 | | | | cover top Agate from Germany; bottom Agate from Scotland. Back cover Agate from Germany. Title page Agate...produces them. Ardownie Quarry agates derive their name from Ardownie Quarry in Scotland, and M.F. Heddle... rent in clear chalcedony layer tube of escape Onyx agate (also showing fortification banding). celadonite...fragment fortification agate hemi or eye agate a © onyx agate What is an agate? Because growth is...commonly seen in wall-banded agates, but never in onyx are tubes of escape’, which appear to be tubes running |  | | Book | | cover top Agate from Germany: bottom Agate from Scotland. Back cover Agate from Germany. Title page Agate...produces them . Ardownie Quarry agates derive the ir name from Ardownie Quarry in Scotland, and M.F. Heddle... rent in clear chalcedony layer tube of escape Onyx agate (also showing fortification banding). -"t---½--...with celadonite skin fragment clear chalcedony onyx agate W h a t i s a n agate ? 15 Because growth...commonly seen in wall-banded agates, but never in onyx are 'tubes of escape·. which appear to be tubes |  | | Journal (issue) | | - - -• Vari-colored banded agates from Braen's quarry, Hawthorne, N. J. 2"x 2" to 4"x 4" 50c to $3.00...CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER. 1936 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .. . . . ......... .... .. .. ............ • ....Auoclation 130 ROCKS and MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY (Formerly the Bulletin Board) AN APPRECIATION...preserved and highly treasured in museums throughout Germany This is to be expected when one reflects that almost...A WATER· DRIVEN MILL IN THE NAHE VALLEY, IDAR, GERMANY. For hundreds of years the small streams which |  | | Book (volume) | | soil, matrix, road cut, pegmatite, shoreline, quarry, gravel pit, prospect, mine, etc.). Let’s take, as...the diggings done by others, such as in quarries, gravel pits, sand and clay pits, mine diggings and dumps...stock of release forms to offer to the landowner, quarry operator, mine manager or other person of authority...commercial operations, sich as mines, quarries, and gravel pits. (Bear in mind as well that most such commercial...and/or in the soil In mine and/or in mine dump In gravel deposit In natural or man-made Cae eaIn matrix |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2015 (Part 1) Pg 4 The Gravel Pit Pg 5 The Unexpected Find Pg 6 Chasing Onyx Pg 7 Secretary’s Spot...sectional view show the typical hexagonal shape. The Gravel Pit ♦ We are looking for a volunteer (or two)...dog Comet. May 2015 PICK & PACK Page 6 CHASING ONYX by Mike Nelson csrockguy@yahoo.com I try to attend...result I have observed thousands, or more, of black onyx pendants, rings and unset cabs. Depending on my...examining stones! The deal is that most of the black onyx on the market is chalcedony (SiO2) that has been |  | | Book (edition) | | Camping $1 *00/day, trailers $2*00/day. **Mariposite Quarry (Mariposa), CoulterM ZUie. CA 95311- Fee: 5f/Xb~...marble; petri¬ fied palm wood; owl-hole agate Cave onyx, stalactites ("Legendary Kokoweef Caverns") Picture...quartz Tremolite or "Calif. tigereye " Chalcedony onyx, psilomelane, Pyrolusite, barite, myrickite Rhodonite...Chrysocolla, malachite, turquoise, specimens Inyo Rainbow Onyx - 4 HOSLuNowakl s Fire Opal Diggings. Mrs- R....jasper, petrified wood, jade Travertine Calcite onyx Tourmaline Serpentine, moss agate, opal, jasper |  | | Report (issue) | | work and acknowledgments ---------------Manhattan onyx deposits- ------------------Location- ---------...----Big Boulder quarry -----------------Travertine cliffs of Scott Gulch ---------Northeast quarry -----------------East...-----------------East quarry- -------------------Roadside and old quarries- ------------White quarry -------------------Red...-------------------Red quarry --------------------Pink quarry- -------------------Sienna quarry- ------------------Summary...*-««» Grant shaft group- ----------------Sienna quarry group- ---------------Other openings- -------- |  | | Book (edition) | | yet the insect who makes his home in a pile of gravel on the roadside lives in a palace. clear For the...summer's sun crumble the rocks into clay, sand, and gravel. The detritus becomes consolidated into horizontal...become concentrated, like gold, in streams and on gravel bars. From such formations come the sapphires in...exposed minerals. He will pick over stream beds, gravel pits, mine dumps, road cuts, and quarries. Some...a Jersey's Limecrest quarry, for instance, is open to a year; the Foote quarry in North Carolina one |  | | Book | | are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...