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Silver from
Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Culpeper Basin, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Silver
Formula:Ag
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Silver data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Culpeper Basin, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:342501
Long-form Identifier:1:3:342501:5
GUID (UUID V4):403b12d6-0c7f-4448-99e6-c144deb927b2
Nearest other occurrences of Silver
5.7km (3.5 miles) Bull Run Quarry, Conklin, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
7.0km (4.4 miles) Vulcan Materials Company Crushed Stone Quarry (Manassas Quarry), Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, USA
29.3km (18.2 miles) Maryland Mine (Allen shaft), Potomac, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
29.8km (18.5 miles) Goose Creek Mine (Eagle Mine), Culpeper Basin, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
30.5km (19.0 miles) Cabin Branch Mine (Dumfries Mine), Dumfries, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Prince William County, Virginia, USA
38.8km (24.1 miles) Franklin Mine (Deep Run Mine), Midland, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Fauquier County, Virginia, USA
65.3km (40.5 miles) Gooney-Manor Mine, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Warren County, Virginia, USA
69.1km (42.9 miles) New London Mine (Linganore Mine), New London, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
72.3km (44.9 miles) Roney Prospect, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA
77.0km (47.8 miles) Valzinco Mine (Halladay Mine; Holloday Mine; Panaminus mine), Gold-Pyrite Belt, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA
References
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VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l
Report (issue)
the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho­ tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound
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February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed
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INDUSTRY OF VIRGINIA IN 1974' ADVANCE SUMMARY Total value of mineral production in Virginia in 1974 was...value increased. Table 1. -Mineral production in Virginia. Stone, the second-ranking mineral commodity...cooperative agreement between the Bureau and the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources. 1 1973 Mineral...producers). 2 ~ e v i s e dfrom value given in Virginia Minerals, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 29, November 1974...346 - 2 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES Vol. 22 THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF VIRGINIA IN 1975 PRELIMINARY
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assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland , North Carolina, and other Eastern...Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina, and South Carolina...example, the commodity keywords "coal," "gold," and "silver" are always accompanied by the "economic geology"...Sediment [rock type] Seismic profiles [geophysics]* Silver [economic geology]* SLAR 1 [geophysics]* Stratigraphy*...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle
Report (issue)
precious-metal occurrences in the Culpeper basin, northern Virginia LEADERS: Joseph P. Smoot Gilpin... S. Geological Survey National Center Reston, Virginia 22092 U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report...precious-metal occurrences in the Culpeper basin, northern Virginia LEADERS: Joseph P. Smoot and Gilpin...THE CULPEPER BASIN STOP 1. Sandstone-hosted copper mineralization, Rt. 28, Sterling, Virginia. STOP...661, Chantilly, Virginia. STOP 3. Culpeper Crushed Stone Quarry, Stevensburg, Virginia STOP 4. Granophyre
Journal (issue)
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard
Report (issue)
Water-Quality Data-Collection Sites on Selected Streams in Virginia By Byron J. Prugh, Jr., and Clairiece G. Humphrey...cooperation with the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY WATER DIVISION Richmond, Virginia 1993 U.S............................................... 7 County .................................................Map showing location of major river basins in Virginia........................................ 3 TABLES...and water-quality data-site locations by river basin] Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, and Albemarle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
material available in recent years from a basalt quarry at Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India. The specimen is...produced from the French Creek Iron mines in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Spectacular groups of pearly white...tubelike cavities in a trap-rock quarry at Centreville, Fairfax County, Virginia (Medici 1972). Interestingly...Ore Knob massive sulfide copper deposit in Ash County, North Carolina, where surprisingly good crystal...recovered from the Phoenix and Clark mines of Keweenaw County, Michigan. Interesting crystallized apophyllites
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Research Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, 22082 In previous issues of this Journal, the...University Fairfax, Virginia 22030 ABSTRACT The levels of indoor radon in homes located in Fairfax County, Montgomery...Montgomery County, and several other localities in the Washington metropolitan area have been measured...in-depth regional survey in Virginia and Maryland. State and County reports in Virginia and Maryland using measurements...Department of Chemistry, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030 Stephen W. Kline and Douglas G. Mose
Report (issue)
^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville, Virginia. Figure 7. Locations of mineral deposits in...mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre and Heyl , 19.60
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VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 62 MINERALS FOR VIRGINIA Harry W. Webb and John P...P. Moore COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES...VIRGIN IA 1985 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 62 MINERALS FOR VIRGINIA Harry W. Webb...Webb and John P. Moore COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION OF MINERAL...for erops. VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 62 MINERALS FOR VIRGINIA Harry W. Webb
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
localities as Paterson, New Jersey, or Centreville, Virginia. Recently, however, extraordinarily fine...80 in Passaic County, New Jersey. It also occurs in the Roncari quarry, Hartford County, and at Cheshire...Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, and in the Hampden quarry, Hampden County, Massachusetts. It has...has been collected in the Keystone and Silver Hill quarries in Chester and Lancaster Counties, respectively...respectively, and at the Cornwall iron mine, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It has been found in individual crystals
Report (issue)
and C.M. Sears U.S. Geological Survey Reston, Virginia 22092 Open-File Report 92-448 This report is...Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Section A: Occurrences located north of the Hartford basin, New Hampshire ...................... .67 B. Section...Section B: Occurrences located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts .................... ...Section C: Occurrences located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Connecticut .....................
