 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Texas mineral locality INDEX Whereas Texas is well known for its vastness, cattle industry, and oil...I T S T O P O G R A P H Y A N D G E O L O G Y , Texas, the second largest state, has produced relatively...famous localities. A s this article will show, Texas has had—or currently has—nu merous mineral occurrences...produce good specimens; yet when specimens from Texas are sought in collections and dealers' stocks, few...some basic facts that help explain the situation. Texas has very little federal land in its mineralized |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE ROCKS OF TEXAS — T h e Southwest G e m by M R S . P E A R L G A R R I S O N Downloaded by [University...classifica tions of gems presently occurring i n Texas, and i f you count the crystalline varieties of...right, 36 varieties of gem rocks can be found in Texas. Let's take them alphabetically: AMBER—a rich brown...ceous coal, and i n Terlingua Creek in Brewster County. T h e amber found in the G u l f Coastal Plain...quality. AUGITE—occurs near Eagle Flat, Hudspeth County, in dark greenish-brown resembling obsidian, weathering |  | | Report (issue) | | Austin Austin, Texas 78712 JOHN T. LONSDALE, Director Report of Investigations — No. 42 Texas Gemstones...OFECONOMIC GEOLOGY The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 JOHN T. LONSDALE, Director —...— No. 42 Report of Investigations Texas Gemstones By Elbert A. King, Jr. February 1961 — — — Second...gemstones Cabochon gems Faceted gems Tumbled gems Texas gemstones Amber Augite Beryl Celestite Diamond Epidote...24 24 24 25 25 25 25 26 Crystalline varieties Amethyst Citrine Rock crystal Rose quartz Smoky quartz |  | | Report (issue) | | ¥ TEXAS ROCKS AND \ r - An Amateur’s Guide ;s ROSELLE M. GIRARD A b OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY V N IVERSITY...The University of Texas Austin, Texas Peter T. Flawn, Director Guidebook 6 TEXAS ROCKS AND MINERALS...Rock identification charts Descriptions of some Texas rocks and minerals Anhydrite .....................Composition, hardness, and specific gravity of some Texas minerals Pace 25 26 39 40 43 43 43 44 45 46 47...81 84 85 85 87 87 88 89 90 93 94 94 95 97 99 Texas Rocks and Minerals Books about rocks and minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pegmatites Lake Buchanan, Llano County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Str. Houston, Texas 77036 Ray Stegemoller...Box 201, Canine Road Marble Falls, Texas 78654 .7 l Llano County has long been known for its rare-earth...nl996 .. Texas resulted in extremely low water levels in Lake Buchanan...Mexico • Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston, Texas 77036 In the fall of 1996 when I purchased part...former Chief Geologist for Texas Gulf at their Frasch sulfur mine at New Gulf, Texas, I noticed a small vial |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1.Pekov. The Baringer Hill Pegmatite Llano County, Texas Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Introduction...Science collection were purchased along with other Texas minerals. Also a collecting field trip to the Llano...similar rare-earth pegmatite collecting in Llano and Burnet counties. It was hoped that such a compilation...the specimens is meager usually giving just Llano County or 5 miles south of Bluffton. However, when reading...were few other pegmatites recognized in the Llano County area so Baringer Hill can be accepted as their |  | | Journal (issue) | | Huizing, 534 I Thrasher Dr, Cincinnati OH 45247 USA Please, make checks payable to Mineralogical Almanac...1907, Endicott discoYered amazon stone in Custer County, aquamarine and rose quartz at the Wild Rose claim...(later known as the Devils Hole pegmatite), Fremont County and facetable almandine garnets near Canon City...Richland County, Wisconsin. He married Effie I. circa 1890 in Wisconsin and moved to Rye, Pueblo county, Colorado...located north of Texas Creek in the Devils Hole topographic basin, and the Amethyst lode claim south |  | | Book | | Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson |  | | Report (volume) | | BULLETIN 450 MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE LLANO-BURNET REGION, TEXAS WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRE-CAMBRIAN GEOLOGY... ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. PLATE I. Geologic map of Texas............................................ 7 II...economic map showing locations of Burnet and Llano quadrangles, Texas....................................Economic and geologic map of I/lano quadrangle, Texas........ In pocket IV. A, Assimilation of schist...Silurian Cambrian and Ordovician GEOLOGIC MAP OF TEXAS. See page 7. Undifferentiated Algonkian Tertiary |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | exploitation is just beginning. Two deposits, one for amethyst and another for chalcedony, are currently being...ROSSMANITE AND ASSOCIATED MINERALS FROM NEWCOMB, ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK. M. Lupulescu1 and J. Rakovan2. 1New...in the Grenville-age marbles from Newcomb, Essex County, New York. Rossmanite and olenite, two high-aluminum...them. PEGMATITE MINERAL DISCOVERIES FROM CENTRAL TEXAS. F. Roberts1, A. E. Smith Jr.2, W. B. Simmons3,...exploring known and unknown pegmatites of central Texas. His field work has led to discoveries in a large |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..... 