 | | Report (issue) | | University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Conservation and Survey...Gemstones of Nebraska: A Handbook for Students and Collectors Roger K. Pabian University of Nebraska - Lincoln...Lincoln, rpabian1@unl.edu Allan Cook University of Nebraska - Lincoln Follow this and additional works at:...K. and Cook, Allan, "Minerals and Gemstones of Nebraska: A Handbook for Students and Collectors" (1976)...Resources, School of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion |  | | Book | | Columbia Dinosaur-Capitalsaurus fo, Fossil-Petrified Wood * Arkansas Gem-Diamond * Florida Gem-Moonstone...Rock-Dighton Rock Building & Monument Stone-Granite Soil-Paxton Series Glacial Rock-Rolling Rock 65 66 66 68...Louisiana Gemstone-Agate Fossil-Petrified Palmwood aD 60 Stone-Petrified Wood Fossil-Prehistoric Whale Soil-Natchez...& Montana Agate Fossil-Maiasaura peeblesorum * Nebraska Rock-Prairie Agate Gemstone-Blue Agate Fossil-Mammoth...90 90 91 91 a2 * North Dakota Fossil-Jeredo Petrified Wood 111 * Ohio Gemstone-Ohio Flint Invertebrate |  | | Journal (issue) | | Our WAR 3 Cc PRINTERS OF OO. Products” ‘ NEBRASKA 33 THIS PUBLICATION 23 THE EARTH SCIENCE...LAPIDARY EQUIPMENT Omaha 3, and Horizontal Nebraska The Diamond Saw 8 Arbors R. B. Berry R. W...the Owl Creek Mountain may be reached by local county roads leading out from Shoshoni. Tourmaline, spodumene...bentonite clay named from, and coming from Ben ton, County, Wyoming. Much of this interesting clay swells...seemingly never ending cycle of earth change. NEBRASKA and Visitors Green’s 757 E. Revere Minerals |  | | Book | | Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...Pima Co. ♦Fluorspar HOLBROOK, Adamana region Petrified Wood KELVIN, Pinal Co., 2 mi S. of E. side of Verde...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite |  | | Journal (issue) | | ....................... 4 Jasper, Texas—on Petrified Wood and Leadership ..............................Cement Creek valley from Gladstone in San Juan County. This pink lapidary ma4 THE BACKBENDER'S GAZETTE...Sunnyside Mine, Eureka mining district, San Juan County, Colorado—Geochemistry of gold and base metal ore...Mineral News 23(6):4-5. Y Jasper, Texas—on Petrified Wood and Leadership by Neal Immega Member of the...ou have to be able to tell the real wood from the petrified wood. Don’t sneer; it is not as easy as you |  | | Journal (issue) | | co-leader. CREED O F THE DESERT By J U N E LEMERT PAXTON Yucca Valley, California As they roll along o'er...Mother Lode gold mining property up in the Eldorado county foothills, and living in a rude cabin on the bank...carry any sort of twigs or dried roots or sticks of wood they can find. I can remember how my mother always...always dreaded a storm such as this because the wood might run out and her children be cold. So, when I...hundred other wildflowers grow. Here in Saguache county ("the namemeans "Water at the blue earth" and is |  | | Journal (issue) | | Some Their CREED OF THE DESERT BY JUNE LE MERT PAXTON Said the feathery Nolina to the Spanish Dagger...turkey wing. She added a few short pieces of juniper wood, stirred the mutton stew simmering in the iron pot...long and was simply four smooth strong strips of wood fastened at the corners. The two side strips were...is a native of Turkey 5—Most of the petrified trees in the Petrified Forest of Arizona most closely resemble...little explored— the field of petrified wood. Millions of tons of fossilized wood are scattered over the southwestern |  | | Journal (volume) | | A portfolio by Dan McCoy and Bob Meyer 62 Petrified Wood by Lawrence L. Connell 72 Reflections An...photographer. .L_ • •, Lawrence l. Connell ("Petrified Wood") hos been a photographer, l!fl) L His work...separated by narrow walls of especially in Oxford County, pegmatite. The three pockets and the contains...ever-refreshing to the eye . porcelain, amber, coral, wood, horn, bone, ivory, lac quer and other materials...years ago. Photographs by Lawrence L . Connell Petrified wood has long been one of the most popular of mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | Nature from Madoc. Huntington T ownship. Hastings County, O ntario, Canada. As confim1ed by Dr. Scott Ercit....O . Box 2043, Coeur d 'A le ne , ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny@mineralnews.com...found_on _a specimen from the Socrates Mine. Sonoma County. Cahfom1a. Both are new minerals for this famous...from the Snowb ird Mine, near Alberton, Mineral County. Montana. Nepou ite is not reported f . . d b ...TOP Quality Dealers • fO§§ll§ METEORITES + PETRIFIED WOOD 15-17, 2000 Show H ou rs: Fri. 9 - 6 ♦ Sat |  | | Journal (issue) | | mussels in New Jersey to the gem mines of San Diego county, California. Here is a book to hand your house...clear water lake. On its shores may be gathered wood that sinks and rocks that float. Near its southern...whose shores may be gathered stones that float and wood that sinks. Near its south end live steam issues...creek in the arid northeastern sector of San Diego county, California. That was 98 years ago. The tattered...oasis known as Mountain Palm Springs in San Diego county, California, but many have visited this place without |  | | Journal (issue) | | championship rodeo, Yuma, Arizona. Feb. 20-23—Riverside County Fair and Date festival, fairgrounds, Indio, California...Flagstaff, Ariz. CREED OF THE DESERT By J U N E LEMERT PAXTON Yucca Valley, California Deep silence is stirred...later that mention of turquoise deposits in Cochise county, Arizona, recalled this story to me. This was one...concluded on the ferry ing bringing the San Juan county high barge, after which Harry Aleson, famous school...the speakers was Zeke wagons bound for San Juan county, after Johnson, first custodian of Natural Hole-in-the-Rock |  | | Journal (issue) | | GLACIAL LAKES OF THE SHAWANGUNK MOUNTAINS, ULSTER COUNTY, N. Y. By Rich1no11d E. Myers ...................GLACIAL LAKES OF THE SHAWANGUNK MOUNTAINS, ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK 11 By RICHMOND E. MYERS, Department...the top of the Sha,vangunk Mountains in Ulster County, N e,v York, are a group of lakes, several of which...execution of hvo of the " pirates" in an adjacent county in 1841! Peltbles are common in Cherry Valley ...are a numter of abandoned copper mjnes in Adams County and two of them are the Bigham and the Bingham |  | | Journal (issue) | | gravescompany.com lij Introducing ... GROBET USA™ 1/3 HP Flexible Shaft Permanent magnet DC motor...ALL speeds! 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Sites 60 70 Charting British |  | | Catalog/List | | Blue Lace Agate, (Africa); Montana Moss Agate; Petrified Wood (Wyoming); Ocean Wave Jasper (Madagascar);...CALIFORNIA PINK TOURMALINE PENDANT Queen Mine, San Diego County, California Carved in the form of a stylized bird...CALIFORNIA PINK TOURMALINE Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California A stone of such strong saturation from...District, San Diego County, California The tourmaline mines of San Diego County are the source of fabulous...AND CRYSTAL Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, San Diego County, California The oval-cut tourmaline, displaying |  | | Journal (issue) | | Canal Power CREED OF THE DESERT BY JUNE LE MERT PAXTON Beyond the range called Calico Lie secrets the...for the season. OCT. 6-9 — Santa Cruz, Arizona, county fair and rodeo. OCT. 7-8—Alfalfa Festival at Lancaster...winning pictures 3 White Mountain Smith of the Petrified Forest By ADRIAN HOWARD 4 Odessa Canyon in the...after going as far north as White River in Tulare county. The journey was made especially dangerous because...filter about noon. White Mountain Smith of the Petrified Forest By ADRIAN HOWARD " — f" HE stage in front |  | | Journal (issue) | | Arizona. The winning picture was taken in Pima county, Arizona, under a bright sun at four p. m., 1 /10th...an old Hopi bowl: a bull-roarer. Made from pine wood which has been struck by lightning and painted with...was issued For many years Juan Bustamante, an old wood chopper and pocket miner, lived with his son-in-law...the gulches for fine gold and by peddling stove wood in Nogales during the winter months when the ground...every year after taking his anburro loads of stove wood. One hot summer day about 35 years ago nual bath |  | | Journal (issue) | | I found a fine collection of gem stones and petrified wood that had been gathered in that region. Also...bitter controversy is in progress, with a San Diego county supervisor leading the opposition to the adding...No-mah's father came up from the wood-pile with a small armful of dry wood. No-mah looked up with a smile...the fire stones. Soon the pungent odor of burning wood was mingled with the fragrant aroma of coffee. Then...somewhere a cool draft stirred our paper finally, at Paxton Springs, seems to die in napkins as we ate. Later |  | | Journal (issue) | | Dances, La gun a Pueblo, N. M. March 19-23—Maricopa County