 | | Report (edition) | | BULLETIN 41 Third Edition A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities by Woodrow B. 7KaSVRQ Donald...Vandall T. King Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey Natural Resources Information...OF CONSERVATION 1998 Copyright © 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently in the Jim Mann...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collected on some mine dumps around Marble Peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains, in Pima County, Arizona. A...have been taken from the Cherokee district placers in Butte County, California. Mineral Information Service...Littlefield of Stonewall in old Campbell County (now Fulton County), sent in an interesting specimen of rutile...fluorite have come from the J. L. Davis fluorite mine, Cave-inRock, Hardin Co., 111. I N D I A N A : Last...highway, is a remnant of a never-too-large coal mine dump. A part of this waste dump are rocks called |  | | Report (volume) | | 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...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland....North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks |  | | Report (volume) | | tinted, transparent stones. The desired hues are blue, rose, green, and true canary yellow in the diamond;...diamond; pigeon-blood red in the ruby; cornflower blue in the sapphire; and grass green in the emerald....tourmaline; the term "sapphire," to lapis lazuli and other blue stones; the term "topaz," to all yellow stones;...brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green beryl to blue, violet corundum to rose pink, and yellow corundum...be changed chemically to bright red, green, and blue shades. The common dyeing procedure is to soak the |  | | Book (edition) | | YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia .................................................................................. Maine...................................................to refer to Geological 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 that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Book (volume) | | Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Book (volume) | | 0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT...Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist of Maine Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology Edited by ...Resources Information, Maine Geologi,cal Survey Robert G Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 2000 Copyright ©2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. This is in the cinnabar district of Howard, Pike, and Clark Counties, Ark. This...Modesto, Calif. Both specimens come from an old Gold mine at Placerville, El Dorado Co., Calif. The following...by Seymour F. Dozier, Red Oak, Route 1, Fulton County, Georgia. Large lumps of this material can be picked...picked up on land lots, 199 and 200, 10th Land District, six miles northeast of Greenville (Meriwether...the old ones being restaked and recorded (meaning Mining Claims lode quartz), for the thorium and uranium |  | | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...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...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...has been privileged to travel extensively from Maine to Southern California, and from Washington’s Pacific...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE |  | | 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...exposures of blue clay, as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS...COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered |  | | 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...exposures of blue clay, as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS...COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered |  | | Book | | Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...waterworn crystals of aluminum silicate found as clear blue gemmy pebbles), and turquoise. About 2000 B.c. the...been left to adorn her in the afterlife: opaque blue turquoise and lapis lazuli, clear red carnelian...heavy gold settings that were further decorated with blue enamel. Foreword xv The designs represented...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral found is boracite. It occurs in 2-3 mm pale blue cubes, with crystal surfaces that vary from smooth...distances from quarries where the cheaper cost of mining offsets transportation costs. The Francon quarry...are remarkably similar and compare well with the Maine A.S.T.M. card data on ferberites. The average chemical...these two species is provocative. State Check List Maine is justly famous for having produced a large number...Several authors have provided previous check lists of Maine minerals-Robinson (1825), Dana (1892), Perkins (1922-24) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Teller Co.), Colo., this past summer some friends of mine found some interesting specimens which turned out...and are quite interesting. They came from the King Mine near Cripple Creek." CONNECTICUT—A very nice specimen...and coming from the Worth feldspar quarry on Bog Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex Co., Conn., has been sent...of adjacent quarries at the Hurd Park end of Hog Hill. I used to visit the place, from time to time, but...After carrying that load of scheelite over a steep hill, and on a road which was paved with boulders, I |  | | Book | | 21:98100 Abstracts of the FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Azurite and other copper carbonates (chairman: K. Wenrich)...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73 |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................207 Maine .................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts .................................... |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................177 Maine...................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................177 Maine...................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Journal (issue) | | soil and large trees, and apparently runs into the hill much like a dike, but no contacts with other rock...badly decomposed and fire marked. On top of the hill directly over the arsenopyrite locality, but about...particles of metallic minerals, with some graphite, azurite, malachite, limonite, etc. The other portions of...graphite, a trace of pyrite, and gritty rock. The azurite, malachite and limonite have resulted from the...Jump Mountain. At the Howell iron mine outcrop, just below the copper mine, con siderable talcose schist |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector's Newsletter $2.00 Pseudomorphs from Brazos County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...Creek in the BryanCol!~ge Stallon area of Brazos County, Texas. Thin, elongate cav111esparallel to the...setting fire to he shaft and filling the entire mine with smoke. They also incurred the wrath of the...from petrified wood, Turkey Creek, Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, photograph by Art Smith. Mexico While...West Camp, the mining company operating the East Camp (San Antonio Mine) managed to mine into a water-filled |
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