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Spessartine from
Henry County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Spessartine
Formula:Mn32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spessartine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Henry County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:367957
Long-form Identifier:1:3:367957:9
GUID (UUID V4):688d0c27-abe3-4e2b-b5e8-4467e10e5328
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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
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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
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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
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DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...beautiful gem quality spessartine garnet, rare facet grade microlite, amazonite, fine moonstone, and topaz...topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise crystals, and the popular...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
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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
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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
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CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...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...old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing pastel moonstone...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its
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(30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16.62 ct), Ramona, California; deep red...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...AZ; Richard A. & Tresa L. Kosnar, Golden, CO: Virginia & Larry Kribs, Desert Dog Mines, Bend, OR; Guy
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(30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62 et), Ramona, California; deep...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...AZ; Richard A. & Tresa L. Kosnar, Golden, CO: Virginia & Larry Kribs, Desert Dog Mines, Bend, OR; Guy...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...100-year history of the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County collection; photo...16 cm, from Wood’s Chrome mine, Texas, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; originally from the collection of...photo The 100-year History of the San Benito County, California Wendell E. Wilson The Mineralogical
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from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...opal sources 28. Morefield pegmatite, Amelia, Virginia Xlll 3 5 5 6 11 12 13 19 20 21 22 23 25 37 38...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and...View of Clear Creek, San Benito County, California 55. Monterey County jade-producing shoreline, California...crystal forms 58. Graph of spessartine chemical composition, Amelia, Virginia 59. Rhodolite deposit, North
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left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard...Sevier County (Coskren and Lauf 2000). The following index is arranged alphabetically by county. It is
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long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite specimens
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Virginia ........... 96 Table 18 Selected references arranged...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of southwestern Virginia.........................98 Figure 23. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of north-central Virginia........................99 INTRODUCTION Uranium...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a
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Geology and Virginia Richard V. Dietrich Professor of Geology and Dean School of Arts and Sciences,...University Press of Virginia Charlottesville Qt z.^.z THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA Copyright © 1970...by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia First published 1970 Standard Book Number: 8139-0289-4...America To Frances, Rick, Kurt, Krista, and Virginia 161781 Digitized by the Internet Archive in...natives of Virginia and visitors to the Commonwealth—who are interested in geology and in Virginia. It attempts
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COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing............................................. 170 County Index ...........................................from Washington and Bleck ley counties to Irwin county. Some minerals described herein have never been...vicinity, and amethyst from Charlies Creek in Towns County. The great diversity of Georgia's mineral wealth
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Bettie S. Hackman, Virginia M. Jussen, Elisabeth S. Loud, Mildred C. Mead, Virginia S. Neuschel, and Dorothy...the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club. West Virginia University. Morgan town, W. Va. Caves and Karst-...Ky. Kentucky Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky...Analysts. Houston, Tex. Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. - Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science...Science. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Los Angeles, Calif. Los Angeles County_Mus. Nat.
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... B. Nodule of "coldwater agate" from Benton County showing gray and white chalcedony and crystalline...made from "coldwater agate" material of Keokuk County..................................................Another variation of "coldwater agate" from Keokuk County. C. Quartz geode. D. Doubly terminated quartz crystals...Samuel and H.F. Bain, 1900, Geology of Dubuque County, Iowa: Iowa Geol. Survey Ann. Rept. (1899), v....call attention to the gypsum deposits in Webster County which he saw during a trip by canoe up the Des
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1959. Ohio Physical State Sci- L. the The Henry English an Vol. Page E. 10, Books Loeb al...Stockholm. lished in steinen. 45. pp. 1831? The Henry of Physick 203 pp. Lithogeognosie, 431 40 pp... Treatise pp. E. A. W. Budge, phia: 27. Henry pp. Philadelphia Michigan London: 17. or a...acquired by Robert Lord Fig. Emmet An engraved Henry IV, King panel. From P. J. of gem France. ...Gustavovich beautifully presented One of the Virginia It emerald round diamonds and Colombian cabochons
Report (volume)
250-12,460 ft, sec. 14, T. 45 S., R. 27 E., Lee County, Fla. Named for the nearby Able Canal. The Able...Accomack Member of the Omar Formation Pleistocene Virginia, Maryland Atlantic Coast basin Mixon, R.B., 1985...Cenozoic deposits in the southern Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia and Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Professional...H-20, northwest of Wattsville, northern Accomack County, Va. Reference sections: facies E and F, sand pits...Wattsville, Persimmon Point, and Accomack, Accomack County, Va. The informal Accomack beds of Mixon and others
Report (volume)
Bettie S. Hackman, Virginia M. Jussen, Elisabeth S. Loud, Mildred C. Mead, Virginia S. Neuschel, and Dorothy...the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club. West Virginia University. Morgantown, W.Va. Caves and Karst...London, England. Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology County Rept. County Report. Moscow, Idaho. Academic Press. ...Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. in Science. Los Angeles, Calif. Los Angeles County Museum Contributions...Contributions Los Angeles County Mus. Nat. History Quart.- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly
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Department of Geology University of California, Davis, CA USA DAVID T. WRIGHT Department of Geology University...Estuarine Environment, Willapa Bay, Washington, USA: Palaeogeographic Implications and Estuarine Evolution...Heavy-Mineral Sands of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, USA. . . . . . . . . . . Fredric L. Pirkle, William A...G.L. BYNUM 761 Towhee Court, Fremont, CA 94539, USA (U.S. Geological Survey, retired) J. CASCALHO Centro... UC Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA G. DURN University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mining,
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Bettie S. Hackman, Virginia M. Jussen, Elisabeth S. Loud, Mildred C. Mead, Virginia S. Neuschel, and Dorothy...Geology California Div. Mines and Geology County Rept. Geology County Report. San Francisco, Calif. California...Ky. Kentucky .Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky...Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. in Science. Los Angeles, Calif. Los Angeles County Museum Contributions...Contributions Los Angeles County Mus. Nat. History Quart.- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly
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Geological Institute 4220 King Street Alexandria, Virginia 22302 703/379-2480 Price: $75 printed $25 microfiche...the total of 4,284 new Terms were United States county and city Terms. Counties and Cities in the United...States Earlier editions had Terms such as Washington County and Portland for counties and cities of the United...for example: Washington County Arkansas and Portland Maine. Each new county Term can now autopost its...to counties was a major task. The scope of U.S. county and city Terms can now be clear even when they
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Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course...overall light smoky shade, and one from Saline County, Arkansas, failed to turn color at all. Crystals...“Hot Springs area” * “Hot Springs area” Lincoln County Veta Grande Claim, Yuma Co. Arkansas Arkansas...equivalent geologic provinces of the Carolinas, Virginia, M aryland and Pennsylvania, to the high-grade...Triassic trap rock dikes and sills from northern Virginia through Nova Scotia. Within the southeastern United
 
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