| | Report (issue) | Precambrian Fourchu Group of southeastern Cape Breton Island (Keppie and others, 1979). Hornblende gabbros (Eden...Avalon terrane have included those of a pre-Iapetus island arc (Rast and others, 1976), an aborted rifting...records northwestward subduction beneath a cratonic island arc (Cape Breton terrane), and the development...Devonian plutonic terrane within the Avalon zone of Rhode Island: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v....Fourchu Group in the Louisbourg area, Cape Breton Island: Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy Paper | | | Report (volume) | Quadrangle Rhode Island :ly ROGER B. WILLIAMS }EOLOGY OF SELECTED QUAiDRANGLES IN RHODE ISLAND JEOLOGICAL... "!repared in cooperation with the ~tate of Rhode Island Development r:louncil NITED STATES GOVERNMENT..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Rhode Island Formation_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Rhode Island Formation, undifferentiated________________ Rhode Island Formation, argillaceous...map and sections of the Wickford quadrangle, Rhode Island _____________________________________________ | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | AMERICA NOTES ON THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF RHODE ISLAND PART II. REMAINING COUNTIES Lrovn W. FrsnBn...Staurolite Stilbite Zoisite BRISTOL COUNTY The major portion of Bristol County shows sedimentary rocks consisting...consisting chiefly of the Rhode Island formation of shales, con_ glomerates and sandstones. B. K. Ernerson2has...similar to the Diamond Hill area of Providence County. The Bristol area, in the vicinity of portsmouth... K. Gedney: Notes on the Mineral Localities of Rhode lsland. Arn. Mineral.,11, No. 12, pp. 334-340, (1926 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | AN OVERVIEW Rhode Island MINERALS & COLLECTORS F. WILLIAM MILLER Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford...A L SPECIES and many varieties occur within Rhode Island. Part of this abundance is attributable to the...Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport County...in what is now Rhode Island—for example, steatite from Johnston in Providence County for carving bowls | | | Report (volume) | Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island o GEOLOGICAL 5. I 09 8* Ci PI O i o TJ i i I to & Ol BULLETIN...State of Rhode Island Development Council i M SURVEY I C.to 1295 Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island...1295 Prepared in cooperation with the State of Rhode Island Development Council Lithology, structure, and...geological studies in Rhode Island____._.________.-__.-_-____. Position of Rhode Island in the Appalachian...-___--_Older gneissic rocks of northwestern Rhode Island.____________ Nipsachuck Gneiss------------- | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | measurements on metamorphic minerals in the Rhode Island and Wamsutta formations of Pennaylvsnian (Allegheny)...Narragansett Basin in Massachusetts and R,hode Island were deposited during an active erogenic event...of zircons from the crystalline rocks of t,he Rhode Island region by the lead-alpha method. The two groups...Wsmsutta formation, Rhode beginning with the oldest: Pondville conglomerate, Island formation, and the...be partly contemporaneous with the are lower Rhode Island formation (KNOX, 1944). Although these formations | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | were reports of gold having been found on Catalina Island by an early fur hunter. Even before the Spaniards...inches, Grit claim, Spanish Dry Diggings, El Dorado County; found September 1865. California State Mining...grams, Crystalline-Alabama claim, Jamestown mine, Tuolumne County; found 26 December 1992. California...Crystalline gold on quartz, 2.8 inches high, Jamestown, Tuolumme County; found 1 May 1935. California State Mining...quartz, Michigan Bluff mining district, Placer County; specimen. 1.4 inches high; mined 1983. Photo by | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | ACCESSORYMINERAL IN THE REDSTONE GRANITE FROM WESTERLY, RHODE ISLANDX wrrr'reu tTffi;i"r"J,ifoii,t tJ's' Geotogicat'...batholith, underlying the greater part of the state of Rhode fsland and extending into Connecticut and Massachusetts...Geological Survey. 76 BASTNAESITE FROM WESTERN RHODE ISLAND amount of sphene present in the Redstone granite...region of Madgascar (Koechlin, I9I2) I and at Jamestown, Colo. (Goddard and Glass, 1940). At Pikes Peak...bastnaesite.Chemical 79 BASTNAESITE FROM WESTERI'V RHODE ISLAND T,q.eln 1. X-Rlv-Drrrnacrrot Pownnn-Perrnnlr | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | mining in Alabama in the Cragford district of Clay County, the workings which entered the unoxidized zone...Palmer, Alaska. ARIZONA—From a locality in Mohave County in N . W . Arizona, we have an interesting specimen...glauberite xls mailed you last June from Imperial County near Bertam Siding on the Southern Pacific R.R...Parker, RFD 1, Woodbury, Conn. A large white mass of albite was received. The unknown mineral in the cavity...constructed in 1933 for the McBryde Sugar Co. on Kauai Island, Hawaii, white, amorphous allophane was found incrusting | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | GEOCHEMISTRY OF TANTALUM IN THE HARDING PEGMATITE, TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO* ge,M assachusetts, Anrnun M oNrcoruBnu...MONTGOMERY of beryl occurs as the topmost layer; an albite-rich stringer in places comes down out of the amphibolite...797) geochemicalinvestigation of rocks of the Jamestown area, Colorado, found that pegmatite minerals...Dixon granite. Dr. Harold C. Harrison, now at Rhode Island State College,cooperatedin the study by setting...of the area.Bray (1942,pp.786-87)found in the Jamestown,Colorado,igneous complex that a cerium-rich granite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | by emplacement of brown albititic veins in which albite and opaque material predominate, green veins with...minerals identified in the vein are ægirine, acmite, albite, arfvedsonite, apatite, biotite, calcite, chlorite...radioactive material. b) Brown albititic veins in which albite and opaque minerals predominate. c) Green veins...ægirine. d) White albititic veins onIy consisting of albite. e) Carbonate veins only consisting of calcite...approximately I.Q km north-east of the smallest island of Qeqertat aL an aJtitude of 130 m (plate 2). | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | for tourmaline. Also found here is lepidolite, albite, amblygonite, gem beryl, apatite, arsenopyrite...South River Mine (Kelly Bank), Augusta — Rockbridge County, the minerals to be found are pyrolusite, manganite...MINERALS Road to Cold Springs Clay Mine, Augusta County can be found kaolinite bauxite, limonite and chert...River in Virginia to somewhere in the vicinity of Jamestown will lead you to banks literally covered with...some 60 specimens of the Tilly Foster area. RHODE ISLAND Dr. Maurice Robbins of the Bronson Museum, | | | Report (issue) | carbonates (ankerite, calcite, dolomite, and siderite), albite, biotite, and chlorite among others (Berger, 1986)...sericite (4 percent), chlorite (4 percent) and albite (3 percent). Other nonsulfides found in about 2...States, (except Alaska) and in Nova Scotia, it is a county name; in Alaska, area gives the 1 by 3 quadrangle...Allgood, R.W., 1985, James Gold Mines, Toulumne County, California: Sonora Mining Corporation, 13 p. Anonymous... 1935, Mines and mineral resources of Siskiyou County: California Journal of Mines and Geology, v. 31 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | California, USA GEORGE V. ALBINO* Corona Gold Inc., 1375 Greg Street, Suite 105, Sparks, NV, 89431, USA Abstract...argillites along the Melones Fault Zone near Jamestown, California. Pyrite, magnetite, hematite and titanite...Associated fracture-filling veins are dominated by albite, but locally include aegirine, analcime, paragonite...sodic amphiboles and/or pyroxenes, in addition to albite. These rare occurrences indicate that fluids of...Calaveras Complex along the Melones Fault Zone near Jamestown (Lamarre, 1977), and in the area of the former | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave in Rock district, Har din County, Illinois. Harvard Mineralogical Museum collection...Quartz and chalcopyrite, Bandora mine, San Juan County, Col orado. Barbara and John Muntyan specimen...Susan Robinson. November-December: Gold, Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California. California State Mining...129, 379 Agate, 196 Aikinite, 375 Alabandite, 375 Albite, 129, 440 Alleghanyite, 375 Alluaudite-varulite...Tourmaline from Little Cahuilla Mountain, Riverside County, California, K. Gochenour, 440 Borates, 488 Bornite | | | Report (issue) | Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-292-A Prepared...Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R. Randall Schumann EDITOR OPEN-FILE...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Rhode Island Linda C.S. Gundersen andR. Randall Schumann...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...The reports are available in county formats and State summaries. The county reports typically contain both | | | Report (issue) | Fe-Mg carbonate with lesser amounts of sericite, albite, and quartz and 3 to 4 percent pyrite and arsenopyrite...interlaced with veinlets of quartz, carbonate, and albite. Mineralized schist, originally chlorite schist...Fe-Mg carbonate and subordinate sericite, quartz, albite, and pyrite. In both the mineralized greenstone...of the Grass Valley-Nevada City district, Nevada County, are about 30 miles north of the Mother Lode. At...River, Yuba County, and the Folsom district on the American River flood plain in Sacramento County. SELECTED | | | Report (issue) | l-A. Sierra Blanca limestone in Santa Barbara County, CaliW. Walker. 1950. 5 pp., 1 pi. Price 25*. ...Price 25tf. Commercial "black granite" of San Diego County, California, by Richard A. Hoppin and L. A. Norman...of the San Dieguito pyrophyllite area, San Diego County, California, by Richard H. Jahns and John F. Lance...Price 25*. Geology of Bitterwater Creek area, Kern County, California, by Henry H. Heikkila and George M...lithium-bearing pegmatites of the Pala district, San Diego County, California, by Richard H. Jahns and Lauren A. | | | Book | Geology & Geophysics Geology, University of Rhode Island Science, Bentley College Earth Sciences & Geography...Hingham, Massachusetts Geology, University of Rhode Island Earth Sciences & Geography, Bridgewater State...and Development of Plum Island, Massachusetts: An Example of a Barrier Island System by J. Richard Jones...Pre-Pennsylvanian Rocks of Aquidneck and Conanicut Islands, Rhode Island by Suzanne Mahlburg Kay and William M. Chappie...Metamorphism in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island by James W. Skehan, S. J., Daniel P. Murray | | | Report (issue) | .................. I Specimens of Stone at Jamestown ................................. 5 Marble.......... 187 REFORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, G. H. PERKINS ........ 189 GEOLOGY OF THE TowN...GEOLOGY CF CHIT'JENDEN COUNTY, G. H. PERKINS ...... 221 GEOLOGY OF NEWPORT, TROY AND COVENTRY, PROFESSOR...B. Barker,* Photo ................ XLI. Marble Island, Cambrian, Malletts Bay, B. Barker,* Photo.............. LIV. Geological Map of Part of Orleans County, drawn by C. F. Richardson ................... | | | Report (issue) | for Waters of the Harvard Open Pit, Jamestown Mine, Tuolumne County, California, March, 1998–September...Figure 1. Location map for Jamestown mine 3 Figure 2. Map of Jamestown mine site 4 Figure 3. Map... INTRODUCTION The Jamestown mine is located in the Jamestown mining district in western Tuolumne County, California...the largest of several open pits mined at the Jamestown site by Sonora Mining Corporation between 1986...accompanying a period of rapid filling in 1995 (County of Tuolumne, 1998). The largest potential source | | | Book (volume) | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, 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...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional | | | Journal (issue) | ... 462 NOTES ON SOME MINERAL LOCALITIES IN RHODE ISLAND. By Willard Stone Winslotv, fr. ........................................ 476 MOLYBDENlTE AT NEWPORT, N . H . ........................................10 ao, NOTES ON SOME MINERAL LOCALITIES IN RHODE ISLAND 1g llt :cl 1y & id of rd ;t- ! DO ire...like to hear about localities for minerals in Rhode Island. From time to time • very interesting articles...are two famous limestone deposits in northern Rhode Island, once noted for their profusion of mineral specimens | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | California 94305 Abstract The Harvard orebody at the Jamestown gold mine, located along the Melones fault zone...open-pit mine at the Harvard gold mine (Jamestown mine, Tuolumne County, California) has been filling with...1990). California To Sonora Harvard open pit Jamestown Reno Woods Crossing 4200K SF LA Sierra Nevada...FIG. 1. Location of the study area in Tuolumne County, California, in relationship to other gold mines...geochemistry. Background The Harvard lode at Jamestown was discovered in 1859 and mined intermittently | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | FIG. 1. Locations of gold mines in California; county boundaries are shown for reference (U.S. Geological...Tuolumne County is shaded. Insel shows locations of gold mines included in this study; Tuolumne County boundary...1999). One site addressed in this study, the Jamestown mine, is presently of concern to the Central Valley...southern Mother Lode Mining District in Tuolumne County, Califor nia (Fig. 1 inset; Fig. 2): (1) mineralized...represented by pit walls of the Harvard open pit mine (Jamestown mine), outcrops near the Harriman mine, and waste |
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