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Selenite from
Jackson County, Oklahoma, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Gypsum var: Selenite
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Selenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Jackson County, Oklahoma, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:420991
Long-form Identifier:1:3:420991:1
GUID (UUID V4):3411ad71-1aa7-4ebc-8478-c2d5b5dde711
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurrences. These localities have been listed by county; and, strictly for convenience, the list has been...None­ theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful...micromounting PENINSULA Wayne County International Salt C o . mine—Detroit Alpena County National G y p s u m...dolomite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite Eaton County anhydrite, carnallite (r), celestite, dolomite...calcite, celestite, epsomite,./7wor/7e, gypsum var. selenite, sulfur (r) UPPER PENINSULA (c)—Bellevue calcite
Report (volume)
Several varieties of gypsum are found in nature: selenite and satin spar are the crystalline varieties,...gypsum sands are the unconsolidated varieties. Selenite is found as colorless transparent crystals which...unlike mica, the selenite plates break down under heat and are not elastic. Selenite occurs either scattered...although some are as much as 4 feet long. In places, selenite occurs as an aggregate of crystals so intergrown...and Smith, R. H., 1930, Hendrick field, Winkler County, Texas: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull.,
Book
ROCKHOUND'S GUIDE TO THE GEMS & MINERALS OF OKLAHOMA © E.L.GILMORE 1992 No part of this book may...rockhounds to know where to look for minerals in Oklahoma. who would like This data has been drawn from...from many sources: The publications of the Oklahoma Geological Survey; Scientific publications; the observations...from the author’s own experience in rockhounding Oklahoma for the past 30 years. Some parts of this book...desire of the author to list all minerals found in Oklahoma. The work on this book has covered a period of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Houston, Texas 77036 ROBERT 0. FAY Oklahoma Geological Survey Norman, Oklahoma 73019 Downloaded by [The Aga...713 15th Street NW Ardmore, Oklahoma 73401 OKLAHOMA Figure 1. Oklahoma counties. Mineral Locality...known for its gypsum crystals and barite roses, Oklahoma also boasts a variety of other species, including...unaware of the variety of minerals available from Oklahoma and think primarily of the prolific gypsum crystals...hundred years, extends into the northeast corner of Oklahoma and has produced notable specimens. Unfortunately
Report (volume)
Continued. Localities Continued. . Page. Cochise County....:................................................. 51 Mohave County............................................... 51 Navajo County.................................................... 51 Pima County.................................................. 52.......................................... Fresno County.......................................................... Imperial County.....................:....................... Inyo County...................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
purple, and grey. These géodes are found in Pike County, Ala., which is about 50 miles north of Montgomery...Montgomery. I have found them scattered all over the county, but they are especially abundant just south of...made several trips to Magnet Cove (Hot Springs County) which is about 15 miles east of Hot Springs on...brachiopod in gray chert. Fowlers Beach is in Sussex County, Delaware, on Delaware Bay. FLORIDA—At the 6th...the Hypotheek lead mine near Kingston, Shoshone County. The anglesite is found in cavities of galena as
Book (volume)
Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON...deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem...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)
Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON...deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
diopside (pyroxene). Nashville, in eastern Howard County, is in S/W Arkansas. CALIFORNIA—Don Erpelding,...beautiful, gray selenite xls 3x3 inches in size and of the type known as desert rose. "These selenite xls range...person's collection. "These xls are found in San Diego County on private property in an area few people have...beautiful— they also fl. a very pale green. San Diego County is in southern California. 176 xli rystalllne...deposit just across the Wyoming line near Pearl, Jackson Co., Colo."—sent in by Ralph E. Piatt, Encampment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PERMIAN REDBEDS OF SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA CHARLES N. GOULD Oklahoma City, Oklahoma INTRODUCTION The first papers...papers dealing with the redbeds of Kansas and Oklahoma were published by F. W. Cragin in 18961 and 1897...present writer published a brief description of the Oklahoma redbeds series,3 in which the greater part of...(1897), No. 5, pp. 351 ff. 3 "General Geology of Oklahoma," Second Biennial Report, Department of Geology...History, Territory of Oklahoma (1902), pp. 17-74. 4 "Geology and Water Resources of Oklahoma," V. S. Geol. Survey
Report (issue)
................... 56 Salt Creek (Blaine County, Oklahoma)................... 58 ^ed !Uver basin......Pease reiver.............. 74 Salt Creek (Cottle County, Texas)...................... 76 I liddle Fork...rocks of Permian and Quaternary ages in western Oklahoma and adjacent parts of Kansas and Texas. 2. Generalized... 3. Map showing the depth to salt in western Oklahoma and adjacent parts of Kansas and Texas. Page ...in Kansas, Oklahoma, and part of northern Texas.......... n 3. Hap of western Oklahoma and adjacent
Report (volume)
