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| gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE |
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| blue lazulite, brassy-yellow pyrite and both in smoky gray quartzite. The other specimen consists of blue...white quartzite. Graves Mountain, in S/W Lincoln County, is in N / E Georgia. (See "Graves Mountain, Georgia...artifacts about 2y2 miles northwest of Oblong, Crawford County. The specimens were found on top of the ground...consists of lustrous black hornblende and white quartz. It appears to be part of a boulder that was brought... MAINE—"The enclosed specimen is from our rose quartz xls prospect, Plumbago Mt, Newry, Oxford Co., Maine |
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| the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green...sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully synthesized |
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| ...................... 3 The Many Varieties of Quartz ................................................................................. 5 Meet the Quartz Family .............................................Varieties of Quartz by Denise Bicknell Member of the Houston Gem & Mineral Society he mineral quartz, SiO2...Properties of Quartz: To understand quartz we must first describe what makes it uniquely itself. Quartz is composed...and is represented by the chemical formula SiO2. Quartz crystallizes in the trigonal system and shows three-fold |
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| large variety of minerals and gemstones in North Carolina annually attracts thousands of collectors to...the world. Some Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina T H E C O L L E C T I N G L O C A L I T I E...McKenzie's publication Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina: Information Circular 24 (1978). For a more...locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can be ordered from the North Carolina Department...27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can |
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| 'THE GEOLOGICAL vt- ,(231 > ' " ^THE MINERALS CAROLINA''" i '- OF, - :l|^fe^H - GOTEENMENT LIBRARY... W. Powell, director | | The | minerals of North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Geiitk | [Vignette]...J. W. Powell, director | | The | mineralsof North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Genth | [Vignette]...W. Powell, director | | The | :aainerals of North Carolina | by | FrederickAugustusGenth j [Vignette]...separately. Price $2.50. XVI. The Paleozoic Fishes of North America, by John Strong Newberry. 1889. 4°. 340 |
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| NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WILLIAM DIVISION JASPER P. OF L. SAUNDERS, MINERAL...RESOURCES GEOLOGIST Circular 16 LOCALITIES NORTH OF CAROLINA BY JAMES F. CONLEY Doc NC DENR LIBRARY...... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MINERAL COLLECTING IN NORTH CAROLINA , . . . . # . WHERE TO COLLECT f ... f ......THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY COUNTIES . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ......... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 7 Emerald, Hiddenite and Associated Minerals |
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| December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals are a traditional...3-cm-tall wavellite from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas; kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd...Limestone Company quarry, Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The 2.8 × 2.7 × 1.5-cm specimen...Day Township, Saratoga County, New York; another at Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island; and one...one in Carroll County, New Hampshire. Several important wavellite occurrences are in Pennsylvania (Gordon |
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| Pick—Philip Corley, Editor Junior Division of Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society Newlapso—Dr. Philip E. Eisman...Rockland Nuggets—Marvin Klibonoff, Editor Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society, Inc. Unaka Rock & Mineral...found there. The Gem and Lapidary Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton, Maryland, is making it easy for...Lord Hill Quarry in Stoneham Township, Maine. Smoky quartz, mica crystals, apatite, autunite and many other... rose and smoky quartz and "uranium minerals". The Junior Division of the Rockland County Mineral and |
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| of the New York Mineralogical Club, spoke to the North Jersey Mineralogical Society, Up 386 per Montdair...the Club Members of the Rock and Gem Society of North Jersey, Dover, heard an interesting talk by Dr....President of the Eastern Federation, was a guest of the North Shore Rock and Mineral Club, South Lynnfield. He...the Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, brought his equipment and lapidary materials...materials to a meeting of the Frederick County Rock and Mineral Club, Frederick, and dem onstrated the techniques |
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| (architect), 211-212 Guaranty Savings Bldg., Montgomery, Ala. ALASKA — "A discovery of free gold ore...material and breccia paralleled by a barren white quartz vein 6 feet wide. In the contact zone some 16 minerals...xline—crystalline ph—phosphorescence 3rd—Such quartz as has been observed in the immediate area is,...yellow gold and pale brassy-yellow pyrite in smoky quartz. Due to the large amount of chlorite the slab...xls are thinly coated with quartz. Associated with barite, fluorite, and quartz. The tunnel was filled with |
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| Geology of North Carolina. QE 147 .A22 1866-1887 Pt.2 V.2 Chap.1 Digitized by the Internet Archive...org/details/mineralsminerall01 nort n o o / Geology of North Carolina. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It F. A. GENTH...brought to a Pi 7 ? f 3 : GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA. 2 many new and rare species. The Mica veins...great many very interesting and unique forms of quartz crystals and rutiles, and has added a great number...collection of quartzes, he has “ one group of 13 smoky crystals, having 52 moveable bubbles and 9 basal |
