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write to the Geological Survey'at Washington and ask for a frank to return it DEPARTMENT OP THE INTERIOR...MANGANESE-BEARING DEPOSITS NEAB LAKE CKESCENT AND HUMPTULIPS WASHINGTON BY J. T. PARDEE Contributions to economic...1927 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON 1927 X.-'lb" CONTENTS Summary___________..._____________1____________ Settlements, industries, vegetation, and climate________________ Surface features________...Distribution-___________________j_____________._ Occurrence and character______________________..__ Mineralogy__ |
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Harold L. Ickes, Secretary 1 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY W. C. Mendenhall...Bulletin 931-R MANGANESE RESOURCES OF THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA, WASHINGTON A PRELIMINARY REPORT BY CHARLES...PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1942 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. ........................................... Production and reserves.................................. Geology...volcanic rocks................... Red limestones and argillltes........................ Structure.... |
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DEPOSITS OF MANGANESE ORE IN MONTANA, UTAH, OREGON, AND WASHINGTON. By J. T. PARDEE. DEPOSITS IN MONTANA... HISTORY AND PRODUCTION. One of the surprises of the war period was a large production of manganese...since 1870 the Butte and Philipsburg districts had produced large quantities of the ores of copper, silver...silver, and other metals, the fact that large bodies of manganese ore formed part of the mineral deposits...deposits of these districts was not generally known and hardly suspected. In 1916 general attention was first |
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S S EUR' SCHOICE ROBERT B. COOK Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama...collectors introduced to the hobby through the lapidary arts, rhodonite may well have been the first pink mineral...became acquainted. It is plentiful in massive form and lends itself to easy cabochon work. Good specimens...well-developed crystals are quite another matter, however, and are known from only a relatively few occurrences...distinguish from pyroxmangite [Mn(Mn,Fe)6(Si7O21)] and bustamite [(Mn,Ca)3Si3O9], minerals with which it |
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Written and Illustrated by Bart Cannon 1975 CORD ILLERAN Mercer Island, Washington Lilli liliiiLt'...Bart Cannon. All rights reserved. frorn the author. No part of this publication may be reproduced without...Cordilleran 18 Holly Hill Drive Mercer Island, Washington 98040 COVER ILLUSTRATION: Amethyst scepter heads...Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut and Lewis Landers....PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A great number of publications dealing with the various aspects of Washington |
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DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES DIVISION OLYMPIA, WASHiNGTON 98504 METAL...METAL MINES OF WASHINGTONPRELIMINARY REPORT by ROBERT E. DERKEY NANCY L. JOSEPH and RAYMOND LASMANIS WASHINGTON...WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN FILE REPORT 90-18 NOVEMBER 1990 This report...Division of Geology and Earth Resources standards and nomenclature. 1, WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF Natural...Division of Geology and Earth Resources Raymond Lasmanis. State Geologist LIBRARY DEPA.RTl'\~ENT OF NATURAL |
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DEPOSITS OF THE SIERRITA MOUNTAINS, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA. By F. L. RANSOME. INTRODUCTION. The Sierrita...one of the smaller of the nearly meridional mountain ranges of southern Arizona. They separate the Santa...Valley on the east from Altar Valley on the west. The range has a length between 13 and 14 miles and a width...width roughly estimated at 4 miles. The height of the dominating summit, Samaniego Peak, has, so far as...Apparently no part of the range rises more than 2,000 or 3,000 feet above the upper margin of the flanking desert |
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A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises...imperceptibly. The highest elevation, 5,424’, almost straddles the extreme southwestern corner of Kimball Co...it overlooks both Colorado and Wyoming. The subsurface rock strata of the entire state are all undisturbed...sandstone, limestone, shale and clay, with the oldest formation lying in the southeastern corner where...spreading out from the Rocky Mountains as they rose during the Larimide revolution of 100 million years |
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ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of 210 miles, with...slightly to the southwest. Containing more than 275 rivers, the state is bounded along ¾ of its circumference...primarily the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The highest elevations are the Mounds along the northern borders...borders, rising only to a altitude of 900 to 1,000 feet above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils...offer gem and mineral collectors, even though the state produces more sandstone, silica sand and Fluorspar |
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ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of 210 miles, with...slightly to the southwest. Containing more than 275 rivers, the state is bounded along ¾ of its circumference...primarily the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The highest elevations are the Mounds along the northern borders...borders, rising only to a altitude of 900 to 1,000 feet above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils...offer gem and mineral collectors, even though the state produces more sandstone, silica sand and Fluorspar |
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104 ROCKS AND MINERALS Although best known for its superb quartz crystals, Arkansas also boasts an...an array of other minerals, as evidenced by this county-by-county description of localities. A R K A...A L and mining heri tage that started in the early 1800s with explorers noting the minerals of Magnet...in north ern and western Arkansas and Magnet Cove during the Civil War, and peaked in the late 1800s with...with the opening of nu merous mines throughout the state and extensive collecting in Magnet Cove. In |
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Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes it the largest of the Atlantic...situated at the southern end of the Appalachian chain of mountains. These ranges extend into the northeast...Brasstown Bald, a part of the Nantahala Mountains achieve the highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet...feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the Lookout and Sand mountains loom over rich agricultural...geologic ages and under varied conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian |
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_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DEWnT...DEWnT NELSON, DIVISION Director OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO OLAF San Francisco P. 11...BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia, Los Angek j Los...Los Angeles, Caliiomia and ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California...LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CAUfORNIA DAVIS 1956 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL To Ills Excellency The Hoxorable Goodwin |
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formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils. For long ages Ohio lay beneath...quantities of Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian and Pennsylvanian sediments; the erosional...erosional products of some 200 million years. Few, if any Mesozoic rocks appear within the state, but every one...one of Ohio’s 88 counties is surfaced with Pleistocene debris. The state was buried completely four times...glaciers, leaving the land surface nearly level but with some fairly rugged low hills in the southeastern |
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formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils. For long ages Ohio lay beneath...quantities of Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian and Pennsylvanian sediments; the erosional...erosional products of some 200 million years. Few, if any Mesozoic rocks appear within the state, but every one...one of Ohio’s 88 counties is surfaced with Pleistocene debris. The state was buried completely four times...glaciers, leaving the land surface nearly level but with some fairly rugged low hills in the southeastern |
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A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state...elev. From 1,000’ on the eastern border with Montana and Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with...with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade, Custer and Pennington the land rises abruptly...abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi. Black Hills region enclosed by the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne rivers. These...These pine covered mountains, higher than the Alleghenies, culminate in Harney Peak in southern Pennington |
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Harold L. Ickes, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY W. E. Wrather,...MANGANESE DEPOSITS IN PART OF THE SIERRA MAESTRA, CUBA BY C. F. PARK, JR., AND M..W. COX Geological Investigations...Investigations in the American Republics (Pages 307-355) UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1944...For gale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. Price....................................... Production and reserves .............................. Mining methods |
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MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE... STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director DIVISION OF MINES...1938 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California...Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Letter of Transmittal 5 Map 6 Outline o['...Sulphides and Tellurides of the Semi-metals 36 Sulphides, Selenides, Tellurides, and Arsenides of the Metals |
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': . ·• Ranson1 , Jay E . Gems an d minerals of Arnerica 549 . 075 RAiJSO rti SAUSALITO PU BLIC...9 s ~ uS L 10, f • =- ..-.Ai • GEMS and MINERALS of AMERICA OTHER BOOKS BY JAY ELLIS RANSOM ...Mines and Minerals The Rock-Hunter's Range Guide Petrified Forest Trails Arizona Gem Trails and the Colorado...Colorado Desert of California High Tension (A Biography) Jay Ellis Ransom EMS of and MINERAL AMERI... Portions of this book have appeared in different form in A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals and The Rock-Hunter's |
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Chemical Composition of Sedimentary Rocks in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ...Composition of Sedimentary Rocks in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington Compiled by THELMA P. HILL and MARIAN...compilation of 5,411 analyses published before 1965 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1972...1972 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ROGERS C. B. MORTON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY V. E...Director Library of Congress catalog-card No. 72-600288 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S |
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TT PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1111 01599 4096 Rocks and Minerals of California THIRD REVISED EDITION NATUREGRAPH...PUBLIC LIBRARY GA BAPAEL CALIFORALA Rocks and Minerals of California THIRD REVISED EDITION Color Photographs... Acknowledgements The pictures on pages 6, 41, 44, and 47 were originally done by Don Greame Kelley for the book...book, The Amateur WNaturalist’s Handbook, by Vinson Brown. These pictures are reproduced by permission of...of the publishers (Little, Brown & Co.) and the artist We are greatly indebted to Dr. Gordon Oakeshott |
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| VOL. 44 ISSUE 11 THE EARTH’S TREASURES • MINERALS AND JEWELRY BRAZIL A Gem and Mineral R&G KIDS ...Blue’ A New Strike of Turquoise in Colorado Ancient Greece Fossils, Minerals and History Florida Fossil...Fossil Trips Find Shark Teeth and More www.rockngem.com A HEALTHY HOBBY Rockhounds Are Responsible...9/23/14 2:19 PM 3 Kingsley North Full page.idml 3 9/29/14 10:30 AM on THe coVer Volume 44, Number 11...FeaTures The pegmatites of Brazil are long-time producers of stunning mineral specimens and gem crystals |
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|tj:i:f^iiipjp m^: OF THE f \ ^COLLEGE OP \ J BULLETIN No. 67 Minerals of California By ARTHUR...Office 1914 UNlVER^ilY OF CAUFORNiA DAVIS MCN. HAKILTOS ^GBIQ. DEFT. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. To his...Excellency, the Hon Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of the State of California. Sir: I have the honor to...to transmit Bureau upon the Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work...date through the co-operation Arthur of Prof. S. Eakle, Ph.D., of the Department of Geology Bureau |
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Geology and Ore Deposits of the Iron River-Crystal Falls District, Iron County Michigan GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...in cooperation with the Geological Survey Division of the Michigan Department of Conservation PAPER... 570 Geology and Ore Deposits of the Iron River-Crystal Falls District, Iron County Michigan By H....PETTIJOHN, and K. L. WIER GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 570 Prepared in cooperation with the Geological...Geological Survey Division of the Michigan Department of Conservation UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING |