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Chalcopyrite from
Hunting Hill Quarry, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hunting Hill Quarry, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:46593
Long-form Identifier:1:3:46593:3
GUID (UUID V4):e3fee922-b2fd-4fcf-8541-d0b420b473ea
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
9.2km (5.7 miles) Maryland Mine (Allen shaft), Potomac, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) Bull Neck Mine, Bull Neck Run, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
13.6km (8.5 miles) Jenkins Farm Prospect, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
18.4km (11.4 miles) Theodora Mine, Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
21.5km (13.4 miles) White Oak, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
24.2km (15.0 miles) Goose Creek Mine (Eagle Mine), Culpeper Basin, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
24.5km (15.2 miles) Brighton Dam Road Quarry (Howard-Montgomery Quarry), Howard County, Maryland, USA
25.0km (15.6 miles) New Goose Creek Quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
27.2km (16.9 miles) Unnamed Malachite Prospect (MRDS - 10203527), Chantilly, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
33.2km (20.6 miles) Unnamed PGE Occurrence (MRDS - 10048644), Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Serpentinite and Rodingite in the Hunting Hill Quarry, Montgomery County, Maryland By DAVID M. LARRABEE GEOLOGICAL...Description of rocks exposed in the quarry near the center of the Hunting Hill ultramafite UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...distribution of rocks in the Hunting Hill serpentinite pluton, Montgomery County, Md ____ In pocket 2. Geologic...Geologic map of the Hunting Hill serpentinite quarry __ In pocket 1. Index map showing location of the...the Hunting Hill serpentinite pluton, Montgomery County, Md______________ 3 2. Photograph of the Hunting
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^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...of the Baltimore Gabbro Complex at Ilchester, Maryland. Figure 6. Triassic diabase dike forming a ridge...Arundel, Prince George's/and Baltimore Counties, Maryland (Sterrett, 1911). Figure 9. Distribution of
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...G. Tribbey The minerals of the Hunting Hill quarry, Rockville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Henderson County, Illinois, and near the towns of Dallas City, Hamilton and Plymouth in Hancock County, Illinois...examples include the Dallas City High School (Hancock County), The Mineralogical Record, volume 36, September–October...(Fig. 3), and the Mormon Temple at Nauvoo (Hancock County), construction of which was begun in 1841 and completed
Journal (issue)
April at 7:45 pm May Field Trip on the 4th, Hunting Hill GMMC May 15th in Manassas May Meeting date is...Field Trip - The Hunting Hill Quarry SUNDAY May 4th: May's field trip is to the Rockville Crushed Stone...Stone Inc Quarry for grossular garnets, quartz, calcite, serpentine, zoisite, and much more (these are what...The address is 13900 Piney Meetinghouse Road, Rockville, MD 20850. IMPORTANT NOTES: This is a SUNDAY field...email Robert or call Robert at 703-431-8547. The quarry manager has set a limit of 20 participants. There
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enabling its members 603 to visit the Hunting Hill Quarry, near Rockville, Md. Richard Haefner of the Department...finding of zircons at the Cedar Hill Quarry — a first for this quarry, — The Pennsylvania Earth Sciences...Mineral and Mineral Club MAINE The Lincoln County Gem and Society, Litchfield, is cooperating Mineral...is the part of the quarry or mine in which located as well as the name of the quarry or mine. — - The Water...Miss Cicada. —- Sidney D . Apt, member of the Rock County. dttions it can be shaped, then distorted, and
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Collector's Newsletter $3.00 Barrel Calcites from Lohr Quarry Dennis W. Haas DennisDWH2001@aol.com Calcite comes...Lohr Quarry one finds barrel-shaped calcites irr geodes from the Warsaw Formation. Lohr Quarry is located...Illinois on Illinois Route 267. The walls of the quarry are Salem Limestone and St. Louis Limestone. Below...makes up most of the floor of the quarry, found in the center of the quarry in an area that is not being actively...the third time to visit the quarry during a club field trip to Lohr Quarry. It is nearly impossible to
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Rock Run, Montgomery County, Maryland Jack Nelson 17300 Hughes Road, Poolesville, Maryland 20837 nelsonja@erols... l have been exploring and panning streams in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Since I am a micromineral... Mi.ncrnl N ews 2 Millerite in Hunting Hill Quarry, Rockville, Maryland Ca1herine J. Gaber bg@his.com...large bo ulder in 1he Hunling Hill Quarry in Montgomery Counly, Rockville. MD. We were on a field trip...the quarry , Serpentinite a nd Rodingite in the Huntin g Hill Quarry, Montgomery County. Maryland (Geological
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acting caretaker of the San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with his son Phillip is actively exploring...from calcite. It is also w-enowned for large chalcopyrite crystals (up to 3 inches, 7.5 cm) altered on...during the last year: a presidential election in the USA, more lands closed to public use, mineral localities...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny @mineralnews.com...grow to around J t/4 inches (3 cm). The Chavan Quarry (W agho li. 12 miles (20 km) east of Pune (Poona)
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Gold, such as Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite and some Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE...MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59, 5 mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:
