 | | Report (edition) | | SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN GYPSUM AND ANHYDRITE & CELESTINE AND STRONTIANlTE H. M.. STATIONERY OFFICE 1938...By D.Sc., AND and B. Sr,,nrH, l\:I.A. ; CELESTINE AND STRONTIANITE R. L. By SH'£...would add to the value of gypsum-properties. Celestine and strontianite, the sulphate and carbonate of...of strontium, are of restricted occurrence. Celestine in workable quantity occurs only i n the Keuper...home-resources of strontianite are negligible and those of celestine are limited. The greater part of the output has |  | | Journal (issue) | | SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2020 Articles The White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio ...............COVER: FLUORITE crystal on celestine, 8 cm (see page 672), from the White Rock quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa...trips to the Mesa Grande district, the Crestmore quarry, and other localities, and Russell’s mineral collection...Guilin, China info@iRocks.com The White Rock Quarry Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio Christopher J...edu Jbrizendine@mrexcavator.com The White Rock quarry at Clay Center, Ohio has been producing high-purity |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | brown fluorite on white bladed celestine, 4 cm tall, from the White Rock quarry at Clay Center, Ottawa County...District Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana Figure 3. Pugh quarry, Custar, Wood County, Ohio, included in the Findlay...sorting specimens collected at the Graymont Dolime quarry, Genoa, Ottawa County, Ohio, part of the Findlay...in a warm bed. Be that as it may, the gracious quarry management had agreed to allow us to enter the...and hunt for “worthless sparkly baubles” (as one quarry superintendent called them) on this particular |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rest upon tufaceous and slightly argillaceous limestone, representing the upper part of the Cretaceous...observed section in ascending order, commencing in a quarry at the back of the Tombs of the Caliphs, where... Soft white limestone, compact and without joints over ft. in. ft. in. the entire quarry-bank. It is...workedfor flooring-slates 10 4 2. Buff and brown limestone, more fossiliferous than/~o. 1 1410 I ~ 3. Sandy...shelly beds, covered by quarry-rubbish ............... 9 0 [ 7. White limestone, seamed with brown streaks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (pseudohexagonal twins, singles, and groups), celestine* (blue crystals), gypsum (crystals in Sunday Canyon)...sides of State Route 244 in Per mian Beaverburk Limestone; pyrite* (small crystals), galena (rare) (Zeitner...Rendham, E and N of Rendham along an escarpment, limestone over red shales of the Permian Belle Plains For... Temple, 6 miles W of Temple in abandoned limestone quarry; marcasite* (spear-point crystals; groups...along Pedernales River, 2 areas of Cap Mountain Limestone on flanks of Oatman Granite; galena*, sphalerite |  | | Report (edition) | | (phantom) fluorite crystals on limestone from Shelly Materia ls, Inc., Auglaize quarry (formerly Stoneco, Inc...mining areas of "chrysanthemum stones' (a form of celestine). During May 2010, he started work in g Ernie...resulting from a sha le fire on Stoneco, Inc.) Auglaize quarry near Junction, Paulding the Huron River, resulting...travertine) ......... ............................ 146 Celestine (celestite) ....................... ..................................... 37. Photo of large celestine crystals on roof of Crystal Cave ............ |  | | Report (edition) | | Sc., AND .. ' . ,; B. SMI'l'H, M.A.; AND CELESTINE AND STRONTIANITE, BY R. L. SHERLOCK, D.Sc. SEOOND...would add to the v·a.lue of gypsu1n-properties. Celestine and strontianite, the · sulphate and carbonate...of strontium, _are of restricted occ11r.rence. Celestine in workable quantity occurs only in the Keuper...Nottinghamshire. For the investigatic,n of the workings in celestine and the report upon them, Dr. Sherlock is responsible...(saliferous). Upper Magnesian Limestone. Middle Marls. Lower Magnesian Limestone. Marls Slates and Sands. |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pedrosa de Jesus and P.A. Williams Rosasite from Bute Quarry, Mid Glamorgan. The First Reported Occurrence in...secondary electron images of strontianite crystals on celestine. Note curved crystals in (a) , magnification X500...rtitioning data for calcium betwee n water and celestine seem to be lacking. although Udowski ( 1973) ... as anhydrite and celestine are not isostructual. and Ca substitution in celestine is probably non-ideal...gro und waters which had not equilibrated with celestine. Thus. according to this model. most of th e late |  | | Report (edition) | | SHERLOCK, .D.So., AND B. SMI'rH, !If.A. ; ANO CELESTINE AND srr·RoNTIANIT BY 29 r:;\") I ,. •.• 10.•\ij...would add to the value of gypsum-properties. Celestine and strontianite, the sulphate and carbonate of...of .strontium, .are of resbrieted occur,rence. Celestine in work.able quantity occurs only in the Keuper...of strontianit.e are· negligible and thoB& of celestine are limited. The great.er part of the output has...collecting of the information upon gypsum and celestine necessitated the vi8iting of a large number of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Twinned calcite, 8 cm, Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen...feet. The lowest point is the floor of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western...(and of lesser interest in joint fractures) in limestone quarries throughout Kentucky. State law forbids...minerals in caves, although caves encountered during quarry and road construction operations may be exempt...and Devonian rocks. They are associated with limestone and siltstone deposits and rarely occur in shale |  | | Journal (issue) | | Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . ...WELOGANITE crystal, 4 cm, on matrix, from the Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (See the article in...years in the 1980’s he was a regular visitor to Switzerland, but after he was mugged and robbed in Zürich...WEW 3 Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, `ÉÇàÜ°tÄ? dâ°uxv Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | III)I)I I( Hllk QUARRY INTRODUCTION Winfield, Pennsylvania The Faylor-Middlecreek quarry is located 0...have been found at this quarry, only a few—calcite, strontianite, celestine, pyrite, galena, and sphalerite—have...layers of the Tonoloway limestone contain calcite, strontianite, and celestine in crystals. These layers...layers are exposed along the northern quarry walls to the right along the access road. In addition, hydrothermal...hydrothermal veins cut across the bedded limestone. These often have massive pyrite lining either side of |  | | Journal (issue) | | ......................................... 14 Celestine, the proposed state mineral ....................crystals of celestine, a mineral that was first described from Pennsylvania specimens. Celestine, which is...mineralization replaced a large wedge of impure Cambrian limestone already altered to calcium and 4 magnesian...and crystallization of the diabase, the altered limestone was invaded by mineralizing solutions, presumably...minerals, the silicate minerals in the altered limestone were hydrated and converted to serpentine, talc |  | | Journal (issue) | | Briscoe (especially at Strontian in Scotland, Taft’s quarry in Wales, and the Florence mine in Cumbria), and...inminera ls. Fluorite, 15 cm Tujetsch, Surselva, Switzerland Rudolf Watzl Freistadt, Austria Visit our website...“Altyntobe”), translated as “Golden Hill,” is a limestone knoll about 48 kilometers east of Karaganda in...crystals, partly loose, partly resting on marl-like limestone. Most crystals are short, smooth, four-sided prisms...calcareous spar [calcite]. (4) Fragments of compact limestone. From all this we can conclude, it seems to me |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 36849-5305 CELESTINE Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 13:58 04 February 2015 Maybee Quarry, Monroe...number of localities are famous for distinctive celestine and have produced thousands of specimens for many...unexpected celestine windfall is the object of this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. Celestine is an orthorhombic...counterpart barite, with which it can be confused. Celestine has perfect (001) cleavage, good {OlO} cleavage...pure, its density is 3.96. Well-crystallized celestine is typically transparent to translucent. It commonly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | I I . - - O n the occurrence of Celestine in the Eeuper marls, and its influence on the composition of...S., &c. R~E origin of the large deposits of Celestine that abound in certain T beds of Triassic age...long been a puzzle to Geologists At Bristol, Celestine is found only on the lowest beds of the Keuper...Oxide. An analysis of some of the concretionary Celestine found at Clifton gave, Strontium Sulphate .....section many feet thick. Here the deposits of Celestine are comparatively small, while the veins of Gypsum |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | I I . - - O n the occurrence of Celestine in the Eeuper marls, and its influence on the composition of...S., &c. R~E origin of the large deposits of Celestine that abound in certain T beds of Triassic age...long been a puzzle to Geologists At Bristol, Celestine is found only on the lowest beds of the Keuper...Oxide. An analysis of some of the concretionary Celestine found at Clifton gave, Strontium Sulphate .....section many feet thick. Here the deposits of Celestine are comparatively small, while the veins of Gypsum |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | between the outer geode wall and the enclosing limestone, which helps explain the ease with which it separates...blue-gray chalcedony (fig. 4). In the Hamilton quarry in Illinois, calcite is milky white, forming shallow...specimen was collected in 1953 from the Hamilton quarry, Hancock County, Illinois, by Dr. R. G. Sinotte...county line (fig. 10). Interestingly, barite and celestine do not occur together in the Indiana geode field...cement). At the Mitchell quarry, geodes to 14 cm contain tabular crystals of celestine to 5 cm hosting a zone |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | College Tiffin, Ohio 44883 THE FAYLOR-MIDDLECREEK QUARRY is located in the small town of Winfield, Pennsylvania...During its more than fifty years of operation, the quarry has gained a reputation as a mineral locality that...perhaps best known for its strontianite crystals. Quarry owners and management set aside one Saturday per...to visit. The quarry is otherwise closed to collecting. In the spring of 1985, the quarry ended work in...the best from the old pit. The mineralogy of the quarry is described in Chamberlain and Dossert (1979) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | This specimen of celestine was found last year in northern Ohio. The largest crystal is approxi mately...of the find is now closed to the public. Ohio Celestine by HENRY FISHER 4636 Dundee Ave. Columbus, Ohio...known for three species: celestine, fluorite, and calcite. Of these three, celestine is, or should be, the...the locale for the world's largest crystals. Celestine can be found in the northern part of Ohio in Wood...present (1977) collecting is permitted only at Pugh Quarry; all other places listed above are C L O S E D |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Eocene. 6. Flint conglomerate, with coralline limestone. Miocene. 6. Gypseous marls of Wady Taragi. 7-...series consists of three members, a thin bed of limestone being the central, and containing remains of encrinites...Upper Greensand. Above them comes the Hippurite-limestone series. The fossils were described by Dr. Duncan...S., in a subsequent communication. The white limestone, with flints, the next group of rocks in ascending...must be regarded as representing the Nummulitic limestone of Egypt, as several species of Nummulites have |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 07:42 13 June 2016 Figure 1: A large, bladed celestine crystal group from the “upper bed” near Adamsville...cluster of tabular prismatic celestine crystals on dolomitic limestone from a Rocky Creek tributary near...several friends began a systematic survey of celestine in Lampasas and surrounding counties. Since that...name), has long been recognized as a source for celestine crystals. But finding representative specimens...ongoing quarries or mining operations in the celestine-producing zones near Lampasas. Collecting from |  | | Journal (issue) | | and advertising. ARSENTSUMEBITE FROM DOLYHIR QUARRY Neil Hubbard • David Green • Tom Cotterell 9 ...Cox • Ron Cleevely 31 PARALSTONITE FROM DOLYI-IIR QUARRY Tom Cotterell CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean...FROM CARROCK MINE Mike Rumsey 53 NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Trevor Bridges 55 ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD...became. The type locality is, of course, High Down Quarry in Devon, and wasn't it named after a local collector...Mineral, No. 28 -~- ARSENTSUMEBITE FROM DOLYHIR QUARRY, OLD RAoNOR, POWYS Neil Hubbard: 30 Thirlmere |  | | Journal (issue) | | Conklin Famous mineral localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . ....1992 Famous Mineral Localities THE GILLETTE QUARRY ~DAM NECK, CONNECTICUT Jeffrey A. Scovil 734 E...Coronado Road Phoenix, Arizona 85006 The Gillette quarry is one of a number of complex zoned lithium-rich...lepidolite. INTRODUCTION Specimens from the Gillette quarry grace many personal and public collections. Foremost...History in New York City. Suites from the Gillette quarry can also be seen in the collections of Yale University |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | complex of low-temperature minerals: calcite, celestine, barite, etc, (Sokolov, 195ft). The appearance...concretions of quartzine and its pseudomorphs after celestine and calcite, found in clays occupying karst holes...limestones in drill cores and Specimens from a quarry being worked in the Podorozhnenskoye sulfur deposit...Simferopol1. end VV the uppermost part of which the quarry is located. The principal producing horizon is...varies widely, ranging from disseminations in the limestone to a macrocrystalline type which fills the cavities |
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