 | | Report (edition) | | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 MINERAL SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised...Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised 2007 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL...Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission |  | | Report (edition) | | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 S P EC I ES O F A RKA N SA A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard \ 1987... / ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist s·' , STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...23 SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION...State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals, Arkansas also boasts an array of other minerals, as evidenced by this county-by-county description...continued with mining in north ern and western Arkansas and Magnet Cove during the Civil War, and peaked...in full swing and the demand for and price of Arkansas quartz crystals has skyrocketed. In October 1987...exploited. Continued interest in and study of Arkansas minerals, par ticularly the microminerals, will...for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting. Particular thanks goes to these hardcore |  | | Book | | Minerals of Arkansas ISSUED BUREAU OF BY MINES, MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE STATE OF ARKANSAS W. N...N. WILKES, Commissioner 1925 MINERALS of ARKANSAS Published STATE BUREAU and by of MINES, MANUFACTURES...AGRICULTURE W. N. WILKES, Commissioner PUBLISHED in ARKANSAS 1925 INTRODUCTION of “Minerals an The book...the mineral exhaustive study of the State. as Arkansas” understand as their and the part the finished...paid or ores uses criticism of “Minerals of Arkansas” because of the fact that given State. our |  | | Book | | Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I •( 11 o •« c »««ou cxi ju4«iO«J...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute Quadrangal...Quadrangal Map index. V Contents and Locality Index Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types....Location 1 Montgomery County quartz deposits................. Other Montgomery County quartz mines...... |  | | Journal (issue) | | .............................. 3 Southwestern Arkansas Mercury Mining District ........................these polished Indonesian logs. T Southwestern Arkansas Mercury Mining District by Art Smith Member of...Mineral Society artsmithite@msn.com he Southwestern Arkansas mercury mining district is a one mile wide east-west...western Clark County through Pike County into eastern Howard County. Further west in Sevier County, but not...not contiguous with the mercury district is the Arkansas antimony mining district which has a separate |  | | Journal (issue) | | WeberPerloff micromount collection that went to the LA County Museum, or the Cureton type specimen collection...library @ $195.00 plus $15.00 Priority shipping (USA). We accept all major credit cards, PayPal, checks...crystals with malachite, Very rarely good large crystals to l cm are found on malachite and should be...Southwestern Arkansas Mercury Mining District Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com The Southwestern Arkansas mercury...western Clark County through Pike County into eastern Howard County. Further west in Sevier County, but not |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | Alabama.........Dr. Eugene A. Smith, University. Arkansas..........Dr. A. H. Purdue, Nashville, Tenn. California...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) | | minerals and gems. It is obvious, though, that malachite, an ore of the heavy metal copper, or hematite...corundum (aluminum oxide), carbonates such as malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite...banded agate. Cross section of unpolished green malachite, a copper carbonate marked with curved bands...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900 |  | | Journal (issue) | | striated horizontally. 6 "Drusy" Quartz, Missouri, USA Denise Bicknell Collection THE BACKBENDER'S GAZETTE...area of the Ouachita mountains in west central Arkansas. Numerous mines produce beautiful Rock Crystal...face) singles and plates. The best Mt. Ida area, Arkansas part is that the collector can Denise Bicknell...Herkimer and Montgomery Counties area of New York, USA. Austria, Switzerland, and Germany have produced...are common from alpine San Bernardino County, California, USA Denise Bicknell collection localities. |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Arkansas.................................................mineralogic reports, especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South...examination of the geology of western central Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1888, vol. 1...J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892, vol. 5...relative to the economic-geologic products of Arkansas, prepared for the Southern Commercial Congress |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Arizona, so this for one thing would be new to us. ARKANSAS — We are indebted to Byron C. Marshall, Prop....Diamond Mines, at (or near) Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. At the mines, I was kindly given permission...which I thought you might want to record in your Arkansas part of WORLD NEWS. When at the mines, 1 also...diamond-bearing peridotite from the Mufreesboro, Arkansas area.' "I am also enclosing samples of this Enstatite...literature I have available, is a new record for Arkansas. Also, am sending samples of the garnet fragments |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | factual and most useful. A good item. When down 'Arkansas Way' be sure to drop in on the John Roders', on...very nice dolomite pyramids collected in Major County, Okla., by the Paintons' of Painton's Rockery,...very nice silver nugget containing copper and malachite from Keeweenaw Peninsula, Mich., was received...a very large deposit of kaolinite located in Pike County, Ark. I also have a large deposit of gypsum with |  | | Journal (issue) | | Burnished Gold in ¼" and ¼" Cubes - 2 for 25c MALACHITE Beautifully Cut and Polished Gems-Sizes up to...~rass-green have picked up during their traYels and malachite. There are pieces of delicate so we take care...Company, Jersey City, N. PART J. IV. DIAMONDS IN ARKANSAS (Continued) A specio1en of the matrix containing...generally believed that t he peridotite rock of Arkansas is similar in character and n1ode of occurrence...tabulating U1eir principal characteristics.G 1 The Arkansas Dlan1011d Company pnrcbasPcl the Hncldlestou property |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s...from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona Chapter authors: Les Presmyk, Robert W...Associated Minerals from the Old uma Mine, Pima County, Arizona Chapter authors and showcase organizers:...mine is located in the Tucson Mountains of Pima County, Arizona, about 14 kilometers by road northwest |  | | Report (issue) | | NEW AREAS OF DIAMOND-BEARING PERIDOTITE IN ARKANSAS. By HUGH D. MISER. INTRODUCTION. Four areas of peridotite...peridotite near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Ark., were known at the time of the writer's visit to this...writers have contributed to the literature on the Arkansas diamonds and the geology of the peridotite in...of Arkansas diamonds: Am. Jour. Sci., 4th eer., vol. 24, 1907, pp. 275-276. Diamonds in Arkansas: Bull...pp. 187-194. Fuller, J. T., Diamond mine in Pike County, Ark.: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 87, 1909, pp |  | | Report (volume) | | GEOLOGY OF THE DE QUEEN AND CADDO GAP QUADRANGLES, ARKANSAS BY HUGH D. MISER AND A. H. PURDUE *"**» » ..._______ General geography and geology of the Arkansas Valley _________ ____ 12 General geography...system_________________ __________.____________ Arkansas novaculite.___---____-_-___-__-_--____-_-_-__...rocks of Arkansas. Age of the peridotite-_____________________________________ Comparison of Arkansas and...period._______________________-_----__---_---------Arkansas novaculite deposition... __________________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at its southend but the Ouchita Mountains of Arkansas strike east and if continued would join the ...placesknown to be severalhundredfeet. In Perry County, Missouri, a great fault zone crossesthe Mississippi...the uplift. They include the basicdikes of Elliot County in easternKentucky,the basic and acid dikesof CrittendonCounty...GenevieveCounty, Missouri, the pegrnatitesof Camden County,southcentralMissouri,and the graniteof Sl•avinaw...sulphideoresof the Mississippivalley region. In Woodson County, Kansas,at Silver City, sandstonesof 2 Weller, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | currently being mined at Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. The more familiar and more highly regarded... jasper in various forms, rhodochrosite, and malachite/azurite. Of greatest appeal, however, among the...fragments were found at Mount Mica, Paris Hill, Oxford County, Maine, in 1820 among the roots of a fallen tree...discovery occurred at the Dunton mine, Newry, Oxford County, in 1972, consisting of a series of pockets that...tourmaline (elbaite) from the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California. Tino Hammid photo. =VS\TL 1HU\HY`-LIY\HY` |  | | Book | | M>f*es MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE v MAP OF ARKANSAS Rur Reproduced on a reduced scale from map by...1 /. I y & ..vu. t u.vy UNIVERSITY OF I Arkansas," Washington, D. C., 1 907. , / \/ QUATERNARY...Mississippian ECONOMICS & SOCIOLO, Rocks MINERA IN ARKANSAS INCLUDING A REVIEW OF OIL AND GAS CONDITIONS...MINES, MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE STATE OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 1922 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page...Features Principal Arkansas Minerals and Their Location by Counties Counties of Arkansas and Their Mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | location a~ included at the end of each entry. Adair County Chariton River (40-04-05N 92-4 I -23W). septarian...septarian concretions about 2 miles north of the Macon county line. CALCITE crystals enclosing bundles of acicular...hematite, quartz (Broadhead 1873b, 1877). Audrain County Mexico, in fire clay pits and spoil piles: PYRITE...University Library] at 19:58 29 October 2014 Barton County McKarrow’s coal bank (37-37N 94-28W), 2.5 miles...PICKERINGITE, pyrite, siderite (Broadhead 1873b). Bates County Panther Creek, northwest of Rockville in coal deposits: |  | | 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 |
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