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Opal from
Brier Creek, Burke County, Georgia, USA


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brier Creek, Burke County, Georgia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:146168
Long-form Identifier:1:3:146168:8
GUID (UUID V4):fac30682-ddb6-4d3d-9881-0b8361412cf4
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
4.7km (2.9 miles) Girard, Girard District, Burke County, Georgia, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) Stony Bluff, Burke County, Georgia, USA
67.8km (42.1 miles) Dan Quarry, Augusta (north of), Columbia County, Georgia, USA
References
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Report (issue)
DEPOSITS OF CLAIBORNE AND JACKSON AGE IN GEORGIA. By CHARLES WYTHE CooKE and l-IAROLD KuRTZ SHEARER....INTRODUCTION. In 19 11 the Goo logical Survey of Georgia published as Bulletin 26 a "Preliminary report...report on the geology of the Coastal Plain of Georgia," by Otto Veatch and Lloyd William Stephenson, prepared...knowledge of the geology of the Coastal Plain of Georgia, it was admittedly of reconnaissance character...prosecuted vigorously in the Coastal Plain of Georgia, and the additional information thus accumulated
Report (issue)
west-southwestward from Pulaski County, at the center of the State, to Polk County, on the west border. Eecent...Contains an article on the manganese deposits of Polk County, together with analyses and a general description...the Arkansas Development Co. in Polk County, on the Brushy Creek branch of the Cossatot River. This company...said to have been taken out of the shaft on Brushy Creek, and this represented practically all the manganese...Land & Mining Co. carried on operations in Pulaski County, 12 miles west of Little Rock, in what is called
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FRONT COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF............................................. -158 Opal ............................................................................................ 170 County Index ........................................
Journal (issue)
paragraphs : “ Mr. Whitneystates, that being in Georgia, in the year 1806 , he was informed of the following...specimens by which they were established. On Brier Creek, a stream which passes through Millhaven , and...built ona solid mass of agate which crossed the creek, and formed a natural basis for this superstructure...calcedony. According to Dau buisson and Beaudant, the opal of Hungary is sometimes found in a soft state ....soil of the Tertiary beds of the Bad Lands, on a creek between the Cheyenne and White Rivers, about one
Report (issue)
(C) Deposits of Claiborne and Jackson age in Georgia, by C. W. Cooke and H. K. Shearer (published June..................... II. A, Gorge of Rock Creek, Valley County, Mont.; B, Grain field near Scobey, Mont...foothills of the Little Rocky Mountains, Phillips County, Mont...................................... III...III. A, View up the valley of Cottonwood Creek, Phillips County, Mont.; B, Badlands of Bearpaw shale near...showing distribution of the Eocene formations of Georgia..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA S. W. McCALLIE, State Geologist BULLETIN NO. 44 SEDIMENTARY KAOLINS OF...Survey of Georgia IN THE YEAR 1929 (Ex-Officio) Hrs ExcELLENCY, L. G. HARDMAN, Governor of Georgia PRESIDENT... LEITER OF TRANSMITTAL GEOLOGICAL SuRVEY oF GEoRGIA, ATLANTA, July 1, 1929. To His Excellency, L....the Advisory Board of the Geological Survey of Georgia. Sm: I have the honor to transmit herewith for...the Sedimentary Kaolins of the Coastal Plain of Georgia. This report is the third report published by the
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Snohomish, Wizard Clip, Chesapeake Bay, Milksick Creek, Cowcumber Hill, Bayou Boeuf, Stingray Point, Lake...locality, or civil division (city, village, or county) named for a physical feature is always listed...information is usually self-explanatory, for example: county seat. Feature Class (second column) The terms listed...kinds of flowing water that locally may be called a creek, run, river, branch, bayou, or fork. See pages XXXI-XXXII...their definitions. County (third column) This column lists the name of the county in which the entity
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LLER S E :IH'l'H Oli' 'l 'HE GOASTrLL PLAIN Oli' GEORGIA Ji'RO N'l'JS PUJOE-PL!l'l'E 1 FULLERS EAH TH...PIKES PEAK, TWIGGS COUNTY. Plloto by S. I.V. JllcCalb'e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA S. W. McCALLIE,...BAUXITE AND FULLERS EARTH OF THE COASTAL PLAIN OF GEORGIA BY H. K. ~HEARER, Assistant State Geologist ... THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE Geological Survey of Georgia IN THE YEAR 1917 (Ex-Officio) His ExcELLENCY, NAT...NAT. E. HARRIS .......... Governor of Georgia PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD HoN. PHILIP COOK ..... ·.......
