 | | Journal (issue) | | collection. Photo: 5.1.Pekov. The Baringer Hill Pegmatite Llano County, Texas Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com...com Introduction This article on the Baringer Hill pegmatite does not contain new or addition historical...put together for two reasons. Recently some Baringer Hill specimens from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural...purchased along with other Texas minerals. Also a collecting field trip to the Llano area was carried out during...possibly similar rare-earth pegmatite collecting in Llano and Burnet counties. It was hoped that such a compilation |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..................... 5 The Baringer Hill Pegmatite, Llano County, Texas ..............................online and find a list of U.S. Representatives from Texas. There will be addresses, phone, and FAX numbers...in their district. Fortunately we have several Texas Representatives who will accept an e-mail from you...increase. Rep. Ted Poe (R) also allows emails from Texas constituents, not just his District. I believe Gene...Gene Green (D) does also. The following additional Texas Representatives appeared to accept my e-mails to |  | | Report (volume) | | BULLETIN 450 MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE LLANO-BURNET REGION, TEXAS WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRE-CAMBRIAN GEOLOGY........................ 14 Schists and gneisses (Llano series).................................. . 14 Divisions.................. ......... 88 Zinc blende with fluorite gangue.......................................... ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. PLATE I. Geologic map of Texas............................................ 7 II...economic map showing locations of Burnet and Llano quadrangles, Texas...................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NEBRASKA NORTH DAKOTA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH DAKOTA AND TEXAS BY MARGARET COOPER CONTENTS Page Page 1. Foreword...Part 2, and Part 3 258 Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Section 2. Additional References 259 United...South Dakota, and Texas 262 souri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas 299 FOREWORD...Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. It is Part 4 of a comprehensive bibliography planned...Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas; Index II, Geographical Index for Arkansas, Iowa |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE BARINGER HILL, TEXAS, PEGMATITE KnNNnru K. LaNpBs, (Jniters'itv of Kansas INrnopucrroN The Baringer...Central Mineral (Llano) Region (Fig. 1) about 100 miles northwest of Austin, Texas. The nearest towns...any consequenceare Burnett, 16 miles east, and Llano, about 22 miles southwest. Access to the pegmatite...settlement on the Burnett-Llano highway, about four miles northeast of Baringer Hill. However, this very interesting...hydro-electric project.l Frc. 1. Outline map of Texas showing Iocation of crystalline rocks composing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE, LLANO COUN'I'Y, TEXAS RonRnr GnnnNwooo, GeologyDept., Univ, oJ'Howslon,Houston, Texas. The Badu...consistedof purple and clear fluorite cut by sparseveins of red feldspar 5 mm thick. Fluorite is reported from 22...of Baringer Hill, now.submerged beneath Lake Buchanan 5 miles to the northeast, contains fluorite in...veined bv reclaibite (Landes,1932).13a_ringer Hill fluorite is almost colorlessto dark violet, and ,,sometimesbecame...temperature of a living-room,, (Hess, i908) . The Badu fluorite is coarselvcleavable,massive,reddish-purplewith |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pegmatites Lake Buchanan, Llano County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Str. Houston, Texas 77036 Ray Stegemoller...Box 201, Canine Road Marble Falls, Texas 78654 .7 l Llano County has long been known for its rare-earth...nl996 .. Texas resulted in extremely low water levels in Lake Buchanan...Mexico • Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston, Texas 77036 In the fall of 1996 when I purchased part...former Chief Geologist for Texas Gulf at their Frasch sulfur mine at New Gulf, Texas, I noticed a small vial |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CONCENTRIC PATTERNS IN THE GRANITES OF THE LLANO-BURNET REGION, TEXAS BY DAVID K E P P E L CONTENTS Abstract.................... Fine-grained granites of the Llano region............................................993 994 994 972 DAVID KEPPEL----GRANITES OF LLANO-BURNET REGION General statement................................................ 8. Index map of Llano-Burnet uplift.....................................pre-Cambrian coarse-grained granites in the Llano-Burnet uplift of central Texas have been studied with special attention |  | | Journal (issue) | | "01ii;'fllcd mine I, r Lhcr Uuu, 11 roi:t:lure-,amorpl1.0miblob or...