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Opal from
Chappell, Deuel County, Nebraska, USA


Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chappell, Deuel County, Nebraska, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:102463
Long-form Identifier:1:3:102463:0
GUID (UUID V4):0923f64f-7d5b-45c9-b77d-e8eb8f78424d
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
82.4km (51.2 miles) ⓘBridgeport, Morrill County, Nebraska, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Conservation and Survey...Gemstones of Nebraska: A Handbook for Students and Collectors Roger K. Pabian University of Nebraska - Lincoln...Lincoln, rpabian1@unl.edu Allan Cook University of Nebraska - Lincoln Follow this and additional works at:...K. and Cook, Allan, "Minerals and Gemstones of Nebraska: A Handbook for Students and Collectors" (1976)...Resources, School of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion
Book (volume)
Idaho, lowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, — ; Oregon, South Dakota, Washington...Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington...Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington...Idaho lowa Kansas Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oregon South Dakota Washington ...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The members who exhibited stones in the Humboldt County Fair at Ferndale last year met (Thursday, March...and concentrât harder than ever on the Humboldt County Fair at Ferndale. There will be a field trip to...to try and organize a mineral club in Del Norte County at a later date. Crescent City will be notified...have also been found here. A discovery of hyalite opal at Sacandaga Reservoir was the 3rd recorded find...Club members made Opal Mountain their March field trip and many varieties of opal and agate were found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
field trip everyone was given a specimen of jasp-opal which had been collected late in the Fall at a quarry...R A L S Western Nebraska Mineral Society Boston Mineral Club The Western Nebraska Mineral Society held...evening, Feb. 4th, 1952, in the basement of the Chappell Memorial Library. There were 25 members and 9...Co. of Sidney and 1 from the Geuel County High School of Chappell, we spent the evening profitably examining...Mrs. Lee Clark of Chappell. March Meeting The regular meeting of the Western Nebraska Mineral Society was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are common­ place in the lava flows of Hawaii. Chappell and others (1951) describe a unique fossil. An...filling the chambers. 6 cm., longest dimension. (e.g. opal to chalcedony), and mineral-laden percolat­ ing...(apatite), horse teeth, Oligocene, Sheep Creek, Nebraska, (Brophy and Hatch, 1962). Dickite (clay), wood...coniferous wood, Miocene, McKittrick Formation, Kern County, California (Adams, 1920) Epidote, echinoderm,...Marcellus Formation, central New York (Cameron, 1965). Opal, wood, Tertiary, Monosbeil, Hungary (Buurman, 1972)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Davenport, Iowa. Another outstanding exhibit was the opal collection of Mr. Russell Neuwerk of Moline, Illinois...the most to buy. It was Australian and Eden Valley Opal. The largest collection of faceted gems of all kinds...17,1952 Western Nebraska Mineral Society The regular meeting of the Western Nebraska Mineral Society...Society was held at Chappell, Neb., on Monday, May 5, 1952, in the basement of the Chappell Memorial Library...Otto Brooks of Chappell at the close of the program. June Meeting The Western Nebraska Mineral Society
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
he had recently mined on his property in Morgan County. He had with him a particularly attractive specimen...Pub. Chm. Western Nebraska Mineral Society Regular meeting of the Western Nebraska Mineral Society was...was held Monday, March 5th, at Chappell, Nebr. Arrangements were made for some society printing to be...Peterson. At our next meeting, to be held at Sidney, Nebraska, we shall have the privilege of hearing Member...geological history of Western Nebraska. G. W. Brooks, Pub. Chm. Chappell, Nebr. 297 Downloaded by [University
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
502 Bellview Ave., Falls Church, Va. Western Nebraska Minerar Society A regular meeting of the Society...the Chappell Memorial Library. There were 15 members and 1 guest present, Gene Law, of Chappell. After...meeting was adjourned at 10:15 p.m. G. W. Brooks Chappell, Nebr. Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania...July 8th, 1951, to French Creek Mines, in Chester County, Penn. When sixty-one rockhounds pounded the old...and the ruby and rhodolite garnet area in Macon county, N. C , illustrated by fine cut specimens of his
