 | | 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) | | 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 (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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Basins, Virginia and Maryland C7 ll.S. / PAPER Triassic-Jurassic Stratigraphy of the Culpeper and Barboursville...Barboursville Basins, Virginia and Maryland By K.Y. LEE and AJ. FROELICH U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Triassic-Jurassic stratigraphy of the Culpeper and Barboursville basins, Virginia and Maryland. (U.S. Geological...Jurassic. 3. Geology Culpeper Basin (Va. and Md.) 4. Geology Virginia Barboursville Basin. I. Froelich, A............................................. 10 Culpeper Group ....................................... |  | | Report (issue) | | precious-metal occurrences in the Culpeper basin, northern Virginia LEADERS: Joseph P. Smoot Gilpin... S. Geological Survey National Center Reston, Virginia 22092 U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report...precious-metal occurrences in the Culpeper basin, northern Virginia LEADERS: Joseph P. Smoot and Gilpin...THE CULPEPER BASIN STOP 1. Sandstone-hosted copper mineralization, Rt. 28, Sterling, Virginia. STOP...661, Chantilly, Virginia. STOP 3. Culpeper Crushed Stone Quarry, Stevensburg, Virginia STOP 4. Granophyre |  | | 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) | | ^ 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) | | 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 .........Section A: Occurrences located north of the Hartford basin, New Hampshire ...................... .67 B. Section...Section B: Occurrences located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts .................... ...Section C: Occurrences located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Connecticut ..................... |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | name of cubic zirconia. 2 ENGLAND Cuprite and Malachite Color in minerals is a fascinating topic. The...octahedral cup rite is bright red while the malachite is grass-green. T h e formal valance o f the copper...cuprite setting on malachite represents reduced conditions relative to the older malachite. This sort o f...known from A c i Castello, as well. Cuprite and malachite. INDIA MEXICO Dendrites Eastonite Drs. A . T...specimen material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun tain |  | | Report (volume) | | assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland , North Carolina, and other Eastern...Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina, and South Carolina...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle...of entries, the basin name and the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle...are not restricted to an exposed early Mesozoic basin. The term "regional" indicates that the reference |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | localities as Paterson, New Jersey, or Centreville, Virginia. Recently, however, extraordinarily fine...80 in Passaic County, New Jersey. It also occurs in the Roncari quarry, Hartford County, and at Cheshire...Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, and in the Hampden quarry, Hampden County, Massachusetts. It has...respectively, and at the Cornwall iron mine, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It has been found in individual...in the Rockville Crushed Stone Company quarry, Montgomery County, Maryland. Small prehnite crystals to |  | | Report (issue) | | Jurgssic Geology of the Northern Part of the Culpeper Basin, Virginia and Maryland by K. Y. Lee U.S. Geological...Part of the Culpeper Basin, Virginia and Maryland; by K, Y, Lee Introduction The Culpeper Basin is one of...basalt and diabase underlie the basin, The sedimentary rocks in the basin constitute a distinctive sequence...lacustrine deposits. Along the east side of the basin the strata generally dip gently westward, but the...2 part of the basin, presented here, cover about 1060 km , of which 82% is in Virginia and the remainder |  | | Report (volume) | | to some aspects of the geology of the Culpeper basin of Virginia. The editors are grateful to the authors...stratigraphic section through the northern Newark basin, New Jersey 19 By MichaelS. Fedosh and Joseph P...of early Mesozoic rocks of the northern Newark basin, New Jersey and New York 31 By R.A. Parker, H.F...and Deep Run basins in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia 40 By Eleanora I. Robbins and Robert E. Weems...phytoclasts of the Newark Supergroup in the Hartford basin 68 By R.K. Kotra, R.M. Gottfried, E.C. Spiker, L |  | | Report (issue) | | VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 62 MINERALS FOR VIRGINIA Harry W. Webb and John P...P. Moore COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES...VIRGIN IA 1985 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 62 MINERALS FOR VIRGINIA Harry W. Webb...Webb and John P. Moore COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION OF MINERAL...for erops. VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 62 MINERALS FOR VIRGINIA Harry W. Webb |  | | Catalog/List | | plus post 1147 ■■ ALTAITE Organ Mts, Dona Anna County, New Mexico a few silvery I mm spots in dark matrix...- - - - -~ ---1152 ■ AL UNITE Marysvale, Piute County, Utah Pure orange-pink crystalline mass KAISO/4OH..._ Fcldsp3~ -·· ~ 510 ■■ CHALCEDONY Greystones Quarry, lezant, Cornwall Grey banded massive lx2 £1 2x2...Tsumeb Namibia Rich dark grey metallic with some malachite etc Ix! £4 lx2 £7 2x2 £15 - - - - - - - -- --...-- - -- - - -- - 134 ■ CHALCOCITE Swinless Quarry, Kilbirnie, near Glasgow, Scotia Rich metallic grey with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East D e r r y , N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 (PART INTRODUCTION...mines in Virginia, north of the James River, with the ex ceptions as follows: Albemarle County was very...northern Virginia. Maps used were the U.S.G.S. Topo graphical Sheets. Also used were the county road maps...of H i g h w a y s Richmond, Virginia The price is 2 0 cents per county. Other states could well follow...very high grade iron. Credit should be given the Virginia Department of Mineral Resources in Charlottesville |  | | Book (edition) | | mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior |  | | 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 (issue) | | Mary Lynn White Minerals of the Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Virginia................ John C. Medici ...universi ties in the area, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, California Institute...314-726-2236). amlier linritc on ijolilen csilcite! mcailc county* south ilakotn Extensive mining of six miles of...Michigan, Arizona, Tsumeb. July—August, 1972 MALACHITE, Bisbee, Tiger mine. BLUE AQUAMARINE BERYL, Russia...workings. In the 1870’s the Trigo Mountains, Yuma County, Ari zona occurrences were discovered. The list |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | DISTRICT, VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet The Virgilina district (Figure 1) was a source of in Virginia from the...1) was produced from the Virgilina district in Virginia. Silver, which is reported to occur in four mines...from the Red Bank (Goldbank) gold mine in Halifax County (Sweet, 1976, p. 9-10). Up to 1912 it is reported...chalcopyrite and all the native silver, cuprite, malachite, azurite, and chrysocolla are secondary according...Virgilina district of Virginia follow. Abbott prospect is located in Halifax County, 1.55 miles (2.50 km) |  | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | minerals and gems. It is obvious, though, that malachite, an ore of the heavy metal copper, or hematite...corundum (aluminum oxide), carbonates such as malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite...banded agate. Cross section of unpolished green malachite, a copper carbonate marked with curved bands...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900 |  | | Journal (issue) | | feldspar—connotes perfect cleavage.) Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our February...Gem, Lapidary, and Mineral Society of Montgomery County will hold its annual club show on the weekend of... on Sunday. The show will be at the Montgomery County Fair Grounds in Rockville, MD. Mineral Giveaway...go out of business. In fact, our design of the Virginia state outline with a cluster of quartz crystals...the fact that our club is located in northern Virginia. Decades of photocopying must have worn it away |
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