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| AN OVERVIEW Rhode Island MINERALS & COLLECTORS F. WILLIAM MILLER Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford...A L SPECIES and many varieties occur within Rhode Island. Part of this abundance is attributable to the...Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...towns of Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport...Newport County. The greatest number of species and varieties appear in the Northern Zone. Miller attributes |
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| more. "The Glove Mine is located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, near the little town of Amado, on the...inches in length. They come from Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado (altitude of pocket where found over...inches in size, comes from Devil's Head, Douglas County, Colo. Microcline {feldspar). Nice loose xls, averaging...received. These come from Devil's Head, Douglas County, Colo. Garnet (spessartite). Small but gemmy, deep...Locality is Ruby Mountain near Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colo. Topaz: Small, colorless gemmy xls in cavities |
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| vanadinite (lustrous, drusy, brownish xls on gray quartz rock). ARKANSASâThe following item was sent in by Byron...of Western Grove,in the N.E. section of Newton County. All these are in N . W . Arkansas. "It happened...a very large and interesting one from Lawrence County, Arkansas." CALIFORNIAâEmmett Klopfenstein, Box...plenty of zoisite. One of the dumps near the old lime Kiln is still full of massive topaz, but it's not...strongly radioactive microlite occurs at the Slocum quarry in E. Hampton. A few of the octahedral crystals |
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| 1 " VE M NlN[W ïżœIUWPSïżœl- ( MASSACHUSETTS RHODE ISLAND 1 #'vp ,#,V,4 I' vr Go ïżœ - PRICE $2...Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island PERHAM'S MAINE MINERAL S'toRE INC. JUNCTION...Talc Mine Saxtons River, Vermont Davis Soapstone Quarry South Newfane, Vermont Adams Hill Site NEW HAMPSHIRE... Massachusetts Pfitzer Quarry Ashland, Massachusetts Bayer - Mingolla Quarry Blandford, Massachusetts...Goldmine Brook Site Bolton, Massachusetts Bolton Lime Quarry Granby, Massachusetts Granby Dinosaur Museum |
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| Nuristan, Afghanistan; Neptunite from San Benito County, California; Spinel from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald...Becker, Thcson, 1976. Dave W ilber and Larry Conklin, Tbcson, 1979. 10 ⊠K. ENGLAND David P. Wilber...specimens that his rockhound father had found while ârock huntingâ in the Bishop area of California. That...world. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County was particularly interesting among the museums...working for gem dealer Ron Romanella in New York; and Rock Currier (owner now of Jewel Tunnel Imports), with |
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| A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises...overlooks both Colorado and Wyoming. The subsurface rock strata of the entire state are all undisturbed sedimentaries:...borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming line is good rock hunting country, especially along the southern slopes...of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive rock beds east of the Orella railroad sta. ranks among... The Sandhills Museum in town is well worth the rock hunterâs visit. Draws, cuts and breaks in the hills |
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| BITS May the year bring you all many fine days for rock collecting.' In the October issue of ROCKS AND MINERALS...Eastchester, found excellent rhodonite in the Berts Quarry, Plainfield, Mass. Robert Middleton, Earth Science...on silversmithing Member Bob Culver of the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, found a "fair sized"...on the AFMS Uniform Rules. At the Cedar H i l l quarry (Penn.) mem bers found pyrite-octahedral-crystals...Superintendent of all mu seums in Nassau County, spoke with the Long Island Mineral and Geology So ciety, Massapequa |
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| Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohioâs Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.âŻcone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Toddâs Ford, a mineral depositâŻHematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin |
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| Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohioâs Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.âŻcone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Toddâs Ford, a mineral depositâŻHematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin |
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| was collected in May 1970 by Dietmar Stitz from rock excavated for a bank-building foundation on South...a very aesthetic specimen (fig. 19). On Staten Island an excavation at the foot of the Verrazano-Narrows...on Staten Island, dark red almandine crystals to 20 mm across were found in the 1960s in rock excavated...that was collected at College Point, Queens, in rock that was dumped there from the excavation of the...radiating brown crystals to 10 mm long. On Staten Island large masses of âfibrous serpentineâ throughout |
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| mile west of the community of Levesque in Cross County. This locality may also be given as 6 miles east...of white melanterite coating a cellular brownish rock, COLORADOâ'"On the dumps of the old Smuggler and...in Georgia (pp. 9-21). One locality in Habersham County should fascinate many of our readers. Here is Dr..."Selenite xls on limonite matrix from limestone quarry near Tracy, Marion Co., Iowa."âon label. KENTUCKYâ"The...for a new highway. The place has become a sort of rock hunters paradise because of the quantity of large |
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| They are sometimes found in town libraries or county buildings. Occasionally club members in a community...Society, Rock Hill, scheduled a trip to the smoky quartz 10eation near Liberty Hill. RHODE ISLAND A double...a Field Trip was offered its members by the Rhode Island Mineral Hunters, Central Falls, Field Trip Chairman...many members of the Rock and MillROCKS AND MINERALS eral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fallsington, when... Vernon, were invited by the Mittell Appalachia Rock Club, Mapleton Depot, to show their collection and |
