 | | Journal (issue) | | highlights the donation HGMS made to the Harrison County (Mississippi) Gem and Mineral Society as a result...wgwaggenerii@bellsouth.net; KR1113@aol.com Subject: Harrison Co. G&MS donation by HGMS To Billy Wood, et. al...all because of my intimate knowledge of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. I lived in Biloxi for a while when...9:26 PM To: Phyllis George Subject: Fwd: Re: Harrison County Gem and Mineral Society situation Hi Phyllis... Subject: Re: Harrison County Gem and Mineral Society situation Good evening |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and ď the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmďžjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. lineďžrock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatďžjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...ďžagate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: ď at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWďžagate; ď N |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cellular gray chalcedony whose cavities are lined with botryoidal, pale grayish-blue chalcedony. ARIZONAâA...the old open pit Sodium Sulphate mine in Imperial County near BertROCKS AND MINERALS ram siding on the...the onegite. Also running through the mass was chalcedony-looking quartz which sometimes pointed up into...calcite xls can also be found." DELAWARE â Reddish chalcedony pebbles have been found on Bowers Beach, Kent...discovery of gold on lot 999, 12th district, of Lumpkin County, Ga., which is owned by the American Legion. The |  | | Book (edition) | | Finds ................ Fairburn Type Agate Blue Chalcedony .... Tourmaline ............... Selenite................. Black Agates..................... Chalcedony ..................... THE BADLANDS ............................... .50 .50 .50 ILLINOIS MISSISSIPPI RIVER BORDER ..... Gems .......................Mary Ellen jasper, pyritized snails, or blue chalcedony. Why werenât they in the first edition? Simply...offered by the large area. The Great Lakes, the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers, the moraines of the |  | | Book (volume) | | by navigable waters, primarily the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The highest elevations are the Mounds...glaciation, the bluffs and detritus of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsâŻagate, jasper, rare...pits, bars of the Mississippi R.âŻagate, jasper; d RR siding of ClayâŻagate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of...of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw formation that surrounds Warsaw, Hamilton, and Nauvoo in western |  | | Book (volume) | | by navigable waters, primarily the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The highest elevations are the Mounds...glaciation, the bluffs and detritus of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsâŻagate, jasper, rare...pits, bars of the Mississippi R.âŻagate, jasper; d RR siding of ClayâŻagate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of...of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw formation that surrounds Warsaw, Hamilton, and Nauvoo in western |  | | Report (volume) | | Emmons, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Mississippi.......Prof. E. N. Lowe, Jackson. Missouri......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) | | 20 A Report on the Harrison County Gem and Mineral Society of Gulfport, Mississippi ....................Pulaski County, Arkansas through Garland, Montgomery and Polk counties, then into McCurtain County, Oklahoma...Holbrook 1950 Titanium ore deposits of Hot Spring County, Arkansas. Arkansas Geological Survey Bulletin...Fadden quartz of the Stand on Your Head mine, Saline County, Arkansas. The author, Memphis, TN. Miser, H. D...Jeffrey quarry, Pulaski Co. Antimony mines, Sevier County Aragonite snowy white coatings quartz mines, Garland |  | | Book | | Minnesota Gemstone-Lake Superior Agate Vil * Mississippi * Louisiana Gemstone-Agate Fossil-Petrified...made the âMagic Cityâ of Birmingham, Jefferson County âThe Pittsburgh of the Southâ during the turn of...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional...white Sylacauga marble from Sylacauga, Talladega County, is considered among the finest white marble in...the Lincoln Memorial. Marble from Chewacla, Lee County, near Auburn, Alabama, is a coarse grained dolomite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | geodeguy@verizon.net after Fossils from Heltonville Lawrence County Indiana Unless otherwise noted, all photos by...notable localities. A quarry in Salem, Washington County, produces beautiful blue and gold celestine crystals;...crystals; another quarry, near Anderson in Madison County, is famous for its butterscotch-colored calcite...calcite, especially its twins; Corydon quarry in Harrison County is known for its cavities filled with pink...along State Route 37 near Harrodsburg in Monroe County; for the past thirty years it has produced quartz |  | | Report (volume) | | ........................................... Mississippi................................................Emmons, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Mississippi __Prof. E. N. Lowe, Jackson. Missouri_____Dr...