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Diamond from
Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA


Classification
Species:Diamond
Formula:C
Comments:Occurs in, and associated with, weathered diamondiferous lamproite (peridotite).
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diamond data
Locality Data:Click here to view Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:57376
Long-form Identifier:1:3:57376:4
GUID (UUID V4):8433ea80-bcbd-4550-960c-2a02edab7ddd
Localities for Diamond in this Region
American Mine (Kimberlite Mine), Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA
Black Lick prospect, Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA
Crater of Diamonds State Park (Prairie Creek Lamproite), Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA
Arkansas mine, Crater of Diamonds State Park (Prairie Creek Lamproite), Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA
Twin Knobs No. 1 Mine, Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Diamond
3.9km (2.4 miles) ā“˜American Mine (Kimberlite Mine), Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) ā“˜Arkansas mine, Crater of Diamonds State Park (Prairie Creek Lamproite), Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA
7.4km (4.6 miles) ā“˜Twin Knobs No. 1 Mine, Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
DIAMOND-BEARING PERIDOTITE IN PIKE COUNTY, ARKANSAS. By HUGH D. MISEK and CLARENCE S. Ross. LOCATION...exposed in four places near Murfreesboro, Pike County, in southwestern Arkansas, and at three of these places...related igneous rocks FIOUKE 65. Map of parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and adjacent States, showing the area...rectangle) that contains the diamond-bearing peridotite of Pike County, Ark. was first discovered, which...since 1842, lies 2Ā£ miles south-southeast of Murfreesboro, near the confluence of Prairie Creek with Little
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DIAMOND-BEARING PERIDOTITE ARKANSAS. HuGa D. Misā€¢ .ā€¢2 IN PIKE COUNTY, 1 Ct.Aaā€¢.ā€¢cā€¢. S. Ross....exposures of peridot{reoccurnear Murfreesboro,Pike County,Arkansas,and.threeof thesehave produceddiamonds...exposurefirst discovered lies 2ā€¢ milessouth-southeast of Murfreesboro,near the confluenceof Prairie Creek with Little...Prairie Creek area and 3 miles S. 75Ćø E. of Murfreesboro. Two of these, the Kimberlite and American areas...U.S. GeologicalSurvey. 662 DIAMOND-BEARING PERI'DOTITE IN PIKE COUNTY, ARK. 663 T. 8 S., R. 25 W
Book
Diamonds in Arkansas ======- A Brief Account of the Discovery and Investigation and the Official Reports...Diamonds in Pike County Arkansas Digitized by Google I, ,.. \' j 7 ., : . . ". { Arkansas Diamond...Arkanlal Owning and Operating the Diamond Mines in Pike County, Arkansas Ollice 204 Louisiana St. LITTLE...E N T R AL PRINTING COMPANY .t~. LITTLE ROCK ARKANSAS Digitized by Google COPYRIGHT. 1808 W IEYS2UAN...INDEX SUMMARY OF REPORT OF JOHN T. FULLER ON ARKANSAS DIAMOND COMPANY'S PROPERTY. Situation and Surroundings
Report (issue)
DEPOSITS OF THE CADDO GAP AND DE QUEEN QUADRANGLES, ARKANSAS. By HUGH D. MISER and A. H. PURDUE. INTRODUCTION...side of the Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, Arkansas and Oklahoma. quadrangles, Ark. This belt is...comprises parts of Pike, Howard, and Sevier counties and a narrow strip of Hempstead County, in southwestern...southwestern Arkansas, and a strip along the east edge of McCurtain County, in southeastern Oklahoma. The gravels...novaculite (a variety of chert) derived from the Arkansas novaculite exposed in the Ouachita Mountain region
Report (volume)
...................... (B) Colemanite in Clark County, Nev., by L.F. Noble (published Feb. 23,1922) (C)...1922)............... (H) Peridotite dikes in Scott County, Ark., by H. D. Miser and C. S. Ross (published........................... (I) Diamond-bearing peridotite in Pike County, Ark., by H. D. Miser and C. S........... (J) The Los Burros district, Monterey County, Calif., by J. M. Hill (published April 28, 1923)...limestone member of Horse Spring formation in Clark County, Nev.: A, Near Horse Spring; B, Near Bitter Spring
Book
to dedicate this book to my friend, and fellow diamond miner, James Archer. He was a diligent, hard-working...iendly, Christian man. In his thirty years of diamond searching at The Crater of Diamonds State Park...learned that the key to finding allusive diamonds in Arkansas is perspiration and persistence. He passed away...THOROUGH AND ACCURATE HISTORY OF GENUINE DIAMONDS IN ARKANSAS TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE I DEDICATION 4 INTRODUCTION...HUDDLESTON? 6 THE ARKANSAS DIAMOND COMPANY 7 THE MAUNEY'S DIAMOND FIELD 9 KJMBERLEY, THE NEW DIAMOND CITY OF PIKE
Report (issue)
A note on newly discovered kimberlites in Riley County, Kansas William L. Mansker, Bill D. Richards, and...petrography of the Twin Knobs ttl lamproite, Pike County, Arkansas . 205 Michael A. Waldman, Tom E. McCandless...McCandless, and Hugo T. Dummett The Cretaceous Arkansas alkalic province; A summary of petrology and geochemistry...Potash Sulfur Springs igneous complex, Garland County, Arkansas Robert E. Zartman and J. Michael Howard .... 235 Isotopic relationships in Arkansas Cretaceous alkalic complexes . 241 G. R. Tilton, Sung Tack
Report (issue)
NEW AREAS OF DIAMOND-BEARING PERIDOTITE IN ARKANSAS. By HUGH D. MISER. INTRODUCTION. Four areas of peridotite...peridotite near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Ark., were known at the time of the writer's visit to this...writers have contributed to the literature on the Arkansas diamonds and the geology of the peridotite in...of Arkansas diamonds: Am. Jour. Sci., 4th eer., vol. 24, 1907, pp. 275-276. Diamonds in Arkansas: Bull...20, 1908, pp. 187-194. Fuller, J. T., Diamond mine in Pike County, Ark.: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 87,
Report (issue)
"roots" of old volcanoes were present near Murfreesboro, in Pike County. They found here not ,only the rocks...carries diamonds and is almost identical with the diamond-bearing earth of the great Kimberley Inine of South...paper deals with these and other volĀ­ 'canoes in Arkansas and with recent Ā·discoveries of material tha,t...which the explosions occurred, the localities in Arkansas whence the material came, nnd the agencies by...WOODBINE AND TOKIO FORMATIONS The igneous rocks of Arkansas were for many years believed to have been formed
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY OF THE DE QUEEN AND CADDO GAP QUADRANGLES, ARKANSAS BY HUGH D. MISER AND A. H. PURDUE *"**Ā» Ā» ..._______ General geography and geology of the Arkansas Valley _________ ____ 12 General geography...system_________________ __________.____________ Arkansas novaculite.___---____-_-___-__-_--____-_-_-__...rocks of Arkansas. Age of the peridotite-_____________________________________ Comparison of Arkansas and...period._______________________-_----__---_---------Arkansas novaculite deposition... __________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have at times been unable to discover economic diamond occurrences that were luter found by less-experienced...good specimens. On the other hand, a ā€œhigh-gradeā€ diamond Occurrence would only contain a few more or less...processes used in most nonplacer diamond mines, results in diamond specimens, particularly those containing...response to the ā€œdiamondā€œ theme of this yearā€™s Munich Show, we have chosen a superb diamond specimen from...hardness, equating that with indestructibility. Diamond hiis been assigned a hardness value of 10, only
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HILLS Murfreesboro, Arkansas ā€” The Crater of Diamonds near Murfreesboro has beĀ­ come Arkansas' newest...were discovered in the PraiĀ­ rie Creek area of Pike County in August, 1906, by a farmer named John Wesley...became public, it started a "diaĀ­ mond rush" to Murfreesboro that threatĀ­ ened to take on the proportions...the Miurfreesboro vicinity that the peridotiteā€”diamond bearing oreā€”has been discovered. More than 60,000...on the site are the UnĀ­ cle Sam and the Star of Arkansas. The Uncle Sam, found in 1924, weighed 40.23 carats
Report (issue)
PERIDOTITE DIKES IN SCOTT COUNTY, ARKANSAS. By HUGH D. MISER and CLARENCE S. Ross. LOCATION AND HISTORY...tributary of Dutch Creek, in the eastern part of Scott County, Ark., was discovered about 1909 by W. M. Taylor...Baggaly & Barnes, and the New Mexico & Arkansas Oil & Diamond Mining Co. The prospectors hoped to find...road, 25 miles west-southwest of Danville, Yell County, Ark., on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway...Railway, and 20 miles east of Waldron, the county seat of Scott County, on a branch of the Kansas City Southern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2016 Gem R E D I S COV E RY OF A HISTORIC ARKANSAS DIAMOND T he Crater of Diamonds State Park (CDSP)...(CDSP), located in southwestern Arkansas near the city of Murfreesboro, has enjoyed record attendance since...the tremendous publicity from several notable diamond finds, and the publication of a revised edition...Worthingtonā€™s (2007) book, Genuine Diamonds Found in Arkansas. One of Worthingtonā€™s chapters discusses the current...auction-goers (e.g., the Uncle Sam Diamond and the Star of Arkansas); other stones remained uncut and
Report (issue)
ASPHALT DEPOSITS AND OIL CONDITIONS IN SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS. By HUGH D. MISER and A. H. PURDUE. INTRODUCTION...three of which are in Pike County and four in Sevier County, in southwestern Arkansas, were examined by the...Hayes,1 is about 2Ā£ miles south-southeast of Pike, in Pike County. Of the other six deposits only three have...The asphalt deposits in Pike County are near Pike, Delight, and Murfreesboro. Pike and Delight are on a...Railway, and Murfreesboro is on the Memphis, Dallas & Gulf Railroad. The deposits in Sevier County are between
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GUIDE FOR THE COLLECTOR Fee-Collecting Areas in Arkansas ALBERT L . KIDWELL 14403 Carolcrest Houston, Texas...Texas 77079 Crater of Diamonds State Park, Murfreesboro, Arkansas. This is one of the most unique mineralcollecting...discovery location of the Star of Arkansas, a 15.33-carat diamond found 4 March 1956. ^ rock can also...southeast for 2.5 miles from Murfreesboro, Pike County, in southwestern Arkansas. The total park area comprises...comprises 888 acres, but the diamond-bearing peridoĀ­ tite breccia underlies only about 40 acres. A visit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Institution Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu DIAMOND Dutoitspan Mine, Kimberley Northern Cape Province...barefooted traveler. Gardner F. Williams in The Diamond Mines of South Africa (1904, p. 115) T he valley...Ralston (of Comstock Lode fame) was excited by a new diamond find somewhere in ā€œa remote section of the United...were close-mouthed about the location of this diamond find but eventually agreed to conduct two people...for exposing mining fraud, Janin pronounced the diamond fields to be among the richest in the world. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
07:46 29 December 2014 Figure 7. Kelsey Lake diamond mining operation. Photo courtesy Peter J. The...that have made their way into museum collections. Diamond crystals with the following carat weights are reported...became famous as North Americaā€™s only commercial diamond mine (fig. 7). Unfortunately, it closed in 1997...but not before the discovery of two very large diamond crystals. One, a 28.30-carat crystal, yielded a...the time this was said to be the fifth-largest diamond found in the United States. The second, discovered
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 northĀ­ 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, parĀ­ ticularly the microminerals, will...for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting. Particular thanks goes to these hardcore
Book
Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur dā€™Alene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I ā€¢( 11 o ā€¢Ā« c Ā»Ā«Ā«ou cxi ju4Ā«iOĀ«J...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansasā€™ 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)
Aspects of the Prairie Creek Diamond-Bearing Kimberlite Diatreme, Arkansas Subbarayudu V. Gogineni, Charles...Athens, GA 30602, USA 2 Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA Abstract. Based...Creek diatreme situated 4 km SSE of Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, are classified as micaceous kimberlite...kimberlite diatreme, situated 4 km SSE of Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, has been known since 1842 when it...inclusions. Until recently, it was the only known diamond-bearing kimberlite in the United States. In 1975
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
along Prairie Creek just south of Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. The near-oval shaped area is an...consist of impurities completely sealed in diamond. Because diamond is a dense, strong, relatively inert mineral...South Africa. Not all kimberlites, however, yield diamond. Dawson (1967) therefore redefined kimberlite as...kimberUte diatreme (volcanic pipe) near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas (The Crater of Diamonds State Park)...and carbon dioxide. A view of kimberUte breccia (Arkansas) with an enclosed nodule is shown in Figure 1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zones in the olivine lamproite from Prairie Creek Arkansas and the paragenesis of haggertyite, Ba [Fe6Ti5Mg]O19...around accidental inclusions in the Prairie Creek, Arkansas, lamproite, extended the type of occurrence of...within the crater of Diamond State Park, southwestern Arkansas. The history of the diamond mining activity...associated with the lamproite. The presence of diamond and the origin of the lamproite thus point to mantle...geochronology of the Cretaceous igneous rocks of Arkansas and confirmed a previously determined age of 108
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STATE STONES ARKANSAS "Newsletter" By GEORGE E. KOSEL Bergen County Mineralogy and Paleontology The...The State chosen for this month is Arkansas: which has adopted three State Stones: they are State Rockā€”bauxite;...Rockā€”bauxite; State Mineralā€”quartz; and State Gemā€” diamond. Arkansas is quite an unusual State. It has deposits...usually white to gtay or brown in color and, in Arkansas, occurs in three forms: (1) the "pisolitic" or...refractories, and alumina cements. 540 Society, Inc. Arkansas produces over 90 per cent of the bauxite mined
Report (volume)
DEPOSITS NEAR THE LITTLE MISSOURI RIVER PIKE COUNTY, ARKANSAS BY DAVID GALLAGHER Strategic Minerals...and topographic map of part of the southwestern Arkansas quicksilver district, showing location of areas...showing location and extent of the southwestern Arkansas quicksilver district, Idealized sketch of Z-bends...RIVER, PIKE COUNTY, ARKANSAS By David Gallagher ABSTRACT The quicksilver district of Arkansas, where...the southwestern part of the State, in Clarice, Pike, and Howard Counties. During the Ouachlta mountain-building
 
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