 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NOTES ON THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF RHODE ISLAND. I. PROVIDENCE COUNTY Lr,ovo W. Frsunn.q,Nt Enwrx K. GnlNav...recent survey of the minerals of the state of Rhode Island which are included in the museum collections...Brown University and of Roger Williams Park of Providence, together with a careful study in the field by...the chief rnineral localities and occurrencesin Providence Countvr is here recorded. r A paper is being...Sphalerite TalL Titanite Tourmaline Tremolite Zoisite LOCALITIES CneNsron Fenner'sLedge on Cranston |  | | Report (volume) | | SCHISTS AND ASSOCIATED GRANITES AND PORPHYRIES OF RHODE ISLAND BENJAMIN K. EMERSON JOSEPH H. PERRY WASHINGTON.............. 18 Nonoccurrence of il vaite in Rhode Island.................. 19 Inclusion of limestone............................... 24 Beds west of Providence and Pawtucket ................... 25 Cranston......'.................... Vein quartz at Diamond Hill.............................. "Warnsutta group"...crystalline rocks in the vicinity of Providence and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island............................ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NORTHEASTERN RHODE ISLAND 286 ROCKS AND M I N E R A L S The adjacent towns of Cumberland and Lincoln...Lincoln in northeastern Rhode Island offer col lecting in several localities, including the Conklin Limestone...Old Dexter quarry, Diamond Hill, the Route 114 road cut, and the Iron Hill mine. T H E T O W N S H I...northeast corner of Rhode Island is not so famous mineralogically as Cumberland in England; however,...both the state mineral and the state rock of Rhode Island. Much of this area coincides with the Pawtucket |  | | Book | | of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and...of Iron, at Rumford Falls, (J. P.) PARKER'S ISLAND. (In the Kennebeck.) Schorl, sometimes translucent...HAMPSHIRE. 13 milk white quartz, abundant. Epidote. Zoisite. Green Carbonate of Copper, earthy, Granular Limestone...situated 2 m. N. from the village, on a precipitous hill, whose base is washed, by the Connecticut river...) WESTMORELAND. Fluate of Lime, light green. Zoisite, in ash grey, much compressed, deeply striated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A GEOLOGY OF THE DIAMOND IIILL-CUMBERLAND DISTRICT IN RHODE ISLAND-M ASSACHUSETTS 1 BY CHARLES H. WARREN........................................... 441 Cumberland quartzite......................................................................... 461 Diamond Hill felsite...........................................(435) 436 WARREN AND POWERS----DIAMOND H ILL—CUMBERLAND DISTRICT Page Riebeckite-iegirite granite....... Riebeckite-bearing granite porphyry Diamond Hill quartz deposits.......... Sheldonville quartz vein |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, 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 qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic...twin, YvT V / v> / -f repeated twin o( rutile Cumberland, England, \ m m " '.^y^ penetration penetr;...OF ROCK COLLECTING Suppose you are climbing a hill top of which at the only to avoid making ers | | | Book | | topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...wi th tin beak. 5 Fluorite penetration twin, Cumberland, England. 5 The famous pegmat1te rock mass...OF ROCK COLLECTING Suppose you are climb ing a hill at the top of wh ich is a mineral deposit. If you'...mine , canyon) district where found (township, county, state) how obtained (found , given , etc., with...in pegmatite Mount Antero , 12,000 feet Chaffee County . Colorado from the Smith co llection 1/10/74 |  | | Book | | North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas...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...guide can determine the collecting sites in that county by range and distance from the major cities and...information to reach a specific spot within a particular county. Many old localities listed here have, literally |  | | Book | | Freiberg, E. Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo, Atacama, Chile; and...states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone at Corocoro...Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area of north...Czechoslo¬ vakia and Romania; in the Alps of South Island, NewZealand;fromCharters Towers, Queensland, from |  | | Book (edition) | | anthracite region 10. Structure section in Tazewell County, east of Richlands, southwest 8. 9. 12. 13. ...grahamite fissure to anticlinal fold, in Ritchie County, W. Va Plan of Trinidad pitch lake Section of gilsonite...formations of Arkansas Volcanic ash from Madison County, Mont Section showing occurrence of corundum around...areas of barite Bennett barite mine, Pittsylvania County, Va. Map of barite veins near Lexington, 109...Plan of pyrite lenses at Sulphur Mines, Louisa County, Va., showing 401 pyrite (a) and crystalline schists |  | | Journal (issue) | | different minerals and gemstones - from ad amite to zoisite, from the most common form of pyrite to the rare...