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CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most...State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings.... . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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FOUND IN UTAH Adapted by Martha R. Smith o UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of UTAH DEPARTMENT...found in Utah is based on a chapter on Gem Materials, written by M.D. Dasch and published in Utah Geological...Survey Bulletin 73, Mineral and Water Resources of Utah. Bulletin 73 , published in 1969, was prepared by...has been updated and expanded. DID YOU KNOW? .. Utah has a wide variety of gem materials from which semiprecious...stones found in Utah include: azurite and malachite; beryl (aquamarine and morganite); garnet (pyrope and |
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geology, geography, chemistry, physics and a wide range of other scientific subjects. We very much hope...free throughout the series, as they are needed. SOUTH AFRICA Subscriptions Telephone (011) 652 1838, fax...EARTH is published by De Agostini (UK) Ltd, Griffin House, 161 Hammersmith Road, London W6 8S0 ©1999CieAgostini...specimens. Smoky quartz lends itself to a wide range of cutting and polishing techniques. I t is widely...t is faceted, smoky quartz may be cut in a wide range of styles. Among the most popular are brilliants |
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Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies...as the continental seas were advancing from the south, the Dakota sandstone represents topset beds, wave...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...to the fascination of these pegmatites. 437 South Dakota The commercial production of minerals, principally...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm |
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Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...lins £4 garnet group Crystal 1 inch across Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½...ALUMOHYDROCALCITE A rare British mineral. Rich white veins South Bay, Scarborough ½x½£3 Ca Al CO/3 and masses in |
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ANDRADITE garnet group ♦ ANGLES ITE Pb SO/4 ANHYDIUTE Ca SO/4 AN KERITE-KUTNAIIORITE Dolom ite group ANN ITE...ANORTHOCLASE Felspar Group ANTHOPH YLLITE Amphibole 2cm £8 3cm £ 15 Near Chelan. E.Washington USA !x i £3 ½"... Rich wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero Norway...Mapimi. Mexico A LLOPHANE ALSi O A LMANDINE garnet group ♦ A LSTONITE Ba C a CO/3 A LUJ\UNITE Al SO/4...Bastnas Mine Sweden Jx2 £6 2 x2 £1.20 2x2 £1 2 Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon |
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grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE.... 348 RHODIZITE (K Cs)Al (B,Be) 0 pale yellow, garnet shaped single crystal. 3 mm £3.50 (Antsirabe Madagascar)...in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360 PARATELLURITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE |
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New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group represent some of the...deposits. In fact, in some types of economic deposits, garnet constitutes an important gangue mineral, and such...America’s largest hard-rock garnet mines within its borders, a famous New York garnet specimen has been chosen...this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice piece. Moreover, garnet was designated as New York’s official state gemstone...Almandine is one of fifteen minerals in the garnet group, each member of which is defined by its pure |
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Garnet Great Balls of Fire ISBN 978-0-9790998-4-7 Publisher Lithographie, LLC East Hampton, Connecticut...Connecticut, USA © 2008 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 263 • East Hampton, CT 06424 • USA Phone 1.860.267 .1512...hematite is from the Wessels Mine near Hotazel in northern Cape Province, South Africa. Dan Carlson specimen;...Grossular on diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul Stahl specimen...meter relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Garnet Great Balls of Fire Contributors Lothar Ackermann |
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Famous mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah ........................................ S. Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado ................................B. Cairncross The Jan Coetzee copper mine, Namaqualand, South Africa .................................41 by J.-M . Fourcault FMrTGMS-MSA Symposium on Garnet: Abstracts ....................... 61 Colum ns...and there are few minerals in the 8-10 hardness range anyway, so it is a waste of effort. Likewise, resist |
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of the major museums will show how wide is the range of colour and shape. Few collectors will be able...museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...rocks contain large crystals, often of the feldspar group and are known as porphyries. The individual crystals...to granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with...are the home of a number of interesting minerals. Garnet, staurolite and andalusite are typical minerals |
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Featured Mineral Group at the 1993 Tucson Show Downloaded by [Virginia Tech Libraries] at 03:28 25 February...February 2015 GARNET PETER J. MODRESKI U.S. Geological Survey Box 25046, MS 905, Federal Center Denver...cdorado 80225 THE GARNETS ARE A COMMON but complex group of minerals. They are perhaps the mineral kingdom’s...as a separate and distinct mineral species. In garnet, we deal not with just a single series between...plagioclase series), but rather with a complex group of solid-solution series between as many as fourteen |
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grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4 040 BITYITE Li...Mica white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE...dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE Ba Na Ti B...£20 348 RHODIZITE (X Cs)Al (B,Be) 0 pale yellow, garnet shaped single crystal. 3 mm £3.50 (Antsirabe Madagascar)...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH U |
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Thomas and Dugway Ranges Juab and Tooele Counties Utah By MORTIMER H. STAATZ and WILFRED J. CARR GEOLOGICAL...__________________________ _ 74 Older volcanic group _____ --_---_---,..---75 General features ______...________________ :.._·:.._ , 85 Younger volcanic group ___ _: __________ :.::~-·.· · 86 · '86 General ...rhyolitic rocks of the younger yolcan'i~.: ·;;; ·' · group ________________ ._______ --·-..; __ ... _·. 102...block ______________________ _ Page Basin and Range faults-----------.,.---------Structure of the volcanic |
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Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE |
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Care! ARIZONA WULFENITE Down Deep in the Rowley Mine GEM GARNETS Popular for Centuries THE BALTIMORE...com Diamond Hill Quartz Winter Rockhounding in South Carolina RG_RED_cover_0914.indd 2 7/26/14 10:56...from the Herja mine (Baia Mare, Maramures), Romania. (Gerhard Brandstetter photo) Garnet: Gem of the Ages.......................... 44 A colorful silicate group by Bob Jones 10 Deadly Minerals .................. 22 This Arizona mine is a specimen treasure trove Winter rockhounding in South Carolina by Wayne Peterson |
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Decor and more! Neptunite Benitoite Gem Mine San Benito County,CA Martin Zinn Collection Photo by Jeff...of carnelian and agate geodes. Plus, just south of our house there was a local attraction called Peterson’s...Fossils • Live Demos Crack a Geode • Kids Korner • Gem Mine Silent/Chinese Auctions • Door Prizes Exhibits •...in thousands of localities. Colors it produces range from white to green to pink, to blue. Not every...persisted. Benny had brought these calcites from a mine in Coahuilla where it occurred 14 ROCKNGEM.COM |
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BUTTERWORTHS GEM BOOKS GARNET JOHN DROUSE ♦ BUTTERWORTHS ◊ Butterworths Gem Books Edited by Peter...Peter G. Read Beryl John Sinkankas Garnet John D. Rouse Pearls, natural, cultured and imitation Alexander...Darragh Topaz D. B. Hoover Butterworths Gem Books Garnet John D. Rouse Butterworths London Boston Durban...Letchworth, Herts Preface Only a few books on garnet gemstones have been published up to the present...to answer all the questions one might have about garnet, but rather to stimulate the readers to explore |
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IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix. £5 PbSiO/3 County. Arizona. U.S...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland...ALUMOHYDROCALCITE A rare British mineral. Rich white veins South Bay, Scarborough ½x ½ £3 Ix½ Ix! £10 C.!_~_15_013....maenification there are small crystals · - · .County. A:fiZC>i:i--=a=--- 60 AMAZONITE Attractive green |
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to 3 mmon rock. (WestforkMineReynodsCo. liissouri USA)a) with 2 or 3 crystals E 3 7 POLY Y.ITE i I" S... 3 8 ,HODTZ TE !Y. ,c)Al {B1 Be) 0 pale yello, garnet shaped si.flE crystal. 3.. E3.50 (Antsirabe Hadagac...Carbide Hine, WilsonSprings G rland Co nty, rk nsas USA) lx E4 lx2 E7.50 497 TELLURITE /2 god yellow crust...brownmetallic (Herbb E2 Hine, Powhatton County Virginia USA) lem E6 • , * 0 • 1 • 068 BOTALLACKITE...Attractive blue masses in and on pink BÅRYTES.(BlairLogie Mine, n~ar Stirling, Scotland) lxl El. 50 202 COPPER |
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2x2£15 ½"£5 1"£7 ANALCIME Orallhagcn, near Larvik South Norway Ojuela Mme, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE 1 0 98...lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal..._lx2_ _80 _ _____ _,o 1129 ALMANDINE Braslad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Unknown location I 1 63 □a...solid gram-like red-brown (mass like a massive garnet-paper! ' lxl £2 lx2£4 2x2£8 Gamet £5 --------- |
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member of the garnet family, almandine, was described (Cook 2009). Garnet forms under a wide range of geologic...resulting in its being one of the most locally abundant group of rock-forming minerals and certainly one of the...Consequently, for completeness of our coverage of the garnet-group minerals, and in keeping with the gemstone theme...variability, occurs in a wide array of colors that range from almost black through various shades of brown...Spessartine is one of fifteen minerals in the garnet group, each member of which is defined by its end-member |
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ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South Norway Rich fine grained...solid grain-like red-brown (mass like a massive garnet-paper ! Pure greenish-brown mass lxl £2 lx2 £4...- -1111 ALMANDINE Epteland, Evje-lveland area, South Norway 164 BERYL Kolsva, Vastmanland Sweden Rich...ANALCITE Bratthagen, near Larvik South Norway 1086 CALCITE Landsverk, Evje, South Norway Unusual rich yellow...ANORTHOCLASE Ula, near Larvik, South Norway 129 CHROMITE Kemi Finland Feldspar group pure pale brown cleavages |
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slightly crystalline masses in matrix (M~:!a~hderg,County D~~ega.l,Irel~nd) lil fl lx2 f2 023 ~!~YDBITEC2lciumSulphate...rich2r ~s~ses in ~~trix lxl f] 006 .i\LDITSF~ld~p?.r Group. rich ora:i<}e:r:eJr::~scs with darker ;1ornble1...Pure gre:• cl~,1·-.:2~l1: r2ss. (lZeysto":c,South r::';Gtil, USA) l~l 701 lx2 f1.20 L2 f2. -:~· ~::3 f.~...El.00 311 fl.60 411 f).80 017 ANALClTE. Zeolite Group White crystals well covering Basalt. {Talisker Bay...Hidalgoite_. rich matrix. (Gold Hill Hine,Tooel County, Utah, USA) lxl f2.50 lx2 ES .. 066 ASTROPHYLLITE |
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modifications. Each of these is stable in a given range of temperature or pressure; in fact, each one represents...outside their physical field of stability (their range of pressure and temperature), i.e., in metastable...in the green-yellow range; scheelite is always fluorescent in the blue-white range except when it contains...about the composition of a mineral and narrow the range of identification possibilities considerably. Flame...swell and emit bubbles (zeolite group, epidote group, scapolite group), some shed flakes (vermiculite |