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Baryte from
White Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Baryte
Formula:BaSO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Baryte data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:366525
Long-form Identifier:1:3:366525:1
GUID (UUID V4):3ac67982-dafb-4b77-ace8-cbfaf1cec38f
Nearest other occurrences of Baryte
5.1km (3.2 miles) Leesburg Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
28.1km (17.5 miles) Chantilly Prospect B, Culpeper Basin, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
30.6km (19.0 miles) Berryville Quarry (Stuart M. Perry Inc.; Clarke County Quarry), Clarke County, Virginia, USA
42.9km (26.7 miles) Manassas Occurrence, Prince William County, Virginia, USA
43.0km (26.7 miles) New London Mine (Linganore Mine), New London, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
43.6km (27.1 miles) Farmers Cooperative Limestone Quarry, New London, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
48.5km (30.1 miles) Hammond Prospect (Pittinger Prospect), Frederick County, Maryland, USA
49.0km (30.5 miles) St. Stephens Mine, Fauquier County Barite, Fauquier County, Virginia, USA
50.2km (31.2 miles) Liberty Mine, Libertytown, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
53.9km (33.5 miles) Cedar Run Mine, Fauquier County Barite, Fauquier County, Virginia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
.......... p. 13 AFMS: Earth science history in USA ......... p. 14 EFMLS: Safety matters .............Mineralogical Association, the accepted spelling is “Baryte;” but in the United States, we continue to spell...face to produce variations such as: 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...Barite proves the point—it can be in colorless, white, yellow, brown, gray, and blue crystals. Its luster
Catalog/List
the top of a Calcite or Aragonite layer showing white fluorescence under SW UV The matrix is a gray material...Tourmaline and a blocky Feldspar mass, which serves as white matrix for the piece. The specimen is in excellent...groups. Virtually all of them were colorless or white and possessed a brilliant adamantine luster that...fabulously rich Native Silver usually associated with white Calcite veins. Within those veins, crystals of virtually...off to the rear, on one side. Massive Quartz with white Cleavelandite is the only matrix for this fine specimen
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SPECIMEN) 80x70 2 BISMUTHINITE XSTLS. PENLEE QUARRY, MOUSEHOLE, TWO XSTLS TO 3MM IN BISMUTHINITE/QUARTZMATRIX...ACC No. 826. MOLYBDENITE & NATIVE BISMUTH, PENLEE QUARRY, MOUSEHOLE. A 20 MM AREA OF MOLYBDENITE AND A 20...SMALE) 40X20 14 ACC No. 1025. CASSITERITE (VAR WHITE TIN) GOSS MOOR ALLU VIALS, ROCHE. EX SIR W.SARGEANT...PENTIREGLAZE MINE, PENTIREGLAZE, NORTH CORNWALL. WHITE JACKSTRAW XSTLS ON BLACK GOSS ANY MATRIX. “A GOOD...TOURMALINEMATRIX. 180x 130 QUARTZ CRYSTALS. GREYSTONES QUARRY, LEZANT. WHITEfTRANSPARENT PRISMATIC XSTLS. ENCRUSTING
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Tyzack Walter Veldsman Peter Wates Mike Webster John White Ross Whittaker 112 114 116 122 126 130 132 138...overseas field trips; to Europe, Siberia, Namibia, the USA & Canada and the Faroe Islands. Practical courses..."wish list". Whether the Siderite is epimorphing Baryte or Anhydrite is still being debated but they are...colour too. 9 Jeanbandyite/Natanite - Hingston Down Quarry, Calstock, Cornwall. Field of view approx. 3mm...Figure 5. Amethystine Geode (Potato Stone). Dulcote Quarry, Somerset. Figure 6. Calcite "Floater". Bonsall
Journal (volume)
David I. Green 37 59 The mineralogy of Whitwell Quarry, Derbyshire Peter J. Briscoe, John Chapman, David...Tindle 60 120 Mineralisation at the Steetley Quarry complex on the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border...crystallographically fascinating fluorite from Old Towns Quarry near Newton Aycliffe, cannonball calcite concretions...around Sunderland, baryte from localities around Ferryhill and rose quartz at Hawthorn Quarry near Easington...collectors. The most mineralogically diverse is Whitwell Quarry where a remarkable supergene assemblage was uncovered
Journal (issue)
pyromorphite in the Montezuma District, Summit County (Eckel et al., 1997): 1. “Pyromorphite, galena...flat-topped mountain on the eastern side of Summit County, in the Montezuma Mining District (Figure 1). Access...the possession of Summit County, at which point it was offered up by the county to be incorporated back...of Fluorite in Slate from the Bacco 424 Quarry, Iron County, Michigan Shawn M. Carlson 245 Jule Lake...Box 17748 Golden, Colorado 80402 The Bacco 424 quarry is located in the NW¼ of sec. 8, T42N, R32W, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, USA AND HOWARD T. EVANS, JR., GORDON L. NORD, EDWARD...MILTON U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia 22092, USA Abstract Delindeite and lourenswalsite...in nepheline syenite in the Diamond Jo quarry, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. Delindeite is found as aggregates...CaTi204(OH)2, has recently been found at the Diamond Jo quarry and described by Evans et al. (1986) as the first...Little Rock as well as at the Diamond Jo quarry in Hot Spring County. Here we describe two new titanositicate
