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| sussex mineral & lapidary · society ISLE OF SKYE ISSUE J Journal 192 - November/December 2004 SUSSEX...August 1972 with the object of increasing the knowledge and experience of its members in rock, mineral...jewellery and display" SMLS is a corresponding member of FLAGS SOCIETY OFFICERS Colin Brough Allan Mortimer...(Minerals) Technical Adviser (Lapidary) Circulation of Journals Equipment Loans Co-ordinator Web Master...first member in a family £10.00 for second member of the same family £10.00 for associate members £6.00 |
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| old-time collector in Dallas County who was disposing of her stuff. I picked up a nice large barite and a...both of us. This month we are going to take a tour on the Internet. You've heard of it, read of it, and...and now you can see a bit of the information on it. Future plans are to visit the Smithsonian Institute...100� J..././v At the end of May this year I went to the Isle of Skye, one of the Inner Hebrides islands...islands just off the north west coast of Scotland, as part of an organized trip by my local mineral society- |
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| August 1972 with the object of increasing the knowledge and experience of its members in rock, mineral...Technical Adviser (Lapidary) Pam Pearce Circulation of Journals Vi Underdown Social Secretary SOCIETY SUBSCRIPTIONS...member in a family £7.00 for each additional member of the same family £7.00 for associate members £4.50...become payable on the first day of August each year. Persons up to 17 years of age and persons undertaking...undertaking full-time study up to 21 years of age may opt for student membership . Persons living over 60 miles |
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| The Russell Society is a society of amateur and professional mine1·alogists which encourages the study...study, re<'Qrd_ing and r.onse1·vation of mineralogical sites and matel'ial. ,•' ,• •~.:~' \ •: • • !, ..................................... Constitution of the Russell Society 43 ...........................and opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of it's correspondents, and are not necessarily agreed...shared by the editor. The accuracy of submissions is the responsibility of the authors or Society Branches |
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| August 1972 with the object of increas�ng the knowledge and exper ience of its member� in rock, mineral...(Minerals) Technical Adviser (Lapidary) Circulation of Journals Social Secretary SOCIETY SUBSCRIPTIONS...member in a family £7.00 for each additional member of the same family £7.00 for associate members £4.50...become payable on the first day of August each year. Persons up to 17 years of age and persons undertaking...undertaking full-time study up to 21 years of age may opt for student membership. Persons living over 60 miles |
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| SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.org;uk -**"""***11-1<*""'**"""*"""-tt**tt******"""*---·...August 1972 with the object of increasing the knowledge and experience of its members in rock, mineral...(Minerals) Technical Adviser (Lapidary) Circulation of Journals Equipment Loans Co-ordinator Web Master...first member in a family £11.00 for second member of the same family £11.00 for associate members . £6...Persons up to 17 years of age and persons taking full-time study up to 21 years of age may opt for student |
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| www.russellsoc.org The Russell Society is a society of amateur and professional mineralogists which encourages...encourages the study, recording and conservation of mineralogical sites and material Registered charity..._R:tµ-se__U:Socie_ty The Rus&ell Society is :i society of :un:u cur and profc:••ioll:ll mine r:tlogist• which...Society i:,:itcfully :ic L"ftowlc dgcs the us ism n cc of Roc.l.:.ti mc for h os ti ng 1hi s t.i tc. _,fe... -~ :.u ~•!l•~~!..=1 1-tc-.=, l :,.r., ; '::,: UK .and l tthod miner~ p.•xno;:n.p.,S.. TI:::- Jli; |
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| September - October 2009 24 , 143 , 2009 15€ - Price of each issue 15 € - HELLAS - PIRAEUS ISSN 1011-5870...–NEWS ON MINERALS GeMin . The Inspirer and the Soul of ORYKTOLOGIKA NEA -NEWS ON MINERALS and GeMin Exhibition...the authors do not necessarily represent opinion of ORYKTOLOGIKA NEA -NEWS ON MINERALS . , . , . ...Summertime experiences. Visiting the Greek Islands of Naxos and Kea , we were convinced one more time how...mean only collection of minerals but one can enjoy a dip in the lovely waters of the Aegean and Ionian |
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| ph—phosphoresces ALABAMA—Gold has been mined at a number of localities near Waldo, Talladega Co., Ala., so we...O N A-Beautiful bluish-green amorphous specimens of chrysocolla have been found in Kingman. Mohave Co...Yellville, Ark., have donated a very nice specimen of turkey-fat ore from the old zinc mines at Rush, Marion...from its appearance. CALIFORNIA-Nice black masses of psilomelane have been found in the gold mines at...Ouray, Colo. "Good red garnets are found at the Highland Mary Lakes near Silverton, San Juan Co., Colo |
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| pseudo-stalactites. larger in amount, and as it consists of Jasper, it has its variegated colours. About...and a Sutherland. an outlier half miles south of Cape Wrath, near Torridon Conglomerate, in small...Potstone. The filamentous net-work is here brown. of Ayrshire. At Lagg Quarry, Fisherton, Ayr. structure...which of is The mossy or stalactitic by purple Chalcedony, On both banks zoned by layers of pale lavender...is The chal- arranged conformably to the sides of such forms, is disposed in sheathing layers around |
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| Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of 210 miles, with its 56,000 sq. mi. sloping...more than 275 rivers, the state is bounded along ¾ of its circumference by navigable waters, primarily...along the northern borders, rising only to a altitude of 900 to 1,000 feet above sea level. Though well endowed...the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin...Wisconsin glaciation, the bluffs and detritus of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar |
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| Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of 210 miles, with its 56,000 sq. mi. sloping...more than 275 rivers, the state is bounded along ¾ of its circumference by navigable waters, primarily...along the northern borders, rising only to a altitude of 900 to 1,000 feet above sea level. Though well endowed...the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin...Wisconsin glaciation, the bluffs and detritus of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar |
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| boundary with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade, Custer and Pennington the land rises...242’ this peak is the highest point in America east of the Rocky Mts. Cambrian rocks are exposed as thick...Cretaceous Dakota sandstone, which underlies most of the Great Plains, and bent the broken edges sharply...vast deltaic accumulation of water absorbing sands covering tens of thousands of sq. mi. with extraordinary...inexhaustible supply of cold artesian, Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the geologically |
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| Knoxville, Tenn. "Just south of the Tennessee River on the northern slopes of the Sand Mountains (De Kalb...the weathered material sometimes carry tiny drops of yellow petroleum. Some rocks are so highly charged...when ignited with a match. A considerable amount of this material has been used for road construction...District of Yuma Co., Ariz. The specimens are fluorite (group of small grayish cubes most of which are...small community of Hasty, about four miles south of Western Grove,in the N.E. section of Newton County |
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| DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTI8 SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 585...585 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES COMPILED BY SAMUEL SANFORD AND RALPH W. STONE WASHINGTON...GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1914 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES. Compiled by SAMUEL SANFORD and...EDWARD W. PARKEH. The final chapters of two of the earlier volumes of the Geological Survey's annual report...Mineral Resources of the United States" (the volumes for 1882 and 1887) consist of lists of the useful minerals |
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| DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH...SMITH, Director Bulletin 624 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES**-^ COMPILED BY FRANK C. SCHRADER...SCHRADER, RALPH W. STONE AND SAMUEL SANFORD A revision of Bulletin 585 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT FEINTING OFFICE.................................... 102 District of Columbia ..........................................298 310 313 326 333 337 342 349 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES. Compiled by FRANK C. SCHRADER |
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| sea which received successively enormous quantities of Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian and...and Pennsylvanian sediments; the erosional products of some 200 million years. Few, if any Mesozoic rocks...rocks appear within the state, but every one of Ohio’s 88 counties is surfaced with Pleistocene debris....produces pieces of silicified wood. Ohio ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite...dolomite, and second in the production of clays. Lesser production of iron, petroleum, natural gas and coal |
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| MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L EastDerry, N. H. 03041 This data was accumulated...current maps. His There are many mineral museums of torically, within recent times, Austria in which...is now lack of funds allows this to be available approximately the size of the State of to the public...only on Thursday and Sun Maine. day of each week. The House of Nature Geologically, it has a beautiful...collection which is plicity. There are three main ranges of rapidly growing. The collection in Inns mountains |
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| PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of the first quarter-century of publication of the Mineralogical...helping to build one of the single most valuable and authoritative published archives of data for the mineral...problems, however. With each passing year the sum of knowledge contained in the back issues has grown...early on that, were this problem of access not relieved, the sheer bulk of data would eventually compromise...compromise its own reference value. In 1980, at the urging of Pete J. Dunn, we initiated a feasibility study for |
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| Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page Preface ...................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ............................................24 Arizona – Northern half of Coconino Co. Mining Districts ......................................................216 Maine – Map of Litchfield Sodalite area ...............................................468 Utah – Southwest Corner of State Area Map.................................. |
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| Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page Preface..............................450 APPENDIX & GLOSSARY Appendix A - Instability of Selected Minerals..................................Forms of Agate.....................................467 Appendix D - The Various names & Forms of Opal....................477 Appendix F - Classification of Mineral Deposits ...........................................490 Appendix G - Ideal Scheme of the Zonal Theory of Ore Deposits..................493 Appendix |
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| Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page Preface..............................452 APPENDIX & GLOSSARY Appendix A - Instability of Selected Minerals..................................Forms of Agate.....................................469 Appendix D - The Various names & Forms of Opal....................479 Appendix F - Classification of Mineral Deposits ...........................................492 Appendix G - Ideal Scheme of the Zonal Theory of Ore Deposits..................495 Appendix |
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| ALABAMA—Galena occurs in limestone 5 miles west of Jacksonville in Calhoun Co., Ala. It has been mined..."At Yuma Test Station, I found also some samples of petrified wood. The material at the Station (specifically...prospectors on the Post territory which covers most of Yuma County, Arizona, and a small area in California...Crater of Diamonds near Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark., has been recently released by the Crater of Diamonds...Diamonds, Murfreesboro, Ark. The Crater of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in |
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| sea which received successively enormous quantities of Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian and...and Pennsylvanian sediments; the erosional products of some 200 million years. Few, if any Mesozoic rocks...rocks appear within the state, but every one of Ohio’s 88 counties is surfaced with Pleistocene debris....produces pieces of silicified wood. Ohio ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite...dolomite, and second in the production of clays. Lesser production of iron, petroleum, natural gas and coal |
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| ROCKS AND MINERALS 587 SUMMER FIELD TRIP OF THE NEWARK MINERALÓGICA!. SOCIETY TO THE PLATTSBURG, N...Society of Plattsburg, New York, offered to guide us around that area. Mr. George Sandiford of the North...abandoned marble quarries on Rt. 9. We found very small fossils, none spectacular, but a good example of the...type of fossil found there. Sunday morning the group visited the Chazy Limestone Quarry, north of Plattsburg...found a few small pieces of fluorescent calcite and in the quarry proper some of the members found some |
