 | | 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 *...of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound by The Williams Printing Co., Richmond, Va |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS (PART GOOCHLAND By PHILIP East Derry, COUNTY In N edge of the James R...R., W of Richmond and bordering Fluvanna Co. with which it shares the gold belt. Coun ty Seat is Goochland...Extensive gold mining formerly on ex treme W and county line around Rte 605 to Rte 606. There are several...ilmenite in quartz monzonite. Dover Coal Ms. Nr. Henrico Co line. Remains can be seen S of Rte 6 and E of...deep. Bell Shaft. Garden Wall M. Shaft. FLUVANNA COUNTY 2 / 2 M i 4 4 2 2 ROCKS AND MINERALS |  | | Journal (issue) | | as common minerals such as calcite, opal, and fluorite. Perhaps most interesting will be the minerals...Sims My dear friend, Georgia, lives in Lynchburg, Virginia. She is a gem of a person. In a conversation we...selections were made. Amber’s blue and purple fluorite was to be made into a ring. Georgia’s ruby would...November 22 - 23, 2008 sponsored by the Northern Virginia Mineral Club Show site - George Mason University...MINERAL NEWSLETTER Announcing The 17th Annual Richmond Gem & Mineral Society… 2008 Fall Rock Swap >>>>>>>> |  | | 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) | | Prepared in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and the Hampton Roads Planning...Groundwater-Quality Data and Regional Trends in the Virginia Coastal Plain, 1906–2007 Professional Paper 1772...collected from research observation wells at Fentress, Virginia, during 2006. Truck-mounted submersible pumping...groundwater-research station established by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The...wells for monitoring saltwater intrusion in the Virginia Coastal Plain, from which groundwater samples |  | | 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) | | southeast of State College in northern Huntingdon County, has many activities including historical ones...principal deposits, one near Belleville, Mifflin County, and ores located near the furnace. These latter...Mandata, PA, on the east side of Route 225. 7 Fluorite, Cave-in-Rock, Illinois. 2.5" (62 mm) across....tequila drinks. 7 Wavellite, Lime Ridge, Perry County, PA. Individual balls of crystal aggregates are...fall foliage time), and is hosted by the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club. The feature article by Andrea |  | | 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) | | mm, a 20-cm plate of intensely red octahedral fluorite on quartz matrix, as well as a beautiful titanite...gold and calcite, 7.3 Ă— 6.0 Ă— 5.8 cm, Botes, Alba County, Romania. Figure 11 (lower). Chrysoberyl, 6.5 Ă—...Ă— 7.5 Ă— 6.0 cm, Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia. Figure 13 (top right). Fluorite on quartz, 6 Ă— 4...5 cm, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County, California. Figure 20 (below). Azurite with malachite...8 Ă— 4.0 Ă— 3.3 cm, Cliff mine, Phoenix, Keweenaw County, Michigan. Figure 22 (below left). Pyromorphite |  | | Journal (issue) | | DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...amazonite, fine moonstone, and topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise...minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which have been used as gemstones and decora...report. Many of the localities will be familiar to Virginia mineral collectors. Someof the areas mentioned...collect minerals. There has been much written on Virginia mineral localities but no reports are available |  | | Journal (issue) | | Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia Ozarlottesville, Virginia PHOTOGJ;APHIC EDITOR Joel Arem ...Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina. Muscovite (twinned) from...Hampshire, South Dakota, Idaho, New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Deposits... Maine; Chesterfield, Massachusetts; San Diego County, California; Colorado and New Mexico. 6 ROCKS...muscovite crystals from Brooks Fann, Cleveland County, North Carolina. ~ TABLE 1.-MICA-GROUP MINERALS |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA REVISITED By LAWRENCE AND HARRIETTE SCHOPPEE Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 23:24...Greenbrier St., Springfield, Mass. We revisited Virginia in May 1958, four years after our first trip,...interesting. We started collecting at Amelia, Virginia, and proceeded clockwise in a circle which ended...go east on Route 360 (toward Richmond) approximately 1.2 miles to county route 609, a left turn, with...encouraging and thrilling news. Going westward to Rice, Virginia, we found that Mr. and Mrs. Hodges, mentioned |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | E S IN V I R G I N I A "Virginia Division of Mineral Resources" From "Virginia Minerals" By PALMER C....for people who are interested in collecting in Virginia. All the listed localities were open and the informaÂ...official State Highway Map as well as individual county road maps, both of which are available from the...Department of Highways, 1221 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. Top ographic maps are available from the...Mineral Resources, Box 3667, Charlottesville, Virginia and from the Distribution Section of the U.S. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Trip at the Sparvetta Quarry on Route 1 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland State Line. This...