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east of the Harlem River and East River in New York City. Specimensof this material were recently examined...LocarroN The specimensexamined were collected in the new city subway tunnel in the vicinity of Newtown Creek...boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens (See Fig. 1). The new subway line consists at this point of two parallel...The tunnel has since been lined with concrete and new material is no longer available at this point.s Tur...Much has been written on the geology of Greater New York.6 In these accounts both the surface geology and |
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[JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY] at 18:38 24 August 2017 VERMICULITE—A FRIEND IN THE HOUSE The history of the advancements...latest in the long line of building improvements. Vermiculite, a mineral of the mica family which expands to...the unusual feat of "making stones grow." It's vermiculite today which is performing magic of another sort...a wall causes a web of cracks to appear. For vermiculite, used as a plaster aggregate, replacing sand...material commonly used for body, has developed a new type of plaster which can be punctured by nails or |
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the mineral, the first house insulated with vermiculite was located in Spokane, Washington, built in...built with vermiculite playing a major role in their construction. For the home owner, vermiculite has meant...fireproofing qualities. For the construction trade, vermiculite has meant a veritable revolution in the field...are using vermiculite and lowering building costs. With new production facilities, some new products already...goes out on a limb to prophesy that the use of vermiculite in the homes of America will become as common |
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the mineral, the first house insulated with vermiculite was located in Spokane, Washington, built in...built with vermiculite playing a major role in their construction. For the home owner, vermiculite has meant...fireproofing qualities. For the construction trade, vermiculite has meant a veritable revolution in the field...are using vermiculite and lowering building costs. With new production facilities, some new products already...goes out on a limb to prophesy that the use of vermiculite in the homes of America will become as common |
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the mineral, the first house insulated with vermiculite was located in Spokane, Washington, built in...built with vermiculite playing a major role in their construction. For the home owner, vermiculite has meant...fireproofing qualities. For the construction trade, vermiculite has meant a veritable revolution in the field...are using vermiculite and lowering building costs. With new production facilities, some new products already...goes out on a limb to prophesy that the use of vermiculite in the homes of America will become as common |
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GEOLOGY OF VERMICULITE OCCURRENCES by WILLIAM A. BASSETT The University of Rochester, Rochester, New York...York ABSTRACT Vermiculite occurrences can be divided into two Inajor categories, those having macroscopic...clay vermiculite. This paper is concerned with the former. The macroscopic type of vermiculite deposits...that most and possibly all macroscopic-type vermiculite deposits formed by the action of supergene solutions...solutions on biotite and phlogopite. Vermiculite in mixed.layer association with biotite, phlogopite, |
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al. Review RJ Lee Group, Inc., Monroeville, PA, USA (Accepted 18 January 2010) Asbestos is a term used...tremolite asbestos fibres from North Carolina and New York showing the distinctive morphology before and...crushing. Non-asbestiform tremolite particle from New York (c) as received and (d) after crushing. (The field...with the other industrial minerals, talc and vermiculite (Ilgren 2004). Prismatic and acicular amphiboles...non-asbestos ore deposits. For example, at the vermiculite mine near Libby, MT, a small percentage (less |
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aplite," and was one of three States mining vermiculite. Major industrial mineral resources in Virginia...dimension), sulfur*, talc*, tantalum, titanium, and vermiculite* (*indicates presently produced or processed)...and gravel (industrial), talc (soapstone), and vermiculite . . Value (thousands) $ 3,172 1,435,311 15 1...located in Warren and Botetourt counties and in the city of Chesapeake, produce cement. Riverton Corporation...operates a cement manufacturing facility in the city of Chesapeake. The company imports crushed quicklime |
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The following checklist of New York minerals was compiled by William Ulrich, a member of the Naussa Mineral...Inc., Paramus, New Jersey. Joe Wunk is current editor of the Matrix. CHECKLIST OF NEW YORK MINERALS by...I L L I A M U L R I C H 404 McNulty Place New Hyde Park, New Y o r k 10040 ACMITE ACTINOLITE AESCHYNITE...TOBERNITE TREMOLITE TRIPHYLITE URANINITE URANOPHANE VERMICULITE VESUVIANITE VIVIANITE WARWICKITE WILLEMITE WOLLASTONITE...Southeastern New York State (1967) Ronald Everett Januzzi The Minerals of New York City and its Environs |
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best ways to learn about your hobby, is to read new and back number copies of periodicals. Philip R....which do not get too hot. those who like to try new products. This wheel will actually shape corundum...shaping of stones. W e are experimenting with a new type grinding wheel which accomplishes the fast forming...roll and see for yourself. Use Coaster Wagon, Vermiculite to make Handy Barbecue Exploring for Oil by...INC. 489 Fifth Avenue, (42nd Street) New York City 17, New York, will furnish free literature concerning |
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located another source of new and used microscopes and optical equipment in New York. The Peerless Camera...Camera Store, Lexington Ave. and 43rd St., New York City, has opened a special department within the past few...richest torbernite and autunite we'd ever seen. (New Hampshire collectors please note). The yellow autunite...Burnsville and Green Mt., N . C. They were mining vermiculite, now so extensively used in the building industry...the raw material produced 80 bags of expanded vermiculite per ton, and that the operation paid better than |
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iss abot all". Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year. Wish we could see the Holiday gifts, especially...Pa., moved a few mountains from Maine and other New England localities, to their home. While in Maine...Shop, Marlboro, New Hampshire. Thank goodness, there is no law against moving parts of New England to Pennsylvania...in new equipment in 1954 is Lapidabrade. W e urge all grindingwheel users to investigate this new type...wheel. George Sellers, of Philadelphia, visited New England localities just a few days ahead of us or |
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) ···································- 143 BALES NEW PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY .........diffraction patterns in a back-reflection camera with a new G-E unit. These patterns compared exactly with other...to the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. (Mr. Grenzig obtained his most interesting...fine dolomite, calcite, and other minerals. It is a city of about 25,000 population situated in the western...Niagara County) . I have often read articles on the city and its surrounding territory but never one which |
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......................... 231 NEW FIND OF VERMICULITE IN NEW YORK CITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....HUNT. By Lloyd M. Demrick ...................... NEW ENGLAND NOTES. Cond11cted by Rudolf C.. B. Bartsch.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW JERSEY.NEW YORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . NEW HAVEN MINERAL CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW MEXICO...and colleges as Minnesota, Wisconsin, Syracuse, New York. C. C. N. Y., Brooklyn and others is .perhaps |
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was to decide what might for the county-not the city. constitute a typical Pennsylvania mineral. 4. EASTONITE...siderably. Should it be a mineral named as chlorite vermiculite. It is found in the for a Pennsylvania locality...Delaware Rivfirst recognized and described as a new er Road (U.S. 611) just north of Easton. mineral...—Bethlehem Globe Times, Bethlehem, P e n n . New York City find wins 1st Prixe! Tiburón Peninsula Revisited...(21x21 feet) on 96th Stret and Broadway in New York City. The find was made by Martin Walter, Manager |
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........... SOME NOTES ON ST. LA WR ENCE CO., NEW YORK. By L eo N ea! Y edlin .................................................................... 190 NEW CAVERNS DISCOVERED IN VIRGINIA ....................193 194 196 199 NEW EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURE FILMS ON STEEL .......... 201 NEW ENGLAND NOTES. Conducted...OF HARTFORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW HA VEN MINERAL CLUB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...be released about June 20th. The author of this new book, which is destined to be very popular with mineral |
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geology. (7) REPORT XL OF STATE MINERALOGIST 8 New [Chap. 1 Publications Since last noted, the following...the JOURNAL compilation of the state geologic New map of 1938. Publications This book Bulletin...desert winter resort. Smaller towns are Cathedral City, Coachella, and Thermal in the west, and Desert...determination to Dr. Winifred Goldring of the New York State Museum, Dr. G. Arthur Cooper of the United...in the history of and the Salton Basin:. Science, new ser., vol. 71, pp. 104-106, 1930. Woodring, Wendell |
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........................ EMERALDS STOLEN FROM NEW YORK 0TY MUSEUM .....................................377 VERMICULITE- A FRIEND IN THE HOUSE ....... ....................... .................. 387 NEW YORK...raring to come? Then pack up the old car, or the new car, the trailer house, or what have you, and hit...seeing you in Septembtt. Paul N. Brannan, Chm. 1414 York Avenue Spokane, Wash. The Mineralotiical Club of...of a European museum, asking for examples of any new and unusual western stones of which we might know |
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130 Iodine 138 Sulfur Talc 260 265 274 Vermiculite 145 Magnesite & magnesia Manganese minerals...resin and maximizes dispersion. 3. Development of new applications. The market for fillers in rubber, paper...for example, are almost entirely derived from the USA and Tur- key, a situation too narrowly based comfort...Minerals International Congress took place in Boston, USA, in April 1988. 4| a) envi at wererieryre' humus...(Mann, 1983). nia; the USSR; the Italian Alps; New South Wales, Austral- ia; Cyprus). (2) Stratiform |
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the formation of perthite lamellae is offered. A new equilibrium diagram for temperatures down to 800'C...atmosphere. NEW YORK MINERAIOGICAL CLUB Americon Museum, oJ Natural History, Neu York City, Jon. 20..."Pegmatitic Phosphates from Arizona," describing a new locality which he had worked to obtain specimens...specimens of rninerals which were later found to be new. The pegmatites were found by a prospector in the vicinity...in this material were the small crystals of six new minerals, among them, the bermanite. Torbernite was |
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author of a short item entitled "A New Find of Vermiculite in New York City:' The Doctor's name should have |
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author of a short item entitled "A New Find of Vermiculite in New York City:' The Doctor's name should have |
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Tutt, Andrea Hart, Jesse Sackett, Ken Wolf What's New In Minerals - Jeff Scovii Auction Solicitor General...a cliff. I n the United States, there is both a new sense of hope and fear for the future at opposites...u ' l l notice in the Program that we have five new invited speakers and three returning favorites. O...into Saturday morning. Yo u ' l l find a number of new dealers upstairs. Our approach has been to follow...phyllosilicate mineral dusts, in particular crysotile and vermiculite. A n d r é is a full professor o f earth sciences |
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MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. not be determined...Drawyers Creek, between Shallcross Lake and US 13, in New Castle Co., Del. The wood is not common, but specimens...northwest of Odessa and southwest of McDonough, both in New Castle Co.; Shallcross Lake drains into Drawyers..."Lemhi County, Idaho, Fair held at Salmon, had a new treat this year with the addition of Mr. Grant Talbott's...(2100 Arcade St., St. Paul 6, Minn.) introduced a new rock find officially named HOVLANDITE by the Minnesota |
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Illustrated with photographs Dodd, Mead e+ Company — New York SCARLETT SCHOOL LIBRARY ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN Copyright...of rocks and minerals in your own back yard, in city parks and suburbs, and on motor trips over week...and your friends may discover something entirely new or different and so contribute to the history of...as have other amateur collectors. Many new minerals, and new finds of similar ones, have been made in...cutting edge, the Aztecs and other early people of the New World used it to make arrowheads, knives, skin scrapers |