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| few carbonatites. Associated minerals include phlogopite, magnetite, spinel, grossular, forsterite, monticellite...yellow grains in white “crystalline limestone” (marble) west of North River, Essex County; similar yellow...occurring in a prospect shaft on a farm about 0.5 mile south of the Parker shaft at Franklin. There is a historical...in calc-silicate rocks of the Tarryall Springs district, Park County, and is reported from the Creswell...Hyndman, Custer County, Idaho, and the Victorio district, Luna County, New Mexico. In Arizona, chondrodite |
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| 333–354 Published online February 2014 White marble sculptures from the National Museum of Roman Art...reports the results of the archaeometric study of 51 marble sculptures and decorative elements from the capital...O isotope analysis was applied to identify the marble provenance. The comparison of the results with...available databases confirms the use of different white marble varieties from the Estremoz Anticline (Portugal)...with the recently reported discovery of ancient quarries in Asia Minor (Attanasio et al., 2009). The high |
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| Ottawa-Peterborough, Ontario Ann P. Sabina 1987 COVER Phlogopite mica showing asterism. Top: Portland Township...Section 2: Ottawa - Peterborough McFarland quarry South March quarry Cameron quarry Ramsay Mine Beckwith...Caldwell Mine Angelstone (Tatlock) quarry Omega Marble Tile and Terrazzo quarry Bathurst Quarry Foster...Star gold Mine Kaladar marble quarry Roblindale quarry Actinolite Mine Tweed marble quarry Tweed limestone...(Diamond) Mine Hazzards Corner marble quarries Pinewood Park Lake Road quarries Henderson and Conley talc |
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| . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South March quarry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....(Tatlock) quarry................................ Omega Marble Tile and Terrazzo quarr y.. . . . . . . . . . ........••...•...••........••......•..•.• Kaladar marble quarry ••.•••....•.........•..............• Roblindale........•..••....•..••.............••...... Tweed marble quarry . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • . . . . .... . . . . . . .........•.. Hazzards Corner marble quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
 | Origlia, Francesca, Gliozzo, Elisabetta, Meccheri, Marco, Spangenberg, Jorge E., Memmi, Isabella Turbanti, Papi, Emanuele (2011) Mineralogical, petrographic and geochemical characterisation of white and coloured Iberian marbles in the context of the provenancing of some artefacts from Thamusida (Kenitra, Morocco) European Journal of Mineralogy, 23 (6) 857-869 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2011/0023-2145 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
| white and coloured Iberian marbles. A total of 135 marble specimens were collected in Spain and Portugal...parameters that allow discriminating the sampled marble quarries. The carbonate minerals composition is distinctive...discriminating also between these two dolomitic marble quarries. The Ossa Morena and Estremoz Anticline marbles...provenance studies on Thamusida (Kenitra, Morocco) Roman marble artefacts, a specific comparison between this new...which suggested the Almadén de la Plata and Mijas quarries as possible sources of raw materials for the production |
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| to be discovered, particularly in the Grenville Marble deposits. Directions are given to some of the better...derived from sedimentary rocks) and the Grenville Marble. Graywacke, arkose, shale or siltstone may well...and Black Lake to Edwards, outcrops of Grenville Marble are in contact with many coarse grained rocks....calcite are relatively common in the limestone quarries near Norwood and Norfolk. The authors hope that...introducing the reader to the general geology of the region. More elaborate descriptions are avail able in |
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| Report No. 70 REPUBLIC OF KENYA MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF KENYA...mapped the Namanga-Bissel area. The Kenya Marble Quarries Co. Ltd. have for over 40 years worked the...near Turoka for agricultural lime and statuary marble, and a concise but complete account is given of...profile of the region west of the River Kajiado 9 .•—Stereogram of structural information south and east of...of the Kajiado area 10 —Plan of the Kenya Marble Quarries . . 11 —Plan of the diatomite deposit, near |
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| Wenceslas Crown, the most famous and important of the Czech crown jewels, is adorned at its center with a large....... 85 North America ..................... 89 South America ..................... 96 • References ....for Saint Wenceslas, is the most important of the Czech crown jewels and is one of the world's most important...1346 and 1387 and was used for the coronations of Czech kings. The crown weighs 2.358 kg, is 19 cm in diameter...the crown was thought to be ruby until 1998 when Czech mineralogist and gemologist Jaroslav Hyrsl investi |
