 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals, Arkansas also boasts an array of other minerals, as evidenced by this county-by-county description...continued with mining in north ern and western Arkansas and Magnet Cove during the Civil War, and peaked...in full swing and the demand for and price of Arkansas quartz crystals has skyrocketed. In October 1987...exploited. Continued interest in and study of Arkansas minerals, par ticularly the microminerals, will...friends in the Coon Creek Association for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting |  | | Book | | Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I •( 11 o •« c »««ou cxi ju4«iO«J...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute Quadrangal...Quadrangal Map index. V Contents and Locality Index Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types....Location 1 Montgomery County quartz deposits................. Other Montgomery County quartz mines...... |  | | Journal (volume) | | on some Microminerals from the Ohio pit, Baraga County, Michigan Al Falster 920 McIntosh Wausau, Wl 54401... i The Ohio pit in Baraga County, Michigan, is an old open-pit iron mine. In vugs and cavities of the...minerals can be collected. Due to the fact that the mine has been abandoned for several years, the lower...commonly forms rosettes of shiny black crystals. Hematite also occurs as replacing agent of magnetite (martite)...responding to the magnet are evidently replaced by hematite (see above). Goethite appears as delicate sprays |  | | Report (issue) | | DEPOSITS OF THE CADDO GAP AND DE QUEEN QUADRANGLES, ARKANSAS. By HUGH D. MISER. INTRODUCTION. The high prices...little-exploited manganese deposits of westcentral Arkansas. These deposits are found at intervals in a belt...quadrangles, Arkansas and Oklahoma. 12 miles wide, extending west-southwestward from Pulaski County, at the...the center of the State, to Polk County, on the west border. Eecent exploitation, begun in 1915 and still...Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, in western Arkansas. The location of the mountainous districts of |  | | Journal (issue) | | Treasure of the Rockies The Story of the Sweet Home Mine. Andrey Atuchin: An Interview with a Natural History...Treats Provided by the Fossil Group MEMORIES OF ARKANSAS: COLLECTING PHOSPHATES AND BAUXITE Mike Nelson...Nelson csrockguy@yahoo.com I have fond memories of Arkansas. Applied for a few jobs in universities and turned...suspect many CSMS members have been to the State of Arkansas on a collecting trip, most likely to collect quartz...quartz crystals and dabble in the diamond mine (see December Pick & Pack). I actually would be interested |  | | Catalog/List | | 2txH-xi". £1.25. _ 2. ANDRADITE. Belstone Consols Mine, Sticklepath, Devon. Specimen A - Lustrous, sharp...Andradite. ltJMine, Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada. A well formed translucent...l-txlxl". £4.50. 7. ATACAMITE. Duke of Cornwall Mine, Kadina, S. Australia. Specimen A - A ltxl" cavity...Limonit ic Gossan. 2xlxl". £1.50. 8. AZURITE. Tynagh Mine, Co. Gllway, Eire. Bright blue well formed crystals...2xl-b<1". £3.25. BARYTES. Carbonate Shake, Murton Mine, Scordale, Westmoreland. 1 "C~Oic7' transparent |  | | Catalog/List | | 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. GARNET. Deer Creek, Lemhi Co., Idaho, U.S.A. Lustrous red glassy crystal...association. 2x1-tx1t", £11.00 BARYTES. Force Crag Mine, nr. Keswick, Cumberland. Select, cluster of sharp...1x1", £4.5Op 2 11. BEUDANTITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Sharp lustrous light coloured...display. 4ix3tx21'" , £11.00 16. CALCITE. Millclose Mine, near Matlock, Derbyshire. Fine large doubly terminated...specilimen. 6xJ.}x2i", £14.00 17. CALCITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Choice creamy-white rosettes |  | | Journal (issue) | | stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...http://www.iea.com/-lream Web address change for Arkansas site A few months ago, the Mineral News ran a |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $3.00 A Quick and Short Collecting Trip to Arkansas in April 2004 Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Having...Having missed this past fall's Coon Creek trip to Arkansas I was chomping at the bit to get up there...Lake Greeson that is just north of Murfreesboro, Arkansas. He had already examined and collected on the...(Continues on page~-z) Grand Canyon Uranium: The Orphan Mine Dr. Vivien Gornitz vgornitz@giss.nasa.gov Better...deposit was the Orphan Lode (later renamed the Orphan Mine), located on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, |  | | Report (volume) | | Mineral Resources of the Caney Creek Wilderness, Polk County, Arkansas By GEORGE E. ERICKSEN and SAM H...Mineral resources of the Caney Creek Wilderness, Polk County, Arkansas. (Geological Survey bulletin; 1551)...Mines and mineral resources-Arkansas-Caney Creek Wilderness. 2. Caney Creek Wilderness (Ark.) I. Ericksen...survey of the Caney Creek Wilderness, Arkansas, in the Ouachita National Forest. Caney Creek was established...Caney Creek Wilderness----Description and resource potential of mineral deposits in the Caney Creek Wil |  | | Other Paper | | MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS: COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS, STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS...Michael Howard MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS: COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS,...Michael Howard 16001 Vimy Woods Road Mabelvale, Arkansas 72103 E-mail: jmichaelhoward@sbcglobal.net ©...……………... 38 Christy Brookite Deposit (Vanadium Mine)………………………… 38 Old Highway Outcrops………………………………………………...Kimzey Magnetite Mine (Pit) and Surrounding Area………………………... 