 | | Journal (issue) | | DIARY OF EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson ---...appropriate channels. J Barnes ---------- 30 ---------- ROCK BOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD ISSN 0952-2409 TYPESETTING...J Mason -------- 42 -------MICROMINERALS from IRELAND G Ryback· S Moreton BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED...goes on "As I have myself fruitlessly visited the quarry since, ... I conclude that time 1887). Houston's...across." They also record occurrences "at Bowling quarry near Old Kilpatrick, and other localities north |  | | Book | | the rock, changes composition, precipitates zeolites and other minerals, and flows out of the rock unit...nodules, on the South Indian Ridge, east of Kerguelen Island, in the Indian Ocean (Mohapatra and Sahoo, 1987)...surface of the earth's crust or by molten volcanic rock on the surface. Most zeolites crystallize rapidly...state, if water is present. When a molten volcanic rock comes in contact with water (river, lake, or damp...much more easily altered than the microcrystalline rock in the upper parts of the same flow; therefore, | | | Book | | the rock, changes composition, precipitates zeolites and other minerals, and flows out of the rock unit...nodules, on the South Indian Ridge, east of Kerguelen Island, in the Indian Ocean (Mohapatra and Sahoo, 1987)...surface of the earth's crust or by molten volcanic rock on the surface. Most zeolites crystallize rapidly...state, if water is present. When a molten volcanic rock comes in contact with water (river, lake, or damp...much more easily altered than the microcrystalline rock in the upper parts of the same flow; therefore, |  | | Book | | 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 |  | | Book | | knowledge and enjoyment of this great owners, mine and quarry operators and science by collecting. Thanks too...trips may be in connection with annual shows or rock swaps. Our hobby, collecting earth science materials...preparing for a successful trip. 1. 2. Contact rock clubs in the area you propose to visit. Write to...are most interested in. > on Look up the names of rock shops of the area which you are interested in and...built up from ancient seas is the common surface rock, but there are also sands, clays and igneous intrusions |  | | Book | | Illustrated by Bart Cannon 1975 CORD ILLERAN Mercer Island, Washington Lilli liliiiLt' 111? KLi-KlLLLIlrVlIlI...1975 by Cordilleran 18 Holly Hill Drive Mercer Island, Washington 98040 COVER ILLUSTRATION: Amethyst...milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 2014 Fourth...Fourth Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...printing December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page...................389 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Page Ohio ................................................412 Rhode Island .............................................. |  | | Report (volume) | | ........................................ Rhode Island..................................................about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five times the combined production and...than 86,000,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement and the imports of foreign cement are so...Compendium of the mineral resources of Arkansas, Little Rock Board of Trade Bulletin, 1912. Eakle, A. S., Minerals...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Autunite, realgar, quartz, and pyrite are but a few of an array of that occur in beautiful specimens...specimens of several miner als (e.g., quartz, pyrite, and realgar) and some of the world's best autunite...zektzerite, all from Washington Pass in Okanogan County —which are known only from the state; the others...in Snohomish County, ferritungstite from Germania mine near Fruitland in Stevens County, and paulingite...paulingite from Rock Island Dam near Wenat chee in Douglas County. In addition, many localities pro duce fine-quality |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Collector's Ne-w. Minerals of the Schill Quarry Vesper, Wisconsin Thomas Buchholz 1140 12th Street...Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin 54494 The Schill Quarry is a small quarry located about two miles northwest of the...east side of State Highway 186.Rock types in the vicinity of the quarry are Early Proterozoic igneous...bedrock exposures arc acarce. The principal rock type in the quarry is a dark reddish wrranitc which is crushed...up a substantial portion of the bedrock of Wood County. Although this particular site has not been dated |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 1996 Second...Second Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...63125 December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page...................333 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Ohio .....................................................352 Rhode Island .............................................. |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 2005 Third Edition...Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...63125 December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page...................333 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Page Ohio ................................................352 Rhode Island .............................................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | State, but only portions of that huge expanse of rock contain zeo lites. The Miocene Columbia River plateau...collecting is con centrated in fresh exposures of rock in quarries, highway and dam construction sites...OCEAN/ IDAHO ,i \-7. mi DAYTONa 'It I y^ROCK & ISLAND DAM- CAPITOL i L SKOOKUMCHUCK D A l i ^ ^... UJ EOCENE VOLCANICS | | NON-VOLCANIC ROCK Rock Island, south of Wenatchee, where vesicular basalt...the Columbia River during construction of the Rock Island Dam contained an abundance of zeolites (Kamb |  | | Report (issue) | | Paleotopography and Depositional Environments, Rock Island County, Illinois Richard L. Leary C. Brian Trask...and Depositional Environments, Rock Richard Illinois L. Island County, Illinois Leary State Museum...obtained from the appropriate company to entering the quarry property. Write well in advance of any planned...selected date. Write to: (Allied Stone Company quarry) Mr. James O. Ellis, Moline Consumers 313 16th...Richard DeShepper 3115 23rd Avenue Moline, IL 61265 quarry) 1,1 «»*** EARLY PENNSYLVANIAN PALEOTOPOGRAPHY |  | | Report (issue) | | commercial borates. Lawsonite, first found in Marin county in 1895, has proved to be of great petrographic...nickel telluride, melonite, found in Calaveras County in 1867. New minerals and new mineral this is ...tributed throughout the State in small bodies or as rock-forming would be impossible to cite all of their...products. The gem-bearing pegmatites of San Diego County have aroused special masses, interest. Many ...as to retain the shape of the original. may pyrite then said to be a pseiidomorph. It is instance |  | | Book (edition) | | Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...of the Mineralogical Society of America, I 969. Rock-Forming Minerals (in five volumes), by W. A. Deer...elements. concretion A compact, rounded sedimentary rock mass formed by localized cementation around a nucleus;...intrusion of molten rock whereby preexisting rocks near the contact with the hot molten rock are metamorphosed...cryptocrystalline Rock textural term signifying that the grain size of the minerals contained in the rock is so small | | | Book (edition) | | Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Two of the Mineralogical Society of America, 1969. Rock-Forming Minerals (in five volumes), by W. A. Deer...elements. concretion A compact, rounded sedimentary rock mass formed by localized cementation around a nucleus;...intrusion of molten rock whereby preexisting rocks near the contact with the hot molten rock are metamorphosed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AND BITS FROM SOCIETY BULLETINS RHODE ISLAND The Rhode Island Mineral Hunters, Central Falls, had a...Trip to the Danalite locality and to the Conklin Quarry. ALABAMA Mr. Webster Hipp spoke to the Alabama...Alabama Mineral and Lapidary Society, Birmingham, on "Rock Hunting Out West". GEORGIA Graves Mountain was the...its Field Trip at the Sparvetta Quarry on Route 1 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton. . . . The Gem Cutters Guild of Baltimore |  | | Report (issue) | | limestone quarry Phillipsburg marble quarries Les Marbres Waterloo quarry Stukely Sud marble quarry Langlois...serpentine occurrence Orford nickel mine Orford marble quarry Moe River placer deposit Capelton (Capel), Albert...Hartford, Lower Canada) mine Stanstead granite quarry St. Francis mine Acton mine Jeffrey mine Aldermac...Moulton Hill mine Scotstown granite quarry Mount Megantic quarry Ditton area placer deposits Amold River...quarries Weedon (McDonald) mine St-Gerard granite quarry Disraeli Road road-cuts Highway 161 road-cuts Solbec |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Road-Cut Mineral Occurrences of St. Lawrence County, New York Figure 1. Fluor-dravite, 5.9 cm, collected...St. Lawrence County have a small footprint. In other words, if the many dots on a county map showing mineral...mineralization and T HE BASEMENT ROCKS of St. Lawrence County are Volume 92, November/December 2017 557 Downloaded...2017 Figure 4. Map of St. Lawrence County, New York, showing the county seat, Canton, and the location of...localities. Other Articles in this St. Lawrence County, New York, Road-cut Series by Steven C. Chamberlain |  | | Book (edition) | | Mexico (#2, column 1) and TENNANTITE, Dresser quarry, Walton, Nova Scotia, Canada (13, column 2). ...of the Mineralogical Society of America, 1969. "Rock-Forming Minerals" (in five volumes), by W. A. Deer...Herbert and Geneva Corbett Philip Cosminsky Myer Crumb Rock Currier Susie Davis Ray DeMark Paul Desautels Virginia...intrusion of molten rock whereby pre-existing rocks near the c·0 ntact with the hot molten rock are metamorphosed...cryptocrystalline Rock textural term signifying that the grain size of the minerals contained in the rock is so small |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 07:55 02 December 2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse...Antwerp-Keene belt in northern New York. Crystalline rock mineralization includes localities of igneous, metamorphic...mineralization; F = fracture mineralization; C = crystalline rock mineralization. Where mineral specimens have come...B Y C O U N T Y Albany County Indian Ladder: brookite; F. Old Callanan quarry: dolomite, barite, strontianite;...11 August 1859: olivinebronzite chondrite. Bronx County Various excavations: chabazite, harmotome, quartz |  | | Book | | many years the mines and fields of St. Lawrence County have furnished museums and many lucky mineral col...been depleted through the the years, St. Lawrence County continues to supply many beautiful specimens to... (copyright applied for) GENERAL GEOLOGY AND ROCK TYPES The purpose of the following brief discussion...mineralogist with the basic rock types and mineralized zones of the St, Lawrence County area, A detailed discussion...and metamorphic rocks are found throughout the county, the latter prevails. Since more than three-fourths |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | xled^-crystallized ALABAMA—Grayish pisolitic bauxite occurs near Rock Run, Cherokee Co., Ala. ARIZONA — The following...worthwhile. First we visited the famed Strickland Quarry (near Portland, Conn.) which is being worked presently... Since all the water has been drained from the quarry, one won't believe the gigantic hole that was left...actually visits the place. We then visited the Hale quarry in search of manganese dentrites which were 576...time as the quarry was cleaned up of all rock. We then went to the Myron Case feldspar quarry which I believe |  | | Journal (issue) | | uncommon lithium-mica from Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California .....................................issues of some of the other mineral magazines such as Rock & Gem, Rocks & Minerals, Lapidary Journal or Gems...tour of the mineral facilities at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (where Tony is curator)...40502 he Hoosier Stone and Concrete Corporation quarry near Salem, Indiana, has yielded extremely well-formed...sphalerite, gypsum, quartz, barite, marcasite and pyrite. T HISTORY Quarrying of limestone has gone on |
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