 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Darry, N. H. 0 3 0 4 1 (PART 16 SPOTSYLVANIA...SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY Bordered on the N by the Rappahan nock and Rapidan Rivers. T h e N edge may be submerged...interest i s the large number of gold operations r u n n i n g across the county from N to S. These are mainly...origi nated are to the S and also V2 * ° % W. Quaker Gold M. Small. O n a small summit between Brock R d ...(village). Gold panning on small r u n crossing Jackson's Trail, iy mi. S o f Brockroad. Old gold mine on Greene |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 19 GOLD IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet COM MONWEALTH...CHARLOTTESV]LLE, VIRGINIA 1980 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 19 GOLD IN VIRGINIA Palmer...Palmer C. Sweet COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION OF...Geologist CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA 1980 FRONT covER: Large open-cut County, as photographed in 1939...London and Virginia mine, Buckingham VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 19 GOLD IN VIRGINIA |  | | Book (edition) | | exten sive deposits, such as coal and iron fields, gold belts, etc., are mentioned in general terms. 688...ALABAMA—Mined. Mineralogical name. Coal, var. bitu minous. Gold. Common name. Remarks. Coal, bituminous coal...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | VIRGINIA DIVISION OI MINERAT RESOURCES PUBTICATION 45 VIRGINIA GOID-RESOURCE DATA Polmer C. Sweet...Sweet ond Dqvid Trimble CO'N'NONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTAAENT OF CONSERVATION AND ECONO'vlIC DIVISION... VIRGINA 1943 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAT RESOURCES PUBTICATION 45 VIRGINIA GOLD-RESOURCE DATA Polmer...at the old Melville mine near l,Jilderness, 0range County. (photograph from "Gold Seekers Turn Again to...volume 39,.|934). VIRGINIA DIVISION OF RESOURCES PUBLICAIION 'YIINERAI VIRGINIA GOID.RESOURCE DATA |  | | Report (issue) | | returning it UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDl\IONT GEOLOGICAL...SoutherngrouP----------------------~-- 7 --- Talladega slate ______ ~ _________________ _ Hillabee chlorite schist...Intrusive rocks----------------------~---------Virginia __________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina...Production ________________________________________ _ Gold deposits _____________________________________ _...21 22 22 23 23 23 24 24 27 29 32 32 32 33 33 Gold deposits-Continued Classification-Continued Lode |  | | Book (edition) | | How and Where to Find Them Nugget By of JAMES Gold - California. ORTON, A. PHILADELPHIA: Henry...Use of the Key — How to for Tell Pyrites from Gold, and Quartz from Diamond — All the and Color, to...EmFluor ery Spar — Franklinite Galena — Garnet — Gold Graphite — Gray Copper Ore — Gypsum — Horn Silver...Copper 20 CHAPTER IV. Prospecting for Diamonds, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead Iron. Indications — Mineral...how to Distinguish them — Paying Localities of Gold Gold” —“Fool’s — Prospecting for Sil- And ver — |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE FARMVILLE TRIASSIC BASIN, VIRGINIA Gerald P. Wilkes '@ The Farmville basin is a...Cumberland and Prince Edward counties, Virginia and in parts of the Gold Hill, Hillcrest, Willis Mountain, Farmville...laterally into each other toward the central portion VIRGINIA DIVISION O F MINERAL RESOURCES 26 Vol. 28 FARMVILLE...rounded cobble and boulder-sized clasts of granite, slate, gneiss and rounded pebbles of quartz. Matrix material...matrix include quartz, feldspar, muscovite and pyrite. Secondary quartz crystal growth (less than 2 m |  | | Book (edition) | | Treasures: How and Where to Find Them. Nugget of Gold-California. PHILADELPHIA: Henry Carey Baird 810...particular any more of a and Ore the farm from mine more the it has by the present advisable Deposits...Use of the Key — How to a Tell Pyrites from Gold, and Quartz from Diamond — All the to Hardness and...Celestine — Cerussite — Ore — Galena — Garnet — Gold — Gypsum — Horn — — Iron Silver Pyrites— Jasper.... 20 IV. CHAPTER Prospecting for Diamonds, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead — Mineral Riches, how Discovered |  | | Report (issue) | | ...................................... Getchell mine area (Potosi district) ................ Gilbert...... ................................... Mineral Hill district ..................................................................................... Gold Hill district ........................................................................... Virginia and West Virginia ............................................................................... Howell mine area .......................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on the Post territory which covers most of Yuma County, Arizona, and a small area in California."—letter...of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U. S.) that has been opened up...Liggett military reserjade deposits in (Monterey County) Cali- vation are some of the very few found on...Middlesex signed to conserve the stone for removal County, Conn., was sent in by Richard by legitimate collectors...studies of the altered triplite from the local Swanson Mine showed that the little tabular crystals which I |  | | Report (issue) | | The copper ore is chalcopyrite or copper-bearing pyrite of low grade and is associated with a large body...diorite intruded in greenstone. Sulphides, especially pyrite, are present in the intrusive, but most of the...borders of the intrusive, where it occurs with pyrite in irregular veins and stringers and in small particles...common minerals are bornite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite. In places the copper minerals are accompanied...content became smaller, and along with this change pyrite appeared. The development work now includes drifts |  | | Report (volume) | | ......:............................ Swearinger slate............................................... Jurassic....................................... 62 Cascade mine to Mohawk Valley........................ 62 Along......................... 66 66 67 67 68 Head of Gold Run.................................... 68 Diamond...Mount Jura belt.................................................... 97 Grizzly Mountains belt............Crescent Mills belt................................. Development in the Genesee belt................ |  | | Report (volume) | | ___ _____________________________________________ Gold. ___ __ _ _._ _ ___ _. _ Silver minerals.______...deposits.________-__-____----____.-__--_-__-_-___-__ Gold placer deposits.__________________________________________...production..-..-____.._-_--_____--_____________ Mine workings-------------------------------------------Geology...mine________-----_ -_--_--------------------_ Owl mine and vicinity_______--_--- .__--_-_____-____---__-_...mine_-___-__----_----_-_---------------------Lost Mine and Gold Spot claims.__-_--___-__---__-____-_-___--_ |  | | Report (volume) | | features-.---...___________________________ East mine._______________________________________ West mi...Geology._____________________________________________ Gold placers__________________________________________...Geology.---_-___-_-___________-________--_-__-_---_-_ Gold placers._________________________________________...-_____-_---__-_------__---_--._ Nong Phai lead-zinc mine, Kanchanaburi, by Glen F. Brown, Kasetr Pitakspraivan..._____________________________________ Chang Phuak 1 mine _______________________________ Poo Mer mines-- |  | | Report (issue) | | .358 360 i LT8T OF PLATES. I. — Elsmore Hill, Macintyre River — Site of the in II. III. —... ... ... .., ... ... Smelting Works, Tent Hill — Sugarloaf Mountain from Wilson's Downfall — Intrusion...89 country Station, ... 91 Lode, near Tent Hill, showing portion of outcrop and ... workings ....... —Ottery Tin — Otter}^ Tin Lode, near Tent, Hill, showing portion ... northern outcrops and workings.... 141 Works, Tent Plant, (Hen Smelting 144 Hill XIV. —Stannum Vale Deep Lead Shaft XV.— Beckett's |  | | Book (edition) | | Alabama Geological Survey; Dr. G. P. Grimsley, West Virginia Geological Survey; Dr. W. B. Clark, Maryland GeoE...Halloysite, 48; silicates, 42; Siderite, 55; Pyrite, 55; Calcite, 55; Gypsum, 56; Rutile, Glauconite...Georgia, 298; Palaeozoic area, 298; Pre-Cambrian belt, 298; Coastal plain region, 301; References on Georgia...394; Allegheny or Lower Coal-measures, 394; Putnam Hill or Brookville clay, 394; Ferriferous or Vanport...431; References on Texas clays, 433; Utah, 434; Virginia, 434; Residual clays, 434; Carboniferous, 437; |  | | Report (volume) | | Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...and central southern Virginia. Original reference: F. B. Laney, 1917, Virginia Geol. Survey Bull. 14...14, p. 