 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. The state of Iowa map; prepared by William Besse. IOW AITE Sioux County, Iowa BRUCE CAIRNCROSS ...1,000–1,500 feet below the surface in Sioux County, Iowa (Kohls and Rodda 1967); approximately thirty-five...finest examples known were collected at the Palabora mine, Limpopo Province, South Africa (Southwood and Cairncross...chrysotile, dolomite, brucite, calcite, magnesite, and pyrite. Since the description of iowaite in 1967, its...formula of iowaite using crystals from the Palabora mine. Dr. Bruce Cairncross, a consulting editor of Rocks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Postcard view of the Waukon iron mine, Allamakee County, cia. 1912. John Taylor collection. ARTHUR...Unfortunately. with today’s environmental laws and mine and quarry regulations. the prolific collecting...HAROLD L. PRlOR P.O. Box 111 Columbus Junction, Iowa 52738 halprior@ louisacomm.net When we began this...too, could be cited with many other localities. Iowa contains the type locality for one mineral, iowaite...December 2014 Figure 2. Map of Iowa showing the counties. Courtesy Iowa Geological Survey. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BARITE FROM THE LINWOOD MINE Scott County, Iowa JARED T. FREIBURG Illinois State Geological Survey...MINERALS Figure 2. Map of eastern Iowa showing the Linwood mine northwest of the Mississippi River....Besse. A mong Midwest mineral collectors, the Linwood mine was previously best known for its exceptional...the world. Here, we review the geology of the Linwood mine and its relationship to the mineralogy, fluorescence...origin of barite. Mine History The Linwood mine is owned and operated by the Linwood Stone and Cement |  | | Journal (issue) | | & C. R. Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County, Iowa ............. 231 by P. L. Garvin...in the still open underground workings of the Gem mine. He encountered an open pocket containing well formed...conglomerate. The stories of these early discoveries and mine developments, some of which were conducted under...it occurs in association with sulfides, notably pyrite, and also with carbon (kerogen). Large native gold...,,.•• MINE r •• •• ' ··, . TRANSVAAL e e e \ . | | | Journal (issue) | | C. R. Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County,Iowa ..................... 231 by P. L....in the still open underground workings of the Gem mine. He encountered an open pocket containing well formed...conglomerate. The stories of these early discoveries and mine de velopments, some of which were conducted under...it occurs in association with sulfides, notably pyrite, and also with carbon (kerogen). Large native gold...examples 209 MESSINA \ / *• \ / EERSTELING MINE y • PETERSBURG \ k PHALABORWA ii / ■ • r |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Quartz (4.8 cm) from Middleville, Herkimer County, New York. Joel and Jason Baskin specimen. 22...2004). Figure 2. Pyrite cube in marl (6.7 cm) from the Ampliación a Victoria mine, Navajún, La Rioja...characteristic of hopper crystals from the Zapata mine, Santa Elena de Uairen, Bolivar, Venezuela. Keith...(3.4 cm) from the North Geronimo mine, Trigo Montains, LaPaz County, Arizona. Dick Morris specimen. ...tall) from Mill River, Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Don Windler specimen. Figure 6 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE CONCO MINE North Aurora Kane County Illinois JARED T. FREIBURG Illinois State Geological Survey...Figure 2. Calcite with inclusions of marcasite and pyrite; the specimen is 13.5 × 9 cm. Matt Zukowski specimen...marcasite and pyrite inclusions, was recently made in the Chicago metropolitan area at the Conco mine, North...America, owner of the Conco mine, accepted a proposal from Saga Minerals, Inc. to mine the solution cavities...in Tucson, Arizona. Mineralization at the Conco mine is helping researchers map deep hydrothermal fluid |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...371 by C. J. Stefano Featured Collection Pages Scott Rudolph Collection ...............................only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...Philip G. Rust (deceased) SENIOR FELLOWS Gold Level Scott A. Rudolph (2021) Paradise Woods (2019) Gail & Jim...Maria Fiske (2021) Dona and Kim Niederman (2021) Scott Werschky (2021) Noel De Dora (2021) Sean P. Sweeney |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Example Models Isometric [fluorite, garnet] [pyrite, spinel] equant multiple axes with 3 or 4 rotational...Specimen is 1.2 cm wide and is from the König David mine, Gallenbach valley, Wittichen, Black Forest, Germany...Figure 12. Pyrite—Isometric—pyritohedra. Specimen is 2.6 cm high and is from the Ground Hog mine, Gilman...Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Alex Schauss specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 13. Garnet—Isometric—dodecahedron...13.4 cm high and is from the Sedalia mine, Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. Colorado School of Mines |  | | Journal (issue) | | $315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...(deceased) Salim Edde Daniel Trinchillo Lyda Hill Scott A. Rudolph Daniel J. Record Gail & Jim Spann Rob...level of the underground mine was refurbished to accommodate visitors, showing mine workings dating from...village of Almadenejos we find: The Vieja Concepción mine. Here it is possible to visit part of the historic...(dating from 1755 to 1757). The Nueva Concepción mine. The Baritel de San Carlos (San Carlos shaft house) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have been found along the Cahaba River in Shelby County, Ala. The colors are gray with red veins, red and...abandoned diamond mine near Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. Murfreesboro has the only diamond mine in the United...United States and though the mine is no longer in operation it has been "opened up" as a tourist attraction...close by, quartz crystals, of odd, ago at the same mine in Arkansas. Howard A. Millar, Manager, Crater of...reply, dated March 28, 1956: Limonite cubes (pseudo pyrite) may be "Your letter has been received by us, found |  | | Journal (issue) | | interest were: Stolzite (PbWO4) from Brandy Gill mine and Wulfenite (PbMoO4) from Poddy Gill. Generally...with a crude hexagonal outline - from the Carrock mine The very rare tsumebite from Roughton Gill. Pale-green...crystals of brochantite. Duftite from Brandy Gill Mine. Dull grey-green coloured crystals with acute terminations...pyromorphites from the Driggith and Roughton Gill mine tips, linarite from Red Gill and blocky yellow pyromorphite...the Carrock Mine tips and the intense blue-white fluorescent scheelite from inside the mine. Guided by |  | | Journal (issue) | | Travelcade to Ray-Hayden Mines, from Phoenix. Jan. 23—Buffalo Dance and Fiesta, San Ildefonso Pueblo, N. M. Jan...Hubert Lowman, Old Plank Road By LAURA W. DUNLAP County, California. THE DESERT By FRANCES PARKER GRAAF...stream is the Green River. and dime stores, Daggett County And in this high desert region five in the upper...scheduled for comple- sippi. Winding through the county on its First leg of my trip to the damsite tion...Lake City east to Vernal. All I knew about Daggett County then was that its northeast corner contained the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of black, crystallized ferberite from the Conger Mine, near Nederland, Boulder Co., Colo. It is good to...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...in vugs in a dark gray fossiliferous limestone. Iowa—A. J. Alessi, 430 S. Highland Ave., Lombard. III...pebbles from the gravel beds of Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa. Among the minerals noted in the lot were: biotite |  | | Journal (issue) | | (a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Tucson Show, held in a quonset hut at the old Pima County Fair and Rodeo Grounds. I’ve known all of the great...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Devonian ages of Iowa, for minerals or fossils from other states. Amel Priest, Peru, Iowa. EXCHANGE. Tumbled... MINERALS OPALS, B R I L L I A N T COLORS—Direct f r o m mine, 15 for $ 5 . 0 0 . 10 ringsize cabochons (opal...B U T ' S A G A T E SHOP. R.R. # 6 , Muscatine, Iowa. 1 " x 1 " SPECIMENS A N D LARGER — Of the f o l...chrysocolla, rhodonite, garnets, coral, quartz x l . , pyrite, obsidian, a m e thyst, aragonite, celestite, marcasite...gemmy 5 5 c ; W h i t e and Blue Celestite 5 5 c ; Pyrite crystals radiated 4 5 c ; M a n y others. W r i |  | | Report (volume) | | Edward Barrett, Indianapolis. Iowa.............. Prof. George F. Kay, Iowa City. Kansas............Prof...