 | | 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 (issue) | | ........................ 322 SOME MINERALS OF NEBRASKA. By Prof. E. F. Schra,nn1 ........ 323 EYLES...ERALS OF NEBRASKA By PROFESSOR E. F. SCHRAMM Chairman Department of Geology University of Nebraska ess,...ned the :urc '. R . by As you probably know, Nebraska is noted for its scarcity of fine gem minerals...age in the quarries east and west of Louisville, Nebraska, and just east of Weeping Water contain some small...quarry about two miles east of Wymore, Gage County, Nebraska, contains many geodes which ace lined with |  | | Book (edition) | | IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS • NORTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA • INDIANA • MISSOURI • MINNESOTA I By JUNE CULP...Finds ................ Fairburn Type Agate Blue Chalcedony .... Tourmaline ............... Selenite................. Black Agates..................... Chalcedony ..................... THE BADLANDS ............Specimens .... 30 30 .30 NEBRASKA ............... 33 NORTHERN NEBRASKA .......... Fossils...........33 34 NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA 35 WESTERN & CENTRAL NEBRASKA 36 EASTERN NEBRASKA 37 CENTRAL MISSOURI |  | | 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...as: concretions, Barite and Celestite crystals, chalcedony rosettes, agates, jasper, fossil plants and vertebrate |  | | Report (issue) | | org/details/annualreportofna0000nati_p9t7 Wood Buffalo habitat group, National Museum of Canada. (Presented...well-known double-walled Southwold earthenworks in Elgin county, Ontario, about 10 miles southwest of St. Thomas...1935. Excavatmn of the Southwold Earthworks, Elgin County, Ontario. By W. J. Wintemberg. Kent and Elgin Historical...Wolfville August 16, and at cape North, Victoria county, the northern extremity of Cape Breton island,...west coast of the island to Frizzleton, Inverness county, near the mouth of Margaree river, where Camp II |  | | 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...botryoidal chalcedony, occasionally with pale Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE...deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W...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...botryoidal chalcedony, occasionally with pale Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE...deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...nodule may contain a center of surrounded by chalcedony easily discernible quartz crystals that crystalline...mass. Tenacity is a quality closely allied chalcedony and jasper, because of their makeup, are tougher...granite except and cools, gas pockets may be chalcedony or opal, de- dissolved from the lava. Similarly...northern Idaho. the cells with silica, or a cast of chalcedony space left Two other formations create conditions |  | | Book | | or Operators AND POSTOFFICE ADDRESSES (Yavapai County) Copyright RUSSELL H. J 903 MILLWARD PRESCOTT...#;^ XXc. No. a. PREFACE Yavapai, the treasure county of Arizona, has developed beyond the speculative...its The records give and operators than to this county a greater is October 298 1, were 1876, of...three counties in Arizona. 7, now regarded is county of Yavapai. and recorded In the Territory, Since...importance located between the long boundary of Yavapai county. The selection of the groups of mines, including |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...easily discernible quartz crystals surrounded by chalcedony that is crystalline only to the eye of the microscope...a quality closely allied to fracture pattern; chalcedony and jasper, because of their cryptocrystalline...rock cools, leaving a mold in which casts of chalcedony form. Or the tree substance may be replaced slowly...eye at once. Both agate and jasper are forms of chalcedony, but agate is translucent, jasper is opaque. |  | | Book | | Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...Azurite CLIFTON-MORENCI DISTRICT, Greenlee Co Chalcedony DEER CREEK, Gila Co., near Jasper GEALE MOUNTAINS...milepost No. 87, on Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R.R. Chalcedony PATAGONIA, Santa Cruz Co., (5 mi S. of, Alunite |  | | Report (volume) | | A. Buehler, Rolla. Nebraska.........Prof. E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada......See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Journal (issue) | | State Street in downtown Carlsbad, Calif. (Outside USA send $2.00 for c:ataloe) GEMS & MINERALS - 7 NEW...Larry Chimbole of California's 34th District; Kern County Supervisor Gene Tackett; Dean Karlbert, Ridgecrest...Valley Search and Rescue Team, provided by the Kern County Sheriff's Office, demonstrated mine rescue. - B...Mineral Heritage Stamps was issued in Lincoln, Nebraska at the combined convention and show of the American...te Tephro1te Oil Shale Pitchstone Roscoeltte Chalcedony Chondrod,te ALL PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE 1. 