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Chalcedony from
Long Beach, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada


Locality type:Beach
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Long Beach, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:726125
Long-form Identifier:1:3:726125:1
GUID (UUID V4):4eb866a9-ad97-41f8-ade3-5e4f40f902ee
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony
5.4km (3.3 miles) ⓘHalls Harbour, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
8.1km (5.0 miles) ⓘWoodworth Cove, Ross Creek, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
8.3km (5.1 miles) ⓘRoss Creek, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
14.2km (8.8 miles) ⓘCape Split, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
17.2km (10.7 miles) ⓘAmethyst Cove (Captain Kidd's Cove), Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
21.2km (13.2 miles) ⓘWest Bay Cliff, West Bay, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
21.5km (13.3 miles) ⓘHarbourville, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
23.7km (14.7 miles) ⓘPartridge Island, Parrsboro, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
34.1km (21.2 miles) ⓘMcKay Head, Two Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
35.6km (22.1 miles) ⓘIsle Haute, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia...career in mineralogy at the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in 1952, working in the new field of mineral...for the Collector”, which covers 14 regions of Canada, from Newfoundland and Labrador to the Yukon-Alaska...honour. She was also co-founder of the Canadian Gemmological Association, and a long-serving treasurer for...for the Mineralogical Association of Canada. After her retirement in the late 1990s, Ann continued to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
which I thought you might find interesting. This is beach sand from the almost inaccessible ocean front west...interested." — note on label. Big Sur, in Monterey Co., Calif., is on the Pacific Ocean. Brook sand from...About a mile west of Cornwall Bridge, Litchfield Co., Conn., and along the right edge of Conn. 4, is...came from Baumhoff-Marshall Dredging Co., located in Valley Co., Idaho." — letter dated March 18, 1957...1957, from Chas. R. Lamb, Long Beach, Wash. The sample is a fine grained, brownish sand. It consists chiefly
Report (issue)
Queen's Printer, Ottawa, from Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...available for reference in public libraries across Canada Price 75 cents Catalogue No. ~44.64110 Price...Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1964 CONTENTS Page ...........................Introduction Section 1: St . 1 4 . Stephen .Nova Scotia B o r d e r ............................... ...t spring Mechanics (Pollett) Lake deposit Alma Beach d e p o s i t s Copp Copper deposit New Horton copper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a vein in a red clay bank at Chidester (Ouachita Co.), Arkansas. Hard red clay was above the vein and...entirely of colorless quartz. Beach sand from Fort Bragg, Calif. From a beach in . Mendocino County, Calif..."Enclosed is a sample of sand from a small unnamed beach about 25 miles N . of Fort Bragg on the California...streaks amid the common ordinary sand o f ' t h e beach by the 'panning' action of the waves."—letter dated...dated Sept. 14, 1955, from Mr. Watters. 598 Beach sand from Sarasota, Fla., Mrs. O. E. Looney, Lincolnville
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
consisting chiefly of quartz (smoky, grayish-blue chalcedony) with some lustrous black magnetite and bronzy...Mountain Foothills, Pinal Co., Ariz."—on label. Creek Sand from Amador Co., Calif. This is a coarse...Creek—between towns of Volcano and Sutter Creek, Amador Co., Calif."—on label. this sand bar but couldn't resist...Sitka (Clark Co.,) Kansas.'-—on label. River Sand from Leestown, Ky. Leestown, Franklin Co., Ky., is on...being piped into town stream from Silver City, Owyhee Co., through wooden pipes—
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
residue from brine wells at Mcintosh, Washington Co., Ala. Practically all anhydrite with a few dolomite...present. "Sand from San Pedro River at Benson, Cochise Co., Ariz."—on label. Magnetite Sand From Princeton-by-the-Sea...View, Calif., who labelled it as coming from a beach on the Pacific Ocean at Princeton, Calif., about...Francisco (in Colusa Co.) and the other was Princeton-by-the Sea, in San Mateo Co., about 23 miles south...1955, clarifies the situation. "The sand is from a beach in San Mateo County. Princeton (by-the-Sea) has
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[University of Florida] at 03:03 07 August 2017 Beach Sand from Alabama A short note, dated Feb. 13,... Theodore H. Shepard, Sr., 420 Russell Ave., Long Beach, Miss. It reads: "I was on the Gulf of Mexico...and some brownish). Magnetite Sand from Selvia Beach, Calif. Arthur W. Browne, 623 Palo Alto Ave., Mountain...Calif., has sent in a sand sample from Selvia Beach, Monterey Co., Calif. It is a dark brownish medium grained...the sand comes from a spot % mile south of Selvia Beach on top of cliff— below Monterey. River Sand from
Journal (issue)
Cheney, Hopkinton, Mass. 76. J. B. Spielman, Long Beach, Calif. 78. William J. Webb, Yonkers, N. Y. 93...of our good friends have left ll-Js earth on the long journey to tho' far distant country from which no...seen.... is a bit about two and one half inches long and one and a half inches wide. In it Nature, for...larger than a pea, to pieces four or five inches long and three or four inches wide. The large ones, however...elsewhere. It was also discovered that agates and chalcedony could be artificially colored to enhance their
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and just opposite Brieht Angel Canyon in Coconino Co., Arizona. "Have enclosed a map of the Grand Canyon...Lake, Calif. This item should have been printed long before this but the sand got mislaid before it could...also present. "From Hwy 67, west of Beebe, (White Co.), Ark."—on label of sample that was sent in by Glen...Webber Creek, Calif. From Webber Creek, El Dorado Co., Calif., we have a sand sample that was collected...dull black magnetite. Beach sand from Longbeach, Fla. Longbeach, in Manatee Co., Fla., is on the Gulf
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
"The sand comes from Paicomo Canyon, Los Angeles Co., Calif., an area where many rare minerals are found...have a sand sample that comes from Walden, Jackson Co., Colo. It is a coarse, (brown, colorless, smoky)...interesting shell sand has been sent in by Howard Pate, Beach Place, Branford, Conn. This is a coarse, brownish...from the beach in front of the home of the late Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919). Short Beach, Branford...Haven Co.), Conn, (on Long Island Sound). The house is now a convalescent home."—on label. Beach sand
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a hurried trip to Yuma Air Force Base, Yuma (Yuma Co.), Ariz. While waiting for my plane, I had a short...chiefly of quartz (colorless, smoky, brownish, ted chalcedony) with some pale pinkish garnet, silvery muscovite...sand from Buell Park, Ariz. From Buell Park, Apache Co., Ariz., we have a sand sample that was sent us by..."Sand from the Sacramento River, Robbins, Sutter Co., Calif."—on label. Phosphate sand from Lakeland...phosphate pit located 1 mile south of Lakeland, Polk Co., Fla., we have a sand sample that comes from a point
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
color. "Quartz sand, five miles south of Cove (Polk Co.), Ark. Highway 71."—on label. River Sand from Yuba...is from a road near the Red Rocks Park (Jefferson Co., Colo.) some 18-20 miles west of Denver. It is only...Gouverneur, N . Y. Beach Sand from Daytona Beach, Fla. From famous Daytona Beach in Volusia Co., Fla., we have...famous gold locality, Swift River at Bvron, Oxford Co., we have a sand sample that was collected for us...(Berkshire Co.), Mass., just off Route 20 by N.Y.N.H.&H.R.R."—on label. ROCKS AND MINERALS Beach Sand from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[University of Florida] at 18:37 07 August 2017 Chalcedony sand from Tucson, Ariz. This is a medium grained...reddish - brown sand consisting mainly of gray chalcedony with white and brownish quartz, gray feldspar...shells. The beach is on the Pacific Ocean, about 4 miles west of San Ysidro, San Diego Co., Calif. "As...have sand from Bailey's Mistake, the most easterly beach in the United States, I wonder if some sand from...points of the U. S. and the outlying possessions. Long before I started to collect garnet sand I had sands
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Peninsula, Schoolcraft Co., Mich.—1955."—on label. From Tuolumne Meadows Lodge in Tuolumne Co., Calif., we have...Calif." —on label. Beach sand from near Ft. Myers, Fla. From the Gulf of Mexico in Lee Co., near Fort Myers...some of the shells fl. pale- yellow under the long wave. Beach sand from Kennebunk Port, M e . Mrs. Olive...colorless zircon that fl.. orange. "From Gooch's Beach, Kennebunk Port, Me."—on label. Kennebunk Port,...9W on the northern outskirts of Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y. The sand consists chiefly of quartz (dark
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from El Dorado Co., Calif. From the South Fork American River, at Kyburz, El Dorado Co., Calif., we have...a gopher hole, 6 miles west of Chivington, Kiowa Co., Colo., to collect a sample of the sand which was...sand from Key West, F la. From South Beach in Key West, Monroe Co., Fla., we have a sand sample that was...most southerly city (on Thompson's Island—3^ miles long and 1 mile wide—in the Gulf of Mexico). Glass Sand...Sand from Ottawa, III. Ottawa is in La Salle Co., 111., and is noted for its glass sand deposits. From
Book (edition)
a thou- sand localities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico where gems have been and can be found...Maine and Florida. Still others are to be found in Canada and Mexico. What you cannot collect in person you...ac- ceptable kind. Belief that opals were unlucky long unfashionable, and amethyst lost some of its...nodule may contain a center of surrounded by chalcedony easily discernible quartz crystals that crystalline...mass. Tenacity is a quality closely allied chalcedony and jasper, because of their makeup, are tougher
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
received in the next issue. River sand from Yuma Co., Ariz. "I am sending you a bottle of sand from...the Colorado River and 37 miles north of Yuma (Yuma Co.), Ariz."— note from Earl U. Mayer, 1753 " I " St...colorless, smoky, but brownish, reddish; and gray chalcedony also present). Some green epidote (part of it...joins the Sacramento River, in Sacramento (Sacramento Co.), Calif." This is a dark gray medium grained sand...miles long and 28 miles wide. The stop was made on the east shore, at Canal Point in Palm Beach Ceunty
Journal (issue)
1901 Varsity Estates Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T38 4T7 menziesm@tcel.com ‱ Since moving to...Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations, tungstenite occurs only...x8" 8" W X 7" 1-1 $8.5() H $750 $750 H Wydar Co. Inc. P.O. Box 25283 ‱ Portland, OR 97225 Tel: (503)...year surface, $32.00 per year air, First Class to Canada and Mexico $25.00, rates include sales taxes as...fracture-filling minerals that include calcite, chalcedony, and crystallized quartz. Since I hadn't associated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ariz. From Sabino Canyon, north of Tucson, Pima Co., Ariz., we have a sand sample that was sent us by...Florida "I found a piece of agatized coral on the beach the other day in which there was a small deep hole...Pasco Co., Fla., and it is a very fine grained golden brown sand. It is all brown quartz. The beach is on..."From shore of Lake Superior, Ontonagan (Ontonagon Co.), Mich."—on label. Downloaded by [University of...Lake Norway is in the northwestern part of Kandiyohi Co., Minn. From the shore of this lake we have a sand
Book
REMARKS ON THE GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF NOV A SCOTIA. -~- Bv ABRAHAM GESNER, EsQ., " THE SUPT'LY...US 1': U M , TH t: COHDS OF liER OWN TO 13~; CO:'JTAINS WITHIN ONLY MOo.:;T Nfi:C~:ssAHY l\1AN;...PRINTED BY GOSSIP AND COADE, TnfES OFFICE, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTTA. 1SS6. To LORD VISCOUNT VALENTlA, A...Servant, ABRAHAM GESNER. Parrsbo'toHgh, Nm,a Scotia, 1836. PltEF1 CE. -~- IN writing a Preface,...which contribute to his minor nccessities, N O\'a Scotia will maintain a character unrivalled by any country
Journal (issue)
V. black bulb, and the Glo-Craft Tubular lamp (Long wave). Our stocks also include a complete linc of...BAYFIELD, COLORADO Co. | THE to EARTH MINERALS SCIENCE DIGEST from CANADA LABRADORITE “Canada’s...BANFF, LLOYD ALBERTA 4 m= T. for for Lapidist CANADA Use . . . .. . MEWBURN, MINERALIGHT pleasure...Worid’s Largest Mineral Convention”, July 16-17-18, Long Beach, California GEM Dept. E — ORDONS & MINERAL...MINERAL SUPPLIES 1850 East Pacific Coast Highway Long Beach 6, Calif. NOW READY FOR MAILING 52 Pages 9''x12""
Book (edition)
(continued on back flap) r 1° *o S = CO i 1 = o o = CO cvj Ma Civic Center Ge 549.973 MacFall...permission of the publisher. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto. Manufactured...to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and Mexico. Every state, as a glance at the list...testify that a stone picked up during a stroll on a beach or a hike in the mountains first aroused their interest...acceptable kind. Belief that opals were unlucky long made them unfashionable, and amethyst lost some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sand from dry wash 6 miles west of Twin Buttes, Pima Co., Ariz." on label. Gypsum sand from Devils Den St...Park, Ark. Devils Den State Park is in Washington Co., Ark. From the Park we have a gypsum sand that was...of from Arkansas. Beach sand from Bootlegger's Beach, Cal. From Bootlegger's Beach at Smuggler's Cove...grained sand. It consists chiefly of quartz (brown chalcedony, also gray; clear quartz, also smoky) with some...sample of sand from Bootlegger's Beach, Smuggler's Cove, Santa Cruz Co., Calif. This location is about
Book (volume)
Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario M1P 2E7, Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen...and Technical Surveys of the Geological Survey of Canada, while specific Canadian locality information was...quartz, binghamite and sagenite cabochons Carved chalcedony figurines Chrysocolla specimen Montana moss agates...fossilized gum or resin exuded from the bark of long-extinct trees of the Pine Family. It is always found...yielded a single spodumene crystal over forty feet long! Flawless blue beryl crystals tipping the scales
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Coosa River just west of Cedar Bluff, Cherokee Co., Ala., where excavations and construction for new...Park, Fla. It reads: "I was in Tombstone (Cochise Co.), Ariz., a few months ago. It is one of my favorite...pyrite cubes in grayish quartzite, and grayish chalcedony. ROCKS AND MINERALS xline—crystalline ARKANSAS—"During...to were the quartz pits near Hot Springs (Garland Co.), Ark. Here I found about 40 nice quartz xls ranging...inches. One was found in matrix about 2l/2 inches long and terminated. There were several large boulders
 
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