 | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Geochemistry of Tertiary Volcanic Rocks in Parts of the Virginia City Quadrangle, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Geochemistry of Tertiary Volcanic Rocks in Parts of the Virginia City Quadrangle, Nevada By DONALD H. WHITEBREAD...geochemistry of Tertiary volcanic rocks in parts of the Virginia City quadrangle, Nevada. (Geological Survey Professional... 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12-15. Index map of the Virginia City quadrangle ________________________________________________...-----------------Generalized geologic map of the Virginia City quadrangle ----------------------------- |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 'Arizona Gem Fields'. Near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif., and then deep in the Muggins Mountains...), no fl. (s.w.). Wesrville is in So. Vermilion County of Eastern Illinois. INDIANA—"From a little stream...brown by iron. Covington is in Western Fountain County in Western Indiana. I O W A — " W e enclose for...of a large rock found in a field in Des Moines County, Iowa, by Mr. Art Hueschen of Danville, Iowa. "This...and has found many types of rocks in Des Moines County, Iowa, which we predict will be a Rock 247 Hound's |  | | 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) | | locality in the State is Russell Gulch in Gilpen County. A small but very fine crystal group from Russell...mind. We have only one small rock outcrop in my county (Orange) at Rock Springs near Apopka. "The beaches...brown in color and comes from Leesville, Vernon Parish, La. Leesville is Louisiana's most noted petrified...wood locality and it is Lovett Word, Box 1129, Leesville, La., who found the first specimens and announced...is good that I got on my visit to Mr. Word in Leesville. The man has a lot of the wood and fossils, etc |  | | Report (issue) | | parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, and southern Virginia. 4. Geologic section and simple Bouguer gravity...Page 103. Photograph of Linville Falls fault in roadcut along North Carolina Highway 194 about one-half...College and county seat of Watauga County), Blowing Rock, Linville, and Newland (county seat of A very...very County). The main sources of income are tourism and farming. Tobacco (mountain burley), cabbage, beans...rhododendron are scarce, many vines, including Virginia-creeper, cudzoo, and blackberry, add to the undergrowth |  | | Report (issue) | | from the roadlog of Thompson (1972). In the Orange County copper district, the stops and descriptions in...Survey National Center, Mail Stop 954 Reston, Virginia 22092 Simplified geologic map of the Glens Falls...sedimenthosted massive sulfide deposits within the Orange County copper district (the Vermont copper belt) of probable...overhanging ledge (Hoosac). Variable amounts of magnetite occur locally along this contact, interpreted...small deposit of sulfide-rich magnetite iron formation (quartz + magnetite + pyrite + minor pyrrhotite |  | | Book (edition) | | crystal of nepheline. alkali feldspar. biotite. magnetite and apatite. These vein-dykes are similar to the...backroads and often come across a quarry or a roadcut, stop and investigate it, and bring back some colourful...present additional problems. The famous Hi ghway 62 roadcut north of Bancroft is now closed to collectors because...to get at mineral samples, they undermined the roadcut and it became a safety hazard. If you choose to...Road, tum right and drive 22.2 km to the roadcut. The roadcut is located on top of a small hill, just |  | | Report (issue) | | Wheeler 1 2 U. S. Geological Survey, Raleigh, N.C. Campbell College, Buies Creek, N.C. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The...Wheeler 1 U. S. Geological Survey, Raleigh, N.C. 2 Campbell College, Buies Creek, N.C. INTRODUCTION (2)...trends southwestward from near the North Carolina-Virginia line to a point a short distance across the North...sedimentation began first in the North Carolina and Virginia basins in the middle Carnian and became progressively...C. Division of Mineral Resources, and the Wake County Planning Commission. Figure 3 is a contour map |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tacharanite in an amygdaloidal basalt, Highland County, Virginia S I y c E its original discovery on the Isle...note is to report a new locality in Highland County, Virginia, apparently the first in the Americas, where...been reported for a dike in another part of the county (Mitchell and Freeland, 1986). The sill, which...about 215 metres. Its maximum width, observed in a roadcut, is 6 m, but it diminishes to about 3 m near the...line) east, northeast of Doe Hill, Highland County, Virginia, or 3.38 km northwest of the intersection |  | | Report (volume) | | GWENDOLYN W. LUTTRELL, MARILYN L. HUBERT, and VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ...ted States. I. Hubert, Marilyn L. II. Jussen, Virginia M. III. Title. IV. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1564 1986...Gwendolyn W. Luttrell, Marilyn L. Hubert, and Virginia M. ,Jussen INTRODUCTION This lexicon contains... 