(14 meters) in length were reported from the Etta Mine in South Dakota (see figure 2). and one large crystal...cadmium sulfide. They are both found at Sterling Hill and Franklin (New Jersey) almost exclusively as...Huizing, 534 I Thrasher Dr, Cincinnati OH 45247 USA Please, make checks payable to Mineralogical Almanac...1907, Endicott discoYered amazon stone in Custer County, aquamarine and rose quartz at the Wild Rose claim |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BETA-BE(OH)2, FROM THE RODE RANCH PEGMATITE, LLANO COUNTY, TEXAS Anrnun J. EnrrunNn, GeologyDeparl,ment,Teras...gadolinite occurring in the Rode Ranch pegmatite, Llano County, Texas. It usually occurs as euhedral to subhedral...were first observedby Joe Williams of San Saba, Texas in an examination of various sarnplesfrom the Rode...of Texas and has a suite of rare earth minerals similar to the presently inundated Baringer Hill ppgmatite...this locality during quarrying operations by the Texas Architectural Aggregate Company for milky quartz |  | | Report (issue) | | Austin Austin, Texas 78712 JOHN T. LONSDALE, Director Report of Investigations — No. 42 Texas Gemstones...OFECONOMIC GEOLOGY The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 JOHN T. LONSDALE, Director —...— No. 42 Report of Investigations Texas Gemstones By Elbert A. King, Jr. February 1961 — — — Second...gems Tumbled gems Texas gemstones Amber Augite Beryl Celestite Diamond Epidote Fluorite Fossil wood Gadolinite...Illustrations 1. Typical crystal form of three common Texas gemstones 2. Variations of the cabochon cut 3. Diamond |  | | Journal (issue) | | length of arsenolamprite in matrix from Alacaran Mine (Pampa Larga, Copiapo, Chile). All the specimens...Precious Stones report stated that the Himalaya Mine was brought into notice in 1898 by Mr. Charles Russell... A. E. Heighway who had operated the tourmaline mine? And how did this lead to the work by the Himalaya...well-earned since he was 6 foot, 3 inches in height (USA passport app Iication 1921 ). As a canoer and sail...as living in Vandervilt Township, San Bernardino County, CA. His Mineral Industry report of 1900 on California |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geochronologie Study of the Lone Grove Pluton from the Llano Uplift, Texas1 by R. E. ZARTMAN2 Division of Geological...some igneous and metamorphic rocks from the Llano Uplift, Texas, was undertaken to investigate, in detail...granitic pluton and surrounding rocks from the Llano Uplift, Texas, suggests that this area has been involved...earliest recognition of Precambrian rocks in central Texas was by T. B. Comstock (1890), who applied the terms...Sidney Paige (1911, 1912) made a geologic map of the Llano-Burnet quadrangles and redefined the major metamorphic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Machintosh (Am. Jour. Sci.36, 461, 1888). Henderson County, North Carolina. Calciothorite Brdgger (Geol. fd...(New York Acad. Sci. Trans. 8, 185, 1889). Baringer Hill, Texas. [Name intended as a synonym of thorogummite...Mackintosh (Am. Jour. Sci.46, 98, 1893). Baringer Hill, Texas. A supposed later occurrence described by...and Hidden, Am. Jour. Sci. 19, 425,1905. Baringer Hill, Texas. Three later occurrences were described...the Harvard and O. I. Lee collections from Baringer Hill, Texas, all of which answered the description but |  | | Report (issue) | | ¥ TEXAS ROCKS AND \ r - An Amateur’s Guide ;s ROSELLE M. GIRARD A b OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY V N IVERSITY...The University of Texas Austin, Texas Peter T. Flawn, Director Guidebook 6 TEXAS ROCKS AND MINERALS...Rock identification charts Descriptions of some Texas rocks and minerals Anhydrite .......................................... ....................... Fluorite ................................................Composition, hardness, and specific gravity of some Texas minerals Pace 25 26 39 40 43 43 43 44 45 46 47 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Examples of alaskite pegmatites occur at Baringer Hill, Texas; New Ross, Nova Scotia;114and Silver Peak...near Milford, New Hampshire,lle and in Riverside County, California.r20Qtartz diorite pegmatites occur...Madagascar; Wodgina, Western Australia; Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia; IJto, Swedenl east Transbaikalia;123...exclusion of the usual quartz and feldspar. Topaz and fluorite are common accessory minerals in many pegmatites...of southern Norway; Ytterby, Sweden; and Llano County, Texas, and in an alkalic granite pegmatite at Cape |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............ 3 Spring Collecting Trip to the Texas Hill Country .......................................and desserts. I Spring Collecting Trip to the Texas Hill Country by Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Member... knew that making a collecting trip to central Texas May 12–18 might be pushing my luck a bit as far...still there but not as strong. Heading northeast to Llano, I decided to take the Willow City scenic loop and...right, though I was close to it. In Llano, I stopped by the Llano Uplift Rockshop and saw that it had |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | allanite, amblygonite, apatite, columbite-tantalite, fluorite, hornblende, hypersthene, monazite, petalite,...from a mass of pegmatite in northwestern Riverside county, california. He clearly recollects his chagrin...suggestionsrelating to results of his operations at the Harding mine in northern New Mexico. The writer also has profited...of giant, lath-shaped spodumene crystals, Harding mine, New Mexico. The largest crystals are about 12 feet...North Carolina, in the Harding pegmatite of Taos County, New Mexico (Fig. 1; 8, Fig.8), in a small area |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN TEXAS III A SUPPLEMENT TO THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD, NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2020 ... Mineral Collections in TEXAS UVolume IIIV With an Introduction by Wendell Wilson A Supplement to...November–December 2020 MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN TEXAS Mineral Collections in Texas Volume III A Supplement to The Mineralogical...row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Gail & Jim Spann collection; Tom Spann photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sfrom Mariposa County, Californi.a, The North Duncan gold mine near llornitos, Mariposa County, California...collected in April 1931, from the Chestnut Flat Feldspar Mine near Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The flattened...Boringer Hill, Teras, Pegmatite. The Baringer Hill pegmatite lies near the center of the Llano or Cbntral...Mineral Region about 100 miles northwest of Austin, Texas. The pegmatite is intruded into granite which in...intruded into pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks. Baringer Hill is famous for its yield of rare earth minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | War II induced operators to work the long dormant mine in 1943 and 1944. Unwatering and underground mining...pegmatite as a whole has previously been made. The mine lies 550 feet N. 48o E. of the railroad station...all of North Branford, Connecticut, operated the mine for mica, and the Sandy Ridge Mica and Mining Company...15th Street N. W., Washington, D. C., worked the mine in November and December 1944' The main working...in mapping, and the operators of the Branchville mine also cooperated generously and wholeheartedly. Srnucrune |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................78 by Pete J. Dunn The snowbird Mine, Montana’s Parisite Loca lity.....................Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas............................................... 112 by Anthony Robert Kampf The Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico......................... 115 by...between Minot and Auburn, Maine, in Androscoggin County. The Pulsifer quarry, along with the Keith and...STEVENS, J.P. (1972) Gems and minerals o f Oxford County. Published by Perham’s Maine Mineral Store, 136-153 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 179 by Paul Tambuyser Yttrocrasite from Central Texas..............................182 by Wilson W. Crook...No. 3 Carl Francis Long Hill Tungsten Mine Trumbull, Connecticut The Long Hill tungsten deposit at Trumbull...Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, which is noted for its large pseudomorphs of wolframite after...produced good crystals, is located in Trumbull’s Old Mine Park. Mining was never very prof itable and the...drinking water, a comfort station, and parking lot Old Mine Park is today an attractive and popular recrea |  | | Report (issue) | | which have been formed to exploit them. WASHINGTON COUNTY. AMERICAN MOLYBDENUM COMPANY'S PROPERTY. Location...deposit is situated on the south slope of a gentle hill 500 or 600 feet high, overlooking the stretch of...Molybdenum Company. HANCOCK COUNTY. The known deposits of molybdenum in Hancock County lie along the north and...high, known as Catherines Hill, has been prospected to some extent. The hill shows several benches with...to the top of the hill. Molybdenite is said to be found also at the foot of the hill. It occurs in flakes |  | | Report (volume) | | Calif., and production began from a bastnaesite-fluorite deposit in the Gallinas Mountains of New J\iexico...Monazite deposits in calcareous rocks, northern Lemhi County, Idaho: Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology Pamph. 99... p. 76-77. Gadolinite from Llano County, Tex., and from Henderson County, N. C., has been mined and used...Minerals of the rare-earth metals at Baringer Hill, Llano County, Tex.: U.S. (}eol. Survey Bull. 340,...deposits of the Mountain Pass district, San Bernardino County, Calif: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 261, 75 |
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