 | | 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...Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport County...in what is now Rhode Island—for example, steatite from Johnston in Providence County for carving bowls |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | purple, and grey. These géodes are found in Pike County, Ala., which is about 50 miles north of Montgomery...Montgomery. I have found them scattered all over the county, but they are especially abundant just south of...dogtooth calcite have been found at the Holland mine in Washington Camp Mining District near Nogales...made several trips to Magnet Cove (Hot Springs County) which is about 15 miles east of Hot Springs on...the good fortune to meet H.A. Mitchell of Ridgewood, N.J. Mr. Mitchell, one of our good subscribers, |  | | Report (volume) | | Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South...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 |  | | Book (edition) | | malachite, an ore of the heavy metal copper, or hematite, an ore of iron, will be heavy in the hand. a...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal...Lincoln Co. Todd's Branch, Mecklenberg Co. Portis mine, Franklin Co. Muddy Creek headwaters, McDowell...Ferry, Hall Co. Horshaw mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % |  | | Report (volume) | | ........................................... Rhode Island...............................................1914: Oklahoma Geol. Survey Bull. 22, pt. 2, 1914. Mitchell, John Graham, Minerals of Oregon: Oregon Univ...Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Prof. Graham John Mitchell, Eugene. Pennsylvania__Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver...L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem. Rhode Island__Prof. C. W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina__...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Jefferson Co. Hematite BIRMINGHAM, Jefferson Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24...Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount...Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I COAL CITY,...Co. Hematite DUDLEYVILLE, Tallapoosa Co. Asbestos, with Corundum FORT PAYNE, DeKalb Co. Hematite FREDONIA |  | | Journal (issue) | | Abbey College Belmont, North Carolina Richard Mitchell Professor of Environmental Sciences, University... Turquoise from Virginia's Kelly Bank Mine Richard S. Mitchell Howard R . Freeland 219 A General History...silver on stamps compiled by G. G. Young of Rhode Island. His conibined interest in stan-ips and minerals...collecting rocks FUI July 15, 1978 4 sh Emperor gold mine and gold ore BRAZIL June 8 1974 40 c sandstone...sandstone cliffs January 13, 1969 40 c Emperor gold mine and gold ore FRANCE July 8, 1975 September 27, 1969 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Abbey College Belmont, North Carolina Richard Mitchell Professor of Environmental Sciences, University... Turquoise from Virginia's Kelly Bank Mine Richard S. Mitchell Howard R . Freeland 219 A General History...silver on stamps compiled by G. G. Young of Rhode Island. His conibined interest in stan-ips and minerals...collecting rocks FUI July 15, 1978 4 sh Emperor gold mine and gold ore BRAZIL June 8 1974 40 c sandstone...sandstone cliffs January 13, 1969 40 c Emperor gold mine and gold ore FRANCE July 8, 1975 September 27, 1969 |  | | Report (volume) | | Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | also present. "Specimen comes from a mine somewhere in Yuma County, Arizona."—on label. ARKANSAS—In the...of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U.S.) that has been opened up...(west of the city). That would be in Jefferson County."—letter dated—June 31, 1956, from Marie Kennedy...Greenwich on the New York line to Killingly on the Rhode Island border. Small crystals of calcite and quartz...of a fish. Nokomis, in the S.W. part of Sarasota County, is on the Gulf of Mexico. GEORGIA—The following |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mining in Alabama in the Cragford district of Clay County, the workings which entered the unoxidized zone...Palmer, Alaska. ARIZONA—From a locality in Mohave County in N . W . Arizona, we have an interesting specimen...glauberite xls mailed you last June from Imperial County near Bertam Siding on the Southern Pacific R.R...constructed in 1933 for the McBryde Sugar Co. on Kauai Island, Hawaii, white, amorphous allophane was found incrusting...grayish xls. The locality is in S/W Winneshiek County of N / E Iowa. KANSAS—"In the southeast corner |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs January-February: Aquamarine, Pioneira mine, Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Keith Proctor...Fluorite and calcite, Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave in Rock district, Har din County, Illinois. Harvard Mineralogical...July-August: Quartz and chalcopyrite, Bandora mine, San Juan County, Col orado. Barbara and John Muntyan specimen...and photo. September-October: Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec; painting by Susan Robinson. November-December:...November-December: Gold, Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California. California