 | | Report (issue) | | COMMONWDALTE OF VIRGINIA VIRGINTA CONSERVATTON COMMTSSTON VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN,...Bulletin 53 Barite Deposits of Virginia By R.AYMOND S. EDMUNDSON UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA t938 I \e RICHMOND:... RICHMOND: Dwrsror cR Puncn.rsp arvo puxrrr.rc 1938 VIRGINIA CONSERVATION COMMISSION Wrreun C. Her,r,, Chai...recommend for publication as Bulletin 53 of the virginia Geological Survey series of i'eports the manuscript...Geologist of the Virginia Geological SurveY. This re=port is the first issued on barite in Virginia. It describes |  | | 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) | | Wilmington Wilmington, N.C. William S. Henika Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville.... . . . . . . . . iii Sandy Level Quadrangle, Virginia: Its Geology and Regional Interpretation (C.R.... . . . 7 Metamorphic Gradients in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (J. P. Gregory). . . . . . . . . . ... 49 Cataclastic Zone Associated with the Davie County Triassic Basin (D. V. Milton). . . . . . . . ....from the Dan River (North Carolina) - Danville (Virginia) Basin (E. I. Robbins and A. Traverse). . . . |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | secretary-treasurer of the Yavapai Council, Arizona Small Mine Operators, collects rare rocks as a hobby. Some..."Three specimens from the Governor Mine (old New York Mine), a gold mine in the Mint Canyon area, West San...Pacific R. R. "One of the largest producers in the county, it has yielded over 2 million dollars worth of...about 1880; now idle. Name was changed to Governor Mine when the property was acquired by Gov. Gage of California...district is granodiorite. The vein is a quartz-filled fissure in quartz-diorite. Mineralization consists of |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................work, gives concisely the location, by States and counties, of the principal deposits of useful minerals...of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...mineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass.: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Choctaw, Washington, Clarke, Escambia and other counties carry deposits from which "mineral extracts" or...peacockcolored massive bornits and masseive pale smoky quartz. The locality for this handsome specimen is the...the cinnabar district of Howard, Pike, and Clark Counties, Ark. This formation, in which the cinnabar occurs...crystal, and a beautiful rutilated quartz cabochon (colorless quartz containing slender bronzy xls of rutile)...Modesto, Calif. Both specimens come from an old Gold mine at Placerville, El Dorado Co., Calif. The following |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and much used in industry, is found in De Kalb County, 4 miles northwest of Fort Payne, Ala. There a...Another deposit is reported as being in Clarke County-" ARIZONA—Earl Mayer, 1753 " I " St, Yuma, Ariz...cube of limonite (pseudo pyrite) embedded in milky quartz. ARKANSAS—Byron C. Marshall, 204 Central A v e...might now add, that Clinton is the county seat of Van Buren county. As stated, this bridge is in the wilds...know of two pivot rocks near Shirley, Van Buren county, and one about three-fourths mile from edge of |  | | Report (volume) | | Geology of the Stensgar Mountain Quadrangle, Stevens County, Washington U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1679... Geology of the Stensgar Mountain Quadrangle, Stevens County, Washington By James G. Evans Stratigraphy and...1938-Geology of the Stensgar Mountain quadrangle, Stevens County, Washington. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1679...map of the Stensgar Mountain quadrangle, Stevens County, Washington FIGURES 1. Index map showing location...3. McHale Slate 5 4. Stensgar Dolomite, Keystone Mine 5 5. Possible solution breccia in Stensgar Dolomite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Colo., is being reworked. The ore of the Lode is a quartz-fluoride vein in red granite (Pike's Peak variety)...with vesuvianite, magnetite and calcite. "Th's mine goes back to the 1870's and 80's—and worked off...pounds, have been found in the Copper Queen Copper mine in Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. ARKANSAS—A large,...Crestmore, Riverside Co., Calif. 