 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1712 Rochester, New York 14603 and topaz have lower dispersion and so do not make good sub stitutes...Rhineland, West Germany; and K l o c h , Styria, Poland. The Sicilian gonnardite closely resembles mesolite...chamock ites. Hyalophane, sahlite, and fluor-apatite are the co existing skarn minerals with mica....lite may serve as a guide mineral in prospecting apatite deposits in the Eastern Ghats of India. Received...specimen material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun tain is |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Book (edition) | | which beauti- a lake's are still being found in gravel deposited by the glacier that once covered the... Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4. Fluorite 9. 5. Apatite B). interesting to note that diamond, It is...a scratch just gypsum or about will scratch apatite, as and a a hard as file material. testing...malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite, and silicates, which large and complex family...and conglomerates. In from the left sand and gravel, formed into them shales, limestones, sand- |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate, jasper;...jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw formation...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate, jasper;...jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw formation...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...yet the insect who makes his home in a pile of gravel on the roadside lives in a palace. clear For the...Calcite 8. Topaz 4. Fluorite 9. Corundum 5. Apatite 1. 10. Diamond HOWTO IDENTIFY Sets of pencils...hard as calcite. A pocketknife blade will scratch apatite easily and feldspar with difficulty but not jade...at right angles to the other three. Quartz and apatite, with their six-faced pyramid terminations, and |  | | Report (edition) | | tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell E. Wilson...much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...Railroad : multiple track .. State. Bridge ...... county, parish, municipio .... Power transmission line...water, etc . (labeled only if water) Quarry - Gravel pit ....................... ................ ......Silurian rocks of the Merrimack trough Silurian to Lower Devonian rocks of the coastal volcanic belt 04- |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in Georgia at the fo'lowing localities: Cherokee County —2V2 miles northeast of Ball Ground, 1 mi'e northwest...of Cherry Grove School; Fayette County—near Fayetteville; Fulton County—near College Park. (Georgia Mineral...R & M recently about 6 lbs. of pebbles from the gravel beds of Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa. Among the...carefully the pebbles picked up on a trip to a gravel pit, if you have the time, but bring home also a...found pebbles of green plasma (quartz) in a large gravel pit located 2 miles southwest of Moose Lake. He also |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...is a square hammerhead on the other. raking gravel, poking about having a collection of minerals... to soil A often is or gravel, and a sieve when examining gravel much small shovel, the army...can them spring or caves and rock beds on the lower hillsides decidedly uncomfortable AND COLLECTING | | | Book | | hammerhead on the other It 1s useful for raking gravel poking about in rubble and working on brittle rock...needed to remove so il or gravel. and a sieve is called for when exam in ing gravel in stream beds. /\ EQUIPMENT...makes collecting ,n caves and rock beds on the lower hillsides dec1d• edly uncomfortable in some parts...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...presence of beryl. tourmaline, rutile, t1tanite. apatite, and other minerals. • ' .... t -~ --~ Ii ~ |  | | Report (issue) | | 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 5 1. 52. 53. 54. 55. Gravel pit exposing the interior of the Omemee esker. Burleigh...Crater mine, Faraday township. Large terminated apatite crystal from the carbonate body, Silver Crater...Moira Lake. Norwood esker ridge, near Norwood. Open pit of Marmoraton iron mine. (viii) FIGURES Page 1...molybdenite prospects. At Tory Hill there is good apatite, titanite, hornblende and feldspar in excellent... Sherman Fall (Middle Trenton) Rockland-Hull (Lower Trenton) tfrf 60r 40' Leray (Upper Black River) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have been found along the Cahaba River in Shelby County, Ala. The colors are gray with red veins, red and...got a permanent job with a gravel company who was just opening up a new pit. Now isn't that a tough job...tourmaline. This comes from the gravel pit. "The owner of the gravel pit doesn't mind an occasional rock...want a mob like at Muscatine, Iowa. I live at the pit in a trailer house and collectors who wish to do...is in N . W . Hancock County close to the Hamilton County line; the gravel pit is close by, just over |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 378 is undoubtedly the Hahns Peak area in Routt County, northern Colorado. It is not usually especially...success. He has cabochons of moonstone from Stephens County, which are unusually good ; also, rutilated rose...near the new waterworks dam at Mountain Ciy, Rabun County, Ga. He has a yellow cabochon of unusual beauty...Rabun County. The prize of the lot is opalescent rose quartz from the Kell mica mine in Rabun County. This...were discovered. The Wieliczka mine at Galicia, Poland, has been worked since 1000 A.D. It is famous for |  | | Report (volume) | | ---------------------.-------------Unclassified sand and gravel deposits.---.________________ Varved lake clays---...____-______-_-_--________-_-----___-_ Sand and gravel-______________________________________________...plain, outwash plains, and unclassified sand and gravel deposits. Recent deposits are thin and include...commercial value in the quadrangle are sand and gravel derived from the glacial deposits. Some of the...and southern parts of the quadrangle. A belt of lower hills, about 5 miles wide, trends northeast across |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | habitats demonstrate that the 143Nd/144Nd of the apatite can be used as a fingerprint for bedrock geology...during diagenesis and recrystallization of bone apatite, in vivo 143Nd/144Nd may be preserved in the inner...fractionation processes during REE-uptake into the apatite crystal lattice, hence the eNd value is an important...teeth. The Nd isotopic composition of skeletal apatite of modern bones and teeth may thus be a fingerprint...REE and Nd concentrations in the lower ppb range, biogenic apatite is enriched post mortem during diagenesis |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | miles long extending from Coosa County thru Talladega and into Calhoun County. Most of the distance it is...Arizona kaersutite comes from Hoover Dam, Mohave County. A % inch black cube of limonite pseudo after pyrite...March 6th, to the old Daulton copper mine in the lower foothills of Madera Co. on a search for chiastolite...here. "Guy Osborn, operator of the Osborn Sand and Gravel Company of Rochester, reported that his sand dredge...specimens. His trip was described in the Yavapai County Messenger, Prescott, Ariz., Thurs. May 27, 1954 |  | | Report (volume) | | Northwest Quarter of the Anaconda Quadrangle Deer Lodge County, Montana * By ALEXANDER A. WANEK and C. S. VENABLE...Conglomerate ____--____---------------------_-----______-_ Gravel.. ___ _ _____ ... ------..._ _______-_. Quaternary...______________ _ ____________________________________ Gravel.. -...-...--..---..--. References cited. . ___...QUARTER OF THE ANACONDA QUADRANGLE, DEER LODGE COUNTY, MONTANA By ALEXANDER A. WANES and C. S. VENABLE...quadrangle covers about 52 square miles in Deer Lodge County in southwestern Montana. This quarter of the quadrangle |  | | Report (issue) | | a test core drilled, a mine shaft sunk or a gravel pit dug—additional mineral discoveries may be made...gratitude. I also wish to thank the many quarry, gravel pit and mine operators in Iowa, and many private................................... Minerals from gravel deposits and drift boulders Epidote................. B. Nodule of "coldwater agate" from Benton County showing gray and white chalcedony and crystalline...made from "coldwater agate" material of Keokuk County............................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fairly nice specimens in an old road bed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, Ala....of Milledgeville who discovered them in Baldwin County, Ga., between the State Sanitarium and Oconee River...at Danvers, McLean Co., 111., in a real deep gravel pit. It is good enough that I have it placed in my...short wave). "I picked these up near a gravel deposit in Grant County, Indiana, near the city of Marion."—on...of a lifetime! West Bend is located in Palo Alto County, about 50 miles west of Mason City, south of U |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE AENEAS VALLEY QUADRANGLE, OKANOGAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON by C. Dean Rinehart and Kenneth F....(Quaternary)--Chiefly peat, clay, silt, sand, and gravel Qt Talus (Quaternary)--Coarse, angular rocks...deposits (Quaternary)--Chiefly silt, sand, and gravel Qd Glacial drift (Pleistocene)--Stratified water-laid...deposits of variably sorted silt, sand, and bouldery gravel covering valley floors and partially mantling upland...unstratified deposits of clay, silt, sand, and bouldery gravel (till) partially mantling upland surfaces. The |  | | Report (volume) | | .............................................. Gravel and sand. ........................................... San Juan County................................................... Stevens County...................... Skagit County..................................................... Whatcom County.................... Ferry County...................................................... Snohomish County................... King County......................................................... Okanogan County........... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | APATITE CRYSTALS IN PYRRHOTITE FROM ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORK By ELMER B. ROWLEY 54 W. Notre Dame St., Glens...Lake George in Warren County at the south end, and Elizabethtown in Essex County to the north. In spite...miles southeast of the town of New Russia in Essex County, in midsummer of 1965. At this location a prominent...vertical inclination of approximately 45° NNE. Apatite and amphibole (hornblende), with minor plagioclase...suggests the following order of crystallization; apatite, hornblende, plagioclase, pyrite and chalcopyrite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | River, with the ex ceptions as follows: Albemarle County was very thorough ly covered in Rocks and Minerals...G.S. Topo graphical Sheets. Also used were the county road maps which number every little road which...Richmond, Virginia The price is 2 0 cents per county. Other states could well follow this example. The...=Mine. G.=Gold. St.=Stone. C o . = C o m p a n y or County. A c t i v e . = I n operation when visited. W...Md. as well as the Potomac R. It is Albite xls, Apatite, apophyllite (2" served by Rtes. 15 ( N / S ) |  | | Book (volume) | | rivers, and outcroppings through the Quaternary gravel surfaces. Greatly eroded sandhills fan out across...Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout the more...jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R., especially...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 |  | Zahradník, Jan, Jirásek, Jakub, Starý, Jaromír, Sivek, Martin (2020) Production, Reserves, and Processing of Feldspar and Feldspathoid Rocks in the Czech Republic from 2005 to 2019—An Overview. Minerals, 10 (8) 722 doi:10.3390/min10080722 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | while more than 50% is exported, generally to Poland and Germany. Keywords: feldspar; feldspathoid;...of which four are exploited (mainly as sand and gravel for construction). Other types of feldspar deposits...used. In the first place, it is mining by an open pit (quarry) with the use of blasting and subsequent...sediment) deposits, it is the extraction of dry or wet gravel and the separation of the specific fraction to...pegmatites, and aplites) and sedimentary (sand and gravel) deposits that are mined only in open pits (quarries) |
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