44 Chamberlain Creek Barite Mine…………………………………………… |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | during the past twenty years than the --------Arkansas Magnet Cove locality. - - - - - - - - Minerals...Vanadium Mines POTASH SULPHUR SPRINGS, ARKANSAS J. MICHAEL HOWARD Arkansas Geological Commission 3815 West...Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 DON R. OWENS Earth Science Department University of Arkansas at Little Rock...Rock 2801 South University Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 Unless otherwise noted, all photos by J. Michael...unknown reason, the name Sulphur Creek, the small north-south creek draining the area, was dropped from |  | | Report (volume) | | Alabama.........Dr. Eugene A. Smith, University. Arkansas..........Dr. A. H. Purdue, Nashville, Tenn. California...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...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Journal (issue) | | the MidstateQuarry Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036... Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, photo by the author. Middle& PolarUrals...species when they are investigated fully. Fluorite, hematite, rutile, pyrite, magnetite, quartz, orthoclase...Since they were more elongate than the disc-like hematite crystals I had seen, I sent a specimen to Excalibur...ankerite were described in the Magnet Cove Titanium Mine. This may be from a similar one, though I did not |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Arkansas.................................................mineralogic reports, especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South...examination of the geology of western central Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1888, vol. 1...J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892, vol. 5...relative to the economic-geologic products of Arkansas, prepared for the Southern Commercial Congress |  | | Report (issue) | | other extensive deposits like that at the Crimora mine might be discovered. The manganese deposits lie...order of prospective promise. wide, and the Crimora mine occupies a central position in it. A preliminary...a few places was the unaltered limestone in the mine pits visible, but the relation of the ore to the...that normally lies above the Erwin quartzite the Shady dolomite is composed largely of coarse dolomite...in the region. The formation is the same as the Shady limestone of northern Tennessee and is equivalent |  | | Book (edition) | | thickness; mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted...south prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles...miles. Down to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior |  | | Journal (issue) | | Martin Marietta Jones Mill Quarry Hot Spring County, Arkansas - Fall, 2000 Art Smith 9118 Concho Street...Saturday morning, a few of the nonmembe rs o f the Coon Creek Association got to visit what use to be the Mid-state...on orthoclase, Jones Mill Quarry, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, photo by the author. Continued on page 6 Microcrystalline...Microcrystalline Barite From Austin, Travis County, Texas William L. Rader 8210 Bent Tree Road, #219 Austin...Hill Drive. It is a scarp Continued on page 4 2 Mine ral News Review: Dinosaurs under the Big Sky By |  | | Report (volume) | | Aldridge prospect _ Matlock mine_________ Story mine ____ Independence County____ Jackson prospect____...mine_________ Ozark mine _ _ __ HI 113 _ 115 ___ Searcy mine_______________ _ Matheny mine _________ _...prospect____________________________ Bales mine ___________ _____ _______ Moyer mine __________ ________________ ___...mine__________________________________ Rutherford mine ____________________________ Cason mine________...Simmons prospect____________________________ Alien mine ________________________________ 118 119 119 119 |  | | Report (edition) | | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 MINERAL SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised...Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised 2007 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL...Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associated Minerals of Ouachita Quartz Crystals in Arkansas and Oklahoma ..................................................... 20 A Report on the Harrison County Gem and Mineral Society of Gulfport, Mississippi...scheduled and attended field trips to Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mexico, and within Texas. You are truly one of...Associated Minerals of Ouachita Quartz Crystals in Arkansas and Oklahoma by Art Smith Member of the Houston...has been going on in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma for over 150 years. However, large |  | | Report (edition) | | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 S P EC I ES O F A RKA N SA A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard \ 1987... / ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist s·' , STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...23 SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION...State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................19 Arkansas ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................19 Arkansas ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...group, 13 cm, w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection;...Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York; the Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin...country and soon became a collector. The cobalt mine at Bou-Azzer was among his favorite localities,...really fine azurite specimens from the now-famous mine at Touissit, and later many superb cerussites and |
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