 | | Report (volume) | | the James River-Roanoke River Manganese District Virginia GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1008 Geology...oftheJatnes River-Roanoke River Manganese District Virginia By GILBERT H. ESPENSHADE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ...________________________ ________ ____ __________ _ Barite deposits________________________________________________...____________ __________ ___________ Schoolhouse mine and nearby prospects_ _ _ ______ __ _______ StonewalL___...property_____________________________________ Campbell County__________________________________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | COMMONWDALTE OF VIRGINIA VIRGINTA CONSERVATTON COMMTSSTON VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN,...Bulletin 53 Barite Deposits of Virginia By R.AYMOND S. EDMUNDSON UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA t938 I \e RICHMOND:... RICHMOND: Dwrsror cR Puncn.rsp arvo puxrrr.rc 1938 VIRGINIA CONSERVATION COMMISSION Wrreun C. Her,r,, Chai...recommend for publication as Bulletin 53 of the virginia Geological Survey series of i'eports the manuscript...Geologist of the Virginia Geological SurveY. This re=port is the first issued on barite in Virginia. It describes |  | | Journal (issue) | | 28 November 1982 No. 4 GOLD OCCURRENCES IN VIRGINIA, AN UPDATE Palmer C. Sweet and David Trimble ...Gold was f i r s t discovered i n Virginia i n 1806 a t the Whitehall mine i n Spotsylvania m y . Several...near the f a l l s of the Jams River in Amherst County as well as several placer mines were opened in...placer deposits. The f i r s t gold mine campany incorporated i n Virginia was the V i r qinia Mining Campany...New York which operated a t the Grasty mine t r a c t i n Orange County from 1831-1834. This area has been |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Darry, N. H. 0 3 0 4 1 (PART 16 SPOTSYLVANIA...SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY Bordered on the N by the Rappahan nock and Rapidan Rivers. T h e N edge may be submerged...number of gold operations r u n n i n g across the county from N to S. These are mainly placers and rather...Jackson's Trail, iy mi. S o f Brockroad. Old gold mine on Greene Farm near Brockroad. Marsden Gold M. A...gets up to 124 Dwt. Placer only. United States Gold Mine. Between Rte 620 and Rappahannock R. Nr. power line |  | | Report (volume) | | Annotated Bibliography and Index Map of Barite Deposits in United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...1019-C Annotated Bibliography and Index Map of Barite Deposits in United States By BASIL G. DEAN and...147 147 152 ILLUSTKATION PLATE 1. Index map of barite deposits in the United States________ In pocket...RESOURCES ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX MAP OF BARITE DEPOSITS IN THE UNITED STATES By BASIL G. DEAN...DEAN and DONALD A. BEOBST INTRODUCTION Barite is now ranked as an important non-metallic mineral commodity |  | | Journal (issue) | | GOLD MINES OF THE GOLD-PYRITE BELT, NORTHEASTERN VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet 'k I This road log was prepared...gold mines and prospects west of Fredericksburg, Virginia in the northeastern part of the gold-pyrite belt...Orange, Spotsylvania, and Stafford county road maps of the Virginia Department of Highways, and the U...are recommended for use with this road log. The county road maps are available for 10 cents each plus...Information Office, Virginia Department of Highways, 1221 East Broad Street, Richmond. Virginia 23219. The following |  | | Report (issue) | | SOME MANGANESE MINES IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. By D. F. HEWETT. INTRODUCTION. The demand for large amounts...actively exploited. Thus most of the deposits of Virginia, Georgia, and Arkansas that are now known were...per cent of the imports. Owing to the fact that Virginia appears to possess a larger number of deposits...adjacent States and to her proximity to markets, Virginia has supplied a large part of the domestic production...ore is said to have come from one mine, the Crimora, in Augusta County. The present paper is based on data |  | | Report (volume) | | Bulletin, nos. 23-25. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 7, no....Journal, vol. 20. Chicago, 111. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Logan and Mingo; Boone;...14. Ancient auriferous gravel channels of Sierra County, California: Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Trans., vol....Preliminary concentration tests on Mesabi ores [Itasca County, Minnesota]: Minnesota Univ., School of Mines,...1914. 54. A new longirostral mastodon from Cherry County, Nebraska: Nebraska Geol. Survey, vol. 4, pt. 14 |  | | Report (volume) | | Proceedings, vol. 13, pp. 1-46. Davenport, Iowa. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 7, no....the State Geologist for 1913-4. Burlington, Vt. Virginia Geological Survey: Administrative Report 1912-13;...1912-13; Bulletin no. 9. CharIbttesville, Va. Virginia, University of, Publications: Bulletin of the Philosophical...Chicago, 111. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Kanawha County; Preston County; Map of... coal...16. Ancient auriferous gravel channels of Sierra County, California: Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Bull., no. 91 |  | | Report (issue) | | of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, V a. West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Morgantown, W....________ Tennessee marble belts______________ Virginia marble belts________________ Murphy marble belt________________...__ Valley and Ridge slate belt__________ West Virginia slate belt______________ Pennsylvania slate belt______________...____ Tennessee__________________________ West Virginia and other areas_ ___ ____ Resource potentiaL_...Stansfield________________________________ 268 Barite, by Donald A. Brobst and Robert G. Hobbs______ |  | | Journal (issue) | | GOLD MINES AND PROSPECTS IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet INTRODUCTION Virginia was one of the first gold-producing...mines near the falls of the James River in Amherst County, as well as several placer mines in other parts...productive and sustained period of gold activity in Virginia was from 1830 thru 1856; the average annual value...Bureau of Mines estimates total gold production in Virginia from 1829 through 1934 a t $3,318,388. This figure...during the early boom years of gold mining in Virginia (Park, 1936, p. 8). I t allows for gold that was |  | | Report (issue) | | References were read, annotated, and indexed·. by county, subject, and geological age. In many entries a...a portion of the state larger than a county is discussed, so that larger subdivisions of the state are... are outlined in Fig. 1. Each index entry to a county or one of the larger subdivisions is also referred...Albuquerque, New Mexico. UNIV. VIRGINIA NEWSLETTER. University of Virginia Newsletter. Published by the...Charlottesville, Virginia. UNIV. VIRGINIA PHILOS. SOC. BULL. SCIENCE SERIES. University of Virginia Philosophical |  | | 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...forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville, Virginia. Figure 7. Locations of mineral deposits in...of Anne Arundel, Prince George's/and Baltimore Counties, Maryland (Sterrett, 1911). Figure 9. Distribution |  | | Report (volume) | | vol. 12, pp. 95-222. Davenport, Iowa. . Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 4, nos...1-419; Bulletin, nos. 62-69. Washington, D.'C. Virginia Geological Survey: Bulletin, nos. I-A, II-A. Charlottesville... West Virginia Geological Survey, vol. 4; County Reports, Marshall, Wetzel, and Tyler Counties. Morgantown... Alien, Roy Hutching. 18. Notes on Mother Lode mine in British Columbia. Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 88...for oil. 26. Two areas of oil prospecting in Lyon County., western Nevada. U. S. Geol. Survey, Bull. 381-D |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | also of orthometamorphic hornblende (-epidote) schist are common in the biotite granodiorite-gneiss....zone, a thick sequence of highgrade metamorphic mica schists, orthoquartzites with orthometamorphic basic...group of mica schist, tuff, carbon phyllite, quartzite, amphibolite, chlorite-tremolite schist (Singhbhum...of two samples of muscovite (43, 44) from garnet-mica schists of the Chaibasa Formation near Ghatsila...group of phyllites (including carbon phyllites and mica schists) belonging to the Dhalbhum Formation. Two |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Bishop copper prospect near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...2002 National Officers President Susan Eriksson, Virginia Tech, 1013 Draper Road, Blacksburg, VA 24060 540-231-5360...COPPER PROSPECT near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia Henry Barwood Route 3, Box 144 Auburn |  | | Report (issue) | | ________________________ _ Mica schist _______________________ _ Garnet-mica gneiss ________________ _..._______ _ Kyanite schist ________ --~- _________ _ Limestone and graphitic schist _______ _ Roan gneiss...chlorite schist _________________ _ Wedowee formation ____________________ _ Ashland mica schist ____________________...Intrusive rocks----------------------~---------Virginia __________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina...47 47 49 49 50 50 Mine descriptions ___________ --------- -- .. ------- - Virginia mines ___ _______________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | about 10 miles. The area is principally in Roane County. Ore has been mined in many places along the west...about 9 miles, lying partly in Roane County and partly in Rhea County. -Much of this strip is in the bottom...bordered by a fault for about 5 miles. Near the county line on the outcrop the rocks dip 20° to 30° SE...SE. The ore bed, as observed at the Crescent mine, is 5 to 6 feet thick. From 10 inches to 1 foot of lean...necessary for blast-furnace practice. In the Crescent mine many small folds, diagonal to the strike of the |  | | Report (issue) | | STATE OF VIRGINIA CONSERVATION AND DEVEI.OPMENT COMMISSION VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Wilbur A. Nelson...Belt Northeastern Piedmont Virginia By John T. Lansdale (Jniversity, Virginia IgI XICA!g COMPANY, PRIX'ER3...CorrrroxwEAr,TH oF VrncrNra Virginia Geological Survey Universitl' of Virginia Cl,arlottesville, Va., Februarl'...recommend {or publication as Bulletin 30 of the Virginia Geological Survey Series of reports a manuscript...the gold-pyrite belt in northeastern Pieclmont Virginia. The area involvecl comprises approximately 600 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | vein rock, however, and a very careful searchof the mine dumpselimina.tedsomeof these difficulties. The...Hills mine; (2) the Eastern Carroll Countymines, comprisingthe Patapscomine, the Mineral Hill mine, and...'theFrederickCountymines, comprisingthe Liberty Mine, and the New London,or Linganore mine. DETAILED DESCRIPTIOBI OF ... MINES. Baltimore County Mine, Bare Hills Mine. The Bare Hills coppermine is locatedabout4 milesnorth...smallminedumpis all that remainsto mark the site of the old mine, last worked aboutthirty years ago. The deposit |  | | Report (issue) | | Geological Survey 928 National ~enter Reston, Virginia 22092 J 'Robert Butler Department 'of Geology...Geological Survey 928 National Genter Reston, Virginia 22092 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP...North CarQlina F . A. Wilson • 28 Mine r alogy of the Foote mine , Kings Mo,mta i n , NorLh Carolina...in South Carolina B . G. Moss . . • • uo The barite deposit at Kings Creek , South Carolina W. E. Sharp...Geological Survey, National Center, MS 928, Reston, Virginia 22092 The Kings Mountain belt in ~orth Carolina |  | | Report (issue) | | the Fall Zone Region along the North Carolina – Virginia State Line Guidebook for the 1999 Meeting of the...the CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Emporia, Virginia November 6 & 7, 1999 Edited by Paul E. Sacks Geology...the Fall Zone Region along the North Carolina – Virginia State Line Guidebook for the 1999 Meeting of the...the CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Emporia, Virginia CONTENTS 1 Geologic Overview of the Eastern Appalachian...Piedmont along Lake Gaston, North Carolina and Virginia by Paul E. Sacks 16 Porphyroblast textures in |  | | Book | | Geology, University of and State Geologist of Virginia. Fourth Cloth; 6 by 9; 708 pages; 253 figures...the 83 plates, comprising 154 figures. Watson, Virginia, Edition. text, and Elements of Engineering Geology...showing I. checking developed in drying. (After Campbell, Econ. Geol., III.) Fic. 2.—Bituminous coal,... showing prismatic structure. (After Campbell.) 6 COAL splits parallel with the bedding, whereas...regard the term semianthracite as superfluous, but Campbell considers that the name should be retained as |
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