462 "The ores of the mine are of interest to collectors for their bright colors—a...was reported in 1843 at Williams Ferry in Hall County by Dr. Stevenson while panning for gold. The stone |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals are a traditional...3-cm-tall wavellite from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas; kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd photo...Limestone Company quarry, Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The 2.8 × 2.7 × 1.5-cm specimen...Day Township, Saratoga County, New York; another at Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island; and one...one in Carroll County, New Hampshire. Several important wavellite occurrences are in Pennsylvania (Gordon |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | for this mouth-watering specimen is Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee (Cochise Co.), Ariz. ARKANSAS—"First off...have found in the Magnet Cove area of Hot Spring County, Arkansas. I am sending you a specimen under separate...on Delaware Bay, is in the N / E part of Sussex County, Del. From this beach, Bob and Hazel Reynolds,...item or two. ROCKS AND MINERALS IDAHO—"In Bonner County, Northern Idaho, at a place called Chimney Rock...Greencastle, Ind. Hornstone is an opaque, massive quartz resembling flint. The specimen from Wyandotte Cave |  | | Book | | Geology and Virginia Richard V. Dietrich Professor of Geology and Dean School of Arts and Sciences,...University Press of Virginia Charlottesville Qt z.^.z THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA Copyright © 1970...by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia First published 1970 Standard Book Number: 8139-0289-4...America To Frances, Rick, Kurt, Krista, and Virginia 161781 Digitized by the Internet Archive in...natives of Virginia and visitors to the Commonwealth—who are interested in geology and in Virginia. It attempts |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | belt extending through Clay, Coosa and Chilton Counties. The maximum width of the Ashland schist is about...some distance apart. The schist is composed of quartz, muscovite or sericite, pyrite and graphite with...chrysocolla associated with malachite, chalcedony and quartz, forming specimens of great beauty, have been found...Bulldog Tunnel of the Inspiration copper mine. The Live Oak copper mine of the same company (Inspiration Copper...native copper as small masses in gray novaculite (quartz). CALIFORNIA—The following letter, dated Feb. 22 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | black botryoidal hematite from a working strip iron mine at Brookwood, Tuscaloosa Co., Ala. ALASKA—Some of...PHANTOMS. Number 4271, of my collection of Arkansas quartz, is a small xl, 3 / 8 " in diameter and only 1...Creek, in San Benito Co., Calif., by my wife, Virginia. She seems to have a built-in sensitivity to the...Brooklyn mine and adjacent prospects in the Red Mountain range near Silverton, San Juan County, Colo.,...Illinois to Buffalo State Park in central LaSalle County, 111. We found many sam115 pies of the fish-tail |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | black coating on chert. The writer also found small quartz crystals with the graphite in one clay bank. The...velvety-black specimen is basanite, a variety of quartz. A common name for basanite is touchstone. ARIZONA—From...mile west of the community of Levesque in Cross County. This locality may also be given as 6 miles east...wave U.V. Lamps. 477 "Also on these dumps are barite ores that sometimes contain wires of native silver...— "Please identify the green inclusions in this quartz specimen? It comes from Woodbury, Litchfield Co |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | agate comes from the top of a mountain in Fulton County, about 5 miles southwest of Elizabeth, Ark. W e...the road."—on label. Elizabeth is in S/W Fulton County in northern Arkansas. CALIFORNIA—Art Tatum. Rock...call it black jasper. Some rockhounds from Kern County here have complete displays with the coal-black...slab of deep black color. They are both basanite (quartz) ; can also be called black jasper. Another name...inch in diameter. Bakersfield is in western Kern County in S.W. California. COLORADO—"I got this specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | also present. "Specimen comes from a mine somewhere in Yuma County, Arizona."—on label. ARKANSAS—In the...of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U.S.) that has been opened up...(west of the city). That would be in Jefferson County."—letter dated—June 31, 1956, from Marie Kennedy...Rhode Island border. Small crystals of calcite and quartz on trap rock have been found in a huge cut at the...colorless calcite xls associated with deep black smoky quartz xls on black basalt (trap rock). The other consists |  | | Report (volume) | | GWENDOLYN W. LUTTRELL, MARILYN L. HUBERT, and VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ...ted States. I. Hubert, Marilyn L. II. Jussen, Virginia M. III. Title. IV. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1564 1986...Gwendolyn W. Luttrell, Marilyn L. Hubert, and Virginia M. ,Jussen INTRODUCTION This lexicon contains... 147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 17, T. 85 N., R. 7 W., Linn County, Iowa. A-L Peak Rhyolite Oligocene 1. New Mexico |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ARIZONA—"Under separate cover 1 am sending you another Yuma County mineral. Look it over as it is a most interesting...my name in R&M. Was glad to send him some Yuma County specimens. That Novice Column is a very nice gesture...Park, Ark. "Quite recently, the Tridymite form of quartz has been found near Mount Ida, Montgomery Co.,...really are. They are just about the most interesting quartz J have yet seen." CALIFORNIA—The limestone quarries...for the Riverside Cement Company as the Assistant Mine Superintendent. W e are operating in two areas at |  | | Report (volume) | | from the nepheline-syenite of Dungannon, Hastings County, Ontario. Am. Jour. Sci., 4th ser., vol. i, pp...the Eocene deposits of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.] U. S. Geol. Surv., Bull. No. 141, pp. 91-92... 24 Bain (Harry Foster). Geology of Washington County [Iowa]. Iowa Geol. Surv., vol. v, pp. 113-173,...road materials. Includes a geologic map of the county. Bull. 149 2 18 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OP N... .25 Bain (Harry Foster.). Geology of Woodbury County [Iowa]. Iowa Geol. Surv., vol. v, pp. 243-299, |  | Peters, Stephen G., Ferdock, Gregory C., Woitsekhowskaya, Maria B., Leonardson, Robert, Rahn, Jerry (1998) Oreshoot zoning in the Carlin-type Betze orebody, Goldstrike Mine, Eureka County, Nevada. Open-File Report Vol. 1998 (98-620) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr98620 | Report (issue) | | the Carlin-type Betze Orebody, Goldstrike Mine, Eureka County, Nevada By Stephen G. Peters1, Gregory C...the Carlin-type Betze Orebody, Goldstrike Mine, Eureka County, Nevada by Stephen G. Peters1, Gregory C...Au/t (6.4 g Au/t). Mining rates at the Goldstrike Mine have been between 300,000 to 500,000 tonnes per...Goldstrike Mine area has been described in some detail by Sampson (1993), Volk and Lauha (1993), Campbell (1994)...paper. Blast hole assays that were collected for mine planning and metallurgical purposes on the 4,800 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Crenulations (microfolds) in the Marburg Schist of York County as viewed under a microscope (cross-polarized light)...Susquehanna River gorge between Columbia, Lancaster County, and the Maryland line (Figure 1). This recent...pyrite crystals (5 to10 mm across) with attached quartz pressure fringes. Crenula tions are the result...Yark 0 Red Lion I r' YORK COUNTY ' >) / _) 0 _)CHESTER <;")) COUNTY 8 ,., Figure 1. Map of Lancaster...Lancaster and York Counties showing the Susquehanna River gorge. tribution of the quartz pressure fringes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral has been mined quite extensively in Clay County, Alabama, from one end to the other. It is quite...Manuel Mine, San Manuel, Arizona. Tourmaline: Mass of black tourmaline xls in massive milky quartz. From...Stayton Mine, Lone Tree, two miles south of Antimony Peak, near Hollister, San Benito County, California...its original shape. The Stayton Mine is principally a quicksilver mine, yielding cinnabar and native mercury...Colo. On the side of Anvil Mt. is the Coming Wonder Mine, on a contact of the Sultan Mt. monzonite stock | | | Report (issue) | | ground control, grade control, safety issues, and mine planning. District- and regional-scale structural...the Betze-Post-Screamer cluster in the Goldstrike Mine. Several conduits may connect in ore districts....others, 1982; Kwa and Jones, 1986), grade control, mine lay out, and many other routine parts of a mining...if they were parts of fault systems (see also, Ramsay and Huber, 1983, 1987). A common tendency is for...of structural features for measurement of ore and mine design. (A) Identification and measurement of true |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | red vanadinite xls and coming from the Red Cloud mine (about 30 miles N . of Yuma), Yuma Co., Ariz., have...the past 2 years, there are still very good fire quartz specimens to be found—apparently an iridescent...the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains. At...were modified by the octahedron. Found in the Lark mine, San Juan Co., Colo." CONNECTICUT—We are indebted...brought us a most interesting specimen of amethystine quartz with wulfenite crystals from the old amethyst locality |
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