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Almandine from
Dale Quarry, Chester, Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Almandine
Formula:Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Microclineⓘ1 photo of Almandine associated with Microcline at this locality.
Muscoviteⓘ1 photo of Almandine associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Almandine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dale Quarry, Chester, Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:367917
Long-form Identifier:1:3:367917:3
GUID (UUID V4):a0b02507-5517-4ca9-a7eb-c8baf33cfaa3
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
Finger) and LKA Emeralds from Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC to Go On Public Exhibit in New York City Emeralds...explorer with operations in Oaxaca. Mexico and evada, USA. In June, 2018. groundbreaking began at the surface/open...Mining Unit. which also includes the Mina Gold. County Line and East Camp Douglas propertie . The Project...Mineral Belt (Bell Mining District) in Mineral County. Nevada. A fler ten monrhs of construction progress...News----------------- Page s Dale Quarry Chesterfield County, Virginia "Uncovering the Green Giant" By
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)
duction. Dale et al. (1914) listed many minerals found in Ver­ mont slate. Figure 2. Slate quarry, Poultney;...extensive lists of minerals in granite prepared by Dale (1923). Rutilated quartz, apatite, and many other...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cavities lined with comb-structured quartz. Although Dale (1924) named the vein after the boxlike (equidimensional)...Rossie calcite. REFERENCES Dale, N. C. 1924. The box-vein of Lyomdale, Lewk County, New York. New York State...Quebec. The sill is well exposed in the Varennes quarry, which has been operated continuously for crushed... just off Route 109, there is an old pegmatite quarry known locally chiefly for its occasional production...documented, if at all. Most of the material from the quarry was evidently used in the construction of an adjacent
Book
searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research...ciifce—Westchester County.................. Tne McLear pegmatite—5t. Lawrence County.....................Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County..................................................Counties.. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County................. Clinton hematite.............
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
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina. In the West, the Rockies...a Jersey's Limecrest quarry, for instance, is open to a year; the Foote quarry in North Carolina one...or goggles, and safety-toe shoes in an operating quarry or mine. They are prudent precautions against disaster...trespassers or even fenced in some states. Mine and quarry owners are often reluctant to give permission for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hampshire, glauconite, 373 Mill Close mine, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, corundophilite, I7I Seathwaite, Coniston...epidote, hornblende, diopsite, 427 Cheesewring quarry, Linkinhorne, danburite, 171; durangite, I72 Chycornish...Crowns Rock, St. Just, Land's End, garnet, 427 Dean quarry, The Lizard, djurle'ite, I72; analcime, adularia...penwithite (= neotocite), 279 and M26 Devon Meldon quarry, Okehampton, greenovite, 172; priceite, 175 Ramsley...Cannington Park quarry, djurlei'te, I72 Combe Farm quarry, Henbury, wulfenite, 298 Merehead quarry, Shepton
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searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research...pegmatite-Westchester County .......... . The Mclear pegmatite-St. Lawrence County .......... . Minerals...Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County .................................... . Hematite...Counties .. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County ......... . Clinton hematite .................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral species from the Poudrette Quarry, Mont SaintHilaire, Rouville County, Quebec (IMA 2002–029). It occurs...the measured density is 2.86(1) g/cm3. A Gladstone–Dale calculation gives a compatibility index of 0.038...L’indice de compatibilité selon la loi de Gladstone et Dale est 0.038 (excellent). La manganokukisvumite est...the Poudrette (formerly Demix) Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec. Mont Saint-Hilaire is...known collectively as the Monteregian Hills. The quarry is located on the northeastern flank of the mountain
Journal (issue)
by Vandall King. from Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...1 White fluorite, 2 mm, Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas, photo by the author. ,/" 2 Minero!...About 7 miles above Canyon [sic] City. Fremont County, Colorado." My best guess is that the gem pegmatite...short jaunt over to the Snowbird Mine, Mineral County, Montana to meet with the Forest Service and other...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • E-mail: lream@comtch.iea
Report (volume)