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600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Vanadinite from the J. C. Holmes claim, Santa Cruz County, A rizona........................................other unnamed species from Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey ......................126 by P. J....Dunn McGuinnessite from a serpentinite body in Maryland ......................127 by F. Magnusson Native...currence. Sometimes a village or township and a county, or a village and a state have the same name and
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CONTENTS HISTORIC MINERAL FEATURE The Mineralogy of Maryland: A Hiswrical Sketch by Jay L. Lininger HISTORIC...MINERAL FEATURE A History of Chromite and Copper in Maryland: The Tyson Years by Sally Newcomb HISTORIC MINERAL...Mine at Bare Hills, Maryland by Herbert C. Moore HISTORIC MINERAL FEATURE Maryland GOLD by Walter A. Goetz...FEATURE William Keith's Copper Mine: Prelude to the Maryland-Pennsylvania Border War by Paul Chrastina 112...Lininger 125 HISTORICAL MINING CERTIFICATES The Maryland Gold Company by Walter A. Goetz 128 ON THE COVER
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National Tin and Mining Company of the U.S., in Paris Hill, Maine, covers an interesting history o f an effort...collection are fossils from the famous Solenhofen quarry in Bavaria (including an Archaeop­ teryx), from...Dakota: Elk Creek in Meade County, and the area around Hoover in Butte County. One specimen from each of...Exposure of Pierre shale along Elk Creek in Meade County showing some concre­ tion-bearing horizons. Figure...mine, which exploited a Pb-Zn occurrence in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The exact location is given
Book
PREFACE V TABLE OF CONTENTS V I CHAPTER 1 Gem Hunting In The Appalachians CHAPTER 2 New Jersey ........Pennsylvania___ _ _ _ 1 _ 2 _ 2 1 CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West...n g y e l l o w " c o l o r " i n y o u r pan. Maryland: M o n t g o m e r y, Frederick, H o w a r d ...n d a n assortment o f fossils. Photograph b y Maryland Board o f Natural Resources. 2 K e n t u c k...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and
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Occurrences arid Characteristics; FluorescentMineral Hunting; Hunting for Radioactive Minerals; Clothing and Camp...Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri...or trailer. Instead of a lonely pursuit, rock hunting-or rockhounding, as it is generally called-is now...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will...of the county he is entering posted alongside the highway. By looking up the state and county, the user
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preparation by Capitol Communications, Crofton, Maryland. Printed in the United States by Bookcrafters...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...localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California......................................Territory, Canada (Montgomery, 1960); the Big Creek-Rush Creek area, Fresno County, California (Alfors...(Alfors et al., 1965); Chickencoop Canyon, Tulare County, California (Franke, 1930; Hinthome, 1974), and the...discovered by Anthony Marsh of Incline, Mariposa County, sometime before 1930 (the exact date is not given)
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...COLLECTORS AND GUIDE T( HUNTING LOCATION 0-690-00687-X $17.50 263 color photographs 20 tables and charts...charts 100 detail maps 1500+ hunting locations: sites in North America A directory to coUpcfing O E Pi...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...on back flap) vb 00 m o o n AND GUIDE TO HUNTING LOCATIONS Minerals and Gems \o collect'^- his
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
................................... 461 Diamond Hill felsite.............................................. Riebeckite-bearing granite porphyry Diamond Hill quartz deposits.......... Sheldonville quartz vein...remarkable quartz deposit known locally as Diamond Hill. As will appear beyond, all three of these for­...much dispute. The riebeckite rocks near Cumberland Hill mark, so far as is known, the southernmost extension...s R ocks m Diabuse dikes Vein quartz Diamond Hill felsite and agglomerate Riebeckite granite Riebeokue
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,s 20 tables and charts 100 detail maps 1500+ hunting locations: A directory to co!le.cling sites in...GEMS A COLOR TREASURY FORCOLLECTORS AND GUIDE TO HUNTING LOCATIONS Russell P. Macfall MINERALS AND GEMS...100 maps geared to leading the " hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...GEMS: A Co/or Treasury for Collectors and Guide to Hunting Locations •• Digitized by the Internet Archive... A COLOR TREASURY FOR COLLECTORS AND GUIDE TO HUNTING LOCATIONS AND Russell P. MacFall THOMASY. CROWELLCOMPANY
Report (volume)
Rock ................................. 22 Dexter quarry............................................ 24...inclosed Cambrian schists at the Saylesville granite quarry .........:......................... 31 Contact......'.................... Vein quartz at Diamond Hill.............................. "Warnsutta group"...Baveno twin from quartz porphyry south of Spencer Hill.. 5 23 24 24 35 61 61 THE GREEN SCHISTS AND...from southwest to northeast through the limestone quarry. Prof. W. 0. Crosby, as the result of a brief visit
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abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Rare-with scorodite in U-bearing lignite in the Caves Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Report (volume)
Pond Schist___---_--_-____--__--_-_----_-_----_ Hunting Hill Greenstone_______________________________ Blackstone...Granite Gneiss...-__-_--_-___-.....-.....-_ Potter Hill Granite Gneiss...-._-__________.-_ Quartz diorite...Group...----___--_--_-_.-_-_-_____________ Spencer Hill Volcanics__-__-_--__-____--_-___-_-_-.-_ Maskerchugg...quartzite, the overlying Sneech Pond Schist, and the Hunting Hill Greenstone. We accepted Emerson's correlation...undivided. Only the Quinnville Quartzite and the Hunting Hill Greenstone are readily distinguished lithologically
 
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