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton. . . . The Gem Cutters Guild of Baltimore...the hunting is good for such things as flint, fluorite, barite, and copper minerals. The Anthophyllite...trip took the club to Cave in Rock, Illinois, for fluorite. . . . More on Field Trips as we read that the...Mineral Society, Johnson City, went to Chilhowie, Virginia, to the Worthy Mine to hunt Quartz crystals, according |  | | Journal (issue) | | -MINERAL-AND FOSSIL-COLLECTING LOCALITIES IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. . . This article presem the most...for people who are interested "in collecting in Virginia (Figure I). All the listed localities were open...ofticial State Highway Map as well as individual county road maps, both of which are available From the...East Broad Street. Richmond. Virginia. Topographic maps are available from the Virginia Division of Mineral...Mineral Resources. Box 3667, Charlottemille, Virginia and from the Distribution Section a f ~ h eU. S. &logical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sites in Virginia by PALMER C. SWEET Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...for people who are interested in col lecting in Virginia (Figure 1). All the alphabetically listed localities'were...official State Highway Map as well as individual county road maps (10^ each), both of which are available...and Transportation, 1221 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. Topo graphic maps are available from the...Mineral Resources, Box 3667, Charlottesville, Virginia and from the National Cartographic Information |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Vermont, and Virginia Shows 35 Florida, and Georgia Shows 48 Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin...Press at P.O. Box 740864, Arvada, Colorado 80006 USA; International 1 -(720) 946-2808; Toll-free 1 -(877)...Shows Page 39 KENTUCKY 5 Shows Page 37 ^WEST VIRGINIA 1 Show j Page 4j/ CONNECTICUT 5 Shows Page 34...JERSEY 10 Shows Page 40 DELAWARE 1 Snow Page 34 VIRGINIA X 12 Shows Page 47 ARYLAND 0 Shows Page 37 NORTH...2020 TBD. Richmond BC Gem & Mineral Society Show. Richmond Arts & Cultural Centre. Richmond. May 2020 |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...diamonds have been found. Vi r g i n i a : Orange, Henrico, Tazewell West V i r g i n i a : M o n r o e Kentucky:...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | irregularities along it. In easternKentucky and West Virginia, the regional Bouguer gravity anomalypatternssuggesta...mining districts,producingzinc, lead,barite, and fluorite, and 'numerous noncommercialmineralized zones...central United States is that this region is stable Virginia into centralMissouriand that may possibly and...Paleozoic .,. Ăź Ashland Charleston Elhott County Kimberlite intrusions Mostly thick ....... ...Easternpart of the 38th parallellineamentin Virginia, West Virginia, and easternKentucky. Rough Creek-CottageGrove |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mining in Alabama in the Cragford district of Clay County, the workings which entered the unoxidized zone...Palmer, Alaska. ARIZONA—From a locality in Mohave County in N . W . Arizona, we have an interesting specimen...glauberite xls mailed you last June from Imperial County near Bertam Siding on the Southern Pacific R.R...grayish xls. The locality is in S/W Winneshiek County of N / E Iowa. KANSAS—"In the southeast corner...collect fluorescent material. The white massive fluorite is most responsive. Under long wave ultra violet |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | District of Columbia in some hunting in the Northern Virginia Trap Rock: quarries and the Rockville, Maryland...he wishes to discuss. . . . . The St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club, Potsdam, is another of the...Mines The Mineralogical Society of Pennsylfor fluorite, molybdenite and othe~ min- vania, Philadelphia...Rock and Mineral Tompki~s County Gem and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Club, Ithaca. ....Soinstruments used for this purpose. ciety of Montgomery County, Rockville. ROCKS AND MINERALS 467 Downloaded |  | Kearns, Lance E., Coccina, Frank, John, Alyssa Saint, Raiter, Erin, Tucker, Thomas (2009) The Mineralogy of the Buck Hill Syenite Intrusion, Augusta County, Virginia. Rocks & Minerals, 84 (4) 352-362 doi:10.3200/rmin.84.4.352-362 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | HILL S Y E N I T E I N T R U S I ON , Augusta County, Virginia B Downloaded by [Florida State University]...7.5-minute Stokesville Quadrangle, Augusta County, Virginia. In this area, forty-one dikelike intrusions...and Rockingham counties, Virginia, and bordering Pendleton County, West Virginia (Johnson 1965). These igneous...Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 kearnsle@jmu.edu THOMAS TUCKER 34 Tucker Lane Washington, Virginia 22747 352...Museum at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Frank Coccina has a master’s degree in geology |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 23:46 07 August 2017 Left: Amber calcite, Carter County, Montana; 6.5 cm x 9 cm. Below: Pale green, flawless...outstanding specimens from New Y o r k include fluorite from Macomb; calcite from Sterlingbush; galena...albite (peristerite) from Macomb. A flawless green fluorite octahedron 12 cm on an edge from Westmoreland...torbernite from Shinkolobwe; a classic vivianite from Richmond, and another from the Cameroons; a George Frederick...Wilberforce; uraninite from the Cardiff mine; fluorite and barite from Madoc; and Thunder Bay amethyst |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | by the Gem and Mineral Society of San Mateo County. County Fairgrounds, 2495 S. Delaware Street, San Mateo...and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Maryland. Montgomery County Fairgrounds, 16 Chestnut Street....Annual Gem and Mineral Show sponsored by the Fulton County Rockhounders. Wallace Park, 250 S. Avenue D , Canton...Society, "The Good Earth." Youth Building, Waukesha County Exposition Center. For information, contact Robert...by the Peru Rocks and Minerals Club, Inc. Miami County 4-H Fairgrounds. Show chairman: Fern Penner, 370 |
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