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Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Chalky white cookeite with one crystal of transparent blue green...Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Pale greenish white to translucent to transparent tipped terminated...minor albite. £75. 18. QUARTZ PSEUDOMORPH AFTER BARYTE WITH SPHALERITE (18cm x 10cm x 6cm) Force Crag...surgery quartz tabular (c.5 x 2cm) pseudomorphs after baryte, large coverage, sitting on crystallised brown...OLIVENITE (5cm x 3cm x 3cm) Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada, U.S.A. Area 4 x 2.5 cm richly covered
Journal (issue)
acicular crystals 9 mm long on calcite. Fall Hill quarry, Ashover, Derbyshire. Collected 1979. Roy Starkey...Pennian Magnesian Limestone at Raisby, Cox hoe, County Durham , England 75 B. YounR Wavellite and variscite...Wilson and B. Young Milarite from Shap granite quarry, Cumbria, England, with a discussion of milarite...cuprian adamite, as minute spherules on quartz or baryte (e.g. specimens in British Micromount Society Reference...is associated with white to pale greenish globular smithsonite and very thin white unidentified crusts
arsenopyrite on rounded, grey galena and surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized...rhodochrosite, malachite, azurite, gypsum, anhydrite, baryte, apatite, turquoise, borax, ulexite are species...denser than common quartz or feldspar (2.6 g/cm*). Baryte and fluorite are much heavier with densities of...| molybdenite (lead grey with platinum (silver-white), p. 26 chalcocite (dark grey), p. 34 Hard (Mohs...p. 62 Silvery White White bismuth (reddish silver-white), p.25 silver (silver-white), p. 22 silver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Urracas quarry, owned by the company Hormigones de Ciudad Real Inc. (“Horcisa”). This quarry, operated...reaching 250,000 tons of rock removed per year. The quarry of Cerro Moreno volcano is located 1 km NE of Almagro...zeolites are relatively rare. In these lava flows a quarry called Las Herrerías is located, which was exploited...between Madrid and Seville. It was the largest basalt quarry of Ciudad Real and it produced up to 325,000 tons...Herrerías II over the area of the aforementioned quarry. From 2008, the north zone of the gap left by the
Journal (issue)
Cornwall, complete with a coveted Richard Barstow white label, which made £1340. This turned out to be the...TO YOUR DETAILS. As an alternative to a large white space here’s one for the micro enthusuasts: Apatite...crystal. Collected by Jeremy Hooper at Chywoon Quarry, Mabe, Wendron & Falmouth District, Cornwall. David...(symesite, Pb10(SO4)O7Cl4·H2O. Type locality Merehead Quarry, Somerset) – well now he has a room named after...same “lobe” of the Karowe deposit. These were fine white stones of 813 carats and 374 carats. William Lamb
Journal (issue)
The stolzite in this specimen is a fractured white plate, while the wulfenite occurs as small orange...on Meadowfoot Smelter Wanlockhead in 1981. Spiky white aragonite and a pyrrhotite - tarnished brassy coloured...from the Carrock Mine tips and the intense blue-white fluorescent scheelite from inside the mine.  Guided...classes 8 and 11 if there is a change in theme (e.g. baryte and African minerals in class 11). 4. A maximum...negatives, slide film or digital media in black and white or colour. The original photograph must have been
Journal (issue)
State Line Kimberlite District, Colorado & Wyoming, USA By Philip Persson, PerssonRareMinerals.com 6 Page...State Line Kimberlite District, Colorado & Wyoming, USA Philip Persson, PerssonRareMinerals.com While small...cubo-octahedral modifications, and are generally white to clear, though fine canary-yellow to brown stones...(gray) containing abundant altered mantle xenoliths (white dots). (Anton Chakhmouradian photo) 12 Cominco...1964, Dr. M.E McCallum of the USGS visited a small quarry in the pipe, where ‘terrazzo stone’ for local buildings
Journal (volume)
FRONT COVER: A group of colourless, transparent baryte crystals (6×2 mm) with overgrowing rhombohedral...Collection; photo John Chapman. BACK COVER: A group of white, translucent, prismatic calcite crystals (34 mm...mm across) from the Whin Sill at Barrasford Quarry, Gunnerton, Northumberland. Peter Briscoe Collection;...Young and Andy Hopkirk 4–16 Millerite from Linton Quarry, Gorsley Common, Herefordshire Roy E. Starkey and...contact-metamorphosed chalk near Portmuck, Islandmagee, County Antrim Norman R. Moles 21–26 Mineralisation in
Journal (volume)
height 42 mm. David Green photograph. BACK COVER: A white cerussite crystal, 6 mm high, with minor yellow...G. Tindle 23-25 PAPERS Danburite from Meldon Quarry, Okehampton and other UK localities Michael S....is a single small (3 cm) specimen of brown and white brecciated quartz with damaged 4 mm crystals of...of a small dark brown ochrous looking mass with white streaks. No bornite is visible from outside the...Figure 7. BARYTE, BaSO4 In the specimen material examined in this study, primary baryte is quite rare
