 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Arkansas Phosphate Minerals A R E V I E W AND UPDATE The abundance and quality of Arkansas phosphate...N R Y L . BARWOOD Arkansas Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute Arkansas Tech University Russellville...Russellville, Arkansas 72801 H E N R Y DELINDE 6 Homestead Court Mabelvale, Arkansas 72103 H A R D L Y...emerald-green crusts of variscite crystals from Arkansas. The abundance and quality of these specimens...minerals from Arkansas was made in 1877 when specimens (apparently from Montgomery County, Arkansas) were recognized |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Collector's Newsletter $3.00 2008 Arkansas Aluminum Phosphates: Wavellite with Variscite... Introduction Wavellite has been collected in Arkansas since the middle of the 1800s. A drawing of a...wavellite specimen is included in Harvey ( 1886), Arkansas' first state mineralogy. Although way behind quartz...collectable mineral as specimens in Arkansas. Dug Hill in Garland County was the source of most early wavellite...Hot Spring County or from Montgomery County. Dug Hill was in fact part of Hot Spring County until December |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals are a traditional favorite...specimen was a wavellite from one of the traditional Arkansas localities, for these have been available from...wavellite from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas; kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd photo courtesy...Limestone Company quarry, Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The 2.8 × 2.7 × 1.5-cm specimen...long and traditionally includes such species as crandallite, variscite, turquoise, and the apatite group |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (top). Digging at de Linde Pit No. 1, Garland County, Arkansas, in the early stages of exploration. Photo...were probably first collected at the Dug Hill diggings in Arkansas prior to 1870. The location was generally...in Montgomery County because at that time that is where the diggings were. Garland County was formed in...in 1873, but Montgomery County persisted on the labels after that date. Henry de Linde provided the reason...for the formation of Garland County, the townships of Buckville (including Avant), Cedar Glades, Crystal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 5I, MARCH_APRIL, CAUSE OF COLORS IN WAVELLITE DUG HILL ARKANSAS1 1966 FROT,I M-q.nc.q.nrrD. FosrBn...spherulites of wavellite found on Dug Hill, near Avant, Garland County, Arkansas contained vanadium. Samples...was quite good. fNrnooucrroN Wavellite found in Arkansas is known the world over for the varied colors...about one and one-half miles north of Avant, in Garland County. It occurs as fracture fillings and as...colors of the spherulitesof wavellite found on Dug Hill. Accordingly, he had preliminary tests for vanadium |  | | Report (issue) | | Crandallite CaAl3 (PO4 )(PO3 OH)(OH)6 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...192(1) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Fairfield, Utah, USA. (ICDD 33-257). 2.938 (100), 2.163 (60), 1.8946 (45)... 15.23 99.99 100.00 (1) Brooklyn mine, Utah, USA; after deduction of insolubles 35.13% as quartz,...CaAl3 (PO4 )(PO3 OH)(OH)6 . Mineral Group: Crandallite group. Occurrence: In weathered phosphatic aluminous...hydroxylherderite, quartz. Distribution: In the USA, in Utah, from the Brooklyn mine, near Silver City |  | | Report (issue) | | Pattern: Black River Falls, Jackson Co., Wisconsin, USA. 8.67 (100), 8.42 (100), 3.22 (60), 5.65 (50), 3...deposits; rare in hydrothermal veins. Association: Crandallite, variscite. Distribution: Many localities. In...large rosettes. At Montebras, Creuse, France. In the USA, from General Trimble’s mine, Chester Co., Pennsylvania;...Cocke Co., Tennessee; abundant around Avant, as on Dug Hill, Garland Co., and from the Mauldin Mountain...Mountain quarry, near Mt. Ida, Montgomery Co., Arkansas; in the Willard mine, Willard district, Pershing Co. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Portrait-drawings of staurolite specimens from Fannin County, Georgia: 3, Typical habit of staurolite crystal;...account of this awesome new teminology.) County, Arkansas. It occurs as an opaque white mineral that...wavellite and forms pseudomorphs after it. The crandallite is described by Charles Milton as occurring as...an earlier find. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Arkansas Crandallite The following note was received from Mr...Texas: "Crandallite has been identified from the wavellite and variscite deposits near Avant, Garland 114 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals, Arkansas also boasts an array of other minerals, as evidenced by this county-by-county description...continued with mining in north ern and western Arkansas and Magnet Cove during the Civil War, and peaked...in full swing and the demand for and price of Arkansas quartz crystals has skyrocketed. In October 1987...exploited. Continued interest in and study of Arkansas minerals, par ticularly the microminerals, will...for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting. Particular thanks goes to these hardcore |  | | Report (issue) | | 22.81 Total 100.37 100.00 (1) Lucin, Utah, USA. (2) AlPO4 2H2 O. • Polymorphism & Series: Mineral...provided by decomposition of guano. Association: Crandallite, carbonate-fluorapatite, wardite, millisite,...kolbeckite, goyazite (Little Green Monster mine, Utah, USA). Distribution: Many localities. In Germany, in Saxony...the Sarysai deposit, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. In the USA, in Utah, large nodules from the Little Green Monster... on Utahlite Hill, about eight km northwest of Lucin, Box Elder Co., from Amatrice Hill, Stansbury Mountains |  | | Book | | Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I •( 11 o •« c »««ou cxi ju4«iO«J...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute Quadrangal...Quadrangal Map index. V Contents and Locality Index Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types....Location 1 Montgomery County quartz deposits................. Other Montgomery County quartz mines...... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS of Arkansas A survey phates of mineral that occur resources in several reveals Arkansas ALBERT...Houston, Texas 77079 My first serious exposure to Arkansas minerals was in the summer of 1948, when I was...assist in a sur vey of the mineral resources of Arkansas. Local landowners and prospectors were encouraged...prospect on Fodderstack Mountain, near Norman, Arkansas, which was further sampled in the field. I recognized...with diverse professions but a common love of Arkansas minerals has met at least once a year as the Coon |  | | Journal (issue) | | Variscite, and Other Aluminum Phosphate Minerals in Arkansas ................................................Variscite, and Other Aluminum Phosphate Minerals in Arkansas Program Presented to the HGMS Mineral Section...occur in the Ouachita Mountains of west central Arkansas. Most of this mineralization is restricted to...been found in the Arkansas Novaculite and other Paleozoic rocks. Wavellite Crandallite Gorceixite Variscite...altered to crandallite. Turquoise has been mined at the Mona Lisa mine on Porter Ridge in Polk County during |  | | Journal (issue) | | Philipsbornite and Segnitite Two rare members oftlze crandallite group, philipsbomite PbAliAsO 4)i(OH) 5 • H 2...testing gold. Major areas covered include Southeast USA, California, Australia, Canada to Alaska, Britain...Sutherland from 1969 as the 2nd revised edition (McGraw-Hill Book Co, New York) is a nice historical record of...nine-pound garnet and a 34-carat diamond - all from the USA ? Maybe you're more interested in Czech opals, minerals...15840 East Alta Vista Way, San Jose, CA 95127-1737 USA. CD V-700 GEIGER COUNTER Complete with probe, meter |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Box 25046 Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA AND JOSEPH E. TAGGART, JR. M.S. 973, U.S. Geological...Box 25046 Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA The turquoise group has the general formula: Ao...with one unpublished analysis of p[anerite from Arkansas, are given in Table 2. Every effort was made to...spherulites ofplanerite from Dug Hill, near Avant, Garland Co., Arkansas (Smith, 1985), collected in 1937...responsible for the characteristic green colour of Arkansas wavellite. A sample (analysis no. 20, Table 2) |  | | Journal (issue) | | phosphate minerals from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, A rkansas.......................................NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA Brian M. England Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited Central Research Laboratories...of the pipe known as Number Five on Leatherjacket Hill. Impressed by the brilliant col or he took samples...is also expressed to the management of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited Central Research Laboratories...S. (1884) Report on auriferous antimony lodes at Hill Grove and bismuth lodes near Glen Innes. Annual |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | main minerals in the deposit, variscite and crandallite, contain from 0.01 to 0.80 weight percent ScsOa...significant amounts of sc. variscite, wavellite, crandallite, vashegyite and other Al phosphates from localities...hydrothermal The presentnote reports the Sc content of crandallite,variscite, d.eposits. wavellite and a few other...from the variscite deposit at Fairfield, Lehii County, Iltah. F.lrnnror,l, Ilr,ur The mineralogy and...summarizedb1'Larsen (1942).The chief mineralsare varisciteand crandallite (pseudowavellite).These are associatedwith alunite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BLUE WAVELLITE FROM THE DE LINDE QUARRY, GARLAND COUNTY, ARKANSAS. S. L. Hanson1, A. U. Falster2, and W...quarries in the Ouachita Mountains of westcentral Arkansas have produced collector-quality specimens of green... Two of these quarries near the town of Avant, the Dug Hill and de Linde claims, have not been commercially...blue wavellite with associated variscite and crandallite. Wavellite occurs in brecciated zones in the...range of color bands than wavellite from other Arkansas locations. The spheres and =VS\TL :LW[LTILY6J[VILY |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........................................... 4 Arkansas Collecting—1970 ................................2005 7 THE BACKBENDER'S GAZETTE JULY 2005 Arkansas Collecting—1970 by Art Smith artsmithite @msn...week of vacation and mineral collecting in the Arkansas Ouachita Mountains during October (Smith 1970)...seven hours. There was no Interstate highway in Arkansas, and in places U.S. 59 in Texas through East Texas...trading with roadside dealers, particularly in Arkansas. So at times the quartz dealers sold some nice |  | | Report (edition) | | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 S P EC I ES O F A RKA N SA A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard \ 1987... / ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist s·' , STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...23 SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION...State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission |  | Díaz-Acha, Yael, Campeny, Marc, Casas, Lluís, Di Febo, Roberta, Ibañez-Insa, Jordi, Jawhari, Tariq, Bosch, Josep, Borrell, Ferran, Jorge-Villar, Susana Esther, Greneche, Jean-Marc, Tauler, Esperança, Melgarejo, Joan Carles (2022) Colours of Gemmy Phosphates from the Gavà Neolithic Mines (Catalonia, Spain): Origin and Archaeological Significance. Minerals, 12 (3) 368 doi:10.3390/min12030368 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | although some prospective pits and tunnels were dug on other similar greenish minerals such as smectite... If white minerals such as quartz, kandite, crandallite, or alunite are involved in the mixtures, variscite...phosphates (e.g., variscite, montgomeryite, crandallite, and phosphosiderite) occur along with sulphates...year 2000 [55] when two semivertical shafts were dug. In the upper shaft, abundant variscite manufactured...spectrocolourimeter (X-rite Inc., Grand Rapids, MI, USA). The measurements were taken on dry samples, selecting |  | Rossi, Manuela, Rizzi, Rosanna, Vergara, Alessandro, Capitelli, Francesco, Altomare, Angela, Bellatreccia, Fabio, Saviano, Michele, Ghiara, Rosaria M. (2017) Compositional variation of turquoise-group minerals from the historical collection of the Real Museo Mineralogico of the University of Naples. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (6) 1405-1429 doi:10.1180/minmag.2017.081.055 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | phosphates from different groups: wavellite, crandallite, goyazite, gorceixite, variscite, metavariscite...Miguel and Los Cerrillos counties in New Mexico, USA. Sample E1675, labelled as ‘TUR 3’, from Messbach...TUR 2 sample comes from Los Cerrillos, New Mexico (USA) old mining districts (Pogue, 1916, Disbrow and Stoll...growth is correlated with the hydrothermal stage. Crandallite-group minerals are also very common (Dill, 2001)...highlights the presence of faustite, turquoise, crandallite and quartz in sample TUR 1; the EMPA-WDS data |  | | Report (edition) | | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 MINERAL SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised...Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised 2007 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL...Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission |  | | Journal (issue) | | the State Pit Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston, Texas...about 2 miles north of Mount Ida in Montgomery County. Arkansas has been mentioned in several show reports...wavellite locality has been producing most of Arkansas' wavellite specimens since 1977 (Smith 1983).... Most of these specimens have come from the County Continued on page 4 Fig. 1 Planerite with colorless...colorless wavellite, State Pit, Mauldin Mountain, Arkansas, photo by Art Smith. New Finds and other News from |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | during highway construction, Hull Township, Gatineau County, Quebec. P. M. Bellev, R. Rowe & M. Picard. 2:45...e " from the Harder Farm, Hammond, St. Lawrence County, NY. M. Lupulescu. 3:45 H i s t o r y of the Powers...Powers farm streamside veins, St. Lawrence County, New York. M. R. Walter & S. C. Chamberlain. 4:00 M...assemblage from the Allah Cooper/Valcooper mine, Louisa County, Virginia. L. E. Kearns & M. D. Dunn. 4:30 B l...e wavellite from the De Linde quarry, Garland, County, Arkansas. S. L. Hanson, A. U. Falster & Win. B |
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