 | | 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 (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...not too disappointed when I identified it as cacoxenite with associated strengite. He continued to dig |  | | 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) | | 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...friends in the Coon Creek Association for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Street quarry, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the Emery mine in Chester, Massachusetts, and even to the Strickland...minerals and took a summer job at the Homestake mine in Lead, South Dakota. He also applied and was accepted...these strolls John noticed what appeared to be a mine dump. Upon closer examination, it was determined...determined to be a dumping area for the nearby Brookdale mine in Phoenixville. It was on this rubble pile that...Plumbago Mining are in the chapter titled “The Dunton Mine” in the recently published American Mineral Treasures |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas; Indian Mountain, Alabama; Irish Creek, Virginia; Waldgirmes, West...lipscombite, barbosalite, laubmannite, souzalite, cacoxenite, and 'Mineral A'. Single-crystal structure analysis...mineral occurrences in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas, including their paragenesis and probable modes...Mountain, and Coon Creek mine in Polk County, and Fodderstack Mountain in Montgomery County. Kidwell discerned...species. At the old Irish Creek rockbridgeite locality, Rockbridge County, Virginia, it forms the greater |  | | Report (issue) | | huréaulite, dufrénite, bermanite, stewartite, cacoxenite, rockbridgeite, vivianite, apatite, leucophosphite...Czech Republic. In Sweden, from the Leveäniemi mine, Svappavaara, and in the Kiruna iron mines. At Iglesias...Portugal. In the Bomi Hill Caves, Liberia. In the USA, from the Palermo #1 and Fletcher mines, near North...at Three Oak Gap and the Coon Creek mine, Polk Co., Arkansas; in the Wood mine, Cooke Co., Tennessee; from...from the Bull Moose mine, five km southeast of Custer, Custer Co., South Dakota; at Pala, San Diego Co |  | | Journal (volume) | | on some Microminerals from the Ohio pit, Baraga County, Michigan Al Falster 920 McIntosh Wausau, Wl 54401... i The Ohio pit in Baraga County, Michigan, is an old open-pit iron mine. In vugs and cavities of the...minerals can be collected. Due to the fact that the mine has been abandoned for several years, the lower...AUSTRALIA, GERMANY RUSSIA, NORWAY, ITALY, NEW ZEALAND, USA & MEXICO Write for free list. Dealer prices available...In addition, they have purchased several fine Arkansas collections giving them a supply of fine kidwellite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | during the past twenty years than the --------Arkansas Magnet Cove locality. - - - - - - - - Minerals...Vanadium Mines POTASH SULPHUR SPRINGS, ARKANSAS J. MICHAEL HOWARD Arkansas Geological Commission 3815 West...Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 DON R. OWENS Earth Science Department University of Arkansas at Little Rock...Rock 2801 South University Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 Unless otherwise noted, all photos by J. Michael...unknown reason, the name Sulphur Creek, the small north-south creek draining the area, was dropped from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AMAX/Homestake shut down their mineralogically famous galena mine at Boss, Missouri. Lead prices are generally about...Similarly, iron mining is way down. The huge Minorca mine in Minnesota's Mesabi range had an early shutdown...the discovery of the new Chimney Creek gold deposit in Humboldt County, Nevada, as well as some new area...east of their Mosquite mine in Im perial County, California. The Sunnyside gold mine in Silverton, Colorado...and byproduct silver. In Michigan, the White Pine mine has been sold by Echo Bay mines to the local miners |  | | Journal (issue) | | older members who were coming in from all over the USA. Her concern was that upon arrival, they might well...different versions. This version is primarily on his Arkansas experiences and on the naming of kidwellite. Why...talk, and tonight the entire thrust will concern Arkansas. I grew up in the southeast corner of Missouri...Missouri which by all rights should have been Arkansas. The story goes that when the boundary line was to be...not live in Arkansas, so they drew the line around her. My first mineral trip to Arkansas was in 1934 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | states at its 2017 February show (add Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee); hence, they will all...states— Michigan, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Arkansas—at the periphery of the area tally over three...phosphate species being