 | | Journal (issue) | | the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard |  | | Report (issue) | | the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...on prehnite, kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K ..., JR. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Valley Mineral Society, of Gastonia, N. C. Central Virginia Mineral Society, of ROCKS AND MINERALS Henry...3153 N. W . 27th St., Miami, Fla. Lynchburg, Va. The Chautauqua County Gem and Mineral Society, of Dunkirk...Society, of Richmond Hill, Long Island, N. Y. Moore County Rockhounds Club, Inc., of Pinehurst, N. C. Northland...A recent field trip to the Goose Creek area in Virginia netted some nice finds, including pigeonite crystals...crystals and a nice piece of green prehnite with apophylite crystals. The Gemcrafters of Miami in Florida |  | | Journal (issue) | | February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Virginia by RICHARD S. MITCHELL Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...same county. I t also has been observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and...world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is coated...radioactive. The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin |  | | Journal (issue) | | INDUSTRY OF VIRGINIA IN 1974' ADVANCE SUMMARY Total value of mineral production in Virginia in 1974 was...value increased. Table 1. -Mineral production in Virginia. Stone, the second-ranking mineral commodity...cooperative agreement between the Bureau and the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources. 1 1973 Mineral...producers). 2 ~ e v i s e dfrom value given in Virginia Minerals, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 29, November 1974...346 - 2 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES Vol. 22 THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF VIRGINIA IN 1975 PRELIMINARY |  | | Journal (issue) | | DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...moonstone, and topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise crystals, and the...minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which have been used as gemstones and decora...report. Many of the localities will be familiar to Virginia mineral collectors. Someof the areas mentioned...collect minerals. There has been much written on Virginia mineral localities but no reports are available |  | | Journal (issue) | | the NVMC at 7:45pm 29 May Field trip to Nelson County rutile quarry 28 June General meeting of the NVMC...speaker and classes are wonderful. The Northern Virginia Mineral Club All this mixed together with a fantastic...label all radioactive specimens as The Northern Virginia Mineral Club radioactive. ● Don’t carry radioactive...where we found her. I learned what calcite and prehnite look like so I looked them up in the books when...world were found right around here in Northern Virginia. I don’t think anyone struck the mother lode on |  | | Journal (issue) | | yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard |  | | Journal (issue) | | use halite and salt interchangeably. Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, No in-person social events...Minnesota. Bottom: Halite, Rhodes Salt Marsh, Esmeralda County, Nevada. Photo: Bob Cooke. Collectible crystals...from Neuhof Fulda, Kassel, Germany (top); Kern County, California (middle); and somewhere in California...send a check, please make it payable to Northern Virginia Mineral Club. Share Your Story in the Newsletter...elbaite Apr 2021............................. prehnite May 2021 ........................... kyanite Jun |  | | Journal (issue) | | trip report) and to the Barger Quarry in southern Virginia (sorry, no field trip report has been submitted...join them this year? -The Editor The Northern Virginia Mineral Club Board Positions Open Currently our...Schaefermeyer Fund: Tom Tucker presented The Northern Virginia Mineral Club April 09 THE MINERAL NEWSLETTER...Eastern Federation Club Members Only (The Northern Virginia Mineral Club is in the Eastern Federation) The...Pleasant Mills) At the Sunoco station The Northern Virginia Mineral Club From Middleburg, PA take Rt. 522 |  | | Journal (issue) | | .......................... 354 A BUS TRIP TO VIRGINIA. BJ B. 1'1. Breh,n .............................MINERALS ASSOCIATION ) Whole No. 149 A BUS TRIP TO VIRGINIA By B. M. BREHM 990 Dana NE., Warren, Ohio f ... I decided to take my vacation this year in Virginia for the ~imple reason that I wanted some of the...Winchester, Va., continuing on to Lynchburg the next day. Lynchburg, a city of about 45,000 pop., is in...in the southern part of Virginia (in northwestern Campbell County) and beautifulJy situated high up on |  | Lyttle, Peter T., Aleinikoff, John N., Burton, William C., Crider, E. Allen, Drake, Avery A., Froelich, Albert J., Horton, J. Wright, Kasselas, Gregorios, Mixon, Robert B., McCartan, Lucy, Nelson, Arthur E., Newell, Wayne L., Pavlides, Louis, Powars, David S., Southworth, C. Scott, Weems, Robert E. (2017) Geologic map of the Washington West 30’ × 60’ quadrangle, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Open-File Report 2017-1142. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20171142 | Report (issue) | | |Zmg |Zu |Zpb |Zg |Zpg Zu Zga 567±4 Ma Lynchburg Group Neoproterozoic Zlbm Zfmm Zfbh Ty |y...Allen Crider Jr. (2012–2017) 8 10 KILOMETERS 9 VIRGINIA MAP LOCATION Tc Calvert and (or) Choptank Formations...siltstone. Found both in the upper part of the Lynchburg Group (Zlbm, Ball Mountain Formation) and Fauquier...the Culpeper basin and the Barboursville basin, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80–468...geology of the northern part of the Culpeper basin, Virginia and Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...Catnip Hill facility, Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing...exposed on the Gilley property in western Cherokee County (O’Neill 1950); it is relatively common as purple |  | | Journal (issue) | | COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY Richmond, Virginia Virginia Minerals Published...Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 VOL. 48 MAY/AUGUST 2002 NO. 2/3 A GUIDE...GEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY John Marr and Roy Sites Virginia has a very interesting and varied geologic history...in unique and exotic geologic terranes. Across Virginia, the landscape exhibits all rock types: igneous...the Division of Mineral Resources offices. 10 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES VOL. 48 Figure |  | | Report (chapter) | | adjacent Quebec. Metamorphic grade varies from prehnite-pumpellyite to granulite facies; the isograds... Canada Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Virginia Vermont Northern Appalachians AD ADM AG AT BM...complex Chain Lakes massif Canaan Mountain Dutchess County Elmore Mountain Exeter pluton Green Mountain massif...Wenlock metamorphism in the northern Appalachians, USA. Abbreviations are defined in Table 1. The stippled...Pelitic schist (sillimanite + muscovite) Dutchess County, New York 41.7°N, 73.6°W hornblende biotite biotite |  | | Book | | Geology and Virginia Richard V. Dietrich Professor of Geology and Dean School of Arts and Sciences,...University Press of Virginia Charlottesville Qt z.^.z THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA Copyright © 1970...by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia First published 1970 Standard Book Number: 8139-0289-4...America To Frances, Rick, Kurt, Krista, and Virginia 161781 Digitized by the Internet Archive in...natives of Virginia and visitors to the Commonwealth—who are interested in geology and in Virginia. It attempts |  | | Report (issue) | | River allochthons _____ 7 Maryland and northern Virginia Piedmont allochthons_______________________ 8...postorogenic plutons in and adjacent to this belt from Virginia to Georgia yield ages of about 300 m.y. (Fullagar...Fullagar and Odom (1973) for similar rocks in Grayson, County, Va., although Rankin and opening of the lapetus...overprint is relatively tauga County, N.C., and eastern Johnson County, Tenn., minor, the older basement...a discordia intercept age of 1,280 m.y. Grayson County, Va. (Di), yielded an age of 1,149 m.y. (Davis |  | | Journal (issue) | | French mineralogist F.S. Beudant in 1832. Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our February...in the mid-Atlantic region, including West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. He will show...Columbia, and the Gem and Mineral Society of Lynchburg, VA. The Mineral Newsletter February 2019 4...without labels— whether from the recent Montgomery County club’s auction or from the tourist market. Then...shortfall in cost recovery for the show. The Northern Virginia Mineral Club is your club, so we hope that you |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its |  | | Book (volume) | | beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts, |  | | Journal (issue) | | p4,, Over two million residents Arizona's Pinal County welcomes everyone as a V.I.P.!!! ?ieU S ~ , ae...Native Copper and Piemontite Localities of Adams County Jay Lininger FEATURES THE EASTERN FEDERATION...5 miles west of Mt. Holly Springs in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Specimen collected by Martin Anne'...Pennsylvania Kline's quarry, Wrightsville , York County, Penn- basis to go mineral collecting, weather...located near Wrightsville in YorJc PENNSYLVANIA County. Wrigh._ille Martin Anne is the immediate past |
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