 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | forming minerals, such as quartz, feldspar, mica, calcite and dolomite, build entire mountain ranges; for...crystalline, igneous rocks are exposed at surface (granite, pegmatite, crystalline, schists, quartz or limestone...mountain range, lead-zinc deposit. Beautiful xIs of calcite, parargyrite, dyscrasite, stephanite, polybasite...sphalerite xls, tetrahedrite, galena xIs, bournonite, calcite xIs, cIausthalite-rare selenium mineral. OBERFAIZ...interesting mineral deposits: Nabburg. W olsendorf (calcite xIs, barite xIs, fluorite, uranium minerals). Hag644 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | live in Germany, the other 10% live in Holland, Austria, Switzerland and many other countries of Europe...village east of Hannover city. There are some quarries which operate for limestone. This Triassic limestone...Jurassic formation. Holzmaden has many little quarries which operate in the zone of Lias. Many fossils...limestone for industrial purposes is yielded. The quarries operate in the upper Jura, called white jura....amethyst xls, smoky quartz xls, zeolites xls, calcite xls, and prehnite. About 20 miles south-east of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sphalerite is a lead-silver mine in the Silverton district, San Juan County, Colo. The mineral occurs as...Eugene VanderWender, Harrington, Kent County, Del. District of Columbia—French Morgan, of Washington, D. C...another very unusual find of petrified wood, in the District this time, and within a half mile of where I live...Idaho—Good specimens of crystallized malachite, with calcite, occur in the Valley View copper mine, So. Skull...County, Kansas. Kentucky—White cleavable masses of calcite, white to purple masses of fluorite, lustrous cleavable |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sent R&M—it is an interesting specimen of gray granite showing specks of brassyyellow pyrite. A 4'á inch...color) have been found in the Silver Mountain district, Alpine Co., Calif. COLORADO-"Prof. Richard M...octahedra in quartz from the Mica Lode, Royal Gorge District, (Fremont Co. ), Colorado. The garnet ranges in...received. It is a cream colored botryoidal mass of calcite —rather attractive! GEORGIA—"Pegmatites being investigated...number of specimens from that famous Zinc-Lead District, which includes N. W. Arkansas, S. W. Missouri |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | several decades from the famous Deccan basalt quarries of India, and, in keeping with the zeolite theme...include a wide array of other zeolites, prehnite, calcite, and apophyllite-group minerals. Scolecite is apparently...Massachusetts. It has been reported from the traprock quarries of New Jersey, including those at Edgewater, Bergen...colorless crystals coating joint surfaces in granite quarries in the Lithonia area of Dekalb County, Georgia...masses of white radiating crystals to 2 cm with calcite, heulandite, and quartz in gold-bearing veins of |  | | Journal (issue) | | ···································· 471 BLEIBERG, AUSTRIA .................................................SPECIMEN FROM PENN. ........ 479 BRENNER PASS OF AUSTRIA ··············································...them. They are correctly known as the Harris Lime Quarries, Lime Rock (hamlet) , Lincoln (township) ; and...limestone" in commerce. Harris Quanies The Harris Quarries ( old books often used the terms beds or pits)..., including crystal~ of dolomite, quartz, and calcite. These three were often unusual pieces. The dolomite |  | | Book | | Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...excellent loose ilmenite crystal clusters from a calcite vein-dike digging site which they called the Bentley...finest ilmenite specimens have come from an unusual calcite vein-dike occurrence with an exposure very near...ilmenite crystals are found embedded in massive calcite. or, rarely, still attached to the feldspar/mica...showing sharp black crystals to 4 cm in pinkish calcite were collected in 2005 and marketed at the Tucson |  | | | | rounded, grey galena and surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized...as a volcano. An example of intrusive rock is granite while an extrusive example could be basalt. Sedimentary...along road cuts, river banks, cliffs, ridges, quarries, and excavations. Localities can be found in books...in its chemical composition in minerals such as calcite, dolomite, and aragonite, or rocks such as limestone...Corundum, spinel, cuprite, rutile, cassiterite, calcite, aragonite, dolomite, siderite, rhodochrosite, |  | | Report (volume) | | ______ PABT I. Scientific discussion_______ _ Granite proper______________________ General features____...examples_________________ Fluidal cavities in granite gneiss.________ Fluidal cavities in small dikes...Colors______________________________ 80 Olive-green granite ___________________ 81 Minerals on joint fac... Physical properties _ Textbook references on granite and " black granites " PAI*T II. Economic discussion_...discussion_ General features________~ __ Tests of granite _ Chemical analysis Determination of CaCOs Test |  | | Journal (issue) | | card that secures the privileges of many mines, quarries, clubs, societies, museums, libraries. (3) The...Mt. in the Percy Quadrangle. The Granite and Its Druses The granite in which topaz, amethyst and smoky...grayish-white biotite granite, is coarse grained and without foliation. Locally the biotite granite grades into...hastingsite granite, and in turn the hastingsite granite grades into riebeckite granite. The southwestern...quadrangle. The reddish to grayish-white biotite granite is definitely the youngest rock present since it |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Description and Occurrence Locality Rockport, granite quarries, Cape Ann. Newburyport, Devil's Den quarry...miles south of village. Green rnicrocline in granite. CALCITE ZY2 Thin veins of the white, fibrous chatoyant...Delicate, milky-white rolled masses. ? Rockport, granite quarries. Essex County Nahant Beverly Salem Salem...196 CITRINE Light, yellow quartz as seams in granite. EPIDOTE Compact, massive kind of pleasing yellowish-green...Pistachio-green vein masses and pebbles eroded from granite dikes. GREEN FELDSPAR Beautiful green color cleavages |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | dolomite—very nice. No pyrite present. ALASKA—From Granite Creek, near Chickaloon, Alaska, we have a specimen...are always soft. One form collectors claim is calcite pseudo after glauberite. Collectors out here are...prehnite, ys to % in. in diameter. I understand that calcite xls can also be found." DELAWARE — Reddish chalcedony...1959, a recent discovery of gold on lot 999, 12th district, of Lumpkin County, Ga., which is owned by the...road cut on Wheeler Road, near Oxen Run at the District of Columbia line in Prince Georges County, Maryland |  | | Report (volume) | | granites .............................. Biotite granite .......................................................... ................. Hornblende-augite granite ........................................ 12 Geologic............. Important geologic features at the quarries............................. Double-sheet structure...................................... Orbicular granite........................................................ .................................. The granite railroads .................................... |  | | Report (volume) | | ..................................... 7 9 9 Granite proper................................................................ Text-book references on granite and black granites.................. Special features...texture and colors............................... Granite discoloration, its causes........................................ Dikelike masses of schist in granite.............:.................... Riebeckite and...minerals on joint faces......................... Granite contacts in relation to sheet and flow structure |  | | Journal (issue) | | JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2019 Articles The Almadén mining district, Ciudad Real, Spain ............................other young collectors, and visited some local quarries in search of specimens, though he initially found... Maharashtra, India 6 cm The Almade;n Mining District, Ciudad Real, Spain Borja Sainz de Baranda Graf...Alcala de Henares (Spain) The Almadén Mining District exploited the largest mercury deposit in the world...in 2012, the district was declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco. The Almadén District has yielded excellent |  | | Report (volume) | | of the rocks________________.__ __ Granites and granite gneisses of Connecticut, by Herbert E. GregoryName..._________________________ 43 Geologic observations at the quarries, by T. Nelson Dale_______ 45 Microstructure____________________...Plicated gneiss structure_________________________ 47 Granite dikes________________________________ 48 Pegmatite...discussion Continued. Geologic observations at the quarries Continued, Page. Segregations__l_.____ '.____...Nelson Dale_______________ Description of the quarries and their product__________ ____ Method______ |  | | Report (volume) | | OFFICE CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION THE OCCUKHENCE OK GRANITE IN MAINE, BY GEORGE OTIS SMITH. Page. Geographic........ 14 Granite proper..........................I............................ Granite in general....Part I. Scientific discussion Continued. Page. Granite proper Continued. Maine granites Continued. Rock........:.............:. Text-book references on granite and '' black granites "........... ...... Part....................................... Tests of granite............................................... |  | | Book | | as a volcano. An exan1ple of intrusive rock is granite while an extrusive example could be basa lt. Sedin1entary...along road cuts, river banks, cliffs, ridges, quarries, and excavations. Localities can be found i11...its chemical co1nposition in 111inerals such as calcite, dolon1ite, and aragonite, or rocks such as li111estone...Corundun1, spinel, cupri te, rutile, cassiterite, calcite, aragonite, dolo1nite, siderite, rhodochrosite...depth to the light reflected, e.g., aragonite, calcite Resinous: like gun1 resin secreted by trees, e |  | | Report (issue) | | was in common use in Winnipeg architecture. The quarries were barely 10 years old at the time, and Tyndall...provided the raw material for the northwest bastion of Lower Fort Garry. The fort, on the banks of the Red River...Tyndall stone, a few kilometres upstream from the Lower Fort. It is the oldest church still in use in western...Manitoba's first commercial stone quarry, in the Garson district, to serve Canada's booming construction industry...stuck to the final product to this day. Other quarries soon followed Garson's. At the height of Winnipeg's |  | | Journal (issue) | | wernerite, sphene and phlogopite from Van Arsdalen's Quarries. Stilbite, apatite, garnets and crystallized dolomite...stilbite, fibrolite and chab- azite from Mr. Kinney's Quarries. Mr. Goodwin reports garnets and apatite from...DESCHONG'S, LEIPERS, LEIPER AND LOUIS' UPPER AND LOWER GRANITE QUARRIES, WITH THAT KNOWN AS THE SWARTHMORE QUARRY...said of the minerals fouud at these different quarries, but this paper is based wholly upon my own observations...has been found Graphic Granite and Chabazite. My first visit to these quarries was on the 25th of June |  | | Journal (issue) | | section which may contain a number of mines or quarries is often listed apparently as a single oc currence...featuring two localities? At Oneco, Conn., are two granite quarries, Oneco and Marriot, which have produced a...These are but a few instances of how mines or quarries are often incorrectly, loosely or carelessly recorded...it really from Clay Center, or one o f the many quarries near several other Ohio towns? t ^ ra M sg s...Mineralogy-Petrology Burgring 7, A-1014 Vienna, Austria ustria has many small occurrences which are mineralogically |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Arkansas which furnishes nice brownish stalactites (calcite). Byron C. Marshall, 204 Central Avenue, Hot Springs...Kans. The geode is lined with buff-colored drusy calcite xls which fluoresce and phosphoresce bluish under...found in a road cut about 10 miles south of the District of Columbia." The gypsum clusters were dark gray...xls on prehnite, are found in Lane's trap rock quarries near Westfie'd, Hampden Co., Mass. KENTUCKY—Russell...Marietta, Pa. The find is a golden transparent calcite occurring in small to large xls. A beautiful 2y2 |  | | Report (issue) | | of print for several years. The importance of granite as a building material has increased rapidly in...recent years. North Carolina is well supplied with granite, and it is believed that this report will be of...considerable value to those interested in the granite resources of the State. Respectfully submitted...investigation and acknowledgments Granite defined Origin of granite Dikes penetrating the granites Acid...Diabase dikes Physical and structural properties of granite Dimension stone General ..' Dikes and veins : Segregations |  | | Report (issue) | | DEPARTMENT OF MINES BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PARTY GRANITE AND GNEISS By D. F. HEWITT INDUSTRIAL MINERAL...IV V Introduction Limestone Marble Sandstone Granite &1 Gneiss Industrial Mineral Report No. 19, paper-bound...acceptable. BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PART V - GRANITE AND GNEISS TABLE OF CONTENTS Southern Ontario.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Betz Green Granite.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Concession I, Leeds Township......... Lloyd Road Quarries................, . . . . . . . . Lot 8, Concession |  | | Book | | bottom, interlam1nat.d~d, carrying occasional granite pebbles, are exposed under 2 or 3 feet ot t111...02'28tf)318,65}--Prospect pit--Medium- to coarsedgrained calcite marble (Coles Brook limestone) with acoessory plagioclase...bands are formed trom the weathering of aukeritic calcite and pyrrhotite. Altered Limestone Marble (76(10calities...worked. Assoc1.ted with pyrite, Plrrhotite, ahd calcite in hornDlendle gneiss. Eaat of Center Pend, oa...Hudson and Chester Granite rr (98(42 14'25",73 01'22")65,117)--Blu.-gray otite granite. Hi erals reported |
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Granite quarries, Gänsgraben, Limberg, Maissau, Hollabrunn District, Lower Austria, Austria