 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals found in Ver mont slate. Figure 2. Slate quarry, Poultney; photo by Roger Bacon. The granite industry...decorator tiles. The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi cant locality...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...the locality; it is near er to the quarry than the village of Lowell and is the last set tlement seen...locality from the south. The Belvidere Mountain quarry has produced worldclass crystals of grossular (the |  | | Report (volume) | | Selected Bibliography of Andalusite, Kyanite Sillimanite, Dumortierite Topaz, and Pyrophyllite in the...1019-N Selected Bibliography of Andalusite, Kyanite Sillimanite, Dumortierite Topaz, and Pyrophyllite...showing the location of major deposits of the kyanite group of minerals and pyrophyllite. __________...RESOURCES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANDALUSITE, KYANITE SILLIMANITE, DUMORTIERITE, TOPAZ, AND PYROPHYLLITE...bibliography is a compilation of 566 references on the kyanite, or sillimanite, group of minerals and pyrophyllite |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Book (volume) | | .........................................94 Connecticut ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map .......................................... |  | | Book (volume) | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | .........................................80 Connecticut ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | .........................................80 Connecticut ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on prehnite, kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarry—Alberene amphiboie asbestos, apatite |  | | Journal (issue) | | world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry-Esmont dolomite. limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite...crystals, muscovite crystals, tourmaline AMHERST COUNTY Crystals of goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 00:39 19 January 2015 Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia B lack and nearly black minerals-no...hematite, quartz, titanite, chlorite, muscovite, kyanite, andalusite, and pyrophyllite. Microscopic rutile...to 2 cm across are reported from the Songo Pond quarry at Albany, Maine. It has been found in good specimens...near Waterbury, Vermont; at Poker Hill, Providence County, Rhode Island; and in Essex, Orange, and Warren...specinien was recovered in about I Y X O during active kyanite mining oiieration\ at Graves %lorintain, Georgia |  | | Report (volume) | | asbestos, talc, chromium and nickel, soapstone, mica schist, garnet, kyanite, dolomite marble, and construction...Eidge, north of Buck Hill Mountain, both in Avery County. The contacts between the mapped units are located...(trace to 25 percent). Garnet, epidote, staurolite, kyanite, and orthoclase are more than 5 ^percent of some...schists containing as much as 40 percent blue kyanite are abundant in the western part of the district...in mica schists than in mica gneisses. Epidote, kyanite, and staurolite exceed 5 percent in some layers |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A field trip was made to Pacolet, S. C. for soapstone (for carving?) The Western South Carolina Gem...Mineral and Science Club, Tampa, went to Pasco County, Fla., for agatized coral. The Club presented Mineral...Kiski Club program. (The subject?) The Tompkins County Gem and Mineral So Area Gem and Lapidary Club...considerably. The great talent what?) The St. Lawrence County displayed by our members who show their Rock Mineral...preparing to earn the Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Nature Badge The Morris Museum Fairless Hills |  | | Report (issue) | | beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...Alamance County ........................................................... 24 24 Alexander County ......Alleghany County ....................................................... 25 Ashe County ............Avery County ............................................................... 25 Buncombe County ......Burke County ............................................................... 26 Cabarrus County ... | | | Report (issue) | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | gypsum, industrial sand, iron-oxide pigments, kyanite, lithium hydroxide, magnetite, manganese, mica...sand and gravel, iron-oxide pigments (crude), kyanite, sulfur, and vermiculiteXX 79-84 XX $2,182,391...cement in Virginia. Riverton Corporation in Warren County,just north of Front Royal, produces masonry cement...Cement Company operates a plant in western Botetourt County. The facility manufactures portland cement from...Pittsylvania Counties. Weblite Corporation in Botetourt County mines shale from the Rome Formation to produce |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | J . (Bill) Acord Bowdoin Center Rd., RFD # 2 Litchfield, Maine 04350 Editor— Mrs. David (Alison) Watkins...to States that are dry and hot. provide Lehigh County minerals that may Robert Middleton of the American...American Mu be placed on display at the Lehigh County seum of Natural History told of mineral courthouse...Qub of guest speaker for the Bergen County Min Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, was eralogy and Paleontology...specimens, etc., for the Society, and the Bucks County Earth club to dispose of at bargain rates. The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CATALOGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS GEMSTONES HA,MPDEN 'COUNTY (PART FOUR) By RALPH GOSSE P.O. Box 5351, Albany...will be amended in a later issue. NOTE: (ESSEX COUNTY, was erroneously listed as part three in caption...Gemstones." Readers please note the correct County to be BERKSHIRE COUNTY.) AGATE Locality Descr,ption and Occurrence...composed of jasper-dialcedony combinations. Connecticut River Occasional recoveries reported from river...weathering of nearby outcrops of basalt. Hampden County The chief occurrence of agate in Massachusetts |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINERALS ALLANITE (EPIDOTE GROUP) / @ Amherst County - Black pitchy allanite is found in a small pegmatitemass...used because of their radioactivity. Campbell County - Andalusitecrystals,somevery large,have been reported...locality is associated with quartz, sillimanite, kyanite and blue corundum. Many of the anddusite crystals...attractive cabochons can be cut. BERYL Amelia County - Clear gem quality beryl fragments measuring 0...d i e s cutting Petersburg granite in the Dale quarry (Figure 1). Clear glassy areas within the crystals |  | | Catalog/List | | are scarcer. instances, material, Pater- at quarry received the entire we in- or through the...Von 2O to be Thaumasite the he and dis- quarry, West aggregate of pris- matic uals crystals...variety crystallized specimens the most beautiful quarry crystals, APOPHYLLITE to of productive period...loosely so or flat, set Burger’s crystals on quarry short are The edge. are and pearly striated...large to the Hoxsey’s in 15c., 20c., and quarry distinct curved many Small fine cabinet Large |  | | Report (issue) | | C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com mon rock-making materials...to occur only as traces. ACCOMACK COUNTY: none given. ALBEMARLE COUNTY: actinolitc, agate, almandine, amethyst |  | | Report (issue) | | . .... ..21 resourees section of the Fairfax County 1983 Comprehensive Plan .......29 V. Zoning status................g8 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure Page 1. Quarry operation with drilling rig preparing holes for.................11 22. House located in inactive quarry ...............12 23. Reelaimed gravel pit being...historical Shirley Plantation .13 24. Reclaimed quarry being used for underwater demolition testing in...Berm with trees for visual and sound shielding of quarry ...........t4 26. BaS house to eontrol dust from |  | | Journal (issue) | | RESOURCES IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet INTRODUCTION e County, when the company ceased operations at the end...tailings, soapstone rock, and calcium 6. MAGNETITE carbonate paste. Some of these by-prod7. SOAPSTONE ROCK...Company site, Austinville, Wythe County (circa 1992). Scott County. Calcium hydroxide, obtained from...limestone mine, Cyprus Foote Mineral, Sunbright, Scott County. COLD SPRING CLAY DEPOSIT The Cold Spring clay...clay deposit, located near Big Levels in Augusta County, was last operated in 195l(vpchurch, 1998). White |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINERAL GARDEN 1. Black and Gray Limestone Augusta County Donated By: Rockydale Quarries Corporation, Staunton...r Gneiss Chesterfield County Donated By: Vulcan Materials Company, Dale Quarry Isoclinally folded, biotite...Granofels Albemarle County Donated By: Martin Marietta Aggregates, Red Hill Quarry Medium- to coarse-grained...Proterozoic (900 – 1600 Ma). 4. Ribbon Limestone Wythe County Donated By: Austinville Limestone Company, Inc...Hydrothermally-altered Diorite (Furtharwite) Culpeper County Donated By: Cedar Mountain Stone Corporation, Mitchells |
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