 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALOGY OF The Granite Mountain Syenite PULASKI AND SALINE COUNTIES, ARKANSAS Within the last few...from the syenite pegmatites of Granite Mountain. HENRY L . BARWOOD Arkansas Mining and Mineral Resources...Resources Research Institute Arkansas Tech University Russellville, Arkansas 72801 A C O M P L E X P L U T O...Saline County to the city limits of Little Rock in Pulaski County. The outcrops in Saline County are weath...the northeast forms a promi nent ridge ("Granite" Mountain) and contains four active and many inactive |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | collecting localities. Thus I was excited (though a little skeptical) to learn of a nearby quartz collecting...Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most...particularly prevalent south of Donalda in the Drumheller area which is home to the well-known Tyrrell Museum,...After receiving comments that the Goodall Farm Quarry, also known as the Sanford vesuvianite locality...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | across associated with quartz and dolomite (or siderite). The specimen was collected at or near the type...and anatase in pegmatite pipes that cut alkalic granite in the Ballou and Fallon Brothers quarries. It...Fairfield County, Connecticut; and in greisen with purple fluorite at Irish Creek, Rockbridge County, Virginia...Washington County, Missouri, and has been reported as a rare accessory mineral in syenite in the Big Rock, Granite...Granite Mountain, and Holiday Inn quarries south of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. It has also |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector's Newsletter $2.00 Pseudomorphs from Brazos County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...Turkey Creek in the BryanCol!~ge Stallon area of Brazos County, Texas. Thin, elongate cav111esparallel...to burn some old cardboard and trash lo fill the area with smoke and deter the competition from getting...from petrified wood, Turkey Creek, Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, photograph by Art Smith. Mexico While...come from one log, but no doubt other logs in the area may have similar pseudomorphs. A search of the literature |  | | Book | | Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I •( 11 o •« c »««ou cxi ju4«iO«J...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ 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 (issue) | | The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $3.00 The Rock Dam Gold Prospect A New Quartz Locality, Dickinson...markelder@juno.com The Rock Dam gold prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...JohnA. Jaszczakphoto. October 12-18, 2007 Trip to Arkansas Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Having a need to...away and see some rocks and minerals, a trip to Arkansas was scheduled and being the weekend of the Mt |  | | Journal (issue) | | high quality crystals in the Thomas Range, Juab County. Utah. Maynard Bixby first discovered Bi xbyite...Wulfenite Mystery of the Madison Mine, Madison, Carroll County, New Hampshire Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston...occur in crystals but as masses "frozen" in the granite. The mine is a relatively small flooded open pit...dumps, some overgrown, surrounding it. We did a little digging and broke a lot of rocks without finding...}Vlinerals By Arthur E. Smith. Jr. The only book on Arkansas Minerals: 149 pages plus 8 pages of color photos |  | | Journal (issue) | | the most well-known mineralized veins within the area described as the Central Kentucky Fluorspar District...From A Collector's Notebook: On to the Northeast, Arkansas Collecting-Fall 1999 Art Smith 9118 Concho Street...near Lake Greeson and Mount Ida quartz ~ Our Arkansas collecting trip started early in October, ednesday...after noon. We hit the dumps and moved a bit of rock, but were disappointed and found just a couple of...headed eas t w ith no fur-ther tops. We got to Little Roc k Just be fore complete darkness and checked |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystals, 31/2 inches wide, Thomas vein, Nally-Gibson Quarry, Kentucky. Although some of the iron mines of...(burning pyrite orebody in 1934) in Jerome, Yavapai County, AZ, thought to be native selenium which was established...copper sheet from the White Pine Mine, Ontonagon County. MI, thought to be calumetite. The mineral forms...Mariposa Mine, Terlingua mercury district, Brewster County, TX. A new mineral for this famous locality. Parnauite...by Robert M. Philips at the Engels Mine, Plumas County, CA. The parnauite is massive green while the langitc |  | | Journal (issue) | | PAGE FROM A COLLECTOR'S NOTEBOOK: 3M BIG ROCK QUARRY, ARKANSAS COLLECTING TRIP - FALL 1998, Part 1 Art...Street Houston, Texas 77036-6742 - Our last Arkansas Collecting trip started about a month earlier...group gathered at the 65th Street Denny's in Little Rock at 7:00 AM on October I. _The_encroachment of...proceeded to the 3M Big Rock Quarry in the nephelinc sycnite of Granite Mountain located less than I mile...mile away. Last year, our visit to the Granite Mountain syenitc quarries was almost monomineral with boulders |  | | Journal (issue) | | 89511 Life is a mill a nd men the ore Roughes t of rock may hold in store The s ilver of love a nd gold...Royal Gorge No. 1 Mine, Eight Mile Park, Fremont County, Colorado Mark Ivan Jacobson Perth Pouch P. 0 ...Gorge (Jacobson 1997), Eight Mile Park, Fremont County, Colorado. This photograph was taken by Douglas...until we were well below the o rig inal surfac e rock and repeated the efforts in several places on the...ith no lrth1u111 minera ls outside the excavated area. The original report coinc ided with the September |  | | Journal (issue) | | the MidstateQuarry Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...in the Midstate Quarry located just off the southeast flank of Magnet Cove. This quarry is in the altered... The Stanley Shale is a dark, hard fine-grained rock that contains numerous fractures and mineralization...veins. This hard shale makes for good construction rock, but for the average collector, mineral collecting...aboufo:s mmlong, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, photo by the author. Middle& |  | | Journal (issue) | | and calcite, 11/2 inches across, Knippa Quarry, Uvalde County, Texas, photo by the author. Tucson 1999...Posey Mine (San Juan Co., Utah, USA) and Planet Mine (La Paz Co., Arizona, USA). That from Posey Mine is composed...the I0th Maine Mineral Symposium at the Senator Inn and Conference Center in Augusta, Maine. This annual...experience in mining and selling gems in Oxford County; Vandall King (the expert on Maine minerals); and...on-line demonstration! We always have a talk on some area outside the Northeast, and this year Ted Johnson |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Colorado Minerals Genesis Epoch Mel & Pam Bersch 248 Little Park Rd. Grand Junction, CO 81503 970-242-3134...inerals http://w ww .frii.com /~glacier Green Mountain Minerals Stanley Korzeb 13993 E. Arizona Ave....all.com / COLORADO MINERAL AND FOSSIL SHOW Holiday Inn Denver North SEPT. 15-19, 1999 10 a.m. to 7...Fine M inerals, W orldwide By Appointm ent Only Mountain Minerals International Dudley Blauwet P.O. Box |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1 H0gtuavite crystals in matrix, near H0gtuva Mountain, Norway. New Mineral Finds in the First Half...Joe Cilen's collection from Goodsprings, Clark County. Nevada labelled as heterogenite which is well...reported occurre nce in Quartzburg District, Grand County , Oregon. The heteroge nite is not present on the...:walder Mine, Raston Buttes District. Huerfago County. Col o rado labelled as uraninite. The Schwartzwalder...Mohawk Mine, eastern part of Clark Mountain. San Bernardino County, CA. Whil e beudantite is known from |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | group, 13 cm, from the Eagle’s Nest mine. Placer County, California. Found in 1988. Collection of Wayne...recommendations and information, beginning with a little back ground on the city itself. Tucson is today...native (her brother Peter, who introduced her to rock music, is now Police Chief), as are Barbara Eden...Linda McCartney have a ranch in the Tanque Verde area where they spend part of the year. Clark Gable,...hearty Western food. Our favorite is Hidden Valley Inn (4825 N. Sabino Canyon Rd., 299-4941) where mesquite |  | | Journal (issue) | | cavity. The only locality data was given as Blaine County, Idaho. The specimen was probably from the collection...1995), but found no location of ferberite in Blaine County. So I went Fig. 1 Ferberite showing twinning,... microcrystals, Corral Creek, Camas County, Idaho. Continued on page 9 Denver Shows of 2001 Continued...apophyllite (not of heulandite) from a new find in Custer County, Idaho. These pseudomorphs are quite spectacular...