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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Sylacauga, Talladega Co., Ala. ARIZONA—The old Yuma mine, famous for its wonderful specimens of vanadinite...vanadinite and wulfenite, is located in Pima County, Ariz., about 15 miles N . W . of Tucson. Although abandoned...am sending some wulfenite xls from the old Yuma mine in the Tucson Mts. These xls range anywhere from...single xls. This mine quit working about 1920 and was mainly a gold, silver, and lead mine." ARKANSAS—Billy...protovermiculite, perovskite, aegirite and some pyrite. These were all from under and around the Cove |  | | Journal (issue) | | call for appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE from...hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...Directors of the Foundation of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. It was my pleasure, and...interpenetrating twin cubes of thorianite from Hud dersfield County, Quebec. Their addresses: Vickery — 4 Brendon Road...superb minerals have been coming out of the Jeffrey mine at Asbestos, Quebec. The grossulars, prehnites, |  | | Report (issue) | | PLATE I WORKED AREA OF THE REED MINE, NEAR CEDARTOWN , POLK COUNTY, GEORGIA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF...PROPERTIES OF BARTOW COUNTY . X 27 DESCRIPTION OF THE IRON ORE PROPERTIES OF POLK CouNTY. IX rs THE MODE... DESCRIPTION OF THE IRON ORE DEPOSITS oF FLOYD CouNTY . I77 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...report. Sulphur, which occurs chiefly in the form of pyrite, a sulphide of tronl' VARIETIES OF THE IRON ORES...some of the ore-banks of Polk and Bartow counties, pyrite is more or less plentiful. It occurs, usually, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...crystal, 10.5 cm, with quartz, from the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan, China. Private collection; Jeff Scovil photo...well before the moisture and dust of an operating mine had had time to exert their destructive influences...the Karnasurt mine. On the following day, Nickolay Pavlov, chief geologist of the mine, and geologist...e zone is seen to extend into the bottom of the mine workings (i.e. its thickness is more than 1.5 meters) |  | | Journal (issue) | | & J. N. Alves Minerals of the Black Pine mine, Granite County, Montana .................................and attended by mining industry representatives, mine owners, representatives from all o f Vermont’s mineralogical...California mineral collector, specializing in San Diego County and Baja California spec imens through purchase...largest land transactions in the history of San Diego county, and moved to the Hi Hope Ranch near Oceanside...building up the M useum ’s collection of the San Diego County minerals. The Museum recently reopened its remodeled |  | | Book | | mineral resources . However, a knowledge of the old mine workings is essential when planning for development...present district from Auchensail Quarry [342 798] (Scott et al. , 1 976) and Psilophyton has been found at...flows are linked by tie-lines. Data from Leitch and Scott ( 1 9 1 7), Kennedy (193 1 ; 1 933), Smedley (1986)...assumed to be contemporaneous with them (Leitch and Scott , 1917; Richey, 1939; Tyrrell, 1 91 7). Plugs and...described lJy Tyr1·ell ( 1 9 1 7) ancl l1y Leitcl1 a11d Scott ( 1 9 1 7) , t ile latter i,1cludir1g a11 analysis |  | | Report (volume) | | ..'........................................ 126 Iowa...................................................South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908. Scott, Samuel, Map of the Black Hills of South Dakota...Barrett, Indianapolis. Iowa___ __Prof. George F. Kay, Iowa City. Kansas_____Prof. Erasmus Haworth, Lawrence...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 (article/letter/editorial) | | some nice dark red xline cuprite. "From Silver Hill Mine (Waterman Mts.), Pima Co., Ariz., I collected nice...rhombs. (I got some beautiful azurite xls from this mine at Pardos Rock Shop in Tucson, Ariz.) "Some beautiful...3 inches in the other. Wynne, in southern Cross County, is in eastern Arkansas. COLORADO—A loose but beautiful...sent in by Crystal Gallery, 20 South Garrison, Linwood, Colo. 80226. "This represents the type .of material...label. 103 Newington Center, in southern Hartford County, is in central Connecticut. GEORGIA—"To our mind |
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Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa, USA