 | | Journal (issue) | | Collector's Newsletter $3.00 2008 Arkansas Aluminum Phosphates: Wavellite with Variscite and Planerite Arthur...Houston, TX 77036 Introduction Wavellite has been collected in Arkansas since the middle of the 1800s...drawing of a typical wavellite specimen is included in Harvey ( 1886), Arkansas' first state mineralogy...quartz with only sporadic commercial production, wavellite is undoubtedly the second most commercially collectable...specimens in Arkansas. Dug Hill in Garland County was the source of most early wavellite specimens despite |  | | Journal (issue) | | testing gold. Major areas covered include Southeast USA, California, Australia, Canada to Alaska, Britain...nine-pound garnet and a 34-carat diamond - all from the USA ? Maybe you're more interested in Czech opals, minerals...15840 East Alta Vista Way, San Jose, CA 95127-1737 USA. CD V-700 GEIGER COUNTER Complete with probe, meter...15840 East Aita Vista Way, San Jose, CA 95127-1737 USA. SIMKEV MICROMOUNTS: Suppliers of the finest micromounts...and mineral history enthw;iast $%4.00 per year in USA $30.00 per year elsewhere Matrix Publishing Company |  | | Journal (issue) | | Notebook: The New Wavellite Find at the State Pit Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas Art Smith...Tucson Shows in February 1998, the new find of wavellite from Mauldin Mountain located about 2 miles north...north of Mount Ida in Montgomery County. Arkansas has been mentioned in several show reports. The object...Mauldin Mountain wavellite locality has been producing most of Arkansas' wavellite specimens since 1977...1 Planerite with colorless wavellite, State Pit, Mauldin Mountain, Arkansas, photo by Art Smith. New |  | | Book | | Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I •( 11 o •« c »««ou cxi ju4«iO«J...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute Quadrangal...Quadrangal Map index. V Contents and Locality Index Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types....Pulaski County..................... 5 Dug Hill wavellite, Garland County................... 6 County Pit |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Arkansas Phosphate Minerals A R E V I E W AND UPDATE The abundance and quality of Arkansas phosphate...phosphate minerals—especially wavellite and variscite—have led collectors to seek them for over one hundred years...N R Y L . BARWOOD Arkansas Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute Arkansas Tech University Russellville...Russellville, Arkansas 72801 H E N R Y DELINDE 6 Homestead Court Mabelvale, Arkansas 72103 H A R D L Y...emerald-green crusts of variscite crystals from Arkansas. The abundance and quality of these specimens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 07:22 29 December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals...first phosphate specimen was a wavellite from one of the traditional Arkansas localities, for these have...recently been the source of some of the finest wavellite ever found, and, consequently, one Dr. Robert...selected as this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. Wavellite is an often-colorful mineral, ranging from white...hardness is 3.5–4, and its measured density is 2.36. Wavellite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system (2/m2/m2/m) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Digging at de Linde Pit No. 1, Garland County, Arkansas, in the early stages of exploration. Photo courtesy...William Besse. Figure 3 (below). A handful of wavellite breccia uncovered on the first day’s dig, 28 June...probably first collected at the Dug Hill diggings in Arkansas prior to 1870. The location was generally listed...So Montgomery County on labels of specimens of wavellite and variscite from Dug Hill was actually correct...October 2014 Figure 4. Dark green and lime-green wavellite, 6 cm, from de Linde Pit No. 3. Dean Lagerwall |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS of Arkansas A survey phates of mineral that occur resources in several reveals Arkansas ALBERT...Houston, Texas 77079 My first serious exposure to Arkansas minerals was in the summer of 1948, when I was...assist in a sur vey of the mineral resources of Arkansas. Local landowners and prospectors were encouraged...prospect on Fodderstack Mountain, near Norman, Arkansas, which was further sampled in the field. I recognized...with diverse professions but a common love of Arkansas minerals has met at least once a year as the Coon |  | | Journal (issue) | | Treats Provided by the Fossil Group MEMORIES OF ARKANSAS: COLLECTING PHOSPHATES AND BAUXITE Mike Nelson...Nelson csrockguy@yahoo.com I have fond memories of Arkansas. Applied for a few jobs in universities and turned...suspect many CSMS members have been to the State of