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Sillimanite from
Grayson County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Sillimanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sillimanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Grayson County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:370341
Long-form Identifier:1:3:370341:0
GUID (UUID V4):c6078f42-4fbc-484f-9570-78d5c599c1aa
References
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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
Report (issue)
Pleare return thie publication to the Virginia Geological Survey when you have ao furthcr uc for it....COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... Bulletin 38 Kyanite in Virginia Geology of the Kyanite Belt of Virginia lrY ANNA I. JONAS Economic...JOEL H. W.ATKINS UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA t932 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATTON...DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN, State Gaolosist Bulletin 38 Kyanite in Virginia Geology
Report (issue)
COMMONWDALTE OF VIRGINIA VIRGINTA CONSERVATTON COMMTSSTON VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN,...53 Barite Deposits of Virginia By R.AYMOND S. EDMUNDSON UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA t938 I \e RICHMOND:... RICHMOND: Dwrsror cR Puncn.rsp arvo puxrrr.rc 1938 VIRGINIA CONSERVATION COMMISSION Wrreun C. Her,r,, Chai...recommend for publication as Bulletin 53 of the virginia Geological Survey series of i'eports the manuscript...Geologist of the Virginia Geological SurveY. This re=port is the first issued on barite in Virginia. It describes
Report (issue)
River allochthons _____ 7 Maryland and northern Virginia Piedmont allochthons_______________________ 8...and western Taconide zone to grades as high as sillimanite along the Blue-Green-Long axis (see Morgan, 1972;...and kyanite grade before crystallization of sillimanite by contact metamorphism adjacent to the 276-m...postorogenic plutons in and adjacent to this belt from Virginia to Georgia yield ages of about 300 m.y. (Fullagar...the Nassau has been inter- relative. The name Grayson Granodiorite Gneiss (Di) preted as a graben facies
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
Report (volume)
Selected Bibliography of Andalusite, Kyanite Sillimanite, Dumortierite Topaz, and Pyrophyllite in the... Selected Bibliography of Andalusite, Kyanite Sillimanite, Dumortierite Topaz, and Pyrophyllite in the...______-____________________________________ -________ Sillimanite _ _________________________________________________...SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANDALUSITE, KYANITE SILLIMANITE, DUMORTIERITE, TOPAZ, AND PYROPHYLLITE IN THE...compilation of 566 references on the kyanite, or sillimanite, group of minerals and pyrophyllite to December
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)
pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan...on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991). i i • I...Galveston 41 Garza 42 Gillespie 43 Gonzales 44 Grayson 45 Hall 46 Hardeman 47 Hardin 48 Harris 49 Houston...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence..."specimen quality" questionable occurrence Angelina County Lufkin, 1 mile N of Lufkin in railroad cuts, in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315, USA (Received January 4, 1994;revision accepted February...o m e t e r [33,34]. And = andalusite; Sil = sillimanite; Ky = kyanite; Plag = plagioclase; Omp = omphacite;...Glover, 1II, Stratigraphy and tectonics of the Virginia-North Carolina Blue Ridge: Evolution of a late...Wang, The ultramafic/mafic association of the Virginia Blue Ridge: early Paleozoic ophiolitic melange...basement-Ashe Formation boundary, Grayson County, Virginia to Mitchell County, North Carolina, Ph.D. Dissert
Report (issue)
Kyanite, Sillimanite, and Andalusite Deposits of the Southeastern States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 336 Kyanite, Sillimanite, and Andalusite Deposits of the Southeastern States By GILBERT...follows: Espenshade, Gilbert Howry, 1912Kyanite, sillimanite, and andalusite deposits of the southeastern...card) Espenshade, Gilbert Howry, 1912Kyanite, sillimanite, and andalusite deposits of the southeastern...southeastern states. 1960. (Card 2) 1. Cyanite. 2. Sillimanite. 3. Andalusite. 4. Aluminum silicates. 5. Mines and
Book
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...the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
coxene, magnetite, monazite, pyrite, rutile, sillimanite, sphene, spinel, staurolite, topaz, tourmaline...stable heavy-mineral suite. In contrast, kyanite, sillimanite, and staurolite are the dominant heavy minerals... PETROLOGY species and are principally kyanite, sillimanite, and staurolite. Tourmaline and zircon occur...these sandstones are kyanite, staurolite, and sillimanite; this indicates that the source of the Cretaceous...the Appalachian basin in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Pepper et al. (1954, p. 95-107
