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Opal from
Wilson Creek, Caldwell County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wilson Creek, Caldwell County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:911193
Long-form Identifier:1:3:911193:6
GUID (UUID V4):ae401c83-130f-4f65-a961-836926ad2086
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Book
Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...BIG BUG CREEK, Yavapai Co. Onyx Marble BLACK MOUNTAINS, E. Slopo, Mohave Co. N.W. of Kingman Opal CALUMET...Cochise Co., 3 ml. N. of Dragoon. ClIRYSOFRASB CAVE CREEK, Maricopa Co., 45 mi. N. Phoeniz Onyx Marble COPPER
Report (volume)
......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908. Scott
Report (volume)
Formation of Middle Proterozoic Age from Hoodoo Creek Eastward to Mount Taylor, Central Idaho With a GEOLOGIC...Yellowjacket district and Hoodoo Quartzite of Hoodoo Creek revisited, and correlation of the Hoodoo eastward...Formations of Middle Proterozoic age from Hoodoo Creek eastward to Mount Taylor, central Idaho. (U.S. Geological...Yellowjacket Formation (Idaho). 4. Geology-Idaho-Hoodoo Creek Region. I. Title. II. Series: Geological Survey...Hoodoo Creek and the Yellowjacket district 11 Structural details in the area east of Hoodoo Creek and the
Report (volume)
Geologic Reconnaissance of the Antelope-Ashwood Area North-Central Oregon WITH EMPHASIS ON THE JOHN DAY FORMATION... Geologic Reconnaissance of the Antelope-Ashwood Area North-Central Oregon WITH EMPHASIS ON THE JOHN DAY FORMATION...FIGURE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Index map of part of north-central Oregon._.___________---_ Generalized columnar...TABLE 1. Bedded rocks of the Antelope-Ashwood area, north-central Oregon._______________________________________________...rocks from the John Day Formation near Ashwood, north-central Oregon. ______________ in D4 CONTRIBUTIONS
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Mining and Technology, Socorro, N. Mex. NOC North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...253, Education Building, Raleigh, N.C. NO CM North Carolina State Museum, 101 Halifax St., Raleigh, N.C...Polytechnic Institute Library NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte, Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Public Library Durham...Durham, Duke University Library Raleigh, North Carolina State College Library OHIO Cincinnati, University...Brown University Library SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia, University of South Carolina, McKissick Memorial Library
Journal (issue)
IN YOUR BALLOTS! , IMPQRTANT NOTICE The Special Opal Number which was to be featured thia issue bas been...These occur som e distance below the m inea in a creek, in size up to three inches in dia meter; they are...pearance. A much altered porphyritic rock in the North Pit shows the pleasing crystals of feldspar altered...yellow, penetrat• ing the rocks at the end of the North Pit, can be observed from a considerable distance;...chalcopyrite. Fierro Fierro is located a short distance north of Hanover. About three hours were spent at the
Report (volume)
Ridge district ____________________________ Big Creek district ______________________________ Middle Fork..._____________________________ Monumental Creek district _________________________ Marble Creek district ____________________________...________________________________ Camas Creek addition ____________________________ Indian Creek district _____________________________..._____________________________ Pistol Creek district _____________________________ Greyhound Ridge addition _____...______________________ Monumental Creek placers _______________________ Marble Creek placers __________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
