 | | 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) | | mining in upper California—at Trinidad, Humboldt County. Trinidad is a little town on the Pacific coast...concentrates in this State. No. 1 is from Dukes Creek, L.L. 89, White County. These sands are fairly coarse and...Valley, L.L. 75 & 76, White County. This location receives the sands from Dukes Creek and the travel is about...The origin of the sands is the same as those from Dukes Creek." P. E. Secor mining gold bearing black sand...Florida] at 02:04 08 August 2017 The sand from Dukes Creek is coarse grained and reddish, consisting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystallized gold specimen from the Loud mine in White County, Georgia. This is part of the former geology...(left). The Dukes Creek Nugget, a 112-dwt (5.6-ounce) gold nugget from Dukes Creek in White County, Georgia...Lincoln] at 05:28 13 April 2015 ton in Cherokee County, did exploit veins to depths of nearly 1,000 feet...mines of Lumpkin County; the Loud mine, White County; and the Potosi mine, Hall County. The objective of...productivity, and removing them would have reduced mine revenue. As the purpose of gold mining is the economic |  | | Book (edition) | | of Akron, Ohio, USA and John Mylroie Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA o) Springer AC...photo: Stalactites in Poor Farm Cave, Pocohantas County, West Virginia. Photo by Ira D. Sasowsky. Background...by Lindbergh's flight across the Cave, Kentucky, USA. Atlantic (Murray and Brucker, 1979), Cave science...Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA, Mylroie@geosci.MsState.edu. 44325-4101 USA, ids@uakron.edu. Ira D. Sasowsky...degree, and paleomagnetic analysis in a Virginia, USA cave can be used to determine the timing and climatic |  | | Report (issue) | | technical hi.story and exploration with reference to mine workings in the British Isles are welcomed for inclusion...: MRS . H. BIRD PUBLICATION AFTERSALES NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY 41 WINDSOR WALK SOUTH ANSTON SHEFFIELD...S31 7EL Tel. No. Dn-.."TNINGTON 3229 © NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY This volume is copyright under...Sheffield S2 6HH, for the Publishers, The Northern Mine Research Society, Sheffield., England. ISSN 0308-2199...R . S . A MONOGRAPH RECORDS OF THE NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH 1980. SOCIETY 901450 16 2. BRITISH |  | | Book (edition) | | entrapment of Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Kentucky, USA . This was surpassed only by Lindbergh's flight across...University, POBox2194, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA, Mylroie@geosci.MsState.edu. Ira D. Sasowsky, Dept...Geology, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4 I0I USA, ids@uakron.edu. v vi J. E. MYLROIE & I. D. SASOWSKY...degree, and paleomagnetic analysis in a Virginia, USA cave can be used to determine the timing and climatic...advance and retreat events in the Colorado Rockies, USA, in an area of difficult logistics. The clastic section |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and served as the residence for various electors, dukes, and other rulers of the area. Over time it has...and 3:30 P.M. • The Alte Elisabeth (Old Elisabeth) mine offers onehour guided tours of surface machinery...Sundays, 11:00 A.M. • The Reiche Zeche, a teaching mine, open to visitors, includes a collection of minerals...2.5-hour underground guided tours of the silver mine for those twelve and older. Open 9:30 A.M.–2:30...Figure 7 (top). Calcite, 14 × 7 cm, from the United States (Elmwood mine, Smith County, Tennessee). Jörg |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 246-253. PAGE, W. 1907. The Victoria History of the County of York, Vol. I, 69--<)0. RAISTRICK, A. 1926. The...developed by the Earls of Cumberland and later by the Dukes of Devonshire, to whom they had passed by marriage...or veins have carried galena, with a gangue of calcite and some fluor spar, mainly in the limestone strata...and/or clay forming the main filling [74J. In Escoe mine, Elbolton (S.E. of Linton) in a reef limestone,...barren. A mile north of Ramsgill, the Lolly Scar mine followed a vein in the Millstone Grit which carried |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | x l - crystal ARIZONA—From the famous leadzinc mine at Tiger, Arizona, we have two beautifully xled...community of about 1,200 in southeastern Pinal County, is in southern Arizona. ARKANSAS—We recently received..."We recently bought another place (in Montgomery County, Ark.). Guess I told you the Atomic Energy Commission...Commission bought our place in the Boston Mountains, Ark., last December. I was sick about it, but now Em...tour'—we've been on practically every road in the county, so we know it pretty well now." "I'm sending you |  | | Report (volume) | | minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by some unusual..........Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C. Texas............Dr. William B. Phillips, Austin. Vermont...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson |  | | Book (volume) | | Fourche and Cheyenne rivers. These pine covered mountains, higher than the Alleghenies, culminate in Harney...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | ......... 34 CARL ANDERSON AND HIS LAPIS LAZULI MINE TN COL· ORADO. By Otis Dozier ....................Whole No. 151 CARL ANDERSON AND HIS LAPIS LAZULI MINE IN COLORADO By OTIS DOZIER Colorado Springs, Colo...been trying to get a chance to see the lapis lazuli mine, and to meet the discoverer of this blue gem stone..."What is it?" "Lapis Lazuli, comes from Gunnison County," he replied. We could not imagine lap is lazuli...the man who spent most of his time "back in the mountains" and brought out such unusual things. On our wav |  | | Journal (issue) | | to pinkish masses of crystalline calcite from Brewster County, Texas. A 1934 article by C. L. Brock in...gives their occurrence as being in lhe Chisos Mountains wilh no specific location given. Brock\\ as a...Natural History. This calcite was fairly common into lhe 1950s, but lhe Chisos Mountains are in the Big Bend...material's availability. During my research on Texas minerals, scouring the literature, and talkino to...Little 38 mine in the Terlingua mercury mining district miles west of the Cbisos Mountains. Then lhe |  | | 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) | | northeastern portion of the Dahlonega gold belt with mine locations (1 :100,000) ...........................onega go.ld belt extending from Canton in Cherokee County Georgia, is a narrqw, ~et;~uence of r-ock units...·, , -1983. GeologiC maps atid maps delineatitig mine workings The rocks in the study area were metamorphosed·...generally Maxwell (1901) described the Crown Mountain Mine at marked the transitions between volcanic and sedimentary...resources of White County were described by Hurst and Otwell, and those in Habersham County were described |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | published in 1606 wrote of being ‘Amongst the mountains bleak’ and of ‘Those grim and horrid caves’. Daniel...District National Park (dashed line) relative to the county of Derbyshire (solid line), showing the White Peak...Below the ground there are extensive historical mine systems that can still be explored today. Historical...latter part of the twentieth century, the old lead mine spoil tips were re-worked for fluorite (fluorspar)...minerals associated with galena, also including calcite and barite, but which were never really commercially |  | | Report (volume) | | 248 259 269 271 275 281 r 4 CONTENTS. Page. Texas...................................................that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by reason...New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature consulted would be impracticable...Phillips, W. B., The mineral resources of Texas: Univ. Texas Bull. 365, Sci. Ser. 29, 1914. Among other...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wigan, Durham, Nova Scotia Texas <USA>. Members' interests span the spectrum of minerals...good lunch, And then there was the Virtuous Lady Mine in 1980 where the owner, the intrepid Mrs Oxenford...Oxenford, took us on a tour of this famous old copper mine, through flooded adits, cavernous stopes and muddy...same year we toured the more orderly gypsum drift mine at Mountfield on a working day. Larg~ dump trucks...part of the 'cabinet'? Be they 'streaking' down a mine or breaking open slate, They deserve our admiration |  | | Journal (issue) | | Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff. August 1-3—County Fair, RooseVelt, Utah. August 2—Old Pecos Dance...FIELD TRIP G e m " H a r b o r s " in the Ship Mountains CLOSE-UPS EXPERIENCE EXPLORATION By HAROLD O...between the Sierras of California and the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Many civic groups in Nevada are lending...of square miles of deserts, valleys, hills and mountains in eastern Nevada and western Utah. Then we worked...NEVADA AUGUST, 1956 Gem 'Harbors' in the Ship Mountains Opalite—plenty of it and in concentrated areas—is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Recovery History of the Olinghouse District, Washoe County, Nevada Scott Kleine [2:20 to 2:40] The Gold Tellurides...Raines [2:40 to 3:00] The Round Mountain Gold Mine, Nye County, Nevada R. Scott Werschky LUNCH BREAK the...California localities such as the Colorado Quartz mine near Mariposa. The Systematic Study of Regolith...major recovery of gold occurred in the Altai Mountains, where A. Demidov was mining copper from sulfide-rich...secondary minerals are occasionally found; barite, calcite, dolomite, epidote, fluorapophyllite, galena, pyrite |  | | Book | | David & Charles Inc North Pomfret Vermont 05053 USA Published in Canada by Douglas David & Charles Limited...TROSSACHS TO LOCH LOMOND The Highland line : The Dukes Pass and slate quarries: the Trossachs: Loch Lomondside...Carboniferous at Lugton and Trearne display excellent calcite crystals as components of the crinoid stems. Due...zinc-blende, iron pyrites, copper pyrites, quartz, calcite and dolomite. Barytes occurs on Arran, and copper...form. The Carboniferous lavas of Barrhead contain calcite, analcite, prehnite and some rarer zeolites; copper |  | | Book | | David & Charles Inc North Pomfret Vermont 05053 USA Published in Canada by Douglas David & Charles Limited...TROSSACHS TO LOCH LOMOND The Highland line : The Dukes Pass and slate quarries: the Trossachs: Loch Lomondside...Carboniferous at Lugton and Trearne display excellent calcite crystals as components of the crinoid stems. Due...zinc-blende, iron pyrites, copper pyrites, quartz, calcite and dolomite. Barytes occurs on Arran, and copper...form. The Carboniferous lavas of Barrhead contain calcite, analcite, prehnite and some rarer zeolites; copper |  | | Journal (issue) | | These have ranged from a family trip to collect calcite at Plumpton, which attracted over 20 members, several...speak trench was virtually essential. The Atlas mountains are very barren, and you need to travel in groups...middle of the wilderness appreciating the rugged mountains and sand dunes, it is somewhat disconcerting when...architecture is magnificent. Bou Azzer is a cobalt mine where you can find skutterudite, CoA5:2-3 and erythrite...this material on some tips before he approached the mine to ask permission. Not only was he not allowed to |  | | Journal (issue) | | in a coral sky Conform to a timeless paragon. Mountains, immobile, intensify The echoing desert antiphon...Santa Ana, California When the sun just tops the mountains, And the sky is streaked with flame, Then the...four frosts have touched the peaks of the sacred mountains that one speaks of the Ye'ii bichai, the grandfathers...fortunate in having Grandma Gordy come in from Coal Mine canyon on one of her raids on our larder. Knowing...family tradition said, had frozen "to death in the mountains while guiding some emigrants." From a chest of |
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