 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l |  | | Journal (issue) | | February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cumberland Alston Moor: witherite, 431 Cat Gill; Dale Head; Fisher Crag; Fleetwith Pike; Grey Knotts;... apophyllite, gyrolite, 173 BaUyclare; Bruslee quarry, Ballyclare; Call Hill farm, Cookstown Junction... Belfast; Glenoe; Kilwanghter Castle; Nelson's quarry, BaUyhenry; Shane' s Hill, Larne; Skerrywhirry...Kanjamalai, Salem, Madras: perrierite, 42 Kodur quarry, Andhra Pradesh: spandire, 508 Sandur, Bellary...ramsdellite, 170 We~st Tirodi mine, Madhya Pradesh: spessartine, 509 Orissa Cnttac]c ; Dhenlcanal; and Keonjhar: |  | | Journal (issue) | | DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...beautiful gem quality spessartine garnet, rare facet grade microlite, amazonite, fine moonstone, and topaz...topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise crystals, and the popular...minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which have been used as gemstones and decora...report. Many of the localities will be familiar to Virginia mineral collectors. Someof the areas mentioned |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | duction. Dale et al. (1914) listed many minerals found in Ver mont slate. Figure 2. Slate quarry, Poultney;...extensive lists of minerals in granite prepared by Dale (1923). Rutilated quartz, apatite, and many other...decorator tiles. The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi cant locality...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...the locality; it is near er to the quarry than the village of Lowell and is the last set tlement seen |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | garnets in the stockdale Kirnberlite Intrusion, Riley County, Kansas Anandite ordering Ancyl ite crystal structure...Carl Francis, John Higgins, and Mary Holliman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Ascharite...in the Stockdale Kinbertite Intrusion, RileY 675 County, Kansas sehoite 48I Be-O force constants 481 infrared...Crystal _, structure of whitlockite frorn the Palerno quarry 120 CAMERON,KENNETHL. An experinental study of... and J.B. Higgins: iron-rich violarites frorn Virginia Cronstedtite crystal stTucture, ordering Crystal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | January/February: Gold and quartz, Eagle's est mine, Placer County, California. Tana Daugharthy specimen, Harold and...ovember/Decernber: Fluorite, Blue Circle Cement quarry, Weardale, England. Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka...quartz. 118-23; Yaogangxian mine, 258 Chips from the Quarry, M. E. Huizing, 5, 85-87,149-51,213-14,293-95,373-75...49 Collecting the KellerLakePegmatite, Waupaca County. Wisconsin: A New Site for Gadolinite-(Y), T. W...Note, Collecting the KellerLake Pegmatite, Waupaca County, Wisconsin: A New Site for Gadolinite-(Y),T. W |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...r y, Randolph, Macon South C a r o l i n a : Chesterfield, L a n c a s t e r, Yo r k , Edgefield, McCormick...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing pastel moonstone |  | | Book (volume) | | (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16.62 ct), Ramona, California; deep red...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...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...AZ; Richard A. & Tresa L. Kosnar, Golden, CO: Virginia & Larry Kribs, Desert Dog Mines, Bend, OR; Guy |  | | Journal (issue) | | on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil photo...Samantha Kolinski John Lucking Steve Mas]ansky Dale Armstrong Bill Besse Bisbee Mining and Historical...traveled all the way from Philadelphia to Yuma County in order to gather more wulfenite and vanadinite...1939 to investigate tbe Hilltop mine in Cochise County. No one knows what attracted him there, but he...cm, from the Christmas Eve Pocket, 79 mine, Gila County, Arizona (self-collected). Malcolm Alter photo |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | during highway construction, Hull Township, Gatineau County, Quebec. P. M. Bellev, R. Rowe & M. Picard. 2:45...e " from the Harder Farm, Hammond, St. Lawrence County, NY. M. Lupulescu. 3:45 H i s t o r y of the Powers...Powers farm streamside veins, St. Lawrence County, New York. M. R. Walter & S. C. Chamberlain. 4:00 M...Louisa County, Virginia. L. E. Kearns & M. D. Dunn. 4:30 B l u e wavellite from the De Linde quarry, Garland...Garland, County, Arkansas. S. L. Hanson, A. U. Falster & Win. B. Simmons. 4:45 H a f n i a n zircon from |  | | Report (issue) | | International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...grateful to Terry and Marie Huizing, Meghan and Dale Funk, Karen Webber, Pam Henaghan, Jack De/brook...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...found almost simultaneously in both Goshen and Chesterfield, Massachusetts were important mineralogical...between 1855 and 1900; both samples are from Chesterfield, Massachusetts © 2002 Peabody Museum of Natural |  | | Book | | searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research...ciifce—Westchester County.................. Tne McLear pegmatite—5t. Lawrence County.....................Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County..................................................Counties.. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County................. Clinton hematite............. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard...Sevier County (Coskren and Lauf 2000). The following index is arranged alphabetically by county. It is |  | Kampf, Anthony R., Alves, Pedro, Kasatkin, Anatoly, Škoda, Radek (2019) Jahnsite-(MnMnZn), a new jahnsite-group mineral, and formal approval of the jahnsite group. European Journal of Mineralogy, 31 (1) 167-172 doi:10.1127/ejm/2018/0030-2800 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA *Corresponding author...et al. Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA, catalogue number...colourless, Y and Z beige; X < Y Z. The Gladstone-Dale compatibility (Mandarino, 2007) is 0.031, in the...0.34 0.22 0.17 Albite Fluorapatite MgAl2O4 Spessartine Gahnite Almandine 0.00–0.05 32.07–33.47 0.02...Department of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. References Alves, P. & Kampf, A. (2017): A mina |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in amphibolite gneiss at the Keystone trap-rock quarry, Cornog, Pennsylvania. • Pink to green crystals...Thomssen 1977); the Calumet iron mine, Chaffee County, Colorado, is a notable locale for simple striated...with sprays of green epidote, from the Honqizhen quarry, China. 448 ROCKS & MINERALS with colorless...Amelia, Virginia; Copper Gulch, Fremont County, Colorado; Pacoima Canyon, Los Angeles County, California;...crystals are found at the Tiro Estrella mine, Lincoln County, New Mexico, in quartz veins with feldspar. At | | | Book | | searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research...pegmatite-Westchester County .......... . The Mclear pegmatite-St. Lawrence County .......... . Minerals...Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County .................................... . Hematite...Counties .. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County ......... . Clinton hematite ................. |  | | Journal (issue) | | COLOUR-COMPOSITION RELATIONSHIP IN SPESSARTINE FROM AMELIA, VIRGINIA by JOHN SINKANKAS, B.Sc., C.G. and...Pyralspite End-Members End-Member Pyrope Almandite Spessartine Formula G. w(Na) Mg3Al 2 Si 3 Oi2 Fe3Al2Si3Oi2...Garnets Principal End-Member Pyrope Almandite Spessartine G «(Na) 3-7-3-9 3-9-4-2 4-16-4-19 1-73-1-76...Colour Characteristic Tinge Pyrope Almandite Spessartine Dark red Dark to pale purplish-red Dark red-brown...investigation of fifty colour-graded spessartine samples from Amelia, Virginia, indicate that the colour range | | | Book (volume) | | (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62 et), Ramona, California; deep...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...AZ; Richard A. & Tresa L. Kosnar, Golden, CO: Virginia & Larry Kribs, Desert Dog Mines, Bend, OR; Guy...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy |  | | Journal (issue) | | Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ........................................../# 6 C alifornia Issue B enitoite, G old, L .A . County M useum , H im alaya m ine $7 Circulation Manager...Almandine-Spessartine (Fe,M n)2+Al2(S i0 4)3 A few rounded, weathered crystals of almandine-spessartine garnet...specimens were collected in the northern margin j f the quarry, inside the entrance to the main adit, on the left...Uraninite Carbonates Cerussite Silicates Almandine-Spessartine Beryl Clays Kaolinite Montmorillonite Nontronite |  | | Journal (issue) | | the pyralspite group — pyrope, almandine and spessartine; and the ugrandite group — grossular, andradite...pyropealmandine, almandine, almandinespessartine, spessartine, spessartinepyrope, grossular, grossular-andradite...Almandine 1.829 4.315 40.7 Fe3Al2Si3O12 Spessartine 1.799 4.197 47.45--- Mn3Al2Si3O12 Grossular...pyrope, rhodolite, malaia, colour-change pyrope-spessartine, tsavorite, hessonite, topazolite, Mali and demantoid5...five end-members; namely, pyrope, almandine, spessartine, grossular, and andradite. Deer et al.12 note |  | | Journal (issue) | | index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act...referred to as Glamorgan. The new counties and county boroughs brought in by the Lieutenancies Act of...V. (1996) The minerals of Cornwall Countybridge quarry, Goonhilly downs, the Lizard 17:25-28 INGRAM, S...from Ardownie quarry 14:17-20 __ TODD, J.G. & ANDERSON, D. (1992) Pyrite from Goat Quarry 11:8-10 IXER |  | Mills, S. J., Kampf, A. R., Sejkora, J., Adams, P. M., Birch, W. D., Plášil, J. (2011) Iangreyite: a new secondary phosphate mineral closely related to perhamite. Mineralogical Magazine, 75 (2) 327-336 doi:10.1180/minmag.2011.075.2.327 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA Department of Mineralogy...Helberta Avenue, #2, Redondo Beach, California 90277, USA Geosciences, Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne...(IMA2009 087) from the Silver Coin mine, Nevada, USA and the Krásno ore district, Hornı́ Slavkov, Czech...alunite supergroup, new mineral, Silver Coin mine, USA, Krásno ore district, Czech Republic. Introduction...occurrences at the Silver Coin mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA and the Krásno ore district, Hornı́ Slavkov |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection no...Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality for...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing...15 feet to the left, parallel to the wall of the quarry. This tube varied from 6 inches to 2 feet wide |
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