Fair, Mesa, Arizona, March 21-23—Dons Club Bus...DESERT MAGAZINE Polished slabs of Boron petrified wood from the collection of Henry and Emily Hiatt...Photo by Willis. Rockhound Bonanza at Boron Petrified wood, agates and rare borate-family crystals—these...by standard car); wide variety of material (petrified wood, agates and rare borate crystals); fascinating...Federation of Mineralogical Societies. MAIN PETRIFIED V/OOO ' ^ g f e AREA (Seernset; £* ^ ^ i |  | | Journal (issue) | | hurtle to our earth from unknown area in Kiowa county, Kansas. outer space at thirty times the speed...Meteorites had always been interesting to in Kiowa county, and by securing newsme as scientific curiosities...of Dr. Nininger and a physics professor Comanche county, adjoining Kiowa counwith a surveyor's transit...distinction of being the first settlement in San Juan county. The story of how it came into existence is one...valley in the state had been settled. San Juan county, in the southeast corner, was a land of mountains |  | | Journal (issue) | | photographers. Illustrations include color plates, photos, wood engravings and lithographs. Volume 9 COVER C O...MORMONS CREED OF THE DESERT By J U N E LEMERT PAXTON Yucca Valley, California The SculptoPtarved the...Mexico state fair, Albuquerque. Oct. 3-5—Grand County fair, Moab, Utah. Oct. 4—Annual fiesta, Ranchos...Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. Oct. 4-6—Navajo County fair, and Northern Arizona Cattlemen's rodeo, Holbrook...Centro, California. a 2>ead <&i* By J U N E LEMERT PAXTON Yucca Valley, California You call me dead! How |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gem, in this issue. EDITOR HOW-TO-DO PROJECTS 8 WOOD+ GEMSTONES= JEWELRY A new way to create special...column are always welcome. When collecting patrlfleo wood on public land, remember to observe the limit In...Green Street Pasadena, CA GEMS & MINERALS - 7 WOOD+ GEMSTONES By Bernie Mauldin Norco Rock and Gem...contemporary jewelry fashions it is noticeable that wood is being used a great deal. It may be combined in...catalog suppliers, may be used in combination with wood to make very nice jewelry pieces. Also, as shown |  | | Journal (issue) | | e r e a d e r s PREHISTORY By J U N E LEMERT PAXTON . . . LETTERS • Indian legends often have strange...mining petrified logs containing vanadium. *Ttom The Pahutes have a legend that the petrified trees found...that poetic name. Now, strangely enough, those petrified logs, believed by the Indians to be the spent...converting them to the uses of war. For these petrified trees contain vanadium and uranium, two strategic...sandstone 50 feet thick containing thousands of petrified tree trunks, some of which protrude from the solid |  | | Journal (issue) | | Valley . . . "That's a purty fair piece o' petrified wood fer a newcomer," Hard Rock Shorty admitted...growed, all petrified an' with petrified twigs. In the crotch amongst them twigs wuz a petrified bird's nest...nest full o' petrified eggs. You wouldn't hardly believe that unless you seen it, would you? "I knowed...them durned petrified eggs hatched all right, but them pore baby birds wuz all born petrified." i THE...climb out. trees is today just a shambles of decayed wood and broken equipment. With flashlights we ientered |  | | Journal (issue) | | edltorOrockngem.com Geodes, Geodes, Geodes! Gem Center USA lnc. has one of the world's largest selection of...different kinds of geodes are now available. Gem Center USA Inc. is also one of the leading distributors of quality...type of stone you are loolnns for, .. Gem· Center, USA Inc. •s your source, . Come See Us At The Followins...954-020230-1-LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Show; GeoExposilions. Clark County Gem Collectors; localion lo be announced; Fri _...Annual show; North Idaho Mineral Club; Koolenai County Fairgrounds, Kalhleen and Governmenl Way, just |  | | Journal (issue) | | Midwest Lime Quarry, Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas, photo by Art Smith. I MINERAL NEWS...News. P.O . Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny @mineralnews.com...cavities in the Vulcan Quarry, Black Rock, Lawrence County, Arkansas, photo by Art Smith. got ho ld of uch...acicular green aegirine, 3M Big Rock Quarry, Pulaski County, Arkansas, photo by Art Smith. could tell t.hat...the todorokite at the Emmons pegmatite in O xford County, Mai ne, but it probably is not that. So there |
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