 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ............................ Quartz-bearing hypersthene-andesine syenite...............................with syenite (andesine anorthosite) of Nelson County, Virginia..........................................topographic divisions of the Appalachian ranges. In Virginia the Blue Eidge Mountains form a fairly continuous...feet above sealevel; but southwestward through Virginia the ridge becomes broader and higher, and attains...above the sea are reached at several points in Virginia. The Blue Eidge is composed of a central core |  | | Report (issue) | | VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Tnour.s Lnorvanp Warsow, Pn. D. DIRECTOR Bulletin...Geology of the'Titanium and Apatite Depositrs of Virginia Bv Tnorues LuoNeno Wersow eNo Srrpnex Tannp ...Vrncrnre I9I3 ,//l' ,4 BULLE'I'IN III-A VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAI, SUITVEY. Piney Rir-er near Rose's...occurrence. Chemical characters. Norms'of Amherst-Nelson counties Mineralogical characters. Quartz ......rocks.. ;.....:..r..... X'eldspar. Pyroxene (hypersthene) ..:.... ..-.... : 202 202 202 203 2L0 213 |  | | Report (issue) | | known deposits in the United, States only those in Virginia are of commercial importance. These have been...made the subject of a special report 2 by the Virginia Geological Survey, which was preceded by a preliminary...preliminary paper on the rutile deposits of Amherst and Nelson counties.3 1 Clarke, F. W., U. S. Geol. Survey...Geology of the titanium and apatite deposits of Virginia: Virginia Geol. Survey Bull. 3-A, 308 pp., 1913. 3...3 Watson, T. L., and Taber, Stephen, The Virginia rutile deposits: tJ. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 430, pp. |  | | 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) | | Lubbock County, Texas, USA Found: 1941 Stone, Chondrite Description: Slice, 504.5 Adams County, grams...grams Me2374 Adams County, Colorado, USA Found: 1928 Stone, Brecciated chondrite Description: Polished...OF METEORITES Admire, Lyon County, Kansas, Admire, Found: 1881 177 USA Stony-iron, Breccia ted pallasite...Me750 Me557 Adrian, Adrian, Deaf Smith County, Texas, USA Found: 1936 Stone, Veined crystalline spherical... Me780 Me780 grams Ainsworth, Brown County, Nebraska, USA Iron, Coarsest octahedrite Description: |  | | 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...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) | | VIRGINIA DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES DIGITAL REPRINT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF...OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY Wilbur A. Nelson BULLETIN 77 Adobe Acrobat® Reader® Adobe Acrobat Reader version...Geology and Mineral Resources of Albemarle County by Wilbur Nelson is to make accessible an out of print work...appear to show the bookmark pane is viewable. Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy Division...500 Charlottesville, VA 22903 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT |  | | Report (issue) | | of the Uniuersity of Virginia. Dn. J. I). Eccr,nsrox, President of the Virginia Polytech,rfic Inst,itute...portion of Virginia, showing the location of the Irish Creek tin deposits, Rockbridge County 2. PAGE...and to for pubiication as Bulletin XV-A of the Virginia Geological Survey Series of Reports, a manuscript...of a report on "Tin Deposits Near frish Creek, Virginia," by Henry G. tr'erguson, of the Ilnitecl States...Geological Survey, prepareal in coiiperation with the Virginia recommend Geological Survey. The tin deposits |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA T. N E I L B L A N D F O R D 2434 Jackson Parkway Vienna, Virginia 22180 A...metaanorthosite body VA miles south of Montpelier, Virginia. The deposit is presently owned and worked by...which at that time owned and exploited the Nelson County titanium deposits to the west, acquired the...the company's treatment plant at Roseland in Nelson County (Pegau, 1956). When the operation became uneconomical...uneconomical, Metal and Thermit disposed of the Nelson County property in 1949. The Hanover property was, |  | | Report (issue) | | VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard...Mitchell and William F. Giannini COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION...1988 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard...Mitchell and William F. Giannini COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION...and State Geologist CHARLOTTESVILLE. VIRGINIA 1 988 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ................477 Analyses of allanite from Virginia and North C arolina........................ 478..................................... 480 Roanoke County, V irginia........................................................................ 481 Am herst County, V irginia........................................................................... 481 Llano County, T exas...................................................... 485 W eathering of allanite iri -Virginia localities................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Merrill and was entitled, 'iRutile Mlining in Virginia.' Mr. Merrill called attention to the fact that...on the Tye River, near Roseland post-office, Nelson County, Va., had been opened up. The country rock is...strongly foliated gneiss traversed by dikes of hypersthene diabase. The rutile occurs associated with a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | WEST- VIRGINIA. RYAN. INTRODUCTION. T•E existenceof large titanium depositsin Amherstand Nelson Counties...Counties,Virginia, has beenknown for a numberof years,and the geologicaloccurrences togetherwith the economicpossibilities...farm, situatedon the northernboundaryof Amherst County, attracted attention,and the mineral rights on...apparentsuccess,for example,the purchaseby the Virginia Phosphateand Paint Companyin I894 of the Giles...Giles tract northwestof Roseland,Nelson County, and in the following year the Quinn place. This companytried |  | | Report (issue) | | was found in 1902 near Oregon City in Clackamas County, Oregon. Apart from its size, the striking feature...diopside-olivine achondrite Ae, enstatite achondrite Ah, hypersthene achondrite Ao, olivine achondrite Ap, pyroxene-plagioclase...chondrite Ce, enstatite chondrite Ch, olivine-hypersthene chondrite Cp, olivine-pigeonite chondrite D,...(Kansas) *Achiras (Argentina) Acme (New Mexico) Adams County (Colorado) Adargas (Mexico) 1941 1917 1924 1902...*Aleppo (Syria) * Alessandria (Italy) Alexander County (North Carolina) *Alfianello (Italy) 1949 1913 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NOTES ON THE ILMENITE DEPOSIT AT PINEY RIVER, VIRGINIA. D. M. DAVIDSON, F. F. GROUT, AND G. M. SCHWARTZ...regard totheilmenite property onPiney River, Nelson County,Virginia, led in 1944 to an extensivetrenchingand...of a weathered ilmenite ore body, Piney River, Virginia. Amer. Inst. Min. and Met. Eng., Tech. Pub. No...Ross, C. S., Titanium deposits of Nelson and Amherst Counties, Virginia. U.S. Geol. Survey P. P. 198, 1941...AT PINEY Piney Rive• •he•$• RIVER, Cou•y• VIRGINIA. 739 740 D. M. DAVIDSON, F. F. GROUT,AND G |  | | Catalog/List | | AGGLOMERATE: Agglomerate .........................Custer County, Colorado " Volcanic ...............Magnet Cove...Amphibolite ...........................Albemarle County, Virgi11ia " (Fayalitc-bcaring) .......Near Mcsaba...: ........San Juan County, Colorado " Porphyry ...................Boulder County, Colorado " S ........Anhydrite, crystalline ....................Lyon County, Ncvada ANORTHOSITE: Anort?, osite, gray ........Arkose-scc Sandstone " " ............... Essex County, New York dark brown ...Rochester, New York green |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Virginia by RICHARD S. MITCHELL Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...same county. I t also has been observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and...world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is coated...radioactive. The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin |  | | Catalog/List | | Albemarle Counly, Virginia ... Custer County, Colorado . Albemarle County, Virginia . Near Mesaba, l\linnesola...New York . San Juan County, Colorado Delta, Shasta County, California . Boulder County, Colorado .. ...... Massachusetts Mt. Shasta, California " Lyon County, Nevada Hillsborough, New Brnnswick Keeseville...York " " " .Near Keene, NC\\' York . Essex County, New York Rochester, New York Split Rock, Minnesota... Rhenish-Prus ia J:asalt. fine-gTained Chaffee County, Colorado Hornblende Basalt. coarse " J-lornblenclc |  | | Journal (issue) | | COMMONWEAL TH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY Richmond, Virginia Published quarterly...GRENVILLE-AGE ULTRAMAFIC PLUTONS IN THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE Stephen W. Kline, Arkansas Mining &...the Grenvillegranitoid basement terrane of the Virginia Blue Ridge, age granitoid basement terrane in...northern Middleburg quadrangle, Virginia. Primary magmatic textures Virginia~ The first documentation of...pseudoby Ho{1/atd (1981) on a geologic map of Loudoun County, morphic after magmatic phases. Rock types include |  | | Report (issue) | | is located in the Plomosa mining district, Yuma County, Ariz., in the southern part of the Dome Rock Mountains...creek and wagon road cross the Pima-Santa Cruz county line, a short distance above White House, as indicated...creek, extending half a mile on either side of the county line. The deposits probably have a much wider extent...California which are being worked are those of Shasta County. Deposits in San Luis Obispo, Alameda, Placer,...Mountain,6 in the northwestern part of San Luis Obispo County but outside of the district proper. In general |  | | Report (issue) | | Mineral Deposits of the Roseland District of Central Virginia U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1371...Mineral Deposits of the Roseland District of Central Virginia By NORMAN HERZ and ERIC R. FORCE U.S. GEOLOGICAL...titanium-mineral deposits in Nelson and Amherst Counties in the Blue Ridge of Virginia UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...mineral deposits of the Roseland district of central Virginia. (U.S. Geological Survey professional paper; 1371)...p. Supt. of Docs, no.: I 19.16:1371 1. Geology-Virginia-Roseland Region. 2. Mines and mineral resourcesVirginia-Roseland |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GeologicalSurvey,National Center, Mail Stop 917, Reston,Virginia 22092 Abstract Modalmineralogydeterminedfor 82...82 Fe-Ti oxideand apatiterocksfrom localitiesin Virginia, New York, Quebec,Norway,and Swedenlargelysupportsthe...Garden (AlbemarleCounty) and Vinton (RoanokeCounty),Virginia;St. Charlesand Labrieville, Quebec;Hesnesand Kydlandsvatn...Roseland-Piney River district, North Garden, and Vinton, Virginia, and at CheneyPond, New York. Additionalsamplesfrom...apatite(ap). HornRoseland-Piney River district,Virginia blende(hbl) is pleochroicfrom goldento deep brown |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ' found in large numbers in Echo Lake, Flathead County, Montana. The animals are bright coral red in color...P. Merrill and was entitled, 'Rutile Mining in Virginia.' Mr. Merrill called attention to the fact that...on the Tye River, near Roseland post-oflice, Nelson County, Va., had been opened up. The country rock is...strongly foliated gneiss traversed by dikes of hypersthene diabase. The rutile occurs associated with a...Dodge; Corresponding Secretary, I n Cumberland County, Upper CarboniferBashford Dean; Recordilzg Secretary |  | | Report (issue) | | Pleaoc teturn this publication to the Virginia Geologieal Survcy whcn you havc no further uce for it...COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSTON ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Deposits of Virginra BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 COMMONWEALTH, OF VTRGINIA STATE COMMISSION...COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN, State Geologist Bulletin...33 Pegmatite Deposits of Virginia BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 RICHMOND: DrvrsroN |
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