Report (issue)
STATE GEORGIA DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY A. S. Furcron, Director...Bulletin Number 79 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEORGIA GEOLOGY THROUGH 1959 by Howard Ross Cramer, Arthur...James George Lester Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia ATLANTA 1967 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Department...Governor of Georgia and Commissioner Ex-Officio State Division of Conservation Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Dear...and Geology entitled, "Annotated Bibliography of Georgia Geology Through 1959," by Drs. Howard R. Cramer
Report (volume)
Bulletins, nos. 10-12. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 3, nos...18, nos. 21-22, vol. 19, nos. 1-20. New York, Georgia Geological Survey: Bulletin, nos. 14-17. Atlanta...Development Company's Survey. Charleston, Kanawha County, W. Va., 1907. 28 pp., 4 pis. Gives information... Argall, Philip. 21. Rock oxidation at Cripple Creek [Colorado]. Min. and Sci. Press, vol. 96, pp. 883-886...oil-bearing Tertiary formations of Santa Barbara County, California. Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 50 (Quart
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10,11, 12, pp. 1-94. Davenport, Iowa. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 1, nos... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY, 1906-1901 7 Georgia Geological Survey: Bulletins, nos. 13, and 1 (second...features of Maryland; vol. 6; Calvert County; St. Mary's County; State Map. Baltimore, Md. Mazama, vol...gigantea bird remains from the upper Eocene of Choctaw County, Alabama, originally described as the pelvic girdle...Diatomaceous deposits of northern Santa Barbara County, Cal. See Arnold and Anderson, no. 65. Geology
Report (volume)
5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute...Conf. Guidebook, pp. 94, 96). [See under Bachelor Creek is. On p. 21 Aarde sh. is described as consisting...containing Nodaway coal. The underlying Bachelor Creek Is. also interfingers in Severy sh., he stated....Geol. Surv. Bull. 22, pp. 39, 205-207). Bachelor Creek ls. is basal memb. of Howard Is. in southern Kans...porphyry. Is well exposed at many places along Aaron's Creek [Person and Granville Counties, N. C.]. Assigned
Report (volume)
Underlies Church limestone member; overlies Bachelor Creek limestone member. M. R. Mudge, C. P. Walters, and...Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Precambrian. Well exposed at many places along Aaron's Creek, Person and Granville Counties, N.C. Abbott Formation...Babylon sandstone, Manley coal, Tarter coal, Pope Creek coal, and Bernadotte sandstone. Report presents
Report (issue)
or any other cultural features (city, village, county, township, crossroad, and railroad siding) are...kinds of flowing water that locally may be called a creek, run, river, branch, bayou, or fork. See page XXIV...appropriate variants. County (fourth column) This column lists the name of the county in which the entity... feature, or area lies in more than one county, the county listed is the one in which the center of...in the case of a stream, valley, or arroyo, the county listed is the one in which the mouth of the feature
Journal (volume)
quarts of a Whiting of Newhaven saw in 1806, in Georgia, hollow balls like bombshells, which had been previously...They were found in excavating a mill-dam in Brier Creek, a stream which passes through Millhaven, and...the influence of the air. I opal, am it is a The particular state of opal. also distinguish those earthy...earthy parts, which they reas opal that is not yet ripe, from those which are pro- rather of opinion that...duced by the exposure of opal to the air, which they name burnt or calcined opal. These matters harden a
 
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