 | | Book (volume) | | gold-bearing areas. Lode deposits usually consist of Quartz veins in solid rock, while placer deposits occur...colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway airport at rd...the SC borderSavannah River agate, chalcedony, Quartz gemstone, silicified oolite. CARROLL COUNTY CARROLLTON:...1½ mi., in Knox dolomite exposed in an abandoned quarry Barite, Calcite, Fluorite (purple cubes), Galena...CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY AREA: stream gravelsgemmy chert, quartz pebbles (pastel colors), petrified wood, Pyrite; |  | | Book (edition) | | which beauti- a lake's are still being found in gravel deposited by the glacier that once covered the...gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized |  | | Catalog/List | | BRITISH MINERALS I. showing a red agate with a quartz druse inside the cavity. Great example. £4. AGATE...A). 3.8x3x0.5cm. A lovely slice showing a filled quartz middle and peachtbrown radiating rings rather reminiscent...xtl with an undamaged tip. £3. 5. ANALCIME, Croft Quarry, Leicstershire. 3.5xl.8xl.3cm. A greeny/white matrix...matrix with one face covered with ice clear smallish quartz xtls lying parallel to the matrix and dotted about...under magnification. £6. 9. ANGLESITE, Coldstones Quarry, Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire. 3x l.9x2cm. A bright |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | by Peter Samuelson in 1983 on the final day of gravel operations when the pit was reclaimed. Carlton...Neumeier. 302 3 South Baldface 93 302 Redstone Quarry Bartlett Lincoln Huntington Mountain Moat Mountain...outlined by composite ring dikes of porphyritic quartz syenite. The centers are typically composed of...Granite), alkali granite (Mount Osceola Granite), and quartz syenite porphyry (Eby, Kruger, and Creasy 1992)...plutons (183–155 Ma) and the Albany Porphyritic Quartz Syenite ring-dikes in the eastern portion of the |  | | Book (volume) | | jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate...chalcedony, occasionally with pale Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite...crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined...Pyrolusite, Quartz, Selenite, Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination). Hamilton Quarry Location...chalcedony, Sphalerite on chalcedony or Calcite, Quartz. 151 Illinois Niota Dewdrop Diamond Geode Location |  | | Book (volume) | | jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate...chalcedony, occasionally with pale Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite...crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined...Pyrolusite, Quartz, Selenite, Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination). Hamilton Quarry Location...chalcedony, Sphalerite on chalcedony or Calcite, Quartz. 151 Illinois Niota Dewdrop Diamond Geode Location |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tourmaline: Mass of black tourmaline xls in massive milky quartz. From Catalina Mts., near Oracle, Pinal Co., Ariz...huebnerite, a somewhat rare tungsten mineral; clear quartz xls; and sphalerite xls. "Sometimes a small vug...Biotite: black, radiating plates on massive smoky quartz. Calcite: white, cleavable (fl. yellowlong wave)...Cyanite: grayish (blue tinge) mass with massive smoky quartz. Fluorite: tiny brownish fluorite cubes, tiny...faces, with dark bronzybrown biotite in massive smoky quartz. Byram and Old Greenwich are in the S.W. tip |  | | Book (edition) | | 4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...could be cut. Diamonds are still being found in gravel deposited by the glaciers that once covered the...with respect to one another. gem minerals The quartz gems, such as amethyst, form crystal prisms with...another at 60 degrees and intersected by a fourth Quartz and vertical axis at right angles to the other...other, light) FELDSPAR TWINS I J PHENACITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS ffrl (^h /&> ^& \b^ ^ VESUVIANITE |  | | Book (volume) | | rivers, and outcroppings through the Quaternary gravel surfaces. Greatly eroded sandhills fan out across...Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout the more...gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R., especially to...WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE...wood, agate, jasper; in draws and washes and gravel beds of Spring Cr. and the Keya Paha R. agatized |  | | Book | | are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...is a square hammerhead on the other. raking gravel, poking about having a collection of minerals... to soil A often is or gravel, and a sieve when examining gravel much small shovel, the army...knapsack you can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it...dis- covered by locating the porous layers in a quarry boulders with a pick or a long stick, not with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | boulder-size euhedral Formation, in the Seto quartz central Porcelain Clay Japan CHITOSHI MIZOTA...September 10, 1997) Large boulder-size euhedral quartz crystals occur in the basal horizons of the Late...The quartz crystals consist of smoky basal portion overgrown by translucent to milky white quartz. 5180...translucent to milky white quartz are considerably lower than the values of smoky quartz (+10.3 to +10.5%o).... The oxygen isotope ratios of quartz and homogenization temperatures of fluid inclusions indicate that |  | | Book (edition) | | Phone (907) 586-1785 Jade, gold, serpentine, quartz, asbestos, rhodonite, chrysoprase Fossils Garnets...Black quartz, "coontail” quartz, titanium with brookite Quartz crystals Quartz crystals Quartz crystals...crystals Quartz crystals Diamonds Smithsonite CALIFORNIA A. Wilson, Box 281, Baker. CA 92309. "Sheep-Creek...Camping $1 *00/day, trailers $2*00/day. **Mariposite Quarry (Mariposa), CoulterM ZUie. CA 95311- Fee: 5f/Xb~...antigorite, serpen¬ tine, diopside, garnet, jade, quartz Tremolite or "Calif. tigereye " Chalcedony onyx |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....flint, jasp-agate, jasper, Smoky Quartz 337 Ohio crystals, clear Quartz. From Brownsville, Licking...drusy quartz. LUCAS COUNTY SYLVANIA, SW, at jct. of Brint St. and Centennial rd., the Medusa Quarry (SW...jasperlike flint, jasp-agate, jasper, Smoky Quartz crystals, clear Quartz.. ZANESVILLE, area mined deposits⎯Hematite...deposits⎯Hematite. OTTAWA COUNTY CLAY CENTER, area limestone quarry, famed⎯Calcite, Celestite (fluorescent), Dolomite |  | | Book (edition) | | Diamond M Tourmaline fQl Ruby, O Sapphire Quartz crystal 'y^ Garnet — Azu rite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...fluor-spar from Derbyshire or, perhaps, a pyramid of smoky quartz from Cumberland. The next it may be rock crystal...yet the insect who makes his home in a pile of gravel on the roadside lives in a palace. clear For the...Talc 6. Orthoclase feldspar 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz 3. Calcite 8. Topaz 4. Fluorite 9. Corundum...faces are placed with respect to one another. The quartz gems, for example, such as amethyst, form crystal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the past 2 years, there are still very good fire quartz specimens to be found—apparently an iridescent...ph—phosphoresces ayampa, just past the service station, a gravel road takes off, to the right. Here you leave the...found parallel to the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after...likewise tremendous deposits of novaculite pebbles (gravel). Of course, both north and south coastal plains...brought us a most interesting specimen of amethystine quartz with wulfenite crystals from the old amethyst locality |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....flint, jasp-agate, jasper, Smoky Quartz 337 Ohio crystals, clear Quartz. From Brownsville, Licking...drusy quartz. LUCAS COUNTY SYLVANIA, SW, at jct. of Brint St. and Centennial rd., the Medusa Quarry (SW...jasperlike flint, jasp-agate, jasper, Smoky Quartz crystals, clear Quartz.. ZANESVILLE, area mined deposits⎯Hematite...deposits⎯Hematite. OTTAWA COUNTY CLAY CENTER, area limestone quarry, famed⎯Calcite, Celestite (fluorescent), Dolomite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | more noted locality is the one at the red granite quarry at Redstone, a few miles northeast of Conway, Fig...and more recent locality is known as the Lovejoy "gravel pits" which are located a couple of miles northwest...cavities lined with crystals consisting chiefly of smoky quartz and microcline which are usually a couple of...crystals may occur. As the granite at the Redstone Quarry and at the Lovejoy pits is quite similar in composition...deuterocrysts, (1, P. 579). Fig. I. Location of Redstone quarry ( I ) and the Lovejoy pits ( 2 ) . The area shown |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | western Alaska. The jade was collected from stream gravel in the process of mining placer gold." — item from...tell me what it is. It doesn't quite look