 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 8y ARTHUR E. SMITH, JR. 9118 Concho, Houston, Texas Barite has been reported from super caprock formations...about 50 feet above the caprock at Hackley dome, Texas. (Stenzel, 1946). Crystalline masses 1 to 7 inches...and Mason, 1926). Both domes are in Hardin County, Texas. White to bluish gray barite oolites and pisolites...fluorescent matrix were found at Fannett dome, Texas. Small (up to 1 mm.) scalenohedrons and rhombohedrons...domes just above the sulfur zone. At Hoskins Mound dome, Texas it makes up to 50 percent of the composition |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NEW GULF WHARTON COUNTY, TEXAS ARTHUR E. SMITH 9118 Concho Street Houston, Texas 77036 Downloaded by...specimens are from Boling salt dome, Wharton County, Texas, and are in the author’s collection; all photos...photos by the author. Figure 1. Map of Texas showing the location of Boling salt dome. M BOLING SALT...sulfide zone from the Hockley salt dome, Harris County, Texas, where exploration core drilling was performed...the late Dudley Rainey, former chief geologist of Texas Gulf at Boling dome, where sulfur was mined using |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | By ARTHUR E. SMITH, JR. 911 8 Concho, Houston, Texas The purpose of this art icle is to give a complete...the author from 5 years of collecting at various Texas domes. Unfortunately most specimen material is from...coastal plain of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico (Figure '1). In the Mississippi-Alabama...the coast. In Texas there are 55 in the central area, 6 in the south, and 18 in East Texas. In Mexico there...expression to indicate their subsurface existence. A mound caused by uplift is conspicuous on a few. Others |  | | Journal (issue) | | Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036 • In I 969 and 1970...common were cores with galena, sphalerite, and hauerite. All of Continued on page 4 Fig. 1 White fluorite...Fort Bend County, Texas, photo by the author. ,/" 2 Minero! News The Lost Gem Tourmaline Mine: the Royal...Royal Gorge No. 1 Mine, Eight Mile Park, Fremont Co., Colorado Mark Jacobson 112 N. Lemans St. Lafayette...I wrote in Mineral News about the gem tourmaline mine of the Colorado miner, C. A Beghtol. This long lost |  | | Journal (issue) | | d'Ossola, Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...Springs County, Arkansas is Reclaimed and Collecting Ceases Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...Located on the east rim of Magnet Cove, the Christy Mine, fonnerly known as the Christy brookite locality...as big, or bigger. One location is in Campbell County, Virginia where huge ones up to about a foot long |  | | Book (volume) | | Unnamed Hexagonal MnS and Manganoan Wurtzite 3.1.7 Hauerite 3.2 Complex Sulfides . . . . . . . . . . . . ...chondrites; 2200 [2, p. 44] for achendrite (Norton County); and 1850 or 1760 [2, p. 32] for the earth's crust...and hydroxides, the rare sulfides alabandite and hauerite, the abundant carbonate rhodochrosite, and the...niningerite (see pp. 99/109); and the Mn disulfide hauerite (see pp. 115/26). A composition intermediate between...and the ferromagnesian alabandite of the Norton County aubrite (see p. 48). They differ in that the Qingzhen |  | | Book (edition) | | (Tpi), Pliocene-Miocene, near Edna, San Luis Obispo County, California. 1'/1e aspltaltic sands are underlain...the Anacacho limestone (Cretaceous) of Uvalde County, Texas. This material, which underlies an area of many...oil have been recovered in the Minerva fluorite mine in southern Illinois, from the fractured fluorite-bearing...rocks, such as the Spraberry formation of western Texas ( described on p. 121 ) . Kerogen, under a microscope...are published in July by World Oil, Houston 1, Texas, and in December by the Oil and Gas Journal, Tulsa |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | 1970 SURVEY SOCIETIES LIBRARY University of Texas At San Antonio The present version of the bibliography...Orleans, Louisiana 10 Rice University, Houston, Texas ' Wy oh - FOREWORD Preparation of this bibliography...Louisiana Anadarko Producing Company, Houston, Texas Consultant, Lafayette, Louisiana Superior Oil Company...Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas in the United Luis Potosi, States, and Nuevo Vera...Rose section in the Canyon Reservoir Comal County, Texas [abs.]: Houston Geol. Soc. Bull., v. 9, no. |  | | Book | | grouped like the petals of a flower. Cleveland County, Oklahoma. Minerals Past and Present (75 percent)...40 feet long; weight estimated at 90 tons; Etta Mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. PHLOGOPITE MICA: Crystal...14 feet wide; weight approximately 90 tons; Lacy Mine, Ontario, Canada. QUARTZ: Milky white crystal; close...and oxygen atoms. One-ton crystal; Bob Ingersoll Mine, Keystone, South Dakota. COLUMBITE: Transparent...Brazil. TOPAZ: APATITE: 550-pound crystal; Ottawa County, Quebec, Canada. Crystal Faces The regular, smooth |  | | Report (volume) | | cientifica Circular Classe classification Company, County Collections Committee Communications Comparative...vols. 1-7. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Field Museum of Natural History: Botanical Series...of America (Inc.) Year Book vols. 6-9. Houston, Texas. National Research Council: Bulletins 90-96, 98...Okla. Oil Weekly vols. 68-96 (nos. 1-3). Houston, Texas. Oklahoma Academy of Science Proceedings vols. 7-9...4-9), 9-11 (nos. 1, 3); Supplements 10-13. Dallas, Texas. Photographic Engineering [formerly American Society |  | | Book (edition) | | color and spherical triangular outline. San Diego County, California. Fia. 308. Agate. Brazil. and sharply...561, page 307). Fic. 332. Aborescent copper. Mine, Lake Superior district. Phoenix Fig. 333. stone...Indiana. Odlitic limestone. Bedford, Fic. 335. Mine, Reticulated silver. Silver King Arizona. Reniform...with hydrogen _ sulfide precipitate sulfides from mine and quarry waters containing copper or iron. Presumably... Porco, Bolivia. Fig. 478. Wire silver. Cliff Mine, Lake Superior. Several of the more important localities |  | Kogel, Jessica Elzea, Trivedi, Nikhil C., Barker, James M., Krukowski, Stanley T. - Eds. (2006) Industrial Minerals and Rocks (7th ed.) 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