 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Consequently, most collectors are familiar with prehnite, typically as pale green botryoidal or reniform...Virginia. Recently, however, extraordinarily fine prehnite specimens have appeared on the collector market...for its most famous locality, Tsumeb. One such prehnite specimen has been nominated for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...Connoisseur’s Choice (see fig.). Prehnite is best known in shades of green that vary from pale to very...it exhibits a vitreous-to-weak pearly luster. Prehnite has cleavages on [ 001 ) and { 110) that are good |  | | Book | | s l o o k e d p r i m a r i l y f o r g o l d , silver, lead, i r o n , a n d o t h e r economic m i n...Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania: S c h u y l k i l l R i v e r Vi r g i n i...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...Excited collectors took home from old quarries in Pennsylvania and Maryland, pieces of apple green precious |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...Scovil photo. Amethyst, 12 cm, from Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Collected by Bryon Brookmyer; Wendell Wilson... Fluorapatite rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | inch diameter crystal was found in the Pulsifer quarry at Auburn, Maine. Six inch crystals have been found...found at West Bethel, Maine, and at the Ruggles quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Notable excellently...Middletown, Concord, Leiperville, and Newlin, Pennsylvania; Upper Merryall and Haddam, Connecticut; Russell...localities in Chester and Delaware counties, Pennsylvania ; in North Carolina, and elsewhere. A large...Lode pegmatite near the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Common in the pegmatites of Yavapai |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts N orth America has produced...anywhere is the “Roebling apatite” from the Pulsifer quarry in Auburn, Maine. Formerly in the collection of...Acushnet quarry (also currently known as the J. Keating Company stone quarry), Bristol County, Massachusetts... The metamorphic rocks exposed in the Acushnet quarry are a mixture of schists, gneisses, and intruded...apatite-bearing Alpine clefts is the Keystone quarry, Cornog, Pennsylvania. Colorless, transparent, and highly |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book | | 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...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...MOUNTAIN, Greenlee Co. Chalcedony SILVER BELL DISTRICTS, Pima Co. Garnet SILVER KING MINE, Pinal Co. Baritf...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite |  | | Book | | 15th annual FM-TGMS-MSA Mineralogical Symposium: silver (chairman R. W. Graeme) 25:69-76 New minerals recently...ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187 |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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...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) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mile west of the community of Levesque in Cross County. This locality may also be given as 6 miles east...barite ores that sometimes contain wires of native silver. These are hard to find, but always a most welcome...welcome find. "This is one of the west's most famous silver camps, and is now a world famous ski resort during...in Georgia (pp. 9-21). One locality in Habersham County should fascinate many of our readers. Here is Dr..."Selenite xls on limonite matrix from limestone quarry near Tracy, Marion Co., Iowa."—on label. KENTUCKY—"The |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described |  | | Book (volume) | | forYorkshire, -,vith which it ii ; CHESHIRE, OR THE COUNTY PALATINE OF CHESTER, Is bounded on the n. by...distinct government. The hills and rocks of this county are high and barren, but oval, having side. From...navigation. The prominent natural productions of the county are fossil salt/and cheese. Its manufactures, cotton...old Caselegant entrance to the Castle and to the county jail, &c. The whole is in the pure Grecian style...had seen in this kingdom. The largest is in the township of Witton, the form circular. 