like quartz to me, and in most of the pieces the xls are jet...366 xline—crystalline The specimen is quartz (smoky quartz) and it is in coarse drusy xls. It is an...specimens of quartz that came from a rock quarry in North Little Rock (Pulaski Co.), Ark. This quartz was found...wide with a gummy, greasy residue covering the quartz. I am sending you also some of this residue jelly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | used in the iron industry. It contained about 2 % quartz, and 2 % iron oxides. ARIZONA — J. C. Filer & Son...cinnabar is found dickite (a soft kaolin), some vein quartz, much iron oxide, and a small amount of stibnite...with small white platy barite xls on grayish-white quartz. DELAWARE—Serpentine occurs about 6 miles northwest...specimens in the world are found in the limestone quarry in Legrand, Marshall Co., Iowa. The most noted...the specimens collected: "Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Maine—Rose quartz, beryl xls (and massive), musco- | | | Book | | 100 maps geared to leading the " hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...hammerhead on the other It 1s useful for raking gravel poking about in rubble and working on brittle rock...needed to remove so il or gravel. and a sieve is called for when exam in ing gravel in stream beds. /\ EQUIPMENT...easier for you If you plan to vIsIt an operating quarry or mine where a permll Is required make the necessary...be discovered by locating the porous layers In a quarry or other exposure and following them along the |  | | Book | | Catalog Card Number: 74-1276 The pictures of gold-in-quartz, smithsonite, stilbite, and wulfenite on the front...changed from gravel and is now an almost con¬ crete-like hard rock while above it is gravel. One of the...rockhound will soon learn that gravel beds are rich in such minerals as quartz, feldspar, mica, garnet, tourmaline...Schists often contain feldspar, garnet, mica and quartz. With sapphires are often found associated an abundance...oxide. Chalcedony, one of the common varieties of quartz, was formed in the same way. Pegmatites and Hematites |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mainly of gray chalcedony with white and brownish quartz, gray feldspar, black magnetite, black biotite...consisting chiefly of quartz (chiefly colorless, transparent, plus brown, also smoky) with black lustrous...coarse, buff colored sand consisting entirely of quartz (smoky, brownish, milky) and feldspar (white, grayish...grained gray sand consisting chiefly of colorless quartz with some white sea shells. Creek sand from Pekín...medium grained brown sand consisting chiefly of quartz (smoky, brownish, white, clear) with some white feldspar |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rattlebox. ARIZONA—Flat doubly terminated loose smoky quartz xls coated by dark brown drusy dolomite which...u m p ) . 6. Black brookite xls on milky and smoky quartz. 7. Massive, grayish barite. 8. Black limonite...white gypsum. 9. Schorlomite (black, lustrous) smoky gray nephelite. in 10. Yellowish Melanterite coating...is characteristic of of idocrase at the Gillette Quarry in Had- the mineral. I believe this to be one of...a new discovery of that material "The Tollgate Quarry in Middletown at the famous old locality. What |  | | Book | | b u t p i c k e d u p o n e b y o n e f r o m gravel deposits, g o l d p a n s , p l a c e r m i n e...streams and rivers f o r epidote, unakite, blue quartz, agate, chalcedony, petrified wood and other gemstones...deposits have come to light in Alabama and Tennessee. Quartz gems have been discovered in Florida and Mississippi...sapphires, garnets, amazonite, amethyst, smoky quartz, rose quartz, williamsite and other gems at fee sites...and feldspar mines, gravel or dimension stone quarries, inactive gold mines, quartz out crops, and a wealth |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | included the Gillette quarry (elbaite), Roe bling mine (beryl), and Slocum quarry (beryl). Harte (1944)...locality for gem tourmalines is the Strickland quarry, Portland. T h e author [Schairer] has seen a deep...Strickland quarry tourmalines, Shannon ( 1 9 2 0 ) notes that gem tourmalines found during quarry operations...collecting on the Strickland dumps. T h e Gillette quarry in Haddam Neck is an even more famous source of...prominent N e w York jeweler operated the Gillette quarry at Haddam Neck as a gem tourmaline mine for several |
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