Journal (issue)
adamite, green globules up to 0.5 mm across on baryte. Nether Row Brow, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England...edingtonite and associated minerals from Loanhead quarry, Beith, Strathclyde T.K. Meikle and J.G. Todd ... 48 Well-crystallised fraipontite from Machen quarry, Mid Glamorgan: a first Welsh locality J. Goulding...and M. T. Price 50 Bavenite from Shap granite quarry, Cumbria, England M.M. Wirth 51 Beyerite, (Ca... Also, in many lowland counties of England the County Plans give details of proposed mineral extraction
Journal (issue)
Collector JUMBO CRSSWORD Mineral of the month: Baryte First Virtual Mineral Symposium: a report Various...SUBSCRIPTION YEAR EXTENDED MINERAL OF THE MONTH – BARYTE IGNEOUS ROCKS WORD SEARCH DATES FOR YOUR DIARY...Simmonds Caroline May Rob Tripp John Pearce John White OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES Journal Editor Show Organisers...Oddy, Trevor Devon and Colin Brough John Hall John White Alan Simmonds SOCIETY SUBSCRIPTIONS Subscriptions...comprehensive “virtual mineral of the month on Baryte,” supported by Austin Woodbridge. There are also
Journal (issue)
orthoclase & chlosite. Mag. = x 8.5. Reilly quarry, Renfrewshire. 1998 Kemp Meikle. Journal of the...radiating laminar white aggregates to 20mm or as aggregates of randomly oriented white euhedral plates...overlapping en echalon quartz lenses separated by thin white-mica tourmaline membranes, the whole structure is...(Young 1987). It occurs most frequently as coarse white, radiating, primary aggregates in cellular quartz...aggregates of small, randomly oriented, tabular white barite crystals occur in cavities in coarsely granular
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25 26 27 28 92/089 Analcime with calcite. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Analcime pseudomorphs after...calcite crystals. 92/088 Calcite and analcime. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Calcite-analcime pseudomorphs...50mm lon_g. 92/095 Calcite and analcime. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Single crystal of laumontite...Calcite. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Large white calcite crystal with later white calcite crystals...93/142 Calcite with analcime. Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire. Two white calcite crystals to 25mm on uooer
Journal (volume)
and botryoidal varieties), from Bohill quarry, Dundrod, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, collected in...Brian Young 18-26 The mineralogy of Bardon Hill Quarry, Coalville, Leicestershire Francis Ince 27-39...vein minerals at the Conlig-Whitespots Lead Mines, County Down, Northern Ireland Norman R. Moles 40-46 ...benefactors: Peter and Greg Tom at Bardon Hill Quarry (1 :4-3 : 1); Redland Aggregates (2: 1); Ralph...Mine and Carr's Level , spectacular roof to floor white coatings of hydrozincite occur (Bridges and Young
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Environmental Resources Section Exhibition, Cleveland County Libraries and Leisure Department. CASE 1 A range...NORTHUMBERLAND M 5034 Iron stained pinkish fluorite with white saddle-shaped dolomite crystals on iron lattice-work...FLORENCE MINE, EGREMONT, CUMBRIA M 2592 Snow-white crust of hydrozincite. SMALLCLEUGH MINE, NENTHEAD...vugh of normal white crystals. HAGGS MINE, NENTHEAD, CUMBRIA M 5539 Pale pinkish white barytocalcite...barytocalcite crystals growing on baryte platy lattice-work. HAGGS MINE, NENTHEAD, CUMBRIA M 5549 Crusts of green
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be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...x 1.8 om, 159.10 ct RIGHT: Round brilliant-cut white diamonds, South Africa and Canada « 2.00 ct and...they become white-hot, the way a space shuttle does during re-entry. During this white-hot phase they...Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17 x 11
Journal (issue)
advertising. 1о OAKSTONE and other PSEUDOSTALACTITIC BARYTE from DERBYSHIRE WAS Sаrјеапt • TD Ford 15 EDITOR...identification as powellite (scheelite fluoresces bluish-white). PYRITE FeS2 GRОSSULAR Са3А12(SiОa)з Grossular...margin of the granite where it occursas massive white veins, some of which contain tabular cavities which...molybdenite above. Quartz also occurs as opaque white crystals to 3 5 т т , often associated with prismatic... The О A K S T О N E and other PSEUDOSTALACTITIC BARYTE of Derbyshire William A.S. Sаrjeent, Department
Journal (volume)
58-62 Copper and barium mineralisation at Forcett Quarry, East Layton, North Yorkshire Brian Young, Trevor...volume describe copper mineralisation in Forcett Quarry, North Yorkshire and at Rassal Mine in the Scottish...including quartz, calcite, aragonite, dolomite, baryte and fluorite, typically found in cavities or vugs...a few centimetres across, by pale cream to off-white colouration, apparently reflecting localised centres...well-formed curved saddle-shaped rhombic crystals of white to pale cream dolomite (Smith, 1924). Such a ‘halo’
 
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