Arkansas on a collecting trip, most likely to collect quartz...are many other really interesting minerals in Arkansas that offer some collecting opportunities. One...as small to large oolites; and 4) is mined in Arkansas. I learned all of these facts in a grade school |  | | Journal (issue) | | JohnA. Jaszczakphoto. October 12-18, 2007 Trip to Arkansas Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Having a need to...away and see some rocks and minerals, a trip to Arkansas was scheduled and being the weekend of the Mt...Chinese minerals, particularly fluorite. Seeing good Arkansas minerals other than quartz was not the norm. However...Mineral News Arkansas Trip (Continued from page I) When buying quartz crystals in Arkansas and particularly... Large groups have a big price range from $30 Arkansas quartz dealers so it pays to examine any of the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector's Notebook: Midstate Quarry, - Magnet Cove, Arkansas Collecting Trip - Fall 1998, Part 2 I Art Smith...rose with jarosite, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, photo by Art Smith. fortunately. most cavities...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny@mineralnews.com...Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, photo by Art Smith. Arkansas 5 Ncwe Continued from page 2...Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, photo by Art Smith. Arkansas ''citrinc'' from the Collier Creek |  | Kampf, Anthony R., Adams, Paul M., Barwood, Henry, Nash, Barbara P. (2017) Fluorwavellite, Al3(PO4)2(OH)2F·5H2O, the fluorine analog of wavellite. American Mineralogist, 102 (4) 909-915 doi:10.2138/am-2017-5948 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Al3(PO4)2(OH)2F⋅5H2O, the fluorine analog of wavellite Anthony R. Kampf1,*, Paul M. Adams2, Henry Barwood3...(IMA2015-077), Al3(PO4)2(OH)2F·5H2O, the F analog of wavellite, is a new mineral from the Silver Coin mine, Valmy...mineral. Fluorwavellite is essentially identical to wavellite in appearance and physical properties. Optically...Fo > 4sF reflections) is the same as that of wavellite, differing only in having one of the two independent...sites replaced by F. A survey of F contents in wavellite-fluorwavellite from the five most common genetic |  | | Journal (issue) | | minerals from Mauldin Mountain Montgomery County Arkansas Arthur E. Smith Jr. 9118 Concho Houston, Texas...phosphate minerals (primarily wavellite and variscite) were discovered in Arkansas during the early 1800s....occurrence of wavellite in the Batesville manganese district, Independence County, in northeast Arkansas (Shockley...the Arkansas aluminum phosphate occurrences are in the Ouachita Mountains of west central Arkansas. The...The locations of many Arkansas wavellite and variscite specimens quoted in the literature and in various |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Although best known for its superb quartz crystals, Arkansas also boasts an array of other minerals, as evidenced...continued with mining in north ern and western Arkansas and Magnet Cove during the Civil War, and peaked...in full swing and the demand for and price of Arkansas quartz crystals has skyrocketed. In October 1987...exploited. Continued interest in and study of Arkansas minerals, par ticularly the microminerals, will...for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting. Particular thanks goes to these hardcore |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 48–49. Chemical and physical characterization of wavellite, Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3, from the National Limestone...University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807. Specimen-quality wavellite occurs as yellowish-green, radiating spherules...of a northeast-to-southwest-trending belt of wavellite-rich localities located in eastern Pennsylvania...Allegheny front, and not from biogenic sources. Wavellite was first reported in the main limestone quarry...the surface of fractures and within cavities. Wavellite is the most common aluminum phosphate mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Box 25046 Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA AND JOSEPH E. TAGGART, JR. M.S. 973, U.S. Geological...Box 25046 Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA The turquoise group has the general formula: Ao...with one unpublished analysis of p[anerite from Arkansas, are given in Table 2. Every effort was made to...accuracy of the TGA apparatus, reference samples of wavellite, paravauxite and vivianite were also analysed...agreed well with the ideal total water content. Wavellite loses molecular water at 225~ and OH at 335~ paravauxite |  | | Journal (issue) | | hydrous aluminum phosphate minerals, including wavellite, variscite, metavariscite, Ouellite, planerite...F. Kunz Competition Papers, four articles on NE USA mineral occurrences. 