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Opal from
Rock Island Dam, Douglas County, Washington, USA


Locality type:Dam
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rock Island Dam, Douglas County, Washington, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:420646
Long-form Identifier:1:3:420646:0
GUID (UUID V4):64804d57-f6dc-44f6-bd4c-35bdbf7c36fe
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
33.6km (20.9 miles) Diatomite Mines (Diatomite Pit North), Quincy, Grant County, Washington, USA
42.4km (26.4 miles) Diatomite Mines (Diatomite Pit South), Frenchman Hills, Grant County, Washington, USA
49.6km (30.8 miles) Vantage area, Kittitas County, Washington, USA
53.1km (33.0 miles) State Route 17 road cuts [2], Coulee City, Grant County, Washington, USA
56.9km (35.4 miles) State Route 17 road cut [1], Coulee City, Grant County, Washington, USA
61.5km (38.2 miles) Saddle Mountain, Mattawa, Grant County, Washington, USA
67.0km (41.6 miles) Coulee City Marina, Coulee City, Grant County, Washington, USA
72.2km (44.8 miles) Perch Point-Potholes Reservoir (Medicare Beach), Warden, Grant County, Washington, USA
76.4km (47.5 miles) State Route 262 roadcuts, Warden, Grant County, Washington, USA
99.9km (62.1 miles) Hanford, Benton County, Washington, USA
References
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sites. ZEOLITES of Washington State Tertiary-age volcanics cover much of Washington State, but only portions...portions of that huge expanse of rock contain zeo­ lites. The Miocene Columbia River plateau, which makes...surface of the Columbia River Basalt of eastern Washington is the type locality for paulingite at RUDY...TSCHERNICH 526 A v e n u e A S n o h o m i s h , Washington 98290-2414 T H E VOLCANICS IN T H E PACIFIC...con­ centrated in fresh exposures of rock in quarries, highway and dam construction sites, and along the
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twenty years. Microminerals at ROCK ISLAND DAM DOUGLAS COUNTY WASHINGTON MILTON L. S P E C K E L S 6 3...channel during con­ struction of Rock Island Dam in central Washington. This is the type locality for the...include offretite, erionite, pyrite, phillipsite, opal, clinoptilolite, K-feldspar, gypsum, chaba­ zite...habits and modifications. The Rock Island Dam is located in Douglas County on the Columbia River about...about 12 miles southeast of Wenatchee. South of the dam on Highway 28 a railroad track parallels the highway
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that occur in beautiful specimens in Washington. minerals Washington Mineral Locality Index L A N N Y R...okanoganite-(Y), and zektzerite, all from Washington Pass in Okanogan County —which are known only from the state;...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...preparing the alphabet­ ical list of localities. Chelan County Crown Point mine, near Holden; M O L Y B D E N
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. May 12,2001 . VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON 9:30 am to 6:30 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 }'ort...sympositun has been moved from Tacoma to Kelso. Washington and will remain there for at ieast the next three...the end of the meetings when we met in Raymond, Washington and stayed overnight. This tradition was carrier...informally by a pay-your-own dinner at the Old County Buffet by those who wish to attend. Any one wanting...discussed. A case deYoted to the Micro Minerals of Washington Pass will be considered. VV orking demonstrations
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New Mexico, 57; Washington, 318 185-256 May/June (No. 3) Bastnkite-(Ce), Washington, 454 257-360 July/Aug...July/Aug. (No. 4) Bastnkite, Washington, 457 361440 Sept./Oct. (No. 5) Bearss, G., The Weeks Pegmatite Mine...Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hamp441-512 Nov./Dec. (No. 6) shire, 129-135 Becker, R., Minerals...Horn Cover Photographs Batholith, Okanogan County, Washington, 450-459 January/February: Azurite, Copper...Chip Clark photo. lecting Localities in Western Washington MarchIApril: Labuntsovite, Mont SaintState, 330-334
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Arizona; of erionite overgrowthsfrom Rock lsland Dam, Washington; and of intergrowthsof offretiteand erionite...levyne, along Douglas Leke Rd,, southvest of Westwold., s. Brltlsh Colwbia. Levya6' along Douglas I€ke Rd,...Arizona Rock Island D@ 12. offretite, I2p PhiUipsite, Rock Island Dm L2c ClinoptiLolite, Rock fsland De... Yaquina Head, IJincoln Co., Oregon Arizona County, Arizona ore. W. S, WISE AND R, W. TSCHERNICH...23 0.35 o.o2 \.69 13.30 13.278(B) Rock Is. Dm, Washington I.57 o.27 0.98 U. J4 o.o2 \.\5 L
