 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ +./8 ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5 ....3/. 0/0% (!2$). -!33!# 05,!3+) %8 !. $% 2 Illinois Mineral Locality Index 7)..%"!'/ /',% #!22/...(above). Map showing the counties in Illinois, courtesy the Illinois Geological Survey. 96*2: 405...at 19:53 09 October 2014 T he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | road cut along old IN-37, near Harrodsburg, Monroe County, Indiana. Note the semispherical opening, lower...formations in Kentucky, and the Warsaw Formation in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. Geodes occur primarily in...commercial geode mine at St. Francisville, Clark County, Missouri. This specimen appeared on the dust jacket...quartz geode, from a locality near Revere, Clark County, Missouri. Cincinnati Museum Center specimen (No...from Sheffler’s geode mine, near Alexandria, Clark County, Missouri. Fred and Sue Keitel specimen, Terry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | National City, Calif. La Jolla, in western San Diego County, is in S / W California. COLORADO — A most attractive...specimen consisting of pink rhodochrosite and white aragonite (both xled), was sent in by Crystal Gallery, 20...Colo. 80226. Its label reads: "Rhodochrosite, Aragonite. American Tunnel, Gladstone, San Juan Co., Colorado...Colorado." Gladstone, in northern San Juan County, is in S / W Colorado. "This specimen represents the...Stafford, in northern Tolland County, is in N / E Connecticut. ILLINOIS — "Enclosed you will find a geode |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | black slabs were received. One end of each slab is gray in color and shows the original woody structure...wide and 1 inch thick. Wynne, in southern Cross County, is in eastern Arkansas. CONNECTICUT—A tiny but...Weston, Conn. "Columbite, Arnold Quarry, Haddam, Conn. This is an active quarry operated by the Eureka Feldspar...Conn."-—on label. Haddam, in central Middlesex County, is in southern Connecticut. DELAWARE — "Enclosed...of Rt. 95 and Naaman's Rd., Claymont, New Castle County, Del."—item from Ed Carvalho, 1307 Penna. Ave. |  | | 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:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | us—both were from the famous Gillette pegmatite quarry, Haddam Neck, Middlesex Co., Conn. One specimen...by Seymour F. Dozier, Red Oak, Route 1, Fulton County, Georgia. Large lumps of this material can be picked...silver. "The Agency Creek, McDevitt District, Lemhi County, Idaho, radioactive ores (found in that District...prospect run up into the $100,000.00 bracket." ILLINOIS — As time marches on, one by one of the famous...community of Rosiclare."—Hardin County Independent, Elizabethtown, Illinois."— The Crittenden Press, Marion |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...397 by I. V. Pekov The Minerals of West-Central Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Garvin & G. Tribbey The minerals of the Hunting Hill quarry, Rockville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . ....nalcime intergrowths have been observed. Sharp, gray to white, trapezohedral analcime crystals up to...3 mm, in a cavity in yellow manaksite with dark gray aegirine and brown sphalerite, from the Palitra |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | found along the Cahaba River in Shelby County, Ala. The colors are gray with red veins, red and yellow buff...Calif., has sent us a nice loose shark's tooth, gray in color and \y2 inches long. The label ROCKS AND...vein in white dolomite at Danbury, Conn." 248 ILLINOIS — The following letter, dated April 6, 1956, comes...ago I spent some time in Pope and Harding Co., Illinois, seeking out some good to unusual fluorite and...'Teche' our Boxer, spent Easter Sunday near Hamilton (Hancock Co.), 111., combing the bluffs along the R |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collect a few specimens. "The locality is the Jeffrey quarry located 1/2 mile outside North Little Rock city...city limits on State Hwy 65 in Pulaski County, Ark." — letter dated July 31, 1963 from Richard Purifoy,...Fontana, Calif. The 3x4 inch sawed, rounded dark gray mass is a section of a large calcite nodule. It...of dark brown limonite with a loosemass of dark gray hardened clay. It is the clay that causes the rattling...one geode Mr. Stech found small pellets of dark gray clay, plus small fragments of dark brown limonite |  | | Book | | Mineral Trails Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem...knowledge and enjoyment of this great owners, mine and quarry operators and science by collecting. Thanks too...new species of fossils have been collected in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported... Michigan and Huron virtually surrounding it. Illinois and Indiana are bordered in part by Lake Michigan...and the Keweenaw peninsula of Michigan. Southern Illinois, southern Indiana and southern Ohio have milder |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens received was a greenish quartz and two rocks — gray phyllite and reddish mica schist. ARIZONA — "I am...brown limonite. Wickenburg is in N / W Maricopa County in western Arizona. xline—crystalline tain a... The Dallas Gem Mine is in southern San Benito County in western California. COLORADO — "Would you please...surface shows the interior cently found in San Benito County, here to be an attractive moss agate of pleasing...combination (brown, gray and dark the crystal, I'm sure you will agree that gray)the term "astonishing" |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens were received, one white and the other dark gray, and both contain tiny, brassy-yellow grains of...of the many quartz slabs we found. From Tellar County, Colorado." — on label. 