 | | Report (volume) | | about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five tunes the combined production and...than 80,000,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement and the imports of foreign cement are so...each of the States, the State lists begin with Alabama and end with Wyoming. Under each State the minerals...it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Geology Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 TSUMEB, NAMIBIA D istinctive colors...included smithsonite in the former “blue” list. However, upon reflection it is clear that smithsonite is much...this diversity of color, a suite of four Tsumeb smithsonite specimens displaying various contrasting colors...this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice (figs. IA-D). Smithsonite is a brittle, relatively soft (hardness 4-4.5)...and a purplish shade; it is rarely colorless. Smithsonite exhibits a vitreous luster that tends to be pearly |  | | Report (volume) | | ......................................... 5 Alabama......................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia .......................................... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five times the combined production and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Fluorite is a very widely...in statespecific compilations such as those for Alabama (Cook and Smith 1982), Georgia (Cook 1982), Tennessee...Bassett Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the older underground...The operations then changed to open-pit mining, expanding into new areas and reclaiming the limestone pillars...from the Bassett Stone quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state...Alleghenies, culminate in Harney Peak in southern Pennington Co. At 7,242’ this peak is the highest point in America...artesian, Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the geologically notable granite...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...Section, covering a somewhat larger area around Harney Peak. The northern section is characterized by vein deposits |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 2014 Fourth...Fourth Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...printing December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page.................. xi Mineral Locations by State Alabama .............................................................................................288 New Hampshire ...................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 cookrob@auburn.edu Aurichalcite Downloaded...University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals....Geology and Geography at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. He welcomes suggestions for this column and can...interest, including malachite, azurite, cuprite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, and rosasite. A...including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke |  | | Book (edition) | | YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...channels of trade, transportation and consumption, new utilizations, and recent discoveries, have, to a...most part, have been progressive. In addition to new finds of valuable deposits, many of the occurrences...has therefore seemed advisable to pre sent such new information as may bring the whole subject more nearly...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in |  | | Book (volume) | | Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...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...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin |  | | Book (volume) | | Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...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...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin |  | | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...Jay in this of popular the Ellis Ransom, Rock-huntefs Range Guide, tells everything you need to...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...as well as a dis- cussion of the basic kinds of rock: igneous, sedimentary, Once and metamorphic. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED $ . . . . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations.: xl—crystal...ph=phosphoresces ALABAMA—Cherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the...10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals ranging from those...mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and to... "Bauxite is found around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED ift... PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations: xl—crystal...ph—phosphoresces ALABAMA—Arbacoochee, a tiny town in southern Cleburne County of N / E Alabama, was famous...mentions seeing an instance of how a quantity of hard rock had hitched a ride from some distant shore to be...securely in the roots of this tree was a mass of rock that had underlain this tree when it was upright...difficulty he knocked off a couple pieces of the rock and with his pocket knife, cut a length of the slender |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Erythrite Downloaded...likewise disappear, as would the zinc species smithsonite, adamite, and hemimorphite. There are other metals...Geology and Geography at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. He welcomes suggestions for this column and can...localities as the old cobalt mine at Great Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut; the Franklin... Sussex County, New Jersey; the old Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County, New York; Pennsylvania |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 1996 Second...Second Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...63125 December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page....................v Mineral Locations by State Alabama .............................................................................................247 New Hampshire ...................................... |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 2005 Third Edition...Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...63125 December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page....................v Mineral Locations by State Alabama .............................................................................................247 New Hampshire ...................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Brochantite Downloaded...Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when most green...was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times. The level...fine brochantite from the abovementioned Blanchard mine has been selected for this issue. Brochantite, a...Geology and Geography at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. He welcomes suggestions for this column and can |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Geology Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 HEMIMO RPHITE CALCITE :;:domorphs...The specimen was found in a Joplin, Missouri, district mine in the late 1800s and was donated to the Carnegie...barite mines of Missouri’s several world-class mining districts could have been chosen for this issue’s...secondary minerals of these metals, such as smithsonite, hemimorphite, cerussite, and anglesite. However...crystal morphology and color were recovered from a mine in the Joplin area. The best known of these specimens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs January/February: Galena, Tri-State district, Kansas. Smithsonian Institution specimen; Chip... March/April: Quartz, Middleville, Herkimer County, New York. John C. Medici specimen and photo. May/June:...May/June: Turgite, Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. Ronald E. Bentley specimen and photo. July/August:...July/August: Quartz, H. deLinde No. 4 mine, High Peak, Montgomery County, Arkansas. Private collection; Ronald...Bentley photo. September/October: Barite, Otero County, Colorado. Dan and Dianne Kile specimen; John Muntyan |  | | Book (edition) | | for gems and recognize the associated formations rock they occur, and through field how in which...iLTHOUGH find it, there reason that certain rock formations, some is a saying that gold is where...are associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...where they have been washed free from the mother rock. In general, the United States mountain them. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona...mill. So it has been at places such as Broken Hill, New South Wales, where linarite’s legacy is primarily...Geology and Geography at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. He welcomes suggestions for this column and can...the Cape Rosier mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, where it was found with smithsonite as 1–2-mm platy...crystals profusely coating fractures in talcose rock; other Maine linarite occurrences include Kendall |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael... w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection; Jeff...DeKalb, New York; the Helvetia district, Arizona; O ntario’s Grenville Province; the Sterling mine at Antwerp...Antwerp, New York; the Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin Island; the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...topaz, and other minerals. Unfortunately, the host rock, a pink granite, lies within a Wilderness Area in...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality... 6 mm across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | I I 34° MARIOH 34° I LAMAR , v:I G'l Alabama Q, \'l'I Q, 33° 0 1- I I I (/) ";lO ...Geological Survey of Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has long been a significant |  | | Report (issue) | | limestone or dolomite. It is a useful ore guide in many mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE............................................. Host rock ............................................................................. Replacement of host rock by silica ............................ Physical........... Characteristics of jasperoid in major mining districts of the United States ..................................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ............. |
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