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| Wilson T he Circulation Manager Mary Lynn Michela M in e r a l o g ic a l R ecord Associate Editors Pierre...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael...S-M SA S y m p o siu m o n cop p er and cop p er m in e r a ls ................................................. 51 Chairman: K. Wenrich W hat's n e w in m in erals D en v er S h o w 1996 ................. |
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| 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:...he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. In the southern portion |
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| Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...Permian-age deposits. Cretaceous and Cenozoic rocks in the westernmost portion of the state consist of unconsolidated...highest point in the Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet...the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...are some noteworthy mineral occurrences in the sedimentary rock that encompasses more than 99 percent of |
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| Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations: x l ā c r y s t a l xledācrystallized... Tenn., has sent in the following item on Alabama: "Arsenopyrite has been mined in adjacent parts of...road. Yellville is the county seat and is situated in about the center of the county. I do not know if this...this mine is still in operation, as I haven't any recent report on same. Greenockite. "turkey fat", was...enclosing a vial of pyrope garnets located in a granite mica schist in Sabino Canyon, north of Tucson (Pima |
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| with a resolution of 7 nm in the visible spectrum, going to 14-20 nm in the near-infrared. It "sees"..."sees" objects on the ground ranging in size from 300 m to 5 km, depending on the altitude of the spacecraft...2) Re-exainination of Some Minerals from the Cave-in-Rock Area Alan Goldstein 1607 Washington Blvd. Louisville... I have been photographing my mineral collection in order to upload images to the web site: www.mindat...that I collected at the Minerva No. 1 mine dump in 1985. It had bundles of orange crystals with small |
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| useful minerals in the United States. No similar lists have been published by the Survey in the last quarter...increase in production have taken place during the last quarter of a century. Aluminum was not made in the...the United States in 1887, so that the deposits of bauxite, now the source of material that maintains a...great industry, were untouched and were not included in the Survey's lists. Twenty-five years ago the imports...about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five tunes the combined production and |
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| and a brief summary of the results was published in Bulletin No. 213, ''Contributions to Economic Geology...investigation in 1902, however, Mr. Ulrich spent the greater part of two years (1889 and 1890) in the same...Ulrich in 1903, and the results of all these studies are brought together in this paper. The district is...the mining industry, and in such form that its conclusions should be of great practical benefit in developing...developing the industry in this district. Very respectfully, C. W. HATES, Geologist in Charge of Geology. |
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| August 2017 ILLINOIS ISSUE I enjoyed the issue of Rocks & MinĀ erals devoted to Illinois, especially...fluorspar district. I have studied and led university geology classes into the fluorspar district since 1981...would be interested in ocĀ currences of other minerals that were not mentioned in the issue. Azurite has...galena, has been found in a shallow surface mine west of Hick's dome. It occurs in three forms: white to...crystals; and chalky-white acicĀ ular crystals to 3 mm in length. The cerrusite is associated with corroded |
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| American holiday, Halloween has rapid ly gained ground in Europe. particu larly m festive tribes like the Bavarian...today pumpkin-adorned streets overflow with ungsters in ghastl y garb. Wi tchcraft and dark forces abou nd...but may come from several localities - it occurs in several habits. At its best, the colo r is a radia...microcline (var. a mazonite) from Konzo. Siclamo in Ethiopia (see rece nt description by Kaiser. 2003)...from Colorado and Russia. Having trave led oft en in Namibia, I was thrilled to see the recently identified |
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| 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico Steve Neely collection (ex...978-0-9790998-6-1 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria Staebler Gunther Neumeier...C O 80211 ā¢ USA Phone 1.303.495.5521 ā¢ Fax 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie.org Printed in the United States...When Brent acquired this specimen, it was wrapped in a German-language newspaper dated 1927, a possible...particular mineral are faced with a road with a fork in it. One path leads to a strict mineralogy, giving |
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| UNDERFSoT. ILLINOIS ote In ILLINOIS _ ee a . ā : a Bu ee! se ; a. , ve GLOLoGy UNDERFoo In NOE...illustrations in this book are reproduced or modified with permission from the Illinois State Geological...Geological Survey. Excerpts from āThe Windy Cityā in Slabs of the Sunburnt West by Carl Sandburg, copyright...permission of the publisher. Excerpts from āPrairieā in Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg, copyright 1918 by Holt...Used by permission of Dutton Signet, Penguin Books USA Inc. Lines from āMrs. Sibleyā and āSerepta Masonā |
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| papers by foreign authors, except those that appear in American publications. The papers, with full title...under the names of their authors, which are arranged in alphabetic order. The author list is followed by...American geology to the end of 1943 is contained in the following bulletins of the United States Geological...wishes to express appreciation for assistance rendered in the preparation of portions of this bibliography...of Science A. I. M. E__. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Aardrijksk Aardrijkskundig |
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| May-June 2022 Volume 53, number 3 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Wendell E. Wilson Associate Publisher & Circulation...thrill of discovery. After all, every mineral specimen in collections around the world has but a single discovererāthe...removal. The pocket will never again be all together in its original state. These are the memories that mineral... Many such stories have been told over the years in the pages of the Mineralogical Record and elsewhere...letās travel back in time and reminisce over a few of them, described (in most cases) in the words of the |