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA October 22, 1981; accepted in revised form March...correlation with silicon content, as does 6’*0. Opal from both sponge spicules and sinters is light,...occur during the low temperature precipitation of opal and, possibly, poorly ordered phyllosilicates, with...d3’Si values are largely inherited, but the primary opal 630Si values can be modified by isotopic equilibration...and dissolved silicon during the transformation of opal into quartz. INTRODUCTION IN the 1950’s, variations
Book (volume)
Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises 4,460’...Mesozoic era. Thus, as one travels westward across Nebraska they find successively younger formations appearing...disclosing spectacular bedrock formations. Northwestern Nebraska contains most of the gem fields in the state,...that rival the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the...washes, reveal an abundance of gem quality 283 Nebraska petrified wood, often occurring as huge stone
Journal (issue)
Maine; Chesterfield, Massachusetts; San Diego County, California; Colorado and New Mexico. 6 ROCKS...muscovite crystals from Brooks Fann, Cleveland County, North Carolina. ~ TABLE 1.-MICA-GROUP MINERALS...in a dolomite from near Bonneterre, St. Francis County, Missouri ; in the Mesabi district of Minnesota;...Placerville, El Dorado County. Also reported from Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado, and at .Kalgoorlie...mozarkite (chert) Petoskey stone galena Montana Nebraska Shark tooth star garnet Illinois ~ouri sapphire
Book (volume)
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...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
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...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book
famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...with its porous structure has a distinctive look. Opal in its most elegant form is a semitransparent stone...It “cabs” well. Labradorite reminds one of fire opal that has become gentle. Rather than flashing colors...as: Si02. Opal. The very best varieties of opal are regarded as precious but most opal is semi¬ precious...precious. The opal is a semitransparent stone with red, yellow, green, blue or black colors. Its value
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uranium-bearing corallite with aragonite diagenesis to opal (Eastern Siberia, Russia) Guillaume Devès a, Anne-Sophie...Keywords: Chemical imaging Speleothem Uranium Diagenesis Opal Siberia a b s t r a c t Two complementary image-based...kinds of opal: opal A formed by large microspheres of 30–40 μm in diameter and a gray opal CT with irregular...irregular lepispheres. This late opal, dated around 385–412 Kyr, is probably due to a special volcanic...of volcanic suite in the fine fraction of the opal. Opal precipitated after speleothem crystallization
Book (edition)
IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS • NORTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA • INDIANA • MISSOURI • MINNESOTA I By JUNE CULP...Crystals . 27 28 8 8 8 38 THE HIGH PLAINS Moss Opal .......... Fossils .................. Concretions...Specimens .... 30 30 .30 NEBRASKA ............... 33 NORTHERN NEBRASKA .......... Fossils...........33 34 NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA 35 WESTERN & CENTRAL NEBRASKA 36 EASTERN NEBRASKA 37 CENTRAL MISSOURI...areas. Study all issues for possible help. 9. Get county maps if available, or Geological Survey Quadrangle
Book (edition)
ILLINOIS • NORTH DAKOTA • OHIO • MICHIGAN • NEBRASKA • IOWA WISCONSIN Digitized by the Internet...IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS • NORTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA • INDIANA • MISSOURI • MINNESOTA By JUNE CULP...Agates 31 _. Minnesota 32 Wisconsin 39 Nebraska 40 North Dakota 43 Indiana . 45 Ohio 46...there are less a pound opal for 20 dollars. Now that same pound of opal is worth 200 dollars. Australian...These rock beds are also often referred to as the "Nebraska Beds." Some of the deposits are on the state line