(Germany); Chihuahua and Zacatecas (Mexico). In the USA, there are large quantities of acanthite at Leadville...in Siberia (Russia) and in Alaska and California, USA. The Alaskan deposits are found close to significant...byssolite is found mainly in Pennsylvania and Virginia, USA. FACT FILE ACTINOLITE Group: Silicates Crystal...in the yellow Bernadino County, mineral limonite, and in the California, USA; in Cap sulphide-rich upper |  | | Book | | sapphire; vanadium: thought to give colour in blue zoisite, and also some green in emerald and other green...past volcanic activity, forming a cliff on the island of Ischia. About halfway up, the horizontal beds...impure limestone wollastonite, grossular, idocrase zoisite, clinozoisite, anorthite, sphene impure periclase...metamorphosed impure non-dolomitic limestone can include zoisite, grossular garnet, idocrase, wollastonite, diopside...and the vast deposits on Bougainville Island in the Solomon Island chain are now being extracted. The normal | | | Book | | sapphire; vanadium: thought to give colour in blue zoisite, and also some green in emerald and other green...past volcanic activity, forming a cliff on the island of Ischia. About halfway up. the horizontal beds...metamorphosed impure non-dolomitic limestone can include zoisite, grossular garnet, idocrase, wollastonite, diopside...and the vast deposits on Bougainville Island in the Solomon Island chain are now being extracted. The normal...Isles. Especially important are the calcites from Cumberland in northwest England, which are often found associated |  | | Journal (volume) | | .,. Crystals of pyrite from Rio Marina on the island of Elba , off the Italian coast. - Q) ...South Africa; and Maine and other regions of the USA. Minor deposits of rose quartz can also be found...in Afghanistan , India, Pakistan, China, Montana, USA, and Norway. • • TWo 19th-centurv brooches set with...at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, USA. • A Burmese ruby in calcite, a common mineral.... Similarly, a t,mzanite crystal (a variety of zoisite) is worth a great deal more in today's market than |  | | Book (edition) | | here expresses thanks to the publishers, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated, for kind permission... tremolite, kyanite, sillimanite, cordierite, zoisite, talc, etc. 5. Distorted pebbles, fossils, crystals...Courtesy of synonym of igneous. Other synth e McGraw-Hill B ook Company. onym ous terms are eruptive and anogene...g ranitoid texture in granodiorite. Cottonwood County, Utah . TEXTURES 31 the xenoliths from outside...the rhyolite-granite clan. Courtesy of the McGraw-Hill Book Company. See also Figures 13, 20, 21, 23 and |  | | 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...of Canada. Clay Mineralogy, by R. E. Grim (McGraw-Hill, 1968). Crystal Chemical Classification of Minerals...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous | | | Book (edition) | | Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double Header lode, Summit County, and in |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | Tuscon, Arizona. Barry Yampol: Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Victor Yount: Warrenton, Virginia. Josef...M. J. Buerger (1958), The Powder Method, McGraw Hill, New York. (B) Bunn, C. W. (1961), Chemical Crystallography...Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Isand South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas...important gold mining districts in Australia, including Hill End, Hillgrove, and Mt. Boppy, NSW;; Mt. Morgan...Creek, NT. In New Zealand, Hauraki Peninsula, North Island, and placer deposits in Nelson, Westland, Otago |  | | Book | | ians Mr. Atkins and Mrs. Brunton; Dr. or Morgan Hill, William Larson, CA; R. Fallbrook, W. Dr....crystals Assuming prehistoric separating the island of known since to them in is Ceylon curiosities...3 early beryl even narrow straits of that island, must also have gemstone still found there today...always is Theophrastus Theophrastus. gazing John Hill by and J. F. Caley make it doubtful whether...gold links National Museum of Naples. McGraw Hill Book Co., After emerald The and and necklace |  | | Book (edition) | | '. ; SECOND EDITION SECOND IMPRESSION McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK: 370 SEVENTH AVENUE...i ; ^GOBYRIGHT, 1912, 1921, BY THE McHiLL BOOK COMPANY, INC. MAPI.E FRBSS YORK P-4. PREFACE...Crystal Measurement. Macmillan, London, 1911. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1914. Crystallography. WILLIAMS:...Manual Wiley, New York, 1911 (2d edition). McGraw-Hill, New York, of Petrographic Methods. 1914. LIEBISCH:...WEINSCHENK (CLARK): Petrographic Methods. McGraw-Hill, New York, ungen; 1912. WINCHELL AND WiNCHELL: |  | Finch, John Wellington, Bateman, Alan M., Butler, B. S., Loughlin, G. F., McLaughlin, D. H., Singewald, J. T. Jr. - Eds. (1933) Ore Deposits of the Western States. The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, New York. | Book | | cordierite-anthophyllite mineralization at Blue Hill, Maine, and its relation to similar occurrences...Kevada: with a report o n the flora of Independence Hill by F. H . Knowllou. J our. Geol., vol. 4, pp. 881-...Nevada; with a report on tbe flora or Independence Hill, by J?. H. Koowlton. Jo-ur. Geol., vol. 4, pp. 881-...geology. Econ. Geol.;vol. 5, pp. 779,-776, 1910. Hill, J. M.: The mining districts of the western United...pp. McGraw Hill Dook Co., New York, 1913. Mineral deposits, 2d ed., 959 pp. M cGraw Hill Book Co., New |
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