 | | Book | | Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur dâAlene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I âą( 11 o âąÂ« c »««ou cxi ju4«iO«J...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansasâ 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...for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting. Particular thanks goes to these hardcore |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Guerrero, Mexico. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. March/April: Topaz, River Sanarka...southern Urals, Russia. Fersman Museum specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. May/June: Patch reef at the Falls...specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California...Acanthite, 25 Actinolite, Colorado, 302 Aegirine, Arkansas, 181 Aguilarite, 27 Albite, Minas Gerais, 313...Mineralization at Pedreira Atalaia (the Sentinel Quarry) near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associated Minerals of Ouachita Quartz Crystals in Arkansas and Oklahoma ..................................................... 20 A Report on the Harrison County Gem and Mineral Society of Gulfport, Mississippi...scheduled and attended field trips to Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mexico, and within Texas. You are truly one of...Associated Minerals of Ouachita Quartz Crystals in Arkansas and Oklahoma by Art Smith Member of the Houston...has been going on in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma for over 150 years. However, large |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mine, which was used for a prison; the Allyndale quarry in North Canaan, from w h i c h came the marble...York City and elsewhere; and the Hoadley Neck quarry in Guilford, which furnished the granite base for...through out the United States. I n modern times, one quarry has been used by the Navy as an underwater sound...construction, from Danbury just north of Agstone quarry to Iron Works district in Brookfield: albite, allanite...of view 10.2 cm across, 1-84, Newtown, Fairfield County; collected 1960. Weber specimen, Marcelle Weber |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rausch specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. March/April: Serandite and analcime, Demix quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire...Cana da. Canadian Museum of Nature specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. May/June: Elbaite and albite, Lavra...Kristalkeller specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. July/August: Calcite, Gallatin County, Mon tana. American...September/October: Chalcocite, Flambeau mine, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wiscon sin. F. John Barlow specimen, Malcolm...Chalcocite, Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut. Jim Minette specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. Abenakiite-(Ce) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cerussite and fluorite, Blanchard mine, Socorro County, New Mexico. Peter J. Modreski photo. MarchlApril:...Grossular, Lowell, Vermont. Robert Whitmore specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. September/October: Rhodochrosite...Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. NovemberDecember:...NovemberDecember: Silver, Bulldog mine, Mineral County, Colorado. F. John Barlow specimen, Malcomb Hjerstedt photo...Vermont, 262 Anglesite, Colorado, 98 Ankerite, Arkansas, 135 Ansell, H. G., abstract, see Twenty-second |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $3.00 A Quick and Short Collecting Trip to Arkansas in April 2004 Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Having...Having missed this past fall's Coon Creek trip to Arkansas I was chomping at the bit to get up there and...Lake Greeson that is just north of Murfreesboro, Arkansas. He had already examined and collected on the...(Continues on page 3) ----2 Quick and Short Arkansas Collecting Trip in April 2004 (Continued from...forgo that. We did a check of three shops that had Arkansas diamonds. The going rate for them is $ I O a point |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Manasquan, New Jersey, visited Calamity Wash, Yavapai County, and collected several exciting and Figure 7: Arizona...Sweden; the resumption of activity at Mount Mica quarry, Paris; and the find of what might be the world's...world's largest morganite at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, in the late 1980s convinced the regional collectors...Figure 4 (left): Fluorapatite; figure 5 (below): beryl. Both specimens from the Bennett quarry, Buckfield....meters below the surface. The nearby Maine Feldspar quarry is located in a town mineral-collectorâs park. |  | | Catalog/List | | sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety...ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE: French Creek, Pennsylvania, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE SMARAGDITE:Micciano...crystals ADAMITE,variety CUPROAN:Gold Hill, Utah, USA. crystals AEGERINE: Kola Peninsula, USSR. crystal...minute crystals AFWILLITE: Crestffiore Quarry, Riverside, California, USA. massive AGRELLITE: KipawQ River...ALABANDITE:Tombstone. Arizona, USA. massive ALBERTITE(HYDROC,\RBONl: Prince Albert County. Nova Scotia, massive |  | | Catalog/List | | specimen. East to China, home of a seemingly sured fluorapatite. Rubellite Tourmaline on Cleavelandite Malkhan...only a few examples discovered. Asia 25 Fluorapatite (bi-color) with Cleavelandite Dara-e-Pech pegmatite...Kunar, Afghanistan 6 cm tall x 7 cm wide 26 Fluorapatite is found in several colors, purple being the...bicolor like this piece is extremely rare. This fluorapatite was found in 2021 in a small pocket with less...Connecticut, USA Collection at A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum of Michigan Tech, Houghton, Michigan, USA DuPont |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Arem photo. March/April: Cacoxenite, Dravo quarry, Shelby âCounty, Alabama. Dan Behnke photo. MayIJune: Stibnite... Carnegie Museum of Natural History specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. JulyIAugust: Charles P. Daly Medal... Gilgit area, Pakistan. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. November/December: Red beryl, Violet...claims, Wah Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah. Private collection, Jeffrey Scovil photo. Barite, Colorado...Pyrite Aggregates from Guernsey Limestone Quarry, Washington County, Ohio, 251-59 Bornite, Colorado, 329; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Baicheng. Diopside from the Handan iron mine, Wuâan County, Handan Prefecture, Hebei Province, occurs in crystals...Ocna de Fier-Dognecea district, Caraş-Severin County, Romania, are noted for their andradite specimens;...collection from Birdâs Station, near Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, reach lengths of 7.5 cm and are translucent...and phlogopite. North Burgess Township, Lanark County, Ontario, has produced some beautiful emerald-green...noticed with your fluorapatite specimens from the Yates mine, Otter Lake, Pontiac County, Quebec, are diopsides |  | | Report (issue) | | some complex granite pegmatites. Association: Fluorapatite, wavellite, phosphosiderite, strengite, aldermanite...the Pereta mine, Scansano, Tuscany, Italy. In the USA, from the Carolina pyrophyllite mine, Staley, Randolph...Randolph Co., North Carolina; in the Gold Quarry mine, near Carlin, Maggie Creek district, Eureka Co.,...Victoria; in South Australia, in the Moculta phosphate quarry, northeast of Angaston, and from St. Johnâs and...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, C1028. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | January 2015 Scovil Unpublished Favorites: 2010 JEFFREY A. SCOVIL 734 E. Coronado Road Phoenix, Arizona...never-before-published photos from last year. â Jeffrey A. Scovil, a well-known professional mineral photographer...Wulfenite, 12 cm wide, Defiance mine, Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona; Joe and Susan Kielbaso specimen. The...cm wide, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California; Martin Zinn specimen. So I am a sucker...Figure 13. Gold, 4 cm wide, Round Mountain mine, Nye County, Nevada; Alan Day specimen. The crystallization |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Elbaite in quartz, 6 Ă 9 cm, Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Holmes collection. Specimen received...1830. Peter Tarassoff photo. Figure 7 (right). Fluorapatite with quartz, 4.5 cm high, HornĂ Slavkov (Schlaggenwald)...vein-dikes that were then being mined for phosphate (fluorapatite), mica, and graphite. A contemporary of Dawson...4 cm wide, Wheatley mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Ferrier collection, Michael Bainbridge...and greenockite, 13 cm wide, Prosperity, Jackson County, Missouri. Ferrier collection, Michael Bainbridge |  | | Book | | be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...OF A CHANGING PLANET Hardness 5 Hardness 8 Fluorapatite Topaz Hardness 6 Hardness 9 Microcline ...encke Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17...typical crystal shape. Goethite, Tintic, Utah, USA * 16.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 om Drusy These minerals have |  | | Journal (issue) | | testing gold. Major areas covered include Southeast USA, California, Australia, Canada to Alaska, Britain...locality of "Paterson" rather than assign a specific quarry as was often done in the time period in which he...to Paterson New Jersey in general but the exact quarry cannot be specified. In summary, three hâą h h Thestepped-oriented...nine-pound garnet and a 34-carat diamond - all from the USA ? Maybe you're more interested in Czech opals, minerals...15840 East Alta Vista Way, San Jose, CA 95127-1737 USA. CD V-700 GEIGER COUNTER Complete with probe, meter |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu GROSSULAR Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources MunicipalitĂ© RĂ©gional...2014 Figure 1. Grossular, 7 Ă 8 cm, from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Les Sources MunicipalitĂ©, RĂ©gional...grossular dodecahedra is commonly observed on Jeffrey mine specimens. This particular specimen is one...modified single crystal of grossular from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, QuĂ©bec, Canada. The Arkenstone...12-cm-high group of grossular crystals from the Jeffrey mine, QuĂ©bec, Canada. Formerly in the Charles Key |  | | Journal (issue) | | It proved t. all parlles involved, USFS, King County police, WSMC, an probably the other claimants,...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...IL) had some unusual sand concretions from Green County, WI. These were from a small find recently made...specimens of a lovely pale pink grossular from the Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec. The crystals were small...recently released from stock held by a miner. The Jeffrey Mine is to be closed in a year which will be the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles , CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ. Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orleans...Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ. Harold and Erica Van Pelt...109 by U. Burchard Recent discoveries at the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec . .. ................. ...Jeff Scovil photo. RECENT DISCOVERIES aLtM JEFFREY MINE ASBESTOS, QUEBEC Marco Amabili Dipartimento |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter Prehnite, O&G Southbury Quarry, Southbury, New Haven County, CT. Photo: Bob Cooke. the specimens...crystals of prehnite have been found, the famous Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. I found well-crystalized...$100. April 2021 2 Rare prehnite crystals, Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Photo: Bob Cooke...through many shades of green. The Upper New Street Quarry was active from 1893 to 1925, although specimens...Prospect Park Quarry, Paterson, NJ. Bottom: Prehnite with babingtonite, Roncari Quarry, East Granby, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gibson mine, Bertrandite, New Hampshire, 161 Pitkin County, Colorado; specimen Beryl, South Dakota, 383 Biology-Earth...Russell, 396-99 mine, Magdalena district, Socorro County, New Mexico; Ron Gibbs specimen and Biotite: New...Range, Juab County, Utah; Bolt, E., see Spotlight on Juniors Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil Borates...Scovil, 190-93 Carnegie Award, 150 Arkansas, Kimzey Calcite quarry, 402-404 Cerussite, South Dakota, 383...Hampshire, 162; South Dakota, 383 Chips from the Quarry, 7, 77, 149,221, 373 Chlorite-group minerals, New |
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