 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences University of Wisconsin-River Falls 410 South Third Street River Falls, Wisconsin 54022 his is Wisconsin’s... breweries, bratwurst, and Packers football, Wisconsin also has a diverse geology and a history rich...forgotten, abandoned, and overgrown. In this respect, Wisconsin represents a frontier state for the mineral collector...Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and...summarizes and highlights what has been found in Wisconsin in the past 150 years and points the way to new |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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 |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Twinned calcite, 8 cm, Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen...Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers...Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level. There are some noteworthy mineral...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden...district. Dominated by veins containing barite, calcite, fluorite, and sphalerite, it has not been actively |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rare-earth pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake...on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991). i i • I...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence..."specimen quality" questionable occurrence Angelina County Lufkin, 1 mile N of Lufkin in railroad cuts, in...(petrified wood) (Folk et al., 1961). Baylor County Aransas County Aransas Pass area, Intercoastal Canal |  | | Report (edition) | | Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County...County Monroe County Northampton County Sullivan County York County 18 20 21 23 . 25 28 37 38 39 ...owners the rockhound, of the land, or from quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect...pseudomorphs after pyrite found near Columbia in Lancaster County, described in this report. If the only description |  | | Book (volume) | | met with graphite, coating the granite at " Marble Hill," opposite Kaston and one mile north of Phillipsburg...Georges twp., Fayette Co. At the Mill view limestone quarry near Forksvilie, Sullivan Co., in small pieces...Frazer, Jr., chalcocite (in ore; occurs at the at Big Hill, Cornwall. Also sparingly at Fritz's Island and...found in cavities of dolomite at the soapstone quarry, at Lafayette, Montgomery Co. (T. D. Rand.) 10...Reading, this mineral is found Berks Co., at Epplcr's quarry, at Leesport and at Fritz Island. 14. FLUORITE |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway |  | | Report (volume) | | limestone samples from the Faircloth vein, Woodford County, Ky _. 5. Mercury content of limestone wallrock...wallrock from the Hoover vein, shaft 1, Cannon County, Tenn _____ 6. Mercury content of a wallrock suite along... B. Strow in a freshly dug basement in Kanawha County, W. Va. Subsequent examination by the U.S. Bureau...Pine, Mich. Pembroke, Maine Cherryfield, Maine Blue Hill (Black Hawk, Callahan), Maine Madison mine, New... Pennsylvania Ancram mine, New York New London quarry, Maryland Virginia Piedmont deposits Serpent Mound |  | | Book (volume) | | publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum |  | | Book (volume) | | Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin glaciation, the bluffs and detritus of the Ohio...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | Book (volume) | | Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin glaciation, the bluffs and detritus of the Ohio...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...and four feet six inches wide. Enlarging the hole big enough to hold his light an arm’s length into the...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1925 BIG HILL SALT DOME, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS ALBERT G. WOLt Gulf, Texas ABSTRACT Big Hill, Matagorda...from the top of the cap. INTRODUCTION Big Hill, Matagorda County, Texas, is i mile from the shore of Matagorda...therefore, are correspondingly somewhat uncertain. Big Hill (now known also as Gulf) is famous for its sulphur...overlying it than about the deeper strata. HISTORY Big Hill, after proving an early failure as an oil field...drilling Big Hill for oil. Sometime during 1901 they acquired about 1,500 acres on and around the hill, and |  | | Report (edition) | | .... . .. . Adams County .... . .. ... ............... . . ... . Allegheny County .... . ...... . ............ . Armstrong County . . . . . . .. . .... ........ .. . .. . Berks County ..... . ..... ......... ...... . Blair County . . .. . ... ... . . .. . .... ........... . Carbon County ..... ..... .............. . Cl1ester County .... . . . .... ... ........... . .. . Cumberland County ...... . ..... . ....... . . Delaware County ... . .. .... . . . .... . . . .. . . . .. . Fulton County . ...... .. . . . |  | | Book | | Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Appendixes 615 I Gemstone and Mineral...included amber (most precious of the ancient gems), calcite, fluorspar, jadeite, pyrite, quartz family minerals...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will...of the county he is entering posted alongside the highway. By looking up the state and county, the user...guide can determine the collecting sites in that county by range and distance from the major cities and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Harton and Mason, 1926). Both domes are in Hardin County, Texas. White to bluish gray barite oolites and...pearly luster (Hurlbut and Taylor, 1938). CALCITE-Calcite is the predominant mineral in the limestone...over one inch in maximum dimensions. Some of the calcite is moderately fluorescent and slightly phosphorescent...limestone crops out on the eastern slope of Shaft Hill and is exposed in test pits. Chalcopyrite was also...insoluble salt residue from Barbers Hill dome in Chambers county, Texas (Honea and Beck, 1962). Chambersite |  | | Book (volume) | | investigate for geodes, chert nodules, fossils, Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford |  | | Report (issue) | | and coal. fragments of fine-grained anhydrite. Calcite and sulfur were probably formed from anhydrite...Lake County - 2, 4 Coso Range deposits, Inyo County - 14 Coyote Mountain deposits, Imperial County - 13...Chance Range) mine, Inyo County - 9, 11, 15, 16, 17 Elgin mine, Colusa County - 6, 12 Full Moon deposit...deposit, Imperial County - 13 The Geysers, Sonoma County - 1, 18 Leviathan mine, Alpine County - 7, 17 Sulphur...Sulphur Bank mine, Lake County - 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 17; S 7 Supan deposits, Shasta County - 3; S 7 3. Goldman |  | | Report (volume) | | ...................... 1. Rocks from Aroostook County..... ^..................'........... 2. Miscellaneous...1. Elliott County dike............................................... 2. Crittenden County dike............................................. 3. Colfax County................ I................................142 3. Plumas County............................................... 144 4. Butte County................................................. 146 5. Sierra County............................................... |  | | Book | | Esther A. Middlewood @ 43 .61 apres, .105 Wisconsin, by Wesley A. Grosh ...113 INTRODUCTION Minerals...took place in 1810 near Murphysboro in Jackson County. The first production of natural gas occurred in...Champaign County. Commercial-quality oil was first discovered in 1906 near Casey in Clark County. Fluorspar...Fluorspar was first discovered at Rosiclare in Hardin County in 1818 but was not mined until 1842. Lead has...has been mined at Galena in Jo Daviess County area since the year 1700. MINES AND PLANTS YOU CAN SEE FROM |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pockets of calcite, many coated by copper stains. Found with magnetite and pyrite in seams of calcite on the...white prismatic crystals in vugs of magnetite and calcite. MAGNETITE: Octahedrons and dodecahedrons in The...vugs of massive magnetite and enclosed in calcite. County about 1.6 miles northwest of Elverson and ...very high polish. Found on the tersection of Red Hill Road. (Fig. 1) Numerous dumps as coatings on chalcopyrite...from the owner. associated with the magnetite and calcite. Care fully check these types of specimens for |  | | Report (edition) | | of a thin slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green and red), serpentine...in Berks County, the Stillwell quarry in Lancaster County, and the Medusa Cement Company quarry in York...York County, are now This fourth printing is essentially closed to collectors. D. M. L. A. R. G. 1972...Adams County 23 Allegheny County 31 . Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Clinton County Cumberland County Dauphin County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County |  | | Report (issue) | | walking, and will end near West Jefferson, Ashe County, North Carolina. The Mt. Rogers area includes the...Crossnore, Avery County, North Carolina (Bryant 1962) and the Striped Rock Granite, Grayson County, Virginia...miles) of sodic pyroxene-bearing granite in Watauga County, North Carolina. Although the absolute ages of...has discovered Lower Cambrian fossils in Blount County, Tennessee, in rocks correlative with the middle...syncline by King and Ferguson (1960). In Johnson County, Tennessee, to the southwest, the syncline is broad |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where... that he may know first of all what mountain or hill, what valley or plain, can be prospected most profitably...Adapted from Frederic H, Lahee, Field Geology, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1952). * fifth ed. (New York: |
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