described from just one mine, the Tip Top, in South Dakota. (Note: There are...inclusions or mixtures (e.g., yellow smithsonite from Arkansas), or bizarre growth habits (e.g., twists and elongations)... Marion County, Tennessee Shepard 1835 1835 Nitromagnesite Nicajack Cave, Marion County, Tennessee |  | | Journal (issue) | | Treasure of the Rockies The Story of the Sweet Home Mine. Andrey Atuchin: An Interview with a Natural History...Treats Provided by the Fossil Group MEMORIES OF ARKANSAS: COLLECTING PHOSPHATES AND BAUXITE Mike Nelson...Nelson csrockguy@yahoo.com I have fond memories of Arkansas. Applied for a few jobs in universities and turned...suspect many CSMS members have been to the State of Arkansas on a collecting trip, most likely to collect quartz...quartz crystals and dabble in the diamond mine (see December Pick & Pack). I actually would be interested |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | St. Just aureole, Cornwall, 427 Alice Mary copper mine, W. Australia, lavendulan, 369 Alkali feldspar,...breakdown product of staurolite from Donegal, 237 Auburn mine, Michigan, stilpnomelane, 36I and M37 Augite, Turkey...anal., opt., sp. gr., X-ray, I79 Bali Low copper mine, Capricorn Range, W. Australia, lavendulan, 369... Larne, Co. Antrim, tobermorite, 229 Bambollita mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, tlapallite, 183 Ban...Pembrokeshire, 8 I Bingham, Utah, tobermorite, 229 Binny mine, Kondapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India, chromite, bronzite |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Other Paper | | MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS: COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS, STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS...Michael Howard MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS: COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS,...Michael Howard 16001 Vimy Woods Road Mabelvale, Arkansas 72103 E-mail: jmichaelhoward@sbcglobal.net ©...……………... 38 Christy Brookite Deposit (Vanadium Mine)………………………… 38 Old Highway Outcrops………………………………………………...Kimzey Magnetite Mine (Pit) and Surrounding Area………………………... 44 Chamberlain Creek Barite Mine…………………………………………… |  | | Journal (issue) | | stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...http://www.iea.com/-lream Web address change for Arkansas site A few months ago, the Mineral News ran a |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...group, 13 cm, w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection;...Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York; the Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin...country and soon became a collector. The cobalt mine at Bou-Azzer was among his favorite localities,...really fine azurite specimens from the now-famous mine at Touissit, and later many superb cerussites and |  | | Journal (issue) | | phosphate minerals from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, A rkansas.......................................outcrops. In 1877, J. Feeney, a stockman on Yarrow Creek Station (which encompassed the Kingsgate deposits)...mo u t h mineral on the surface near the old tin mine. His curiosity aroused, Feeney sent the specimen...took samples to W. H. Yates, who operated a tin mine on the Severn River near Raid Knob. Yates immediately...molybdenite was saved; most was discarded in the mine dumps or treatment plant residues where it remains |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...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...Georgetown, Clear Creek co., and at Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187 |  | | Book | | 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...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite |  | | Book | | Gems and Minerals in L.\merica Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...and abandoned, one is also sure to find extensive mine dumps sloping steeply down from the shaft or tunnel...prodvced by atmospheric oxidation, can be found. Old mine dumps often reveal a varied assortment of brightly...unusual for a casual visitor to an old gold rush mine to kick up a solid gold, silver, or native copper |  | | Book | | P L AT E 8 Chalcopyrite and Calcite. Groundhog mine, Vanadium, New Mexico. 4 x 5 cm. Thesecrystals formed...I ( o p p o s i t e ) Elbaite. Tourmaline Queen mine, Pala, California. i o-cm crystals. The dramatic...Spitzkoppe, Namibia (crystal, 4 x 4 cm); Mason County, Texas (gem, 48.35 ct). Topaz is one of many gem...than in pegmatites. ■ ;_. • Triphylite. Smith mine, Newport, New Hampshire. 2.5-crn crystal. Well-formed...into the basins. P L AT E 4 0 Calcite. Carter County, Montana. 8 x t o cm. The iciclelikeform of these |
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Coon Creek Mine, Shady, Polk County, Arkansas, USA