 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | I I 34° MARIOH 34° I LAMAR , v:I G'l Alabama Q, \'l'I Q, 33° 0 1- I I I (/) ";lO ...Geological Survey of Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...1819, Elias Cornelius described the occurrence of quartz ("flint, jasper, semi-opal") in the Tennessee River...River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the state |  | | Report (issue) | | east-central Virginia for 600 miles southwestward into Alabama; and an eastern belt has been traced from the vicinity...of the monazite-bearing granitic intrusives are quartz monzonite or closely related rocks. The mean tenor... North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Collateral investigations relating to the occurrence...crystalline rocks of South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama are overlapped progressively by the sediments of...incomplete. Geologic maps of Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama, on a scale of 1:500,000, were published respectively |  | DRUMMOND, M. S., WESOLOWSKI, D., ALLISON, D. T. (1988) Generation, Diversification, and Emplacement of the Rockford Granite, Alabama Appalachians: Mineralogic, Petrologic, Isotopic (C & O), and P--T Constraints. Journal of Petrology, 29 (4) 869-897 doi:10.1093/petrology/29.4.869 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Diversification, and Emplacement of the Rockford Granite, Alabama Appalachians: Mineralogic, Petrologic, Isotopic...Constraints 1 2 Department of Geology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 2 Chemistry...metasediments in the eastern Blue Ridge of the Alabama Appalachians. Geochemical classification indicates...upper-amphibolite facies Hatchet Creek Groups of the Northern Alabama Piedmont (Fig. 1) (Deininger, 1975; Drummond, 1986;...produced paragneisses and schists with the assemblage quartz, muscovite, biotite, and feldspar with accessory |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Geology Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Cassiterite Downloaded by [University...3.5 cm attractively placed on a matrix of small quartz crystals. 248 ROCKS & MINERALS The specimen was...the Martin prospect and Bennett quarry in Oxford County. Good crystals up to 25 mm have been found with... Middlesex County, Connecticut. Cassiterite as small crystalline grains in narrow quartz veins at Jackson...Conway Granite north of Moat Mountain, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Good cassiterite specimens, a few |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Geology Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Vivianite Downloaded by [Emory University]...and 2.0, and its density of 2.68 is near that of quartz. Depending on the degree of oxidation of contained...cobalt deposits in the Blackbird district, Lemhi County, Idaho, where esthetically arranged vivianite crystals...at Leadville, Lake County, Colorado; and even Bingham Canyon in Salt Lake County, Utah, where crystals...at Auburn Univenity, Auburn, Alabama. . the Foote mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, where it occurs |  | | Book | | SUKVEY OF ALABAMA EUGENE ALLEN SMITH, STATE GEOLOGIST. i INDEX TO The Mineral Resources OF ALABAMA. BY...herewith an Index to the Mineral Resources of Alabama. As the name implies, this document* is intended...EUGENE A. SMITH, State Geologist. University of Alabama, April 30, 1904. 140858 GEOLOGICAL CORPS. ...Reports of the Alabama Geological Survey 5 Table of the Geological Formations of Alabama CHAPTER 8...Plateau Region The Warrior Basin The Cahaba Field The Coosa Field The Stone Limestones and Dolomite Marbles |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Fluorite is a very widely...in statespecific compilations such as those for Alabama (Cook and Smith 1982), Georgia (Cook 1982), Tennessee...Bassett Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the older underground...from the Bassett Stone quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...Catnip Hill facility near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geochemistry of the McAllister Tantalum Deposit, Coosa County, Alabama,” a deposit he worked on with Gene. Initially...collection of pegmatite minerals from the San Diego County, California, pegmatite districts will be offered...pockets in the granitic pegmatites of San Diego County, California, such as those so ably described by...mining since 1954 in numerous pegmatites in the county convince me that the thin, sheetlike pegmatite... so typical of many pegmatite districts in the county, were reopened by tectonic movements of the enclosing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GRAPHITE DEPOSITS OF ASHLAND, ALABAMA? JOHN S. BROWN. CONTENTS. Introduction .....................Surv.of Alabama, •923, PP. t3, 98. 