 | | Journal (issue) | | Hill through the southern, famous for its gneiss quarries and mineral de posits, and Tim’s Hill lies...granite, with frequent occurrence of large veins of gneiss, which have been extensively quarried for curbing...be found to be quite complete and correct, viz: Albite, aregonite, au tomolite, actinolite, adularia,...past seventy-five years, explored the old hills, quarries and openings, so that at the present time one...have personally visited nearly every locality. ALBITE occurs quite abundantly throughout the town in |  | | Journal (issue) | | that from Piedmont is said to form a small vein in gneiss about one inch wide. This particular locality I...this mineral has not been found in situ here in gneiss, as the original locality in this coun— 66 ‘...adjoining town to the south, where it was found in gneiss, and named Sillimanite in honor of Professor Silli...brilliant and of a rich ruby red color. The feldspar quarries 0f Haddam Neck all produce garnets. Some interesting...The feldspar veins that are met with in the gneiss quarries, often contain beautiful small dodecahedrons |  | | Book | | localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...in 2002 in a calcite-carbonatite vein intruding gneiss, together with very large Baveno-law-twinned crystals...Alberene and Old Dominion quarries, Albemarle County. In these two soapstone quarries, tabular ilmenite crystals...numerous crystal pockets, associated with small albite crystals; the platy, flattened-rhombohedral ilmenite...9: 1 (Gaines, 1971; Pimentel er al., 2009). SWITZERLAND Maderanertal east of Arnsteg, Uri. In the world |  | | Report (volume) | | mineral content, and origin___________________ Gneiss and granite___ _ ______ ________ 7 9 9 9 ' 11..._________________________ 43 Geologic observations at the quarries, by T. Nelson Dale_______ 45 Microstructure____________________...Inclusions _________________________________ 47 Plicated gneiss structure_________________________ 47 Granite ...discussion Continued. Geologic observations at the quarries Continued, Page. Segregations__l_.____ '.____...Nelson Dale_______________ Description of the quarries and their product__________ ____ Method______ |  | | Book (volume) | | sphalerite. 4. GRAPHITE. (8) Graphite occurs, with gneiss and quartz on A.Johnson's farm E. from Feastcrvillc...mine near Shimersville, Lehigh Co. It occurs with gneiss at Paxon'sfarm, near Feasterville, Bucks Co. ...(29) Fluorite occurs at the Kleckner limestone quarries near HalColors: green, purple and pink. Imperlietsville...vermilion, earthy incrustations occur at the gneiss quarries at Frankford, Philadelphia. MELACONITE. 16...MENACCANITE. Occurs massive at George Hammit's quarries, one mile East Kdge Hill furnace, Montgomery Co |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals are found filling seams in schist and gneiss. Many apophyllite-(KF) specimens have been recovered...long in the pegmatites that cut the schist and gneiss. The locality at 190th Street and Amsterdam Avenue...where both minerals coated fractured plates of gneiss. Many of these specimens exceed 50 cm across. A...green, foliated crystals associated with quartz and albite in the rock excavated for the 63rd Street subway...(Chamberlin 1888). The columbite-(Fe) is embedded in albite and is a sharp crystal 12 mm long with well-developed |  | | Book | | Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Fluorite crystals from the People's...orthoclase; polysynthetic twins are typical of albite; while cyclic twins can be found in aragonite,...crust is called a magma chamber. The cooling of in gneiss formed in a metamorphic environment at high temperature...cavities of basalts in India. Above: Beryl and albite, beautiful examples of crystals found in granitic...the Passo del Rombo in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy, or the splendid crystals of azure-blue |  | | Report (volume) | | examples_________________ Fluidal cavities in granite gneiss.________ Fluidal cavities in small dikes or veins_____...England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product__________ Method of tr...The granite railroads_______________________ The quarries, their granite and finished product_______ Caledonia...________ Geology of Byegate quarries__________ Quarries ________________________ Groton____________________________...Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product Continued. Vermont Continued. Page. The quarries, their granite |  | | Report (volume) | | ........................ The Maryland Piedmont region....................................... Distribution............................. 51 Descriptions of quarries................................... 51 Baltimore............................. 54 Descriptions of quarries................................... 54 Woodstock............................. 56 Descriptions of quarries .................................. 57 Port Deposit...Jones Falls quarries .......................................... 67 Gwynns Falls quarries............ |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontenac Quarries Limited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melochville quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . Shawinigan and St-Maurice quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . St-Marc -des -Carrieres quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riviere -a-Pierre quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Book | | 02'34"}65)--Quartz-plagioclasemicrocline.bioti te gneiss. Acc>essory minerals: clinozoisi te, garnet, zircon... magnetite, muscovite, hornolende. 'Actinolite Gneiss >and Cpondrodite Limestone (76(locality uncertain}ltl)--westward...pyrite, Plrrhotite, ahd calcite in hornDlendle gneiss. Eaat of Center Pend, oa fara ot M.J. ~lder.an...p.150,195)--.erpentine mar'le found in a bed in gneiss on the river in Becket. Mattetite (75(see L.e)374...titan te i8 r.lative~1 large SJl.sunts. Grgit. Quarries (76(42 15'58",73000'43tt)~ 2 16'11",73 01'U tt |  | | Report (issue) | | published and unpublished data on dimension stone quarries, prospects, and historical sites in the southern...Chapter 2 Granite and metamorphic rocks Southern region ....................................................................................5 Historic quarries...............................................................................8 Fraser Range — gneiss, charnockite, and mafic granulite ............................................31 Central western region .............................................. |  | | Book (volume) | | ..377 North Carolina – Spruce Pine – Little Switzerland Area Map .....................379 North Carolina.........................511 Virginia – Leesburg quarries Site Map .......................................407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges | | | Book | | Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Ruorite crystals from the People's...orthoclase; polysynthetic twins are typical of albite; while cyclic twins can be found in aragonite,...metamorphic rocks. Above: corundum crystal contained in gneiss formed in a metamorphic environment at high temperature...the Passo del Rombo in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy, or the splendid crystals of azure-blue...summit of Pizzo Forno in the Ticino Canton of Switzerland. A particular type of metamorphism, known as |  | | Report (issue) | | Granites of tlu Atlantic Border, or Appalacltian Region, of the United States 32-39 Connecticut Delaware...Quarry 74 Flat Shoals . . • . • • . . . 76 Granite-Gneiss . • . , • . . . • 77 Mrs. M. J. Hill's Property...So The H. W. Hill Property. So Other Outcrops of Gneiss . 8I The T. B. Tigner Quarry • . 82 Coweta County...Quarry . • • • • . 9r Foliated Granite (Granite-Gneiss) • 94-96 Pike County . . . . . . . . . • . . •...• III-143 Stone Mountain and Its Quarries . . II3-II9 The Quarries of the Adjacent Lowland Belt . . |  | | Book (edition) | | John G. Smock, and that for the Eocky Mountain region by Mr. C. Whitman Cross. To these gentlemen is...of the plateau portion of this field The basin region of the field lies to the southwest of Cullman county...gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Fine quarries at Tallahassee falls on Tallapoosa river...county. These localities are at a distance from any region where gold-bearing rocks are in place, and the...from a distance. Localities in the metamorphic region. Worked for local sup Granite . ply mainly. Near |  | | Book (volume) | | 407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges...⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet...Magnetite, Pyrite, etc.; f limestone and dolomite quarries⎯Barite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of |  | | Book (volume) | | 407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges...⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet...Magnetite, Pyrite, etc.; f limestone and dolomite quarries⎯Barite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of |  | | Book | | delving beneath the surface or looking into nearby quarries, road cuts, and bluffs beyond the immediate boundaries...• • -. ... ' -- Jay Ellis Ransom . RocK QUARRIES. The best place f-:)f hunting minerals, crystals...mineral environments of whichever more distant region you plan to visit on any gem collecting trip. The...variety of minerals they can find throughout the region, especially in the pegmatite intrusions (dikes)...the eastern foothills of the Rockies. This great region is one of almost exclusively sedimentary formations |  | | Book | | because of the immense heat developed; it is in this region of contact metamorphism where many great mines...Igneous intrusives Dark minerals, Limestone quarries Calcite, celestite, dolomite, fluorite, galena...their “civilized” appurtenances. Not only is the region of the Old West much more was eighty years ago...oxidation or sulphurization. In the southwestern desert region natural tarnish may become like a crust, known...graphite, and pure graphite. The would include albite, the green amazonite (a variety of microcline) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | black olivine-enstatite rock and the inclosing gneiss. Professor Emerson says :9 “A gainst the olivine...pegmatites of granitic composition in which feld spar quarries have been opened are fairly abundant over parts...minerals, feldspar (orthoclase, microcline, and albite var. clevelandite), mica (muscovite, biotite, and...black olivine-enstatite rock and the inclosing gneiss. Here it occurs abundantly in granular anorthite...stituent of the Hatfield tonalite and of the Pelham gneiss, but the finest crystals are found at Grilbertville |  | | Report (volume) | | uranium and vanadium minerals in the high plateau region of the West. The present bulletin, like the earlier...vol. 1, 1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept...County, extensive quarries near Birmingham and Bessemer; Talladega County, several quarries. Used for road...Corundum (emery). Found in various places in gold region, including Coosa County, near Mount Olive and Hanover;... Gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Quarries at Tallassee Falls, in Elmore County. Galena |  | | Report (volume) | | County, extensive quarries near Birmingham and Bessemer. Talladega County, several quarries. Clay (brick)...Corundum (emery). Found in various places in gold region, including Coosa County, near Mount Olive and Hanover;... Gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Quarries at Tallassee Falls in Elmore County. Galena...St. Glair County, at Cooks Springs. Sandstone. Quarries: Calhoun County, at Anniston; Colbert County,...glance). Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral Park, and Stockton Hill districts |  | | Book (edition) | | Limestone stone Slate Granite Syenite Porphyry. Gneiss — — XII. — Cements Cements Rosendale, Cumberland...Sometimes it is in large pockets in granite or gneiss and then can be split up into transparent plates...There are feldspars, the Anorthite, Labradorite, Albite The orthoclase is , ones principal Oligoclase... Iron. Slates, Schists, Marble. or Transition Gneiss, Schists, Granites. Rocks. Plutonic. Igneous...slightly greenish BOTTOM FACTS AND BED ROCKS. 31 GNEISS. made up any of the minerals contained in the |  | | Book | | banks of the Androscoggin, be- tween strata of gneiss. sometimes in crystals, generally Epidote, manganesian...granular or compact, in veins traversing granite, gneiss, greenstone, &cc. Hornblende, fibrous, in large...primitive limestone, sometimes in granite and gneiss, ; limestone, with Granular Quartz ; it forms a...of the Androscoggin, Sometimes in granite and gneiss. short hexaedral prisms, or rather in abundantly...fragments, scattered among masses of granite and gneiss, sometimes imperfectly crystalline. Fetid Quartz |
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