 | | Book | | immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...where the water has exposed extensive sand and gravel banks. You will see inconspicuous boulders lying...culture, derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric...of these fourfold axes in all. The considerably lower symmetry of a monoclinic crystal is shown in Fig...crystallographic symmetry of a body may often be lower than its apparent geometric symmetry. In a pyrite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ladick Trucking and Excavating weathered granite quarry is located approximately 1 mile east of State Highway...greater availability and functionality—and much lower cost—of modern translation software. ROCKS & MINERALS...of better-preserved pegmatite material from the lower level has revealed an interesting suite of primary...mineral. Lepidolite was also identified in the lower-level pegmatites. More recently, native bismuth...quartz. Spessartine is locally abundant in the lower-level pegmatites and is essentially Ca free. Other |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Objectives and procedures Results Geologic systems Tourmaline and polycrystalline quartz . . . Clay minerals...Pennsylvanian and Mississippian Lower Paleozoic Precambrian Dispersal centers General Lower Paleozoic Mississippian...conclusions 1230 Bibliography 1232 Appendix 1. Tourmaline angularity 1238 Appendix 2. Petrographic analyses...Analyses of tourmaline angularity and polycrystalline quartz fraction 1203 5. Some typical tourmaline angularities...angularities . . . . 1209 6. Average values of tourmaline angularity and polycrystalline quartz by system |  | | Journal (issue) | | MONTHLY CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1945 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ................................................................... 475 MINERAL COLLECTING IN FRANCONIA, N . H . By Sa,nuel C. Brown ........ ...... 475...(township) ; and Dexter Lime Quarry, Lincoln township. The latter quarry is not usually ascribed to any...shelf of the quarry lies some 35 feet below the water level, the bottom much more. The quarry was first...A stone wall was built across the floor of one quarry to separate the interests of two owners, one owner |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Lithium bearing Mica, Spodumene, Beryl, Black Tourmaline, Muscovite (White Mica) .... and .... remember...this area. Another way into this territory is by gravel road, turning off at Morristown, Arizona, eastward...minerals are found, especially in the Wikieup District. Excellent specimens of Spessartite, among others...sized "pocket" in a bank of mostly small sized gravel and sand, not far underground, and where plant...plant roots had penetrated. Amid this same gravel and sand, were several thousand tiny but regular quartz |  | | Book (volume) | | jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate...crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined...Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination). Hamilton Quarry Location East Branch Crystal Glen Creek NAUVOO...0.8 mi. on Rte. 1 from Rte. 146 jct., then W on gravel rd. 2 mi. to the Mahoning Mine No. 3, on dumps⎯Fluorite...ELIZABETHTOWN, NE 2 mi., at the Meshberger Stone Co. quarry⎯Calcite (fluorescent, UV pink-blue type), Fluorite |  | | Book (volume) | | jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate...crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined...Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination). Hamilton Quarry Location East Branch Crystal Glen Creek NAUVOO...0.8 mi. on Rte. 1 from Rte. 146 jct., then W on gravel rd. 2 mi. to the Mahoning Mine No. 3, on dumps⎯Fluorite...ELIZABETHTOWN, NE 2 mi., at the Meshberger Stone Co. quarry⎯Calcite (fluorescent, UV pink-blue type), Fluorite |  | | Book (edition) | | ONYX • PERIDOT* • ZIRCON • CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • • AMETHYST URINE • •...which beauti- a lake's are still being found in gravel deposited by the glacier that once covered the... lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^ RUTILE SAPPHIRE 1^ TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS 4 GEM hunter's GUIDE...six or eight different gem as color, its tourmaline may B are, in fact, A blue gem minerals...found many of stones, such as quartz amethyst, tourmaline, beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quality aquamarine has been recovered from this district. No emeralds have been found. Sapphire—No transparent...state include wide varieties of quartz, garnet, tourmaline, spinel, zircon, feldspar, etc., etc., etc. This...Mountain (Boundary Co.), Idaho, slender black xls of tourmaline were found in a granite boulder consisting largely...largely of quartz and biotite mica. The tourmaline xls are arranged in a sunburst arrangement. Several...the area uncovered only one more specimen of tourmaline and this only as small, isolated scattered black |  | | Book (volume) | | line in a Hornblendegneiss exposureBeryl, black Tourmaline. 