 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Phosphate Minerals in the Vesuvius, Virginia, Area and Notes on the Type Locality of Rockbridgeite HENRY...Z E L A Z N Y Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 Top: Kidwellite...100/im. Both specimens are from the Dixie mine near Vesuvius, Virginia. 20 ROCKS AND MINERALS There are...foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Vesuvius, Virginia. Iron and manganese ores were mined intermittently...intermittently for over a century in this area, and the Dixie mine was once the largest producer of iron ore in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | fee basis for people interested in collecting in Virginia. All the listed localities were open to the public...available at the mine (except for Chestnut Ridge). - AMETHYST SITE AMHERST COUNTY The amethyst site...miles southeast of Amherst, Amherst County, about 1.0 mile off the south side of State Road 659approximately...operated by Mrs.Charles R. Schaar of Amherst, Virginia, telephone (804) 946-5721. The collecting fee...BERYL MZNE AMELIA COUNTY The Beryl mine is located 3.8 miles east of.Amelia* Amelia County, off the southwest |  | | 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...the classic locality which is on Little Friar Mountain, near Albite {cleavelandite variety). Cleavelandite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | No. 12 THE DUFRENITE LOCALITY AT MIDVALE, ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY. VIRGINIA SAMUEL G. GORDON Acaderny of Natural...Natural Sci,ences of Philadelphia The Virginia locality of the rare mineral dufrenite is generally designated...designated in collections as "Rockbridge County,Ya." Writers affecting greater precision have given it...Ridge, about lf kilometers (one mile) southeast of Midvale,-a small station on the Norfolk and Western R....Small dumps just yrest of the South River road, about a kilometer south of the station, serve to locate |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE DIXIE MINE Rockbridge County, Virginia The Dixie mine in Rockbridge County, Virginia, has yielded...including cacoxenite, dufrenite, kidwelUte, rockbridgeite, and strengite. Figure 1: Dixie iron mine, circa...circa 1900 (Watson, 1907). Rockbridge (ount> L A N C E E . KEARNS Department of Geology James Madison...Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 D. A L L E N P E N I C K Virginia Division of Mineral Resources...Resources P.O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 Figure 2: Locality map. 42 ROCKS & MINERALS T H |  | | Report (issue) | | huréaulite, dufrénite, bermanite, stewartite, cacoxenite, rockbridgeite, vivianite, apatite, leucophosphite...Czech Republic. In Sweden, from the Leveäniemi mine, Svappavaara, and in the Kiruna iron mines. At Iglesias...Portugal. In the Bomi Hill Caves, Liberia. In the USA, from the Palermo #1 and Fletcher mines, near North...New Hampshire; at Midvale, Rockbridge Co., Virginia; large crystals from Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co.,...Creek mine, Polk Co., Arkansas; in the Wood mine, Cooke Co., Tennessee; from the Bull Moose mine, five |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS (PART GOOCHLAND By PHILIP East Derry, COUNTY In N edge of the James R...Lakeside Village (15), and the following (7V2) South Anna, Goochland, Perkinsville, Johnson Springs,...Extensive gold mining formerly on ex treme W and county line around Rte 605 to Rte 606. There are several...deep. Bell Shaft. Garden Wall M. Shaft. FLUVANNA COUNTY 2 / 2 M i 4 4 2 2 ROCKS AND MINERALS ...im portant operation in either county and as it is located on the county line can be ascribed to Goochland |  | | Journal (issue) | | FEBRUARYJMAY 1994 NO. 1 & 2 MINERALS OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. INTRODUCTION RockbridgeCountyhas...Figure 1.LocationmapofRockbridgeCounty,Virginia. reported from the county. Rockbridgecounty is one of the more...more prolific mineralcollectingareasin Virginia. A largepercentageof the mineralsare concentratedin threeareas:...green epidote,and g a y quartz along with other mine& in minor producedexcellentpyritecrystalsandothernotewyminerals...~mberliteisa~kigneousintrusiverockfoundin for Rockbridge County. It wasrecognizedasadistinctmineral species |  | | 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) | | Bostwick, 196 Agates, Minnesota, 130 Alabama, Indian Mountain, 152 Alexander, E . C : Jr., Minnesota Caves,...12 Anthony, W., 12 Arizona: Mammoth, St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Arizona, 5; Minerals Named for Persons Associated...H . L . : Phosphate Minerals in the Vesuvius, Virginia, Area and Notes on the Type Locality of Rockbridgeite...Rockbridgeite, 20; New Minerals from Indian Mountain, Alabama, and Cedartown, Georgia, 152 Bauer, L . H .... 254 Butler, G . M . , 12 Butlerite, 12 Cacoxenite, Virginia, 22 Cahnite, New Jersey, 213 Calcite: Illinois |  | | Journal (issue) | | SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR VISIT OUR MINE-KEEP WHAT YOU FIND...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 |  | | 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 |  | | | | 4 (PO4)3(OH)5 frondelite, from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia P. ELLIOTT1,5, U. KOLITSCH2, G...Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia 2 Mineralogisch-Petrographische...D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany 5 South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia...mineral from the Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales. It occurs as pale-green to dark-olive-green... New South Wales, Australia. Introduction THE Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag deposit in western New South Wales |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 198 THE AME&ICAN MINERALOGIST green cacoxenite. Specimensof dufrenite may also be picked up on the...spur of the BIue Ridge about 1{ km. northeast of Midvale, but specimensof pyrolusite are the only thing...reported a trip to Lenni and Dismal Run, Delaware County, attended by Messrs. Ford, Frankenfield, Knabe...described an Ordovician basalt flow in Lebanon County; no zeolites were found; and reported that Mr....found arsenopyrite and erythrite at Robeson, Berks County. Dr. Hawkins described a trip taken by Mr. Gordon |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cassedanne A vivianite occurrence in Contra Costa County,California ... 337 by C. B. DeWitt Essay: minerals...Moore Phosphate minerals from the Leveaniemi iron mine, Svappavaara, Sweden .............................Niedermayr Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain a r e a 355 by J. B. Gordon, Jr. & C. L. Hollabaugh...Hollabaugh Laueite from Hagendorf-Siid andthe Palermo mine ................. 363 by L. C. Pitman New data...localities: The Phoenixville lead-silver mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania ................................ |  | | Journal (issue) | | call for appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE from...the Department of Geology of the University of South Caro lina in Columbia. It was a pleasant and exhilerating...Department of Geology Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Perhaps the collection, begun...hiddenite specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal...surprisingly good specimens. Nowadays the University of South Carolina’s collection cannot be classed as one of |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Journal (issue) | | gold specimen comes from the Eagle’s Nest mine in Placer County, California. It is currently on display...standard 58-facet diamond, so we routinely buy old mine cuts and European cuts and re-cut them to our standards...Founder Rock & Gem 11/27/13 9:48 AM One Fire Mountain Way, DEPT C012 Grants Pass, OR 97526-2373 1-800-355-2137...Request your Fre e 448 page catalog online Fire Mountain Gems and Beads© 2014 7 full page template.indd...table that is one of a kind.” —Carol Butterfield Midvale, UT Would you like to be named Lapidary of the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Treasurer 655 - 8th St. Idaho Falls. ID 83401 SOUTH CENTRAL FEDERATION OF MINERAL SOCIETIES Officers.................30 Bronze Sapphire• at th• Mincey Mine by Paul Broughton ................................Is priced at only . . . $.85 per lb. BLACK SPIDER MINE TURQUOISE - All ring size stones, mostly of a medium...lnaurance - ALL ORDERS MUST INCLUDE A $2.00 fN If In the USA - all others Including Canada must include full...AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES and SOUTH CENTRAL FEDERATION OF MINERAL SOCIETIES Annual Convention |  | | Report (issue) | | 4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis:...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses...Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating...42 9.86 4.77 13.60 100.69 2.277 LOCALITY: Berks County: Birdsboro. MESOLITE m Na Al Si3Oio.2H O 2 2 |  | | Book (volume) | | the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust long spurs...the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...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 |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...abbreviations used are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is. (island),...localities of magmatic origin (in the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa |  | | Journal (volume) | | classes 1. Mines and mineral resources of a given county or area (describing kind, character, distribution...SUMMARY 10 Imperial County, Cargo Muchacho and Picacho District Inyo County, Argus Range and Skidoo... 10 Kern County, Mojave, Tropico, Kernville and Randsburg Districts Los Angeles County 10 11 Mono...Mono County, Bodie, Blind Springs Hill, Masonic, and Silverado Districts Mono Leake, May Lundy 11 ... Riverside County, Chuckawalla, Eagle Mountains, Pinto Basin and Pinacate Districts 11 San Bernardino |
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