 | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...localities: The Bishop copper prospect near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia . . . . . . . ....Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...2002 National Officers President Susan Eriksson, Virginia Tech, 1013 Draper Road, Blacksburg, VA 24060 540-231-5360...localities: THE BISHOP COPPER PROSPECT near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia Henry Barwood Route |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1545 1967 LITHIOPHORITE }'ROM CHARLOTTESVILLE,VIRGINIA Rrcnano S. Mrrcnnrr AND RoBERTE. Mn'rrqrznn, U...Li)MnO2(OH)2, has been found in Charlottesville, Virginia. Coatings of the mineral are very abundant on...Apparently lithiophorite is a common mineral in Virginia. X-ray analyses of miscellaneousblack crusts have...Amelia County; Bishop turquoise mine, Lynch Station, Campbell County; qtartz mine in Fluvanna County (just...of Scottsville, Albemarle County); old Tellurium gold mine, Fluvanna County; and the Eureka manganesemine |  | | Journal (issue) | | THE PIEDMONT OF VIRGINIA James L. Poole INTRODUCTION The Piedmont province of Virginia is bordered on...or zinc occurrences in the Piedmont province of Virginia. , k (1) The mineralized district in Prince...planes, and are most common in the northern part of Virginia. Also, several small copper, lead, or zinc prospects...north-central Virginia. These rocks, mapped as the upper part of the Glenarm Series in northern Virginia by Higgins...Arvonia Formation of Buckingham County (Brown, 1969). Base-metal and gold deposits in this belt were mined |  | | Report (issue) | | PISTOLS v the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color...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) | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | Groups only. Fee: $3.50. Phone (907) 586-1785 Jade, gold, serpentine, quartz, asbestos, rhodonite, chrysoprase...lbs., 400/lb. over 100 lbs. Black Mountain Opal Mine. Write Lander's Turquoise, 321 East Andy Devine...Phone (501) 262-2058. Fee: $2.00. Coleman Crystal Mine, Jessleville. AR 71949. Fee: $2-00. Under 12 yrs*...year. Free camping. **John Moundy, Mt. Ida. AR. Mine on High Peak Mountain. Ocus Stanly, P.0. Box I63...Adults $2.00;6—16$1•00, under 6 free. **Rush Zinc Mine, Fred Dirst, Guide, Yellville, AR 72687. Black |  | | Report (issue) | | geologic map of the Black Coulee quadrangle, Rosebud County, Montana. Reston, Va. : U.S. Geological Survey...map of the Moon Creek School quadrangle, Custer County, Montana. Reston, Va. : U.S. Geological Survey...map of the Donleys Reservoir quadrangle, Rosebud County, Montana. Reston, Va. : U.S. Geological Survey...potential of the Impassable Bay Roadless Area, Columbia County, Florida. Reston, Va. : U.S. Geological Survey...87-4162 Diffendal, Robert Geology'of Rock Creek Station State Historical iAWUwl. L» J.Francis. L. diiC: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Virginia by RICHARD S. MITCHELL Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...same county. I t also has been observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and...world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is coated...radioactive. The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin |  | | Journal (issue) | | LuminescentPhantom Quartz From Hudson,St. Croix County,Wisconsin William S. Cordua Dept. Plant and Earth...November-December, 1997 near Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin has revealed some unexpectedly interesting...reached from Interstate 94. One takes Exit 2, marked County F and Carmichael Road, then turns south on Cannichael...83816-2043 Montgomery at the "Little Green Monster" Mine Fairfield, Utah 1937 A 96 page treatise based upon...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com |  | | Journal (issue) | | M i i Quartz var. Rock XI. From Jack Steele's Mine, Black Rapids, Lyndhurst, Ont., Canada. In collection...540 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Localities In Virginia — Palmer C. Sweet . . Wyoming’s Mystery Mummy................ The Micromountcrs Corner — Betty Lynch Williams Publications Recently Received .................................. Old Cook and Brown Gold Mine Open to Public 506, 569, 574 511 515 523 528... COMING EVENTS Sept. 28, 29, 1974 — Roanoke, Virginia. Roanoke Gem and Mineral Show at Roanoke Civic |  | | Book | | ) —History. 3. Gold mines and mining—Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)—History. 4. Gold mines and mining—Amargosa...MoreE Lost THAN FOUND Los Chaguanosos The Trail to Gold “Into the Jaws of Hell” A Hard Lesson Gunsight Silver...Borax Bonanza GOLD AND GAS The Montgomery Brothers Bullfrog! Mysterious Scott Heart of Gold A Copper Frenzy...Indians and horse thieves, lost argonauts and lost mine hunters, prospectors and promoters, miners and millionaires...the illusions—the illusions of a shortcut to the gold diggings that lured the forty-niners, of inescapable |  | | Book | | Nevada forms the border line between the two metals, gold prevailing on the Western slope and silver on the...Builders 1. SILVER IS KING! Just as California's Gold Rush faded. the fabulous Comstock strike drew thousands...California. 2. BELSHAW'S MILLIONS Silver, like gold, is where you find it. As early as 1860, pioneer...cleared they were still the bullion kings of Inyo County, but the un- derground prize was playing out....creating a cluster of mining towns and a new Alpine County in the crown of the Sierra. In 1867, as the Alpine |  | | Report (volume) | | 1-8, 1898. Cambridge, Mass. Hawaiian Experiment Station, Lavas and soils of the Hawaiian Islands, 1898... Note on the physiography and geology of Kings County, Nova Scotia. Ottawa Nat., vol. xii, pp. 149-150...149-150,1898. Gives brief notes on the geology of the county. 14 - The mastodon in western Ontario. Abstract...(C. I.). The volcanic rock of Alum Hill, Boulder County [Colorado]. Colo. Sci. Soc., Proc., vol. v, pp...92. 19 Austin (W. L.). Copper deposits of Mora County, New Mexico. Abstract, Eng. and Mg. Jour., vol |  | | Journal (issue) | | West there was a different kind of excitement. The gold rush of '49 had quieted down and it was now silver...California, just west of the Nevada State line in Mono County, the mining camps of Montgomery City and Blind...remote and little-known ghost camps of eastern Mono County. The jumping-off place to visit either Montgomery...Montgomery City or Blind Spring Hill is Benton Station, once a stop on the Carson and Colorado Railroad. This...miles north of Bishop on U. S. Highway 6. Do not, however, confuse the Benton Station of today with the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Williams showed and talked of stones on a local T V station. . . . Field Trip Chairman Howard Shipp of the...Lapidary and Mineral Society of Prince Georges County, Hyattsville, has scheduled twenty-four field trips...Frederick County Rock and Mineral Club, Frederick, made an early spring trip to the Bishop mine, Lynch Station...demonstrating his talk with lapidary work done by himself. VIRGINIA The Bristol Gem and Mineral Society has undertaken...located in that delightful town that straddles the Virginia-Tennes see border, but happens to have a Vir |  | | Report (volume) | | the James River-Roanoke River Manganese District Virginia GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1008 Geology...oftheJatnes River-Roanoke River Manganese District Virginia By GILBERT H. ESPENSHADE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ...____________ __________ ___________ Schoolhouse mine and nearby prospects_ _ _ ______ __ _______ StonewalL___...property_____________________________________ Campbell County__________________________________________...________________ Prospects between Joshua Creek mine and Old Tavern prospect________________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1911, “up” Cane Branch near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina. His lean and sinewy frame suggested...five to ten miles over the hills to a prospect or mine, labor until dark, and then walk home, only to repeat...afterward. In fact, hardly any roads existed in Yancey County in those days, only well-worn foot trails. No wonder...began his career driving steel in a local pegmatite mine for ten cents an hour. He soon moved up to a higher-paying...hand-cobbing feldspar for the Bowditch Feldspar mine. This work required separating the spar from the |  | | Report (volume) | | further subdivided by geographic areas (State and county) and by subjects, which include general, geology...the White Mountains, Mono County, Calif., and near Hawthorne, Mineral County, Nev. KYANITE Kyanite generally...extending from Virginia to Alabama. They occur at Baker Mountain, Prince Edward County, and Willis Mountain...Mountain, Buckingham County, in Virginia, and at Henry Knob, near Clover, York County, S.C. These are the...in Humboldt Queen Canyon, near Oreana, Pershing County, Nev., however, is the only known commercial deposit |  | | Report (volume) | | Annals, vols. 9, 10. New York, N. Y. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Memoirs, vol. 8; Occasional Papers, vol...for 1919-20; Bulletin no. 23. Burlington, Vt. Virginia Geological Survey: Bulletin, nos. 21, 22. Charlottesville...EXAMINED. 7 West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Nicholas County, Tucker County. Morgantown,...13-18, 2 figs., map, 1921. 10. The occurrence of gold at Herb Lake [Manitoba]: Canadian Inst. Min. and...30, 1921. 12. Geology of Lemieux township, Gaspe County, Quebec: Canada, Geol. Survey, Summ. Rept., 1921 |  | | Journal (issue) | | December 31-January 1 — Annual Pegleg Smith Lost Gold Trek and Liar's Contest. Borrego Valley, California...n d Minerals 33 LOST GOLD A n n o u n c e m e n t of a n n u a l Pegleg Gold Trek a n d Liar's Contest...wheel disturbed the surviving store and service station. In silence of Main street. addition, his store...its delta stretches across the No one knows when gold first was discovered in Nevada's Tule Canyon. The...occasionally they find sizeable nuggets which survived the gold rush of an earlier period. California-Nevada state |  | | Report (issue) | | ..................................... 15 Clark County Gem Collectors, Inc............................................................ 31-32 El Dorado County Mineral & Gem Society............................... 35-36 Gem and Mineral Society of San Mateo County, Inc .................................................................................. 47 Kern County Mineral Society, Inc................................................................... 50 Lake County Diamond Mineral Society....................... |  | | Report (issue) | | HYDROTHERMAL AND MAGMATIC MINERAL DEPOSITS Page Magma, Mine,;Superior (oo. ciges Rocttactek ors eno os es snl...2: cue Sesotho ehaed ee ey A lates, coer eae enn BISHOP sist Beccte hae Gri stn iss cin le dkceo eee eessoc...NevadaiGity —'Grass: Valley) iter ore ae ee Shasta County a eee cere asses ee avs Oe ee COlOTAMGS ee Pie...one mine to another within the district are so generally the same that what is said of one mine will...Geologica d’Italia Metasomatische Probleme (Book) Mine and Quarry Engineering Mineral Deposits of South |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Gold nugget, 7.67 troy ounces, Fairbanks mining region, Alaska, USA. Donated in 1977 by Arthur...Cook photo. The Occurrence and Characteristics of GOLD NUGGETS AND MASSES ROBERT B. COOK Department of...com HE COMMON IMAGE OF A GOLD NUGGET is that of a rounded piece of gold just plucked from a pan or...consistent with even the most generic definitions of gold nugget found in most general reference works and...naturally occurring gold.” As any collector knows, that could be just about any gold specimen with little |
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