108 yards diameter |  | | Catalog/List | | rnetallic spots in matrix (LookoutPass. Tooele County, Ut2h) lxl f7 ½ ins f4 478 ZIRCON Zr Si0/4 singl2...slightly crystalline masses in matrix (Mullaghderg,County Donegal, Ireland) lxl El lx2 E2 025 ANKERITE-KUTNAHORITE...group. green masses with minor Sti:htite (Stichtite Hill, DundasTasroania) lxl El lx2 f.2 030 APATITE white...creamycrystalline masses. (KipawaRiver, Villedieu Township QuebecCanada)Fluorescent pink SW lxl ins E3 lx2E6...Pure grey cleavable mass. (Keystone, South Dakota, USA) lxl 70p lx2 fl.20 2x2 f.2.40 2x3 E4.80 019 F~DALUSITE |  | | Book (volume) | | Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to hill ridges, increasing steadily in elev. From 1,000’...commercial production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along...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 |  | | Catalog/List | | Hyalite. From India attractive Apophyllite on Prehnite. Also Gyrolite No 224. From Austria, Nitrobarite...mass. (Tushar Mts. near Marysville Pilute County, Utah USA) lxl El.60 OH ALURGI1'E.variety of M:iscovite... grey-green somewith Serpentine. (CountyBridge Quarry, Lizard) lxl 90p lx2 fl.50 2x2 f3.00 024 NATIVE~...translucent crystalslabout lem, "cubic" ) well cavering Prehnite matrix (Poona Iltdia) 2x2 f4 2x3 EG 035 ARAGONITE...rich yellow masses with minorquartz. (Pershing County,NevadaU.S.A) lxl 90p 057 BISHUTHINITE grey flakes |  | | Book | | First published in 1975 by Cordilleran 18 Holly Hill Drive Mercer Island, Washington 98040 COVER ILLUSTRATION:...milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please |  | | Book (edition) | | abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Rare-with scorodite in U-bearing lignite in the Caves Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from |  | | Book | | Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee...latter-day prospectors poked around abandoned gold and silver mines seeking dust or nuggets. Often they found...ore minerals, raw nugge ts of native metal-gold, silver, copper, bismuth, etc.-clumps and crystals of shiny...an old gold rush mine to kick up a solid gold, silver, or native copper nugget simply because the early...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology S ilver was one of the first metals to silver has the highest-known reflectivity of visible light...used by humans, with records Silver crystallizes in the isometof silver mines dating back at least six...the When pure, the mineral is simply elemental silver (Ag). However, it Andean mineral theme of the 2003...excepof Au and Hg and, less commonly, tional Peruvian silver has been selected as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...Choice. Figure 1. An unusually aesthetic 8.3-cm silver As, Sb, Bi, Pt, and Cu in solid soluAdditional |  | | Catalog/List | | STIBNITE: Hunan Province, China: 1-2 inch single silver crystals and small clusters from this world renown... TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near clear thumbnails...at $15.00 each. BROOKITE: Magnet Cove, Garland County, Arkansas; Dipyramidal thumbnail crystals mounted...Mine, Cobar, NWS, Australia; Fine crystalline wire silver with dendritic growths branching off the main wire...A wide variety of combinations of apophyllite, prehnite, heulandite, stilbite, laumontite, calcite, okenite |  | | Book (edition) | | Oak Tree Press Co., Ltd., P.O. Box 34, Brickfield Hill, Sydney 2000, N.S.W. Distributed in the United Kingdom...Peninsula, and in New South Wales at Broken Hill. In U.S.S.R. very fine crystals at Turnisk in Perm...South West “Africa. 14 x 2 15 ELEMENTS NAME: Silver FORMULA: Ag PHYSICAL PROPERTIES: Color: Brilliant...tarnishes easily to black or grey Streak: Shining silver white Lustre: Metallic Hardness: 2.5-3.0 CRYSTAL...Michigan. Found in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good |  | | | | by Oak Tree Press Co. Ltd P.O. Box 34, Brickfield Hill, Sydney 2000, N.S.W Distributed in the United Kingdom...Yorke Peninsula, and in New South Wales at Broken Hill. In U.S.S.R. very fine crystals at Turnisk in Perm...occurrences: 14 10 X Copper 15 ELEMENTS name: Silver formula: Ag physical properties: Color: Brilliant...tarnishes easily to black or grey Streak: Shining silver white Lustre: Metallic Hardness: 2.5-3.0 Sp. G...Michigan. Found in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. 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Silver Hill Quarry, Bowmansville, Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA