 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Postcard view of the Waukon iron mine, Allamakee County, cia. 1912. John Taylor collection. ARTHUR E ...Unfortunately. with today’s environmental laws and mine and quarry regulations. the prolific collecting of the 1950s...HAROLD L. PRlOR P.O. Box 111 Columbus Junction, Iowa 52738 halprior@ louisacomm.net When we began this...too, could be cited with many other localities. Iowa contains the type locality for one mineral, iowaite...December 2014 Figure 2. Map of Iowa showing the counties. Courtesy Iowa Geological Survey. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ +./8 ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5 ....and barite, 6 cm high, Minerva No. 1 mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. Figure 5 (above right).... Barite, 12.9 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. Figure 6 (right). Fluorite...Fluorite, 1.9 cm on edge, Minerva No. 1 mine, Hardin County. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing photo. Arthur |  | | Book (edition) | | masses such as occur in the — hollow, found geodes Iowa region, and from them weather the types of agates...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900...Siding in St. Clair County, 20 miles northeast of Bir- mingham. One found in Lee County in 1901 weighs 4^...have a cornfield at Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Va. A 3 carat stone, bought by a Knoxville |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway |  | | Journal (issue) | | ZODAC Contents for February, 1940 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ....................................................................... 44 GEODES OF THE KEOKUK AREA OF IOWA. By Frank L. Fleener .....................Bernardino counties, some of which were blue chalcedony, rose quartz, myrickite (named for him), bloodstone...including the chrysoprase mines in Tulare County. The late H . E. Harper of San Jose, and J. J. Kinrade of San...replacements form petrified wood, and deposition of chalcedony nodules and clusters of quartz crystals are common |  | | Report (issue) | | I s { IOWA ft 7 ■■• A * i . ;» \ P* A 7-. ■ «*"V ' r * < •+ ' 1 ’ T, / • k’-/ 5...i S' s I . " * • * «r- ‘ ; ' Geologist, Iowa Geological Survey ' .*4** =»*' I Paul*J. Horick...Jithill * v'v* l* Iowa Geolo^ica^Survey Educational Series 2 V . - -■' ( J Iowa Geological Survey...Educational Series 2 THE MINERALS OF IOWA by Paul J. Horick Geologist Iowa Geological Survey edited by Otto...STATE OF IOWA 1974 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 74-620075 Available from the Iowa Geological |  | | Book (edition) | | includes 1 SOUTH DAKOTA • MICHIGAN • ILLINOIS • IOWA WISCONSIN • OHIO • KANSAS • NORTH DAKOTA NEBRASKA...Finds ................ Fairburn Type Agate Blue Chalcedony .... Tourmaline ............... Selenite................. Black Agates..................... Chalcedony ..................... THE BADLANDS ............... .46 3 IOWA ....................... 47 MICHIGAN ............. 63 WESTERN IOWA ....................... -47 THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA NORTHERN IOWA.......................... Gems ................ |  | | Book (volume) | | Virginia VOLUME 3: THE NORTHWESTERN QUANDRANT Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska...TREASURES VOLUME ep The Northwestern Quadrant Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska...Wyoming by Allan W. Eckert Ml PERENNIAL LIBRARY Harper & Row, Publishers, New York Cambridge, Philadelphia...critical articles and reviews. For information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 58rd Street,...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | brown limonite. Wickenburg is in N / W Maricopa County in western Arizona. xline—crystalline tain a... The Dallas Gem Mine is in southern San Benito County in western California. COLORADO — "Would you please...you a sample of esting dark brown botryoidal chalcedony the truly astonishing natrolite crystals re-...surface shows the interior cently found in San Benito County, here to be an attractive moss agate of pleasing...term "astonishing" is not an exaggeraSan Miguel County is in southwestern tion ! W e were lucky in being |  | | Book (volume) | | that is mostly a mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |  | | Book (volume) | | that is mostly a mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | half can be seen globular masses of brownish chalcedony showing a play of colors, chiefly red, hence...nor even under an argon lamp. "Fluorite. Teller County, Colorado." —on label. CONNECTICUT—"Perhaps you...ago I found a greenish golden beryl at Slocum's quarry in East Hampton (Middlesex Co.), Conn., weighing...in the U. S. have come from this quarry. Also found in this quarry was a y2 inch crystal of gem, pink...found in Dodge County near Empire, Plainfield and Jay Bird Springs, and in Irwin County near Osierfield |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...botryoidal chalcedony, occasionally with pale Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE...deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...botryoidal chalcedony, occasionally with pale Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE...deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book | | Gives a sodium flame. Nearly insoluble. COMANCHE COUNTY: SE%, Sec. 4, T.3N., R.15W. The xtals are i to...side by granite, AGATE (See Quartz) CANADIAN COUNTY: South Canadian Rivers. In the gravel bars of...the Also in sand plant waste dumps. CIMARRON COUNTY: Secs. 7, 8, 9, 10; T.5N., R.2E. Cimarron Meredian...widely scattered in the Black Mesa area. DEWEY COUNTY: Agate is found 2 miles east of Seiling in the...and at Taloga in the South Canadian River. HARPER COUNTY: Secs. 17, 20; T.27N., R.23W.. Jaspagate. Secs |  | | Book (volume) | | From 1,000’ on the eastern border with Montana and Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with Wyoming...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | community of Talucah near Vahlermoso Springs, in Morgan County, north Alabama. A large portion of this cave had...of Mines, I heard of an active uranium mine or quarry a couple of miles from town. Following the highway...pollucite which I discovered at the Strickland Quarry, in Portland, during 1954. "Several institutions...proved to be fairly abundant in one section of the quarry wall, intergrown with lepidolite, spodumene, pink...known from the Bolton Schist at the Strickland quarry, should also have appeared in the .list In my map |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ALABAMA—Arbacoochee, a tiny town in southern Cleburne County of N / E Alabama, was famous over 100 years ago...crystals). D E . L A W A R E - P i n k i á h chalcedony pebbles have been found on Bowers Beach, Kent...miles west of Shoshone, near Bliss, in Gooding County, Idaho. This is on Highway 30. Hope you can identify...coal (bituminous) at Terre Haute, Vigo Co., Ind. IOWA—Pinkish masses of microcline, some with tiny lustrous...ditch in Melrose, Monroe Co., Iowa, by Michael Papcum, RR1, Melrose, Iowa. KANSAS—The following letter |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cellular gray chalcedony whose cavities are lined with botryoidal, pale grayish-blue chalcedony. ARIZONA—A...the old open pit Sodium Sulphate mine in Imperial County near BertROCKS AND MINERALS ram siding on the...the onegite. Also running through the mass was chalcedony-looking quartz which sometimes pointed up into...other side of Cheshire there is a deserted trap quarry where I found rather nice natrolite, although in...calcite xls can also be found." DELAWARE — Reddish chalcedony pebbles have been found on Bowers Beach, Kent |  | | Book | | and MINERAL AMERI A A Guide to Rock Collecting HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS ....... New York, Evanston, San...critical articles and reviews. For information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New...Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts...conceived this book and determined its need in the Harper & Row program of earth science books designed for...pyrite, quartz family minerals ( agate, carnelian, chalcedony, chert, flint, jasp-agate, jasper, quartzite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collect a few specimens. "The locality is the Jeffrey quarry located 1/2 mile outside North Little Rock city...city limits on State Hwy 65 in Pulaski County, Ark." — letter dated July 31, 1963 from Richard Purifoy,...crystals at the Kilauea Crater. ion Co., Iowa." — from that Russell, Iowa, Rockhound, Robert Stech. "I am staying...in Brummett Creek." — on label. IOWA — "Here is another Southern Iowa curiosity that might be of interest...readers of R&M and help provide material to keep Iowa in "World News". The curiosity is a rattlebox. I |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | October 2014 Mineral Index by Counties Alfalfa County Carmen, 2 mi. NE of Carmen, 1 .1 mi. W of Highway...Permian-age Crisfield Sandstone: malachite. Adair County Bunch, near Bunch, secs.l.5, 16, T.14N, R.24E:...fluorescent and phosphorescent) (Gilmore 1963). Beckham County Malachite localities, SW1/4 SE1/4 sec.36 and SE1/4...at Great Salt Plains, Alfalfa County. Joe Lobell photo. Blaine County Southard, quarries of the U.S...and Schleicher 1961). Watonga, Universal Atlas quarry, 6 mi. NE of Watonga, Nescatunga Gypsum of the |  | | Report (chapter) | | Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA 2 Present address: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation... CO 80202, USA 3 Kansas Geological Survey, 1930 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047, USA *Corresponding...et al. 2001). Mississippian reservoirs of Kansas, USA, include porous chert facies, and muddy dolomite...Mississippian ramp margin location from NW Cherokee County, Kansas, USA (Fig. 1a, b) with the purpose of examining:...is located in Cherokee County of SE Kansas, USA (Fig. 1a, b). Cherokee County is situated within the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have been found along the Cahaba River in Shelby County, Ala. The colors are gray with red veins, red and...around but he doesn't want a mob like at Muscatine, Iowa. I live at the pit in a trailer house and collectors...Fortville is in N . W . Hancock County close to the Hamilton County line; the gravel pit is close by...by, just over the line in Hamilton County. Mr. Johansen has a Fortville mailing address and a McCordsville...interesting paragraph: "At Klondike (Lyon Co.), Iowa, about 20 miles northeast of Canton, S. D., is a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | admission fee on a dirt road which compared to some old quarry roads is a super highway! The x,!s are found in...bornite have been found in gabbro at the old Hubbard quarry in Wilmington (New Castle Co.), Del. FLORIDA—"I...been found in the Appalachian Minerals Company quarry near Monticello (Jasper Co.), Ga. IDAHO—"I am enclosing...polished which adds to its attractiveness and interest. IOWA—"Here might be a mineral news item that I should...was pheasant hunting at Harcourt (Webster Co.), Iowa and going into a restaurant a group of fellows were |
|
