 | | Journal (issue) | | Time: 7:30 p.m. Long Branch Nature Center, 625 S. Carlin Springs Rd., Arlington, VA 22204 Volume 57...on its own. The Mineral Newsletter Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join your club officers...meeting to order at 7:45 p.m. at the Long Branch Nature Center in Arlington, VA. Members approved the minutes...Crews: Various marine fossils, Gore, AL The Long Branch Nature Center asked everyone to leave by car...Westmoreland State Park on the Potomac River in Virginia) for Saturday, March 12. Fossils there include |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mulholland Highway, extreme western Los Angeles County, California. CubicGarnets Foundin Marylandand...Run, a small Montgomery County, Maryland stream about 5.5 miles (9 km) long which flows southasterly...spessartine cubic crystal from Rock Run, Montgomery County, Maryland, photo by the author. 2 Mineral News...sands of not only Rock Run, but most of the other county streams. For nearly the next two years, I continued...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com |  | | Journal (issue) | | Time: 7:45 p.m. Long Branch Nature Center, 625 S. Carlin Springs Rd., Arlington, VA 22204 Volume 57...subadamantine The Mineral Newsletter Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our February...reported from Moss Mine, Tabscott, Goochland County, Virginia (click on the links for Mindat information...reported from the U.S. Army Proving Grounds in La Paz County, AZ (limited collecting opportunities anticipated...overtaken by events when everyone in northern Virginia decided to collect a generous supply of what is |  | | Journal (issue) | | Time: 7:45–9:00 p.m. Long Branch Nature Center, 625 S. Carlin Springs Rd. Arlington, VA 22204 Next Meeting:...the important The Mineral Newsletter Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our February...pumpellyite and feldspar, chlorite, amethyst, chalcedony, and calcite. Wayne acquired the agates in Hayward...WI, and elsewhere. They were found in Keweenaw County at the Wolverine #2 mine dump (now taken away for...Webelos-Ree in October 2012 at Sky Meadows State Park in Virginia. and … to Alec Brenner for Recognition of Leadership |  | | Journal (issue) | | Time: 7:45–9:00 p.m. Long Branch Nature Center, 625 S. Carlin Springs Rd. Arlington, VA 22204 Next Meeting...advice and opinions are welcome. The Northern Virginia Mineral Club offers great opportunities to exchange...Dr. Lance Kearns has again invited the Northern Virginia Mineral Club, along with the Mineralogical Society...around the world, but with an obvious emphasis on Virginia specimens, like turquoise from Lynch Station,...visit Sugar Grove, about 40 miles away in West Virginia, please let me know, and we will do it. If you |  | | Journal (issue) | | Time: 7:30-10 p.m. Long Branch Nature Center, 625 S. Carlin Springs Rd. Arlington, VA 22204 Due to Memorial...have been offered by our friends in the Montgomery County Club. And Pat Rehill continues to offer her wonderful...shark teeth at the Brownie Beach Cliffs, Calvert County, MD. She also showed a Travel Channel "Cash & Treasures"...Lighthouse and Coast Guard Station (see article in the Arlington Magazine Food & Drink May/June 2012 issue pg....Wednesday of each month at The Long Branch Nature Center, Arlington, Virginia Time: 7:30 to 10:00 pm At |  | | Journal (issue) | | 13 Time: 7:45 p.m. Long Branch Nature Center, 625 S. Carlin Springs Rd., Arlington, VA 22204 Volume 58...the Wheatley Mine (Phoenixville, PA). Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our guest speaker...meredith@aol.com. Virginia Occurrence Leonard Watson, in his Lead and Zinc Deposits of Virginia (see the excerpt...and Zinc Mines at Austinville in southwestern Virginia (Watson 1905). Although galena was the primary... Watson, T.L. 1905. Lead and zinc deposits of Virginia. Geol. Ser. Bull. 1. Richmond, VA: Board of Agriculture |  | | Journal (issue) | | common to this region at this time of year. Fairfax county schools were closed, and as such, the meeting was...meeting at 6:45pm on Wednesday the 27th at Long Branch Nature Center in coordination with the Micromineralogists...favorite dish. There Field Trip 20 Feb The Northern Virginia Mineral Club has been invited to join the Micromineralogists...time to renew your membership in the Northern Virginia Mineral Club if you have not already done so....following address: RICK REIBER, TREASURER NORTHERN VIRGINIA MINERAL CLUB PO BOX 9851 ALEXANDRIA, VA 22304 |  | | Journal (issue) | | ) Time: 6:30 p.m. Long Branch Nature Center, 625 S. Carlin Springs Rd., Arlington, VA 22204 Volume 60...November meeting minutes ..................... p. 5 Virginia Mineral Project ............................ p...dendrites for color contrast. Virginia has a soapstone deposit in Albemarle County. I’ll see if we can do a...this year’s meeting and holiday party at the Long Branch Nature Center (our usual club meeting place—but...organized and hosted our first club picnic in a long time. All those who came had a great time! • Jim |  | | Journal (issue) | | 23 Time: 7:45 p.m. Long Branch Nature Center, 625 S. Carlin Springs Rd., Arlington, VA 22204 Volume 58...Source: Wikipedia. The Mineral Newsletter Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join your club officers...meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. at the Long Branch Nature Center in Arlington, VA. Due to the lack of a quorum...went on to serve as president of the Northern Virginia Mineral Club, the Micromineralogists of the National...in Fred’s memory can be made to the “Northern Virginia Mineral Club Fred Schaefermeyer Scholarship Fund” |  | | Journal (issue) | | Time: 7:45 p.m. Long Branch Nature Center, 625 S. Carlin Springs Rd., Arlington, VA Volume 58, No....Sad news .........................p. 6 Montgomery County show report.................p. 7 Flag Ponds field...........................p. 12 Website review: Virginia Places ....................p. 13 Purple fluorite...Township, Putnam County, New York; and Rossie, St. Lawrence County, New York. The Putnam County locality is...three crystal The Mineral Newsletter Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our April speaker |  | | Journal (issue) | | Time: 7:45 p.m. Long Branch Nature Center, 625 S. Carlin Springs Rd., Arlington, VA 22204 Volume 58...feldspar—connotes perfect cleavage.) Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our February...ultraviolet light, probably with uranium as an activator. Long-wave fluorescence is also reported, although without...don’t have to go through that experience again for a long time. Last Saturday was the annual trip to James...meeting to order at 7:45 p.m. at the Long Branch Nature Center in Arlington, VA. The minutes of the November |  | | Journal (issue) | | stone (breccia), blue aragonite, varascite, blue chalcedony, angelite (anhydrite), blue abalone shell, spondyllus...jewelry. Our meeting will be at Long Branch Nature Center in Arlington, starting at 7:45pm. Following...easy to keep track of the meeting The Northern Virginia Mineral Club Next, Sue Marcus, our VP contacted...month. Sue was contacted by Wayne, our previous (and long serving) Past President with the name of a possible...Cape series, (medium brown color.) The Northern Virginia Mineral Club April 2010 Page 4 THE MINERAL |  | | Journal (issue) | | authored by Dr. Kearns and Jessica. The Northern Virginia Mineral Club February 2011 THE MINERAL NEWSLETTER...year career at 3M. Fred first joined the Northern Virginia Mineral club in the early 1980s, then joined our...every mineral club in our area. His The Northern Virginia Mineral Club Today Fred and Muriel spend their...and Pat Haynes. Congratulations! The Northern Virginia Mineral Club Gerry Cox (gerryannec @ verizon...mineral show on March 19 & 20, at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds, in Rockville, MD. Club members agreed |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Month for April. Some of us have found it in Virginia, and more of us can seek it when we return to...little-known facts about this mineral. Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, No in-person social events...Prehnite, O&G Southbury Quarry, Southbury, New Haven County, CT. Photo: Bob Cooke. the specimens shown above...babingtonite, Roncari Quarry, East Granby, Hartford County, CT. Photo: Bob Cooke. Now we get to the prehnite...Chantilly Crushed Stone Quarry (also called the Virginia Crushed Stone Quarry) on the north side of U.S |  | | 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:...extending in a N to S trending belt about 8 mi. long and less than 2 mi. wide, with its S end W of Emerson |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | stone melon in a matter of a month but it would be a long wait before a new crop was ripe enough to pick....Amongst the forms there are spheres of jasper or chalcedony, or chert or a mixture of all three. Some are...in Wadi Ba Tieh. ROCKS AND MINERALS 125 look long and diligently and there you will find that rare...Nebr. Benjamin R. Dadd, 360 Norwood Ave., West long Branch, N.J. G. M Etherington, 219 Highland Rd., Mahwah...Jimmy Guy Blencoe, (10 yrs.) 605522nd Rd. N., Arlington 5, Va. Bill Norton (12 yrs.), 1423 Sunset Blvd |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in the southeastern United States. It a 500-mile-long state situated mainly between 35° and 36.6° North...left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard |  | | Journal (issue) | | use halite and salt interchangeably. Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, No in-person social events...flow like glaciers of ice (frozen water). Top: Long history of use with and in foods. Source: University...Minnesota. Bottom: Halite, Rhodes Salt Marsh, Esmeralda County, Nevada. Photo: Bob Cooke. Collectible crystals...from Neuhof Fulda, Kassel, Germany (top); Kern County, California (middle); and somewhere in California...send a check, please make it payable to Northern Virginia Mineral Club. Share Your Story in the Newsletter |  | | 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 |  | | 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...mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre and Heyl , 19.60 |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................408 Virginia .....................................................................................429 West Virginia ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...my wife Becky for allowing me to put in all the long nights needed to bring this together. v A Location...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................408 Virginia .....................................................................................431 West Virginia ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...my wife Becky for allowing me to put in all the long nights needed to bring this together. v A Location...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham |  | | Book (volume) | | Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust long spurs into this part of the state. In this rough...as: concretions, Barite and Celestite crystals, chalcedony rosettes, agates, jasper, fossil plants and vertebrate...known for its agates, chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel...especially to the W of townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd....Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara |
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