	*Beste, Bob (2005) Location Guide for Rockhounds in the United States* (3rd ed.) Vol. 2 - Part II - Illinois through North Dakota.**	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...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
	*Beste, Bob (1996) Location Guide for Rockhounds in the United States* (2nd ed.) Vol. 2 - Part II - Illinois to North Dakota.**	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...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
	*Ransom, Jay Ellis (1964) A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals* - How and Where to Find Valuable Ores and Minerals in the United States. Harper & Row, New York.**	Book
	stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
	*Beste, Bob (2014) Location Guide for Rockhounds in the United States* (4th ed.) Vol. 2 - Part II - Georgia through Montana.**	Book (volume)
	exposures, such as Aquamarine, Beryl, some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...exposureBeryl, black Tourmaline. 146 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA
	*(1924) Deposits of manganese ore in the Batesville district, Arkansas, with a chapter on the mining and preparation of the ores. Bulletin* Vol. 734. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/b734**	Report (volume)
	BY « HUGH D. MISER ^ WITH A CHAPTER ON THE MINING AND : PREPARATION OP "THE ORES ( BY W..R. CRANE...the ore-bearing area_______________________ 86 Mining and preparation of the ores, by W. R. Crane, of...County___________ McLeod prospect Mobley prospect_______ Cochran prospect ____ M. A. Aldridge prospect _ K. D. Aldridge...Aldridge prospect _ Matlock mine_________ Story mine ____ Independence County____ Jackson prospect____ Woodyard...Woodyard prospect. -^ Ball mine_____________________________ _Milligan prospect ________ Eliza Patterson

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Chalcedony from Kelley prospect, Red Mountain, Black Wonder Mining District, Santa Clara County, California, USA

Chalcedony from
Kelley prospect, Red Mountain, Black Wonder Mining District, Santa Clara County, California, USA