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| Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ +./8...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5...3/. 0/0% (!2$). -!33!# 05,!3+) %8 !. $% 2 Illinois Mineral Locality Index 7)..%"!'/ /',% #!22/...(above). Map showing the counties in Illinois, courtesy the Illinois Geological Survey. 96*2:...he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. In the southern portion |
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| Wilson T he Circulation Manager Mary Lynn Michela M in e r a l o g ic a l R ecord Associate Editors Pierre...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael...S-M SA S y m p o siu m o n cop p er and cop p er m in e r a ls ................................................. 51 Chairman: K. Wenrich W hat's n e w in m in erals D en v er S h o w 1996 ................. |
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| Fluorspar Deposits in Western Kentucky Part 1 A. Introduction By JAMES STEELE WILLIAMS and HELEN DUNCAN...Crittenden and Livingston Counties By GEORGE C. HARDIN, Jr. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1012-A, B...00 (paper cover) ^A,V- ' ! Fluorspar Deposits in Western Kentucky Part 1 A. Introduction B. Babb fault...SURVEY BULLETIN 1012-A,B FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN WESTERN KENTUCKY INTRODUCTION By JAMES STEELE WILLIAMS...WILLIAMS and HELEN DTJNCAN The need for fluorspar in the manufacture of open-hearth steel, hydrofluoric |
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| to the Geological Survey In Washington for an official mailing label to use in returning it UNITED STATES...FLUORSPAR AREAS IN HARDIN COUNTY ILLINOIS Part 1. GEOLOGY OF THE CAVE IN ROCK DISTRICT Part 2. AN EXPLORATORY...EXPLORATORY STUDY OF FAU1 TS IN THE CAVE IN ROCK AND ROSICLARE DISTRICTS BY THE EARTH-RESISTIVITY METHOD...SUEVEY OF FLUOKSPAE AEEAS IN HABDIN COUNTY ILLINOIS PART 1. GEOLOGY OF THE GATE IN BOCK DISTEICT By L. W...JR. PART 2. AN EXPLOEATOEY STUDY OF FAULTS IN THE CAYE IN EOCK AND EOSICLAEE DISTEICTS BY THE EAETH-EESISTIVITY |
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| Figure I: Galena, Treece, Kansas, Tri-State district; specimen 5Vi cm tall; Na tional Museum of Canada...Galena. Crawford mine, Pirher, Oklahoma, Tri-State district; 6' 2 cm across; Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Lead mine, Viburnum, Missouri, Viburnum Trend district; 6 cm on edge; James Madison Uni versity photo...prolific are these deposits that in 1985 the mines of the Viburnum Trend in southeastern Missouri accounted...characteristics that were first recognized as such in the mid-continent region of the United States. Geologists |
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| Drive Lexington, Kentucky 40504 T o those interested in minerals, the state of K e n t u c k y gen erally...t u c k y . Some localities are covered in other articles in this issue; those I will pass over lightly...well-known mineral localities o f K e n t u c k y are in mineralized limestones and dolomites and are related...deposits share certain char acteristics. The host rock is a carbonate (limestone or dolo mite); there...concentration of sulfur can be deposited as sulfates in a fracture system as the pressure and temperature |
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| Levias-Keystone and Dike-Eaton Areas Crittenden County, Kentucky GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1122-E...Levias-Keystone and Dike-Eaton Areas Crittenden County, Kentucky By ROBERT D. TRACE CONTRIBUTIONS TO...21 21 22 24 24 24 25 26 ILLUSTRATIONS [Plates are in pocket] PLATE 1. 2. 3. 4. FIGURE 1. 2. Map and...LEVIAS-KEYSTONE AND DIKE-BATON AREAS, CRITTENDEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY By EGBERT D. TRACE ABSTRACT The fault...Levias-Keystone and Dike-Baton areas, in the Kentucky-Illinois fluorspar district, are a complex northeastward-trending |
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| 1998 The Mineral Collector's Newsletter The Illinois KentuckyFluorsparDistrictis Dead!Long Live the...University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana to commemorate the recent history of the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar...fluorspar district. I had wanted to hold this gathering since the moment I had heard that Ozark-Mahoning...pulling out. That was the death-knell for fluorite mining in the United States, the e~d of 163 year-long era...77036 In April, 1998, Clyde Hardin of Malvern, Arkansas sent me some specimens he had received in trade |
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| Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...Permian-age deposits. Cretaceous and Cenozoic rocks in the westernmost portion of the state consist of unconsolidated...highest point in the Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet...the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...are some noteworthy mineral occurrences in the sedimentary rock that encompasses more than 99 percent of |
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| distinctly different—such as the hemimorphite crystal in figure 1, for example. Hemimorphite, Zn4Si2O7(OH)2•(H2O)...terminated hemimorphite crystals, such as that shown in figure Dr. John Rakovan, an executive editor of Rocks...geochemistry at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. 1, which show hemimorphic character in their morphology, are...of the minerals that best exemplifies hemimorphism in its morphology is tourmaline. To understand this...c-axis. These have the Miller indices (001) and (001). In the case of beryl, because of its crystal structure |
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| Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations: x l — c r y s t a l xled—crystallized... Tenn., has sent in the following item on Alabama: "Arsenopyrite has been mined in adjacent parts of...road. Yellville is the county seat and is situated in about the center of the county. I do not know if this...this mine is still in operation, as I haven't any recent report on same. Greenockite. "turkey fat", was...enclosing a vial of pyrope garnets located in a granite mica schist in Sabino Canyon, north of Tucson (Pima |
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| 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico Steve Neely collection (ex...978-0-9790998-6-1 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria Staebler Gunther Neumeier...C O 80211 • USA Phone 1.303.495.5521 • Fax 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie.org Printed in the United States...When Brent acquired this specimen, it was wrapped in a German-language newspaper dated 1927, a possible...particular mineral are faced with a road with a fork in it. One path leads to a strict mineralogy, giving |
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| Private Mineral Collections • in TEXAS Witli an I ntroauction 6y Wenae[[ Wifson, Wa[[y ?vtann et...MINERAL COLLECTIONS Private Mineral Collections in Texas A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record January-February...January-February 2009 Volume 40, number I Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Wendell E. Wtlson Associate Publisher: Thomas...Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection; self-collected by Richard Barstow in 1977; ex...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil |
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| DIRECTOR . THE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BY H. FOSTER BAIJST WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING...---..-.-,.-...-..---..-.--.-.Scattered mines in Hardin County.......... ........................ General........ ....--..-.-....-.... Scattered mines in Pope County.................................. General relations...--..------.-,..--------..-......--.. Mines in Saline County .....-..--....-...-.--....-.---.........--General....... 66 Economic importance and future of the district ........................... 67 Sources and uses |
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| and a brief summary of the results was published in Bulletin No. 213, ''Contributions to Economic Geology...investigation in 1902, however, Mr. Ulrich spent the greater part of two years (1889 and 1890) in the same...Ulrich in 1903, and the results of all these studies are brought together in this paper. The district is...the mining industry, and in such form that its conclusions should be of great practical benefit in developing...developing the industry in this district. Very respectfully, C. W. HATES, Geologist in Charge of Geology. |
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| Au6uST,[1959 CONSIDERATIONS ORE DEPOSITS THE IN OF THE DETERMINING MISSISSIPPI ERNEST 'No. 5...SpecialPaper 24 of the Geological Society of America in 1939 are reviewed. Considerationof the identifying...chanceof determiningwhat was that mode of origin. IN 1939theGeological Societyof Americapublished a summaryof...studies of two of the importantdistrictsdescribed in the 1939reportandimportantextensions of the knownore...effortshavebeenfruitful in several"Mississippi Valley type" districts--both in theUnitedStatesandforeign--nottreatedin |