146 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the...colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway airport at rd...1½ mi., in Knox dolomite exposed in an abandoned quarry Barite, Calcite, Fluorite (purple cubes), Galena...shark teeth. CHATTOOGA COUNTY GORE, N 6 mi., along lower slopes of Taylor RidgeHalloysite. SUMMERVILLE:...US 27: (a) along both sides of Hwy.agate; (b) quarry on W side of rd.agate, chalcedony, chert, opal; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | One is a good pegmatite containing nice black tourmaline xls associated with pink microcline, lustrous...beautiful specimens have been gathHubbard (Brandywine) quarry in Wilm- ered in the past for jewelry. ington,...sets, in a beauvite, the magnesian variety of tourmaline, tiful mounting, that I have ever seen. was collected...too brittle to work and it had me quite Black tourmaline is found locally in discouraged. However, I find...wood. My thanks specimen is the first colored tourmaline to R & M for printing his ad. And beto be reported |  | | Book (volume) | | rampart, Moultonborough, 310 . 63, Section in gravel, Whitefield, 311 . 64, Section of Bald mountain...Hampshire. Geological map of the Ammonoosuc mining district. ILLUSTRATIONS NOT PRINTED HELIOTYPES FROM... 284 F ‘ ‘ . 288 F Bartlett boulder and gravel cut at Crawford house, Boulder in sand, and ice-drift...under this title are the water-worn and stratified gravel, sand, and clay or silt, which occur abundantly...form a part successively of the coarse rounded gravel, sand, and silt, over which the river flows on |  | | Book (edition) | | *' ^ *D * D } '<&*=> 4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet...could be cut. Diamonds are still being found in gravel deposited by the glaciers that once covered the...IOLITE SPHALERITE RUBY i^b TOPAZ CRYSTALS TOURMALINE CRYSTALS (Cro»$-$«ction ot righl) ^ \b7 CHRYSOBERYL...of feldspar that make parallel to is and tourmaline, and the pearly cleavage unmistakable. Kunzite...aquamarine, topaz, tourmaline, cyanite, or apatite. Conversely, such a chameleon as tourmaline may be found |  | | Book | | by Gloucester Typesetting Co. Ltd. Printed in Germany Contents Translator's Foreword 4 Foreword ...known in some parts of the Continent, including Germany. Ore: Ores are deposits of minerals, which contain...rhombohedron apatite beryl, corundum calcite quartz tourmaline orthorhombic rhombic prisms pyramids barytes...hardness. Each mineral will scratch those in a lower division on the scale and can be scratched by those...spodumene, staurolite, talc, titanite, topaz, tourmaline, vesuvianite (idocrase), wollastonite, zeolite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | eruptive rocks, with reference to their localities in Germany and adjoining countries ; the others showing the...of the superposition of the stratified rocks in Germany and other countries, together with their mineral...rocks. Leucite, nephelin, topaz, zircon, garnet, tourmaline, hypersthene, smaragdite, and andcsine. 5. Those...mRocks the mass of which consists of fragments (gravel or grains) of various sizes, rounded or angular...agglomerations of more or less rounded weathered blocks, gravel, sand, and earthy masses. a. Subdivision. Compact |  | | Book (volume) | | rivers, and outcroppings through the Quaternary gravel surfaces. Greatly eroded sandhills fan out across...Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout the more...gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R., especially to...WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE...wood, agate, jasper; in draws and washes and gravel beds of Spring Cr. and the Keya Paha R. agatized |  | | Book | | are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...is a square hammerhead on the other. raking gravel, poking about having a collection of minerals... to soil A often is or gravel, and a sieve when examining gravel much small shovel, the army...knapsack you can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it...can them spring or caves and rock beds on the lower hillsides decidedly uncomfortable AND COLLECTING |  | | Report (issue) | | its successor, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Sanitary District; the United States Engineer's Office; the Department...Minneapolis and St. Paul. . Dual Character of the Urban District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contrasts.