other minerals.These authors have since 1953used opal glass(National Bureau of Standards,standard sample91)...National Bureau of Standards, standard sample 91, opal glass, diluted in silica as standard. The values...Schwarzwald Collected by Henry Faul G-5 Zircon from Wilson Creek gneiss, Mor_ timer, N C. Collected by G R. Tilton...Monazite from placer, Warren Creek, tdbutary of Salmon River near Warren, Idaho County, Idaho. Collected bv J...natural mineral, from synthetic "zircon," and from opal glass was observed by moving plate stud- SPECTROCHEMICAL
Book (edition)
Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...was drafted after a fourth-grade class at Copper Creek Elementary School had the idea and reached out to...edu) is located in the old Pima County Courthouse building at 115 North Church Avenue in downtown Tucson...on the market. The mines at Bisbee, in Cochise County, have produced large quantities of gem-quality...mineral stamp issued in 1992. At Morenci, in Greenlee County, gem-quality azurite was also commercially recovered
Report (issue)
heading Title COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES KINERAL COUNTY REGION. Crocx, J. G. (200)R29ono.83-405D,MP GISS...no.86-03 Hill, Robert A. Soil survey of De Baca County, New Mexico. C.] : The Service, (1986] 941 [Washington...Michigan, USA) » Zum Alter der Ammonoideen-Faunen des Marshall-Sandsteins (Unterkarbon: Michigan, USA). [1983]...BATHYMETRIC MAPS. Prelease investigation maps of the North Aleutian Shelf, outer continental shelf, Bering...Library, 1986. 042.2(320) H242g BIBLIOGRAPHY GEOLOGY NORTH AMERICA GUIDE-BOOKS. Geoscience Information Society
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Snohomish, Wizard Clip, Chesapeake Bay, Milksick Creek, Cowcumber Hill, Bayou Boeuf, Stingray Point, Lake...locality, or civil division (city, village, or county) named for a physical feature is always listed...information is usually self-explanatory, for example: county seat. Feature Class (second column) The terms listed...kinds of flowing water that locally may be called a creek, run, river, branch, bayou, or fork. See pages XXXI-XXXII...their definitions. County (third column) This column lists the name of the county in which the entity
Report (issue)
include: (1) the Majuba Hill deposit in Pershing County, which has large reserves of low-grade torbernite-bearing...Monster mine in the Goodsprings district, Clark County, which shipped 5 tons of ore containing kasolite... RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS OF NEVADA 65 property in Pershing County, where a small amount of pitchblende is present;...Willys claim* in the East Walker River area, Lyon County, where both pitchblende and kasolite have been...in Nye County and from pegmatities on the Old Dad prospect, Gold Butte district, Clark County; neither
Book (edition)
polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina, Madagaskar, G Page 5: Opal - fire, polished, 50 mm, Mezezo, Ethiopia, G Page...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...localities of magmatic origin (in the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia...those of pegmatitic origin in the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc
Report (issue)
Lake from trail on northeastern shore near Butte Creek. Photograph by Kerry Howard, University of Nevada...Tucson, USA (2003), Barcelona, Spain (2007), and Konstanz, Germany (2011). The Congress in Reno, USA marks...Pleistocene and modern lakes in the Great Basin of North America that was led by Susan Zimmerman, Lawrence...modern lakes and ancient lake deposits in western North America, and it provides a starting point for any...Aspen River Clastic Source—Alluvial Unit A in Sage Creek Canyon.........................................
Report (issue)
ore, Poncha Springs, Colo . 14. Tungsten ore, North Carolina Geology and Resources of Fluorine in the......... .. ..... .... .. ...... ... . Big Squaw Creek................................................................................. . Tennessee-North Carolina-Virginia ....................................Del Rio, Tennessee-Hot Springs, North Carolina...... Hamme, North Carolina-Virginia..................................... . Cheshire County-Westmoreland, New Hampshire .... . North Chatham, New Hampshire ...