Report (issue)
Radioactive rare-earth deposit at Scrub Oaks mine, Morris County, New Jersey, by Harry Klemic, A. V. Heyl, Jr.,...deposits of the St. Regis-Superior area, Mineral County, Montana, by Arthur B. Campbell.____________________...mineral deposits of the Carlile quadrangle, Crook County, Wyoming, by M. H. Bergendahl, R. E. Davis, and...staurolite, garnet, epidote, magnetite, monazite, sillimanite, kyanite, andalusite, xenotime, green spinel...the McBean formation (middle Eocene) in Calhoun County, S. C. One sample was also taken from the Hawthorne
Report (volume)
North American Geology, 1957 By RUTH REECE KING, VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN, ELISABETH S. LOUD, and GEORGIANNA D...NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1957 By RuTH REECE KING, VIRGINIA M. JussEN, ELISABETH S. Loun, and GEORGIANNA D...Va. Div. Mineral Res. Bull.; Mineral Res. Circ.-Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Bulletin; Mineral...Va . .Jour. Sci.-Virginia .Journal of Science. Farmville, Va. Va. Minerals-Virginia Minerals. Charlottesville...Montpelier, Vt. W. Va. Geol. Survey Rept. Inv.-West Virginia Geological Survey Report of Investigations. Morgantown
Report (issue)
Center Reston, Virginia 22092 A. Krishna Sinha Department of Geological Sciences Virginia Polytechnic Institute...Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 Norman Herz Department of Geology The University...core of the Blue Ridge anticlinorium in northern Virginia James W. Clarke Geology and age of the Robertson...8 Rb-Sr age for the Robertson River pluton in Virginia and its implication on the age of the Catoctin...Evolution of the Grenville terrane in the central Virginia ee ee eee ORNS eee i FVein.) A. K. Sinha and M
Report (volume)
in the SE 1/4 sec. 33, T. 52 N., R. 67 W., Crook County, Wyo. Carlile Shale [Turner Sandy Member]. 11184...highway about 3.2 km (2 mi) west of Newcastle, Weston County, Wyo. Carlile Shale [Turner Sandy Member]. 21765...the NE 114 sec. 22, T. 1 S., R. 8 E., Pennington County, S. Oak. Carlile Shale, 13m (42.6 ft) above base...the NE 114 sec. 1, T. 48 N., R. 83 W., Johnson County, Wyo. Cody Shale, from septarian limestone concretions...the SE 114 sec. 22, T. 21 N., R. 86 W., Carbon County, Wyo. Frontier Formation, from a sandstone concretion
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
Report (issue)
basement - Ashe Formation boundary, Grayson County, Virginia to Mitchell County, North Carolina: Ph. D. Dissertation...1997, Structure of the Newdale ultramafite, Yancey County, North Carolina: M.S. Thesis, Southern Illinois...basement - Ashe Formation boundary, Grayson County, Virginia to Mitchell County, North Carolina, Ph.D. dissertation... Structural Evolution of the Blue Ridge sheet, USA: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 146, p....final equilibration occurred near the kyanite-sillimanite phase boundary, indicating decompression and
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Report (issue)
of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, V a. West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Morgantown, W....________ Tennessee marble belts______________ Virginia marble belts________________ Murphy marble belt________________...__ Valley and Ridge slate belt__________ West Virginia slate belt______________ Pennsylvania slate belt______________...____ Tennessee__________________________ West Virginia and other areas_ ___ ____ Resource potentiaL_...pinnacles beneath soil cover, Bluegrass, Highland County, Va_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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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
Book (volume)
beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts,
Report (issue)
George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 USA Louise Corriveau Geological Survey of Canada GSC-Québec...Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, New York 12866 USA Mervin J. Bartholomew Department of Earth Sciences...Tennessee 38152 USA Memoir 197 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box 9140 ■ Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA 2004 MWR197...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA. Copyright is not claimed on any material prepared...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA www.geosociety.org Printed in U.S.A. GSA Books Science
Report (volume)
............................................. Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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 S., R. 7 E.;
 
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