208 GRAPHITE DEPOSITS OF ASHLAND, ALABAMA. 209 County,the other... Productiongraduallyincreaseduntil about 1913 Alabama became,and has still remained, the leadinggraphite-producing...t919 . More than 40 mines were established in Clay County,most of them now dismantled and in ruins. The openingsthat...undertakea study of some of the graphite depositsin Alabama, where two months were spent in 1922. In I923 short |  | | Book (edition) | | gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | three day field trip to Herkimer, N.Y. to collect quartz crystals, and a two day trip to Flint Ridge to...members of the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, dig for pyrite and calcite. Several...Club, went to the Allensville area to hunt for quartz crystals and "Herkimers." NEW JERSEY The 100th...100th Club meeting was attained by the Bergen County Mineralogy and Paleontology Society, Paramus. Fossils...opening Dealers write for dozen p r i c e s ALABAMA The East Alabama Gem and Mineral Society, Opelika, learned |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | means of alkali metasomatism: Rockford Granite, Alabama Appalachians Mark S. Drummond, 1. Paul C. Ragland...metamorphic fluid. The Rockford Granite of the Northern Alabama Piedmont serves as the case example for this process...to an Al-epidote-paragonitic muscovite-secondary quartz assemblage is also associated with the sodium metasomatism...Department of Geology, University of Alabama in Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 Offprint requests to: *...Rockford Granite in the southern Appalachians of Alabama will serve as an example for this process and can |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department, 110 S. Madison St., Adrian, Michigan 49221, USA ABSTRACT Pegmatites containing rare elements can...Wisconsin, USA McAllister pegmatite, Alabama, USA S. Maine pegmatites, USA Brown Derby, Colorado, USA San Diego...Diego Co., California, USA Black Hills, South Dakota, USA Red Cross Lake, Manitoba Canada Mavis Lake...Hoskin Lake Granite Rockford Granite Sebago Pluton Quartz Creek Granite Peninsular Ranges Batholith Harney...Colorado, USA South Platte, Colorado, USA Lake George, Colorado, USA Mt. Rosa/Stove Mtn., Colorado, USA Trout |  | | Report (issue) | | Geologic map of Crystal Graphite mine, Beaverhead County, Mont. 10. Map of mine and treatment plant of Southwestern...Benjamin Franklin and Just graphite mines, Chester County, Pa. Page FIGURE 12. Map of localities of principal...Map of localities of graphite deposits of Clay, Coosa, and Chilton Counties, Ala___..___._..__..._.....of graphite mines and prospects in part of Clay County, Ala-_--_-----_----------------_--------24. Map...of localities of graphite deposits of parts of Coosa and Chilton Counties, Ala.______________________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | hidden at depth. A study of mine locations in an 8-county area in southeastern Arizona has shown a record...5139 Diamond-drill Copper King mine, Laramie County, hole. Wyo. 2 1.774 2.534 68 4344 do. ... Cape Rosier zinc-copper-lead mines, Hancock County, Maine. 3 1.624 1.991 58 4504 do. Keystone-St...Keystone-St. George copper-zinc- deposits, Cochise County, Ariz. 4 .184 .323 84 3975 Channels Reward...Reward zinc deposit, Bat tunnel, Final County, Ariz. 5 .325 .603 203 3975 Diamond-drill Reward zinc |  | Defant, Marc J., Drummond, Mark S., Arthur, Jonathan D., Ragland, Paul C. (1988) An example of trondhjemite petrogenesis: the Blakes Ferry pluton, Alabama, U.S.A. Lithos, 21 (3) 161-181 doi:10.1016/0024-4937(88)90007-2 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | trondhjemite petrogenesis: the Blakes Ferry pluton, Alabama, U.S.A. MARC J. DEFANT I, MARK S. D R U M M O N...(U.S.A.) 2Department of Geology. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 (U.S.A.) 3Department...trondhjemite petrogenesis: the Blakes Ferry' pluton, Alabama, U.S.A. Lithos. 21 : 161-181. The Blakes Ferry...pluton that is exposed in southwestern Randolph County, Alabama, U.S.A. The petrogenesis of the Blakes Ferry...metasediments surrounding the pluton. The Elkahatchee Quartz Diorite, a large older tonalitic intrusive near |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralogy and paragenesis of pegmatites from San Diego County, California. He will also be remembered for his...friend George Ashley at Hiriart Mountain, San Diego County, California, 1986. 3. Gene in Jackson, Wyoming...bucket at the San Diego Tourmaline Mine, San Diego County, California in 1974. 5. Boris Schmakin, Skip Simmons...Gene to the gem-bearing pegmatites of San Diego County, California, which resulted in Gene’s dissertation...pegmatite-aplite dikes in the Mesa Grande district, San Diego County, California.” In the course of his dissertation |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items On New Finds Are Desired. Alabama—J. R. Lee of Bridgeport, Ala., reports that he...pale smoky crystals, from the Center, Cherokee County, Ala., locality and that they are very good. This...issue of R & M (p. 358). "Two other localities in Alabama might be of interest to readers," he writes. "They...Madison County. "Beryl: as light golden crystals, fractured but gemmy, from near Hissop, Coosa County." Arizona—A...Las Vegas, Nev., publicity director of the Clark County Gem Collectors, carried the following paragraph |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | trip to Mifflin County. Member Bob Cox of the Rock and Min eral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills... Vass, viewed the Eastern goal of the Tompkins County Gem and Federation program, from Junk to Mineral...recent field trip Jewelry. - - - - The Lincoln County Gem to Portland Point Quarry. - - - - The and Mineral...ium, Greece. Member Sonja Bieler held The Bergen County Mineralogy and a pre-meeting session on Cleavage...Lapidary and Mineral Society of Prince Georges County panned for gold!—The flakes were small and far |  | | Report (volume) | | each of the States, the State lists begin with Alabama and end with Wyoming. Under each State the minerals...Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...statements regarding their respective States: Alabama.........Dr. Eugene A. Smith, University. Arkansas...compilation. ALABAMA. Aluminum. See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Book | | : =: n 1871, shortly after the University Alabama reopened by Federal returned of after its...Alabamians. he accomplished transformed became Alabama the from What catalyst that an aimless and...“Little Doc,” as told in Eugene Allen Smith’s Alabama, sources: Smith’s is drawn from many transcribed...histories of the state and of the University of Alabama, and contemporary newspapers. How he accomplished...lush EUGENE ALLEN SMITH’S ALABAMA EUGENE ALLEN SMITH’S ALABAMA How a Geologist Shaped a State |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by [] at 04:12 15 May 2015...project into the white quartz core. The portion of beryl enclosed by the quartz core is often sharply...suFounded by graphic granite.) Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | consisting of purple fluorspar. silvery white mica, and quartz. In the gangue the cassiterite is associated with...Virginia "extends along the east edge of Rockbridge County, in the line of the Blue Ridge Mountains, from...James River Gap to about the north line of thE county." Throughout this area cassiterite has been found...traversed by numerous fissure veins of q uartz, or quartz, iron pyrites and mica, nearly all of w h ich show...the eastern suburb of King's Mountain, C leveland County. North Carolina. A good deal of prospecting has |  | | Journal (issue) | | Phosphates of the Williams Pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama........................64 by Peter B. Leavens...of the Minerals of Searles Lake, San Bernadino County, California......................................attached to quartz with albite and lepidolite. T ourm aline Q ueen mine, Pala, San Diego County, California...and associated minerals and rocks of Lan caster County; geology and mineralogy of the Corn wall, Pa....notable contributions to the war effort in the quartz-crystal oscillator-plate in dustry. He was on |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | xl—crystal xled—crystallized xline—Crystalline ALABAMA — A letter dated May 9. 1952, from William M. Johnson...interest. Such is the case in the Alabama Bulletin # 5 4 , Geology of the Alabama Tin Belt. "I had not known...that tin was mined in Alabama. About 40 miles northeast of Montgomery in Coosa County there is an outcrop...magnetite, microcline, muscovite, olivine, pyrite, quartz, sillimanite, topaz, tourmaline, zircon, zoisite...massive serpentine encrusted by colorless drusy quartz; the locality is the Aurora Quicksilver Mine in |
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