Journal (issue)
the other Nations, but it would appear that the USA alone will soon fill the sky with numer­ ous types...locked. However the agate beds stretch cast and north from this area for many miles. A good way to get...drive 15 miles east of town of Fairburn on French Creek road and turn in to left at a sign that reads “4H...large elongated selenite crystal. Our neighbor North Dakota continues to be the scene of outstanding...agate all collected from gravel deposits in western North Dakota. I also saw one piece of what has been identified
Report (issue)
Mississippian System in the Western Interior Province of North America U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Mississippian System in the Western Interior Province of North America By WILLIAM J. SANDO and E. WAYNE BAMBER...Mississippian System in the Western Interior Province of North America. (Geological Survey professional paper;...foraminifer, conodont, and coral zones in relation to North American Mississippian provincial series and western...and foraminifer and coral zones in relation to North American Mississippian provincial series and western
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
overlapping the same bottom layers of the shorter core. Opal contents were ascertained by the method of GOLDBERG(1958)...account for the lack of correlation. The sum of the opal, CaCO, and organic (as CH,O) contents account for...Period Collected No. Days llO°C Dry Weight Total Opal cacoj Organic (CH?O) 0.10 0.15 0.62 0.11 0.03...unsupported Pb-210. Biogenic input The sum of the opal, calcite and organic carbon (as CHrO) contents range...between 46.0 and 62.8% of the solids (Table 2). Opal accounts for between 19 and 37x, calcite between
Report (volume)
at Marysvale, Utah; the Schwartzwalder (Ralston Creek) and Los Ochos mines, Colorado; the Early Day and...Midnite and Daybreak mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White King mine, Oregon; the...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as...Beryllium deposits of the Mount Antero region, Chaffee County, Colorado: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 982-D, p. 95-119...the Golden Gate Canyon and Ralston Creek areas, Jefferson County, Colorado: U. S. Geol. Survey Circ.
Report (volume)
Bibliography of North American Geology, 1950-1959 PART 2. INDEX VOLUME 3 : A-L GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...BULLETIN 1195 Bibliography of North American Geology, 1950-1959 By RUTH REECE KING, ELISABETH S...., 6. T. B., 2. Magmatic vs. metamorphic source North America, western, paleoof ores: Hawley, J. E., 11...evolutionary extinction L. R., 6. factors: Coleman, R. H. North Dakota, petroleum: Laird, Management look at the...Paleotectonic history, western Mineral-dependent economy, North America: Laudon, reserve plan: Love ring, T. S.
Journal (issue)
deposits; deposits ; and and in regions such as the far north, only the most daring collector can can hope to...of which this island is largely composed. In the North West Territories, olive-green chalcedony (Chrysoprase)...(Long. 78° 30', Lat. 63° 45') by an official of the North Lands Exploration, Limited. A few of them were cut...of widespread occurrence throughout the West and North, but the localities described above are the only...beautiful mineral occurs in large quantities north-east of Gypsumville, Manitoba. It is hard enough
Report (volume)
Wrather, Director Bulletin 937 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1929-1939 BY EMMA MERTINS THOM...INTRODUCTION ic * * J** The bibliography of North American geology, including paleontology, petrology...publications on the geology of the Continent of North America and adjacent islands and on Panama, the...index to the literature cited. The bibliography of North American geology to the end of 1928 is contained...cientifica Circular Classe classification Company, County Collections Committee Communications Comparative
Report (volume)
deposits___-_-____--__-__-..--__-__---__-_-_---__--__Cochise County.______________________________________________...__________________________________________ Gila County..._______________________________________ Deposits...claims--_-___-__-__-___-__--_--__--_--_---_---_Maricopa County._____________________________________________ Black...Tract No. 2__________._._________________ Pima County.___-____-_____-_-_-_-_.-___-___-_---___-__-__-___...and 8 claims______________________________ Pinal County _____________________________________________ Honey
Report (issue)
Montana 9 Special Mining Management Zone Clear Creek 13 2 18 15 Ten Mile West Roadless Area Upper Priest...Star Hope Creek, and Muldoon Canyon; up North Fork Big Lost River; and up Wildhorse Creek. Other access...East Fork Wood River and Hyndman Creek, from Hailey to the Porcupine Creek area, and from Bellevue into Muldoon...maintained and regularly used. Except for Trail Creek summit, the crest of the Pioneer Mountains is extremely...anywhere in the 15 air mile distance between Trail Creek summit and the head of Little Wood River. The topography
Book
milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please...VEINS IN VOLCANIC ROCKS Quartz, calcite, zeolites, opal, pyrite and other sulphides, clays, chlor­ ite,
 
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