 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...on prehnite, 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 of Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S...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 (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) | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | 04237. The Crooker gem pegmatite, Newry, Oxford County, Maine, has been mined sporadically since 1930...occurrence in the United States at Mineville (Essex County). The mineral was identified in a sample collected...Monazite-(Ce) was found at Batchellerville and Overlook quarry in the southern Adirondacks and in some small pegmatite...Polycrase-(Y) was described from Day pegmatite, Saratoga County. It occurs as small, dark greenish to brownblack...found near Long Lake, Hamilton County, and Trout Brook Valley, Essex County, in the Adirondacks. Chemical |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | page X) In this issue … Mineral of the month: Prehnite .......... p. 4 April program details .......... Bank manager finds diamond.............. p. Prehnite From Southbury, Connecticut Bench Tip: Depth... Mineral of the Month Happy Easter! Prehnite by Sue Marcus Prehnite is our Mineral of the Month for April...it in Virginia, and more of us can seek it when we return to field collecting. Although prehnite is relatively...Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, No in-person social events for now! The first prehnite to be described |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Consequently, most collectors are familiar with prehnite, typically as pale green botryoidal or reniform...New Jersey, or Centreville, Virginia. Recently, however, extraordinarily fine prehnite specimens have...for its most famous locality, Tsumeb. One such prehnite specimen has been nominated for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...Connoisseur’s Choice (see fig.). Prehnite is best known in shades of green that vary from pale to very...it exhibits a vitreous-to-weak pearly luster. Prehnite has cleavages on [ 001 ) and { 110) that are good |  | | Report (volume) | | assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland , North Carolina, and other Eastern...Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina, and South Carolina...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle...of entries, the basin name and the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle...are not restricted to an exposed early Mesozoic basin. The term "regional" indicates that the reference |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bull Run Quarry Loudoun County, Virginia H O W A R D R. F R E E L A N D 10340 Hollyberry Drive Richmond...Richmond, Virginia 23234 Most collectors are familiar with fine prehnite, apophyl lite, and zeolite specimens...Narsavage, 1977), and at the Fairfax quarry near Centreville, Virginia (Medici, 1972; Mitchell, 1977)...are several other "trap" quarries in northern Virginia which have yielded beautiful and sometimes rare...environments. Bull Run quarry located in Loudoun County, Virginia, is one such quarry. To date, nearly twenty |  | | 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) | | material available in recent years from a basalt quarry at Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India. The specimen is...produced from the French Creek Iron mines in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Spectacular groups of pearly white...medium green prehnite were collected in 1967 from large tubelike cavities in a trap-rock quarry at Centreville...Centreville, Fairfax County, Virginia (Medici 1972). Interestingly, the type locality for hydroxyapophyllite...Ore Knob massive sulfide copper deposit in Ash County, North Carolina, where surprisingly good crystal |  | | Journal (issue) | | INDUSTRY OF VIRGINIA IN 1974' ADVANCE SUMMARY Total value of mineral production in Virginia in 1974 was...value increased. Table 1. -Mineral production in Virginia. Stone, the second-ranking mineral commodity...cooperative agreement between the Bureau and the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources. 1 1973 Mineral...producers). 2 ~ e v i s e dfrom value given in Virginia Minerals, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 29, November 1974...346 - 2 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES Vol. 22 THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF VIRGINIA IN 1975 PRELIMINARY |  | | Report (issue) | | Prehnite Ca2Al2 Si3 O10 (OH)2 ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic...In the USA, from Paterson, Passaic Co., and Bergen Hill, Hudson Co., New Jersey; in the Fairfax quarry...quarry, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Virginia; in the Roncari quarry, East Granby, Hartford Co., Connecticut;...Connecticut; in the Hampden quarry, West Spring¯eld, Hampden Co., Massachusetts. Fine crystals in the Je®rey mine... Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. From the Khandivali quarry, Bombay, Maharashtra, India. In Copper Valley, |  | | Journal (issue) | | DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...moonstone, and topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise crystals, and the...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Goose Creek quarry, Virginia, USA. 2.931 (10b), 4.06 (7b), 7.37 (6), 5.81...1.3 0.2 [11.8] [100.0] (1) Goose Creek quarry, Virginia, USA; by electron microprobe, H2 O by di®erence;...alteration of diabase. Association: Ancylite, epidote, prehnite, chlorite, actinolite, stilbite, albite, zircon...Creek quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun Co., and the Fairfax quarry, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Virginia, USA. Name:...Co., Virginia, USA. Type Material: National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, 149397 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Associated minerals include calcite, quartz, prehnite, danburite, axinite, garnet, and the zeolites...as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite. Crystals from this...Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts; fine specimens were also found at the Notch quarry at nearby Amherst...al. 1980) and quarries at Prospect Park, Passaic County, are noted for datolite; datolite clusters and...in the Braen quarry, Haledon; the Francisco quarry at Great Notch; and the Riverside quarry, Totowa, also |  | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mary Lynn White Minerals of the Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Virginia................ John C. Medici ...universi ties in the area, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, California Institute...314-726-2236). amlier linritc on ijolilen csilcite! mcailc county* south ilakotn Extensive mining of six miles of...workings. In the 1870’s the Trigo Mountains, Yuma County, Ari zona occurrences were discovered. The list...analysis. The vanadinite is from the Apache mine, Gila County, Arizona, and the arsenopyrite is from Zacatecas |  | | Report (issue) | | basalts. Association: Zeolites, apophyllite, prehnite, calcite, quartz, \chalcedony." Distribution:...Maharashtra, from the Syhadree Mountains; the Bombay quarry, Bombay; around Poona; and in the Nasik and Kolhapur...In the USA, at Crestmore, Riverside Co., California; in the Fairfax quarry, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Virginia;...Virginia; and at Skookumchuck Dam, near Bucoda, Thurston Co., Washington. In the Je®rey mine, Asbestos |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...mines of Chester and from near Norwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; various other Massachusetts epidote...locality near Roseville, Sussex County. Epidote is widespread in the Virginia Piedmont and Blue Ridge Provinces |  | | Report (issue) | | and C.M. Sears U.S. Geological Survey Reston, Virginia 22092 Open-File Report 92-448 This report is...Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Section A: Occurrences located north of the Hartford basin, New Hampshire ...................... .67 B. Section...Section B: Occurrences located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts .................... ...Section C: Occurrences located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Connecticut ..................... |  | | 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....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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East D e r r y , N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 (PART INTRODUCTION...mines in Virginia, north of the James River, with the ex ceptions as follows: Albemarle County was very...northern Virginia. Maps used were the U.S.G.S. Topo graphical Sheets. Also used were the county road maps...of H i g h w a y s Richmond, Virginia The price is 2 0 cents per county. Other states could well follow...very high grade iron. Credit should be given the Virginia Department of Mineral Resources in Charlottesville |
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Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Culpeper Basin, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA