 | | Journal (issue) | | basalt flows which form the mountains and mesas are agate-bearing. It has been 30 million years since this...found some really nice biscuits – amygdules of agate in place or newly released from the basalt, many...stainless steel. I received a gift of 50 pounds of agate from Alpine, Texas. It was not very good material...full-blooded Iroquois April 2021 15 mother and a U.S. Army surgeon from Washington, D.C., lit out for parts...12, she took a joyride on a motorcycle through an Army base. Her punishment? Her father grounded her and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | acted upon by the War Office. Indeed, the British Army had no previous record of employing professional...the Western Front The importance of water to the army is emphasised in the following quotation (Institution...were spinel, natural and artificial corundum, and agate. Points from two German Zeppelins were also examined...retained as the material for the cup, and that agate, which is slightly less hard but extremely tough...microscopical method for identifying agate of the appropriate quality. The agate-sapphire arrangement was subsequently |  | | Catalog/List | | Labor was from when meteorite, Guide to It army. fifty Sancha estate, about of pottery elsewhere...are scarcer. instances, material, Pater- at quarry received the entire we in- or through the...Von 2O to be Thaumasite the he and dis- quarry, West aggregate of pris- matic uals crystals...variety crystallized specimens the most beautiful quarry crystals, APOPHYLLITE to of productive period...loosely so or flat, set Burger’s crystals on quarry short are The edge. are and pearly striated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | & M JUNIOR CLUB Collecting In Idar-Oberstein, Germany Since few rock and mineral collectors from the...Idar-Oberstein, Germany, area, I'd like to tell of my 7 visits there. My dad, who is with the U.S. Army, had received'...we were going to be stationed on an army post in Landsthul, Germany (approx. 40 miles from Idar-Oberstein)...San Francisco, Calif. While going to school in Germany (1960) my 6th grade class was trying to find a...through Idar-Oberstein. While there I searched for agate and any other mineral I could find. Digging up small |  | | Journal (issue) | | cabinetspecimen of knobby,finger-like botryoids of agate pseudomorphous after coral,the surfaceof the sampleshowinga...cm@ 75.00. BARITEwithCINNABAR - Baumholder,Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany A largespecimen comprised ofnumerous...went to the BRA desk-and they did have my Swiss army knife-which seemed like a final positive endorsement...malachite pillars at the Kremlin in Moscow. In Germany, malachite was once used for amulets for protection...crystals from Tsumeb/Namibia and from Siegerland/Germany, huge and bizarrely shaped stalactite malachite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | near the old HaleWalker Quarry —perhaps a third of a mile from the Strickland Quarry. Chalcopyrite is disseminated...green coating on pegmatite, at the Hale-Walker Quarry itself, was seen a few years ago. It was probably...the entire inside of which is lined with polished agate slabs of most exquisite patterns and colors. It..."Considerable hyalite has come from the Morrow (Leiper's) Quarry, on Route 320 between Swarthmore and ROCKS AND...xls. "On the southeast rim are found agate, jasper, jasp-agate, barite and limonite. "If anyone wants |  | | Journal (issue) | | 3 x 1 ½ • .. . •. . • .••••.•• 4.50 M!al ■ n , Germany. Incrustation on rock. 2 ½ x 1 ½ ...• . . . ..•...MONTHLY 1946 CONTENTS FOR JULY. 1946 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................·················415 MCAFEE, N . J., LIMESTONE QUARRY. By Peter Zodac .................................key ..................................429 JEFFERS AGATE FIELD IN NEW MEXICO. By Lottie M. Neely ..........appearance, and erial, instead of a lining of "agate' • and may easily be mistaken for beach bould- a |  | | Journal (issue) | | MONTHLY Oa,,t.,,/4 Jo,i M4#/, 191/-3 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ................................................. ... . ............ .. .. .......... THE PEKIN QUARRY AT LOCKPORT, N . Y. By Pa11l E. Killinger AN INTERESTING...and importer, was rare black jade and not common agate as some jewelers believed. Because of the extreme...experts couJd prove whether the bottle was jade or agate. As a last resort, Mr. Bensabott, who had just sold...Hall) . R OCKS AND MINERALS 136 Re THE PEKIN QUARRY AT LOCKPORT, N. Y. fai By PAUL E. KILLINGER |  | | Journal (issue) | | as good. Figure 7: Pyromorphite from Bad Ems, Germany, size 7 cm. Figure 6: Native lead, Langban, Sweden...Batholith, Colorado Lazard Cahn and his Zentmayer Army Hospital Microscope The Empire Exhibition of South...Republic Czech Republic Czech Republic France Germany India Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Norway Norway...Blackbird Kipawa Complex Prague Brno Rheinland-Palatinate Karnataka Subramanium Katerina Mine Margabai...Island of Seiland Alta Alta Klein Spitzkopje Mica Quarry Ornetind Zircon store Kufjord Jagersfontein Witwatersrand |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2" up to 6"x 6" S0c to $10.00 • - -- • Agate in Idaho. Agate halves up nodules having blue, gray & white...$1.00, $2.00 and $3.00. • - - -• Red and white agate masses from Nevada 2"x 2" and 3"x 3" SOc and 75c...- - -• Vari-colored banded agates from Braen's quarry, Hawthorne, N. J. 2"x 2" to 4"x 4" 50c to $3.00...Montana 1 ½"x 1½" SOc up to $3.00 «- - -• Many agate cabochons - all colors SOc to $2.00 «---• Moss...FROM THE QUARRY .. . . . ......... .... .. .. ............ • .......... FREAK SIMULATIONS IN AGATE. by Ernest |  | | Journal (issue) | | really had two careers. First and foremost, he was an Army officer, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel...Republic Yerandowana, Poona, India Osa Quarry, Rome, Italy San Venanzo Quarry, Terni, Italy Chabazite-K Type...Ercolano Naples, Italy. Other localities: Vallerano Quarry, Rome, Italy Chabazite-Na Type locality: biggest...Oceanside, Tillamook Co., Oregon Yaquina Head, Agate Beach, Lincoln Co., Oregon DACHIARDITE Dachiardite-Ca...Tanzenberg, Kapfenberg, Styria, Austria Francon Quarry, St. Michel, Montreal Island, Quebec, Canada Tsugarwa |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1946 CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1946 . CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...................................................................................... 204 DYER QUARRY ZEOLITES (Part 2). By C. A . Thomas ..................... 213 . . . CHRYSOPRASE FIRST FOUND IN GERMANY .................................................ze th )U th r 205 ROCKS AND MINERALS DYER QUARRY ZEOLITES (Part II) · By C. A. THOMAS 706 Church...cannot understand why they were abandoned. The Quarry on the right, entered just to the right after crossing |  | | Journal (issue) | | Digest DIGEST IMPORTED Rough Box Omaha 57 Agate Amethyst Amaronite Aventurine Bloodstone Citrine... THE mont. EARTH SCIENCE DIGEST Asbestos quarry, showing large power shovel in the background....since asbestos is older than anything Miracle 3 Quarry located at Eden, Ver- Mineral W. Nelson in the...New Zealand, Ireland, Japan, SCIENCE DIGEST Germany, Hungary, China, Austral ia, the United States...today, in the Canadian mines, at least. Today, the quarry pit at Asbestos measures more than 4,000 feet across |  | | Journal (issue) | | claim for your saws is true. They sure go through Agate." Jame, W. Riley, Spri119ffel•, Ohio, advertiser...MONTHLY CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1945 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................H11rley ....................................... 480 AGATE OCCURRENCE IN IOWA - BARITE IN PENN. - ONYX IN ARIZ...(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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | her father and mother. Sgt. Foran, of the U. S. Army, is at present stationed at the Peekskill Armory...Patricia's big brother, Pvt. James Foran, of the U. S. Army, was killed in action in Korea on February 5, 1951...a couple of cabs made from our Rose Garden Jasp-Agate found 50 miles south of La Junta by my friend, another...reddish jasper-agate. CONNECTICUT: A locality for aegirite is the abandoned Flatrock granite quarry at Waterford...State's most noted locality, the Brandywine (Hubbard) quarry, in Wilmington, New Castle Co., Del. A note from |  | | Journal (issue) | | Joliet Jr. College Godehard Lenzen, Hamburg, Germany (Geologic Education) THE EARTH SCIENCE DIGEST is...metals on the strategic and critical list of the Army and Navy Munitions Board were investigated first...telephone applications was developed from a method in Germany found by postwar allied scientists, Dr. Albert...of practical use. From information secured in Germany in 1946, it appeared that Prof. F.. Nacken of the...of petroleum formation and the prospecting of a quarry for fluorescent and radioactive minerals, or even |  | | Journal (issue) | | claim for your saws is true.· Ttiey sure go through Agate." C p A F, G ~ C A Fl James W. Riley, Springfield...1945 CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1945 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ........................................................................................ GEIGER QUARRY OF PENNSYLVANIA. By Peter Zodac .................