 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Montana Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015...2015 K NOWN AS THE TREASURE STATE, Montana is rich in mineral and gemstone localities. The state motto...with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces The state |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...museum specimens. Some mineral aggregates, as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included,...Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut..... .Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown |  | | 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:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Book (edition) | | Brazil their pegmatite gems. same material as granite, but so fine constituent minerals are not visible...from them weather the types of agates found in Montana. Metamorphic rocks include those of either of the...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...through matrix rock. Polished Fairburn agate from South Dakota. \\ jfc^ ^ ^ * Emerald in matrix. Emerald |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ......................................... 139 144 146 153 158 163 169 . 172 174 Montana........................................................... South Carolina......................................:.................... South Dakota.......to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely |  | | Journal (issue) | | President’s Message 2&4 Officers 3 Milpillas Azurite Story 5-9 State Mineralogy Books 10-15 Friends...Project 28-30 Our Affiliates 31 Mimetite, Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Mexico, 2.4 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm, Alex Schauss...experiencing remnants of winter while the rest of the county can feel spring in the air. This means it’s time...SECRETARY: Sue Liebetrau, 11822 SW Lodi Court, Powell Butte, OR 97753; liebetrauam@msn.com TREASURER:...Newsletter: Get it While You Can: the Milpillas Azurite Story by Bob Carnein A Lake George Club member |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Journal (issue) | | Happen Here! A Visit to the Shin-Otani Manganese Mine, Japan Alfredo Petrov alfredopetrov@earthlink.net...small of a hole in the ground merits being called.a mine. None of these mines is in operation anymore, but...show in April mentioned that a nearby manganese mine was now a museum open for underground tourism, I...to the Shin-Otani mine in the Tanba mining district. This manganese mining district includes 277 mines...drive away. After mining in the Kyoto area ended, little more than 20 years ago, mining and miners were |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE |  | | Book | | Montana Hodges Robert Feldman Shaded relief indicates terrain and slope. Second Edition Rockhounding...longitude numbers and grid ticks are GPS compatible. Montana Enhanced detail shows more symbols, labels, and...history Cover photos of Montana agate (front) and ammonite imprint (back) © Montana Hodges Cover design by...imprint of The Globe Pequot Press MONTANA Search for stunning Montana agate along the Yellowstone River...Bar Sapphire Mine. Help paleontologists excavate dinosaurs in Malta. Rockhounding Montana points the way |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | location a~ included at the end of each entry. Adair County Chariton River (40-04-05N 92-4 I -23W). septarian...septarian concretions about 2 miles north of the Macon county line. CALCITE crystals enclosing bundles of acicular...hematite, quartz (Broadhead 1873b, 1877). Audrain County Mexico, in fire clay pits and spoil piles: PYRITE...University Library] at 19:58 29 October 2014 Barton County McKarrow’s coal bank (37-37N 94-28W), 2.5 miles...pyrite, siderite (Broadhead 1873b). Bates County Panther Creek, northwest of Rockville in coal deposits: |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...and Cyndy Plambeck Demetrius Pohl Shiela Ronspees Powell Tomasz Praszkier John Rakovan Marjory “Marge” Regel |  | | Book | | Grandview Mine, in a photo taken by Arion (John R. Putnam) around 1900. The Last Chance Mine dump can...Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, photo no. 8596. © Copyright 1997...of scores of people in libraries, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History; Peter historical societies...Ohlman, and County Public Library; Nancy Caudill, Librarian at the staff of the Yavapai County Recorder... Long Beach; Norma Cochran, Librarian, Mohave County Richard Quartaroli, and Paul Martin. Historical |  | | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting |  | | Book (volume) | | Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies...in elev. From 1,000’ on the eastern border with Montana and Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with...around the entire mountain system. The rising granite mass intruded the famed Cretaceous Dakota sandstone...as the continental seas were advancing from the south, the Dakota sandstone represents topset beds, wave...Peak is the crest of the geologically notable granite dome uplift which also produced a most remarkable |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark gray to black nodules⎯flint. CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS...Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co. exposures of blue clay, as clusters |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark gray to black nodules⎯flint. CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS...Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co. exposures of blue clay, as clusters |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BARBARA L. MUNTYAN 3500 South Beryl Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85735 azmarmot@gmail.com ARIZONA Pseudomorphs...quartz crystals, 7.5 × 7.5 cm, South Belmont mine, Duquesne, Santa Cruz County. SEUDOMORPHS (Greek for false... north of Duquesne, Santa Cruz County, as seen from the Holland mine; Barbara Muntyan photo. Barbara...are the wonderful “Roman sword” malachite after azurite groups from several mines in Bisbee. The blocky...crystals on tenorite matrix from the New Cornelia mine in Ajo are an- other Arizona classic (figs. 1, |  | | Report (issue) | | AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE PHILIPSBURG QUADRANGLE MONTANA BY WILLIAM HARVEY EMMONS AND FRANK CATHCART CALKINS...__ 86 Basic intrusives in the Cretaceous on Gold Creek .. __ ._ .. ___ .. __ . __ . _____ ._. __ ......... _.. ....... --_ .. - --_87 Diorite of Foster Creek and Olson Gulch __ .. __ . _. . _. ____ .... _______.... - - - - - - - . - - _90 Diorite of Racetrack Creek ____ .. ____ . ___ .. __ .. _. ________ .. _. _...______ . ___ . ____ . _.. ___ _ 102 Intrusion on Boulder Creek __ .. _____ . .. ___ . ______ . __ ... ___ |  | | Report (issue) | | description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~----------------- Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County -- |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences University of Wisconsin-River Falls 410 South Third Street River Falls, Wisconsin 54022 his is...settlement was initially spurred by the lead-zinc mining in its southwest comer, a heritage preserved by...several new localities, including the Flambeau copper mine near Ladysmith (Rosemeyer 1999, the Vulcan Materials...Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and the Wausau area (Falster 1987)...marcasite. A major mining district, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district, was in these rocks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | several counties. In addition, the TriState zinchead mining area, active for more than one hundred years, extends...as the Picher district, which is in the Oklahoma portion of the TriState. This district has probably produced...October 2014 Mineral Index by Counties Alfalfa County Carmen, 2 mi. NE of Carmen, 1 .1 mi. W of Highway...Permian-age Crisfield Sandstone: malachite. Adair County Bunch, near Bunch, secs.l.5, 16, T.14N, R.24E:...fluorescent and phosphorescent) (Gilmore 1963). Beckham County Malachite localities, SW1/4 SE1/4 sec.36 and SE1/4 |  | | Book | | Classes of Rocks; Minerals Found in Igneous Rocks; Granite Pegmatite Gems and Minerals; Hydrothermal Mineral...Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico...Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia...and steatite (massive talc), as well as basalt, granite, limestone (and/ or sandstone), marble, and the...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones |  | | Book (edition) | | INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. \V. POWELL, DIRECTOR USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED ALBERT...YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...the con dition of affairs, more especially in the South and in the States and Ter ritories of the far West...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various |
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