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 | | shoreline are east of the Mississippi except for Minnesota, where the Mississippi originates in the northcentral...quarries and along the rivers which flow into the Mississippi, which originates in the state. There are many...through Itasca and St. Louis Counties into Lake County. Hibbing is about the center of this historic area...replaced by dark hematite. Near Calumet in Itasca County abundant mollusks, arthropods, and sharks teeth...the Mississippi River are in Itasca Park. : The Cuyuna Iron Range is mostly in Crow Wing County, extending |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Pima County Board of Supervisors recognized that the beautiful, 90-year-old Pima County Courthouse...Revival architecture in the United States. The Pima County Board entertained the idea of creating a museum...mineral museum into the more accessible downtown Pima County Courthouse location. The university immediately...recognized the potential of the move, and Pima County pledged $18.4 million dollars to completely renovate... Alex SchAuSS on more than 700 major The Pima County museum projects, the Courthouse was built most |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Geologist Seymour S. Greenberg, Petrographer Jack L. Harrison, Clay Mineralogist Ned M. Smith, Geologist Jack...collection of geodes from Big Walnut Creek, Putnam County; and many quarry operators for granting us permission...Indians knew of and used Wyandotte Cave in Crawford County (4).2 Ball (1941, p. 39) summarized the various...The Indians found that Wyandotte Cave, Crawford County, Ind., contained two desirable products, a jaspery...car__________ 2 Localities are given by the name of the county followed by a number in parentheses. This number |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of...of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnĂśite intrusions in Crittenden...Greb, Kentucky Geological Survey. in Crittenden County has one major shaft called the âRock shaft.â The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | across; Meshberger Stone, Inc. quarry, Bartholomew County. Richard Russell specimen and photo. Figure 2 (above...cm high; Rensselaer Stone C o . quarry, Jasper County. Vernon Swanson speci men; Richard Russell photo...outer layer of clay; a rind of crypto-crystalline chalcedony; and crystalline minerals projecting inward,...within the state. The localities are listed by county and, for convenience, the approximate dis tance...granted before entering the property! Allen County Bartholomew County May Stone and Sand quarryâArdmore plantâsouthwest |  | | Journal (issue) | | away in a split secondâwitness the Harrison County (southern Mississippi) Gem and Mineral Society. They also...has it, but Norm currently is out of town. ž Harrison County G&M Society: Phyllis has been in e-mail contact...no problem with us presenting the check to the Harrison Co. Gem and Mineral Society ourselves, once we... Brings its wearer power, grace and victory Chalcedony February Amethyst Calms the overwrought, pacifies...swgms_sat@yahoo.com April 21-23 Gulfport, MI Harrison County Gem & Mineral Society Rice Pavilion, Hwy. 49 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quartz. Clora May Mine, Trout Creek Pass, Chaffee County, Colo." The locality is described in Prof. Richard...localities swell this book to 223 pages). Chaffee County is in the central part of Colorado. CONNECTICUTâ"I...astringent metallic taste. Thompson, in N / E Windham County, is in N / E Connecticut. FLORIDAâ"I am mailing...brown, l.w. Belle Glade, in western Palm Beach County, is in southern Florida. I N D I A N A â "The enclosed..., only the limestone. Corydon, in central Harrison County, is in southern Indiana. KANSASâ"Under separate |  | | Book (edition) | | mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on U. S. 30 in Pittsburgh. 712.3 miles â Beaver County Line (Perm.). 725.9 milesâWest Virginia Line on...part of Canton, a nice city and the county seat of Stark County, on our way out. 785.4 milesâThe Klinks...Tuscarawas River which we crossed. 800.1 milesâWayne County line. 814.8 milesâWooster, on U. S. 30. 820.2 milesâJefferson...silvery flakes of muscovite. 826.9 milesâAshland County line. 831.7 milesâWe turn right on Ohio 80. ROCKS...nice dark brown jasper pebble. 846.3 milesâLoraine County line. 856.2 miles â Black River crossedâ only about |  | | Book (volume) | | complete account of the agates found in the Mississippi Valley was provided by Irving W. Hurlbut of Muscatine...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...quartz, binghamite and sagenite cabochons Carved chalcedony figurines Chrysocolla specimen Montana moss agates...lowest extreme of crystallization is found in chalcedony, a variety of quartz which is widespread and |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1 caravan will leave the convention site (Clark County Fair Grounds) about 8:00 ock the morning of June...Pennsylvanian flora of the Wilmington is making a county-by-county study of Indiana for the purpose of locating...specimens can be found. This one had quite an area of chalcedony and drusy quartz. Photos by Fred R. Rentzel....conchoidal fracture whether it is novaculite, chalcedony, jas per, or good hard chert. Geologists on the...and similarly, novaculite might be also called chalcedony. It was suggested, therefore, that archeologists |  | | Report (issue) | | and Clark Counties, at sites in southeastern Harrison County, and at a pit at the junction of Hardin and...its occurrence in Harrison County and at scattered locations in Washington County, Ind. He apparently...state in eastern Harrison County and western Floyd County, on the west edge of Clark County, and at scattered...scattered points in Washington County. The area is on the Highland Rim Plateau of the Interior Low Plateaus...escarpment in Harrison, Floyd, and Clark Counties and in southeastern Washington County forms a divide |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . . . 37 Section at Maxwell, Caldwell County.................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 41 Section near Elgin, Bastrop County .................... , ................ : . . ...Sections on Leon Creek and Medina River, Bexar County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .................... 47 Section at Rockdale, Milam County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................... 58 Section in Atascosa County............................................... |
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