73 pages, 55 illu tra1ions,...George F. Kunz Competition Papers, six articles on NE USA mineral occurrences, 84 pages, $ I 0.00 Add $3.00...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny@mineralnews.com...update. If you need current indexes to the major USA mineral publications (plus the Russian publication |  | | Report (issue) | | Wavellite Al3 (PO4 )2 (OH, F)3 • 5H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...Pattern: Black River Falls, Jackson Co., Wisconsin, USA. 8.67 (100), 8.42 (100), 3.22 (60), 5.65 (50), 3...large rosettes. At Montebras, Creuse, France. In the USA, from General Trimble’s mine, Chester Co., Pennsylvania;...Mountain quarry, near Mt. Ida, Montgomery Co., Arkansas; in the Willard mine, Willard district, Pershing...and T. Zoltai (1968) The crystal structure of wavellite. Zeits. Krist., 127, 21–33. (3) Klemic, H. and |  | | Report (issue) | | X-ray Powder Pattern: Wilson Springs mine, Arkansas, USA. 16.3 (100), 15.3 (70), 7.64 (35), 2.893 (35)...17] [100.00] 100.00 (1) Fish Creek Range, Nevada, USA; original total given as 100.27%, corresponds to...00(V04h.lOo7.94H20. (2) Wilson Springs mine, Arkansas, USA; by electron microprobe, H20 by difference....Nevada, USA). Association: Vashegyite, metaschoderite, bokite, duttonite, USA). from wavellite (Fish...(Fish Creek Range, Nevada, USA); metahewettite, minyulite, fervanite, metaschoderite, leucophosphite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Freeland 219 A General History of Zinc Mining in Arkansas Dana Martin Batory COVER STORY: ST AMPS with...is covered with radiating fibers and prisms of wavellite (Fig. 3, Fig. 4). Careful studies showed an extre1nely...fine-grained turquoise between greenish turquoise and wavellite on several speciments. Variscite is often intimately... Radial fibrous wavellite specimen (1.5 inches across). Light zones, where wavellite is broken away,...and 1/6 mm wide . Typical specimens show that wavellite, and its associated phosphates, formed in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Freeland 219 A General History of Zinc Mining in Arkansas Dana Martin Batory COVER STORY: ST AMPS with...is covered with radiating fibers and prisms of wavellite (Fig. 3, Fig. 4). Careful studies showed an extre1nely...fine-grained turquoise between greenish turquoise and wavellite on several speciments. Variscite is often intimately... Radial fibrous wavellite specimen (1.5 inches across). Light zones, where wavellite is broken away,...and 1/6 mm wide . Typical specimens show that wavellite, and its associated phosphates, formed in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | dangerous work? Can you imagine going to work in the USA. not knowing if you will come home alive that same...com Minerals of Northern England $40 + $6.00 s/h USA Last mo nth ·s article pertain i ng to resea rch...First Discovered in Switzerland $45 + $9.00 s/h USA ., l , ~ I • Excalibur Mineral Corp 1000 N. Division...15.70 Euros (about $20) plus postage (about $6 10 USA). The author can be cont acted by email: waltcr....arcrystalmine.com for more information and photos of the wavellite. The afternoon was spent in and about Stu Schmitt' |  | | Catalog/List | | tlB.50. 30. BARITE. Magma Mine,Superior,Arizona,USA. Several tabular,yellow BJrite ::tls distributed...HIN,L6. 49. BROOKITE. Moses Hill,Magnet Cove,Arkansas,USA. 3 matrix free tabular,black xtls with striated...8mm. L6 each. 50. CALCITE.Andersons Mine,Indiana,USA. Interesting lucent amber coloured,euhedral twin...Nice 68. CELESTITE/BLENDE/CALCITE. Clay City,0hio,USA. Ruby red Sphalerite xtls to 10mm and as aggregates...of glassy xtls. SC,.tlO. 85. CHALCOSIDERITB/WAVELLITE. Gunheath China Clay Pit,St Austell,Cornwall. |  | | Report (edition) | | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 MINERAL SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised...Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised 2007 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL...Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mackintosh, was the eudialyte (eucolite)of Magnet Cove, Arkansas; and with Dr. James Hyde Pratt he reported on...Joe Wright Mountain; from Independence County, Arkansas' Laurens County; from Laurens County, South Carolina'... 133, 1885. Meteorites from fndependence Co., Arkansas, and from Laurens Co., South Carolina. 3f,460...Texas. 38,474, lggg. Eudialyte from Magnet Cove, Arkansas. 38, 494, 1889. (With S. L. Penfield) Hamlinite...at the old wavellite nine, 2)$ km. southeast of Moore'g Mill, Cumberland County: wavellite, beraunite |
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Avant, Garland County, Arkansas, USA