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Cryptomelane from
Enterprise Mines, Beckham, Appomattox County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cryptomelane
Formula:K(Mn74+Mn3+)O16
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cryptomelane data
Locality Data:Click here to view Enterprise Mines, Beckham, Appomattox County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:64192
Long-form Identifier:1:3:64192:2
GUID (UUID V4):8699d61e-0eae-4596-b8e3-2e4cfc4475b9
Nearest other occurrences of Cryptomelane
8.1km (5.1 miles) Stonewall Manganese Mine, James River-Roanoke River Mn-Fe-Ba Mining District, Appomattox County, Virginia, USA
17.7km (11.0 miles) Piedmont Manganese Mine (Myers; Lerner), James River-Roanoke River Mn-Fe-Ba Mining District, Campbell County, Virginia, USA
32.4km (20.1 miles) Bell Mine, Campbell County, Virginia, USA
38.3km (23.8 miles) Mortimer Mines, Campbell County, Virginia, USA
52.4km (32.5 miles) Bishop Mine, Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia, USA
52.6km (32.7 miles) Mine Bank (Pekin Mine; Pulaski Mine), Augusta County, Virginia, USA
53.3km (33.1 miles) Kelly Bank mine, Lyndhurst-Vesuvius Mining District, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA
55.0km (34.2 miles) Lyndhurst-Vesuvius, Lyndhurst-Vesuvius Mining District, Northern Section - Blue Ridge Province, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
59.2km (36.8 miles) Robinson Hollow Prospect, Lyndhurst-Vesuvius Mining District, Northern Section - Blue Ridge Province, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
References
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Report (volume)
the James River-Roanoke River Manganese District Virginia GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1008 Geology...oftheJatnes River-Roanoke River Manganese District Virginia By GILBERT H. ESPENSHADE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ...veins__________________________________________________ Manganese mines and prospects_____________________________________...methods_________________________ Descriptions of mines and prospects_ ____________________ _______ _ l'relson...County_______________________________________ Appomattox County_______________________________________
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Red and PinkVariscite from the Wood Mine, Cocke County, Tennessee HENRY BARWOOD Indiana Geological Survey...revealed the source to be the Wood mine in Cocke County, Tennessee. Rather cursory examination of the specimens...titled “Plzosphate Miizesuls in the Vesiiviiis, Virginia, Area and Notes on the Type Locality of Rockbsidgeite...composed of about equal amounts of pyrolusite and cryptomelane along with minor quartz and clays. There is...prospects and mines in eastern Tennessee. Among them are the Lord mine in Bradley County (Stose and Schrader
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ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR VISIT OUR...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard
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CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its
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chalcopyrite crystals etched calcite, from French Creek mines, (courtesy of John S. White) Back cover: Upper...particular site, remember it is possible to visit the county courthouse in which the site is located, and trace...23 23 28 Adams County Native copper localities Teeter quarry zeolite Allegheny County Wittmer wurtzite...Bedford County New locality 31 31 locality Paris fluorite locality Sherman Valley cryptomelane locality...locality Berks County Dyer quarry zeolite locality Frystown fetid barite locality Blair County Altoona barite
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since the appearance of our first issue on the mines and minerals of Mexico (on Boleo in 1998). At that...interesting comparisons. Both Tsumeb and Ojuela are large mines, of immense economic importance in their respective...mining district consists of a scattering of small mines to the east and south of the town of Mapimí (25°50⬘...significance for the mineral collector. The other mines, exploiting small deposits of fluorite, celestine...say that during the colonial period the Mapimí mines contributed largely to the general success of silver
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, Patino Mines and Enterprises, Llallagua, Bolivia. Berry, Leonard G., Research Enterprises, Ltd', Leaside...Washington, D. C. Stevenson, John S , Department of Mines, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Wolfe, C. W...descriptions of two new minerals: sampleite and cryptomelane. 195 illustrations of various types make it...the following securities: 45 $1,000bonds,City and County of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, Water Works,
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and a seemingly unlimited number of abandoned mines and prospects continue to produce more fine minerals...late-19th-century Mexico had a profound effect on many famous mines and mineral localities, including the Boleo district...which were affixed to all titles of ownership to mines, while the second part called for annual payment...properties, as well as the number of declarations of new mines, increased steadily in the following years. Th...represented a challenge. But this entirely marginal enterprise enjoyed the benefits of the direct support of
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NOTE Acicular baryte in the Cavanacaw Gold Mine, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland James A.S. McFarlane,...in County Tyrone. Two articles describe and review the mineralogy of historically important mines in...Staffordshire; Potts Gill, Sandbed and Driggith mines (and several smaller trials) in the Caldbeck Fells...adamite are at the Potts Gill, Driggith and Sandbed mines (including Howthwaite Trial) in the Caldbeck Fells...also been carried out at the Camborne School of Mines, Penryn, Cornwall, and are to be the subject of
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Components 2.2.1.9. K-Ar Age of the Mn Oxyhydroxide (Cryptomelane) Ores 2.2.1.1 O. Problem of Genesis 2.2.1.11...composition of ores: Mn oxyhydroxides (pyrolusite, cryptomelane, 10 A-manganates, etc.) - manganite + Ca rhodochrosite-...Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, scientific-research enterprises of the Ministry of Geology of the U.S.S.R. and...unambiguous use of such widespread mineral names as cryptomelane, ramsdellite, lithiophorite, rancieite, nsutite...Boulder-Iumpy accumulations of Mn oxyhydroxides (cryptomelane, pyrolusite), higher up ; 3. Mottled ferruginous
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uncommon lithium-mica from Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California .....................................tour of the mineral facilities at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (where Tony is curator)...allowed. GEOLOGY The quarry lies in Washington County between the Cincinnati Arch to the east and the...the Illinois Basin to the west. The rocks of the county are generally dipping to the west-southwest toward...Sanders group. Though 18 to 24 m thick in Washington County (Sunderman, 1968), only the up­ permost 8 m of
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Record in memory of Roy Beck: Larry & Olga Albert Virginia Albert Sharon & Clyde Beck Mary & Sheryl Bush...9/#3 Kalahari rhodochrosite, Benitoite, Gold L.A. County Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Museum, Himalaya...Cunha Baixa mine, Paulkerrite $10 .16/#4 Kingsgate mines v .17/#4 National Belle mine (CO), Tip Top mine...quarries (Spain) $10 v.22/#3 Messina mines (So. Afr.), Idria mines (Yugoslavia), Outlaw mine (NV), Pribram
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Articles The Defiance mine and vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona ..............203 by J. R. Thompson Slide.......................211 The C. & B. mine, Gila County, Arizona ........................................213 by J. A. Crowley The Grand Reef mine, Graham County, Arizona ..............................219 by R....227 by M. Sprunger The Grey Horse mine, Pinal County, Arizona....................................231...secondary minerals from the Mineral Park mine, Mohave County, Arizona .....................................
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which time I have been practically acquainted with mines and mining operations. I have been connected with...manufacturing zinc from ores obtained in Sussex County. They purchased zinc ores upon Mine Hill. The 30th...largely interested in that company to purchase the mines of red-oxide of zinc and franklinite that bad been...mentioned: New Hampshire. - The Easton and Shelbourne mines contained sphalerite, encompassed in masses of galena...Montgomery Zinc Mine, near Wurtsboro, Sullivan County, was at one time worked for zinc. Zinc ores occurred
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Ganophyllite-group minerals from the manganese mines at Rhiw, Pen Llŷn, Gwynedd, Wales, including the...the topography, geology and mineralogy of each county, starting with Shetland, then Orkney, Caithness...ending with Sutherland. For Heddle “there is no county in Scotland which presents us with so many varieties...created a list of the minerals to be found in each county. Thoms and Clementina had more in common than membership...Archives, GB0237 525/2. Heddle, Professor. (1878). County Geognosy and Mineralogy of Scotland. Preface, and
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Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines, and History Robert E. Jenkins 6 Columbus Circle Newark, Delaware 19702...Box 15724 Arlington, Virginia 22215 For more than 100 years Butte’s dozens of mines have been a source...(left-background) and Kelley #2 (rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo....bare hill called Butte Hill. Not so very long ago, mines like the Emma, Original, and others actually operated...northwest of Butte, lies around and near the silver mines of the Rainbow vein system. Some old specimen labels
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Photograph originally published in the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals no. 29 (2008) . NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS...A review of the mineralogy of the Roughton Gill Mines, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria: Part 2 The Roughton Gill...volborthite and tangeite. Strontianite is described from County Mayo in Ireland, and postmining stalactitic rancieite...volume and in volume 29 (2008) of the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals. Michael Wolfe, compiler of the Mineral...A REVIEW OF THE MINERALOGY OF THE ROUGHTON GILL MINES, CALDBECK FELLS, CUMBRIA: PART 2 THE ROUGHTON GILL
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BUTTE, MONTANA Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines and History The Mineralogical Record Volume 33 • Number...January–February, 2002 Contents Butte, Montana: Minerals, Mines and History By Robert E. Jenkins & Jerry A. Lorengo...January–February, 2002 3 Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines, and History Robert E. Jenkins 6 Columbus Circle...Box 15724 Arlington, Virginia 22215 For more than 100 years Butte’s dozens of mines have been a source...(left-background) and Kelley #2 (rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo.
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R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...natrolite from the Dallas Gem mine, San Benito County, California. For more on this locality see vol...the Geology Department at the Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, and was a Professor...Lode, where he worked in many of the rich silver mines. He was involved in mining throughout the United...Superb Worldwide Specimens Colorado School o f Mines Golden, CO 80401 303-273-3823 Mon-Sat 9-4, Sun 1-4
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Conichalcite Cormellite Copper Corundum Covellite Cryptomelane Cuprite Cuprostibite Cuspidine Datolite Descloizite...discovered around th e turn or the century, when mines were electrilied. Sparks from knife swi tches a...Lenape was the Wolf Tribe which settled in Sussex County and were known as the "Minsi" (or Minisinks), which...area. The first river they came upon in Sussex County, after following the tributaries of the Hudson...believed that the first white settlers to enter Sussex County came down the Wallkill to the area the Dutch called
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Ages to a channel for the transport of wood to the mines. In the postwar period the Krásno mining area of...in January 1991. The Rudné doly Pøíbram n.p. enterprise (incorporated later on into DIAMO s.p.) was appointed...Rabštejn issued mining rules for silver mines in 1507 and for tin mines in 1509. During 1517–1541 the regulations...declared as King’s regulation obligatory for all mines in the Slavkovský les area. The regulations specified...established export ties and resulted in the decline of mines. To boost the mine production, Krásno and Horní
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Quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals, 32, 5 61. Dunham, K.C., Young, B., Johnson...member of the team that produced the UK Journal of Mines & Minerals. She amassed a fine personal collection...Caldbeck Fells; cabinet specimens from the iron mines of west Cumbria; and a unique collection from Vale...fabric of northern England and there were hard-rock mines in Derbyshire, Durham, Cornwall and Ireland (Colman...extensive collection during their forays into the county. It was at about this time that the now-famous
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Hill, New Jersey. For over two hundred years, the mines at these famous sites have yielded minerals of remarkable...CHECK LIST ONE INTRODUCTION The adjoining zinc mines at Franklin and Sterling Hill probably rank in the...obtained in the initial period of development of the mines. Some probably came from the collection of Mahlon...from the Franklin marble occurrences in Orange County, New York, was purchased in 1914 by the New York...Buckwheat open cut, was founded in 1965 as a civic enterprise. It has a large and fine collection of the local
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mineral from the Clear Creek claim, San Benito County, California ............. 471 by R. C. Erd, A....5 , no. 3, p. 128-137). Collecting in abandoned mines (vol. 20, no. 3. p. 178-180). Staking Claims Mining...the number of known species from these prolific mines. MINING AND EXPLORATION 1980-1991 Leaching of the...mining took place in the Campbell and Shattuck mines for a short tin1e as well. Both of these efforts...mid1985 the pumps were stopped. Even though the mines had not operated for ten years, Phelps Dodge had
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NC 27695 USA AND G. R. BAUER Department of Land and Natural Resources, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA Abstract...generally *Present Address: Bass Enterprises Production, Ft. Worth, TX 76102, USA. iddingsite associated with...hollandites: structure refinements of hollandite, cryptomelane and priderite. Acta Cryst., B38, 1056-65. Price
 
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