 | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals found in Ver mont slate. Figure 2. Slate quarry, Poultney; photo by Roger Bacon. The granite industry...decorator tiles. The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi cant locality...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...the locality; it is near er to the quarry than the village of Lowell and is the last set tlement seen...locality from the south. The Belvidere Mountain quarry has produced worldclass crystals of grossular (the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2 (above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide...mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 3 (left). Fluorite, 2.5 cm on...Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...showy specimens until the recovery of spectacular fluorite, sphalerite, and barite specimens at the Elmwood...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals! Today the Sand and Grit of the Imperial Folk County Gem and Mineral Society, Winter Haven, tells of...of a successful trip to the Brooksville Quarry for fossils, chert and calcite! The Gem and Mineral Club...Beach, is exchanging specimens, by mail, with an unnamed club in Tay lor, Michigan. Fossils and specimens...and Mineral Club, Hannibal, joined with the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, in a field trip to...the proc esses. Field Trip Destination: Cinque Quarry, Judd's Bridge, Washington, Conn, for blue blade |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8...[University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 Barrow County Arnold mine—1.6 km northeast of Statham, near the |  | | 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...copper, gold, iron, lead, silver, zinc, barite,and fluorite. Detailed and summary information on site location |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey |  | | Report (edition) | | 5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers...much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...the back cover. Richard Mitchell (University of Virginia) supplied the photograph of Parker CleaveIand's...Supplemental labels were added where necessary to show quarry sites, road names, and other useful landmarks. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | calcite, 8 cm, Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo....Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers...Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level. There are some noteworthy mineral...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden...Dominated by veins containing barite, calcite, fluorite, and sphalerite, it has not been actively mined |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CONNECTICUT The Thames Valley Rockhounds, New London County, began the new season with an idea packed program...Brazilian minerals and his trip to Brazil. — The Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club, Marietta, went to the Grisson...Lapidary and Mineral Society of Prince Georges County, Hyatts ville were on a field trip in the area...minerals in many parts of the world. — Two members (unnamed) demonstrated crystal growing and copper plating...Clifton Mineral and Lapidary Society. — The Bergen County Mineralogy and Pa leontology Society, Paramus |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | white micaceous mineral was found at the Dresser quarry in Walton. Associated material includes tennantite...cation. The piece, from the Canada Crushed Stone quarry in Dundas, con sists of a dark brown dolomitic...Carl adds that he also found sphalerite, calcite, fluorite, and some galena. Mike Wulmer of Buffalo, New...syenite in an outcrop not far from the Goulding-Keene quarry in Bancroft. T h e crystals are usually tabular...micromounts. Both specimens were from the Dunton Gem quarry. One was a newly collected specimen while the other |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway |  | | Journal (issue) | | I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)...Lucking collection, p. 78 5 36 86 Chips from the Quarry Connoisseur's Choice: Topaz from Granite Pegmatites...Brazil: At the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Carl A. Francis and Aaron Celestian 89 Who's |  | | Report (issue) | | Provincial Series————— Renault Formation ——————— Bethel Sandstone—————————Paint Creek Shale ———————— Cypress...they are residual weathering concentrations of fluorite. A few are nearly hori zontal bedding-replacement...1969, p. 88,110,182) and one ac tive sandstone quarry are shown in plate 1. Plate 1 also shows a few...Fluorbarite pro drilled in 1962 at the Fredonia Valley quarry (for loca duction has come from the Pygmy, Mico...1890, p. 155-156) is named for Fort Payne, DeKalb County, Ala. Ulrich (in Ulrich and Smith, 1905, p. 27-28) |  | | Report (issue) | | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs... Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph by J. Scovil....Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...Robinson district inclusions inclusions Realgar and Fluorite Rhodochrosite and Barite Richelsdorfite Scheelite...Descloizite Cuprite on Copper Nevadaite, Gold Quarry Mine Vanadinite, Ruth Mine Epidote Opal after |  | | Book (volume) | | publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...the United States Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia; the New York City Public Library; the Library...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | complex silicates, oxides and both cryolite and fluorite. The relative prevalence of Strontium, zirconium...graphite and baddeleyite. Two articles on this quarry are found in Paper 76-1B of the Geological Survey...other localities recently visited— St. Eustache Quarry and Oka Rare Metals Mine. Permission must be obtained...Gemology in the Adult Education system of Mont gomery County, Maryland, speak on the Jewels of Iran. Mrs. Taggert...a former member and officer of the North ern Virginia Club. NEW J E R S E Y The North Jersey Mineralogical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | next month. Mr. D.M. Stoltzfus of the Cedar Hill Quarry was host to the Mineral ogical Society of Pennsylvania...used 10 years earlier on a similar visit to this quarry. The Club's sommittee on radio activity plans...pyrites to the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills. Members Weldon and Edith Storey...the Bethlehem Steel Quarry, Hanover is scheduled for November. (Ed. Note: The Quarry is for limestone and...written permission only. The striking feature of the quarry and the surrounding a r e a . . . . no dust! It |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah ...........................................Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado .......................................Three of the softer minerals (gypsum, calcite, and fluorite) can easily be obtained in clear fragments, and...of relatively constant density (quartz, topaz, fluorite, etc.). Note, however, that even the best-trained...The Gold Hill mine is located in western Tooele County, Utah, in the north end of the Deep Creek M ountains |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...copper prospect near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...2002 National Officers President Susan Eriksson, Virginia Tech, 1013 Draper Road, Blacksburg, VA 24060 540-231-5360...COPPER PROSPECT near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia Henry Barwood Route 3, Box 144 Auburn, Alabama |  | | Journal (issue) | | historical term "lluorspar" for the ore although fluorite is the correct mineral name.) The Central Kentucky...wellknown, having been sporadically mined for fluorite, calcite, sphalerite and barite over the last...crystals, 31/2 inches wide, Thomas vein, Nally-Gibson Quarry, Kentucky. Although some of the iron mines of...(burning pyrite orebody in 1934) in Jerome, Yavapai County, AZ, thought to be native selenium which was established...copper sheet from the White Pine Mine, Ontonagon County. MI, thought to be calumetite. The mineral forms |
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