 | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | and Washington occur the many types of agate, opal and petrified this region is noted. The agate...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900...Siding in St. Clair County, 20 miles northeast of Bir- mingham. One found in Lee County in 1901 weighs 4^...have a cornfield at Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Va. A 3 carat stone, bought by a Knoxville |  | | 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 |  | | Report (edition) | | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 S P EC I ES O F A RKA N SA A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard \ 1987... / ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist s·' , STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...23 SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION...State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Arkansas.................................................mineralogic reports, especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South...examination of the geology of western central Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1888, vol. 1...J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892, vol. 5...relative to the economic-geologic products of Arkansas, prepared for the Southern Commercial Congress |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Fossil Showcase 44 Oklahoma and Oregon Shows 27 Arkansas Shows 28 California Shows 45 Pennsylvania, South...Press at P.O. Box 740864, Arvada, Colorado 80006 USA; International 1 -(720) 946-2808; Toll-free 1 -(877)...have it mailed to you. ADVERTISER INDEX 17 A&S Opal. LLC...................................... Back..................................... 27 Central Arkansas Gem & Mineral Society... 32 Colorado Independent...We all work from our own locales — in Colorado, Arkansas, Arizona, California, and in past years, even |  | | Report (edition) | | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 MINERAL SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised...Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised 2007 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL...Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission |  | | Report (volume) | | and sapphire are considered precious gems. Some opal is precious, but most varieties are semiprecious...streams, and eventually deposited as alluvial gravels. Opal and agate are formed from aqueous solutions. Diamonds...phenocrysts in a dense ground mass. The kimberlite in Arkansas occurs in four small areas the largest of which...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian |  | | Report (volume) | | Alabama.........Dr. Eugene A. Smith, University. Arkansas..........Dr. A. H. Purdue, Nashville, Tenn. California...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Collector's Newsletter $3.00 2008 Arkansas Aluminum Phosphates: Wavellite with Variscite... Introduction Wavellite has been collected in Arkansas since the middle of the 1800s. A drawing of a...wavellite specimen is included in Harvey ( 1886), Arkansas' first state mineralogy. Although way behind quartz...collectable mineral as specimens in Arkansas. Dug Hill in Garland County was the source of most early wavellite...Hot Spring County or from Montgomery County. Dug Hill was in fact part of Hot Spring County until December |  | | Book | | Minerals of Arkansas ISSUED BUREAU OF BY MINES, MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE STATE OF ARKANSAS W. N...N. WILKES, Commissioner 1925 MINERALS of ARKANSAS Published STATE BUREAU and by of MINES, MANUFACTURES...AGRICULTURE W. N. WILKES, Commissioner PUBLISHED in ARKANSAS 1925 INTRODUCTION of “Minerals an The book...the mineral exhaustive study of the State. as Arkansas” understand as their and the part the finished...paid or ores uses criticism of “Minerals of Arkansas” because of the fact that given State. our |  | | Book | | M>f*es MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE v MAP OF ARKANSAS Rur Reproduced on a reduced scale from map by...1 /. I y & ..vu. t u.vy UNIVERSITY OF I Arkansas," Washington, D. C., 1 907. , / \/ QUATERNARY...Mississippian ECONOMICS & SOCIOLO, Rocks MINERA IN ARKANSAS INCLUDING A REVIEW OF OIL AND GAS CONDITIONS...MINES, MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE STATE OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 1922 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page...Features Principal Arkansas Minerals and Their Location by Counties Counties of Arkansas and Their Mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | includes more than one illustration. For example, opal has 9 illustrations, vanadinite has 7, apatite 8...in the S&S volume, the num bers are as follows: opal 3, vanadinite 1, apatite 2, gypsum 3, barite 3,...Sketches of Copper and Lead Mining in Mont gomery County, Pennsylvania by F . Harold Evans with Fore word...Lead Mining in Chapter, Inc. $4.50 Postpaid Montgomery County. Pennsylvania from Bryon Brookmyer, P.O. Box...the old mines and prospect localities in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Most of the specimen material |  | | Report (issue) | | DEPOSITS OF THE CADDO GAP AND DE QUEEN QUADRANGLES, ARKANSAS. By HUGH D. MISER. INTRODUCTION. The high prices...little-exploited manganese deposits of westcentral Arkansas. These deposits are found at intervals in a belt...quadrangles, Arkansas and Oklahoma. 12 miles wide, extending west-southwestward from Pulaski County, at the...the center of the State, to Polk County, on the west border. Eecent exploitation, begun in 1915 and still...Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, in western Arkansas. The location of the mountainous districts of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens?) The Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, makes it hard to select an item... We are proud of your bulletins . The Tompkins County Gem and Mineral Club, Ithaca, enjoyed a "geology...the Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society 'of Montgomery County, Rockville. LOUISIANA The New Orleans Society...members were guests of the members of the Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club, Marietta, on a field trip...Joplin, Missouri. Earlier they traveled to Rush, Arkansas, which was opened to mining in 1840. Materials |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals and Fossils spon sored by the Williamson County Gem and Mineral Society. San Gabriel Community...19th Annual Show of the Gila County Gem and Mineral Society. Gila County Fair Grounds. Highway 60. Show...Curing for DECEMBER 1975 Production BLACK "FIRE OPAL" New supply-200 lbs. of choice lumps up to VA lbs...per 'A lb.,-this can be cabbed It has all of the opal colors, blue-green, reds, etc. RALPH'S ROCKS 613...Show. Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Maryland, Inc. Charles Woodward High School |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | structure of the wood even to the microscopic level. ARKANSAS—Three rare minerals were collected by Dr. Gerald...Deposit in Hot Springs County. The deposit lies between the Stanley Shale and the Arkansas Novaculite formations...associated with quartz, calcite and barite. In Garland County, Dr. Brophy found miserite (natroxonothlite) at...locality. NORTH CAROLINA-From an old mine in Montgomery County Mrs. Mary G. Poole sent in a small crystal...matrix, massive barite and the hyalite variety of opal. All three specimens are fluorescent. T E N N E |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Another article features the mineralogy and history of opal as a stone that has been feared, despised, and revered...luscious golden calcite crystal from Bartholomew County, Indiana, gracing the cover of the May/June 1986...mineralogical sources and modes of occurrence in each county. Not to disappoint paleophiles, the editors have...discussion of the classic crinoid locality in Montgomery County, the site for numerous world-famous, including...natural Brazilian quartz. In another article, Alice Montgomery describes the thrill of walking into a field |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ariz. ARKANSAS—In the last issue of R & M, mention was made about the Club House Cave in Arkansas which...204 Central Avenue, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, informs us that the cave is located about y2...Cushman, Independence Co., Ark. A short article on Arkansas caves has been sent R & M by Mr. Marshall and...specimens at the famous Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. I have just received a report from the U... However, I do not have all the literature on Arkansas minerals but do have most of it. The regular Albite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | r y s t a l xled—crystallized fl—fluoresces ARKANSAS—Mrs. Clara Roder (Roder Carol Museum), Rt. 7,...agate comes from the top of a mountain in Fulton County, about 5 miles southwest of Elizabeth, Ark. W e..."—on label. Elizabeth is in S/W Fulton County in northern Arkansas. CALIFORNIA—Art Tatum. Rock of the Month...is the best material I have found for backing of opal and other stones as well. Some call it basanite...call it black jasper. Some rockhounds from Kern County here have complete displays with the coal-black |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | October 11,12, 1975-Eighth Annual Opal Show sponsored by the American Opal Society, Norwalk Civic Center...19th Annual Show of the Gila County Gem and Mineral Society. Gila County Fair Grounds. Highway 60. Show...Show. Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Maryland, Inc. Charles Woodward High School...California 92103 June 3, 4, 5, 1976-Fort Smith, Arkansas. 2nd Annual Show, Central Mall. Highway 22 and...of Mineralogical and Geological Societies. West County Exposition Center, 9785 St. Charles Rock Road. |  | | Book (edition) | | mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector's Notebook: Midstate Quarry, - Magnet Cove, Arkansas Collecting Trip - Fall 1998, Part 2 I Art Smith...rose with jarosite, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, photo by Art Smith. fortunately. most cavities...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny@mineralnews.com...Company, has reported some new finds in Esmeralda County, Nevada. He, along with Larry Thompson have discovered...to produce specimens. Another locality in Lyon County, Nevada is producing some smoky quartz crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | Freeland 219 A General History of Zinc Mining in Arkansas Dana Martin Batory COVER STORY: ST AMPS with...AUSTRALlA 1973-1975 6 c chrysoprase 7 c agate 8 C opal 9 c rhodonite 10 c star sapphire (1974) 11 c atomic...spectrophotometry (1975) 1974 9 c red surchage on 8 c opal AUSTRIA April 30, 1976 3 s Ammonite SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER...HiJI community is located in northeastern Kershaw County, South Carolina. [n the past few years dark, gemmy...encompasses south central Lancaster County as well as northeastern Kershaw County {Fig. I). These areas are sparingly |  | | Journal (issue) | | Freeland 219 A General History of Zinc Mining in Arkansas Dana Martin Batory COVER STORY: ST AMPS with...AUSTRALlA 1973-1975 6 c chrysoprase 7 c agate 8 C opal 9 c rhodonite 10 c star sapphire (1974) 11 c atomic...spectrophotometry (1975) 1974 9 c red surchage on 8 c opal AUSTRIA April 30, 1976 3 s Ammonite SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER...HiJI community is located in northeastern Kershaw County, South Carolina. [n the past few years dark, gemmy...encompasses south central Lancaster County as well as northeastern Kershaw County {Fig. I). These areas are sparingly |
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