 | | Report (issue) | | Pleaoc teturn this publication to the Virginia Geologieal Survcy whcn you havc no further uce for it...COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSTON ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Deposits of Virginra BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 COMMONWEALTH, OF VTRGINIA STATE COMMISSION...COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN, State Geologist Bulletin...33 Pegmatite Deposits of Virginia BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 RICHMOND: DrvrsroN |  | | Report (issue) | | pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ ...between pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight mine ______ _______________...of granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 9....and other units in the Big Bess pegmatite, Gaston County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Electric Co.'s mine; Andrew T. Orr, of the Mica Products Co.; C. W. Bryant, of the Standard mine; L. R. Brown...general information on a number of mines in Grafton County and extended other kindnesses; M. M. Kilton, of...Howard, of East Alstead; in Virginia by P. Lippert and Capt. McCray, of the Ridgeway Mica Co., and several...large sheet mica. The average price paid for run of mine mica, not split or sorted, ranges from $50 to $200...be found in the same deposit. Orthoclase and microcline are the most common varieties of feldspar found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | muscovites are from pegmatites, nine from San Diego County, California. 2 Schaller, W. T., and Stevens, R...abundant almandine garnet. A'B.C' gem mine, Ramona, San Diego County, Calif. 3. Medium grained, resembling...pegmatite. Victor gem mine, Rincon, San Diego County, Calif. 5. Plumose muscovite in microcline graphic granite...dike (below the Stewart mine), at east base of Stewart Hill,, Pala, San Diego County, Calif. Although occurring...occurring in microcline graphic granite, adjacent to albitized pegmatite, the muscovite definitely belongs |  | | Journal (issue) | | SAURATOWN MOUNTAINS ANTICLINORIUM NEAR MARTINSVILLE, VIRGINIA James F. Conley and William S. Henika This road...prepared for a 1Y2-dayfield trip of the Fifth Annual Virginia Geology Field Conference, November 3-4, 1973,... sponsored by the Geology Section of the Virginia Academy of Science. It will serve as a guide, however...area. The route of the road log is in Franklin, Henry, and Patrick counties near Martinsville where the...topographic quadrangle bases, are available from the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Box 3667, Charlottesville |  | | Report (issue) | | Brittle-Deformation History of Eocambrian Rocks (Ridgeway Gold Mine, South Carolina), Carolina Terrane Mervin...Bartholomew, Amy E. Whitaker, Chris A Barker 17 The Ridgeway Gold Deposits: A Window to the Evolution of a...Barnett 25 A Field Guide to the Geology of the Ridgeway-Camden Area, South Carolina Piedmont Donald T...Photo: Overview of the North Pit at Ridgeway Gold Mine (Kennecott-Ridgeway Mining Company). CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...REGIONAL RELATIONSHIPS The oldest rocks in the Ridgeway–Camden area are metaplutonic, metavolcanic, and |  | | Report (issue) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | "SOME NOTES ON ASTE RI ATE D QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA" By RUDOLPH J. BLAND, Jr. Blsnd Minerals, 2807 W. Cary...variety of quartz, it is becoming quite common in Virginia. It has recently been found in a variety of colors...first one of importance is the Ligon mine in Amelia County, Va. This mine is located at the end of State Route...person charged at this mine, and collecting is allowed every day except Sunday. The mine sits in a creek valley...metamict* minerals have been noted so far at this mine. What was thought to be bertrandite was later identified |  | | Journal (issue) | | No. 2 '\ NON-BAUXITIC ALUMINA RESOURCES IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet and William F. Giannini , ABSTRACT...contain appreciable amounts of alumina ( 4 0 3 . The Virginia Division of Mineral Resources has completed a...34 counties and independent cities throughout Virginia were examined, sampled and the samples were analyzed;...or analyzed. Previously published analyses of Virginia coals indicate appreciable amounts of alumina...re- VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL REOURCES Vol. 36 Figure 1. Location of 61 samples in Virginia that |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and tourmaline. Even the common minerals of microcline, bladed albite, and smoky quartz are enhanced...near Red Stone quarry, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Henry Minot specimen and photo. Mark Ivan...Teller and Park counties, CO, USA Crystal Park–Bear Creek, El Paso County, CO, USA Pikes Peak Granite NYF... 3 Mount Antero and Mount White, Chaffee County, CO, USA Mount Antero Granite NYF Miarolitic beryl...Mountains, Boise, Custer and Elsmore counties, ID, USA Sawtooth Granite in the Idaho batholith NYF Miarolitic |  | | Report (issue) | | Wilmington Wilmington, N.C. William S. Henika Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville.... . . . . . . . . iii Sandy Level Quadrangle, Virginia: Its Geology and Regional Interpretation (C.R.... 7 Metamorphic Gradients in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (J. P. Gregory). . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 49 Cataclastic Zone Associated with the Davie County Triassic Basin (D. V. Milton). . . . . . . . ....from the Dan River (North Carolina) - Danville (Virginia) Basin (E. I. Robbins and A. Traverse). . . . |  | | Report (volume) | | General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________ |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The minerals found are albite, cleavelandite, microcline-perthite,quartz, muscovite,tourmaline, beryl...commercial product because of itshighsoda content. The mine is located,in T4S and R4E, 5 milesS. 6• ø W. of...About two thousand feet N. 25ø W. from the Big Tom mine there is a large granitemass,knownas the Court HouseRock...area blue-gray cleavelandite, a pinkish-gray microcline,andcolorless to grayquartz,with smalleramounts...Keystonepegmatites. Pegau5 reportssimilarbandsin the Virginia pegmatites, wheregarnets,tourmaline,andparallelgrowthof |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology and ore deposits of the Alma district, Park County' . e o l .S u n e y , B u l l . 3 , p . 4 6 , t...Buckfield, Maine' made in the Amelia district in Virginia where a few pegmatites have been worked to a depth...pegmatites of the Amelia, Goochland, and Ridgeway areas, Virginia: Amer. Jour. ol Sci. (5),17,p' 543,1929...Madagascar, central Maine, Llano County, Texas, and San Diego County, California. On the other hand, cavities...Goranson, E. A., The hiddenite deposit in Alexander County, North Carolina: Am. M.ineralogist, lS, pp. 2gG-302 |  | | Report (issue) | | Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Virginia ........... 96 Table 18 Selected references arranged...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of southwestern Virginia.........................98 Figure 23. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of north-central Virginia........................99 INTRODUCTION Uranium...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...radioactivity is 5 to 7 times background. Hill copper mine. RM 1968. Source ol informal Phyllite Location |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | oligoclase-quartz dikes,with muscoviteand very smallamountsof microcline,transectpegma- tites. The plagioclase contains•5...massivequartz at the Phillipsmine,No. 9 •, andthe Deer Park mine,No. 235, both in Group IV-A. Para#enesis in the...relative deficiency of plagioclase lamell•ein the microcline. A similar conditionis visiblein a thin sectionof... C. S. M/IURICE. Fro. x2. Albite lamellaein microcline (X 9)F•c. •3- Part of albite veinlet (left) and...beenbrokenand the œrag- Fro. z4. Albite (white) and microcline(X z/2), from No. 94. Fzc. z5- Reversesideof Fig |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | samples ranges from 210–510 ppm H2O by weight. The microcline samples contain structural H2O molecules (1000–1400...(1988) determined H concentrations for three microcline samples (>1000 ppm H2O), quartz, and nepheline...8An0.5Or0.7 <0.01 Fe2O3 this work Pederiniera Mine, São Proctor 1984 Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais,...1982 New Melones Dam, Pohl et al. 1982 Calaveras County, CA; gash veins in metamorphic rock GRR1280 oligoclase...1995 GRR968 microcline Ab6Or94 0.003 FeO Hofmeister and Rossman 1985a Elizabeth R Mine, Pala, Foord |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...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...Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 Barrow County Arnold mine—1.6 km northeast of Statham, near the head |  | | Journal (issue) | | on limestone along r~:t~JQ.\{t;_t:l'!'P_erland County, 5 miles southwest of Carlisle. Photo courtesy~'of... Greene County, with 12 major underground mines planned, may become the "numero uno" county for coal...headquartered at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston~ Virginia. The NCIC is specifically dedicated to hunt for...A wooded area southeast of Colebrook in Lebanon County contains a unique geologic feature. An unusual...- Located in the woods north of Lawn in Lebanon County is this unusual example of the weatheri ng of diabase |  | | Report (volume) | | of South Carolina By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1183 Relation...Quartzite_________________________________________ Quartz-microcline gneiss____________________________ Intrusive...OF SOUTH CAROLINA By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III ABSTRACT A provisional geologic map of...1965), we reviewed the report and soil map of each county and made an overlay to show the major rock types...believe gave rise to the various soil series. In each county the rock type that underlies a particular soil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | erratically distributed. They contain chiefly quartz, microcline and some muscovite, garner, schorl and beryl...with the metamorphic foliation. They contain microcline, quattz, graphic granite, albite, schorl and...occur interior-type pegmatites containing chiefly microcline and quartz. Those in the marginal zoneare similar...the schists and gneisses,exterior pegmatites of microcline, qtartz and muscovite are albitized with cassiterite...closely adjacent schists and paragneissesare microcline-quartz-graphic granite pegmatites with subordinate |  | | Book (volume) | | instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...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...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel |
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