 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 20013 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Part 2 Huanggang Mine, Inner Mongolia, China T he first part of this...northern England, particularly from the Rogerley mine, has made these classic specimens available once...from the Huanggang mines, Huanggang, Kèshíkèté Qi County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. Limpid...made of the complex crystals from the Trevaunce mine, St. Agnes. The crystals on the Smithsonian specimens...crystals to 2 cm have been recorded.The East Pool mine has produced crystals to 6 cm in colors ranging |  | | Book | | cover photo: Agate, polished. Nowy Kościół, Lower Silesia, Poland. Sample 260x260xl30 mm. Photo R. Molenda...320x260xl IO mm. Agate, polished. ~owy Kościół, Lower Silesia, Poland. Photo 30x60 mm, sample 320x260xl IO mm...160xl50x30 mm. Sphalerite, polished. QIJ...7.1sz, Poland. Photo 30x70 mm, sample 160xl50x30 mm. , Sfale111...okaz 230xl50xl5 mm. Sphaleńte, polished. Olkusz, Poland. Photo 50xl40 mm, sample 230xl50xl5 mm. Fot. 6...the oldest and the best technical academies in Poland will celebrate its 90th jubilee in 2009. Mining |  | | Book (volume) | | Where & How to Djg, Pan and Mine Your Own Gen1s & Minerals Where & I-low to 1-Iunt for Treasure From...vacation stops at a roadside "dig your own" gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a p ach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...GUIDES TO THE U.S.A. W11ere & How to Dig, Pan, and Mine Your Ow11 Gems & Minerals VOLUME 3: SOUTHEAST STATES...curators and staff of public and private mu eums, mine owners, and miners. Our thanks to all those indjviduals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | car. A retired couple will find the Poland Mining Camps at Poland, Maine, run by Dot and Dudy Groves,...the road is the old Dun56S CUBE ton or Neville Mine dump and tunnel. Here at the dump are many fine...gem material. To get to the Scotty Mine go to the right on the mine road at Newry tunnel, and at about...half a mile, you will come to the workings. This mine is famous for its rose quartz crystals. I have several...and several of the uranium minerals. My suggestion for collecting around Oxford County is to first stop |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | arsenic, polybasite, bizmuth, heidenbergite, uranium minerals and others. Some locations are found around...olsendorf (calcite xIs, barite xIs, fluorite, uranium minerals). Hag644 endorf (vivianite, triphylite...Czechoslovakia, important mineral locality; here occur uranium minerals, proustite, pyrargyrite, saflorite and...freibergite, berthierite, uranium minerals and others. BYTOM, Upper Silesia, Poland, well known lead-zinc...jordanite with thalium. STRZEGOM (Strigov), Lower Silesia, Poland. In granite quarries occur large xIs of |  | | Book (volume) | | instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore... Cesium, Lithium, Tantalum, Tin, Tungsten and Uranium has come only from the core of the Black Hills...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds |  | | Journal (issue) | | minerals (oxides, sulphides of lead, zinc, copper, uranium, etc.). Due to their high solubility, calcite and...us collect on his land, I bought one. A friend of mine bought a whole sack of agates. Later I kicked myself...rather the town of Lwówek Śląski, in south western Poland, has been celebrating the region’s spectacular...center of this historic town. Lwówek Śląski, in Lower Silesia, was also known by the German name of Löwenberg...of World War Two, but the region became part of Poland in 1945 after the borders of Germany were redrawn |  | | Book (volume) | | Minerals are capitalized while rocks have been left lower case. This is the 5th printing and each time updates...rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | Minerals are capitalized while rocks have been left lower case. This is the 5th printing and each time updates...rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Report (issue) | | beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...North Carolina include aquamarine, golden beryl, amethyst, almandite garnet, citrine, and smoky quartz....16 Rutile 17 Quartz 17 Rock Crystal 17 Amethyst •• 18 Rose Quartz 18 Smoky Quartz 18 Rutilated...COUNTIES Alamance County • .' 22 24 24 Alexander County 24 Alleghany County 25 Ashe County • 25 Avery...Avery County 25 Buncombe County 26 Burke County 26 Cabarrus County 27 Caldwell County 27 Caswell |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan...from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced most of the rare minerals, ceased...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991)...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence..."specimen quality" questionable occurrence Angelina County Lufkin, 1 mile N of Lufkin in railroad cuts, in | | | Report (issue) | | beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...North Carolina include aquamarine, golden beryl, amethyst, almandite garnet, citrine, and smoky quarts............................................ 17 Amethyst ................................................Alamance County ........................................................... 24 24 Alexander County ......Alleghany County ....................................................... 25 Ashe County ......... |  | | Book (volume) | | ...............548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ..................................................................45 Arizona – Yuma Co. Hull Mine Site Map ............................................................................49 Arkansas County Map .......................................... |  | | Book | | of some of the principal localities in the same county, was given by Messrs . Greg and Lettsom in their...locality by some independent authority, such as maps, county directories, local guide books, &c. The geological...LONDONDERRY LONGFORD LOUTH MAYO MEATH MONAGHAN . QUEEN'S COUNTY . . . SLIGO TIPPERARY TYRONE . WATERFORD...possible, the various mineral- localities in the same county around their respective post-towns. A few cases...rule, where a parish or village is situated in one county, and its post-town in another. Chains of hills |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, 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 qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Report (volume) | | J. KLEINHAMPL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF URANIUM GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1046-O This report...the geology of uranium) "Literature cited" : p. 412-413. 1. Radioactivity. 2. Uranium ores San Juan Mountains...Geological Survey. Contributions to the geology of uranium) 622.349 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents...Introductory statement and general geology-_______ ____ Uranium occurrences___________ ________ __ Bonanza district...General geology and ore deposits. _____ ____________ Uranium occurrences _--_-______--__----_ ___________ Other |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...ilmenite, magnetite (lodestone), nepheline, quartz (amethyst). Laconia area: psilomelane, quartz (crystals)...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil specimen and photo. Downloaded by |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bay for agate and Ranwick Uranium Mine for an underground tour to see uranium where it occurs. The second...iron, lead, zinc, copper, nickel silver, gold and uranium have been mined. The entire Lake Superior region...Coppercorp was last worked in 1957. To reach the mine it is necessary to leave Highway 17 at a lumber...Here you can easily find native copper. Ranwick Uranium Mine lies 78 miles north of Sault Ste Marie on Route...rich vein of pitchblende for which the mine was opened. In the mine tunnel the contact zone between the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Collected by George Stacy; Jeff Scovil photo. Amethyst, 12 cm, from Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Collected...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini |  | | Journal (issue) | | POLLINATORS 26 By Anita B. Stone and B. Burns, PhD 62 AMETHYST: A PURPLE POWERHOUSE 42 ASK A PETROLOGIST By...you find this issue as inspiring as I do! From amethyst (one of my favorites) to agatized corals, I’m...on Memorial Day Weekend and ends on Labor Day. Poland Mining Camps has obtained exclusive access for...or Write: Mary Groves 34 Groves Lane, PO Box 26 Poland, Maine 04274 (207) 998-2350 E-mail : polandmining@fairpoint...Freeagates, Catalogs Free Catalogs William Tell Mine !)Fydmveft!Bmbtlb!'!Ibxbjj* Sale Sale TOLL FREE |  | | Catalog/List | | of Crystallized Gold from the famed Eagle’s Nest Mine in California A superb Crystallized “Leaf” Gold...largest known faceted gemstone Amethyst to come from the famed Four Peaks Mine in Arizona A sharp and complicated...Crystallized Silver with Copper from the famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A “classic” Rhodochrosite with associated...associated Pyrite and Quartz from the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado An unusually massive and extremely colorful...colorful, Smithsonite from the iconic Kelly Mine in New Mexico A ‘gem’ quality specimen Tanzanite crystal |
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