 | | Book | | Box Six Sausalito, • California __.I IN BOX SIX SAUSALITO CALIFORNIA s__J ... The late nineteenth...to the Gold Rush of California. People the world over were reinfected by mining fever, Including many...home, to hunt in their own back yards. Here in California, though no paying mine was discovered, a considerable...turn of the century. In 1906, the U.S. Diamond Mining Company was organized to explore what was thought...came of this venture, the attention of the California mining fraternity was directed seriously toward diamonds |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................ California....................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...has long been a significant part of the state's mining industry. Since 1880, mineraI production has been |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Arkansas..........Dr. A. H. Purdue, Nashville, Tenn. California........Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Book (volume) | | VOLUME. I: Northwest States VOLUME2: Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Kansas Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma...VOLUME4: Northeast States Co1mecticut Delawar District of Columbia IUinois Indiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts...Safety Precautions ............................ Mining Techniques ......................................America. Others, like the tourrnaunes of Maine and California, rival specimens found in better-known locations...currently found in gem quality only in San Benito, California. Like many of America's finest stones discovered |  | | Book (edition) | | Lucien Beckner of Louisville, Ky., U. M. Sahinen of Butte, Mont., Gilbert O. Raasch of Urbana, 111., Nancy...LAZULITE t^^*l IDOCRASE lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^ RUTILE SAPPHIRE 1^ TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS... crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are famous for Lava known...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...crystal and a cut specimen of kunzite. Found in California, kunzite lilac or Diamond in matrix. Rough |  | | Report (volume) | | 50. II. Tertiary History of the G-rand Caiion District, with atlas, by Clarence E. Dutton, Capt. U. S... Geology of the Comstocls Lode and the Washoe District, with atlas, by George F. Becker. 1882. 4°. xv...of 21 sheets folio. Price $11.00. IV. Conistock Mining and Miners, by Eliot Lord. 1883. 4°. xiv, 451 pp...Price $1.20. VIII. Paleontology of the Eureka District, by Charles Doolittle Walcott. 1884. 4°. xiii...46 pi. and maps. Price $1.75. XII. Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado, with atlas, by |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOCHEMISTRY AND ORIGIN OF PEGMATITES CHEROKEE-PICKENS DISTRICT, GEORGIA Alexander J. Gunow and Gregory...Creek, Cherokee County. THE GEOCHEMISTRY AND ORIGIN OF PEGMATITES CHEROKEE-PICKENS DISTRICT, GEORGIA...muscovite samples from pegmatites within the Cherokee-Pickens district ... . 0 ••• 0 • 0 ••• •• •••••...ppm) for pegmatitic muscovite from the Cherokee-Pickens district, in comparison with muscovite from other...11. Geologic map of the Cochran pegmatite, Cherokee County, Georgia . . ......... . ................ |  | | Book (edition) | | YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collecting. Although Texas is not known for its mining industry, be cause of its large oil and gas exploration...Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan in 1938. The Terlingua mining district...district is noted for its rare mercury minerals. Mining here was contin uous from 1900 to the middle 1940s;...(Smith, 1988) and a modification of that in the "California Locality Index" (Kampf et al., 1989). I have...on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991). i i • I |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8 |  | | Report (issue) | | mineral mining in Florida. The southeastern placers were not exhausted by the earlier mining and new...monazite to the cubic yard. Farther downstream where mining must be done to obtain larger yardages, the tenor...northeastward and southwestward from the sites of earlier mining by sampling the weathered bedrock; and the eastern...placers in these belts beyond the original sites of mining. Monazite derived from bedrock sources in the piedmont...formations, but the tenor is too low to warrant mining for this mineral alone. At favored localities, |  | | Report (issue) | | Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER PHOTOS: Upper left- Rutile crystal from...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing...Geophysical studies Hydrology Economic geology Mining directory Environmental studies Engineering studies................................................. Rutile ........................................................................................... 170 County Index ........................................ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | variations have been noted in the gazetteer. Where county boundary lines have been changed since a reference...written, the locality has been listed under the county in which it is found today. A fairly extensive...State Bureau of Mines, Tucson, Engineering and Mining Journal, New York, Mineral Technology Series No...Pegmatites. rences in the United States. Part 2: California, Economic Geology, Urbana, HI., Vol. 45, Idaho...letin, No. 585, 1914, 250 pp. the geological and mining literature published through 1949 in compiling |  | | Report (issue) | | -----------------------Kyanite in Pickens and Cherokee counties........ ----------------------------...-----------------------------------------------Rutile...........•••.........•..•..........•.•.•••......________________________ Origin of the kyanite-rutile-lazulite mineralization....-------------------..._______________________________________ Talbot CountY-----------------------------------------------...-----------------------------Kyanite in Fulton County, by Geoffrey W. Crickmay -----------------,------ |  | | Book (edition) | | them not hitherto or elsewhere discovered The Mica mining industry, for example, has brought to a Pi 7...York, has spent many months in explorations and mining for these mineral rarities, and has himself added...B. boring gold region. for notes of the mica mining And to Prof. A. A. Julien the survey occurrence...ities and suggestions from Mrs. H, A. Burdick county, of Mr. J. of A. D. Stephenson of Statesville...Burke, McDowell, Rutherford, Polk, Cleaveland, Cherokee, Jackson, Transyvania aud Watauga. It is generally |  | | Report (volume) | | dyeing. Only the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized...spinel, emerald, sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully...localities in California where diamonds have been found are: Smith River, Del Norte County; Trinity River...River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville and Webber Hill, El Dorado...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | reportedly removed under cover of darkness and sold in California. CORUNDUM: Although Georgia led the nation in...Morgan County. Pink corundum in smaragdite is found near the Hogg Creek corundum mine in Towns County. On...Gainesville. Typically, diamonds found in Hall County weighed from 2 to 6 carats; a few were of larger...pinkish red garnet from near Covington in Newton County. Perhaps the best known garnet location is on a...and south of the Little Bob pyrite mine, Paulding County. In 1932 the entire surface of the hill was covered |  | | Book (edition) | | some number of them not hitherto or, The Mica mining industry, elsewhere discovered iu America. great...with Mr. W. E. Hidden, of New explorations and mining for these mineral Among these, York, has spent...occurrence of notable miner- many points in the mica mining section of the State, and elsewhere. The present...Uraninite. 91. Fibrolite. 131. Samarskite. 50. Rutile. 92. Cyanite. 132. Euxenite. 51. Anatase. 93...Burdiek, Macon Prof. J. T. I From am of county, of Mr. J. A. D. Stevenson, of States- Humphreys |  | | Catalog/List | | Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...Calcium iron cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular...magnesium iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline...BARKEVIKITE A basic silicate of sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls...syenite CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEORGIA Black rutile crystal in quartz-kyanite matrix, Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. VERNON...Fannin University of Georgia Athens, Georgia 30602 County. This occurrence was brought to our attention by..."have been taken from mica pegmatites in Monroe County. Aquamarine crystals of lesser quality but up to...have been taken from the Hogg pegmatite in Troup County. LITHIOPHORITE Typical lithiophorite is a dark...Hurst and Porter (1963) from Hall County, Georgia. The Hall County lithiophorite is in black, euhedral |  | | Report (volume) | | 46 Spruce Pine District 46 Woodlawn District 46 Buncombe District 46 Bryson City District 47 Franklin-Sylva...Franklin-Sylva District 47 Cashiers District 47 Feldspar 47 Kaolin 48 Mica 48 Quartz 49 Zircon 49 Other Industrial...Graphite 53 Kyanite Group of Minerals 53 Phosphate 54 Rutile 55 Oil and Gas Potential 55 Metallic Resources...the Knoxville 1oX 2° quadrangle, with State and county boundaries 2 2. Physiographic provinces of the...resources of garnet, graphite, kyanite, quartz, rutile, sillimanite, and zircon in the Knoxville quadrangle |  | | Report (issue) | | sillimanite, and andalusite____________ History of mining. _____________________________________________________...________________ Virginia - __ -__ _ ___________ Farmville district, Buckingham, Prince Edward, and Charlotte Counties...deposits Continued Virginia Continued Farmville district, etc. Continued Rock types Continued Other quartzose...Slate __ . Halifax County Other localities North Carolina Hagers Mountain, Person County.- _.______ Corbett...Corbett deposit, Johnston County Burnsville-Swannanoa area, Buncombe, Yancey, and Mitchell Counties ________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Library] at 07:06 06 January 2015 Even though California is known as the “Golden State, ” it could also...the Tourmaline State, or the Colemanite State. California is, in fact, one of the world’s greatest sources...localities, the reader is encouraged to consult the “California Locality Index” (Kampf et al. 1989). The bibliography...great deal from the many publications of the California Division of Mines and Geology. The most valuable...mines in California is the Consolidated Index of Publications, Division of Mines and State Mining Bureau |  | | Book | | to travel extensively from Maine to Southern California, and from Washington’s Pacific Shores to Key...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Magnetite GADSEN, Etowah Co. Hematite GAYESVILLE, Cherokee Co. Hematite HANOVER, Coosa Co., (near) Feldspar...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE |
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