( Hover). German.• Continued on page Hydraulic Rock Tri o?;; o""' ,, 0 . q,-$' c::- ~· 60 -:s~ |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...like to start off each locality article with a little heraldic crest above the title, representing the...vigorously objected to in some quarters. The Trepca area is hotly contested because of its economic value...District Yenbai Province, Vietnam Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals International P.O. Box 302 Louisville...edge of Hoan Kiem Lake. Many centuries ago this area had been the center of commerce in Hanoi, with each |  | | Journal (issue) | | with igneous mid ocean basaltic or other volnic rock . There are a lso quartz a nd pyrite crystals o...found in a blue roc k (nonesic ul ated basalt) quarry located within the remains of the caldera of the...found in the karst cavern discovered at the Laie Quarry in April 1998. Photograph by Ed Sawada. Japan...provided. • Country Locality Aus tralia White Rock Quarry, near Adelaide, South Australia Aus tria Aus...Mallnitz Grabspitze, near St. Jakob Grossvenediger area, Matrei, East Tyrolia Pebellalpe, wes t of Hinterbichl |  | | Journal (issue) | | TwinnedFornacite from the Singer Mine, Goodsprings, Clark County, Nevada Paul M. Adams 126 S. Helberta Ave. #2 Redondo...7 miles (11 km) southwest of Goodsprings, Clark County, Nevada. Goodsprings is located 7 miles west of...production shafts, at the Brushy Creek Mine, Reynolds County, MO. 2 l\1inernl News Mny 1998 If you've bought...things from old localities this year!·) Hydraulic Rock Trimmer Wydar has perfected the art of hydraulic...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles , CA Joseph A. Mandarino...the sound of the trade winds? Why show lumps of rock when Kilauea itself can be shown sliding its hissing...much astronomy can one glean from staring at a moon rock in the American Museum of Nat4ral History on Central...clear that current management wishes to have as little to do with this collection as possible. How long...carried immediately above it and terminating in a little tabular 114 support on which the crystal can |  | | Journal (issue) | | locality); Japan; Norway; South Africa; Sweden; England; USA: Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri...Trying to Identify Mercury Minerals from Texas and Arkansas Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Since coming to...those samples there was this familiar rusty looking rock with a lighter color (pale yellow-green) fibrous...Walter V. Maresch, Ernest H. Nickel, Nicholas M.S. Rock, John C. Schumacher, David C. Smith, Nick C.N. Stephenson...Identifying Mercury Minerals (Continued from page I) The Arkansas mercury district is situated along the southern |  | | Journal (issue) | | by Vandall King. from Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...1 White fluorite, 2 mm, Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas, photo by the author. ,/" 2 Minero!...follows: "Outcrop of • pegmatite ledges in canyon of Arkansas River just above the Royal Gorge, Colorado. Two...About 7 miles above Canyon [sic] City. Fremont County, Colorado." My best guess is that the gem pegmatite...vertical outcrop of whitish, coarse-grained appearing rock. The scenery is distinctive enough that one should |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hanson Aggregates Midwest Flemingsburg, Kentucky Quarry Alan Goldstein Falls of the Ohio State Park P.O...extent such policies are still in the hands of the quarry managA-. The manager often rides through 1he changes...mineral collectors or geology clubs. The Flemingsburg quarry has a history of being visitor friendly, although...Twinned calcite, 3 cm, Hanson Aggregates Midwest quarry, Flemingsburg, Kentucky, photo by Mark A. Schneider...a Collector's Notebook: Midstate Quarry, - Magnet Cove, Arkansas Collecting Trip - Fall 1998, Part |
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