147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...10. Type section: Little Paha core section, in roadcut through center of small paha, near town of Alburnett |  | | Report (volume) | | changes in stratigraphic nomenclature in Vermont, Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia UNITED...Robertson River Igneous Suite, Blue Ridge Province, Virginia ................................................Granite in the Potomac Valley, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland ..................................Suite and adjacent rocks in northern and central Virginia. Generalized geologic map of parts of the Washington...unit in the Saltash is largely massive albite-magnetite grit (his unit A). This unit is overlain by a |  | | Book | | Hematite and Magnetite ������������������������������������������ 233 70. Plummer Mine Magnetite and Hematite...permitted. Many entries in this book are in city parks, county parks, state forests, state parks, federal lands...to go to a crusher. If you take your wagon to a roadcut, you are collecting too many rocks. This can also...not question why you are so intently studying a roadcut. Dehydration and hunger can make you and your companions...sometimes referred to as the backbone of the Door County peninsula. This rock unit actually extends in a |  | | Report (issue) | | ..............1 Reesers Summit 1-83 northeast roadcut exposure .......2 Location and description of core...location of the USGS 1984 samples from the 1-83 roadcut and USGS core holes 1 and 2 within the Mesozoic...1. Magnetic susceptibility of samples from the roadcut along 1-83 at Reesers Simmit, Pa. (in cgs units...Figure B4. Geometric relationship between the roadcut exposure at Reesers Summit, the USGS coreholes... Magnetic susceptibility profiles of the 1-83 roadcut and coreholes 1 & 2, projected onto a line normal |  | | Report (issue) | | estuarine tidal rhythmites Interstate 64, Rowan-Carter County line, northeastern Kentucky L/.S. DEPARTMENT...University, Dayton, OH 45435 J. Bret Bennington Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg...the No. 2 coal bed between Stops 2 and 3, Jackson County, Ohio by David F. Dominic 17 Stop 3: Section...gamma-ray logs of Carboniferous strata in Gallia County, Ohio 9 1 .3. Subsurface cross section of Carboniferous...Carboniferous rocks in Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio - - ----- . 1o 2.1 . Index map of field trip |  | | Journal (issue) | | Raven Hills Court, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919 USA; tel: (303) 598-1233 66 The Mineralogical Record...scapolite and accessory minerals (titanite, zircon, magnetite, il- and at the Gibson Road occurrence nearby...crystals abound at the locally famous High way 62 roadcut just north of Bancroft, and in numerous other col...vein-dike near Long Lake in Olden Township, Frontenac County. Tabular pseudo-orthorhombic euhedra up to 10 cm...crystal (1.6 x 2 cm) from Olden Township, Frontenac County, Ontario. George and Susan Robinson specimen. menite |  | | 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:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Report (issue) | | California—Bldg. 3, Rm. 3128, 345 Middlefield Rd. • RESTON, Virginia—National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley...vesicles and of mineral and rock inclusions. One roadcut through a dike segment exhibits four to five r...northwest Arizona. The best-known dike exposure is a roadcut located 16 km south of Hoover Dam and the tuff... These concentrations were called "zoning" by Campbell and Schenk (1950), who interpreted the dike as...of kaersutite and pyroxene megacrysts from the roadcut exposures suggested that these minerals also were |  | | Report (issue) | | ^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville, Virginia. Figure 7. Locations of mineral deposits in...mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre and Heyl , 19.60 |  | | Report (issue) | | COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION OF MINEML RESOURCES...MINERAL RESOURCES OF PAGE COUNTY RHESA M. ALLEN, JR. BULLETIN 8I VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES...CHARLOTTESVI LLE, VIRGI N IA 1967 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT...MINERAL RESOURCES OF PAGE COUNTY RHESA M. ALLEN, JR. BULLETIN 8I VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL Commissioner...CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Richmond, Virginia ManvrN M. Sursenr-two, Di.rector Culnr,rs A. CnnrsroplrERsEN |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vol. 27 May 1981 No. 2 BLUE QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA Michael A. Wise1 -@ I n 1885, Robert Robertson described...described a peculiar variety of quartz from Nelson County, Virginia. This new variety of quartz, as cited by Robertson...Island to South Carolina. Most blue quartz in Virginia is in the Blue Ridge Complex lying east of the...The complex extends from Loudoun County in the north to Grayson County in the south. A few occurrences...occurrences of blue quartz have been reported from the Virginia Piedmont. The stratigraphic succession of the Blue |  | | Report (issue) | | quarry Renfrew–Madawaska area Renfrew County Road 4 (Bruce Avenue) roadcut Highway 60 quarry Jamieson marble...Carswell quarry Bryson marble blocks Bryson roadcut 1 Bryson roadcut 2 New Calumet mine Calumet uranium occurrence...Most of the collecting localities are in Renfrew County, Ontario. A wide variety of minerals are found...quartz, graphic granite, and corundum from Renfrew County; feldspar (peristerite, amazonite), jaspilite,...R.K. Herd, Geological Survey of Canada; Bruce Campbell, Scarborough; Court Saunders, Brampton; Jurgis |  | | Book | | WARWICKITE OCCURRENCE 3 7 DIAMOND LAKE ROADCUT 3 8 GRACE LAKE ROADCUT 3 8 DESMONT MINE 3 9 ESSONVILLE...apatite, scapolite, titanite BESSEMER MINE Mayo magnetite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, amphibole, calcite, chalcopyrite... epidote, garnet, pyroxene 26 BOWER'S POINT ROADCUT Herschel augite, calcite, scapolite, titanite... BURGESS CORUNDUM Carlow corundum, biotite, magnetite, muscovite, pyrite, rutile, scapolite, titanite...sodalite, apatite, cleavelandite, molybdenite, magnetite, tourmaline 18 DAVIS HILL Dungannon biotite |  | | Report (issue) | | sulphide deposits of the Elizabeth mine, Orange County, Vermont ... . .............. 4l J.F. SLACK, M...sulphide deposits of the Davis mine, Hampshire County, Massachusetts ........... . .... . . .. ........the manganese ores of the Betts mine, Hampshire County, Massachusetts . .. ......... . ....... . , .....clinopyroxene, chlorite, ilmenite, leucoxene, magnetite and stilpnomelane, and characterized by an igneous...chlorite-rich rock is intercalated with banded magnetite-hematite-quartz (Al~oman type) iron formation |
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