 | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | "SOME NOTES ON ASTE RI ATE D QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA" By RUDOLPH J. BLAND, Jr. Blsnd Minerals, 2807 W. Cary...variety of quartz, it is becoming quite common in Virginia. It has recently been found in a variety of colors...first one of importance is the Ligon mine in Amelia County, Va. This mine is located at the end of State Route...Feldspar (potassic) 10% Tourmaline (schorl) 5% Beryl 2% N o rare or metamict* minerals have been noted...Mitchell at the University of Virginia as stellate quartz xls on massive beryl. Some traces of pyrite have |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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) | | Pleaoc teturn this publication to the Virginia Geologieal Survcy whcn you havc no further uce for it...COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSTON ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Deposits of Virginra BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 COMMONWEALTH, OF VTRGINIA STATE COMMISSION...COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN, State Geologist Bulletin...33 Pegmatite Deposits of Virginia BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 RICHMOND: DrvrsroN |  | | Report (issue) | | VIRGINIA DryISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 115 TANTALIAN AND NIOBIAN RESOURCES IN VIRGINIA William...and Palmer C. Sweet .:;: ."' COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION...State Geologist CHARLOTTES VILLE, VIRGIMA t99l VIRGINIA DTVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 115...RESOURCES IN VIRGINIA William F. Giannini and Palmer C. Sweet COMMONVYEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF...VILLE, VIRGINIA r99r FRONT COVER: Columbite-tantalite crystal from Mitchell Mine, Bedford County, Virginia |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS (PART GOOCHLAND By PHILIP East Derry, COUNTY In N edge of the James R...which it shares the gold belt. Coun ty Seat is Goochland. Served by Rtes 250, 64 and 6 E / W , Rte 522...Village (15), and the following (7V2) South Anna, Goochland, Perkinsville, Johnson Springs, Midlothian, Line...Extensive gold mining formerly on ex treme W and county line around Rte 605 to Rte 606. There are several...off for road material. Op. in 1831 and in 1935 Goochland Mines Holding Corp. sunk 300 ft. shaft (Cohn Shaft) |  | | Journal (issue) | | Richmond, Virginia VOL. 45 FEBURARY 1999 NO. 1 MAMMOTH TOOTH FOUND IN ENDLESS CAVERNS, VIRGINIA David...David A. Hubbard, Jr., Virginia Division of Mineral Resources and Frederick Grady, National Museum of Natural...a passage of Endless Caverns in Rockingham County, Virginia in July 1996. The cavers left the tooth in...within the Commonwealth. GEOLOGIC SETTING 2 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF h4INERAL RESOURCES Figure 1:Mammoth...Pleistocene (100,000 bp to 11,000bp). PREVIOUS VIRGINIA MAMMOTH RECORDS Figure 2: Fred Grady preparing |  | | Report (issue) | | _______ _ A pati te _________ ________________ __ _ Beryl ________ _____________________ _ Carbonate minerals...pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ _______________________...pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...bulge in the hanging wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight...granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 9. Same granite |  | | Report (volume) | | .........Prof. George H. Perkins, Burlington. Virginia...........Dr. Thomas L. Watson, Charlottesville...Washington....... Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin......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 |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................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.; |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...aquamarines, garnets, topaz, amethyst and golden beryl are among the historic gems of the Appalachian States...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing |  | | Book (volume) | | some of the world’s most spectacular crystals of Beryl and Spodumene. For instance, a single Spodumene...weighed 90 tons. Also huge crystals of sparkling blue Beryl from the Black Hills pegmatites have measured from...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Tnour.s Lnorvanp Warsow, Pn. D. DIRECTOR Bulletin...Geology of the'Titanium and Apatite Depositrs of Virginia Bv Tnorues LuoNeno Wersow eNo Srrpnex Tannp ...Vrncrnre I9I3 ,//l' ,4 BULLE'I'IN III-A VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAI, SUITVEY. Piney Rir-er near Rose's...of rutile area in Amherst and Nelson Counties, Virginia ' ' in pocket " ' X'rontispiece IL Piney River...Granite-gneiss overlain by mantle Cbmpany's mine, Nelson CountY. of feldspathic facies of syenite from VIII. X'ig |  | | Report (issue) | | Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. This report includes a general discussion of...electrical properties of sheet muscovite from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and...37 99.98 Auburn, Maine 4 Harding mine, Taos County, N. Mex. * 44.17 36.72 .95 N.d. 1.28 N.d. .38...muscovite are actinolite, albite, allanite, apatite, beryl, biotite, brookite, chlorite, columbite, dumortierite...effectively tie the books. Actinolite, allanite, beryl, kyanite, rutile, tourmaline, zoisite, and other |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gregory.... 810 SOME NOTES ON ASTERIATED QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA—R. J. Bland, Jr. 838 HISTORY OF ANDOVER-SULPHUR...San Antonio Rock & Lapi dary Society and Bexar County Mineral Hobby Club. Chairman; Fred Stevenson, P...Monroe, Peru, Indiana. April 30, May 1. 1966—Dallas County' Rock Club will hold its Rock Club Showcase at...Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Host: Clark County Gem Collectors, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las...Lan- the American Mineralogist (1961). Un caster County, Pennsylvania is dolomite fortunately, dcweylite |  | | Report (volume) | | General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________ |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Intrusive rocks----------------------~---------Virginia __________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina...-- .. ------- - Virginia mines ___ _______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______...LibertY------------------~------------ 55 c-- Goochland, Fluvanna, and Buckingham Counties __________________...properties _________ .. _____________ _ Halifax County ______ - _____ - __________ ~- _'- __ _ Virgilina..._____ _ ____ __ ... _________________ _ Orange County-· ___________________________ _ Melville ____ - |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...1-X I I PRINCIPAL GEMSTONES Diamond, Corundum, Beryl, Topaz, Opal. II 68 IMPORT ANT GEMSTONES The...emeralds, Hiddenite, North Carolina 13 . Drawing of beryl crystal forms 14. San Pedro mine, Pala, California...California 17. Mack mine, Rincon, California 18. Beryl-bearing pegmatite, Baja California 19. Sequist Ranch...opal sources 28. Morefield pegmatite, Amelia, Virginia Xlll 3 5 5 6 11 12 13 19 20 21 22 23 25 37 38 |  | | Report (issue) | | Center Reston, Virginia 22092 A. Krishna Sinha Department of Geological Sciences Virginia Polytechnic Institute...Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 Norman Herz Department of Geology The University...core of the Blue Ridge anticlinorium in northern Virginia James W. Clarke Geology and age of the Robertson...8 Rb-Sr age for the Robertson River pluton in Virginia and its implication on the age of the Catoctin...Evolution of the Grenville terrane in the central Virginia ee ee eee ORNS eee i FVein.) A. K. Sinha and M |
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