 | | 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 (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 |  | | Report (issue) | | and C.M. Sears U.S. Geological Survey Reston, Virginia 22092 Open-File Report 92-448 This report is...Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Occurrences located in the Culpeper basin, Maryland and Virginia ..................... 168 H. Section H: Occurrences...Occurrences located in other areas of Virginia. ... 185 I. Section I: Occurrences located in North Carolina...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...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...[University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 Barrow County Arnold mine—1.6 km northeast of Statham, near the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard...Sevier County (Coskren and Lauf 2000). The following index is arranged alphabetically by county. It is |  | | 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...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | calcite, 8 cm, Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo....Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers...Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level. There are some noteworthy mineral...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden...Greb, Kentucky Geological Survey. in Crittenden County has one major shaft called the “Rock shaft.” The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Muttoni 1996, Kent & Olsen 1996), which places Virginia at the equator in the early Late Triassic (Figures...size (Figure 2; Table 1). A detailed review 12 Unnamed 3000 700 1000 Cyclical gray and black mudstone...120 260 Description P2: RPK/vks/plb/mkv 3 Unnamed Clubhouse Crossroads Basalt “Millstone Grit” of...Branch (upper mb), and Stoneville fms (in part) Unnamed Unnamed 1 2 Thickness 350 Formation name March...Branch Fm, Otterdale Fm (in part) Doswell Fm Unnamed Reston Mb (Fm) Manassas Fm Balls Bluff, Catharpin |  | | Report (issue) | | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs... Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph by J. Scovil....Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...and Calcite Almandine-Spessartine Annabergite Gypsum Quartz, Petersen Mountain Heterogenite Quartz...Descloizite Cuprite on Copper Nevadaite, Gold Quarry Mine Vanadinite, Ruth Mine Epidote Opal after |  | | Report (issue) | | in the Eggleston Formation near Hagan, Lee County, Virginia. Photograph taken by Stig M. Bergstrém in...ove,sud ele Foe 30 ill Contents Southwestern Virginia and Eastern Tennessee3...0)..2 ra ee Western Outerop...tees crauseece certian eee Northem Virginia and Eastern West Virginia 2252¢ 4s, se ae ee ee Central, Pennsylvatiay...4.2. eens Ue ee ee 58 Eastern Missouri—Western Virginia Cross Section ..........-0..0++c0.0eecsccs ence...ence. uel... 58 Southern Otmo=Western Virginia Cross Section... fe. 0. «2 -+cancetaase. saan oceania se59 |  | | Report (volume) | | LUTIRELL, MARILYN L. HUBERT, WILNA B. WRIGHT, VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN, and ROGER W. SWANSON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Luttrell, Marilyn L. Hubert, Wilna B. Wright, Virginia M. Jussen, and Roger W. Swanson INTRODUCTION...Highway 49 (Skyway Road) near town of Abel, Cleburne County. Absaroka Supergroup/Volcanic Supergroup U ABRK03...volcanic field, Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyo. Academy Church Shale Member (Springer Formation)...W1/2NW1/4NE1/4SE1/4 sec. 1, T. 3 s., R. 2 E., Carter County. Adams Formation ADMS01 1. Holocene 2. Alaska (SE) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | is found in the Harquahala Range in N / E Yuma County of S/W Arizona. Also enclosed are some desert roses...roses (beds of these are found all over Yuma County). I pick up only the well shaped specimens such as...come from the Calico fossil beds of San Bernardino County, Calif." — asks Charley Jones, 14232 Slover Ave...mine dumps in Colorado. At Cripple Creek, Teller County, they found some lustrous, black flakes of hematite...found up to 6 inches long by 2 inches thick. Robert Nelson of Granville Road, Westfield Mass., took me to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Group of the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, met under the leadership of Bob...successful field trip was made to the Alden ( N . Y . ) quarry. The Monongahela Rockhounds, Homestead, planned...Walton Beach, went on a suc cessful coral and unnamed materials field trip to an undisclosed location...sented Member Chet Kunsman of the Imperial Polk County Gem and Min eral Society, Lake Wales, presented...Campbell of the National Gyp sum Co. spoke about Gypsum at a recent program Member Ken Hoblbs of the Empire |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | white micaceous mineral was found at the Dresser quarry in Walton. Associated material includes tennantite...cation. The piece, from the Canada Crushed Stone quarry in Dundas, con sists of a dark brown dolomitic...syenite in an outcrop not far from the Goulding-Keene quarry in Bancroft. T h e crystals are usually tabular...micromounts. Both specimens were from the Dunton Gem quarry. One was a newly collected specimen while the other...crystals in many ways resemble the fishtail twins of gypsum. Montebrasite was suspected, but albite was proven |  | | Report (volume) | | Creek Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Imperial County, California U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1711-C...Creek Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Imperial County, California By VICTORIA R. TODD, DAVID E. DETRA...Creek Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Imperial County, California U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1711-C...Mountains (CDCA-372) Wilderness Study Area, Imperial County, California. CONTENTS Summary Cl Abstract 1...Creek Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Imperial County, California C2 Map showing mineral resource potential |  | | Report (volume) | | 74, Ph miles east of Dutchtown, