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| VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l |
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| February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed |
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| FEBRUARYJMAY 1994 NO. 1 & 2 MINERALS OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. INTRODUCTION RockbridgeCountyhas...the 1800snear the towns of Buena Vista, Goshen, Vesuvius, and in waverAmoldvalley. Otherearly minesinthecounty...Figure 1.LocationmapofRockbridgeCounty,Virginia. reported from the county. Rockbridgecounty is one of the more...more prolific mineralcollectingareasin Virginia. A largepercentageof the mineralsare concentratedin threeareas:...~mberliteisa~kigneousintrusiverockfoundin for Rockbridge County. It wasrecognizedasadistinctmineral species |
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| from Virginia by RICHARD S. MITCHELL Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...same county. I t also has been observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and...world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is coated...radioactive. The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin |
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| DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...amazonite, fine moonstone, and topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise...rock unakite. Localities for forty-nine minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which...report. Many of the localities will be familiar to Virginia mineral collectors. Someof the areas mentioned...collect minerals. There has been much written on Virginia mineral localities but no reports are available |
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| COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY Richmond, Virginia Virginia Minerals Published...Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 VOL. 48 MAY/AUGUST 2002 NO. 2/3 A GUIDE...GEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY John Marr and Roy Sites Virginia has a very interesting and varied geologic history...in unique and exotic geologic terranes. Across Virginia, the landscape exhibits all rock types: igneous...the Division of Mineral Resources offices. 10 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES VOL. 48 Figure |
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| yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR...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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| with syenite (andesine anorthosite) of Nelson County, Virginia.......................................................................................... Unakite type.............................................characteristics of unakite.............................................. Origin of the unakite................topographic divisions of the Appalachian ranges. In Virginia the Blue Eidge Mountains form a fairly continuous...feet above sealevel; but southwestward through Virginia the ridge becomes broader and higher, and attains |
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| beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep |
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| Mountain area. The Mooresville area. The Mecklenburg county areas. The Western Piedmont gneiss and Granite...General characters. Lithological characters. The Unakite area. ' Published by permission of the state geologist...in the large and important granite area in Rowan county, known as Dunn's Mountain, and its southwestern...Gaston county, west of Charlotte. (3) The Mooresville area in Iredell county. (4) The Cabarrus county area...southwest of Concord; and a second area in the same county in the vicinity of Landers station on the Southern |
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| .................................... 523 T he Virginia Piedmont r e g io n ..................................................................... 530 Unakite .................................................o d u c t io n The general excellence of the Virginia granites as a building and mon umental stone...has been devoted by the writer to a study of the Virginia granites in the field and in the laboratory, and...t R e g io n geology The Piedmont province in Virginia forms a part of the eastern crys talline area |
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| the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |
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| the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |
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| THE MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA PART I I I : SILICATES By R. S. MITCHELL and R. J. BLAND,... JR. Department of Geology University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. nets at the old iron mine near...constituent of an olivine diabase dike the Superior Stone quarry at Red Hill. which cuts across Everona limestone...Charlottesville and 1 mile south of monzonite from this quarry (Rector, U. S. Highway 250 (Rowan, 1955). The 1958)...edge of the may be seen on State Road 637 between county as well as a series of mountains, Ivy and Batesville |
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| ................................ 49 Individual quarry areas.................................................. 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County.......................CHAPTER III. GRANITES OF VIRGINIA ...................................... The Virginia Piedmont region ......Church area.. Yellow-green and pink epidote granite Unakite............... 69 70 70 70 71 71 72 72 73 73 74...77 77 CONTENTS. 5 CHAPTER III. GRANITES OP VIRGINIA Continued. PageScientific discussion Continued |
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| CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...along eastern streams and rivers f o r epidote, unakite, blue quartz, agate, chalcedony, petrified wood...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 |
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| of the Uniuersity of Virginia. Dn. J. I). Eccr,nsrox, President of the Virginia Polytech,rfic Inst,itute...portion of Virginia, showing the location of the Irish Creek tin deposits, Rockbridge County 2. PAGE...and to for pubiication as Bulletin XV-A of the Virginia Geological Survey Series of Reports, a manuscript...of a report on "Tin Deposits Near frish Creek, Virginia," by Henry G. tr'erguson, of the Ilnitecl States...Geological Survey, prepareal in coiiperation with the Virginia recommend Geological Survey. The tin deposits |
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| VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard...Mitchell and William F. Giannini COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION...1988 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard...Mitchell and William F. Giannini COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION...and State Geologist CHARLOTTESVILLE. VIRGINIA 1 988 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION |
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| the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound |
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| VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East D e r r y , N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 (PART INTRODUCTION...mines in Virginia, north of the James River, with the ex ceptions as follows: Albemarle County was very...northern Virginia. Maps used were the U.S.G.S. Topo graphical Sheets. Also used were the county road maps...of H i g h w a y s Richmond, Virginia The price is 2 0 cents per county. Other states could well follow...very high grade iron. Credit should be given the Virginia Department of Mineral Resources in Charlottesville |
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| RickenJoensnu, Oiva, Fil. maist. backer Causeway, Virginia Key, Miami 49, Flol'ida, U. S. A. State Electl'icity... Myllykoski 1324 Friar Lane, Columbus 21, Ohio, USA Hämeentie 3, Malmi Pajamäentie 7 C 45, Helsinki Outokumpu... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICROCLINE ..............................................Plagioclase . ..... . . . Quartz ... ... . .... .. Microcline .. .. ... ... Biotite ....... . . ... . Pyroxene...porphyroblasts is a clear albitic rirn against microcline, as weil as myrmekitic structures occurring in |
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| RickenJoensnu, Oiva, Fil. maist. backer Causeway, Virginia Key, Miami 49, Flol'ida, U. S. A. State Electl'icity... Myllykoski 1324 Friar Lane, Columbus 21, Ohio, USA Hämeentie 3, Malmi Pajamäentie 7 C 45, Helsinki Outokumpu... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICROCLINE ..............................................Plagioclase . ..... . . . Quartz ... ... . .... .. Microcline .. .. ... ... Biotite ....... . . ... . Pyroxene...porphyroblasts is a clear albitic rirn against microcline, as weil as myrmekitic structures occurring in |
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| ROANOKE, VIRGINIA Roanoke Valley Science Museum on Tinker Creek 2323 Overlook Road, N.E., open week-days... Dr. Thomas Krakauer in charge. WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA College of William and Mary Department of Geology...Geological Sciences Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 Introduction...practice in the rural community of Austinville, Virginia where sphalerite and galena ores have been mined...Appropriately, several fine mineral specimens from Virginia are to be found in the collection. Crystallized |
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| beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...COUNTIES Alamance County • .' 22 24 24 Alexander County 24 Alleghany County 25 Ashe County • 25 Avery...Avery County 25 Buncombe County 26 Burke County 26 Cabarrus County 27 Caldwell County 27 Caswell...Caswell County 27 Catawba County 28 Chatham County 28 Cherokee County 28 Clay County • • 29 Cleveland...Cleveland County 29 Davidson County • 30 vi Davie County Durham County 31 Franklin County 31 31 |
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| diameter. USA £40 3 MERWINITE solid grey-white slightly glassy granular mass. Crestmore_Riverside County California...California USA 5x4 £15 7 ASTROPHYLLITE five golden brown lath like crystals from 3.5 1.5 long on fine...minute Astrophyllite. St Peters Dome. El Paso county Colorado USA 5x4.5 £15 9 SERANDITE small pink-orange cleavages...Lazulite locality Jacksonville Mining district Oregon USA. 5x4cm £18 1 16 MOHA WKITE a solid brassy waterwom... polished on one side 3.5 x3cm Keweenaw County Michigan USA £25 17 METASTIBNITE thin red coating on white |
