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Orthoclase from
Hancock County, Georgia, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hancock County, Georgia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:301240
Long-form Identifier:1:3:301240:6
GUID (UUID V4):a4eb5ac8-9d13-4f2c-ae78-137c19c69be5
Localities for Orthoclase in this Region
Granite Hill Quarry, Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, USA
Sparta Pink Quarry, Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE PHENOCRYSTS IN THE PORPHYRITIC GRANITES OF GEORGIA' TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. Description of...porphyritic granite area. The Hancock county porphyritic granite area. The Baldwin county porphyritic granite area...area. The Warren county porphyritic granite area. The Greene county porphyritic granite area. The Columbia...Columbia county porphyritic granite area. The Pike county porphyritic granite area. The Fulton county porphyritic...Published by permission of the State Geologist of Georgia. * The writer wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness
Report (volume)
76 . Cumberland County.......................................... 76 Franklin County.............................. Hancock County............................................. Kennebec County .........;.............. Knox County................................................. Lincoln County ........................ Oxford County............................................... Penobscot County...................... Piscataqnis County ........................................... Somerset County.................
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA W. S. YEATES, State Ce()logist BULLETIN No. 9-A A Preliminary Report on...on a Part of the Granites~~ Gneisses OF GEORGIA BY THOMAS L. WATSON, Ph. D. Assistant Geologist ...HARRISON, State Printer Atlanta, Georgia THE GRANITES ANiJ GNEISSES OF GEORGIA FRONTISPIECE PLATE I STONE...STONE MOUNTAIN, DEKALB COUNTY, GEOHGIA, I6 MILES NORTHEA T O F ATLANTA , 0 TilE GEORGIA RAILROAD. A GRANITE...URROUNDING PIEDMONT PLAIN • • GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA W. S. YEATES, State Geologist BULLETIN NO. 9-
Report (issue)
DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA CUT ON FLAT SHOALS ROAD NEAR SCHOOL HOUSE, LOT 110, 15th DJST., DeKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA...SCHIS'.r. FRONTISPIECE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA S. W. McCALLIE, State Geologist BULLETIN No....REPORT ON THE FELDSPAR AND MICA DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA BY !3. L. GALPIN, Ph. D., Assistant State Geologist... THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE Geological Survey of Georgia IN THE YEAR 1915 (Ex-Officio) HIS ExCELLENCY,... JOHN M. SLATON ......... Governor of Georgia PRESIDENT OF 'I'HE BOARD HoN. PHILIP COOK ...........
Report (volume)
............................................. Georgia..................................................Florida-______Dr. E. H. Sellards, Tallahassee. Georgia,_____Dr. S. W. McCallie, Atlanta. Idaho______.Mr...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;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;
Report (volume)
...... 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County............................. Chesterfield County (south of James River)................ Henrico County (north of James River)......................................... Fairfax County area ............................................Edward counties..................... Charlotte County.................................................. Lunenburg County ............................................... Prince William. County............
Report (volume)
Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards, Tallahassee. Georgia..........Dr. S. W. McCallie, Atlanta. Illinois...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)
cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...Aquamarine (8.8 cm long), Black Panther mine, Riverside County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...8 cm long), Blue Lady mine, Aquanga, San Diego County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...2015 The Mount Antero-Mount White Region, Chaffee County, Colorado The Mount Antero region, the highest
Report (volume)
.............................. 30 Mines of Hancock County..................................................................... 42 Mines of Washington County............................................ 43...connection with this work the Milan mine, in Coos County, N. H., was visited. The deposit which is now successfully...BASTTN, EBSON S. A pyrrhotitic peridotite from Knox County, Me. a sulphide ore of igneous origin: Jour. Geology...at Mount Glines, Oxford County, and a pegmatite near Pittston, Kenuebec County, which has been erroneously
Journal (issue)
Part of a geode collected at Brummett Creek, Brown County, Indiana. Continued on Page 3 COLORADO SPRINGS...217-5683 The Senior Center is located at 1514 North Hancock in Colorado Springs. For more information on any...each ~1mm in length. Collected Grays Quarry, Hancock, County, Illinois Fig. 4A. But wait! I thought perhaps...understanding of millerite when “Grays Quarry, Hancock, County, Illinois” appeared on the radar screen. While...Amethyst is often associated with albite and orthoclase in pegmatites. Fine specimens of amethyst can
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
y 26, 1901 W EA THERING OF GRANITIC ROCKS OF GEORGIA * BY THOMAS L. WATSON ( Read before the Society...careful de­ tailed study of the granitic rocks of Georgia, giving special attention to th e phenomena of...d by perm issio n of th e S tate G eologist of Georgia. f F o r a d e ta iled d iscussion o f th e w e...o rt on th e g ra n ite s a n d g n eisses o f Georgia, to be issu e d sh o rtly b y th e S ta te G eological...WATSON— W EA T H E R IN G OF GRA N ITIC ROCKS OF GEORGIA porphyritic granites, and (3) the banded or foliated
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
Journal (issue)