............................................. Oklahoma.................................................Mineral resources of Oklahoma and statistics of production from 1901 to 1914: Oklahoma Geol. Survey Bull... Minneapolis. Mississippi __Prof. E. N. Lowe, Jackson. Missouri_____Dr. H. A. Buehler, Rolla. Nebraska____...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;
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Report (issue)
collection of geodes from Big Walnut Creek, Putnam County; and many quarry operators for granting us permission...Indians knew of and used Wyandotte Cave in Crawford County (4).2 Ball (1941, p. 39) summarized the various...The Indians found that Wyandotte Cave, Crawford County, Ind., contained two desirable products, a jaspery...car__________ 2 Localities are given by the name of the county followed by a number in parentheses. This number...AND DISTRIBUTION 13 Kentland in southern Newton County. Here middle Ordovician limestones and dolomites
Journal (issue)
mountainous deposit at Ciimax, near Breckenridge, Summit County, is said to be the world’s largest deposit; and...other counties, one very notable being in Ouray County at the head of the Uncumpahge River canyon, where...occurs high on snow- crested Italian Mt. in Gunnison County. For collectors, a journey there is a “must”, to...the Molly Gibsan at Aspen in east-central Pitkin County, where it carried the bulk of the silver ore of...miles north of Salida on Highway 285, in Chaffee County. The hills are rhyolite outcrops intruding pre-Cambrian
Book
through Itasca and St. Louis Counties into Lake County. Hibbing is about the center of this historic area...replaced by dark hematite. Near Calumet in Itasca County abundant mollusks, arthropods, and sharks teeth...Iron Range is mostly in Crow Wing County, extending into Aitkin County. In 1936, near the town of Crosby...Superior 14 EVELETHO IRON WEEWATIN _W 57 LOWS COUNTY to Duluth Y The Mesabi Iron Range dump. Binghamite...found in veins at the west end of Loon Lake in Cook County. Uv BSL 0U/Sac0 CARLTON CO Island Lake go
Report (issue)
wooly-like halotrichite crystals. 31 8) A. Selenite crystals showing penetration and contact (fishtail)...(fishtail) twins ... B. Network of tiny, prismatic selenite crystals. C. Massive rock gypsum and incorporated...... B. Nodule of "coldwater agate" from Benton County showing gray and white chalcedony and crystalline...made from "coldwater agate" material of Keokuk County..................................................Another variation of "coldwater agate" from Keokuk County. C. Quartz geode. D. Doubly terminated quartz crystals
Book (volume)
banks, stream beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre...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,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0340, USA b Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University...of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA e Department of Earth Sciences, University of California...California, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA f Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard...University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Received 26 October 2011; accepted in revised form...generally ta2 ken up as selenate (SeO2 4 ) or selenite (SeO3 ) during assimilatory reduction, although
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1 Chautauqua County Gem and Mineral Society As a new club we would...enough to find one. She showed us petrified moss; Selenite roses, Aragonite, and cabochons made from several...Sec'y 1447 E. San Juan Phoenix, Ariz. 37* Tioga County Rock and Mineral Club N. H. Field Trip Televised...Mineral Club was organized in Marianna, Florida, Jackson County, on March 18, I960 with 18 charter members
Book
Invertebrate Fossil-Jsotelus 115 114 94 a) * Oklahoma Rock-Barite Rose Soil-Port Silt Loam Series a3...Fossil-Saurophaganax maximus Crystal-Hourglass Selenite Dinosaur-Acrocanthosaurus atokensis * Oregon ...made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional...white Sylacauga marble from Sylacauga, Talladega County, is considered among the finest white marble in
Journal (issue)
AZURITE, Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA; Mineralogical Society of Arizona Collection...AZURITE, Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA; Mineralogical Society of Arizona Collection...MALACHITE, Cu2CO3(OH)2, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA; Mineralogical Society of Arizona Collection...AZURITE, Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA; Mineralogical Society of Arizona Collection...MALACHITE, Cu2CO3(OH)2, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA; Mineralogical Society of Arizona Collection
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...59, 5 mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE, area gravels along adjoining Co. linerock crystal...crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside the Co. line in a Hornblendegneiss...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
increasing as we go south and west until in Cameron County in Texas and Tamaulipas in Mexico, it may be said...again to the brackish water conditions of the Jackson in the eastern portion of Texas. Then comes 36...were severe at nines is shown by the finding of Jackson fossils at Sour Lake, according to Harris. at depths...found no Jackson formations Harris claims to have found Oligocene fossils overlying the Jackson at Sour...below KJ00 feet and in a well near Olivia in Jackson County at COO feet. Fresh water Pliocene fossils were
Report (edition)
(formerly Stoneco, Inc.}, near Junction, Pau lding County, Ohio. Specimen is 3.8 x 2.4 cm with the largest...Huron River, resulting in the discovery of two County, Ohio, August 2006. John Medici photo. minerals...ineralogical and Lap idary Society of Michigan Stark County Gem & M ineral Club Summit Petroleum, Inc. $1-$100.... .. .. .. BuLke,e rurnace Stale Memorial, Jackson County .... Loc.:ition ....... ........................... Crystal Cave, South Bass Island, Ottawa County........ Location .. ... .. .. .. .. ... .. ..
 
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