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| lyellcollection.org/ by guest on January 23, 2019 Connemara Marble, Co. Galway, Ireland: a Global Heritage Stone Resource...of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland 3 Connemara Marble Industries Ltd, Moycullen, Co. Galway, Ireland...*Correspondence: wysjcknp@tcd.ie Abstract: Connemara Marble, a well-known distinctive decorative stone from...as a Global Heritage Stone Resource. Connemara Marble is a sillimanite-grade ophicarbonate, dominated... forsterite, tremolite clinochlore and phlogopite. The marble displays intricate corrugated layers that |
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| by W. L. Wilson Kingsbridge, an early quarrying district on Manhattan Island ............................(Mont Saint-Hilaire, Arizona I-V, Michigan Copper Country, Yukon Phosphates, Min eral Books, The History...cerussite and pyromorphite, all from the Bleiberg district in Austria. For this edition we first had to locate... INTRODUCTION The Southern Illinois fluorite district has been an important domestic source of commercial...galena and sphalerite are common throughout the district. The Minerva No. 1 mine near Cave-inRock has been |
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| DEPARTMENT OF MINES BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PART III MARBLE By D. F. HEWITT INDUSTRIAL MINERAL REPORT NO...parts: Part T II III IV V Introduction Limestone Marble Sandstone Granite Industrial Mineral Report No...acceptable. BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PART III: MARBLE TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Introduction ...........and Durability .......................... Ontario Marble Deposits ................................ Haliburton...township .............................. Grenville Marble Company ...........*.... 25 25 25 Porosity and |
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| IV CONTENTS. Page. Structure exposed at the quarries.......................................... West................ Prospecting for limerock in this region................................. Utilization of............... Interbedding of twinned calcite (marble) with granular dolomite.... Interbedding of twinned.................... Westward change from calcite marble to granular limestone in beds of the same formation...General history of the limestone deposits of this region..................' Limestone for agricultural uses |
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| Description, Selection, And Procurement Of Shelburne Marble Samples Used To Study Effects Of Acid Rain by...this program, the Shelburne Marble from Danby, Vermont. This particular marble was chosen because: (1) it...VERMONT MARBLES In a geologically strict sense, marble is a metamorphic rock, the precursor carbonate-rich...(CaC03) and/or dolomite (CaMg(C03)2). In commerce, marble is a term applied to any more or less crystallized...to as marble which contains little or no carbonate material; for example, verde antique "marble" from |
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| .............................. . ...... ....62 Marble .................................................known as the Ortiz mine. In the Los Cerrillos district, a few miles west of the Ortiz Mountains, exist...of New Mexico may be regarded as a vast plateau region, averaging 5,000 feet in elevation, and dissected...mountains common to central Arizona and the Basin region of Nevada and southern California. The great plains...mountain ranges parallel each other in a north-south direction and the Continental Divide zig-zags across |
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| PORTSHEPSTONE. 507 21. DE~0I:OMITIZATION ~n the MARBLE Of PORT SItEPSTONE (~ATAL). By Dr. F. H. HATCa... I. IXTRODUC~IO~. WHILE on a visit to the marble quarries of Port Shepstone, the attention of one of...rings were found to consist of a portion of the marble, containing a number of interesting minerals in...for microscopic examination. The Port Shepstone marble is well known in Natal, on account of its beautiful...uniformly fine and even grain of the celebrated marble of Carrara, a fact which militates against its |
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| minerals. Most public fluorescent displays in this country, and many abroad, are dominated by Franklin specimens...the sixty fluorescent species from the Franklin district recorded in Table 1, ten form the beautiful display...Buckwheat dumps, the Sterling mine, and several marble quarries. S E P T E M B E R / O C T O B E R 1982 197...yellow Oyelite — violet, white Pectolite — orange Phlogopite — yellow Picropharmacolite — white of esperite...fluoresce. Chemically, the Franklin-Sterling H i l l district is com plex. Not only are there a great many |