--,.., .......... ,., ... ... Chip• From the Quarry ............,_..,-..,,_...,...,.., ...... ,.....Grieger, of Warner & Grieger, who has been in the army for over two years, was discharged on November 1 |  | | Journal (issue) | | ea,,kll/4 jo1' /"4, 19.lf.2. CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .............................................................................. 234 235 A MOSS AGATE FROM MONTANA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . 238 A MONT ANA RAINBOW AGATE. By H. E. Murdock .............. MANY FOSSILS FOUND............................... 242 A KISELGUHR QUARRY IN ALGERIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Association 234 ROCKS AND MINERALS Chips From The Quarry 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I |  | | Journal (issue) | | etusllUIII. jo,,. !bece,,,/.e,, l9J/..2. CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................Association 402 ROCKS AND MINERALS AN R. 6 M. A. ARMY A few day before we were to go to press, an airmail...are now in the armed service of the country-in the army, navy, and marine corps. We do not know in what...No doubt the army has most of them. A few names of those whom we know to be in the army are as follows:...where a member, on the day he was leaving for the army, Majors: L. Prescott Brown, of Albany, N . Y. was |  | | Journal (issue) | | y, CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1946 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...................:............................... ..... .......•...........•.... 759 FRANKLIN QUARRY, FRANKLIN, N. J. By Peter Zodac .................the waters of Lake Bonneville Some rather showy agate boulders have been found in this area, as well as...idle and full of water. Went to Mrs. Bennett's quarry near a very productive day in Paterson, N. J.,...places we visited and we were astounded to find the quarry idle the people we were with, as permanent and |  | | Journal (issue) | | amethyst crystal interiors on agate. Some with smoky quartz xls on agate. Others with blue white quartz...742 748 751 762 774 776 794 722 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................7-3185) i ROCKS AND MINERALS 72! CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY “I AM A MINERAL COLLECTOR” “HUH?” By ANNA MARIE...ara gonite. A typical working basalt traprock quarry in the Paterson, N. J. area. ROCKS AND MINERALS...quartz and calcite was found at the upper New Street Quarry in Paterson, N. J. during the leveling operations |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Mines, I heard of an active uranium mine or quarry a couple of miles from town. Following the highway...pollucite which I discovered at the Strickland Quarry, in Portland, during 1954. "Several institutions...proved to be fairly abundant in one section of the quarry wall, intergrown with lepidolite, spodumene, pink...known from the Bolton Schist at the Strickland quarry, should also have appeared in the .list In my map...contact between pegmatite and schist at the Slocum quarry, in East Hampton, is evidently wollastonite. Optical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of bertrandite specimens found at the Strickland Quarry, at Portland, Conn., last year. Walter Bagley spotted...unreported. On October 15th last I visited the Toll Gate Quarry, just iy2 miles south of Middletown, on Rout 9"Dave... Lakeland, Fla. "These are found in a dolomite quarry. They are generally black at this locality. In...agates and thomsonites. "Agates are collected at Agate Bay near Two Harbors and elsewhere along the north...and find it quite interesting. The old granite quarry on Mount Adam is quite easy to find and allanite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | is characteristic of of idocrase at the Gillette Quarry in Had- the mineral. I believe this to be one of...a new discovery of that material "The Tollgate Quarry in Middletown at the famous old locality. What...is being made to organize from the wall of the quarry. The remnants a mineral club in this part of the...a chance to pick up specimens. scheelite at the quarry, but only as specks. The terrain consists mostly...launching place for rowample of topaz from the Gillette Quarry. boats during fishing season. Perhaps that He discovered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | help. Tell him you would like to know if a mine, quarry, gravel pit or any interesting rock formation is...happens that people know the existence of a mine or a quarry (long abandoned) but haven't the slightest idea...may occur in them. Let's assume that a limestone quarry is present and you have no idea what limestone...limestone quarry. When you receive these 570 specimens, examine them carefully, then go to the quarry and...specimens collected. Any strong, heavy bag will do—army knapsacks are ideal. Strong, sturdy market baskets |
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