201 |  | | Journal (issue) | | production. Date Festival to Stage "Arabian Nights" E COUNTY and the Coachella Valley desert area w roll out...attend the 1952 Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival at the county fairgrounds at Indio. California...Angeles. California. February 19-24 — Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival. Indio, California...California. Held in conjunction with Riverside County Fair and Date Festival. February 24—Illustrated...Santa Barbara, California PAGEANTRY Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival CALENDAR February |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 180 Nebraska.................................................Nebraska____.Prof. E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada_____Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith,...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.; |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic...Such Plains and created beautiful Crater Lake. Nebraska and Kansas the High — states as —owe their...such as the cryptocrystalline quartz known as chalcedony, eral and. filled with crystals of the perhaps | | | Book | | topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...crea ted beautiful Crater Lake Such states as Nebraska and Kansas-the Hig h Plains-owe their fertile...such as th e c ryptoc rystalline quartz known as chalcedony, filled with c rystals of the same mineral and...clearly. see diagram below left 3. 2 layers of chalcedony tonishment they found that it led to a series...from Solenhofen Germany (Right) Stalacllte of chalcedony from South Africa ~ • Z,~ J; • 1- _,.. - |  | | Journal (issue) | | with Jordlslte Llparlte Knotted Blotlte Schllt Chalcedony Peperlno Chondrodlte ALL PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE...fortunate to have some being mined in the San Diego County (California) pegmatites, in Colorado, Idaho and...salmon to peach beryl, can be found in our San Diego County pegmatites, but the Brazilians supply the bulk...the colorless variety, is also found in San Diego County, California, and in Idaho, Connecticut, Colorado...catalog!! • ■OST ITEIS POSTPAID r--------------TO USA DE~TIIATIONS I ALPHA FACETING SUPPLY, • 100% SATISFACTION |  | | Journal (issue) | | SPECIES AND VARIETY QUARTZ (Cryp tocrystalline) : Chalcedony (translucent) Chrysoprase Cornelian Heliotrope...NAME COLOUR Grey to bluish Chalcedony Incorrect Descriptions : Chalcedony stained blue or green should...colour/' The crystals from Lake Clear, Renfrew County, Ontario, are generally cinnamon red in colour...deposit is on Turner's Island in Lake Clear, Renfrew County, Ontario. The crystals from Turner's Island are...Brudenell and Sebastopol townships, also in Renfrew County, Ontario. Both of these localities furnish huge |  | | Book | | Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New...pyrite, quartz family minerals ( agate, carnelian, chalcedony, chert, flint, jasp-agate, jasper, quartzite...especially valuing the deep red carnelian variety of chalcedony. Although the Sumerians used almost all the common...color; assigned to Gad), agate (perhaps green · chalcedony or "chrysoprase"; Foreword xvi i assigned...[agate-jasper, i.e., our "jasp-agate"], cerachates [chalcedony], smaragdachates [green agate], haemachates [red |  | | 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...Spiral (Bryozoa) Mudstone SIiica Carbonate Rock Chalcedony 0 11 Sandstone • I lsemanntte with Jordlslte |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Research Laboratory, United States Steel Corporation, Kearney, New Jersey. Dr. Richard C. Emmons, Assistant Professor...sfrom Mariposa County, Californi.a, The North Duncan gold mine near llornitos, Mariposa County, California...quartz, and calcite, with minor amounts of barite, chalcedony, and opal. Close to the intrusive body andradite...third Calfornian locality, in northeastern Madera County, near the summit of the Sierra Nevada, is here...a Neo Bari.umdisil,icate Mineral, Jrom Mariposo County, CaliJornia. Sanbornite is a triclinic mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | TREASURE TROVE'' JUNE 15, 16 & 17, 1973 Stanislaus County Fairgrounds Turlock, Callfornla FIELD TRIPS -...RMFMS - Evelyn Schafer. 3229 N. 60 St.. Omaha. Nebraska 68104. SCFMS - Howard HIiiier, 216 La Barre Dr...Show. " Stanislaus Treasure Trove." Stanislaus County Falrgrounds, Turlock, Ca. Mother Lode Mlwal Society...Convention and Show. " Garnet Star of Idaho." Nez Pet'ce County Fairgrounds. Lewiston. Idaho. Host, Helle Can,on...no matter what their size. ($2.00 fee applies to USA orders only. All others Include correct amount of |  | | Book | | Captain Marcy A. Warren To ; " Explorations of Nebraska,'' and Mr. by Lieutenant G. Bartlett's " Dictionary...the summer of 1860 an Indian war was raging in Nebraska; the Comanches, Kiowas, and Cheyennes were "out;"...changes of mules, at Forts Bridger, Laramie, and Kearney. In May, 1859, it was taken up by the present firm...equally vilely selected for instance, at Forts Kearney, Laramie, and Bridger, the only points where supplies...— — direction. The 99th meridian (G.)—Fort Kearney lies in 98° 58' 11"— divides the western half of |
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