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North Dakota, — ; Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming ~ AllanW Eckert b i or d ...New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin VOLUME 2: THE SOUTHEASTERN...Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming VOLUME 4: THE SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT...Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming by Allan W. Eckert Ml PERENNIAL...York Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney
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the rock, changes composition, precipitates zeolites and other minerals, and flows out of the rock unit...containing fresh glass, montmorillonite clay, and opal; a transition zone (up to 20 mOl thick) composed...(up to 12 meters thick) that contains fresh glass, opal, and montmorillonite; a middle zone (up to 10 meters...of abo,ut 1,000 to 0,000 years (Ta,ylor and S,uf,dam, 1981)" This type of occurrence forms in a close...nodules, on the South Indian Ridge, east of Kerguelen Island, in the Indian Ocean (Mohapatra and Sahoo, 1987)
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the rock, changes composition, precipitates zeolites and other minerals, and flows out of the rock unit...containing fresh glass, montmorillonite clay, and opal; a transition zone (up to 20 mOl thick) composed...(up to 12 meters thick) that contains fresh glass, opal, and montmorillonite; a middle zone (up to 10 meters...of abo,ut 1,000 to 0,000 years (Ta,ylor and S,uf,dam, 1981)" This type of occurrence forms in a close...nodules, on the South Indian Ridge, east of Kerguelen Island, in the Indian Ocean (Mohapatra and Sahoo, 1987)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Philadelphia, P A 19119. Satisfaction Guaranteed. ROCK AND MINERAL COLLECTORS' LI­ BRARY—Large selection...free list, write to: B L A I N E R E E D , 907 County Rd. 207 #17, Durango, CO 81301. FLUORESCENTS—Large...amethyst, kyanite, pyrite, peacock ore, chrysocolla, opal, emerald, gold, and others. Send for 4-page list...(25 specimens each) handsomely boxed. Mineral and rock sets for schools and students also available. Ask...Ave., Al­ bany, NY 12208. FLUORITE FROM CAVE-IN-ROCK, ILLINOIS. We are your most direct source. Fluorite
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by Bart Cannon 1975 CORD ILLERAN Mercer Island, Washington Lilli liliiiLt' 111? KLi-KlLLLIlrVlIlI...by Cordilleran 18 Holly Hill Drive Mercer Island, Washington 98040 COVER ILLUSTRATION: Amethyst scepter...milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...publications dealing with the various aspects of Washington State's diverse mineral wealth exist, but none..."Minerals of Washington" represents an attempt to begin such a cata­ logue. "Minerals of Washington" shall
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. . . . . VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON May 1, 2010 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200...1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver, Washington Come celebrate spring talking about your favorite minerals...restaurant, so please join us if you can. PUD Park Washington Interstate Bridge Oregon Ft. Vancouver Way ...traditional box. He taught us to use a diamond bladed rock saw with flowing water, to cut out the pockets of...Mattison for April 24 & 25, 1971, at Richland, Washington. The newsletter was listing many hints for trimming
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. . . .VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON November 6, 2010 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200...1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver, Washington Schedule for the day; 9:00 am Doors open at the PUD building...clean up. Please stay to put away tables and Washington help clean up. Interstate 5:00 pm Dinner will...Please join us if you can. 2 A Controversy at Washington Pass By Bob Meyer Fergusonite-(Y), sharp, somewhat...collected from near Washington Pass. The Golden Horn batholith, located near Washington Pass in the North
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practical conservation of mineral localities and unusual rock for mations. Ever since its foundation in 1928,...... AN OBSERVATION ON THE PLAY OF COLOR IN FIRE OPAL. By Mark M. Foster ...............................c;outheast of the Pit. The cros; roads are known as Rock Springs Run, Md. We found the pits and dumps without...to visit. Although many textbooks list Madison county, North Carolina, as a source of monazite little...partridges and other game ing large tracts, there are no rock outbirds, to say nothing of myriad,; of black croppings
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
"Our business is also our hobby. We belong to two rock clubs in St. Louis and have a wonderful time with...sincere invitation. Due to our keeping ourselves rock poor but happy, we believe we have more variety...nice fluorite cleavage octahedrons from Cave-in-Rock Mining District of Southern Illinois. They are very...grade, to cut larger cabs also. "Small vials of opal may be ordered through our ad this issue of R&M...localities are as follows: "Aragonite, Rockbridge County, Va.; austinite, Gold Hill, Utah; antlerite, Blanchard
