 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AN OVERVIEW Rhode Island MINERALS & COLLECTORS F. WILLIAM MILLER Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford...A L SPECIES and many varieties occur within Rhode Island. Part of this abundance is attributable to the...Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...towns of Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport...Newport County. The greatest number of species and varieties appear in the Northern Zone. Miller attributes |  | | Book | | Vili Fossil-Stegosaurus * Alabama Mineral-Hematite Rock-Marble Fossil-Basilosaurus cetoides Gemstone-Star...Blue Quartz Soil-Bama Series Mineral-Rhodochrosite Rock-Yule Marble 22 22 Zo 24 * Connecticut OG G& BY...Mineral-Quartz Crystal Soil-Myakka Fine Sand Series Rock-Bauxite Soil-Stuttgart Series * Georgia * California...Fossil-Shark Tooth Gem-Quartz 35 36 36 38 38 38 Rock-Serpentine * Hawaii Fossil-Sabre-Toothed Cat Gemstone-Benitoite...Stone-Salem Limestone River-Wabash River 49 50 * Iowa Rock-Geode DZ * Kansas Soil-Harney Silt Loam Series |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas...Garvin & G. Tribbey The minerals of the Hunting Hill quarry, Rockville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Sporadically, lomonosovite, manaksite and natrolite become rock-forming Some Petrological Terms (from JACKSON,...this condition. Alkaline rock: As defined by Shand in 1922, any igneous rock in which the molecular ratio |  | | Book | | ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALASKA Famous mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen) 8:4-12...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and |  | | Journal (issue) | | specimen from the Spanish Dry Diggings, Eldorado County, California, and a little of its history ........................................ 325 by L. H. Conklin T1 mM!NERA!. =!CAL RECORD The Newmont Azurite:................................... 333 by L. H. Conklin Postscript: Hessonite with apatite, Mount Avie..................... 248 Obituary: Lawrence H. Conklin (by W E. Wilson) What's New in Minerals Tucson...the Editors Died, Lawrence H. Conklin, 82 Lawrence Henry "Larry" Conklin, Jr., well-known New York mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Renato Pagano Milan, Italy Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas...Thirty-eight, Number Three Articles The Lonavala Quarry, Pune District, Maharashtra, India . . . . . ..... . . . . .193 by J. A. Mandarino Lawrence H. Conklin: Fifty years of dealing in minerals . . . . . ...Record, volume 38, May–June, 2007 The Lonavala Quarry une Distri t Ma aras tra n ia Tomas Pras kier |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............. 554 MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................505 511 514 532 533 551 551 553 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY GEOLOGIC HAZARDS COMMITTEES NAMED Clarence Allen...and August 1st, 1965, in Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to swap or dig your own tourmaline plus...Annual Rock Swap at Jo Scholl's Place, North Gorham, Maine. July 26-31, 1965 — Charlotte Rock and Min...sponsor the 25th Annual Convention and Silver Jubilee Rock and Gem Festival of the Midwest Federation of Mineralogical |  | | Journal (issue) | | BONANZA Rock collecting, sightseeing and a look at history in Colorado by Steve Voyn ick CONKLIN QUARRY...QUARRY Minerals and gem materials in Rhode Island by James R. Mitchell FEATURES 10 48 51 Page 122 A PICTURE...Vanguard blade. aluminum oxide wheel for sharpening rock picks, chisels, etc. Use fine grit • Handy, adjustable...CENTER CADILLAC OF ROCK GRIPPERS _ __._..__._....., SHIM The new 4 POINT SOVA ROCK VISE Designed and...This toot puts four equal pressure points on your rock. holding odd shaped pieces solidly for accurate |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California......................................................................369 by L. H. Conklin Letters to the editor ........................... 8th Friday, Oct. 9th BEY'S ROCK SHOP GRAYSON LAWRENCE H. CONKLIN PICKENS GRENVILLE MINERALS ...learned to transform intractable masses of hard rock into works of great beauty. The People’s Republic...gem fields. Sapphire deposits on windswept Hainan Island are under in vestigation. In 1976 the first major |  | | Journal (issue) | | color. Prices on request. ANALCITE CRYSTALS, Lincoln Co., Oregon. A very limited supply of choice translucent...weigh ing 20 to 30 lbs. or more. FLUORITE, Cave in Rock. III. Choice medium to deep purple crystals averaging...available. Prices on request. FLUORITE, Cave in Rock, III. Choice me dium to deep purple xls with other...DOLOMITE CRYSTALS IN PENN.—Richard Haefner.... 808 RHODE ISLAND HOLDS ANNUAL CORN BOIL—Gardiner E. Gregory............... 858 MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .............................................. |  | | Book (volume) | | Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...gratefully dedicated. Gene Foard (right) at Swamp #1 quarry, Topsham. Gene Foard speaking with Frank Perham...Gene Foard with Yan King, 1994 (left) at Nevel quarry, Newry. In Memoriam Gene Foord Gene [Eugene Edward]...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | K Joyce. 2:15 D i o p s i d e from the Atwater quarry area, Westfield, MA by W Shelton, G. W. Robinson...occurring in the Cartersville Mining District, Bartow County, Georgia by1..C. Gray. 4:30 A new site for gadolinite-(Y)...e t r a h e x a h e d r a l faces on grossular from Inyo County, California by V. T King. 2 5:00 T...over the past year along County Highway G east of Big Falls, Waupaca County, WI briefly exposed a series...New York. Talcville is located in St. Lawrence County, a famous mining region. Mining in the area started |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia....................................Simmons & F. J. Wicks Calcioferrite from the Moculta quarry, near Angaston, South Australia ................. from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and Bob Sullivan;...York Mineralogical Club field trip to Penitentiary quarry, Snake Hill, New Jersey, on September 4, 1893 (photo |  | | Journal (issue) | | Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course...minerals are leached from the surrounding country rock during metamorphism. Ramsay and Huber (1983) suggest...such as pegmatite veins or cavities in sedimentary rock. The localities for faden quartz are numerous, and...repeated cracking and healing of grains in the country rock, which are broken and exposed when the fissure grad...the stretched crystal fiber hy pothesis, when the rock first fractures, crystal grains are broken, and |  | | Book (volume) | | publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mira Loma, Cali- RED CLOUD MINE SITE, YU M A COUNTY. ARIZONA WULFENITE, Red Ckud M m 7 JTQ MINERAL...art Two! COME BACK TO RHODE ISLAND October 28, 29 and 30, 1988. Rhode Island Mineral H unters is proud...at Community College of Rhode Island (CCRIO Knight Campus, Warwick, Rhode Island, (exit 12B off 1-95) ...Natural History are expected to participate. From Rhode Island-am ethyst scepters; from Connecticut-dinosaur...invite you to COME BACK TO RHODE ISLAND IN '88. Sponsored by: Rhode Island M ineral H unters At: C om |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises...overlooks both Colorado and Wyoming. The subsurface rock strata of the entire state are all undisturbed sedimentaries:...borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming line is good rock hunting country, especially along the southern slopes...of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive rock beds east of the Orella railroad sta. ranks among... The Sandhills Museum in town is well worth the rock hunter’s visit. Draws, cuts and breaks in the hills |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral is therefore the vanadium analogue of grossular and andradite garnet. Goldmanite is named in honor...diopside, idocrase, wollastonite, epidote and grossular-andradite; the garnet is most abundant. Other...colorless, whereas garnet in dark well-mineralized rock, con- 646 .ROBERTH. MOENCIIAND ROBERTMEYROWITZ...dark ore, analyzed spectrographicallyby Nancy M. Conklin, U. S. GeologicalSurvey, and found to be rich in...C. Hathawayl spectrographicanalysesby Nancy M. Conklin). Uraninite and coffinite, the uranium-bearingminerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | years from now all copies of Gems and Minerals, Rock and Gem, Lapidary Journal, Roc/chound, and so on...Record, January— February , 1979 3 W right’s ROCK— SHOP w rite f o r our We buy collections New...ere easy to find at home-> or at shows W RIGHT’S ROCK SHOP OXA NIM A L WONDERLAND R oute 4, Box 462,...“ the fluorine was calculated from the excess of lime.” They state that they have no doubt that the formula...Bavaria, Germany (1) Blue Chihuahua mine, San Diego County, 57-59% California (2) 67-80% Poland, Maine (3) |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Amethyst on milky quartz from Hopkinton, Rhode I s la n d by J. Rakovan, D. B. Mitchelltree, L...across, from A shaw ay Village, H opkinton, Rhode Island. S m ithsonian Institution specim en; p hoto...since it will be held at the giant Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona, let’s just call it the “Pomona...74104 Sal Avella 7 Homestead Avenue Smithfield, Rhode Island 02917 Theeastern United States is well-known...was discovered in Ashaway Village, Hopkinton, Rhode Island. This deposit has produced some o f the most |  | | Journal (issue) | | Joe Cilen's collection from Goodsprings, Clark County. Nevada labelled as heterogenite which is well...reported occurre nce in Quartzburg District, Grand County , Oregon. The heteroge nite is not present on the...:walder Mine, Raston Buttes District. Huerfago County. Col o rado labelled as uraninite. The Schwartzwalder...eastern part of Clark Mountain. San Bernardino County, CA. Whil e beudantite is known from this locality...microlite frCJll9 Continued on page 4 Hydraulic Rock Tr·m o?;; n$'.0c:- ; ,, oc, l\ydar has petfected |  | | Journal (issue) | | EARTH—Arkadi Sumonyan ................................... ROCK-HOUNDING IN NORTH-CENTRAL ARKANSAS—H". C. Riddle...742 748 751 762 774 776 794 722 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................7-3185) i ROCKS AND MINERALS 72! CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY “I AM A MINERAL COLLECTOR” “HUH?” By ANNA MARIE...76, Franklin, N. J. Oct. 16, 17, 1965—Michiana Rock & Gem Club, Inc. 4th Annual Show, New National Guard...Recreation Club of Fairhope, Ala., will sponsor its first Rock Show and Swap at the Mobile and Eastern Shore Adult |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................. MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................FIND IN COWEE VALLEY, N.C.—Paul E. Lockwood THE ROCK BRIGADE—Rudolph J. Bland, Jr......................7-3185) ROCKS AND MINERALS 641 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY A RUSH TRIP TO SOUTH CAROLINA On Tuesday, August...headed northward towards the gold mine in York County. It was a most enjoyable trip, the mine was reached...30th St., Bellevue, Wash. 98004. Oct. 2, 1965—1st Rock Swap of the West chester Mineral & Gem Society |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah ...........................................Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado ....................................... Particularly surprising is a large specimen of rock impregnated with native iron, undoubtedly one of...of the earliest known examples from Disko Island, Greenland. Because the Stieglitz catalog is exclusively...and determination of detrital grains and crushed rock fragments. American Mineral ogist, 19, 482-487 |  | | 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...mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre and Heyl , 19.60...barrens of the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Figure 11. Water-filled adit of the |
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