 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PETROLOGY OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA GRANITES' THOMAS LEONARD WATSON Brooks Museum, University of Virginia...OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE CRYSTALLINE AREA The South Carolina area of crystalline rocks extends northwestward...Director of the U. S. Geological Survey. 2 South Carolina Geological Survey, 1908, Series IV, Bull. No...No. 2, p. 505. 730 PETROLOGY OF SOUTH CAROLINA GRANITES 73I position and texture the gneisses...quartz and mica (biotite with frequently some muscovite), much microcline and some acid plagioclase (oligoclase) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Canada, in the tin district in the Trans vaal, South Africa; and important de posits of molybdenite...the McKinney Mine near Little Switzerland, North Carolina. It has also been noted as a rare, second ary...McKinney Mine near Little Switzerland in North Carolina. It has also been noted in pegmatite at Fairplay...California; and three miles west of Buntingville, Lassen County in the same state. GALENA, lead sulfide, has been...sphalerite, cleavelandite, muscovite, rmcrocline, and quartz at the Strickland Quarry, Portland, Connec ticut |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to four inches in diameter occur in the Palermo quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire and to an inch in...the Victory mine near Custer, South Dakota with quartz, albite, muscovite, black tourmaline and triphylite...dickinsonite occurs sparingly at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut. FAIRFIELDITE, a hydrous phosphate...noted as a rare mineral at Branchville, Fairfield county, Connecticut from which it was named; and also...lithiophilite at the Stewart mine, Pala, San Diego county, California. STEWARTITE, another hydrous manganese |  | | Report (volume) | | ........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards...Mr. D. H. Newland, State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota...Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota... .Prof. E. C. Perisho...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; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other large...the Black Hills of South Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches...noted in the School Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut...Rumford, Newry, Buckfield, and Topsham. The Gillette quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, was famous when in...length was found in a pocket at the Strickland Quarry, at Portland, Connecticut. California has a large |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Group of the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, met under the leadership of Bob...displays are in the Levittown L i brary. The Keystone Newsletter, bulletin of the Mineralogical Society...successful field trip was made to the Alden ( N . Y . ) quarry. The Monongahela Rockhounds, Homestead, planned...their first show. SOUTH CAROLINA Member B i l l Carpenter of the Western South Carolina Gem and Mineral...from South Carolina Dr. Ed Babin, Professor of Geology at USCSpartanburg, met with the Spartanburg Gem |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... North Carolina. ........................................................ South Carolina......................................:.................... South Dakota.......Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature...edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon, C...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral in a few pegmatites at Atolia, San Bernardino County, California and also in pegmatites north of the...earth type of pegmatite as at Barringer Hill, Llano County, Texas where large masses weighing up to four hundred... Red cleavage masses are found at the Gillette quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut. The best fluorite...druses in granite and pegmatite at the Redstone quarry, North Conway, New Hampshire, etc. YTTROCERITE...mineral at St. Peter's Dome near Pike's Peak, El Paso County, Colorado. CRYOLITE, a fluoride of sodium and aluminum |  | | Journal (issue) | | July 1943 PUBLISHED MONTH LY CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...enormous spodumene crystals in the Black Hills of South Dakota ; the huge beryl crystals at Albany, Maine...3x3x8 feet in the Luella Mine near Avon, Latah County, Idaho ; and etc. Origin The crystals have reached |  | | Report (volume) | | ................................ 49 Individual quarry areas.................................................. 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County........................................................ Light-gray muscovite granite of the Fredericksburg area........ Dark...................................... Individual quarry areas. ................................................ Chesterfield County (south of James River)................ Henrico County (north of James River) |  | Simmons, William B., Falster, Alexander U., Nizamoff, James W., Freeman, Gary (2019) Giant spodumene and montebrasite crystals from the Plumbago North pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine. The Canadian Mineralogist, 57 (5) 795-797 doi:10.3749/canmin.ab00024 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CRYSTALS FROM THE PLUMBAGO NORTH PEGMATITE, OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE WILLIAM B. SIMMONS§ AND ALEXANDER U. FALSTER...Museum, Bethel, Maine, USA JAMES W. NIZAMOFF 64 Mineral Drive, Hebron, Maine, USA GARY FREEMAN Freeman...Freeman Resources, LLC, 48 Lovejoy Road, South Paris, Maine, USA Keywords: giant crystals, spodumene, montebrasite...on the north side of Plumbago Mountain, Oxford County, Maine. The pegmatite is spodumenerich and is potentially...pegmatite is principally composed of quartz, albite, muscovite and spodumene. Initial sampling indicates that |  | | Report (issue) | | Associated minerals ., Quartz .' '•• 11 II Muscovite Biotite Tourmaline Garnet Bervl 11 12 12 12 12...Chester County 21 22 West Nottingham Township Sparvetta quarry Keystone quarry P> randy wine quarry 22...-Baker quarry Hicks quarry Thompson pits Cooper pits Carpenter quarry Jenkins quarry Chatham quarry Lafferty...Lafferty quarry Embreeville '. Embreeville quarry Fazio quarry Union ville Pennsbury Township Walker...Meredith quarry Delaware County Brandywine Summit Darlington Chester Heights Bunting quarry Halsey quarry |  | | Journal (issue) | | Division, Belmont Abbey College Belmont, North Carolina Richard Mitchell Professor of Environmental Sciences...CONSULTING EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault University of South Carolina Frank Mayo Atlanta, Georgia Arthur J. Ehlmann...Dorn , N. , and SJagt, C., eds. 1976. R epublic of South Africa postage stantp catalogue. Johannesburg, R...(PTY ) Michel stantp catalogue. Overseas South Africa and South-West Africa. 1973. t\1unchen, Germany....megalodon 4 .00 e Microceratodus angolensis 4 .50 e muscovite 5.00 e barite 6.00 e Nostoceras 10.00 e Rotula |  | | Journal (issue) | | Division, Belmont Abbey College Belmont, North Carolina Richard Mitchell Professor of Environmental Sciences...CONSULTING EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault University of South Carolina Frank Mayo Atlanta, Georgia Arthur J. Ehlmann...Dorn , N. , and SJagt, C., eds. 1976. R epublic of South Africa postage stantp catalogue. Johannesburg, R...(PTY ) Michel stantp catalogue. Overseas South Africa and South-West Africa. 1973. t\1unchen, Germany....megalodon 4 .00 e Microceratodus angolensis 4 .50 e muscovite 5.00 e barite 6.00 e Nostoceras 10.00 e Rotula |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | [University of Connecticut] at 20:42 14 January 2015 South Dakota is perhaps best known for its pegmatites...Hills are responsible for the accessibility of South Dakota’s itbundant and diverse mineral locations...1994). the number of mines worked tor bery 1. muscovite, col ti mhite-tantalite. ambl ygonite, spodumene...continue to be made. The most complete mineralogy of South Dakota and the Black Hills is found in Roberts and...965). Some uncited mineral species are from the South Dakota School of Mines Museum of Geology. Noteworthy |  | | Book (volume) | | the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust long spurs...the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza |  | | Report (issue) | | _._______.__ North and South Carolina.___---_______-_-_---__-__________ South Dakota________________...analyses of three spodumene samples, Edison mine, Keystone, S. Dak.. ____..____________^__._______5. Lithium...in the world. Prior to World War II, deposits in South Dakota were the chief source of lithium minerals.......... ...... **1907.__ ....... ...... Year South Dakota » Tons Value Lepidolite *120 50 58600...are unavailable. Spodumene was produced in North Carolina in 1943-45 and in 1951-53. Production figures |  | | Journal (issue) | | Division, Beln1ont Abbey College Belniont, North Carolina Richard Mitchell Professor of Environnzental...CONSULTING EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault University of South Carolina Frank Mayo Atlanta, Georgia Arthur J. Ehlmann... ~ COVER STORY: BIGGS JASPER from Jack Beer's Quarry in Biggs Junction, Oregon. This picture jasper...Prairie Creek j ust 10uth of Murfree• boro, Pike County, Arkansas. The near-oval shaped area is an enclosed...diamondiferous mica peridotite located near Kimberley, South Africa . Not all kimberlites , however, yield diamond |  | | Report (issue) | | STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA Nils Boe, Governor MINERALOGY OF THE BLACK HILLS by WILLARD LINCOLN ROBERTS...Research Associate in Mineralogy Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and GEORGE...Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology With the...of Mineralogy South Dakota School of Mines and Technology BULLETIN NUMBER 18 of the South Dakota School...School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota PUBLICATIONS STAFF F. L. Partlo J. T. Thomas |  | | Report (issue) | | Inside back cover Monazite placers of North and South Carolina .............................................mined in the Piedmont province of North and South Carolina from 1887 to 1911, and again intermittently...of Fredericksburg, Va., south-southwestward for 200 miles into North Carolina. Monazite-bearing rocks...placers that were formerly mined in North and South Carolina. These placers were sampled, and the monazite...country rock, and certain granitic gneisses of the Carolina gneiss. Some of the associated pegmatites also |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | three feet in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds...257 pounds was found about 1925 at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three...York; the Scott and other quarries near Custer, South Dakota; near the Royal Gorge in Colorado, and elsewhere...near Statesville, North Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old...*"eet: was found at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | 3percent (Smith and others, 1964). Samplesof muscovite schist and sericiteschist from other parts of... from a sample (77A-B) of phyllite in Campbell County (Figure 2). SAPROLITE-CLAY ROCK MATERIAL CATEGORIES...parago"nite, a sodium mica, occurs in muscovite-paragonite and chlorite-muscovite-paragonite phyllites. Milici...analyzed from the Allen bauxite mine in Augusta County. A sample (176C-A) taken from the northeast end...amounts of quartz and microcline intergrown with muscovite. The pegmatites are mainly coarse grained and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Division, Belmont Abbey College Behnont, North Carolina Richard Mitchell Professor of Environmental Sciences...Frank Mayo Richard D. Dayvault University of South Carolina Atlanta, Georgia Margaret A. McBrien Arthur...their layered atomic structure. Of the micas, muscovite, phlogopite, and lepidolite are of the most economic...general formula : by MARK C. BLAZEK Descriptions MUSCOVITE, KA1 2 (A1Si 3) 0 10 (OH)2 : In any discussion...transparent and colorless). Its specific name, muscovite, appears to have originated from the old popular |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | metamorphic rocks in the southern Black Hills, South Dakota JnvrnsJ. Nonrox* Branch of Central Mineral...Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, U.S.A., and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Department...Geology and Geological Engineering, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701,U.S.A. Ansrnlcr The pegmatite field...Black Hills, South Dakota, form an igneous system that progrcssesfrom slightly biotitic muscovite granite...rare-mineral pegmatitesbecome more abundant and muscovite pegmatitesless abundant toward the outskirts of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection. An ideal and inexpensive...“The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the JulylAugust 2001 issue...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite pegmatite, 12 miles W of Bosler...allanite (to 4 inches in length), microcline, muscovite, and quartz (Hausel 1986). Big Chief mica pegmatite |
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