| | Journal (issue) | OFVIRGINIA PARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND Richmond, Virginia Published quarterly by the DIVISION OF MINERAL...AND HISTORY OF CONFEDERATE SALTPETER CAVE OPERATIONS IN WESTERN VIRGINIA Robert C. Whisonant Department...of saltpetercaves, the South built a first-rate niter and gunpowderindustry almost fkom the groundup....199th; 1997; 1998;2000), looks at the geology of cave niter deposits, and the use of this invaluable strategicmaterialto...gunpowder was potassium nitrate, derived fiom niter or saltpeter as it was called (Figure 1). Each powder | | | 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 |
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