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concerning the new zeolite examined b y Eakle from a fire-opal quarry a few hundred feet from the Gold Hill mill...the locality. The reported association with fire-opal was a great help in locating the deposit. Fitzsimmons...before the first seams of erionite were found. Fire-opal is also difficultto find now. X-ray investigation...eri0nite was found in Baker County, Oregon, at the site of the old Durkee opal mine; which was active in...extensive slumping, but erionite was found in the waste rock on both sides of the road. Fitzsimmons mapped the
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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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. and Peter Keller, curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, were instrumental in...unparalleled beauties of the mineral kingdom. In the hard rock were numerous and widely diversified crystallizations...geomorphological features: a = river dalur = valley ey, oy = island fell = mountain fjall, fjoll = mountain(s) fjorftur...that oy means island, it is redundant to write Sandoy Island, however, the word island is used here for...DyrafjorSur 6. Tindastoll and SkagafjorSur Mountains 6. Rock walls in front of Akureyri 7. Djupivogur in eastern
Journal (issue)
of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Pete J, Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey London, England Richard C...Company. Early in 1881, Lester A. Bartlett of Washington, DC, visited Lake Valley “and subsequently aided...get a better view of the magic chambers. Here the rock is black and looks like iron slag from some huge...off; yonder the ore loses its characteristic as a rock formation and resembles a huge mass of soft quicksilver...36. FOUNTAIN, A. J. (1882) Report o f Doha Ana County: Bureau o f Immigration o f the Territory o f New
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Oahu, Hawaii. At Diamond Head, Punchbowl, Manana Island, Ulupau Head and Salt Lake Tuff, natrolite occurs...Tasmania (Sutherland 1965). Occurrences in other rock types are: Norway: in the gneiss of Kragerf/l (Saebf/l...foyaite from Kola Peninsula (Kuzurenko 1950); as a rock forming mineral of dykes in the ultrabasic rocks...genesis is due to reaction of pore water with the rock components and may be considered a variant of burial...Northern Ireland: in the basalts of Antrim, Portrush, Island Magee (see also Walker 1960a). Germany: in the
Journal (issue)
written content Paul E. Desautels Washington, DC Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum...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)...1884 to 1945 (Ault et al., 1974). The main source rock was again the Salem limestone with its thick beds
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written content Paul E. Desautels Washington, DC Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum...by D. Jones The minerals of Malpais Hill, Pinal County, Arizona..............................109 by R...a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Spaniards were exploring what is now southern Arizona...hamlet of Superior.” The town, situated in Pinal County at an elevation of 2900 feet, has a population...deposits of vein and limestone replacement types. ROCK TYPES Only formations hosting ore are included in
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Wendell E. Wilson Associate Editors Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N.H.) London...Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185 by...M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .........................................1931 1 obtained his Master of Science Degree at Washington University i St. Louis, writing his thesis on...negative crystals within quartz from Fonda, Montgomery County, New York. Notice that these also are bounded by
Book (edition)
File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...mineral substances. and a number of meteorite and rock names where their -ite termination can lead to easy...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl...546 A. Z=8. (TL) Mili. Evvia, and Apika. Andros Island, Greece. Named for I . Abs-Wurmbach. Forms a solid-solution
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appropriate channels. J Barnes ---------- 30 ---------- ROCK BOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD ISSN 0952-2409 TYPESETTING...area was reinstated, leaving only a low exposure of rock about 200m long. Figure I shows the proximity of...loose material in the vicinity. A dump of broken rock immediately adjacent to the railway cutting forms...0228 41255/561883). October l0th-llth: 10th Annual Rock Exchange, l'vledway Centre, Bath Street, Bakewell...ISSUES PER ANNUM Interested in what is happening rock-wise in sunny South Africa? Read all about it in
 
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