Cambrian formations in the Desert Range, Clark County, Nevada, by John H. Stewart and Harley Barnes_____________...Meduxnekeag Group and Spragueville Formation of Aroostook County, northeast Maine, by Louis Pavlides__-________...in the vicinity of the Aldrich Mountains, Grant County, Oreg______-____________ ________ 4. Summary of...Precambrian), central Arizona, by P. M. Blacet. Aroostook County, northeast Maine, by Louis Pavlides. Washington...Limestone. (Cinctnnatlan). County, Maine, by Louis Pavlides. tlon. Essex County, Massachusetts, by R. O
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vapour at low pressures and to staurolite-f almandine+hercynite+vapour at high pressures. Chloritoid...Fiedler (1832, p. 327) in a vein near an emery quarry several kilometres from the village of Kossoibrod...006 0-82 3-75 1000 1. Rawlinsville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Hietanen (1951, p. 867)....been omitted from the calculations. 5. Chatham County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Genth (1873, p. 399). Although...Grave Mountain near Bull Mountain, Patrick County, Virginia, U.S.A. Genth (1890, pp. 49-50). Pure chloritoid
Book
famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...permission must be obtained from the operator of a quarry before one is permitted to hunt there. Road cuts...agate is found on some of the beaches in Monterey County in California, moonstones on the beaches of Southern... 63 WHERE GEMSTONES ARE FOUND 64 State and County Locality Gemstone ALABAMA Coosa Rockford Hissop...GEMSTONES ARE FOUND 65 Gemstone Locality State and County ARIZONA (cont.) Maricopa (cont.) Skunk Creek Pierce
Journal (issue)
the keeping of the Councv Librarian, Derbyshire County Council Offices, Matlo~k. Derbyshire. DE4 3AG....lr. R. Amner, 58 Foljambe Avenue \:\ alton, Chesterfield. S40 3EX Tel. (0246) Z723r. Society Projects...fragment of this stone he had found in Middleton Dale that he had demanded a vase be made from it. From...commonly co/led Blue John, and other fossils in this County so universally admired.• Blue John has retained...Figure5 CALCITE, ◄cm scalenohedron from FallHill Quarry, Ashover. Specimen: G. Batey. Photo: David Green
Show/Event (guide)
during highway construction, Hull Township, Gatineau County, Quebec. P. M. Bellev, R. Rowe & M. Picard. 2:45...e " from the Harder Farm, Hammond, St. Lawrence County, NY. M. Lupulescu. 3:45 H i s t o r y of the Powers...Powers farm streamside veins, St. Lawrence County, New York. M. R. Walter & S. C. Chamberlain. 4:00 M...Louisa County, Virginia. L. E. Kearns & M. D. Dunn. 4:30 B l u e wavellite from the De Linde quarry, Garland...Garland, County, Arkansas. S. L. Hanson, A. U. Falster & Win. B. Simmons. 4:45 H a f n i a n zircon from
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...knapsack you can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it...Geological Surveys Distribution Branch. 1200 Virginia 22202. Those S for Eads Street. Arlington
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA Division of Geological...California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA School of Science and Health, University of Western...deposited in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County under catalogue number 65602. The waterworn crystal... The minerals reported from the area include almandine, beryl, cordierite, corundum, feldspar, kornerupine...concentrated HCl, H2SO4 and HNO3. The Gladstone–Dale relationship predicts an average index of refraction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 07:55 02 December 2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse...B Y C O U N T Y Albany County Indian Ladder: brookite; F. Old Callanan quarry: dolomite, barite, strontianite;...11 August 1859: olivinebronzite chondrite. Bronx County Various excavations: chabazite, harmotome, quartz...quartz (amethyst), stilbite; F. Clinton County Au Sable Forks, iron mines north of: microcline (sunstone)...stilbite, titanite, zircon, others; F, C. Columbia County Ancram lead mines: barite, galena, sphalerite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA *Corresponding author...et al. Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA, catalogue number...colourless, Y and Z beige; X < Y  Z. The Gladstone-Dale compatibility (Mandarino, 2007) is 0.031, in the...Albite Fluorapatite MgAl2O4 Spessartine Gahnite Almandine 0.00–0.05 32.07–33.47 0.02 0.50 Sanidine Fluorapatite...Department of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. References Alves, P. & Kampf, A. (2017): A mina
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Article Jahnsite-(CaFeMg), a new mineral from Tom’s quarry, South Australia: description and crystal structure...member of the whiteite–jahnsite group from Tom’s Quarry, Kapunda, South Australia, Australia where it occurs...Introduction co Key-words: jahnsite; new mineral; Tom’s quarry; Kapunda; crystal structure; phosphate; whiteite–jahnsite...Australia, Australia in 1904 (Jack, 1919). Tom’s quarry, one of several deposits in the area, has been...ferruginous and is overlain by limonitic laterite. Tom’s quarry is the largest and most mineralogically diverse
Journal (issue)
Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection no...Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality for...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing...15 feet to the left, parallel to the wall of the quarry. This tube varied from 6 inches to 2 feet wide
 
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