 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | feet = 1 inch. Pebbles in sand. d Mottled clay: Reading beds. Yellow and grey sand. e Pebble-rock with mottled...mottled clay and green sand. Blue clay: Woolwich beds. f Bottom-bed of Woolwich and Reading series. The...light-coloured sand 12 At the Sandrock Hotel, 360 feet above O.D., Dark brown sand 1 Yellow sand, and grey...grey sand with impure 17 pipe-clay ... At the Drinking Fountain, 347 feet above O.D., Flint-pebbles o o Yellow...Yellow sand 9 Grey sand with impure pipe-clay 12 Mottled clay: Reading bed Pebble-rock with mottled clay |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | change crossing the Great Smoky Thrust Fault to lower Paleozoic TRAVIS A. PARIS 5604 Malmsbury Road Knoxville...City zinc district, the Bumpass Cove iron-zinc-manganese district, the Sweetwater barite district, and the...deposits. The Ducktown copper district represents the most complex mining district and contains the largest...associated with limestones and dolomites of the lower Ordovician-age Knox Group along the crest of the...gold (Neuman and Wilson 1960). Townsend, borrow pit near Townsend: smythite (D. Coskren, pers. comm.) |  | | Journal (issue) | | PEAK of rhe DISTRICT A joint publication of Rockbottom Publications and the Peak District Mines Historical...Mines&Mineralsand vol. 12 no. 1 of the Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society. COVER:BLUE JOHN FLUORITE...advertising. EJOHN 4-----------ORIGI of the PEAK DISTRICT DC Quirk ORE FIELD EDITOR Mick Cooper EDITORIAL...------------ 16 ------------ /[INER LS of the PEAK DISTRICT of DERBYSHIRE TD Ford· WAS Smjer1111 • 1/E Smith...Rockbottorn Publications Ltd. ISS 0952 2409 © Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd. ISS 1 00323627 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mining History The Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd. Volume 16, No. 5, Summer...Deakin F.R.P.S. © Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd. Peak District Mining Museum, Matlock Bath...DE4 3NR. Tel: 01629-583834 ISSN 1366-2511 PEAK DISTRICT MINES HISTORICAL SOCIETY LTD (Registered Charity...independent or commercial activities. Membership - Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd, is a voluntary society...obtained from the Membership Secretary (c/o Peak District Mining Museum, Matlock Bath). Newsletters - are |  | | Report (volume) | | Toecane, Yancey County_____ 36 Job Thomas mine___ _ 36 Pit of the Clay Products Co_ 36 Sprucepine, Mitchell...County_____________________ Pit of the Whittaker Clay Co_______________ Pit of the Diller Clay Co___________________...Carboniferous age (chiefly sedimentary) St. Louis district, Mo___I_____________ __ Glass-pot clays in Ohio...* Grades of clay shipped _ __ __ Future of the district ..__________ _ Details of the flint-clay pits_________________...of the Coastal Plain and the Embayment Area Con. Lower Cretaceous clays________________________ South Carolina |  | Woodward, Horace B., Hunt, A.R., Ussher, W.A.E., Emary, Percy (1900) Excursion to Newton Abbot, Chudleigh, Dartmoor, and Torquay. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 16 (8) 425 doi:10.1016/s0016-7878(00)80041-3 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | igneous rocks formed many isolated knolls in the district, and this appeared to be due not altogether to...after dec ay. They rose up like outliers of Bagshot Sand in a London Clay area. Nevertheless they had their...Copse, south of Lower Staplehill. Here, at an elevation of 223 feet, was a sand-pit showing highly-inclined...highly-inclined beds of sand and gravel, with pipe-clay and traces of coloured clays, dipping towards the Bovey...now conducted to the old Lignite Pit by the Bovey Tracey Potteries; a pit rendered famous by the researches |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE SAND COLLECTOR CONDUCTED BY PETER. ZODA.C PEEKSKILL, N . Y . Quarts Sand from Cove, Ark. This sample...Fort Worth 3, Texas. It is a medium grained red sand consisting of quartz (smoky, also colorless—some...It is the red clay that gives the sand its red color. "Quartz sand, five miles south of Cove (Polk Co...Co.), Ark. Highway 71."—on label. River Sand from Yuba River, Calif. Where Calif. Route 49 crosses the...of Yuba River in Sierra County, Calif., we have a sand sample from the river that was collected for us |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Trimmer (b) reported the discovery of marine shells in sand and gravel in a road section five miles to the east...another at Norley Bank, Delamere, and concluded that, “sand and gravel deposits containing apparently recent...(Pocock b 52), thinking especially in terms of the lower level Macclesfield New Cemetery Beds, wrote “It...Pleistocene succession: Gravel Sand, gravel and thin tills Till Sand and gravel During the 1860’s, officers...of the drift into: Upper Boulder Clay Middle Sand Lower Boulder Clay a scheme which has been largely |  | | Report (issue) | | reddish bands. The clays are quite free from coarse sand or grit. Their strike and dip are very variable...reddish bands, but containing considerable fine sand. Samples collected from this locality and analyzed...are seen. They are, however, full of rather coarse sand and are probably unfit for any use. Near the northeast...waterworks. The most promising clay deposits of the district lie some distance north of those which have thus...the principal east opening, B from the westernmost pit. Both of these were analyzed by George Steiger in |  | | Report (issue) | | physicochemical laws of a solution the freezing point is lower than that of its constituents molten solved in...kaolinite, chloropal, allophane; Hydrous limonite, wad. oxides: ALKALIC IGNEOUS ROCKS PRIMARY MINERALS:...Lancaster and Chester Counties, at Wood's mine, the Line Pit, and Scott's mine. At a number of lite, ; localities...allophane; hydrous: uranophane; Hydrous oxides: limonite, wad, gummite; Phosphates, hydroxy-: autunite, : Silica:...hydrous oxides: carnotite, limonite, wavellite, wad; strengite, hydroxy-carbonates: cacoxentie, beraunite; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE SAND COLLECTOR Conducted by PETER ZODAC, Peekskill, N. Y. Items on Interesting Sands Wanted. — Please...Please Send Them In. Gold Sand from Klamath River, California George L. Goodrich, Box 124, Mt. Shasta...Shasta, Calif., has sent in a number of sand samples. In his letter, dated Sept. 21, 1953, he mentions one...further up the Klamath." This is a fine grained black sand. It consists chiefly of lustrous black magnetite...epidote, gray feldspar, and yellow gold. Scheelite Sand from Inyo Co., California H. Allan Mitchell, 162-55—13th |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | below bed I are probably Bagshot Beds. "The pit at the lower level has been already noticed in our Proceedings;...Proc. Ceol. Assoc., vol. xi, p. 13, at p. 22. The pit has been worked farther back, and the clay is now...underlying sand is exposed than it was in June, 1888. "The casts of shells which occur in this sand were not...members of the party on a small heap of sand at the bottom of the pit." Similarly disturbed strata were again... In ferior Oolit e. 1 0 . Midford (or Bridport) Sand s. B R IDPO R T HAR BOUR ~t' % Q. Upper Lia s |  | | Book | | County?) (reterence 186) BARNSTABLE: Brick Clay Pit (169(41 04Z'03",700Z1'17")186.4Zl,p_484, pereonal...valley the Mon~ent River (now Cape Cod Canal). 01" Pit (16Z(area ot 41'41",70 33'56")298,p.1136-1137). Ventitaeta...blutt on the north shore ot Crows Pond and in a pit just southeast of the highway (Fox Hill Road) leading...Cove. there i8 a pit 75 teet in diameter ~15 teet deep (1906) ••• Another clay pit is located just west...(172(10cality uncertain 86)-.At North Chatham a .ma11 pit north ot the road (stony Hill Road? 'i_howe; teet |  | | Report (issue) | | several lists covering various sections of the district which have been published from time to time in...lists, and the names of many others, new to the district, and discovered in recent years, have been added...technical matters relating to tho mineralogy of the district from the following: S. G. Gordon, A. C. Hawkins........................ Buckwheat Zinc Mine (open pit), Franklin Furnace, N. J. Sterling Hill Zinc Mine...West Paterson, N. J. New' Street Trap Rock Quarry (lower), West Paterson, N. J. New Street Trap Rock Quarry |  | | Book (volume) | | Beginning in the northwest, where the Lookout and Sand mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia...shark teeth. CHATTOOGA COUNTY GORE, N 6 mi., along lower slopes of Taylor RidgeHalloysite. SUMMERVILLE:...left side of US 27N, on the Roland Hancock farm, a pitgemmy chert. CHEROKEE COUNTY BALL GROUND: area:...Elberton and Hartwell in Hart Co. The known mica district includes some 250 sq. mi., with most mining revolving...minesMica, Beryl, Quartz; SE 4 mi.: (a) area of the Germany Mt.; (b) at Wilson farmAmethyst (gem quality); |  | | Book (volume) | | the Hackensack valley. .................. I n the Lower Passaic valley. ................ I n the Upper Passaic...talc-like clay, .................... 14 The fluffy sand, ................................. 14 NEW JERSEY...Wenonah sand. ........... Clay Marl IV-the Marshalltown marly clay. . Clay Marl 111-the Columbus sand. ............... Sand bed. No . 4-Laminated sands. .. The Amboy stoneware clay. .......... Sand bed. No . 3...South Amboy fire clay. ......... Sand bed. No . +The "feldspar kaolin" sand. ......................... The |  | | Journal (issue) | | ‘i Princes ae es Peet gh ‘ “a INDUSTRI PIT AND 2 QUARRY BOOM! dl ERE’S some big noise about...Other Wednesday for Producers and Manufacturers of Sand Gravel, Stone, Cement, Gypsum, Lime and Other Non-Metallic...Secretary at Ottawa, Illinois. Consolidated Stone and Sand Company Applies Modern Methods to Plant...... F...Clark St., Chicago, Ill. Publishers of PIT AND QUARRY and Pit and Quarry HANDBOOK HARRY V. W. BAUMGARTNER...Associate Editor E. D. ROBERTS. Associate Editor PIT AND QUARRY EASTON QUARRY CARS Matson Car A Strong |  | | Report (issue) | | Mica Clay, 1\1oulding and Pig-bed Sand, Ochre, P otters' Clay, Silica Sand, Silica Stone, Slate, Tin O1•e...Llantrlsant, Coychurcll :Higher, Pencoed, Coychurch Lower, Lian-Gan, Colwinst.on,. Lla.ndow aud St. Donate...Urquhart Road, Aberdeen ; GR.AVEL Aberdeen. .AND SAND ...................................... . 2 ABERDEEN...Findlay, Superintendent, Paynernook Road, GRAVEL AJ\TD SAND ......................... .. Aberdeen. A.BERDEENSIIIRE.............. . 17 Ditto ditto KENBOG* ; Rathen ; SAND .......................... . 18 Ditto ditto KINmMoNTil; |  | | Report (issue) | | regolith found in western Flanders aas nm a type of sand dune a'baco nm a. trough (artesa) in which gold...(a mine) abajamiento nm subsidence abajar vtr to lower, let down | to fall, descend abajo adv down, below...abra nf reopening of a vein | fissure or cleft in sand | gorge, break or fissure in a mountain | clearing...crimson acarreadizo,-za adj portable | shifting (sand) acarreo nm tranported material of any kind | transport...steel grey acerar vtr to chill, harden acerdesa nf wad or bog manganese aceria nf steel works or mill acerillo |  | | Report (issue) | | Llantrisant, Coychurch Blither, Pencoed, Ooycburch Lower, Lian-Gan, Colwlnston, Llandow, St. Donat., Llys-wen...Tillydrone Road, Aberdeen ; GRAVEL AND SAND 2 .ABERDEEN DISTRICT CoMllllTTEE, per G. W. Scott: R-0ad. Surveyor................ . 3 Ditto ditto DYCE SA.ND PIT ; Dyce ; SAND .................... . 4 Ditto ditto FlNTRAY... ........... . 6 Ditto Mml>URNo ; Old Ma.char ; SAND .................... . ditto 7 ditto RED CRAGS (WATERTON......... . Ditto SEAFORTH SaND, No. 2* ; Seaforth Road, Aberditto deen ; SAND ........................ |  | | Book | | LOWERMOTTLEDSANDSTONEONSANDSTONEINMIDDLEPERMIANMARLATGATEFORDSAND-PIT(L564) PLATE 1 (Frontispie Thefaceofredsandstonebeo...oftheMiddlePerma i nMarlandareworkedforbuilding sand. The Institute of Geological Sciences was formed...PREFACE Tins MEMOIR describes the geology of the district covered by the Fast Retford (101) New Series Sheet...One-inch Geological Map of England and Wales. The district was originally surveyed on the scale of one inch...in 1931 and 1940, but the greater part of the district was mapped on that scale during 1946-7 and 195761 |  | | Catalog/List | | Rex Cook dealer label. SW.1N1 Opal - West Carclaze Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall. J.A.Jones 1978. SW.2C3 Kaolinite...after orthoclase "pig's egg" - Melbur China Clay Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall. M.Grigg. 1989. [SW 925 549]...Cassiterite var. "Wood Tin" - Lee Moor China Clay Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall. SX.2F1 Stibnite - Trewetha...Bridges. 1977. [SK 249 594]. SK.V1 Calcite - Coal Pit Rake, Riber Mine, Matlock, Derbyshire. R.J.King via...450]. 2nd Sun Vein, Admiralty Concession Flat (Lower). NY.2F14 Nickeline and magnetite - Lady's Rake |  | | Book (volume) | | though the state produces more sandstone, silica sand and Fluorspar than any other state in America. Most...(lined with crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map)...quarry, rd. or RR cut, stream bank, gravel bar, or pit⎯ Coldwater agate (nodular, fortification type, gem...CITY, in gravel pit⎯agate. WATERLOO, at Burton Ave. quarry and Mitchell Ave. gravel pit near Cedar R. ⎯geodes...States BUTLER COUNTY SHELL ROCK, just N at gravel pit⎯Lake Superior agates. CLAYTON COUNTY AREA, many |  | | Book (volume) | | though the state produces more sandstone, silica sand and Fluorspar than any other state in America. Most...(lined with crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map)...quarry, rd. or RR cut, stream bank, gravel bar, or pit⎯ Coldwater agate (nodular, fortification type, gem...CITY, in gravel pit⎯agate. WATERLOO, at Burton Ave. quarry and Mitchell Ave. gravel pit near Cedar R. ⎯geodes...States BUTLER COUNTY SHELL ROCK, just N at gravel pit⎯Lake Superior agates. CLAYTON COUNTY AREA, many |  | | Book | | the \ North- Central States Se es : teat A Wad Lan . Mt Genwo rel » eee ; ww r 23.4 * { ...order of value, are coal, petroleum, stone, and sand and gravel. The State ranks first in the Nation...fluorspar, second in stone production, fourth in sand and gravel production, and fourth in coal output...—The Midwest Div. of Vulcan Materials Co. has a sand and gravel plant 1 mile east of Crystal Lake, on...approximately 42 miles northwest of Chicago’s Loop area. The pit was opened in the early 1940’s, and a modern plant |
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