 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l |  | | Journal (issue) | | February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed |  | | Report (issue) | | the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound |  | | Journal (issue) | | No. 1 LARGE ANDALUSITE CRYSTALS FROM CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINLA Richard S. Mitchell1,William F. Giannini2...veins at a previously unknown site in Campbell County, Virginia (Giannini and others, 1986; Figure 1). Although...lengths to 31.8 cm and prism face widths to 18cm (Virginia Division of Mineral Resources R-8947). Unaltered...observed in petrographic studies of thin sections of Virginia rocks (Reed and Jolly, 1963; Smith and others...east of Lynch Station in southern Campbell County, Virginia. The Universal Transverse Mercator (U.T.M |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Large Andalusite Crystals from Campbell County, Virginia: Their Alteration to Kyanite and Sillimanite...H E L L Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 W I L L I A M F . GIANNINI...N PENICK, JR. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 D U R I...veins at a previously unknown site in Campbell County, Virginia (Giannini et a l . , 1986). A l though many...lengths to 31.8 cm and prism face widths to 18 cm (Virginia Department of Mineral Resources #R-8947). Unaltered |  | | Journal (issue) | | DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...amazonite, fine moonstone, and topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise...minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which have been used as gemstones and decora...report. Many of the localities will be familiar to Virginia mineral collectors. Someof the areas mentioned...collect minerals. There has been much written on Virginia mineral localities but no reports are available |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at 14:35 04 June 2016 New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group...representative of a garnet from Deshong’s quarry, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, that can barely be considered almandine...found at several mines near Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, particularly the Standpipe Hill quarry...collected at Mount Apatite near Auburn, Androscoggin County; and the Bumpus quarry, ROCKS & MINERALS 244-253...the Melrose and nearby mines at Stoneham, Oxford County. Phenomenal trapezohedral almandine crystals exhibiting |  | | Journal (issue) | | Richmond, Virginia VOL. 45 FEBURARY 1999 NO. 1 MAMMOTH TOOTH FOUND IN ENDLESS CAVERNS, VIRGINIA David...David A. Hubbard, Jr., Virginia Division of Mineral Resources and Frederick Grady, National Museum of Natural...a passage of Endless Caverns in Rockingham County, Virginia in July 1996. The cavers left the tooth in...within the Commonwealth. GEOLOGIC SETTING 2 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF h4INERAL RESOURCES Figure 1:Mammoth...Pleistocene (100,000 bp to 11,000bp). PREVIOUS VIRGINIA MAMMOTH RECORDS Figure 2: Fred Grady preparing |  | | Journal (issue) | | yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard |  | | Book | | Gustavovich beautifully presented One of the Virginia It emerald round diamonds and Colombian cabochons...and weighs 235.5 carats, morganite rough Diego County, California, weigh Lea Collection), and from...Properties be the largest a was story Angeles County and photographs prepared from a 6,021- International... Residenz the Lillian of Russian Imperial Virginia Leipzig. London; 167 pp. Pratt Collection...35 x while etching cleavage etched green County, California; 138 The basal face is has cracks |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its |  | | Book (edition) | | color and spherical triangular outline. San Diego County, California. Fia. 308. Agate. Brazil. and sharply...encountered in the Minnesota mine in Ontonagon County, Michigan. MINERALOGY 250 Due to tarnish and...South American countries; near Bunkerville, Clark County, Nevada; in the gold sands of North Carolina; and...localities are the Boling dome area. in Wharton County, Texas, and the Grande Ecaille dome, Louisiana...was made on Aug. 1, 1906, near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. The occurrence here is strikingly similar |  | | Book (volume) | | Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey," by Charles