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...knapsack you can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it...dis- covered by locating the porous layers in a quarry boulders with a pick or a long stick, not with |  | | Report (issue) | | Marcasite Melanterite Meteorites Mica Muscovite Opal Onyx Orthoclase, Plagioclase Pyrite Pyrolusite Pyroxene...62 62 62 62 62 62 62 62 63 63 63 63 63 64 Page Onyx, Type I Occurrences.......................... Opal...to a long-obliterated mountain range; or to the gravel deposits of a former stream. This book will help...GEOLOGIC TIME UNITS Sandstone, siltstone, clay, gravel, marl, volcanic ash. I I I Limestone, dolomite...conglomerate Agricultural soil, water, sand & gravel, volcanic ash, riprap. ...J ~ -< I~ -< U'l |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wednesday for Producers and Manufacturers of Sand, Gravel, Stone, Cement, Gypsum, Lime Subscription...Plant Brings Needed Economies for Elkhart Sand and Gravel Company. 41 The problem facing this company with...that can produce seventy-five cars of sand and gravel is described and illustrated. daily with twelve...Chicago, Ill. Publishers of PIT AND QUARRY and Pit and Quarry HANDBOOK HARRY W. BAUMGARTNER, President...Associate Editor 38 PIT AND QUARRY he Profit in selling sand and gravel Whatever it is you’d like it |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | operating in two areas at Crestmore. One is our Jensen Quarry which is about 4ty2 miles from the plant and the...feel the risk is worth the small gain. Our Jensen quarry has always been closed to collectors because we...of the interesting minerals found in the other quarry. I do run across some sulfides from time to time...are frequently damaged by blasting. "Our Jensen quarry has just about the 141 Downloaded by [University...manganotantalite. They had been collected at the Strickland quarry in Portland, Conn., and I had assumed that they |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....jct. of Brint St. and Centennial rd., the Medusa Quarry (SW of 4 quarries), very many specimens⎯fossils...deposits⎯Hematite. OTTAWA COUNTY CLAY CENTER, area limestone quarry, famed⎯Calcite, Celestite (fluorescent), Dolomite...secondary line rd., then N ½ mi. to Maple Grove Quarry) ⎯Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite...WOOD COUNTY BOWLING GREEN, W and S, at the Pugh Quarry⎯crystals of Barite (fluorescent), Calcite, Celestite |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....jct. of Brint St. and Centennial rd., the Medusa Quarry (SW of 4 quarries), very many specimens⎯fossils...deposits⎯Hematite. OTTAWA COUNTY CLAY CENTER, area limestone quarry, famed⎯Calcite, Celestite (fluorescent), Dolomite...secondary line rd., then N ½ mi. to Maple Grove Quarry) ⎯Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite...WOOD COUNTY BOWLING GREEN, W and S, at the Pugh Quarry⎯crystals of Barite (fluorescent), Calcite, Celestite |  | | Book (volume) | | colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway airport at rd...1½ mi., in Knox dolomite exposed in an abandoned quarry Barite, Calcite, Fluorite (purple cubes), Galena...US 27: (a) along both sides of Hwy.agate; (b) quarry on W side of rd.agate, chalcedony, chert, opal;...W 3 mi. and 2 mi. N: (a) at the Marble Springs Quarrygemmy marble (red and green); (b) E, in Taylor...Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline, Zeolites; Rock Chapel Quarry, on N side of Arabia Mt.Calcite, Epidote, Fluorite |  | | Book (volume) | | minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep... E 6 mi., on French Cr., the Scott Rose Quartz QuarryAmblygonite (large yellow crystals), Aquamarine...281 to Armour, area rd. cuts, stream banks and gravel beds, excavations, etc., occurring mainly in black...trending track and follow 1½ mi. NW to huge alluvial gravel area, abundantagate, chalcedony, jasper, jaspagate...concretions, etc. HARDING COUNTY CAMP CROOK, regional gravel bars of the Little Missouri R. and all tributary |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | admission fee on a dirt road which compared to some old quarry roads is a super highway! The x,!s are found in...bornite have been found in gabbro at the old Hubbard quarry in Wilmington (New Castle Co.), Del. FLORIDA—"I...been found in the Appalachian Minerals Company quarry near Monticello (Jasper Co.), Ga. IDAHO—"I am enclosing...fossil hunt with Ken Kyte of Covington, La., on the gravel bars of the Bogue Chitta River, while in that state...nearby. He