Crystal Study Group go to Leadville in search of ORTHOCLASE and PYRITE crystals. On a short notice field...an area just outside of Leadville, CO to dig orthoclase and pyrite crystals. We met at the Rock Hut in...All diggers were rewarded with single and twin orthoclase crystals. A little after noon we moved to a lower...us The Senior Center is located at 1514 North Hancock in Colorado Springs. and meeting place, date and...us The Senior Center is located at 1514 North Hancock in Colorado Springs. July 7th 2012 Peridot Field
Report (issue)
banded rhodochrosite 8 . Aluminum ore, baux i te, Georgia 9. Native copper ore, Keweenawan Peninsula, Mich...banded rhodochrosite 8 . Aluminum ore, bauxite, Georgia 9 . Native copper ore, Keweenawan Peninsula, Mich...Brunswick _______ _ 12 Deboullie stock, Aroostook County, Maine ___ _ 12 13 Eagle Lake, New Brunswick ---------------13...prospects __ 15 Machias occurrence, Washington County, Maine 17 Granite Quarry Hill molybdenum prospect...porphyry type -------------------Eastern Halifax County, North Carolina, 25 prospects -----------------------------25
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEORGIA Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX JENNINGS...JENNINGS B. GORDON, JR. P . O . Box 6214 Rome, Georgia 30162 Although perhaps best known for its gold, rutUe...rutUe, and staurolite (the state mineral), Georgia has, in fact, almost two hundred mineral species. ...have been reported and verified from the state of Georgia. The index has been compiled from the literature...be either a report on the economic geology of Georgia or a field guide for lapidaries, it excludes commercial
Book (edition)
Tables A and Table A: Mohs' Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum...precious and semi-precious in Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness...regions in the east from Maine down through Georgia and westward to Tennessee and in the west including...in which spare North America. States, all the Georgia to they were created by volcanic fires. Others...Diamond Locations place Table North Carolina and Georgia Diamond Locations E: NORTH CAROLINA weight plac«
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAINE1 EDSON S. BASTIN I. PROWERSOSE FROM KNOX COUNTY This unusual rock was collected by the writerin...summerof 1905 near Burkettville post-office in Knox County, Maine. It outcrops over a nearly circular area...Washington,and north into the town of Liberty (Waldo County). It intrudes pelite schists and gneisses, and...intergrowthor a somewhat irregularinterpenetrationof orthoclase or microcline, and albite. Microcline and orthoclasemay...phenocrystsare pure microcline, and a very few are pure orthoclase. Albite, not intergrown with the potash feldspars
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have been found along the Cahaba River in Shelby County, Ala. The colors are gray with red veins, red and... "From the Bone Valley Formation."— on label. GEORGIA—Bob Daniel, prop, of Natural Gsms, 795 E. Currahee...our Boxer, spent Easter Sunday near Hamilton (Hancock Co.), 111., combing the bluffs along the R.R. south...visit." Fortville is in N . W . Hancock County close to the Hamilton County line; the gravel pit is close...close by, just over the line in Hamilton County. Mr. Johansen has a Fortville mailing address and a McCordsville
Report (volume)
Calcite Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great
Book (volume)
Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes it the...highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the Lookout...mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily divides into five major physiographic provinces...The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries of Gold... some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively prospected for gold since colonial
Report (issue)
COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF.................. · · · .. · · .. · ..... -158 Orthoclase ....................................... · . ·............................................. 170 County Index ........................................
Report (volume)
........................... 1.... Androscoggin County..................................................................................... Cumberland County......................................................... Hancock County...................................................... Lincoln County................................................... Oxford County.................................................. CONTENTS. 5 Local descriptions Continued. Oxford County Continued. . Page. Rumford....................
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Henderson County, Illinois, and near the towns of Dallas City, Hamilton and Plymouth in Hancock County, Illinois...examples include the Dallas City High School (Hancock County), The Mineralogical Record, volume 36, September–October...(Fig. 3), and the Mormon Temple at Nauvoo (Hancock County), construction of which was begun in 1841 and...Burlington Limestone, which was quarried in Hancock County. This single-track bridge, built in 1868, connected
Report (issue)
. . GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA S. W. McCALLIE, State Geologist BuLLETIN No. 29 A REPORT ON THE...THE ASBESTOS, TALC AND SOAPSTONE DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA BY OLIVER B. ~OPKlNS, Ph.D., A&sistant State... THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE Geological Survey of Georgia IN THE YEAR 1914 (Ex-Officio) His ExCELLENCY,... JOHN M. SLATON ........ Governor of Georgia PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD HoN. PHILIP COOK ..................Schools LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA, ATLANTA, June 16, 1914. To His Excellency, JoHN
Report (volume)
___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________...______ Windham County ___. .________ ± ________ Dummerston___ ____ ____________ Windsor County __._.____________________...granite and finished product___'.___ 164 Carroll County ___________ ______________ 164 Con way ______
 
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