Palache. U. S. Geol. Sur...Oregon. Placer County, Calif. Breckenridge, Oolo. Breckenridge, Colo. Placer County, Calif. Habit...found along the Appalachians in the states of Virginia, North and South The more important localities...of the Sierra Nevada and stretches from Mariposa County for more than 100 miles toward the The veins occur...chiefly from the Homestake mine at Lead in Lawrence County. In Alaska the most important lode mines are in |  | | Book (edition) | | forms a very small industry at Brandon in Suffolk County. Grindstones and Pulpstones. The production of...restricted to the .state of Washington and We.st Virginia. Manu¬ factured abrasives liave become a coinjietitor...principally in the vicinity of Hot Springs, Garland County, are of two varieties: Arkansas stone, which is...grindings. Indiana. The .satulstones of Orange County, Ind., furnish a whetstone known as the Ilindoslan...produced are Berea and Euclid, Cuyahoga County, and Grafton, Lorain County. The Deerliek stone is produced at |  | | Book (edition) | | Currier Susie Davis Ray DeMark Paul Desautels Virginia Deshler Mary Dodds Adolph F. Dosse Steve G. Dulla...the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode...lode , Su1nmit County . rt is also found in Canada, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Acanthite is |  | | Book (edition) | | Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double Header lode, Summit County, and in | | | Book (edition) | | Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M |  | | Report (issue) | | Perce Counties __________ _ Idaho CountY-----------------Valley CountY-----------------Adams, Payette,...and Gem Counties ________________________ _ Boise County ___ --------------Ada, Owyhee, Elmore, and Custer...Spruce Pine district ____________ Madison County and Haywood County _____________________ _ Zirconia district...monazite belt in the Piedmont province __ Stokes County and Surry County_ Wilkes, Alexander, Catawba, Caldwell...Rutherford County and Cleveland County __ --------------Lincoln County and Gaston County _____________________ |  | | Book (edition) | | outline. San Fig. 308. AgaLe. Brazil. Diego County, California. In allochromatic minerals the color...encountered in the Minnesota mine in Ontonagon County, l\.lichigan. Descriptive Mineralogy 261 reddish...A1nerican countric. ; near Bunkervill e, Clark County, .01' evu.da; in the gold sands of 1.; orth C.1rolina...producing localities are the Boling dome in Wharton County, Texas, and the Grande Ecaille dome, Louisiana...rnacle on Aug. 1, 1906, near lVIurfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. The occurrence here is strikingly sin1ilar |  | | Book (edition) | | small chain, consist of a series of nearly In Virginia there parallel ridges. are, beginning at the...by Mather, Columbia slate region of Fig. 89. County, N. Y. Occasionally, the lines of deposition are...which may add a few thousands to the amount. In Virginia, the thickIn Indiness is still greater but no...Fig. 204. Fig. 205. — by Emmons, from Essex County, N. Y. 1 is hypersthene rock, or hypersthenyte...of Dutchess County, N. Y., and'New Jersey, and the Blue Ridge of Pennsylvania and Virginia a long Rocky |  | | Report (volume) | | has been extracted from the brine wells of West Virginia and Michigan. The bromide and chlorobromide of...Collins. J. Shcnandoah River at Millville, West Virginia. Composite of 30 samples, September 12, 1906,...important tributaries. L. James River at Richmond, Virginia. Composite of 36 samples, September 10, 1906,...partial'analyses of tributaries of the James near Lexington, Virginia. See also an analysis of James River water by...(Bulletin 330). M. Dan River at South Boston, Virginia. Composite of 21 samples, September 3, 1906, to |  | | Journal (volume) | | —Canada—Emery in Greece—The Emery Deposits of Westchester County, N. Y. (by Edwin C. Eckel, p. 15)—Peekskill Emery...California—Indian Territory—Kentucky—Utah—West Virginia—Asphal¬ tum in Foreign Countries—Argentina—World’s...1900—Alabama—Illinois—Maryland—Ohio—Penn¬ sylvania—West Virginia—Statistics of the Coal Production of the Chief...Ore—California—Colorado—Georgia—Michigan—Pennsylvania —Virginia—World’s Production of Manganese Ore—The Production...Mexico — South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Virginia — Wyoming— Argentina — Brazil—Chile—Peru— A |
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