 | | Report (edition) | | PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY OF 0144 00141189 1 v < 2 £ m- c oi; c» tt*s“S S Si! at tss^s isl^j...1 ' s WJ= ~S 5! s „3 &«eq Sjg® . . PENNSYLVANIA 1 .8 ^2»SS 3 d 5-s &s z l|lt« 7* < OF ...GEOLOGY REPORT 1976 33 MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Alan R. Geyer Robert C. Smith, John H....Graphics by Albert E. VanOlden COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TOPOGRAPHIC...II Copyrighted 1976 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if |  | | Report (volume) | | value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence... Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin.........Prof. W. 0. Hotchkiss, Madison...Adolph Knopf, D. B. Sterrett, J. B. Umpleby, E. L. Jones, jr., G. S. Rogers, H. G. Ferguson, and G. F. Loughlin...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...California, 162 Allophane, Colorado, 307 Almandine, Connecticut, 261 Almandine-spessartine, California, 160 Alunite...Michigan, 339 The Andes Come to Arizona, R. W. Jones, 59 Andes Mountains, minerals, 12-38; who’s who |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...minerals. He will pick over stream beds, gravel pits, mine dumps, road cuts, and quarries. Some gems may also... even an unfenced range, a deserted cabin, or a mine dump. Be ready to sign a waiver absolving the owner...slope above you may start a rock slide on you. Open mine shafts and water-filled pits are obvious dangers...takes exposed, whether in a road or railroad cut, mine dump, excavation, gravel pit, beach, river bar, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo Middle row,...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Scovil photo. Amethyst, 12 cm, from Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Collected by Bryon Brookmyer; Wendell Wilson...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini |  | | Journal (issue) | | Care! ARIZONA WULFENITE Down Deep in the Rowley Mine GEM GARNETS Popular for Centuries THE BALTIMORE...toxic. This 6 cm spray of needles is from the Herja mine (Baia Mare, Maramures), Romania. (Gerhard Brandstetter............. 44 A colorful silicate group by Bob Jones 10 Deadly Minerals ..............................in the Rowley................... 22 This Arizona mine is a specimen treasure trove Winter rockhounding...rockhounding in South Carolina by Wayne Peterson by Bob Jones A Legacy of Lapidary ......................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | several new localities, including the Flambeau copper mine near Ladysmith (Rosemeyer 1999, the Vulcan Materials...Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and the Wausau area (Falster 1987)...zircon), particularly in the Wausau area of Marathon County (Falster 1987). Middle Proterozoic quartzites (1...found there (Merge 1996). One deposit, the Flambeau mine near Ladysmith, has already been mined. Other deposits...extends into Wisconsin from Michigan. The Montreal mine, now abandoned, produced fantastic specimens from |  | | Book (edition) | | feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal...Lincoln Co. Todd's Branch, Mecklenberg Co. Portis mine, Franklin Co. Muddy Creek headwaters, McDowell...Ferry, Hall Co. Horshaw mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, %...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900 |  | Lupulescu, Marian V., Bailey, David G., Hawkins, Michael, Carl, James D., Chiarenzelli, Jeffrey R. (2014) The Benson Mines, St. Lawrence County, New York: History of the Discovery, Mining, and Mineralogy of the Deposit. Rocks & Minerals, 89 (2) 118-131 doi:10.1080/00357529.2014.865431 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 16:34 01 January 2015 Benson Mines St. Lawrence County, New York B ENSON MINES is a Grenville-aged (about...located in the Adirondack Mountains, St. Lawrence County, New York. It was mined as an open pit that grew...become the newest Adirondack lake. Huge mounds of mine tailings (waste-rock sand, see outline of dashed...Lupulescu, Bailey, and Hawkins 2010); as a result, the mine has not received much attention from mineral collectors...the geology of the Adirondack region. Although the mine does not contain an exceedingly large number of |  | | Book | | was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania: S c h u y l k i l l R i v e r Vi r g i n i...Washington D.C. area visit Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...trippers visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to fifty dollars for each item 96 LEFT land, Pennsylvania, 17557 and much of this material was available...a mining engineer employed at Corn wall and Morgantown, Pa., I had col lected zeolites and large dodecahedron...colors. I always enjoyed reading Mr. Robert W. Jones' articles—especially when he wrote of those minerals...calcite from North Vernon, Indiana; 4 ) Large almandine garnets from River Valley, Ontario; 5) Colorful...selenite from Australia; 9) Galena from the Sweetwater Mine in Missouri; 10) Okenite on gyrolite from India; |  | | Journal (issue) | | their collections. This legrandite from the Ojuela mine (Mapimi, Durango) measures 5.6 cm high. (Jeff Scovil...Your collection reflects his contributions by Bob Jones Birthstones, Past and Present....................appreciating petrified wood by Tom Elias by Bob Jones regular columns Rock & Gem Kids.................remembering how special he was. —The Rohn Family BOB JONES Senior Consulting Editor LYNN VARON Managing Editor...CALIFORNIA: Annual show; Monrovia Rockhounds; LA County Arboretum, 301 S. Baldwin Ave.; Sat. 9-4:30, Sun |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | WIECHOWSKI, A., titanomaghemite in basalt, 299 Almandine-grossular and -pyrope garnet solid solutions,...505 Amphibole, ferri-ferrohornblende, kirwanite, County Down, Northern Ireland, 253; fibres, flexibility...and WILLIAMS,P. A., lanthanite group, Sweden and USA, 639 Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), arsenopyrite...Equivalent site behaviour of synthetic almandine-grossular and almandine-pyrope garnet solid solutions, 231...queitite, Cumbria, 508; synthetic almandine-grossular and almandine-pyrope garnet solid solutions, 231 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu GROSSULAR Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité Régional de...Figure 1. Grossular, 7 × 8 cm, from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité, Régional de...grossular dodecahedra is commonly observed on Jeffrey mine specimens. This particular specimen is one of the...andradite (Cook 1993), uvarovite (Cook 1998), almandine (Cook 2009), and spessartine (Cook 2010). This...modified single crystal of grossular from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Québec, Canada. The Arkenstone specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on silversmithing Member Bob Culver of the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, found a "fair sized"...and wulfenite crystals were found at the Wheatley mine (Penna.) Robert Middleton, American Museum of Nat...and now Superintendent of all mu seums in Nassau County, spoke with the Long Island Mineral and Geology...Chandler Jones, had a new program on Canadian Minerals. The club reports that the As bestos mine at Eden... Heun and Mr. and Mrs. Gavin Taylor The Bergen County Mineralogy and Paleontology Society, Paramus, is |  | | Report (issue) | | Connecticut, USA © 2008 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 263 • East Hampton, CT 06424 • USA Phone 1.860...cm tall andradite on hematite is from the Wessels Mine near Hotazel in northern Cape Province, South Africa...Grossular on diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul Stahl specimen...Objects BY INGRID S. WEBER 22 Classic Garnets: Almandine BY GLORIA STAEBLER AND PAUL POHWAT 28 New England...various members). Of these fifteen species, six almandine, andradite, grossular, pyrope, spessartine, and |  | | Book | | Red and gray sandstone shale, and limestone. PENNSYLVANIA 40 I 60 50 Ml I 80 KM 76° -, I II --...l0000unse THE GEOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Mark Schweiker, Governor DEPARTMENT...Geology Slippery Rock University Published by PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PITTSBURGH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY...from Hyner View, Hyner Run Slate Park, Clinton County, showing accordant ridges in the Appalachian Plateaus...of the Ridge and Valley province in Huntingdon County. Flooded meanders of Raystown Lake on the Raystown |  | Van Gosen, Bradley S., Hammarstrom, Jane M., Kellogg, Karl S., Berg, Richard B. (1998) Map showing areas with potential for garnet resources in bedrock and placer in the Blacktail Mountains and the Gravelly, Greenhorn, Ruby, and Snowcrest ranges of southwestern Montana. Open-File Report Vol. 1998 (98-224) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr98224a | Report (issue) | | eastern part of Beaverhead County, Montana, and the western part of Madison County, Montana. The study area...resources Qa Aqf Qf Qf Qa STUDY AREA Ruby Garnet mine Qf Aqf Aqf Asg QTb Aqf Qa Aam Aa Aqf Asg... Aa Qa Ag Asg Aag Aa Qf Sweetwater Garnet mine Qa Aqf Aa Aam Aam Aam Qg Aa Aqf Aq Aqf Qf...at the Sweetwater Garnet placer mine, is naturally occurring almandine, which exhibits deep shades of...abundant red garnets in the area were rubies. Almandine is the iron-rich species of the garnet group and |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...minerals. He will pick over stream beds, gravel pits, mine dumps, road cuts, and quarries. Some gems agate... and safety-toe shoes in an operating quarry or mine. They are prudent precautions against disaster in...property, even unfenced range, a deserted cabin, or a mine dump. Be ready to sign a waiver absolving the owner...the amateur." A group that broke into an abandoned mine was rescued by company police and warned, then went |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Millersville University, Millersville, PA 17551-0302, USA Department of Mathematics, P.O. Box 1002, Millersville...Millersville University, Millersville, PA 17551-0302, USA Department of Geological Sciences, 206 Natural Science...Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115, USA A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Received...northern Piedmont Physiographic Province of Pennsylvania (USA), long-term (103–106 year) watershed chemical...primary minerals are REE-rich epidote, ankerite, almandine–spessartine garnet, muscovite, chlorite, and the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | vapour at low pressures and to staurolite-f almandine+hercynite+vapour at high pressures. Chloritoid...0-82 3-75 1000 1. Rawlinsville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Hietanen (1951, p. 867). Analyst:...omitted from the calculations. 2. Mt. Herrick, Ira Township, Vermont, U.S.A. Zen (1955). Analyst: Byler. The...been omitted from the calculations. 5. Chatham County, North Carolina, U.S.A. Genth (1873, p. 399). Although...Indian Grave Mountain near Bull Mountain, Patrick County, Virginia, U.S.A. Genth (1890, pp. 49-50). Pure |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fl-spodumene, 578. Alluaudite, Rhodesia, 50. Almandine, Czechoslovakia, anal., 389. Amba Dongar, Gujarat...rltungameteorite, metallography, 1139. Aroostook County, Maine, ganophyllite, 893. Arrojadite, Rhodesia...Darmstadt, Germany, ankerite, 138. Benallt mine, Caernarvon~hire, Wales, bannisterite and ganophyllite...area, Singhbhum, India, 671. Big Creek, Fresno County, California, celsian, 914. BIGGAR (G. M.), Apatite...of pyrope from the Stockdale kimberlite, Riley County, Kansas, 450. BROUSSE (R.), see LEMAITRE(0.), xxviii |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | exposed during highway construction, Hull Township, Gatineau County, Quebec. P. M. Bellev, R. Rowe & M. Picard...e " from the Harder Farm, Hammond, St. Lawrence County, NY. M. Lupulescu. 3:45 H i s t o r y of the Powers...Powers farm streamside veins, St. Lawrence County, New York. M. R. Walter & S. C. Chamberlain. 4:00 M...assemblage from the Allah Cooper/Valcooper mine, Louisa County, Virginia. L. E. Kearns & M. D. Dunn. 4:30...e wavellite from the De Linde quarry, Garland, County, Arkansas. S. L. Hanson, A. U. Falster & Win. B |  | | Book (volume) | | (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine, Laytonville, CA; Ralph...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Butte, MT; Chris I. Johnston, Royal, AR; Robert W. Jones, Scottsdale, AZ; Richard A. & Tresa L. Kosnar, Golden |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Survey of Canada gave assistance, particularly A. G. Jones, H. R. Stacey, and Dr. S. C. Robinson. Assistance...105-106). Three analyses of uraninite from Henvey township (western extremity of the Grenville sub-province)...Lake Chibougamau (Norman, 1940, p. 521). In Haig township (PL 1) Norman (1947, p. 10) postulates a fault...gneisses on the southeast side. In adjoining Pershing township, this fault is marked by schistose graywacke and...by Lowther (1936, p. 47) in Villebon and Denain township (PL 1). The zone of faulting extending to Lake |
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Jones Mine, Morgantown, Caernarvon Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA