 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Virginia by RICHARD S. MITCHELL Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...Morefield pegmatite near Amelia, as well as i n other pegmatites i n the same county. I t also has been observed...observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and elsewhere. Allanite. Because allanite...world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is coated...radioactive. The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described |  | | Journal (issue) | | Richmond, Virginia VOL. 45 FEBURARY 1999 NO. 1 MAMMOTH TOOTH FOUND IN ENDLESS CAVERNS, VIRGINIA David...David A. Hubbard, Jr., Virginia Division of Mineral Resources and Frederick Grady, National Museum of Natural...a passage of Endless Caverns in Rockingham County, Virginia in July 1996. The cavers left the tooth in...within the Commonwealth. GEOLOGIC SETTING 2 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF h4INERAL RESOURCES Figure 1:Mammoth...Pleistocene (100,000 bp to 11,000bp). PREVIOUS VIRGINIA MAMMOTH RECORDS Figure 2: Fred Grady preparing |  | | Journal (issue) | | February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard |  | | Report (issue) | | the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Specimen about 6 cm wide. Figure 4. Muscovite var. fuchsite crystals to 8 mm wide, Karelia, Russia. Based...at the Harding mine, Taos County, New Mexico (Jahns and Ewing 1977). Fuchsite is a green chromian variety...crystals). Well-formed silverygreen crystals of fuchsite occur in Karelia, Russia. Phlogopite is a species...and fluorite. A classic association from El Paso County, Colorado, is well-crystallized zinnwaldite with...50:50 composition. The Morefield mine, Amelia County, Virginia, has produced many excellent large crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some...the littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This is typical of the specimens...Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Barbara Muntyan specimen, Jeff Scovil...localities are the pegmatites around Newry in Oxford County. Newry muscovite crystals in the collection exhibit |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AI, Fe, Mg, Ca, Na, Ti; benitoite, San Benito County, California (NMNH86539), for Ba; microcline, locality...locality unknown (NMNH143966), for K; albite, Amelia County, Virginia, for Na; lepidolite, Radkovice, Czechoslovakia...Gerais, Brazil: SWB; (4) "fuchsite," Tamative, Madagascar: SWB; (5) "fuchsite," near Leydodorp, Transvaal...(9) twinned, may be 3T, clintonite, Amity, Orange County, New York: SWB; (10) "manganophylJite," Pajsberg...California: Harvard #89733; (13) Mesagrande, San Diego County, California; FM#M803b; (14) Hebron, Maine: E. Lyons |  | | Book (volume) | | Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Joan Baltzley, owners & operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine,...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...AZ; Richard A. & Tresa L. Kosnar, Golden, CO: Virginia & Larry Kribs, Desert Dog Mines, Bend, OR; Guy |  | | | | 75 franklinite 24 freibergite 11 frigidite 11 fuchsite 104 gadolinite 85 gahnite 24 galaxite 24 heliodor...suppliers are, in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California)...and massive pyrite is found at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York. This very widespread mineral is to be...calcite and chalcopyrite at Rossie, St Lawrence County, New York. It is found in many other localities...States; it is however, ound at Hollister, Benito County, California. The ompact variety is found at |  | | Book | | 75 franklinite 24 freibergite 11 frigidite 11 fuchsite 104 gadolinite 85 gahnite 24 galaxite 24 hydrozincite...suppliers are, in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California)...massive pyrite is found at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York. This very widespread mineral is to be...calcite and chalcopyrite at Rossie, St Lawrence County, New York. It is found in many other localities...States; it is however, found at Hollister, Benito County, California. The compact variety is found at | | | Book | | 75 franklinite 24 freibergite I I frigidite 11 fuchsite 104 gadolinite 85 gahnite 24 galaxite 24 galena...and massive pyrite is found at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York. This very widespread mineral is to be...calcite and chalcopyrite at Rossie, St Lawrence County, New York. It is found in many other localities...States; it is however, :>und at Hollister, Benito County, California. The ompact variety is·found at Gerrei...England; Bisbee and Clifton in Arizona, and Del Norte County, California; Chessy near Lyons, France; Tsumeb |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.; |  | | Book (edition) | | ............................................. Virginia .............. : ...............................the gem sapphires came from the mines in Fergus County, where they occur in a rock matrix. The majority...The development of the opal deposits of Humboldt County, Nev., was attended with much success, and o. quantity...previous years. Benutuul a.met-hyst was found m Wa1Ten County, N. C., and some .fine gems have been cut from...beryl were obtained from prospects in Alexander County, N. C. Beautiful gems were cut from some of t,hese |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets,...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its | | | Book (volume) | | Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Joan Baltzley, owners & operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine,...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...AZ; Richard A. & Tresa L. Kosnar, Golden, CO: Virginia & Larry Kribs, Desert Dog Mines, Bend, OR; Guy...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...Honduras opal sources 28. Morefield pegmatite, Amelia, Virginia Xlll 3 5 5 6 11 12 13 19 20 21 22 23 25 37...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and...View of Clear Creek, San Benito County, California 55. Monterey County jade-producing shoreline, California...Graph of spessartine chemical composition, Amelia, Virginia 59. Rhodolite deposit, North Carolina 60. |  | | Report (volume) | | From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400 at 14.5°, corrected...vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific gravity, 6.644 at 20°. Probably...impurities. From the Missouri mine, Halls Valley, Park County, Colo. Analyses, by Hillebrand, of three different...From the Brobdignag mine, Red Mountain, San Juan County, Colo. Specific gravity, 5.21 at 18°. Analyzed |  | | Book (edition) | | at the outstanding shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...purple crystals, 5" by 4", Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from...replacing glauberite crystal; Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona; size 2" by 2". Top center: calcite replacing...twins of aragonite, 3" by 2¼"; Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado. Top right: Kaolinite after orthoclase...replacing marine shell; New Port Richey, Pinellas County, Florida. Bottom left: talc replacing enstatite |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts, |  | | Book (edition) | | so as to be distinc tive. Found only in Benito County, Cali fornia, the mineral is reported to fluo resce...equally good speci mens. The agate from Sweetwater County, Wyoming, exemplifies the uranium-acti vated quartz...brown zircons from Henderson County, North Carolina, and Placer County, Calif., have an orange-brown...St. Goth- ard, Switzerland; Branchville, Conn.; Amelia Court House, Va. ; and Peekskill. N. Y. May show...short waves produce no result. CHLOROPHANE. The Amelia Court House, Va., locality yields a blue-green | | | Book (edition) | | the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...purple crystals, 5” by 4”, lron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from...the San Pedro Mine, Hiriart Hill, Pala, San Diego County, California, showing the many steps and offsets...which comes from Coso Hot Springs area of Kern County, California. The latter specimen exposes a spherical...pink crystals from the Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California. Ordinary light is allowed to shine |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |
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