| | Journal (issue) | collection. Photo: 5.1.Pekov. The Baringer Hill Pegmatite Llano County, Texas Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com...com Introduction This article on the Baringer Hill pegmatite does not contain new or addition historical...put together for two reasons. Recently some Baringer Hill specimens from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural...purchased along with other Texas minerals. Also a collecting field trip to the Llano area was carried out during...possibly similar rare-earth pegmatite collecting in Llano and Burnet counties. It was hoped that such a compilation | | | Journal (issue) | ..................... 5 The Baringer Hill Pegmatite, Llano County, Texas ..............................online and find a list of U.S. Representatives from Texas. There will be addresses, phone, and FAX numbers...in their district. Fortunately we have several Texas Representatives who will accept an e-mail from you...increase. Rep. Ted Poe (R) also allows emails from Texas constituents, not just his District. I believe Gene...Gene Green (D) does also. The following additional Texas Representatives appeared to accept my e-mails to | | Piilonen, P. C., Rowe, R., Poirier, G., Grice, J. D., McDonald, A. M. (2014) Discreditation of thorogummite. The Canadian Mineralogist, 52 (4) 769-774 doi:10.3749/canmin.1400058 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | intergrowths with other minerals including kasolite, uraninite, feldspars, quartz, sulfides, and unnamed carbonate...(1889) for material from the pegmatite at Baringer Hill, Texas. If a true type species existed, it would...(1953) utilized Harvard Museum specimens from Baringer Hill in his study, all of which matched the descriptions...Frondel also collected material to augment the Baringer Hill samples, but this additional material no longer...Frondel from Iimori); and (4) Baringer Hill pegmatite, Bluffton, Llano, Texas (four, one of which is known | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | NEBRASKA NORTH DAKOTA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH DAKOTA AND TEXAS BY MARGARET COOPER CONTENTS Page Page 1. Foreword...Part 2, and Part 3 258 Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Section 2. Additional References 259 United...South Dakota, and Texas 262 souri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas 299 FOREWORD...Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. It is Part 4 of a comprehensive bibliography planned...Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas; Index II, Geographical Index for Arkansas, Iowa | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | GentralMineralRegion,Texas RopNey C. EwrNc.l AND ARTHUn J. ErrrrvraNN Department ol Geology, Texas Christian Unirsersity...Unirsersity, Fort Worth, Texas 76129 Abstract Yttrialite occurs in the Rode Ranch pegmatiteas irregular...crystallization of low temperature gamma-phaseyttrialite. Uraninite occurs as small, dull black, opaque inclusions...crystals of fergusonite. In weathered specimens,the uraninite inclusions are replaced by bright yellow thorogummite...but now-inundated, Baringer Specific gravity determinations (Berman balance) Hill Pegmatite. Additional | | | Journal (issue) | Pegmatites Lake Buchanan, Llano County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Str. Houston, Texas 77036 Ray Stegemoller...Box 201, Canine Road Marble Falls, Texas 78654 .7 l Llano County has long been known for its rare-earth...nl996 .. Texas resulted in extremely low water levels in Lake Buchanan...Mexico • Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston, Texas 77036 In the fall of 1996 when I purchased part...former Chief Geologist for Texas Gulf at their Frasch sulfur mine at New Gulf, Texas, I noticed a small vial | | | Report (volume) | BULLETIN 450 MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE LLANO-BURNET REGION, TEXAS WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRE-CAMBRIAN GEOLOGY........................ 14 Schists and gneisses (Llano series).................................. . 14 Divisions... ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. PLATE I. Geologic map of Texas............................................ 7 II...economic map showing locations of Burnet and Llano quadrangles, Texas.........................................Economic and geologic map of I/lano quadrangle, Texas........ In pocket IV. A, Assimilation of schist | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | association with uraninite in vein depositsin the copper King mine, Larimer county, colorado. It is also...sediments in Texas and Oklaholna. In many Colorado Plateau mines cofiinite and uraninite are the main...association with low-valence vanadium minerals, uraninite, clay, quartz, and organic material. In transmitted...with zircon; material from the Arrowhead mine in Mesa County, Colorado, has ao:6'94 A, co:6.31A, oo:ro:1:0...fine-grained nature and its association with uraninite and low-valence vanadium minerals, coffinite could | | | Report (issue) | 100.00 81.46 (1) Tuolumne River, California, USA; recalculated to 100.00% from original total of 97...Association: Zircon, monazite, gadolinite, fergusonite, uraninite, yttrialite, pyrochlore. Distribution: In Norway...elsewhere. In the USA, from the Baringer Hill pegmatite, 26 km west of Burnet, Llano Co., Texas; at St. Peters...Canada, as large but crude crystals from the McDonald mine, Hybla, and at Wilberforce, Ontario. Additional | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | North America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI), Ytterby (Sweden)...A. L Genesis of mica pegmatite deposits, Latah County, Idaho: , Econ. Geology,vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 41-58...pegmatites containing beryl, dumortierite, and uraninite occur in this area. Suuuanv eNo CoNcr-usrows The...30Lovering, T. S., Magmatic chalcopyrite, Park County, Montana: Econ. Geology,vol 19, pp 636-640, 1924...Geology and mineral resources of eastern Cassia County, Idaho: Brill. Id.aho Bta. Mines ond.Geology,vol | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | War II induced operators to work the long dormant mine in 1943 and 1944. Unwatering and underground mining...pegmatite as a whole has previously been made. The mine lies 550 feet N. 48o E. of the railroad station...all of North Branford, Connecticut, operated the mine for mica, and the Sandy Ridge Mica and Mining Company...15th Street N. W., Washington, D. C., worked the mine in November and December 1944' The main working...in mapping, and the operators of the Branchville mine also cooperated generously and wholeheartedly. Srnucrune | | | Journal (issue) | length of arsenolamprite in matrix from Alacaran Mine (Pampa Larga, Copiapo, Chile). All the specimens...Precious Stones report stated that the Himalaya Mine was brought into notice in 1898 by Mr. Charles Russell... A. E. Heighway who had operated the tourmaline mine? And how did this lead to the work by the Himalaya...well-earned since he was 6 foot, 3 inches in height (USA passport app Iication 1921 ). As a canoer and sail...as living in Vandervilt Township, San Bernardino County, CA. His Mineral Industry report of 1900 on California | | | Report (volume) | for the following observation. At the W. Wilson mine, "a few secondary minerals, mainly metatorbernite...dikes, in schists, in the Ohio City area, Gunnison County, Colo. The microlite, associated with lepidolite...5th ser., v. 28, p. 127-138. Three samples of uraninite taken from pegmatite within a few feet of the...uranium content of 78.78 percent. Five samples of uraninite from pegmatite from the Hale quarry, also in Portland...32 percent. Four layers of a single crystal of uraninite were analyzed chemically. The uranium content | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | United States. Fluids released from the mining of uraninite at Elliot Lake, Ontario, were intermittently a...considered to be attractive targets by Mountain Pass mine in California. Mountain Pass was for companies and...~1 wt% 1 48 Page Brook Road, Carlisle, MA 01741, USA E-mail: reomariano@aol.com to as high as 27 wt%....Kangankunde, 2 1134 North Road, Carlisle, MA 01741, USA Malawi; Wicheeda Lake, British Columbia, Canada)...(Australia), Araxá and Catalão I (Brazil), Mrima Hill (Kenya), Mabouni (Gabon), and several other carbonatite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Examples of alaskite pegmatites occur at Baringer Hill, Texas; New Ross, Nova Scotia;114and Silver Peak...near Milford, New Hampshire,lle and in Riverside County, California.r20Qtartz diorite pegmatites occur...Madagascar; Wodgina, Western Australia; Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia; IJto, Swedenl east Transbaikalia;123...of southern Norway; Ytterby, Sweden; and Llano County, Texas, and in an alkalic granite pegmatite at Cape...magnetite is abundant in some pegmatites (as at Llano County, Texas) and in the New Jersey Highlands it occurs | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | S. Dak., and the Hyatt Beryl pegmatite,Larimer County, Colo.; and to JamesJ. Page,who furnishedmostof...isomorphousmineralsuraninite and thorianite. Uraninite, however, is the only one that is commonin pegmatites...occurin somepegmatites,closelyassociated' with uraninite. SecondaryMinerals.--Most primary uraniummineralsare...pegmatites. Gummite is commonlypseudomorphous after uraninite. It forms an orangeto reddishlayer aroundthe unalteredmineraland...1. Cross section,Hyatt Beryl pegrnatite,Larimer County, Colo. Fracture-filling units are tabular or veinlike | | | Journal (issue) | 179 by Paul Tambuyser Yttrocrasite from Central Texas..............................182 by Wilson W. Crook...No. 3 Carl Francis Long Hill Tungsten Mine Trumbull, Connecticut The Long Hill tungsten deposit at Trumbull...Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, which is noted for its large pseudomorphs of wolframite after...produced good crystals, is located in Trumbull’s Old Mine Park. Mining was never very prof itable and the...drinking water, a comfort station, and parking lot Old Mine Park is today an attractive and popular recrea | | | Report (volume) | North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks..........Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C. Texas............Dr. William B. Phillips, Austin. Vermont...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 | | | Report (issue) | which have been formed to exploit them. WASHINGTON COUNTY. AMERICAN MOLYBDENUM COMPANY'S PROPERTY. Location...deposit is situated on the south slope of a gentle hill 500 or 600 feet high, overlooking the stretch of...Molybdenum Company. HANCOCK COUNTY. The known deposits of molybdenum in Hancock County lie along the north and...high, known as Catherines Hill, has been prospected to some extent. The hill shows several benches with...to the top of the hill. Molybdenite is said to be found also at the foot of the hill. It occurs in flakes | | | Report (issue) | ¥ TEXAS ROCKS AND \ r - An Amateur’s Guide ;s ROSELLE M. GIRARD A b OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY V N IVERSITY...The University of Texas Austin, Texas Peter T. Flawn, Director Guidebook 6 TEXAS ROCKS AND MINERALS...Rock identification charts Descriptions of some Texas rocks and minerals Anhydrite .....................Composition, hardness, and specific gravity of some Texas minerals Pace 25 26 39 40 43 43 43 44 45 46 47...81 84 85 85 87 87 88 89 90 93 94 94 95 97 99 Texas Rocks and Minerals Books about rocks and minerals | | | Report (volume) | 248 259 269 271 275 281 r 4 CONTENTS. Page. Texas...................................................New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature consulted would be impracticable...Phillips, W. B., The mineral resources of Texas: Univ. Texas Bull. 365, Sci. Ser. 29, 1914. Among other...Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota_.Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Mr...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | I .0i I .8r Total 63.9 . Samplesfrom MacDonald Mine, Bancroft, Ontario, collected by Dr. D. F. Saunders...GolI Mine, Madawaska, Ontario. r Heat was absorbed instead of evolved. e From Baringer Hill, Texas, collected...samples,B, C and D, were obtained from the J. J. Goll Mine at Madawaska, Ontario. SamplesE and F were given...had made in a pegmatite cerium mine in 1902 at the Baringer Hill of Texas. 96 SHELDON F. KURATE The...GeologicalSurvey. The euxenite sample came from the MacDonald Mine at Bancroft, Ontario. The eschynite-priorite sample | | | Report (volume) | 1. Autoradiograph of dendritic aggregate of uraninite crystals ____________________ . ________ . ____...____ . ______________ . ____ Facing 1. Uraninite. A. Cube, a{100}. B. Cuba-octahedron, a{100} and o{111}...(U0 3 ) from pitchblende from the Georg Wagsfort mine at J ohanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge of Saxony...these purposes were originally obtained from uraninite ·deposits in Saxony, Bohemia, and Cornwall. They...the Katanga district in the Belgian Congo. The uraninite ores of Great Bear Lake, Canada, discovered in | | | Journal (issue) | ................78 by Pete J. Dunn The snowbird Mine, Montana’s Parisite Loca lity.....................Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas............................................... 112 by Anthony Robert Kampf The Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico......................... 115 by...between Minot and Auburn, Maine, in Androscoggin County. The Pulsifer quarry, along with the Keith and...STEVENS, J.P. (1972) Gems and minerals o f Oxford County. Published by Perham’s Maine Mineral Store, 136-153 | | | Journal (issue) | call for appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: AZURITE - Mibladen..., San M ateo, CA 94403 H. Earl Pem berton, 1638 Hill St., Santa M onica, CA 90405 Abel Selburn, 24700...63105 314-726-2236 CUPRITE with Malachite — Onganja mine, South West Africa See “W hat’s New in Minerals”...ships had been transporting cryolite ore from the mine at Ivigtut in southwesterly Greenland to Philadelphia...fall, an ore-bearing ship in its voyage from the mine to Phila delphia. The story of the Greenland trip |
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