Report (volume)
to some aspects of the geology of the Culpeper basin of Virginia. The editors are grateful to the authors...stratigraphic section through the northern Newark basin, New Jersey 19 By MichaelS. Fedosh and Joseph P...of early Mesozoic rocks of the northern Newark basin, New Jersey and New York 31 By R.A. Parker, H.F...and Deep Run basins in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia 40 By Eleanora I. Robbins and Robert E. Weems...phytoclasts of the Newark Supergroup in the Hartford basin 68 By R.K. Kotra, R.M. Gottfried, E.C. Spiker, L
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Hall’s Valley, Colorado, USA. 3.10 (10), 2.73 (6), 3.65 (4b), 4.31 (3), 1.961...66.22 18.76 100.00 (1) Hall’s Valley, Colorado, USA; analysis by Hillebrand (in 1884), who assumed the...Zn0.06 Bi11.23 S24.00 . (2) Ohio district, Utah, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponds to Cu9.77 Ag0...In the USA, in Colorado, from the Missouri mine, Hall’s Valley, Park Co. [TL], and at Silver Cliff, Custer...Custer Co.; in the Fairfax quarry, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Virginia; and from the Tunnel Extension
Report (issue)
Distribution: In the USA, at Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana; in the Fairfax quarry, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Virginia;...M23304; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 82408, 82409. References: (1) Nuffield, E.W. (1947)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
localities such as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite...Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; fine specimens were also found at the Notch quarry at nearby Amherst...al. 1980) and quarries at Prospect Park, Passaic County, are noted for datolite; datolite clusters and...in the Braen quarry, Haledon; the Francisco quarry at Great Notch; and the Riverside quarry, Totowa, also...also in Passaic County. Downloaded by [Queensland University of Technology] at 08:52 14 October 2014
Report (issue)
Montgomery County and Prince Georges Counties, Maryland, and Arlington and Fairfax Counties, Virginia, by A...cooperation with the University of Maryland Baltimore County, the U.S. Bureau of Census, and others. Further...Washington-Baltimore Urban Area PROCEEDINGS RESTON, VIRGINIA APRIL 23, 1997 Edited by J. Wright Horton, Jr...Washington-Baltimore Urban Area: proceedings, Reston, Virginia, April 23,1997 / edited by J. Wright Horton and...Geological Survey (MGS), with assistance from the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources. It was convened
Report (chapter)
2018 Seneca sandstone: a heritage stone from the USA CAROL A. GRISSOM1*, EMILY M. ALOIZ2, EDWARD P. VICENZI1...Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road., Suitland, MD 20746, USA 2 4047 Argyle Avenue, Erie, PA 16505, USA 3 Material...University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA C.A.G., 0000-0003-0924-870X; E.P.V., 0000-0003-2085-6546;...Formation found in the states of Maryland and Virginia; this Formation is in turn a part of the Newark...from Nova Scotia in Canada to South Carolina in the USA (Olsen 1980; Lee & Froelich 1989; see Fig. 1). Other
Journal (issue)
yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard
Journal (issue)
Mary Lynn White Minerals of the Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Virginia................ John C. Medici ...universi­ ties in the area, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, California Institute...314-726-2236). amlier linritc on ijolilen csilcite! mcailc county* south ilakotn Extensive mining of six miles of...workings. In the 1870’s the Trigo Mountains, Yuma County, Ari­ zona occurrences were discovered. The list...analysis. The vanadinite is from the Apache mine, Gila County, Arizona, and the arsenopyrite is from Zacatecas
Report (issue)
CROSSBEDDING OF THE POTOMAC FORMATION IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA By Gordon wfweir * /* January 1976 ... CROSSBEDDING OF THE POTOMAC FORMATION IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA By Gordon W. Weir Abstract Crossbedding...structure of the Potomac Formation in Fairfax County, Virginia. Most sets of crossbeds are a few feet...that the depositional slope was easterly in Fairfax County throughout the time of deposition of the Potomac...wedge-shaped deposit underlying the eastern part of Fairfax County, Va. (Force, 1975). It rests on saprolitic
Report (issue)
78-512 PETROLOGY OF POTOMAC GROUP SANDS IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA BY Roy C. Lindholm 1978 This report... -1Abstract The Potomac Group sands sampled in Fairfax County are dominantly microcline-rich lithic arkoses...index A - Study area of Cretaceous outcrops in Fairfax Co., Va. Showing (1) U.S.G.S. well "GH" and (2)...Cretaceous age exposed In the eastern part of Fairfax County, Virginia is a wedge-shaped sequence of clastic...which continues southwestward to Fredericksburg, Virginia and discontinuously to the Richmond-Petersburg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East D e r r y , N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 (PART INTRODUCTION...mines in Virginia, north of the James River, with the ex­ ceptions as follows: Albemarle County was very...northern Virginia. Maps used were the U.S.G.S. Topo­ graphical Sheets. Also used were the county road maps...of H i g h w a y s Richmond, Virginia The price is 2 0 cents per county. Other states could well follow...very high grade iron. Credit should be given the Virginia Department of Mineral Resources in Charlottesville
 
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