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| feldspar, fluorite, gemstones, gypsum, kaolin, limestone, magnesite, mineral sands, peat, phosphate rock...Ellis. Cover photo: David Mitchell Limited limestone quarry at Lilydale, looking east. Urban development...upper quarry faces, unconformably overlying the darker coloured, Lower Devonian Lilydale Limestone. Quicklime...and various limestone products are manufactured at the plant located adjacent to the quarry. (Photograph...Gemstones 83 13 Gypsum 90 14 Kaolin 98 15 Limestone 115 16 Magnesite 141 17 Mineral sands 144 |
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| Desired. Alabama—Mr. Ernest Fairbanks, 109th Street, Old Orchard Beach, Me., sends in this bit of information:...beautiful specimens are found of snowy-white drusy quartz which line cavities of gray chert. California—R...Please Send Them In. calcite from the West End quarry, Inyo Co., Calif., and the other is a bluishwhite...consisting of about 22 minerals of which garnet and quartz seem to be the most common. Along with the sand...(microcline, orthoc'ase, albite, oligoclase, anorthite), quartz, mica (biotite, muscovite) obsidian and gold?? |
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| Investigation of Gilley Fluorspar Deposits in Cherokee County, Alabama, by James F. O'Neill. It is interesting... 50 miles northeast of Birmingham, in Cherokee County, located in West 1/2, West V2 of Section 16, Township...furnace in Gadsden. The mineral occurs in Lower Cambrian limestone, referred to as the Conasauga, which has...fluoresces blue (through the quartz) under the Mineralight; in addition the quartz crystal has a colorless...30 to 40 feet thick and is a replacement for limestone with the less soluble shale, flint and chert mingled |
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| varying in color from colorless to amber, on white limestone, occurs in Miller's Lime Pit at Samson, Geneva...2, Crescent City, Calif. ARKANSAS—"The Coleman quartz crystal mine is located 14 miles north of Hot Springs...locations—they also offer for sale a very great selection of quartz xls at very reasonable prices. COLORADO—"I am...were a sort of coating on several rocks near an old mine. I am very interested in what they are, thought...admission fee on a dirt road which compared to some old quarry roads is a super highway! The x,!s are found |
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| 1996 I A new early cyclostome bryozoan from the Lower Ordovician (Volkhov Stage) of Russia PAUL D. TAYLOR...e m i s e p t a t a n. gen. n.sp. is an unusual Lower Ordovician cyclostome bryozoan, represented by a...record of bryozoans begins fairly abruptly in the Lower Ordovician. By the Arenig calcareous fossils assignable...stenolaemates (e.g. TAYLOR & LARWOOD 1990). Very few Lower Ordovician cyclostomes have been previously described...DzIK 1981 from the Middle Volkhov of Estonia and Poland, and subsequently (DZIK 1994) reported this species |
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| some distance apart. The schist is composed of quartz, muscovite or sericite, pyrite and graphite with...chrysocolla associated with malachite, chalcedony and quartz, forming specimens of great beauty, have been found...is an old copper prospect in which occurs native copper as small masses in gray novaculite (quartz). CALIFORNIA—The...reference to the quartz crystals found in the Josephine Mine near Volcanoville, Eldorado County, California... however a little more information about those quartz crystals may be of interest. I happen to be a part |
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| turned out to be selenite xls and tiny calcite, quartz, and fluorite xls. These crystals are micro mounts...biotite schist and coming from the Worth feldspar quarry on Bog Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex Co., Conn...thickness, which were composed of plagioclase, quartz, and a glassy cleavable mineral. A cavity of crystallized...granular quartz miles north of Co., Del., and near Newark. FLORIDA—Brownish jaspery quartz pebbles,...with chalcopyrite and chalcocite, were found in the old copper mine at Canton, Cherokee Co., Ga. I D A H |
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| black coating on chert. The writer also found small quartz crystals with the graphite in one clay bank. The...velvety-black specimen is basanite, a variety of quartz. A common name for basanite is touchstone. ARIZONA—From...mile west of the community of Levesque in Cross County. This locality may also be given as 6 miles east...cellular brownish rock, COLORADO—'"On the dumps of the old Smuggler and Molly Gibson mines in Aspen (Pitkin...— "Please identify the green inclusions in this quartz specimen? It comes from Woodbury, Litchfield Co |
