 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in Georgia at the fo'lowing localities: Cherokee County —2V2 miles northeast of Ball Ground, 1 mi'e northwest...of Cherry Grove School; Fayette County—near Fayetteville; Fulton County—near College Park. (Georgia Mineral...R & M recently about 6 lbs. of pebbles from the gravel beds of Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa. Among the...carefully the pebbles picked up on a trip to a gravel pit, if you have the time, but bring home also a...found pebbles of green plasma (quartz) in a large gravel pit located 2 miles southwest of Moose Lake. He also |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...(Bob Janules, pers. com., 2000). Albany, Government pit, 3 miles NW of junction of U.S. Highway 15 and State... miarolitic cavities in decayed Conway Granite. Pit opened in 1955, 1970s brought productive collecting |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate, jasper;...jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw formation...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate, jasper;...jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw formation...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...yet the insect who makes his home in a pile of gravel on the roadside lives in a palace. clear For the...GARNET IDOCRASE RUBY V. IOLITE SAPPHIRE ^ KYANITE SPHALERITE TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS...may be diamond, aquamarine, topaz, tourmaline, kyanite, or apatite. Conversely, such a chameleon as tournaline...17 ROCK FORMATIONS IN WHICH GEMS OCCUR and kyanite, a large intrusive mass of granite, and rocks that |  | | Book (edition) | | which beauti- a lake's are still being found in gravel deposited by the glacier that once covered the...CHIASTOLITE a\ DIAMOND CRYSTALS DIOPSIDE EMERALD KYANITE LAZULITE t^^*l IDOCRASE lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^...and conglomerates. In from the left sand and gravel, formed into them shales, limestones, sand- ...expensive, the from streams or his material either gravel pits, feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits,...material must be sought, as a rule, in favorable gravel and washed and reason, the from the Rockies, |  | | Report (issue) | | materials; Use for building eonstruction; Reclaimed pit used for erops. VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES.... .... ..21 resourees section of the Fairfax County 1983 Comprehensive Plan .......29 V. Zoning status.........1 2. Drag-line crane extraeting sand and gravel .................1 3. Interpreting data from aerial...granite ...........................7 9. Loading gravel from drag-line cable-crane into haul wagon ......extracting gravel and sand .................8 11. Floating processing plant for sand and gravel ....... |  | | Report (issue) | | industrial mineral commodities (exclusive of sand and gravel) within the boundaries of the National Forests...and cinders are commonly substituted for sand and gravel in construction aggregate. Clay Clays are chiefly...that runs from Lake Mead in Mohave County southeastward to Cochise County. Five locations are listed in table...aluminous silicate minerals and include sillimanite, kyanite, andalusite, dumortierite, and topaz. The chief...KNOWN NAMES DESCRIPTION-COMMENTS ASBESTOS COCHISE COUNTY Pearce 15' Abril Zinc Mine Chrysotile asbestos |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...is a square hammerhead on the other. raking gravel, poking about having a collection of minerals... to soil A often is or gravel, and a sieve when examining gravel much small shovel, the army...can them spring or caves and rock beds on the lower hillsides decidedly uncomfortable AND COLLECTING |  | | Book | | Conklin Quarry Prospect Mountain Judd's Bridge Kyanite Deposit Green's Farm Garnet Mine North Street Area...East Morris Dam A&VJ Root Beer Stand Silliman Gravel Pit Southcentral Area Cheshire Trap Rock Quarry Cheshire...National Bank Community Room, Madison. MIDDLESEX COUNTY MINERAL CLUB, meets on the second Thursday at 8pm...Community Room, 61 Colony St • 9 Meriden LITCHFIELD COUNTY MINERAL CLUB, INC., meets on the first Friday at...Judd*s Bridge Kyanite Deposit. Kyanite-blue blades, Damouritegreen pseudomorphs after kyanite, Staurolite-brown | | | Book | | hammerhead on the other It 1s useful for raking gravel poking about in rubble and working on brittle rock...needed to remove so il or gravel. and a sieve is called for when exam in ing gravel in stream beds. /\ EQUIPMENT...makes collecting ,n caves and rock beds on the lower hillsides dec1d• edly uncomfortable in some parts...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...stones used in building are quarried; sand and gravel are dug from pits. There are both subterranean |  | | Book (volume) | | rivers, and outcroppings through the Quaternary gravel surfaces. Greatly eroded sandhills fan out across...Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout the more...jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R., especially...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Our Town, Tallapoosa Co., Ala., are several open pit graphite mines. The graphite is found as flakes and...mile west of the community of Levesque in Cross County. This locality may also be given as 6 miles east...titled "Kyanite, Sillimanite and Andalusite in Georgia (pp. 9-21). One locality in Habersham County should...is Dr. Furcron's description of it (p. 1 3 ) : "Kyanite deposits are well known from the vicinity of the...college yard and the adjacent land. Outcrops show kyanite in the bedrock which can be followed through the |  | | Report (issue) | | sedimentary sequence more than 15,000' thick. The lower two-thirds of this sequence was predominantly composed...basaltic tuffs and amygdaloidal flows occurs in the lower part of the Richtex Formation. The se ma/lcVolcanic...mafic tuffaceous phyllite are more abundant in the lower part of the Formation, and in some places, mafic...fragments of volcanic rock are ubiquitous, and in the lower part of the Persimmon Fork Formation some layers...urolite-kyanite-amphibole mineral assemblages respectively. Aureoles of progressively lower metamorphic |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Road-cut (Renfrew County Road 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crocan Lake kyanite occurrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . Narco kyanite mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... • • . • . • . . . ... •. . .• . . . . . . Open pit, Hilton Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Most of the collecting localities are in Renfrew County. Ontario. A wide variety of minerals are found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ine CONNECTICUT — "To all who have been to the kyanite "diggings" under the high tension power lines at...over many schists and quartz rocks which contain kyanite xls and ilmenite. P.S. The road in from Roxbury...the Gulf of Mexico. Key West is the county seat of Monroe County. The name, Key West, is said to be a...Some can be found on nearly any rocky beach or gravel pits in the Key West area. These are some of things...these inclusions for me. They were found in Putnam County, Georgia, about 10 miles east of Eatonton. Some |  | | 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 (issue) | | Sands, and at tbe top, mottled Reading Beds B.-SA�D PIT (WHEELER'S PrT), .N..E. OF s·uDBUR'Y� Thanet Sands...succeeded by Red Crag sands and disturbed glacial sand, gravel and ... ... ... . .. Boulder Clay . .. ... II....-Section in Chalk Pit, Monk's E1eigh (W. Whitaker) ••• ••• ••• 5.-Railway Challr Pit, Sudbury, 1915 (G...in Ballingdon Ch�lk pit (W. Wh±t�ker) •• • • ••• 7 .-(Upper) Section at Sand pit south of Al exandra...Brick"Works, Chilton, Sudbury, 1915 (G. Slater) (Lower) Section at Whorlow's Challc pit1 eastern side of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | poorly sorted chert gravel which is trimodal in size distribution. The gravel fraction (mode 15 to 40+...glass and heavy minerals. The Mississippian chert gravel in the Tuscaloosa Introduction and acknowledgments...Lithology and provenance General statement Typical gravel of the western facies . Special lithologies of...Nashville dome was structurally about 1000 feet lower than at present, and its crest probably was submerged...The main purpose of this paper is to describe the gravel, to discuss its probable mode of origin and means |  | | 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...Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts, stream banks and gravel beds, excavations |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ph—phosphoresces ayampa, just past the service station, a gravel road takes off, to the right. Here you leave the...parallel to the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains...likewise tremendous deposits of novaculite pebbles (gravel). Of course, both north and south coastal plains...the N. W . part of Dade County, Fla., due west of Miami and near the Monroe County line. Among the samples...Lots 612 580 and 649, 19th District of Paulding County."—Spring 1954 issue, page 48. IDAHO—"I am sending |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | more. "The Glove Mine is located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, near the little town of Amado, on the...with realgar. It comes from the great open borax pit of the Pacific Coast Borax Co. in Boron (Kern Co...inches in length. They come from Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado (altitude of pocket where found over...inches in size, comes from Devil's Head, Douglas County, Colo. Microcline {feldspar). Nice loose xls, averaging...received. These come from Devil's Head, Douglas County, Colo. Garnet (spessartite). Small but gemmy, deep |  | | Report (issue) | | ' r ' i? A 1 r> ___p«°-" _...-Aj ___ _ ___ COUNTY 5 Beryllium, tungsten, and columbium- tantalum...'I I -1 ___ __J _ ^_ - J _ ' T X O Gravel pit Quarry | MF.TALS Aluminum Titaniferous iron...l( lint Zirconium and Hafnium * Kaolin A Kyanite group L ,Lime stone r-- ftLJx. / * Cadmium...+ Fit (Bentonite or clay) METALS YELLOVSTO IE COUNtY £^-1 ^ } X Mine or prospect where mineral is |
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