State Mining and Mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Smithsonian Institution March-April: Wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; photo by Jeffrey Scovil May-June: Calcite...September-October: Amethyst sceptered quartz, Hopkinton, Rhode Island; photo by Victor E . Krantz (Smithsonian Institution)...Crystallized gold on quartz, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California. © Harold and Erica Van Pelt...Sceptered Quartz from Ashaway Village, Hopkinton, Rhode Island, W. C. Metropolis, J . Rakovan, S. Avella, 247...342 Apatite, 33, 58, 75, 220 Arizona's Red Cloud Mine: A 1985 Report, R. W. Grant, 54 Arsenopyrite, 75 |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and much used in industry, is found in De Kalb County, 4 miles northwest of Fort Payne, Ala. There a...Another deposit is reported as being in Clarke County-" ARIZONA—Earl Mayer, 1753 " I " St, Yuma, Ariz...might now add, that Clinton is the county seat of Van Buren county. As stated, this bridge is in the wilds...know of two pivot rocks near Shirley, Van Buren county, and one about three-fourths mile from edge of...of Hot Springs National Park, Garland county, on one point of Sugar Loaf Mt., near the top crest." CALIFORNIA—The |  | | Catalog/List | | flawed, .25 per ounce Caesium-bearing, white masses; Mine . a . . . . . . . . . . . 1 13 BERZELIANITE (cuprous...magnetite; Michigan . . 13 Aficaceous (schistose) hematite; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . 6 Massive; Min.... . . . . . . . . . 6 Graphitic Anthracite; Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Bituminous... Continurd Shret mica enclosing magnetite and hematite reticulations; Pennsylvania, North Carolina, or...NOVACU L ITE-See Quartz OCHER- RED and YELLOW-Sec Hematite and Limonite OLIGOCLASE (sodium and calcium aluminum |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Investigation of Gilley Fluorspar Deposits in Cherokee County, Alabama, by James F. O'Neill. It is interesting... 50 miles northeast of Birmingham, in Cherokee County, located in West 1/2, West V2 of Section 16, Township...crystal'ized cinnabar which comes from the Culver-Baer mine, Sonoma Co., Calif. Colorado—An interesting article...pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line in south-central Co'crado, a few miles northwest...to us. Will some Colorado reader tell us in what county is Hans Peak and, if possible, send us a few notes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | senopyrite in Darien (Fairfield Co.), Levesque, Cross County, Arkansas. The Conn., for over a year. A few weeks...R. S. we succeeded in finding their source. It Mitchell, University of Virginia, from is a small quartz...down, but we have not yet ing prepared by Prof. Mitchell and Mr. determined its length on the surface....A H O — "This specimen was found in Twin Falls County about 10 miles south of Hagerman, Idaho. These...a fairly new limestone quarry in eastern DeKalb County, 111. There were a few small fossils in the limestone |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | letter dated Jan. 3, 1953, comes from John F. Mitchell, Box 205, Golconda, 111. "I was recently on a...first phyllite we ever saw from sers" area, Sonoma County, Calif. It was noted by M. Vonsen in CALIF. JOUR..."Stellerite . . . . occurs in small tabular from Mr. Mitchell tells us: "Concerning the phyllite, it was found... ranging in in a road cut situated in Randolph County, size from 2 to 4 millimeters. Sometimes it Ala...the Josephine Mine near Volcanoville (Eldorado Co.) Calif. This was an active gold mine up to about a |  | | Report (issue) | | 0.11 0.08 100.02 98.14 (1) Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA; corresponds to (Ca1:74 Mn0:17 Na0:10 K0:03...)§=8:00 O22 (OH)2 : (2) Jackson County Iron Formation, Wisconsin, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponds...cummingtonite, quartz, magnetite, riebeckite, biotite, hematite (iron formations). Distribution: Probably widespread...the USA, in the Jackson County Iron Formation, Wisconsin, and at Cumberland, Providence Co., Rhode Island...actinolite. Type Material: n.d. References: (1) Mitchell, J.T., F.D. Bloss, and G.V. Gibbs (1971) Examination |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Report (issue) | | Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Rhode Island ....... 83 Table 14 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Rhode Island..................................84 Figure 19...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...radioactivity is 5 to 7 times background. Hill copper mine. RM 1968. Source ol informal Phyllite Location...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR VISIT OUR MINE-KEEP WHAT YOU FIND DOOR PRIZES HOURLY DEALERS...Some Noteworthy Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia...Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard S. Mitchell and Arthur S. Katz Peter’s...Peter’s Mountain: Hematite and Hematite Incrustation Pseudomorphs After Barite Howard R. Freeland Fossil Collecting...Displays and Collections in Virginia RichardS. Mitchell An Introduction to VPI’s Museum of Geological |
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