gave me several specimens of calcite, var. onyx, which he had collected off a cliff on a neighbor |  | | Journal (issue) | | pitchblende in America are in Haddam, in the Fladspar quarry, at Middletown, and at Branchville, in Wilton....supply of radium now being produced in France and Germany, its manufacture will surely be undertaken in Amer...indis pensable tins, on which the disintegrated gravel is thrown and washed down with water. The heavy...diamonds that were discovered were picked up in gravel at such distances from the place of their birth...Dominion were apparently brought thither by glacial gravel from some spot in higher latitudes. One set of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens in the world are found in the limestone quarry in Legrand, Marshall Co., Iowa. The most noted...Here are some of the specimens collected: "Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Maine—Rose quartz, beryl xls (and massive)...black tourmaline xls, beryl, muscovite. "Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mt., Greenwood, Maine—Garnets, black tourmaline...unusually fine datolite specimen at the Lane's traprock quarry, near Westfield, Hampden Co., Mass. The specimen...as they were clear and cold looking. Drove on a gravel road most of the way, finally turning off and starting |  | | Book (edition) | | could be cut. Diamonds are still being found in gravel deposited by the glaciers that once covered the... down the solid mountains into clay, sand, and gravel. These become consolidated into horizontal beds...become concentrated, like gold, in streams and on gravel bars. From such formations come the sapphires in...exposed minerals. He will pick over stream beds, gravel pits, mine dumps, road cuts, and quarries. Some...hazards as well. Rocks can fall from a shattered quarry wall, a cliff, or an overhang. Someone on a rocky |  | | Book | | as we would included agate and chalcedony but onyx and fluorspar and perhaps other materials. mention...of these mentions mention agate. in Here the onyx form of Genesis, the the is first book made...clear from the making of the peoples of the The Germany, have the Sudan and other in Idar-Oberstein, ...inhabitants of the city of Idar-Oberstein in Western Germany, however, the word precious stone has a different...exported to the busy hands in the old home in Germany. There are 450 agate cutting mills alone. These |  | | Book (volume) | | jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate...crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined...Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination). Hamilton Quarry Location East Branch Crystal Glen Creek NAUVOO...0.8 mi. on Rte. 1 from Rte. 146 jct., then W on gravel rd. 2 mi. to the Mahoning Mine No. 3, on dumps⎯Fluorite...ELIZABETHTOWN, NE 2 mi., at the Meshberger Stone Co. quarry⎯Calcite (fluorescent, UV pink-blue type), Fluorite |  | | Book (volume) | | jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate...crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined...Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination). Hamilton Quarry Location East Branch Crystal Glen Creek NAUVOO...0.8 mi. on Rte. 1 from Rte. 146 jct., then W on gravel rd. 2 mi. to the Mahoning Mine No. 3, on dumps⎯Fluorite...ELIZABETHTOWN, NE 2 mi., at the Meshberger Stone Co. quarry⎯Calcite (fluorescent, UV pink-blue type), Fluorite |  | | Book (volume) | | on gemstones found in that region; the Southern Onyx and Marble Company of San Diego, California, furnished...furnished information and a photograph on the calcite onyx deposits of Baja California. Owen H. Perry of Marine...Hill—Ellijay area . Map of Cowee Creek area . Cowee Creek gravel washing . Yogo Gulch Mine . Rock Creek, Montana...Mt. Mica Largest crystal from Mt. Mica Eh Towne Quarry 180 Tourmaline Queen Mountain IgI Tourmaline crystal...Stibiotantalite crystal Apatite crystal . Greenlaw Quarry 272 279 281 282 289 296 297 298 299 300 301 |  | | Book (edition) | | Graphics Ltd, Derby Cover illustration Cloud Hill Quarry, Leicestershire, excavated in steeply dipping Carboniferous...minerals produced in Britain, on an ex-mine or quarry basis, the total value is estimated at £21 796...minerals. The value of minerals production on an ex-quarry basis does not truly reflect their ultimate value...national economy. The difference between the ex-quarry price of a mineral and its delivered price can...the heading of sand and gravel include those producing both sand and gravel at the same site and a significant |
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