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| August 2017 ILLINOIS ISSUE I enjoyed the issue of Rocks & Min erals devoted to Illinois, especially...fluorspar district. I have studied and led university geology classes into the fluorspar district since 1981...would be interested in oc currences of other minerals that were not mentioned in the issue. Azurite has...galena, has been found in a shallow surface mine west of Hick's dome. It occurs in three forms: white to...crystals; and chalky-white acic ular crystals to 3 mm in length. The cerrusite is associated with corroded |
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| A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes...the highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the...forests lie some of the oldest crystalline rocks in the East, both igneous and metamorphic, strongly...coastal lowlands in the Atlantic Coast Fall Line, so named from the falls or rapids in rivers at places...and Columbus. The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries |
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| placeswithin the area, but the igneo.us massesare small and in generalwidely spaced. Faults and low folds are numerous...some of them are traced scores of miles. Except in local areas,however,the rocksare not highly faulted...greatestlead ore district,the world's greatestzinc-leaddistrict, the world's greatestbarite district, the 'world's...and finally precipitatedthe metalsalongfissuresand in favorablebeds. Recentlydetailedmappingin many parts...generallyknown. All of the mostimportantmineralbearingareasare in are'4sof extensivefaulting or elsethey lie on the |
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| amorphous specimens of chrysocolla have been found in Kingman. Mohave Co., Ariz. ARKANSAS-Corbin's, Box...local name for smithsonite, colored yellow by greenockite; so called from its appearance. CALIFORNIA-Nice...found in the gold mines at Grass Valley, Nevada Co., Calif. COLORADO-The following item was sent in by Pat...xline limestone that was sent in by Jason G. Clark, West Cornwall, Conn. In the limestone are large, grayish...Reynolds, Stocksdale Rd., Kingsville, Md., have sent in a brownish fossil coral pebble which they found on |
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| Photographs January/February: Galena, Tri-State district, Kansas. Smithsonian Institution specimen; Chip...photo. March/April: Quartz, Middleville, Herkimer County, New York. John C. Medici specimen and photo. May/June:...May/June: Turgite, Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. Ronald E. Bentley specimen and photo. July/August:...Quartz, H. deLinde No. 4 mine, High Peak, Montgomery County, Arkansas. Private collection; Ronald E. Bentley...Bentley photo. September/October: Barite, Otero County, Colorado. Dan and Dianne Kile specimen; John Muntyan |
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| Graeme, Eusebio Kino March-April: Fluorite, Cave in Rock, Illinois; Clive Russ, photographer May-June: Quartz...Mineralogical Interest in Minnesota, 132 Allanite, 253 Allan, Thomas, 253 Alstonite, Illinois, 69 Aluminian strengite...for Persons Associated with Mineralogy and Geology in Arizona, 11; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's Earth...ROCKS AND MINERALS Barite, Illinois, 69 Barwood, H . L . : Phosphate Minerals in the Vesuvius, Virginia,...Morey, 109 Bementite, New Jersey, 210 Benstonite, Illinois, 69 Beryl, Utah, 163 Betancourt, P. P . , Franklinite |
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| like to visit new places in order to expand their knowledge. My own interest in Bancroft, Ontario really...Friends of Mineralogy associated with the annual show in Bloomington, Indiana. The speaker talked about the...of the carbonatitelike deposits in the Bancroft area. Although I live in an area underlain by thousands...thousands of square miles of sedimentary rock, the interest in such an unusual mineralogical area was kindled...the Kyana Geological Society in Louisville and a former member now living in the Charleston, South Carolina |
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| Geology and Resources of Fluorine in the United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 933 COVER...North Carolina Geology and Resources of Fluorine in the United States Edited by DANIEL R. SHAWE With...the U.S. Geological Survey in accordance with the provisions of the Mining and Minerals Policy Act of...discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once they are discovered,...owing to incomplete knowledge of their distribution in the Earth's crust, depends greatly on geologic availability |
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| Illinois ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors...any other state in America. Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern...northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin glaciation, the bluffs and detritus...detritus of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well |