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| localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...crystals to 2.5 cm have been found with spine! in marble less than 1 mile southwest of Amity (Chamberlain...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite...Girardville, itself 40 km northwest of Lac Saint-Jean in south-central Quebec, very large and sharp ilmenite Cl) |
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| occurrence (e.g., the zinc deposits of the Balmat district). The type of occurrence is indicated at the end...others (Rowley 1963); C. Eisenglass Mountain: phlogopite, uvite; C. Hammondsville: carbonate fluorapatite...Port Henry, Treadway quarry: graphite, uvite, phlogopite, rutile; C. Tahawus, National Lead Company mine...dolomite, “anthraxolite"; S. Genesee County South Byron, South Byron meteorite, found 1915: nickelrich ataxite...State Rte. 28N: uvite-dravite, diopside, edenite, phlogopite, rutile; C. New Russia, road cut on Interstate |
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| an Dubhaich granite of Skye has afforded, in a region of detailed survey mapping, an opportunity for...locality the alkali granite forms a lens in the marble close to the main granite contact: as exposed this...less than 4 feet, but the whole contact with the marble is not seen. Specimens collected from the lens...Prospect, Kilchrist (x | ) . The granite at the marble contact bears green soda clinopyroxene and shows... Clinopyroxene granite, vein intrusion in marble, quarries at Port Shepstone, Natal (analyst J. H. Scoon) |
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| referred to as "the Pittsburgh of the East." Some quarries of historic note have been omitted because they...w h i c h came the marble for the Connecticut State Capitol; the sandstone quarries of Portland, w h i... stone Point, Waterford, and resulted i n two quarries. A t one time, the granite was used for the construction...Navy as an underwater sound laboratory, and both quarries now house the Millstone Point Nuclear Power Plants...metal mining in Connecti cut. Now, trap rock, marble/limestone, sand and gravel, gran ite, and crushed |
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| pyrite xls., and yellowish micaceous flakes of phlogopite. DELAWARE-Bob and Hazel Reynolds, Stocksdale...limestone have been found in the marble quarries of the Georgia Marble Co. at Tate, Pickens Co., Ga. IDAHO-"About...), Ky., I did some collecting in the limestone quarries on the reservation. I found white cubical calcite...), New Mexico, This was once an important iron district, and is located 50 miles northeast of El Paso...sent in a nice specimen of dark bronzy-black phlogopite which he had collected on the dumps of the talc |
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| niigataite for the type locality, in the Itoigawa-Ohmi district, Niigata Prefecture, in central Japan (Miyajima...in a sample of pumpellyite rock from the Wakasa district, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The host rock consisted...have also been recognized at the Wessels mine, South Africa. Identification of the phase at Wessels was...Tashelga River, Gornaya Shoria, in the Kemerovo district of southwest Siberia, Russia (Shepel’ and Karpenko...crystals (1 × 2.5 mm and aggregates to 5 mm) in marble, associated with goldmanite, muscovite, pyrite |
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| Ornamental stones of the Verbano Cusio Ossola quarry district: characterization of materials, quarrying techniques...(Piedmont, NW Italy) and in the Canton Ticino district (Switzerland). The knowledge and the exploitation...information was a census and classification of rocks, quarries (both active and historical – since the Roman...construction techniques typical of the sub-Alpine region, in order to create a documentation centre through...both for the preservation of local buildings and quarries. Also, by means of VCO geo-tourism routes ‘from |
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| Rocks and Minerals OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY REGION by OLIVER E. BOWEN, JR. Digitized by tine Internet...5 ROCKS AND MINERALS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY REGION BY OLIVER E. BOWEN, JR. Drawings by Helen...69 70 INTRODUCTION As the San Francisco Bay region borders the Pacific Ocean and has been inundated...to the relatively stable North Atlantic coastal region, the earth's crust beneath San Francisco Bay is...has been laid bare. One reason San Francisco Bay region residents have been favored with a look extra deep |
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| Pages 70-71: Fluorite crystals from the People's Republic of China Pages 76-77: Brookite crystals from Mount...Pages 244-245: Whewellite crystals from the Czech Republic Pages 248-249: Gold crystals on quartz from...(about 290 mil¬ lion years agoi exposed in the south of Madagascar, a result of the erosion of an ancient...the Passo del Rombo in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy, or the splendid crystals of azure-blue...which extends more or less unbro¬ ken from north to south along the entire chain of the Apennine Moun¬ tains |
