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Azurite from
Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Azurite
Formula:Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Azurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:366450
Long-form Identifier:1:3:366450:6
GUID (UUID V4):c9fef903-26f6-4759-80a1-1c1b40ac535d
Nearest other occurrences of Azurite
5.8km (3.6 miles) Goose Creek Mine (Eagle Mine), Culpeper Basin, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
10.7km (6.6 miles) Veasco Quarry (MRDS - 10276445), Oatlands, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
23.0km (14.3 miles) Theodora Mine, Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
28.6km (17.8 miles) Bull Run Quarry, Conklin, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
29.0km (18.0 miles) Unnamed Malachite Prospect (MRDS - 10203527), Chantilly, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
29.7km (18.4 miles) Hunting Hill Quarry, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
31.6km (19.7 miles) Gaithersburg, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
48.0km (29.8 miles) Brentsville Prospect, Culpeper Basin, Prince William County, Virginia, USA
49.8km (31.0 miles) Liberty Mine, Libertytown, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
51.2km (31.8 miles) White Oak, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
References
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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)
JL / Culpfeper and B arbour sville Basins, Virginia and Maryland C7 ll.S. / PAPER Triassic-Jurassic...Stratigraphy of the Culpeper and Barboursville Basins, Virginia and Maryland By K.Y. LEE and AJ. FROELICH U.S...stratigraphy of the Culpeper and Barboursville basins, Virginia and Maryland. (U.S. Geological Survey professional...Geology Culpeper Basin (Va. and Md.) 4. Geology Virginia Barboursville Basin. I. Froelich, A.J. (Albert............................................. 16 Leesburg Member.......................................
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^ 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
Journal (issue)
coating or a layer several inches thick. Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our May speaker...Towers), 3548 South Jefferson St. (intersecting Leesburg Pike), Falls Church, VA Phone: 703-671-7507 Reservations...Newsletter May 2019 Chrysocolla from Orogrande, Otero County, NM, showing the variability in color from aquas...Planet Mine, La Paz County, AZ. Photo: Bob Cooke. Chrysocolla pseudomorph after azurite from Ray Mine, Dripping...Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, AZ. Photo: Bob Cooke. Arizona and Peru display that lovely
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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
Journal (issue)
November 1977 No. 4 OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT IN VIRGINIA DURING 1976' A total of 6,937,326 Mcf (thousand...(thousand cubic feet) of natural gas was produced in Virginia during 1976, which is a= kcrease of %1&489Mcf...counties: Buchanan County, 4,530,276 Mcf; Dickenson County, 1,489,129Mcf; Tazewell County, 908,209 Mcf; and...and Wise County, 9,712 Mcf. Oil production in Lee County was 2,696 barrels from seven wells. Eight new...in Dickenson County. Lee Oil Drilling Company drilled one exploratory hole in Lee County. Westinghouse
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
29 January 2015 FRENCH CREEK IRON MINE, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA M any minerals described in this...and diverse secondary copper minerals such as azurite, malachite, aurichalcite, brochantite, linarite...locality is the French Creek iron mine, Chester County, Pennsylvania, an occurrence worthy of consideration...example of chalcopyrite from French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The 10-cm-wide specimen has chalcopyrite...mines at Rossie, St. Lawrence County, at the Sterling mine, Jefferson County, and in very large crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
secondary cuprite there is also a little chrysocolla, azurite and malachite. The intensely metamorphosed shale...Umpleby, J. B., Geologic and ore deposits of Lemhi County, Idaho; I/. S. G e o l .S u r o e y ,B u l l ....28,1923. Several miner4l localities near Leesburg, Virginia were visited. Ten members, W. S. Burbank...and R. W. G. Wyckhofi, took part. At a quarry in Leesburg a vein of datolite cut the Crystallized specimens
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coming up from Mexico but the fine selenite and azurite of last year is finished, the truckers say. There...more. "The Glove Mine is located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, near the little town of Amado, on the...inches in length. They come from Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado (altitude of pocket where found over...inches in size, comes from Devil's Head, Douglas County, Colo. Microcline {feldspar). Nice loose xls, averaging...received. These come from Devil's Head, Douglas County, Colo. Garnet (spessartite). Small but gemmy, deep
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)
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 .........Occurrences located in the Culpeper basin, Maryland and Virginia ..................... 168 H. Section H: Occurrences...Occurrences located in other areas of Virginia. ... 185 I. Section I: Occurrences located in North Carolina...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2
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.........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
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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...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg
Journal (issue)
these on the dumps, as ,veil a s: Quartz crystals, Azurite, Calcite, and minerals of an ordinary nature. As...py1·oxenite and amphibolite. tonea r Lee:::bnrg, Virginia. gether "ith their nsual metamorphic alteration...found in the Goose Creek Trap Rock Quarry nenr Leesburg, Ya. Tren1olite--bearing rock, "ith a fibrous...filling in diabase in the Traprock Quarry near Leesburg, Va. 8. Aragonite. Fihrons incrustations with...in diabase sea ms at Traprock Quarry, Leesburg, Va. 11. Azurite. Occurs nsnau ~- with malachite a nd often
Report (volume)
BUIJLETIN 528 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS 1 OF LEMHI COUNTY, IDAHO BY JOSEPH B. UMPLEBY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT.......................... 74 Mineralogy of Lemhi County ores....................................... 74...in Lemhi County.......................................... Mining districts of Lemhi County.............96 98 0 CONTENTS. Mining districts of Lemhi County Continued. Page. Texas district Continued. Mines...127 127 CONTENTS. 7 Mining districts of Lemhi County Continued. Page. Gibbonsville district. ......
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side...PHILLIPSITE, and THOMSONITE. Adams County Alaska mine, Seven Devils district: azurite, grossular, malachite, powellite...across, Highway 95 road cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. FIgUre 5 (right)...across, Highway 95 road cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Volume 70, July/August
Journal (issue)
the important The Mineral Newsletter Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our February...Towers), 3548 South Jefferson St. (intersecting Leesburg Pike), Falls Church, VA Phone: (703) 671-7507...Kentucky and bought some specimens, including an azurite from Zacatecas, Mexico, and a sphalerite from the...WI, and elsewhere. They were found in Keweenaw County at the Wolverine #2 mine dump (now taken away for...Webelos-Ree in October 2012 at Sky Meadows State Park in Virginia. and … to Alec Brenner for Recognition of Leadership
Journal (issue)
far beneath the surface of copper-rich deposits. Azurite is particularly susceptible to alteration into...stunning specimens, especially when there are large azurite crystals altering to malachite. Such specimens...pseudomorphs of malachite after azurite, when well-crystalized azurite has been completely replaced by...Rather con- The Mineral Newsletter Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join your club officers...Towers), 3548 South Jefferson St. (intersecting Leesburg Pike), Falls Church, VA Phone: 703-671-7507 Reservations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
persisted as white men poured into the gold camp of Leesburg, 15 miles to the northwest of Blackbird Creek...overlooked. No one wanted to leave the action at Leesburg till the gold was gone. Gold grew scarcer until...pyrites were common—at 75 feet a 3 foot wide vein of azurite showed up. This vein yielded $20 of gold per ton...Cobalt Deposits In The Blackbird District, Lemhi County, ld\tho, Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin
Report (issue)
east-central Idaho. Most of the Forest is in Lemhi County; only a small portion falls within Idaho and Valley...during 1866 when placer gold was discovered in Leesburg Basin. Hardrock mining quickly spread throughout...National Forest. Most of the Salmon Forest is in Lemhi County; only a small portion falls within Idaho and Valley...reported on the geology and ore deposits in Lemhi County and his work is an excellent source for mining...Reconnaissance of placer mining districts in Lemhi County; Pattee and others (1968) -- Beryllium Resources
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
N. Y. William Johnson, Parker's Trailer Court, Leesburg, Va. Bobby Parker, Evergreen Ave., Rye, N. Y....Arizona & M e x i can material. Aurichalcire, azurite, c i n nabar, cave crystals, copper, gold h e m...2 , Bayard, Nebr. "PEARLS A N D JADE — Monterey County nephrite jade $ 2 . 7 5 lb. Slabs 3 / 1 6 " 50c
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.;
Report (issue)
diagram of ground water from the Culpeper basin of Virginia. 82 21. Water-analyses diagram of ground water...recks increase from Virginia northward and coal is more prominent from Virginia southward. The basins...densities from logs of one well in Maryland and one in Virginia indicate a range of 2.50 to 2.SO grams per cubic...industries. In particular, Dr. James L. Calver of the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources; Mr. Stephen G....Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. < * This investigation has depended heavily on
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..........................................499 Virginia .....................................................................................525 West Virginia ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ..........................................
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weathers into limonite (an iron ore). Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our June speaker...Towers), 3548 South Jefferson St. (intersecting Leesburg Pike), Falls Church, VA Phone: 703-671-7507 Reservations...G. The Estes Quarry, West Baldwin, Cumberland County, ME: A Relatively New Pegmatite Phosphate Mineral...found at Gold Hill, Tooele County, UT, and in the Tintic district, Juab County, UT. It also occurs in the...the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope district, Pershing County, NV. Doug will give an overview of the local geology
 
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