 | | Book (volume) | | especially along the southern slopes and ridges of the Pine Ridge Escarpment and along Whiteclay Creek near...plants and vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | comprehensive listing, including detailed spot locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can...The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can be obtained from the North Carolina...Carolina 27611 B. J . M C K E N Z I E Alamance County Pyrophyllite, cacoxenite, diaspore, sericite, pyrite...ilmenite, topaz, and chert are found at the Snow Camp mine (Holman's Mill) located 2.7 miles southeast of the...onto SR 2352 for approx imately 1.9 miles. The mine lies north of the road on the side of a wooded hill |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant...significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved Manufactured |  | | Report (issue) | | . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ...... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 9 ALLEGHANI COUNTY 1± Manganese ....... f 11 Barite , 11 Copper . 11 ASHE COUNTY. . . . Copper...Staurolite AVERY COUNTY . . ......... 13 13 13 . 13 Iron and Epidote BUNCOMBE COUNTY Garnet ...........13 Moonstone and Associated Minerals 15 BURKE COUNTY 15 Corundijin 15 Itacolumite 15 Toiirmaline...Amethyst f . , 4 .18 CABARRUS COUNTY 18 Minerals of the Cabarms County Mines 18 CALDWELL COUNT! 18 Pyrite |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE | | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless o therwise noted Map of...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved |  | | Report (issue) | | beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these.......................... 10 12 History of Gem Mining ..... .......................... . 12 Important...Alamance County ........................................................... 24 24 Alexander County ......Alleghany County ....................................................... 25 Ashe County ............Avery County ............................................................... 25 Buncombe County ... |  | | Book (volume) | | particolor amethsyt (78.70 ct), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California;...(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...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout |  | | Journal (issue) | | BARITES , TIGER - EYE AND ROSE QUARTZ , GREATEST MINING SHAFT IN THE WORLD , TURQUOISE BEDS IN THE WEST...four miles of the little town of Moab, in Grand county, near where the Grand River finds a tortuous way...seen the natural limestone bridge of Rockbridge county, Va., he will likely make comparisons that will...the first place, Southeastern Utah, where Grand county lies, has never been thoroughly explored ; then...times the follow ing : 1. Beryl. 2. Tourmaline. 3. Thulite or Zoisite. 4. Grossu- larite. 5. Garnets. 6. Quartz |  | | Journal (issue) | | little extra time above that needed for one . Prof. Ward recently had a Grand Rapids , Michigan , iron ,...the mass . In a siderite weighing 375 lbs . Prof. Ward obtained a year ago from Toluca , Mexico , was found...The second pair burst at a high altitude . Prof. Ward has models of a these showing the structure clearly...confined to a single pocket in a mine , as seemed to be the case at the Minnie Mine , Leadville , where a single.... And the Little Annie in the same district , produces on a white barite gangue , brilliant crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Jr. 202 Benn,J. H. Occurrenceof vivianite in District of Columbia..... 311 Berman, H. 197,2Il Bernal...'W'illiams, Chapman,R. W. and C, R. Evolution of White 502 Mountain magma series 475 Chloropal. Chondrodite...analysis of stainierite from Swansea Mine, Good27+ springs,Nevada. Copper ore minerals, identificationof...x'raY analysis of stainierite from 274 Goodsprings,Nevada.... Donnay, J. D. H. Application of determinantsto...syenites of phism in Virginia mining PleasantMountain, Maine, district,N.M. (Lasky).... 552 discussionof |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...ability to disperse or split is the product of the white light into its constit- uent colors, so that...Apatite, a phosphate, can be identified by the white pre- formed when a few drops of sulphuric acid...coated with a film that is yellow when hot and white when etches the side of the tube, leaving differentiate...Carolina. In the West, the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada, and the coast ranges dominate a vast geological |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...live. The Appalachians, the Smokies, the Sierra Nevada, the Rockies and Black Hills, the Cascades and...are brought back to life and new ones re- — — ward luck or The persistent search. most precious...product of the gem's ability to disperse or split white light into its constituent colors, so that the stone...Apatite, a phosphate, can be identified by the white precipitate formed when a few drops of sulphuric |  | | Report (issue) | | The Eureka Mining District Nevada By THOMAS B. NOLAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 406 Prepared...of the ores _______________________ _ Mines and mining ______________ __________________ _ Production...the Eureka mining district, Nevada. 2. Geologic sections of the Eureka mining district, Nevada. 3. Geologic...Geologic structure map of the Eureka mining district, Nevada. UI 24 25 26 26 26 26 27 27 27 27 28 28 29...Eureka mining district. 6. Mine workings in the Adams Hill area for which maps are available. 7. Mine workings | | | Book (volume) | | parricolor amethsyt (78. 70 et), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25 .30 et), Ra1nona,...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout... most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing gravels in Montana is beginning...operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine, Laytonville, CA; Ralph |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).... During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with...the Eagle mine’s (Gil304 ROCKS & MINERALS man district) production. This does not mean that copper has...chimneys are limited to the Red Mountain district in Ouray County. Figure 2. Colorado mineral belt (COMB) |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................243 Nevada .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................243 Nevada .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book | | Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...and abandoned, one is also sure to find extensive mine dumps sloping steeply down from the shaft or tunnel |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERAL DEPOSITS IN THE UBEHEBE PEAK QUADRANGLE INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA SPECIAL REPORT 42 UNIVERSITY OF...MINES 1-A. Sierra Blanca limestone in Santa Barbara County, California, by George W. Walker. 1950. 5 pp.,...25$. 3. 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...25$. 6. Geology of Bitterwater Creek area, Kern County, California, by Henry H. Heikkila and George M |  | | Report (issue) | | said to have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small...Counties of California: Minerals and mineral lists Mining Districts of California Unvalidated entries in...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch...resulting from references to the geographic term ''Mining District," especially in the pre-1920 literature. Widespread...rhyolite locality in Alameda County and the lawsonite type locality Marin County, which have been completely |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | trend towardincreasing #Fe/#Mg. At the DouglasHill mine, apatite,quartz, and sulfidesreplacedandradite....pergeneore was of fairly high grade. The Casting Copper mine produced0.45 million tonsof oxideand sulfideore...sulfideore, muchof it averaging6 percent;the DouglasHill mine, 69,000 tonsof 5 percentoxideore; and diorite batholith...outward to the farthest extent of the nearbyLudwig mine,0.18 milliontonsof largely skarn formation. The...sedimentaryunits, thus supportingearlier Knopf, 1918). Mining ceasedin 1928 and did not conclusions by Knopf |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sulfidesin hypogeneveins formed from County,Arizona, Imperial County, California,Eu- hydrothermal solutions(Hariya...Pioche, rekaCounty,NevadaandLunaCounty,New Mexico Nevada, Leadville, Coloradoand Silver City, New (Hewett...1956). In mostof the hypogenevein Mexico; Ward mine, Dona Ana County,Black Diadepositsdiscussed above, rhodochrosite...rhodochrosite, generally mond mine, Grand County, Hidalgo County and accompanied by rhodonite andalabandite...andalabandite, formedthe Socorro County, New Mexico). The manganese originalminerals,onlyto be oxidizedlaterby |
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