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| State of Washington ARTHUR B. LANGLIE, Governor Department of Conservation and Development W. A. GALBRAITH...DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY SHELDON L. GLOVER, Supervisor Bulletin No. 37 INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS...STATE PRINTING PLANT. OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON lll!UI For sale by Department of Conservation and Development...(2 volumes-text and maps) $4.50. INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS PART II METALLIC MINERALS Volume...was compiled many years ago by the writer. It gave only brief details of individual deposits, but these |
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| ; » \ The American Mineral (5uidc to Notable Collecting Areas and ©ircctoru Cn of American Mineral...Supplying the Needs of The Mineralogist PUBLISHED BY Western Mineral Exchange Seattle, Washington 1941... DEDICATION To the Millions of Enthusiastic Mineralogists and Gem Collectors the EWorld Over, I Salute...To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of our United States of particular interest...interest to the mineral collector. (2) To itemize those minerals occuring in each such deposit which are |
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| DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTI8 SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 585...MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES COMPILED BY SAMUEL SANFORD AND RALPH W. STONE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1914 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES. Compiled by SAMUEL SANFORD and RALPH...By EDWARD W. PARKEH. The final chapters of two of the earlier volumes of the Geological Survey's annual...Mineral Resources of the United States" (the volumes for 1882 and 1887) consist of lists of the useful minerals |
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| DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH...SMITH, Director Bulletin 624 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES**-^ COMPILED BY FRANK C. SCHRADER...STONE AND SAMUEL SANFORD A revision of Bulletin 585 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT FEINTING OFFICE 1917 CONTENTS........................................ 102 District of Columbia ........................................'........................................ 126 Iowa................................................ |
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| A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state...elev. From 1,000’ on the eastern border with Montana and Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with...with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade, Custer and Pennington the land rises abruptly...abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi. Black Hills region enclosed by the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne rivers. These...These pine covered mountains, higher than the Alleghenies, culminate in Harney Peak in southern Pennington |
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| Bibliography of North American Geology 1946 and 1947 ^ By EMMA MERTINS THOM, MARJORIE HOOKER 'r> and...BULLETIN 95 V v v, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR J. A. Krug, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1949 FOR SALE BY SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS, U. S. GOVERNMENT...GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. - Price $1.50 (paper cover) CONTENTS Page._ Introduction__...-._ ni 3 7 15 311 * f *, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1946 and 1947 BY EMMA MERTINS |
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| DEPARTMENT OF THE IMTBEIOK BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY No. 182 SERIES A, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY, 12 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING O If F I C E 1901 UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CHARLES...SILVERTON QUADRANGLE, COLORADO FREDERICK RANSOME WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING 1901 OFFICE CONTENTS... CONTENTS. PART 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION AND DISCUSSION OF THE ORE DEPOSITS. Introduction and acknowledgments.... ...... ................................ Outline of geology, by Whitman Cross....................... |
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| Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes it the largest of the Atlantic...situated at the southern end of the Appalachian chain of mountains. These ranges extend into the northeast...Brasstown Bald, a part of the Nantahala Mountains achieve the highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet...feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the Lookout and Sand mountains loom over rich agricultural...conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain |
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| longer need this publication write to the Geological Surrey In Washington for official mailing label to use...it. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1942 and 1943...SURVEY BULLETIN 949 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Harold L. Ickes, Secretary GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY W. E. Wrather, Director Bulletin 949 NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1942 and 1943 BY EMMA MERTINS...GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1945 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government |
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| ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of 210 miles, with...slightly to the southwest. Containing more than 275 rivers, the state is bounded along ¾ of its circumference...primarily the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The highest elevations are the Mounds along the northern borders...borders, rising only to a altitude of 900 to 1,000 feet above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils...to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though the state produces more sandstone, silica sand and Fluorspar |
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| ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of 210 miles, with...slightly to the southwest. Containing more than 275 rivers, the state is bounded along ¾ of its circumference...primarily the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The highest elevations are the Mounds along the northern borders...borders, rising only to a altitude of 900 to 1,000 feet above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils...to offer gem and mineral collectors, even though the state produces more sandstone, silica sand and Fluorspar |
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| A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 2014 Fourth...Fourth Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union... A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page Preface .............................................................181 Iowa .............................................................................................346 North Carolina ...................................... |
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| ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX MAP OF SULFUR AND PYRITES DEPOSITS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALASKA (Including...Branch km u., 4 rfl UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary GEOLOGICAL...ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX MAP OF SULFUR AND PYRITES DEPOSITS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALASKA (Including... Broedel Washington, D: C., 1952 Free on application to the Geological Survey, Washington 25, D. C.... ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX MAP OF SULFUR AND PYRITES DEPOSITS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALASKA (Including |
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| DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. \V. POWELL, DIRECTOR USEFUL MINERALS OF THE...RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES CALENDAR YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS...AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 18 8 8 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE STATES. UNITED...UNITED A PARTIAL LIST OF ORES, MINERALS. AND MINERAL SUBSTANCES OF INDUS TRIAL IMPORTANCE, ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY...Albert Williams, Jr. The following lists are based upon those published in the volume of Mineral Resources |
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| quantities of Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian and Pennsylvanian sediments; the erosional...erosional products of some 200 million years. Few, if any Mesozoic rocks appear within the state, but every one...one of Ohio’s 88 counties is surfaced with Pleistocene debris. The state was buried completely four times...glaciers, leaving the land surface nearly level but with some fairly rugged low hills in the southeastern...excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified |
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| quantities of Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian and Pennsylvanian sediments; the erosional...erosional products of some 200 million years. Few, if any Mesozoic rocks appear within the state, but every one...one of Ohio’s 88 counties is surfaced with Pleistocene debris. The state was buried completely four times...glaciers, leaving the land surface nearly level but with some fairly rugged low hills in the southeastern...excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified |
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| xl—crystal xled—crystallized fl—-fluoresces ALABAMA—The following note was sent in by William M. Johnson...number of ledges in Alabama on the Devonian and Carboniferous formations in Choctaw, Washington, Clarke...gathered and marketed. Hatchetigbee Bluff, in Washington Co., Ala., was so noted. ARIZONA — Earl U. Mayer...most beautiful specimen consisting of lustrous brassy-yellow mass of chalcopyrite associated with iridescent...masseive pale smoky quartz. The locality for this handsome specimen is the Buckskin Mts., Yuma Co., Ariz |
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| found in the quartzite ridges near Sylacauga, Talladega Co., Ala. ARIZONA—The old Yuma mine, famous for...specimens of vanadinite and wulfenite, is located in Pima County, Ariz., about 15 miles N . W . of Tucson..."I am sending some wulfenite xls from the old Yuma mine in the Tucson Mts. These xls range anywhere from...beautiful orange to orange-brown colors. In a space of about 4 hours, by hard work and sore fingers, I obtained...single xls. This mine quit working about 1920 and was mainly a gold, silver, and lead mine." ARKANSAS—Billy |
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| 1. Counties in Missouri. N o comprehensive list of Missouri mineral occurrences has been published since...(1895). The index contained here includes 209 minerals that have been found in Missouri; two of these,...Missouri mines. Even though the index is intended to be a historic compendium of specimen-producing localities...localities, no attempt was made to list all the state’s many mineral-prcducing properties. For example, minerals...been excluded. The index is not intended to give specific directions to a locality,only the general location |
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| DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES DIVISION OLYMPIA, WASHiNGTON 98504 METAL...METAL MINES OF WASHINGTONPRELIMINARY REPORT by ROBERT E. DERKEY NANCY L. JOSEPH and RAYMOND LASMANIS WASHINGTON...WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN FILE REPORT 90-18 NOVEMBER 1990 This report...Division of Geology and Earth Resources standards and nomenclature. 1, WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF Natural...Division of Geology and Earth Resources Raymond Lasmanis. State Geologist LIBRARY DEPA.RTl'\~ENT OF NATURAL |
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| -A 1 to Find Valuable Ores and Minerals in the United States I '' : JAY ELLIS RANSOM / $ 5...your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay in this of popular the Ellis Ransom...go about it. Some of the best prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where...United States— from gopher size the in the to the largest— and locates the important commercial ores and...minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification, the book provides a |
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| across bits of interest. Such is the case in the Alabama Bulletin # 5 4 , Geology of the Alabama Tin...in Alabama. About 40 miles northeast of Montgomery in Coosa County there is an outcrop that carries considerable...been some mining since 1940. "Cassiterite is the only tin mineral found in the district. The crystals...long. The crystals are largely found in the pegmatites of the district. "In the general area the following... tourmaline, zircon, zoisite. "Many of these show up only in the thin sections. Some day I hope to make |
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| hematite occurs in a deposit about 5 miles southeast of Calera, Shelby Co., Ala. ARIZONA-About a year ago...Ariz., sent us some small lustrous black pebbles of obsidian. In her letter, dated Nov. 14, 1957, she...trailer and we went to the northern part of our state on a hunting trip. My husband and the boys hunt deer and...hunt rocks. The place that we go to is about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested...pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is around 7,000 ft. with the San Francisco peaks standing at over |
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| ': . ·• Ranson1 , Jay E . Gems an d minerals of Arnerica 549 . 075 RAiJSO rti SAUSALITO PU BLIC...uS L 10, f • =- ..-.Ai • GEMS and MINERALS of AMERICA OTHER BOOKS BY JAY ELLIS RANSOM A Complete...and Minerals The Rock-Hunter's Range Guide Petrified Forest Trails Arizona Gem Trails and the Colorado Desert...Desert of California High Tension (A Biography) Jay Ellis Ransom EMS of and MINERAL AMERI A A Guide... Portions of this book have appeared in different form in A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals and The Rock-Hunter's |
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| Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015 K NOWN AS THE TREASURE STATE, Montana...gemstone localities. The state motto, Ora y Plata meaning “gold and silver,” and the state seal with its...representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production of copper, coal...impressive. The official state fossil is Maiasaura peeblesorum, more commonly known as the duckbill dinosaur...body of gem and mineral literature has been published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and |
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