 | | Journal (issue) | | February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed |  | | Report (issue) | | the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...has long been a significant part of the state's mining industry. Since 1880, mineraI production has been |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...Gahnite Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8 |  | | Book (volume) | | Atlantic seaboard states. It is situated at the southern end of the Appalachian chain of mountains. These...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: |  | | Journal (issue) | | Famous mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah ..................................... S. Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado ....................................33 by B. Cairncross The Jan Coetzee copper mine, Namaqualand, South Africa .......................been appointed Collection Manager and Head of the Section of Minerals at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History...right of amateur col lecting and recreational mining, and the use of public and private lands for educational |  | | Journal (issue) | | 325 by J. P. Cassedanne A vivianite occurrence in Contra Costa County,California ... 337 by C. B...Moore Phosphate minerals from the Leveaniemi iron mine, Svappavaara, Sweden .............................Hollabaugh Laueite from Hagendorf-Siid andthe Palermo mine ................. 363 by L. C. Pitman New data...mineral localities: The Phoenixville lead-silver mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania ......................belonged to his deceased grandfather, who had been a mining engineer. Curators receive such calls fre quently |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sediments and rare igneous rocks of the Valley and Ridge, which change crossing the Great Smoky Thrust Fault...(top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(left). Fluorite, 2.5 cm on edge, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis Paris photo (2004). Figure 5 (far right page) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collector. The many pegmatites exposed in the southern Black Hills are well known for their variety of...secondary phosphate minerals. Although some pegmatite mining for feldspar still continues (Jacobson 1994). the...collector today. Pegmatites are so numerous in the southern Black Hills thiit they are hard to ilvoid. A closz-up...except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in...and fewer chances to obtain any. However, some mining, mineral exploration, and mineral collecting continues |  | | Book | | coun:oo, s t a r t i n t h e N o r t h e a s t e r n section o f each s t a t e and proceed t o t h e S o u...CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...l a c h i a n s a r e t h e spectacular B l u e Ridge a n d S m o k y M o u n t a i n r a n g e s w h...k e d p r i m a r i l y f o r g o l d , silver, lead, i r o n , a n d o t h e r economic m i n e r a...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o |  | | Book (volume) | | America. Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial...of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well aquatinted...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | America. Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial...of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well aquatinted...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Volume Thirty, Number Five Articles The Mex-Tex mine, Bingham, N ew M exico............................Van Pelt. Long thought to be from the "Sapucaia mine," this speci men and others (representing the first...quartz crystals) actually came from the Berilo Branco mine. See the article beginning on page 361.___________...HILE SUPPLY LASTS. We are buying collections and mining memorabilia GET ON OUR MAILING LIST! The M ineralogical |  | | Book | | Geology and Virginia Richard V. Dietrich Professor of Geology and Dean School of Arts and Sciences,...University Press of Virginia Charlottesville Qt z.^.z THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA Copyright © 1970...by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia First published 1970 Standard Book Number: 8139-0289-4...America To Frances, Rick, Kurt, Krista, and Virginia 161781 Digitized by the Internet Archive in...natives of Virginia and visitors to the Commonwealth—who are interested in geology and in Virginia. It attempts |  | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...of Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................499 Virginia .....................................................................................525 West Virginia ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map |  | | Report (issue) | | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...production of environmental protection equipment. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...to Nevada in 1929 and was actively involved in mining in the state and the western U.S. for the rest |  | | Book (volume) | | been an indefatigable researcher and collector of mining history. Among his specialties may be mentioned...fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining history led him to...to purchase the mine in order to form a living museum so that it would remain accessible to the mineralogical...mineralogical community. Through his efforts, the Sterling mine has been declared a national historic landmark....a story to tell concerning Maine's minerals and mining history. The ranks of invited contributors have |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Besesitra dike, the Ifasina dike, and several unnamed dikes. The less-evolved dikes include the Andasy...the Fiakarandava dike, as well as several other unnamed dikes. Rhodizite either occurs in the wall zone...KATERINA MINE, A MORGANITE AND KUNZITEBEARING PEGMATITE IN THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DlEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA...Pennsylvania Ave., San Francisco, CA 94107. The Katerina mine accesses a Be-Li-phosphate-enriched pegmatite located...the Pala district of Southern California. First claimed by the Sickler family in 1902, the mine is located |  | | Report (issue) | | Denver, Colorado USA © 2009 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 • Denver, CO 80211 • USA Phone 1.303.495...ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...No. 3875, Peacekeeping Operations, Cartographic Section) 300 km 200 miles Table of Contents Bolivia:............................ 4 BY ALFREDO PETROV Mining, Politics, and Tumult: A Brief Look at Bolivian |  | | Report (issue) | | COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing...Lt. Green Lt. Blue Dk. Green Dk. Blue Olive Yellow Dk. Orange Brown Black Valley & Ridge mapping and structural...structural geology Piedmont & Blue Ridge mapping and structural geology Coastal Plain mapping and stratigraphy...Geophysical studies Hydrology Economic geology Mining directory Environmental studies Engineering studies |  | | Journal (issue) | | l0/#2 Jeffrey mine (Quebec), Alpine Rodingites, Fluorite (Germany) $7 v.l0/#3 Taewha mine (Korea) Japan...Cassirer Memoirs (part II) $7 v.l l/#2 Red Cloud mine (NM), Malachite (Australia, Uraninite, Kornerupine...Hill $7 v.ll/#6 Broken Hill (Zambia), Cruziero mine (Brazii), Caplan Interview Rose Qtz. $7 v.12/#1...Zeolites $7 Enio (Brazil), Urubu (Brazil), Rock Candy mine (BC), Muddy creek (CO) $7 v.l2/#3 Pribram (Czecho...Mcguinnessite v.12/#6 Bunker Hill (ID), Yates mine (Que.), Ogdensburgite. Shavano Peak (CO) $7 v,13/#4 | | | Report (issue) | | 3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...percent of the state. Nevada's public lands offer mining, livestock grazing, wild horse viewing, .scenic...Road and Geologic Tours in th<' Las Vegas Area. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91 |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................408 Virginia .....................................................................................429 West Virginia ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...geological regions. The northeast section is mountainous, constituting the southern end of the Cumberland Plateau...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham |
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