30 PLEASE SEND THEM I...Hunter Street, Atlanta, Ga. Editor - A. S. Furcron. ILLINOIS — R. Pickens, 610 N . Martin Ave., Waukegan, 111...colorless cleavable mass of calcite embedded in gray limestone. Minutely thin "hairs" of pale brassyyellow...black. "Millerite from limestone quarry. Hamilton (Hancock Co.), Illinois." — on label. I N D I A N A — |  | | Book (volume) | | Illinois ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors...in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin...the famed Coal Measures so often mentioned in Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare |  | | Book (volume) | | Illinois ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors...in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin...the famed Coal Measures so often mentioned in Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | found in White, Pike Co., Ark. CALIFORNIA—A nice gray specimen of petrified wood, from Calistoga, Napa...very nice specimen consisting of a 1 inch vein of gray 134 xline—crystalline scheelite in black biotite...biotite schist and coming from the Worth feldspar quarry on Bog Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex Co., Conn....in the Wood River district, Blaine Co., Idaho. ILLINOIS—The following note, dated Jan. 18, 1954, comes...miles north of Peoria, (Peoria Co.), 111., on the Illinois River." I N D I A N A — A letter dated June 28 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard...Sevier County (Coskren and Lauf 2000). The following index is arranged alphabetically by county. It is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains. At...Dade County, Fla., due west of Miami and near the Monroe County line. Among the samples was gray gypsum...gypsum that came from the 15,000 foot depth; gray limestone with small masses of white gypsum which came...another sample from the 14,000 foot depth consisted of gray limestone coated by a thin crust of colorless selenite...An especially interesting specimen was a % inch gray gypsum cabochon cut from the sample coming from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Eocene) in an exposure, on the south side of lead-gray galena and grayish-white arCopperas Creek, about...senopyrite in Darien (Fairfield Co.), Levesque, Cross County, Arkansas. The Conn., for over a year. A few weeks...A H O — "This specimen was found in Twin Falls County about 10 miles south of Hagerman, Idaho. These...green under L.W. ILLINOIS — "Last fall my husband and I visited a fairly new limestone quarry in eastern DeKalb...DeKalb County, 111. There were a few small fossils in the limestone but nothing that looked very interesting |  | | Book | | Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite...Malachite HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT Quartz Xls LAWRENCE COUNTY Pearls LITTLE ROCK Quartz Crystals MAGNET COVE, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | miles long extending from Coosa County thru Talladega and into Calhoun County. Most of the distance it is...black phenocrysts (porphyritic crystals) in dark gray camptonite. Kaersutite was first found at Kaersut...Hoover Dam, Mohave County. A % inch black cube of limonite pseudo after pyrite xl, in gray xline rock, and...another one for the American Museum, though the quarry has been posted. I intend to discuss the matter...Roxbury, Conn., are often incrusted with white or gray hydrozincite, which fluoresces in a f ROCKS AND |  | | Report (issue) | | evolving as man digs and probes the earth. Whenever a quarry is opened or an old one deepened, a ledge of stone...express my gratitude. I also wish to thank the many quarry, gravel pit and mine operators in Iowa, and many............................................... Aragonite ................................................intergrown with crystalline quartz and milky or gray chalcedony. C. Geode containing brown dolomite crystals...calcite and kaolin. D. Mineralized vug from Pint's quarry showing clear calcite, brown fluorite and pyrite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of vanadinite and wulfenite, is located in Pima County, Ariz., about 15 miles N . W . of Tucson. Although...Lithium-bearing pegmatites of the Pala district, San Diego County, California" has just been released by the Division...specimen comes from near Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, Colorado. "We find this pectolite high on a cliff...beautiful specimen consisting of sparkling silver-gray sillimanite associated with microcline and muscovite...are found along Pole Creek in Blaine Co., Idaho. ILLINOIS—We are indebted to F. L. Fleener, 1415 Hosmer |  | | Journal (issue) | | districts." Most readers are aware of the more famous Illinois-Kentucky lluorspar district. (Despite the editor-produced...crystals, 31/2 inches wide, Thomas vein, Nally-Gibson Quarry, Kentucky. Although some of the iron mines of...(burning pyrite orebody in 1934) in Jerome, Yavapai County, AZ, thought to be native selenium which was established...copper sheet from the White Pine Mine, Ontonagon County. MI, thought to be calumetite. The mineral forms...Mariposa Mine, Terlingua mercury district, Brewster County, TX. A new mineral for this famous locality. Parnauite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Postcard view of the Waukon iron mine, Allamakee County, cia. 1912. John Taylor collection. ARTHUR E ...Unfortunately. with today’s environmental laws and mine and quarry regulations. the prolific collecting of the 1950s...Iowa Geological Survey. Localities by County Allamakee County Lansing, Lansing lead mines = Captain...Ludvigson, and Ripley 1987). Postville, Postville quarry, 1.5 mi. N of Postville on State 51, sec. 16, T...smithsonite, sphalerite (Hey1 and West 1982). Appanoose County Centerville gypsum mine; abandoned underground |  | | Journal (issue) | | handled a few consignments from the famous Iowa and Illinois localities, which have given me an opportunity...excep tions. A. H. Worthen, State Geologist for Illinois, in his report of 1866, seems to have taken some... In examining the Geological Surveys of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, I find mention made of geodes, but...them to further the end. The states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Missouri furnish us with the best...square miles in Indiana, 1,650 square miles in Illinois, 1,600 square miles in Iowa, and 400 square miles |
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