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| Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course...minerals are leached from the surrounding country rock during metamorphism. Ramsay and Huber (1983) suggest...such as pegmatite veins or cavities in sedimentary rock. The localities for faden quartz are numerous, and...repeated cracking and healing of grains in the country rock, which are broken and exposed when the fissure gradÂ...the stretched crystal fiber hy pothesis, when the rock first fractures, crystal grains are broken, and |
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| world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarryâAlberene amphiboie asbestos, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarryâEsmont dolomite, limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite |
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| ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALASKA Famous mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen) 8:4-12...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and |
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| world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry-Esmont dolomite. limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite...crystals, muscovite crystals, tourmaline AMHERST COUNTY Crystals of goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite; |
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| Acid Northwest Area Lakeville Goethite Mine Conklin Quarry Prospect Mountain Judd's Bridge Kyanite Deposit...West Redding Garnet Locality Biermann Quarry Captain Cook Quarry Honey Hill Road Outcrop Northcentral...Silliman Gravel Pit Southcentral Area Cheshire Trap Rock Quarry Cheshire Barite Mines Hamden Copper Mine Arsenic...Haven Trap Rock Northcentral Area Diamond Ledge Diamond Lake Dinosaur State Park Hollister Quarry Glastonbury...Prospects Simpson Quarry Andrews and Hale Quarries Case Quarries Strickland Quarry Hale-Walker Quarries |
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| Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California......................................................................369 by L. H. Conklin Letters to the editor ........................... 8th Friday, Oct. 9th BEY'S ROCK SHOP GRAYSON LAWRENCE H. CONKLIN PICKENS GRENVILLE MINERALS ...learned to transform intractable masses of hard rock into works of great beauty. The Peopleâs Republic...gem fields. Sapphire deposits on windswept Hainan Island are under in vestigation. In 1976 the first major |
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| _----_--_---_--_--_-_____-_--___-______---____-______ Rock descriptions____-___-__--______________-______-__-____-___-_...by structure or differential credibility of the rock units. The Yantic River drains eastward and appears...set. The area has been glaciated at least once. Rock crops out in 6 percent of the quadrangle, and areas...the Narragansett Basin, Rhode Island, available to me before its publication. ROCK DESCRIPTIONS Six metasedimentary...Stony Brook, as in the southern part of the Barrett quarry. Amphibolite is well exposed in the lens southwest |
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| Camden County makes handsome polished specimens. Quartz found near Trenton and in Monmouth County must...are similar in the other claypits of Middlesex County. Some feldspar and amphibole minerals are found...from their dumps, and the limestones of Sussex county outside of Franklin produce a variety. An occurrence...Beemerville, and arsenopyrite occurs in Warren county. Dr. Alfred C. Hawkins, practicing mineralogist...discussed many outof-the-way locations from Rhode Island to Georgia. H e said that by evaporating salt |
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| Jay in this of popular the Ellis Ransom, Rock-huntefs Range Guide, tells everything you need...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...as well as a dis- cussion of the basic kinds of rock: igneous, sedimentary, Once and metamorphic. ...by Jay FOSSILS IN Ellis Ransom AMERICA THE ROCK-HUNTER'S RANGE GUIDE ARIZONA GEM TRAILS PETRIFIED...or silver; an angry mule skinner reaching for a rock to throw at an obstreperous mule, only to discover |
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| ............. 554 MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................505 511 514 532 533 551 551 553 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY GEOLOGIC HAZARDS COMMITTEES NAMED Clarence Allen...and August 1st, 1965, in Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to swap or dig your own tourmaline plus...Annual Rock Swap at Jo Scholl's Place, North Gorham, Maine. July 26-31, 1965 â Charlotte Rock and MinÂ...sponsor the 25th Annual Convention and Silver Jubilee Rock and Gem Festival of the Midwest Federation of Mineralogical |
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| ................. MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................FIND IN COWEE VALLEY, N.C.âPaul E. Lockwood THE ROCK BRIGADEâRudolph J. Bland, Jr......................7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS 641 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY A RUSH TRIP TO SOUTH CAROLINA On Tuesday, August...headed northward towards the gold mine in York County. It was a most enjoyable trip, the mine was reached...30th St., Bellevue, Wash. 98004. Oct. 2, 1965â1st Rock Swap of the West chester Mineral & Gem Society |
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| Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Renato Pagano Milan, Italy Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas...Thirty-eight, Number Three Articles The Lonavala Quarry, Pune District, Maharashtra, India . . . . . ..... . . . . .193 by J. A. Mandarino Lawrence H. Conklin: Fifty years of dealing in minerals . . . . . ...Record, volume 38, MayâJune, 2007 The Lonavala Quarry une Distri t Ma aras tra n ia Tomas Pras kier |
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| publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum |