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| 22092 573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute...Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types..................... Location 1 Montgomery County quartz...quartz deposits................. Other Montgomery County quartz mines.......... Crystal Vista collecting....... 2 Garland County quartz deposits......................... Miller Mountain Quartz Mine................ Ron Coleman Quartz Mine................................... Saline County quartz deposits........ |
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| good specimen of a Connecticut mineral. SOUTH CAROLINA Member Lou Dezseran told the Colum bia Gem and...Professor of Paleontology at the University of South Carolina, spoke and showed slides of Diatoms. They must...Society went to Liberty Hill, N.C. to look for smoky quartz of faceting grade. PENNSYLVANIA The Mineral...pyrites to the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills. Members Weldon and Edith Storey...Boston Mineral Club went to the Government Pits, North Conway, N.H. (Collecting permits from the White |
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| wood usually consists of the chalcedony variety of quartz that often preserves the original structure of...Chamberlain Creek Barite Deposit in Hot Springs County. The deposit lies between the Stanley Shale and...barite rock associated with quartz, calcite and barite. In Garland County, Dr. Brophy found miserite (natroxonothlite)...Jeffrey Quarry in North Little Rock yielded rectorite, an orange semi-liquid mineral, in quartz veins occupying...common at this locality. NORTH CAROLINA-From an old mine in Montgomery County Mrs. Mary G. Poole sent |
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| C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Silicates Quartz (Rock Crystal) (Amethyst) (Green quartz) (Cairngorm) (Blue quartz) (Rose quartz) (Star...(Star quartz) (Chalcedony) (Agate) (Prase) ' (Onyx) (Jasper) (Opal) Tridymitc Qf-Christobalitc Phcnakirc Olivine...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning |
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| grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |
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| grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |
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| Science Division, Belmont Abbey College Belmont, North Carolina Richard Mitchell Professor of Environmental...EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault University of South Carolina Frank Mayo Atlanta, Georgia Arthur J. Ehlmann...and Fossils o n Stamps Robert G. Myers 208 Smoky Quartz in the Libert y Hill Pegmatite Dick Dayvault...CZECHOSLOVAKlA July 1, 1974 1 c amethyst 2 c agate 3 c quartz 4 c niccolite 5 c moss agate 7 c agate 10 c stilbite...diamonds 25 c chrysotile 35 c jasper 50 c moss quartz 1 r citrine 2 r chalcopyrite August 8, 1968 30 |
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| Science Division, Belmont Abbey College Belmont, North Carolina Richard Mitchell Professor of Environmental...EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault University of South Carolina Frank Mayo Atlanta, Georgia Arthur J. Ehlmann...and Fossils o n Stamps Robert G. Myers 208 Smoky Quartz in the Libert y Hill Pegmatite Dick Dayvault...CZECHOSLOVAKlA July 1, 1974 1 c amethyst 2 c agate 3 c quartz 4 c niccolite 5 c moss agate 7 c agate 10 c stilbite...diamonds 25 c chrysotile 35 c jasper 50 c moss quartz 1 r citrine 2 r chalcopyrite August 8, 1968 30 |
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| jeffscovil@earthlink.net Figure 1. Quartz (4.8 cm) from Middleville, Herkimer County, New York. Joel and Jason...faces (fig. 5), but skeletal quartz (also called fenster or window quartz) (fig. 6) is an even better...basal faces (3.4 cm) from the North Geronimo mine, Trigo Montains, LaPaz County, Arizona. Dick Morris specimen...Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Don Windler specimen. Figure 6. Skeletal crystal of quartz (9.7 cm)...cm) from Treasure Mountain North, Manheim, Herkimer County, New York. Carl Francis specimen. 24 ROCKS |
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| Find at the State Pit Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston...Mountain located about 2 miles north of Mount Ida in Montgomery County. Arkansas has been mentioned in...1983). Most of these specimens have come from the County Continued on page 4 Fig. 1 Planerite with colorless...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...links, USGS Geographic Name Server, Street Atlas USA, etc. There are pages on Cleaning Minerals, and more |
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| informs us that the cave is located about y2 mile north of Cushman, Independence Co., Ark. A short article...specimens at the famous Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. I have just received a report from the...jasper. "The green chalcedony is from Marin County, north of San Francisco. It was picked up on a sma'l...ledge (Coyote Point). The chalcedony from Marin County is a beautiful dark green specimen. COLORADO—W...impure chalcedony, and cavities containing drusy quartz crystals which are brilliant and which fluoresce |
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| known for the occurrence of clear doubly terminated quartz crystals, also referred to as "'Herkimer diamonds...outcrops from Poland in eastern Onieda County to Fonda in Montgomery County, and laterally equivalent formations...occur as far east as Saratoga (Zenger, 198 1). The quartz crystals occur in cavities, some of which can be...variations in the morpho logy and quality of the quartz crys•als. and the abundance of associated minerals...with the quartz crystals. At the Eastern Rock Products quarry in St. Johnsville, Montgomery County the quartz |
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| vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all tributary branches |