5 The Baringer Hill Pegmatite, Llano County, Texas ..............................................online and find a list of U.S. Representatives from Texas. There will be addresses, phone, and FAX numbers...in their district. Fortunately we have several Texas Representatives who will accept an e-mail from you...increase. Rep. Ted Poe (R) also allows emails from Texas constituents, not just his District. I believe Gene...Gene Green (D) does also. The following additional Texas Representatives appeared to accept my e-mails to |  | | Journal (issue) | | September-October 201✓ Mineral Collections in Texas A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September-October...Halite-Thad and Barbara Dunbar collection, page 78; Amethyst-Farrar Stockton coUection, page 271; Scheelite-David...those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many fortunes have been made... but all are worthy of study and appreciation. Texas collections generally tend tobe very broad in scope...collecting in Texas today has already been weil demonstrated by the Mineralogical Record's first Texas supplement |  | | Journal (issue) | | .............. 3 Spring Collecting Trip to the Texas Hill Country .....................................and desserts. I Spring Collecting Trip to the Texas Hill Country by Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Member... knew that making a collecting trip to central Texas May 12–18 might be pushing my luck a bit as far...check out some piles of rubble stockpiled in the county park just north of Black Rock State Park, but there...and went to one of his pegmatite prospects in Burnet County. Initially he had found some monazite-(Ce) crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN TEXAS III A SUPPLEMENT TO THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD, NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2020 ... Mineral Collections in TEXAS UVolume IIIV With an Introduction by Wendell Wilson A Supplement to...November–December 2020 MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN TEXAS Mineral Collections in Texas Volume III A Supplement to The Mineralogical...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root |  | | Journal (issue) | | Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas...........................................by Anthony Robert Kampf The Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico......................... 115 by Richard...between Minot and Auburn, Maine, in Androscoggin County. The Pulsifer quarry, along with the Keith and...slightly over 100 g. Its color is the wonderful deep amethyst characteristic of apatite from this locality....STEVENS, J.P. (1972) Gems and minerals o f Oxford County. Published by Perham’s Maine Mineral Store, 136-153 |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts, |  | | Report (volume) | | .......Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C. Texas............Dr. William B. Phillips, Austin. Vermont...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 179 by Paul Tambuyser Yttrocrasite from Central Texas..............................182 by Wilson W. Crook...Long Hill tungsten deposit at Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, which is noted for its large pseudomorphs...abrasive. It was recognized at Chester, Hampden County, Massachu setts in 1864 and was produced intermittently...Area, Lake County, Oregon M. M. Groben This area is located in the W arner Valley, Lake County, in the southcentral...quartz in cluding agate, chalcedony, jasper, and amethyst. A total of about 40 fossil plant species are |  | | Journal (issue) | | in the first place. And if you want to know the county (foreign money orders demand it), it is Westchester...east of Asheboro, in the southern part of Randolph County, North Carolina, is a prominence that rises above...the little town of Murfreesboro, the county seat of Pike County, Ark., as we ,vanted to visit the nearby...ot1ce Texas' 1reate■t Mineral locality. Not wi■itecl • locality i■ now under water. 352 sas-Texas border...line. The Arkansas section is the county seat of Miller County. The Texas section is the larger and is also |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pa/ache ............................4 12 CENTRAL TEXAS-THE ROCKHOUNDS' PLAYGROUND. By Robert Moore JI/...of Minas Gerais County and in the district of La Isabel de Paraguassa in t he county of ~ahia. The rivers... CENTRAL TEXAS l· BY J. ROBERT MOORE Ill Box 5062, A. & M. College College Station, Texas s, 1S ...Mineral Region between the towns of Lla n o a.nd Burnet Numerous establishments around the lake shore re...Lake Buchanan. All are easily reached by improved county and state roads. Some of the minerals to be fou |  | | Report (volume) | | 248 259 269 271 275 281 r 4 CONTENTS. Page. Texas...................................................New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature consulted would be impracticable...Phillips, W. B., The mineral resources of Texas: Univ. Texas Bull. 365, Sci. Ser. 29, 1914. Among other...See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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 (issue) | | Building a Mineral Collection in Houston Part 3: Texas Mineral Shops Outside of Houston by Arthur Smith...Member of the Houston Gem & Mineral Society lthough Texas has probably never been known for its mineral shops...shows in the Houston area. He did have some local Texas minerals but nothing spectacular. He also had a...and a bit battered. Closer to Houston, in Bryan, Texas there was a nice shop which made a Saturday afternoon...made sever trips there. Most of the other shops in Texas of which I was aware were here today and gone tomorrow |
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