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been discovered, such as Mclaughlin, Sulphur in USA (Sherlock, 2005; 37 Peters, 1990), Porgera and...geothermal region, located ~11 km southwest of Tengchong county, is 88 the biggest geothermal region in the Tengchong... (kaolinite, illite, and chlorite), and silica (opal and chalcedony) (Fig. 3). Siliceous and 96 calcic... f). Modern siliceous sinters consist mainly of opal with small 98 amounts of chalcedony and quartz...silicification 122 lead to the deposition of quartz, opal, and chalcedony, occurring in siliceous rock and
Journal (issue)
RMFMS - Evelyn Schafer. 3229 N. 60 St., Omaha, Nebraska 68104. SCFMS - Howard HIiiier. 216 La Barre Or...OF MINERALOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES, THE NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OF EARTH SCIENCE CLUBS. Annual Convention...and Mineral Club. State Fair Grounds, Lincoln, Nebraska. lrl Everett. 2941 N. 65th St., Lincoln, NB 68507...CA. Host. Gam and Mlnaral Soc:laty of San Mateo County, H.B. Murnan, P.O. Box 53, NAS Moffett Field, CA...CORNER OF OUTSTANDING OPALS SPECIAL CUT OPAL PARCEL Rough Black Opal, Rare, new find acooped up by ua and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ledge dike, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. Varieties of elbaite: (c) rubellite...Tourmaline Queen mine (1972), Pala district, San Diego County, California, Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka specimen...they become upwardly mobile magma bodies (e.g., Chappell, White, and Wyborn 1987). If all of the boron...Stilbite, 4 cm, on elbaite, Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California; William Larson specimen, Mia Dixon...(laumontite and stilbite), carbonates, clays, and opal that coat and surround tourmaline (fig. 12) and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
R. L. B. P. C. D. ;* Alexander A. Chambers W. Chappell T. Crisp B. Douthltt H. Green JGTE;;Y M. W. Rowe...ultramafic rocks in the Coyote Peak diatreme, Humboldt County, California 149 STEVENJ. FRITZ and CRAIGD. E...petrogenesis of lamproites, Late Cretaceous Age, Woodson County, Kansas, U.S.A. . 1383 JOHN R. FARVERand BRXJNO... 1775 adamellfte 369 Adirondack Park, New York, USA 1697 adsorption Au compounds 979 14C 683 lake sediments...authfgenic U 2339 Avery Island dome, Louisiana, USA 337 evolutfon 601 noble gases 2561 atomic substitution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
analysed(e.g. Whalen and ~~~iarrnid, 1972; Reasoner and Chappell, 1973 ; Arnoldy r~ af., 1974; Burch et ul., 1974;...electrons. According to measurements performed by Opal et al. (1971) the secondary electrons are expected...extends down to E, = 25 eV while Reasoner and Chappell (1973) observed it down to their instrument limit...collisional processes is expected to be approximately 2 (Opal et al., 1971) while the measurements indicate y...fluxes. J. geophys. Res. 79,4208. Banks, P. M., Chappell, C. R. and Nagy, A. F. (1974) A new model for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County, Virginia, albite, I56; - - , anal., d2o i, 489..., opt., X-ray, 453. Andamooka, South Australia, opal, 357. Andradite, chromian hydro-, Tasmania, anal...calculations, 952. Coober Pedy, South Australia, opal, 357. Copiap6, Chile, arsenolamprite, 732; schulzenite...anal., opt., X-ray, 48o; ' - - ' from Skamania County, Washington, is stilbite, 522. Hexacelsian, inversion...JONES(J. B.) and SE~NIT(E. R.), Water in spheretype opal, 357; - - NESBITT (R. W.), and SLADE (P. G.), Homogenized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the parental melts (Hoskin, Kinny, Wyborn, & Chappell, 2000), been inherited from magma source regions...Granite (HRD001 and 002) and Donington Suite (HRD010) Opal Fields/White Dam Subsuite Fe (5-20%) granite- to...RD2495-499.3 m, RD2499529.7 m, -681.9 m, -814.1 m Opal Fields/White Dam Subsuite Wirrda Subsuite Donington...2015), the quartz monzonitic to quartz monzodioritic Opal Fields/White Dam Subsuite (e.g. OFD2, OFD3; Creaser...also analysed zircon from the Horn Ridge granite, Opal Fields Subsuite, Wirrda Subsuite and Donington Suite
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...North Carolina, a big diamond or two in Arkansas, opal in Idaho, and so on. Old locations suddenly are...eye of the microscope. A few gem materials notably opal and obsidian are amorphous, lacking crystal structure...with light such as creates the unique beauty of opal or labradorite, the starry splendor of star sapphire...are available. As gems lie in the range between opal (sp. gr. 2.1) and zircon (sp. gr. 4.7), quick and
 
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