA Famous mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen) 8:4-12...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187 |  | | Book (volume) | | Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohioâs Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.âŻcone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Toddâs Ford, a mineral depositâŻHematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to amber, on white limestone, occurs in Miller's Lime Pit at Samson, Geneva Co., Ala., so we have been...crusts of azurite on malachite occur in the copper mines at Sulzur, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. ARIZONAâ"Bisbee...admission fee on a dirt road which compared to some old quarry roads is a super highway! The x,!s are found in...bornite have been found in gabbro at the old Hubbard quarry in Wilmington (New Castle Co.), Del. FLORIDAâ"I...been found in the Appalachian Minerals Company quarry near Monticello (Jasper Co.), Ga. IDAHOâ"I am enclosing |  | | Book (volume) | | Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohioâs Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.âŻcone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Toddâs Ford, a mineral depositâŻHematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin |  | | Book | | like this piece, as most of the fluorites from the quarry are green, and this one is truly atypical. After...COVER: gold on quartz, 4.5 inches tall, Placer County, California Dedication This book is dedicated...Doris L. Behnke, Walter A. Behnke, Lawrence H. Conklin, C. Melanie Duque, Joseph A. Freilich, Michael...Group, Inc., 650 Danbury Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877 USA, www.maplegatemedia.com Library of Congress Control... Treasured Minerals Amethysts from Rhode Island Rhode Island is not generally known for its minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BITS May the year bring you all many fine days for rock collecting.' In the October issue of ROCKS AND MINERALS...Eastchester, found excellent rhodonite in the Berts Quarry, Plainfield, Mass. Robert Middleton, Earth Science...on silversmithing Member Bob Culver of the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, found a "fair sized"...on the AFMS Uniform Rules. At the Cedar H i l l quarry (Penn.) mem bers found pyrite-octahedral-crystals...Superintendent of all mu seums in Nassau County, spoke with the Long Island Mineral and Geology So ciety, Massapequa |  | | Journal (issue) | | specimen from the Spanish Dry Diggings, Eldorado County, California, and a little of its history ................ 325 by L. H. Conklin T1 mM!NERA!. =!CAL RECORD The Newmont Azurite: The world's finest mineral................................... 333 by L. H. Conklin Postscript: Hessonite with apatite, Mount Avie..................... 248 Obituary: Lawrence H. Conklin (by W E. Wilson) What's New in Minerals Tucson...the Editors Died, Lawrence H. Conklin, 82 Lawrence Henry "Larry" Conklin, Jr., well-known New York mineral |  | | Catalog/List | | FINE MINERALS FOR SALE BY LAWRENCE H. CONKLIN. After reading through this list, plan to drop in and visit... Wheatley's Mines, near, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. An excellent matrix specimen of.......... __··---·9000. 3. AZURITE, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona. A superb, large...... 2500. 7. BERYL variety MORGANITE, Gillette Quarry, Haddam, Connecticut. Possibly the finestof this...attractive specimen. 3-1/2xl-3/4xl-1/4 ....._$1800. 12. AZURITE,âą Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | copper mineral a lustrous, deep azure blue drusy azurite. The locality for this extra fine specimen is the...mile west of the community of Levesque in Cross County. This locality may also be given as 6 miles east...of white melanterite coating a cellular brownish rock, COLORADOâ'"On the dumps of the old Smuggler and...in Georgia (pp. 9-21). One locality in Habersham County should fascinate many of our readers. Here is Dr..."Selenite xls on limonite matrix from limestone quarry near Tracy, Marion Co., Iowa."âon label. KENTUCKYâ"The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarryâAlberene amphiboie asbestos, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarryâEsmont dolomite, limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course...minerals are leached from the surrounding country rock during metamorphism. Ramsay and Huber (1983) suggest...such as pegmatite veins or cavities in sedimentary rock. The localities for faden quartz are numerous, and...repeated cracking and healing of grains in the country rock, which are broken and exposed when the fissure gradÂ...the stretched crystal fiber hy pothesis, when the rock first fractures, crystal grains are broken, and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 5-7âHoughton, Michigan. 3d Annual Red Metal (Copper County) Retreat. A . E . Seaman Mineralogical Museum....Annual "Fiesta of Gems" sponsored by the Culver City Rock and Mineral Club. Culver City Veterans Memorial...Ute Moun tain Gem & Mineral Society. Montezuma County Annex Bldg., 103 N. Chestnut. Information: John...81328. July 11-22âCosta Mesa, California. Orange County Fair Gems and Minerals Show. Fair grounds, 88...47724. July 20, 21âKeno, Oregon. Rock Swap & Campout sponsored by the Rock & Arrowhead Club of Klamath Falls |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | town of Cumberland in the northeast corner of Rhode Island. The town of Cumberland is said to have been...Covellite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Azurite, Malachite, Epidote, Brown Garnet, Talc, Astrophyllite...250 feet. Mr. Gilbert George, President of the Rhode Island Hunters, is the man in the picture. 810 ROCKS...Mills, the Cumberlandite loca- tion, the Conklin Limestone Quarry. All areas may be covered in one trip |  | | Report (issue) | | found at a locality given as Veshnoveh, Kashan County, Esfahan Province, Iran, very sharp, highly lustrous...Andradite (âmelaniteâ), 5.4 cm, from Veshnoveh, Kashan County, Esfahan Province, Iran. Quebul Fine Minerals specimen...in the late 1980s and late 1990s, displays bright lime-green, typically barrel-shaped crystals with hexagonal...brought together. But the pyromorphite remains bright lime-green anyway. Pyromorphite, 3.1 cm, from the San...Gressman noted among Jordi Fabreâs stock some azurite specimens from a new locality called El Fetch, |  | | Journal (issue) | | 115 by B. Kitt, P. K. M. Megaw & B. Lees Larkin's quarry, Connemara, Ireland .............................$324/ three years, (Canada) $196/ one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription...Forrest was born April 21, 1932 in Willits, Mendocino County, California, the son of Helen and Forrest E. Cureton...produced by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Curetonite, a new mineral from Nevada, was discovered...TOURMALINE Tourmaline with Quartz Pala, California, USA I 28.5cm Dallas, Texas I Shanghai and Guilin , China |
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