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| A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgiaās nearly 59,000 square miles makes...the highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the...forests lie some of the oldest crystalline rocks in the East, both igneous and metamorphic, strongly...coastal lowlands in the Atlantic Coast Fall Line, so named from the falls or rapids in rivers at places...and Columbus. The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries |
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| distribution of bravoite and nickeliferous marcasite in central Britain BRAVOITE and nickeliferous pyrite...early, either being diagenetic as in the Cave-in-Rock district of Illinois (Park, I967), or epigenetic as...Masson Hill (Ixer, I974) in south-east Derbyshire and Dirtlow Rake and Treak Cliff in northern Derbyshire...U.S.S.R. (Ageykin et al., I969). They also occur in an allied class of deposits, those formed from leached...redbeds. Here bravoite can occur epigenetically as in the Magnet Cove Mine, Walton-Cheverie area, Nova |
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| 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...any other state in America. Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern...northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin glaciation, the bluffs and detritus...detritus of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well |
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| 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...any other state in America. Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern...northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin glaciation, the bluffs and detritus...detritus of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well |
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| OF AN UNUSUAL INCREASE IN THE DEMAND FOR OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS AND PERIODICALS IN THE GEOSCIENCES, I CAN...H ill, T a n za n ia ā¢ ref: E. Ja g e r et al, M in. M a g . 3 2 , 10-25 (1 9 5 9 ) ā¢ single, loose o...@ $ 1 7 .5 0 to $ 2 5 .0 0 &Ann Frazier Dealers in: 1724 University A ve. ā¢ Berkeley, C a lifo rn ia...3-7564 ā¢ ā¢ ā¢ ā¢ rare m in e ra ls fine m in e ra ls g em sto n es gem & m in eral books IClir inenalosical...Michigan University First M ineralogy Published In The U .S .? .................................... |
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| BONUS! a = apace āāāā āThe Unseen World Around Us,ā in r @ isive lists of fluo cluding pone pine a Ss ai...engineer ing principles Combines long and short wave in one unit Rugged all metal housing Extra large filters...compartment, SAFE for changing tubes. Ex eptior al in this price range) nly 5 lbs. Size 3 eS x 20ā @Ā® Weight...Federation DECEMBER, EDITOR'S MEMO PAD What to put in a magazine. Rip Rap, and interesting letters to the... 213 GEOLOGY AN INFANT SCIENCE John S. Albanese In proportion to its importance if is surprising how |
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| A ,-A 1 to Find Valuable Ores and Minerals in the United States I '' : JAY ELLIS RANSOM / ...nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay in this of popular the...the Ellis Ransom, Rock-huntefs Range Guide, tells everything you need to know to go about it. Some...the best prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores...existing mines are United Statesā from gopher size the in the to the largestā and locates the important |
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| ............... 387 A FAMOUS QUICKSILVER DEPOSIT IN CALIFORNIA. By R. F. Henley ............................................ 395 HEAVY GRAVITY MINERALS IN THE SANDS OF FLORIDA. By W iiiia,n C. Casperson .................. 396 THEY PAVE ROADS W ITH JASPER IN KENTUCKY By Peter Zodac ...........................HICAGO MUSEUM ............................ 400 COAL IN NOVA SCOTIA. By Sa11u1el C. Broun1 ................ THE GEOLOGY OF LOWER MILFORD TOWNSHIP, LEHIGH COUNTY, PENN. (Part 3). By Charles W. Brotvn Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā· |
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| Collector's N A PAGE FROM A COLLECTOR'S NOTEBOOK: 3M BIG ROCK QUARRY, ARKANSAS COLLECTING TRIP - FALL 1998, Part...the group gathered at the 65th Street Denny's in Little Rock at 7:00 AM on October I. _The_encroachment...Slam) breakfasts we proceeded to the 3M Big Rock Quarry in the nephelinc sycnite of Granite Mountain located...crammed with black pyrophanite crystals in small cavities at the Big Rock Quarry, and even more abundant hculanditc...light tan hexagonal crystals in a filiform arrangement, 1 mm tall, 3M Big Rock Quarry, Sweet Home, Pulaski |
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| B sbee, An:cna brilliant xis ,.,, Psilomclane on rock 3 , -, $5 .00 ; gc.;od , Is. on matr, )I, --l ~...remely fine I ā¢ā¢ ā¢ CALCIT E cnclcs1ng COPPER, M,chrg;in. Small rhC'mb hedr.,I " I' erĀ· rec k . 3 x ; . ā¢ā¢ā¢...Stilb11c en rock -i , 2 1 : 2 .00 STILB ITE . r>..1 oorc'<, N J Orange eek red xis en rock. 5 , 3 . 3...D<:t.f ,1.llow xi~ in p,1rallcl pc<1t1on ..! , 2 tine S.00 1 RUTII E ~1ar-... ,,,,a XI in thlorite 3 ::....OBSERVATIONS UPON MATTERS GEOLOGICAL, BY AN AMATEUR, IN EGYPT. By Claude H. Barlow .... 703 AN UNUSUAL OcCURENCE |
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| Edited by D. W. Johnson. $3.50 ~~ ~~ f. Metallurgy in the Service of Man, W. H. Dennis. Clothbound $7.50...Meinzer. $3.75 ~~ The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air, M. Minnaert. $2.00 Historical Geography...and International Copyright Conventions. Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill...Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario. Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd...first published in 1969, is an unabridged republication of the work first published in 1960 by Harper |
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| to identify minerals in the field and build a spectacular collection FeaturĀ·es in-depth profiles and 500...complex silicates such as vesuvianite, first discovered in limestone blocks ejected by Mount Vesuvius, each...wonder of nature. Often emanating from the parent rock in brilliant colours and weird and wonderful textures...processes such as tectonic movements, volcanoes, rock and ore formation, and looks at the physical and...bolstered by the list of notable locations given in the directory. Special feature boxes build a bigger |