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Franconia Sandstone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ Sand and Gravel. .................................. Foundry Sands.... . . . . . . . .. 27 3. Sieve Analyses of Franconia Sandstone from Taylor's Falls. . .. 29 4. Diagram |  | | Book (edition) | | Feldspar Group 8. Subsilicates Chondrodite Tourmaline Andalusite, Fibrolite, Cyanite .^7rT. Topaz...Saussurite Rocks 487 487 1. Garnet, Epidote, and Tourmaline Rocks 487 2. Hornblende, Pyroxene, and Chrysolite...scale to soapstone at the other. There is a still lower limit in liquids and gases; but of the hardness...the planes of the trisoctahedron in Fig. 21. The lower one of the three on the upper front solid angle...by a constant ratio, and the expression for the lower right one of the six planes will be 3c f & la. By |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 243 Figure 3. Quartz, 6.6 cm tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil...(Hollmann 1987; Smith 2001a). Albany, Passaconway gravel pit, 12 miles W of Conway near Downes Brook Crossing...(crystals, fluorescent) (Gallant 1960). Conway, Lovejoy gravel pit, about 2 miles NW of Conway, miarolitic cavities...1955). Conway, Redstone granite quarry (includes Redstone Green granite quarry located 800 feet WNW), 1 mile...(Gillson 1927). Conway, White Mountain granite quarry, W side of Saco River on W side of Birch Hill, |  | | Journal (issue) | | malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen market...in laterites, the upper or limonite zone and the lower or saprolite zone. In the limonite zone Ni is contained...Mcgaw, Peter: Cleveland and Bartlett, Mogollon District, New Mexico, 34-4:8 Nikischer, Tony: "Yooperlites"... Tony: Collector's Guide to the Balmat Mining District by S. Chamberlain et al., 34-2: 10 Nikischer,...12 9 Nikischer, Tony: New Finds: Groveling for Gravel from E. W. Heinrich (Idaho), 34-6:7 Nikischer, |  | | Book | | changed from gravel and is now an almost con¬ crete-like hard rock while above it is gravel. One of the...learn that gravel beds are rich in such minerals as quartz, feldspar, mica, garnet, tourmaline, magnetite...possibility. such other minerals as hematite, garnet, tourmaline, gold, etc. Inclusions in diamonds, emeralds...mineral inclusions such as gold, hematite, rutile, tourmaline, etc. Quartz crystal Quartz crystal is the clear...SEMIPRECIOUS STONES FIGURE 8. TOPAZ CRYSTAL Tourmaline. Tourmaline is one of the most intriguing as well as |  | | Book (edition) | | \ °* A DEMCO 38-297 KEY 4& Diamond M Tourmaline fQl Ruby, O Sapphire Quartz crystal 'y^...Every year brings news of a lucky strike gem tourmaline by the bushel basketful in Maine and California;...yet the insect who makes his home in a pile of gravel on the roadside lives in a palace. clear For the... V. IOLITE SAPPHIRE ^ KYANITE SPHALERITE TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS (Cross-section ot right)...of the crystal are characteristic of topaz and tourmaline, and the pearly cleavage of feldspar is unmistakable |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | xled cyrtolite was found last year in the Pine District, Jefferson Co., Colo., so we were informed by...specimens in the world are found in the limestone quarry in Legrand, Marshall Co., Iowa. The most noted...Here are some of the specimens collected: "Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Maine—Rose quartz, beryl xls (and massive)...black tourmaline xls, light smoky quartz. "Mi. Mica, Paris, Maine—Green tourmaline, black tourmaline xls..."Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mt., Greenwood, Maine—Garnets, black tourmaline - xls, green tourmaline xls, micro-quartz |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....jct. of Brint St. and Centennial rd., the Medusa Quarry (SW of 4 quarries), very many specimens⎯fossils...deposits⎯Hematite. OTTAWA COUNTY CLAY CENTER, area limestone quarry, famed⎯Calcite, Celestite (fluorescent), Dolomite...secondary line rd., then N ½ mi. to Maple Grove Quarry) ⎯Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite...WOOD COUNTY BOWLING GREEN, W and S, at the Pugh Quarry⎯crystals of Barite (fluorescent), Calcite, Celestite |
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