15, 19-27, map. J. L. Calver, 1960, Virginia Div. Mineral Resources Bull. 75, p. 17. In Pittsylvania...greenstone to fairly pure argillaceous sandstone and slate; in some areas decidedly conglomeratic. Paleozoic |  | | Report (volume) | | , 4th ser., Bull. 31, p. 170, footnote). Putnam Hill ls. of central Ohio is correlative with McArthur... and in this (Vinton Co.) rept is called Putnam Hill Is. W. Stout, 1930 (Letter dated Feb. 25). McArthur...McArthur is. is only a shaly phase of the Putnam Hill of central Ohio, being very dissimilar, however, in...dropped, and the fossils should be credited to Putnam Hill. Macastey black shale. Macasty black shales. A...referred to Makasti Cliff, Makasti Bay, and Makasti Hill. McBean formation. Eocene (Claiborne) : Eastern |  | | Book (volume) | | district. larly in distinguishing the coarse granite belt the and This has been the most marked to the...bridge west of of the West Ammonoosuc hill Dummer, to gold — to the 51 52 Rocky pond, Millfield...quarry road to L. A. Parker's, Fig. Section from slate quarry to the Fig. Section from Mulliken's brook...Me., locations of specimens collected in Coos county, Section lake to the Fig. 30 Mount Desert...Section from Mt. Lafayette to Bald Plate VII, Map hill, Washington, from the Glen house Plate VIII, Fig |  | | Report (volume) | | Miocene Ostracoda of New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia: Jour. Paleontology, v. 27, no. 6, p. 761-799...glaciation 2 Itkillik glaciation 2 Johnston Hill glaciation 2 Mak Hill glaciation 2 Mount Osborn glaciation..."Marylandian 1 (Maryland) Virginian * (Virginia) ' Yorktown epoch 1 (Virginia) Oligocene Vicksburgian l (Mississippi)...(1953, p. 767-768): flat fYorktownian substage (Virginia) J iSt. Marysan substage (Maryland) < /Choptankian...Pennsylvania, but a better standard section is in West Virginia (Moore and others, 1944, p. 665). The standard |  | | Report (issue) | | ............................................ Slate belt .............................................................................................. Gold ............................ ......................................... Concentration of the beach gold ................................................................................................ Slate ..................................................I . A, Northwest arm of Hubbard Glacier from the hill slope, 1,000 feet above Osier Island, June 21, 1899; |  | Ratte, James Clifford, Gaskill, D.L., Eaton, G.P., Peterson, D.L., Stotelmeyer, R.B., Meeves, H.C. (1972) Mineral resources of the Gila Primitive area and Gila Wilderness, Catron and Grant Counties, New Mexico. Open-File Report Vol. 1972 (72-306) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr72306 | Report (issue) | | Wilderness looking northeast from Leopold Vista, Catron County, N.Mex. (1) Nabours Mountain, (2) Wilcox Peak,...Mercury, "bismuth; antimony, and arsenic----- 227 Gold~ 230 silver, and tellurium-~--------~------ ...arsen1c D•1str1"b ut1on 34. pocket Distribution of gold values--------------------------- In pocket 35...42(A)Overlay showing geology of in figure 43. sele~ted mine workings In 42-------------------~-----~-------------pocket...Wilderness------pocket 43(A)Overlay showing geology of selected mine workings in figure 44. 43--------------------- |  | | Book | | _[arl Com- and are now able to se/3d marl to County _Iarl Company, at "Vincc/3tow/3, are pre- marl...Z[r. Robbins' probable make them earth Salem County, It is not a greensand, tbrtilizors ? under...inquiries-- by tile drift ? It certainly in Monmouth County, it is not there used. 2k new invention for...source of regret to all who know sity for accurate County, The map of Sns- These surveys have all been...topographical work has been u general for each county and township ing the maps the Survey the 'XV |  | | Report (volume) | | to the Knowledge of the Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia, by "William Morris Fontaine. 1883. 4°. xi, 144pp...Emmons. 1883. 8°. 42pp. 2 pi. Price 10 cents. 2. Gold and Silver Conversion Tables, giving the coining...meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkius County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S. "Williams...cents. 16. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 8(5 pp...pi. Price 25 cents. 38. Peridotite of Ellio.tt County, Kentucky, by J. S. Diller. 1887. 8°. 31 pp. 1 |
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