| | 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 | | | 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) | 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 (issue) | the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard | | | Report (issue) | ^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville, Virginia. Figure 7. Locations of mineral deposits in...mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre and Heyl , 19.60 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | usually near the epidote end member of the epidote-clinozoisite series, but this is not always the case (see...Ca2(Fe,Al)3(Si04)3(OH). It forms a series with clinozoisite [CajAl^SiO^-iOrl)] and, together with a group...Hampshire; and Willimantic, Windham County, and Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Gem-quality epidote...to 35 cm have been found at Eden Mills, Lamoille County, Vermont (a traditionally cited locality more accurately...described as the Belvidere Mountain quarry, Lowell, Orleans County). Epidote crystals to 5 cm have been | | Lyttle, Peter T., Aleinikoff, John N., Burton, William C., Crider, E. Allen, Drake, Avery A., Froelich, Albert J., Horton, J. Wright, Kasselas, Gregorios, Mixon, Robert B., McCartan, Lucy, Nelson, Arthur E., Newell, Wayne L., Pavlides, Louis, Powars, David S., Southworth, C. Scott, Weems, Robert E. (2017) Geologic map of the Washington West 30’ × 60’ quadrangle, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Open-File Report 2017-1142. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20171142 | Report (issue) | been radiometrically dated) PIEDMONT PROVINCE CULPEPER BASIN Zfcrr Zfsm Zfbh 37 Ypg 69 78 56 42...Oo 6 26 Kps 201.2 ±1.3 Ma Jdg Jmhs Jmm Culpeper Group Qbc Kpc Ty 199.3 ±3.0 Ma CRETACEOUS...Allen Crider Jr. (2012–2017) 8 10 KILOMETERS 9 VIRGINIA MAP LOCATION Tc Calvert and (or) Choptank Formations...78° Blue Ridge Province Piedmont Province Culpeper Basin Coastal Plain Province 1. Nelson (1997) 2...the southern part of the Culpeper basin and the Barboursville basin, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey | | | Report (issue) | Geologic map of the Loudoun County portion of the Middleburg quadrangle, Virginia by Stephen W. Kline1 ...accompanies J~~" Prepared in cooperation with Loudoun County Department of Natural Resources This report is...the Loudoun County Department of Natural Resources. George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia 22030 2U...2U.S. Geological Survey Reston, Virginia 22092 The Culpeper basin portion of this map is based on the...Miscellaneous Investigation Series maps of the Culpeper basin (MI-1313; parts A-J) were published between | | | Report (volume) | to some aspects of the geology of the Culpeper basin of Virginia. The editors are grateful to the authors...stratigraphic section through the northern Newark basin, New Jersey 19 By MichaelS. Fedosh and Joseph P...of early Mesozoic rocks of the northern Newark basin, New Jersey and New York 31 By R.A. Parker, H.F...and Deep Run basins in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia 40 By Eleanora I. Robbins and Robert E. Weems...phytoclasts of the Newark Supergroup in the Hartford basin 68 By R.K. Kotra, R.M. Gottfried, E.C. Spiker, L | | | Report (issue) | Sand from Six wells, Alexandria City and Fairfax County, Virginia By Roy C. Lindholm O?en-File Report...Sand from 5 ix Wells, Alexandria City and Fairfax County, Virginia By Roy C. Li ndho 1m:': INTRO~UCTION...fran six wells in Alexandria City and Fairfax Col.nty, Virginia CND, no data; Kps, Cretaceous PotaDac...2 - 38 4 20 -- 1 3 2 'a) Zoisite(?) or clinozoisite(?)- uncertain identification . . ... no X-ray...sand from wells in Alexandria City and Fairfax County, Virginia ~ Q) c: Ill Q) ..CQ) u ~"' Q) | | | Journal (issue) | 7:45pm at LBNC 26 Oct. Field Trip Hunting Hill Quarry 13 Nov. NVMC Board Mtg 22-23 Nov. NVMC Mineral...calcite w/ Hydrochloric acid to reveal hidden Clinozoisite. He also mentioned fluorescents found at SuperDig...beautiful Garnets and Sphene from the Rockville quarry. Holt talked about the Poland Mining Camp in Maine...Sims My dear friend, Georgia, lives in Lynchburg, Virginia. She is a gem of a person. In a conversation we...Hill Quarry 26 October, 2008 This quarry contains garnets, calcite (some fluorescent) clinozoisite, etc | | | 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 | | | Journal (issue) | COMMONWEAL TH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY Richmond, Virginia Published quarterly...GRENVILLE-AGE ULTRAMAFIC PLUTONS IN THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE Stephen W. Kline, Arkansas Mining &...Earth Systems Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030. Michael Kunk, U.S. Geological Survey...the Grenvillegranitoid basement terrane of the Virginia Blue Ridge, age granitoid basement terrane in...northern Middleburg quadrangle, Virginia. Primary magmatic textures Virginia~ The first documentation of | | | Journal (issue) | Board of Directors. The new address is: Northern Virginia Mineral Club PO Box 9851 Alexandria, VA 22304...a parent or legal guardian. This is a hard rock quarry and you will need steel toed boots, hard hat, safety...Inside this issue: Field Trip Report Hunting Hill Quarry 2 GMMC Report NVMC Mineral Show Chesapeake Min...Hunting Hill Quarry May 4th, 2008 By Robert Winsor This years first visit to the Hunting Hill Quarry, aka the...the Rockville Crushed Stone Quarry, had a total of 29 members attending. There was an initial limit on | | | Journal (issue) | location and set a date by coordinating with the quarry or mine while being sure to leave your contact...LBNC 27-28 Sept. Gem Cutters Guild Show, Howard County Fairgrounds 09 Oct. NVMC Board Mtg 27 Oct. NVMC...contacted the museum person by phone from our home in Virginia. The situation was straightened out, and we are...there are many hands. A “Laker” Exhibit From A Virginia Collector Wayne Sukow, Prez. THE MINERAL NEWSLETTER...LBNC 27-28 Sept. Gem Cutters Guild Show, Howard County Fairgrounds 09 Oct. NVMC Board Mtg 27 Oct. NVMC | | | Report (volume) | Serpentinite and Rodingite in the Hunting Hill Quarry, Montgomery County, Maryland By DAVID M. LARRABEE GEOLOGICAL...BULLETIN 1283 Description of rocks exposed in the quarry near the center of the Hunting Hill ultramafite...Montgomery County, Md ____ In pocket 2. Geologic map of the Hunting Hill serpentinite quarry __ In pocket...pluton, Montgomery County, Md______________ 3 2. Photograph of the Hunting Hill quarry, 1966___________...Hunting Hill quarry--------------4. List of minerals identified from the Hunting Hill quarry __ 5. Structuraltrends | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Humboldt County, Nevada, as well as some new area east of their Mosquite mine in Im perial County, California...cookeite at the Stand on Your Head #1 mine in Saline County. The cookeite occurs as nearly featureless botryoids...still being found at the Coon Creek mine in Polk County, but the finds are not as prolific as in former...aesthetics. He has found several species in Litchfield County which have not been reported in Sohon's book on...lent examples of both zoisite ( X R D ) and clinozoisite (XRD) associated with quartz and plagioclase | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | AND VIRGINIA. J. D. BURFOOT, SOAPSTONE • JR. THE talc, steatite,and soapstone of Virginia all occurin...Cartersville Granite 1 Publishedby permissionof the Virginia GeologicalSurvey. Presentedbefore the Societyof...soapstone depositsof Virginia, whichwill be publishedas a bulletinof the Virginia GeologicalSurvey. 2Jonas...I., "GeologicReconnaissance in the Piedmontof Virginia," Bull. Geol. $oc. ,4rner., vol. 38, pp. 837-846;...837-846; Dec.,' I927. s Geologicmap of Virginia, Virginia Geol. Survey, •928. 805 806 .L D. BURFOOT, JR | | | Book (volume) | beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep | | | Report (issue) | largely in Howard County, Maryland. The northeasternmost part is in Baltimore County, Maryland and about...about 0.03 square miles is in Anne Arundel County. Most of the area is suburban and almost all outcrops...siliceous shale. Some quartzose beds contain clinozoisite (Drake, 1998) and are probably metamorphosed...Formation must have been deposited in a deep, quiet basin as there is no evidence of current activity in the...consists of the Baltimore Complex. In Baltimore County, the Baltimore Complex consists of the Mount Washington | | | Report (issue) | Montgomery County, Md. Bennison and Milton (1954) mapped adjacent parts of Fairfax County, Va. The map...metamorphic grade continues into northwestern Montgomery County, where Cloos' mapping (Cloos and Cooke, 1953) shows...lineation is conspicuous throughout eastern Montgomery County, where 'Cloos (Cloos and Cooke, 1953) mapped large...chlorite-muscovite gneiss that crops out ores, epidote, and clinozoisite. Irregular flakes of dark- east of the Anglers...Formation from central Monthave oligoclase rims. gomery County northward to the type area. (See pi. 1.) Near the | | | Book | United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of...ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Temperature Types Vermont Mineral Products Company Quarry, Chester, Vt.. . Holden SoapstoneQuarry southeast...Pennsylvania' across Maryland, and into Fairfax County, Virginia' On the east bank of the Susquehanna'...hydrothermal solutions. Vermont Mineral Proilucts Company Quarry, Chester,Vt' At this locality the entire mass of...minerals-pyrite, ilmenite, magnetite, titanite, clinozoisite, rutile, tourmaline, allanite, and several unidentified...disappears and plagioclase (oligoclase), biotite, clinozoisite increasenotablv. as do chlorite and rutile. | | | Catalog/List | THAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway 59 BOEHMITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Brown-purple mass in matrix Creamy...--· - . . - - ------ -·-··-·-· ---·7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway 696 CHROME DIOPSIDE...lx2 £15 lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 126 DIASPORE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen. Norway 1060 KORNERUPINE Bjordammcn,...lxl 90p lx2 £1.80 2x2 £4 Mica 295 NATROLITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Orange to red in feldspar.(Hydrothcrmal...ofNcpheline) lxl £1 lx2£2.SO Zcolite 296 NATROLITE · Saga Quarry, Tvedalcn Norway · Rich creamy masses with possible | | | Report (issue) | l-A. Sierra Blanca limestone in Santa Barbara County, CaliW. Walker. 1950. 5 pp., 1 pi. Price 25*. ...Price 25tf. Commercial "black granite" of San Diego County, California, by Richard A. Hoppin and L. A. Norman...of the San Dieguito pyrophyllite area, San Diego County, California, by Richard H. Jahns and John F. Lance...Price 25*. Geology of Bitterwater Creek area, Kern County, California, by Henry H. Heikkila and George M...lithium-bearing pegmatites of the Pala district, San Diego County, California, by Richard H. Jahns and Lauren A. |
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