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| Silurian greywackes were seen north of Berwick and Old Red Sandstone lavas and pyroclastics in the Cheviot...A day was spent on the unique Permian rocks of County Durham and another considering the effects of the...plate from an English/European plate during the Lower Palaeozoic. Following deformation ofthe greywackes...porphyrite. Post-orogenic fluviatile sediments (Old Red Sandstone) were deposited before, but mainly...Sandstones, Scremerston Coal Group, Carboniferous Limestone Group, Millstone Grit and Coal Measures. Broadly |
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| Czajkowski Formation of St. John's Hill, Gruczno, Poland 23 John Carney, John Aram and Tony Waltham Two...wetland deposits, belonging to the 55 million years old Cobham Lignite, were intersected during the construction...parts of the world it had always been assumed that ‘old’ but undated rocks with fossils must be of Cambrian...National Stone Centre stands on a dramatic site in old limestone quarries, overlooking Wirksworth, in the southern...each step will be topped by local Hoptonwood limestone for seating. Longcliffe Quarries Ltd are supporting |
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| 1973—12th Annual Gem and Mineral Festival of the Oxford County Mineral and Gem Association to be held at the Field...International Swap and Show of T h e Jefferson County Rock and Mineral Club w i l l be held at the Fairgrounds...Maine. 04107 July 26-29, 1973. Eighth Annual Macon County Gem-Boree w i l l be held i n the Franklin H i...M i n eral Displays. Aug. 4, 5, 1973 — Fulton County Mineral Club w i l l hold its 13th Annual Swapping...Talc Beryl Emery Borax Halite Pyrite Barite Sulfur Quartz Galena Gypsum (Satin Spar) Oolitic Hematite Rhodochrosite |
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| xline—crystalline CALIFORNIA — From near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif, we have a deep blue dumortierite that was... This fine 3x5 inch specimen comes from Teller County, Colorado. ARIZONA — "Would you please identify...identify this specimen for me? I know it is quartz but what is the silvery particles? I have had it lying around...for 3 years believing it to be just a piece of quartz til the other day when I sawed off this piece sent...was found July 2, 1959, near Cave Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona." — sent in by Clyde N. Hall, Elbridge |
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| Piesteign is represented as surrounded by Silurian and Old lied Sandstone formations, with no rocks of Carboniferous...an adjacent ridge of Wenlock Shales, Woolhope Limestone, and Upper Llandovery Sandstone. it is scarcely...stamp. 2 The district is contained in the 1 in. Old Series Ordnance and Geological Map, Sheets 56 N.E...turning southward out of the Tenbury road at the County Intermediate School, crosses the railway and rises...inches to a mile. B.H., bore-hole ; W.L., Woolhope Limestone. The mouth of the drift can be seen at the foot |
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| Head, the intertidal range gradually narrows; the lower shore is of sand or mud, backed by sand or shingle...extent as the tides shift banks of sand over their lower tracts or wash them clean again, and their fauna...and 7 p.m., so that during the winter months the lower reaches of the shore and of the scars are only uncovered...Kent estuary there is a limestone cliff, and reefs and outcrops of limestone occur at several places... have no doubt been carried by the ice from the old sea floor over which it moved.” . .. p.207. “The |
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| Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...towns of Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport...Newport County. The greatest number of species and varieties appear in the Northern Zone. Miller attributes...Island—for example, steatite from Johnston in Providence County for carving bowls and pipes; red and yellow ochre...operation in the Colonies was for limestone from the Dex ter quarry (originally Hackleton's Rock) at |
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| INTRODUCTION . . • LOCAL ROCK FORMATIONS. MOUNTAIN LIMESTONE MAIN INLIER ASHOVER INLIER CRICH INLIER KNIVETON...the northern half of the Western Division of the county. It consists of the hill country of Derbyshire...1899.] 13 166 H. H. ARNOLD BEMROSE ON the county, and for some distance forms the boundary between...Derbyshire. In the north of the county a large dome-shaped mass of Mountain Limestone has been brought up. The...denudation which has not only laid bare the Mountain Limestone, but removed a small thickness of the upper beds |
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| Highland Border Rocks •179 IV. The Rocks of the Lower or Black Shale and Chert Series 180 V. The Rocks...Rocks 193 VIII. Intrusive Rocks older than the Lower Old Red Sandstone 194 PAGE IX. The Hornblende-Schist...scale, in Ireland. It consists of grits, shales, limestone, cherts or jaspers and cherty shales, graphitic...Leny Old Lime Quarry, Callander, he remarks that " both the texture and colour of the limestone, and...general sequence of these Border Rocks with the Lower Silurian Series in the Southern Uplands of Scotland |
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| ..........................._....;.... 9 York County............................................................................. Northern belt of limestone.................................................Susquehanna Eiver, Lancaster County, Pa...................... III. Banded Lower Camhrian rocks, one-fourth...mile southwest of Emigs- Page. 8 12 ville, York County, Pa.......................................... IV...solution beneath the soil of a massive bed of Lower Cambrian limestone at York, Pa....................... V. |
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| Huber Formation 11 Clinchfield Sand 13 Tivola Limestone 14 Barnwell Formation 15 Twiggs Clay Member...16 Tobacco Road Sand, including Sandersville Limestone Member 16 Hawthorn Formation 17 - Alluvium...Estimates 31 Crushed stone 31 Fuller's earth 32 Limestone 33 Sand 34 References cited 35 ii Illustrations...produced, and fuller's earth and a minor amount of limestone were formerly produced. igneous rocks in the Piedmont...the Barnwell Formation, and limestone was dug from the Tivola Limestone. Introduction The Macon-Gordon |
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| New Enterprise Banded Chert.... Roaring Spring Quartz & Chert... Grazierville Shale Concretions .......Ripple Marks............ Jersey Shore Calcite & Quartz.... Antes Creek Fossils..................... Ralston...Fossil Pit....................... Eastern Industries Quarry.......... Carbondale Fossil Ferns................Jasper........................ Hellertown Jasper & Quartz....... Eastonite.................................121 121, 122 124 127 129 132 134 137 Lime Crest Quarry...................... Sterling Hill Mine...... |
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| November, 1950, by little Patricia Foran, the 10 year old daughter of Sgt. and Mrs. James Foran, while vacationing...action in Korea on February 5, 1951. He was 18 years old on the day he died. ARIZONA: Some interesting gypsum...color, which come from the Arizona Chemical Co.'s old property which is now idle and located about 21/...Marble Peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains, in Pima County, Arizona. A note from him reads: "I have done some...taken from the Cherokee district placers in Butte County, California. Mineral Information Service, July |
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| gneiss 3 Schist, trap, serpentine 4 Lava, limestone, dolomite, niarbli Sandstone Quurtzite, slate...Adams County Allegheny County Armstrong County Beaver County 19 1" -<» -- 24 -7 Bedford County -'•'...-;"» SO Perks County ;>- Blair County Bradford County Pucks County Butler County 00 03 07 77 Cambria...Cambria County ^- Cameron County Carbon County Centre County Chester County Clarion County Clearfield...Clearfield County Clinton County Columbia County Crawford County Cumberland County ^7 ^ J,0 5);"i 1'^' Ill HO |
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| Bedded Ironstone Fireclay, Shale (Blaes) and Clay Limestone Table I: Production Statistics) Sandstone. Table...Upper ( ( Limestone Group ( ( �[;3 :;i 0 E-l !w ( Upper ( Oil-Shale ( Group ( ( Lower Oil-Shale...H � Building stone; limestone; (Refractory sandstone). Water. 2c d Limestone; b1ij lding stone; bedded...mineral oil a nd natural gas; building stone; limestone; blaes for briclcmalcing; grindstone; coal. Water...32580-1 oven ' • Fig. 1. • Building stone; limestone of Selms, Midlothian. Water for brewing etc. |
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| Chemicals . Washed Filter Papers for quantitative work lower in ash than any in the market . EASTON , PENN ....been regarded with super stitious fear . From the old Phrygian stone , worshipped through long centuries...of a fall comes naturally enough from China ; an old manuscript mentioning that a stone fell 644 B. C...000 , 20,000 and 50,000 lbs . respectively , is old history . The great mass of reliable workers seem...terrestrial mineral most conspicuous by its absence is quartz . This very fact forms a valuable test in examining |
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| of recumbent fold in albite-chlorite-muscovite-quartz schist, 7 miles northwest of Tucquan anticline;...anticline; B, Fold in albite-chlorite-muscovite-quartz schist; C, Muscovite-chlorite-quartzs chist, from Muddy...Chloritoid-muscovite-quartz schist, from Saubel Hill; B, Chloritoid-muscovite-quartz schist, from Hoffacker...Hoffacker Valley; C, Banded chlorite-muscovite-quartz schist, half a mile south of Freysville________________________...B, Garnetiferous chlorite-muscovite schist; C, Quartz pebble in conglomerate near base of New Oxford |
