 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Texas mineral locality INDEX Whereas Texas is well known for its vastness, cattle industry, and oil...I T S T O P O G R A P H Y A N D G E O L O G Y , Texas, the second largest state, has produced relatively...famous localities. A s this article will show, Texas has had—or currently has—nu merous mineral occurrences...produce good specimens; yet when specimens from Texas are sought in collections and dealers' stocks, few...some basic facts that help explain the situation. Texas has very little federal land in its mineralized |  | | Report (issue) | | Austin Austin, Texas 78712 JOHN T. LONSDALE, Director Report of Investigations — No. 42 Texas Gemstones...OFECONOMIC GEOLOGY The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 JOHN T. LONSDALE, Director —...— No. 42 Report of Investigations Texas Gemstones By Elbert A. King, Jr. February 1961 — — — Second...gemstones Cabochon gems Faceted gems Tumbled gems Texas gemstones Amber Augite Beryl Celestite Diamond Epidote...27 27 27 27 27 28 28 28 4 Topaz Tourmaline Turquoise Glossary Selected references Index — Figures |  | | Report (issue) | | .............................................. Texas ..................................................Gregory, 161 pp., 1917. Economic geology of Gilpin County and adjacent parts of Clear Creek and Boulder Counties...Weed, pp. 93-124, 1906. The Cashin mine, Montrose County, Colo. , by W. H. Emmons, pp. 125-128, 1906. Ore...*546 Notes on some mining districts in Humboldt County, Nev., by F. L. Ransome, 75 pp., 1909. Mineral...*(b) Copper. The occurrence of copper in Shasta County, Calif., by L. C. Graton, pp.. 71-111, 1910. "Geology |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | was reported in 1843 at Williams Ferry in Hall County by Dr. Stevenson while panning for gold. The stone...Creek corundum mine in Town County. At Piedmont Orchard in Habersham County, beautiful nodules of deep...related to granitic rocks, has been found in Troup County near La Grange. All of the stones are a rich blue-green...I stopped off at Turkey Run State Park in Park County, Indiana. I found that by wading into streams (outside...a coal strip mine near Melrose, in S / W Monroe County, in the southern part of Iowa. This find reported |  | | Book (edition) | | • MS LAZULI TURQUOISE GARNET ONYX • PERIDOT* • ZIRCON • CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI...• r in color. Turquoise from Los Cerillos mines, New Mexico. Note turquoise vein cutting diagonally...collectors because a many material others of the Texas ranches are closed few carted away agate by the...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900 |  | King, Philip Burke, Henbest, Lloyd G., Yochelson, E.L., Cloud, P.E., Duncan, Helen, Finks, R.M., Sohn, I.G. (1965) Geology of the Sierra Diablo region, Texas, with special determinative studies of Permian fossils. Professional Paper 480. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp480 | Report (issue) | | Geology of the Sierra Diablo Region Texas GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 480 Geology of...of the Sierra Diablo Region Texas By PHILIP B. KING With SPECIAL DETERMINATIVE STUDIES OF PERMIAN FOSSILS...______ Red sandstone.________________________ Van Horn Sandstone____-_-__--______-______ Conglomerate...zones in Hazel Formation__________ Structure of Van Horn Sandstone.____________ Structure of the Precambrian...separate volume] Geologic map of Sierra Diablo region, Texas. Panoramic views of Beach Mountain. Stratigraphic |  | | Report (volume) | | Bulletin, nos. 19, 21. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 6, nos...Resources of Tennessee, vol. 2. Nashville, Tenn. Texas, University of: Bulletin, Scientific series, no...Olympia, Wash. West Virginia Geological Survey: County reports Doddridge-and Harrison counties. Morgantown...Sketch of the geological history of Green Lake County, Wisconsin : School x Quart., Berlin, Wis., vol...some curious structures in the gypsum of Albert County, New Brunswick: Roy. Soc. Canada, Proc. and Trans |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Albert Waldschmidt, Argo Oil Corporation, Midland, Texas' Aaron Clement Waters, Spanford University, California...and Georgia, including some frorn Linwood, Bartow County, Georgia, were examined by *-ray and optical methods...reported by H. S. McQueen near Swiss and Stolpe, County, California. - P"blt.h"d Interior. by p"rmission...California AND R. A. ROMAND Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas Difierential thermal analysis curves are presented... SODIUM BICARBONATE (NAIICOLITE) FROM GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO* JEWEr-LJ. CIASS U S. Geological Survey |  | | Report (issue) | | and rocks of the tri-state border region— West Texas, southern New Mexico, and northern Chihuahua Kenneth...Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA Abstract—Industrial minerals...approximately two million people in the cities of El Paso, Texas; Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, Chihuahua; and nearby...Frasch sulfur production in adjacent Culberson County, west Texas. Halite, gypsum, and barite have also...produced from magmatic-hydrothermal deposits in west Texas in previous years. Scoria continues to be produced |  | | Book | | minerals to form new compounds. It is thought that turquoise was produced by this process. In a sense this...famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...quality and its toughness make it a unique stone. Turquoise is blue, blue-green and green; but, again, this...specimens have also been found in Arkansas, New Mexico, Texas, LItah and Vermont. Oligoclase presents itself in... WHAT GEMS DO YOU HUNT? 27 Turquoise and other copper gems. Turquoise, although an opaque gemstone |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...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...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bead Shop Review: Beadoholique Bead Shop 9 Turquoise 11 Flat Lapping without a Lapping Machine 13...arisen to dispel illness and soothe our fears. Texas is slowly re-opening, but many of us are waiting...GAZETTE We packed up the Jeep and headed for Van Horn, Texas, the perfect halfway point to spend the night...home with a bunch of them, and we left him with Texas palmwood, snakewood, and shrinkwood to carry home...Stone Creek Shopping Center) 17321 FM 529 Houston, Texas 77095 Lisa Kirkeby, Owner (281) 256-0904 E-mail: |  | | Book | | Gem-Jade Fossil-Woolly Mammoth * Arizona Gemstone-Turquoise Mineral-Garnet Fossil-Eubrontes 26 27 * Delaware...Dinosaur-Hadrosaurus foulkii * New Mexico Gem-Turquoise Fossil- Coelophysis * New York Gem-Garnet Fossil-Eurypterus...past evidence of ancient life in North America. Turquoise, flint, quartz, pearl, nephrite jade, and agate...made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional |  | | 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 (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...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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | 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...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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Report (volume) | | vol. 12, pp. 95-222. Davenport, Iowa. . Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 4, nos...D. C. West Virginia Geological Survey, vol. 4; County Reports, Marshall, Wetzel, and Tyler Counties....17, no. 2, pp. 105-123, 1909. Discussion by C. R. Van Hise, pp. 118-122. Adams, Frank D., and Barlow, Alfred...for oil. 26. Two areas of oil prospecting in Lyon County., western Nevada. U. S. Geol. Survey, Bull. 381-D...engineer on the occurrence of diamonds in Pike County, Arkansas. Little Rock, 1908. 38 pp. Includes reports |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | while utahlite is found elsewhere only in Tooele County, Utah. The Vashegyite Gem Mine is an open cut in...into utahlite. The utahlite in turn grades into turquoise by the addition of fourteen per cent aluminum...five colors; barrandite, green, red and yellow; turquoise; opal, blue, green, brownl vashegyite; dahllite;...PencrNraors ron. CoupenrsoN Barrandite Utahlite Turquoise Vashegyite Dahllite Francolite AlzOa PzOr 12... the aluminum phosphates formed utahlite and turquoise (see table showing percentages). In places the |  | | Report (volume) | | Boletfn de Minas, nos. 2, 8. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no....Geological Survey: Supplementary Report, Harlan County. Frankfort, Ky. Lake Superior Mining Institute:...Tennessee, vol. 7; Bulletin 19. Nashville, Tenn. Texas, University of: Bulletin, 1722. Austin, Tex. Torrey...Chicago, 111. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Braxton-Clay. Morgantown, W. 'Va. Wyoming...357-401, 64 figs., November 20, 1916... 41. The Boyd County mastodon, Tetrabelodon-osborni: Nebraska Geol. |  | | Book (volume) | | VOLUME olor phot raphs yo. Erica and. Harol d Van I [iL Albuquerque, Wyoming 6400 Library Academy...Scott Collection as photographed by Erica and Harold Van Pelt. Size may be estimated from the pale rectangular...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...Sinkankas ~ Color Photography by Erica and Harold Van Pelt & GEOSCIENCE PRESS, INC. Tucson, Arizona |  | | Report (issue) | | INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY., ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin 187...Employer. INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin...District Swisshelm District. Tombstone District .. Turquoise District • • . Warren (Bisbee) District. Whetstone... 10. Index Map to Mining Districts in Cochise County and Explanation of Geologic Symbols. . • • California...Mountains) District. . . Middle Pass, Pearce, and Turquoise Districts Swisshelm District • . . . . . . • |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl ^"^ Agate ** Jade Amethyst...identify green turquoise was In Renaissance times, greatly admired, but today blue turquoise is the only...to a quoise is another phosphate. Powdered turquoise moistened with hydrochloric acid and held blue...a gun," writes a Colorado collector. "As far as Texas is concerned," says a Texan, "the legislature, prodded |  | | Report (volume) | | Bulletins, nos. 10-12. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 3, nos...Washington, D. C. Texas Academy of Sciences: Transactions, vol. 10. Austin, Tex. Texas, University of:...Development Company's Survey. Charleston, Kanawha County, W. Va., 1907. 28 pp., 4 pis. Gives information...oil-bearing Tertiary formations of Santa Barbara County, California. Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 50 (Quart...1908. 27. The Miner ranch oil field, Contra Costa County, California. U. S. Geol. Survey, Bull. 340, pp |  | | Report (volume) | | Bulletin, nos. 16, 18. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 5, no....Survey: vol. 9; Lower Cretaceous; Prince Georges County. Baltimore, Md. Meddelelser om Greenland, Bd. 43...Nashville, Tenn. Texas Academy of Sciences: Transactions, vol. 11. Austin, Tex. Texas, University of:...Vol. 5; Geological map (coal, etc.), 2d edition; County reports Wirt, Roan, and Calhoun counties; Jackson...pp. 69-78, 1 pi., 1911. Iron River district. See Van Hise and Leith, no. 1132. Anderson, Frank M. .12 | | | Book (volume) | | Scocr Collection as photographed by Erica and Harold Van Pelt. Size may be estimated from the pale rectangular...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Sinbanbas Colar Photography by Erica and Harold Van Pelt ., GEOSCIENCE PRESS, INC. Tucson, Arizona...States continues to supply the 1najor ,veight of turquoise and peridot, although for the latter gem, much...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache |
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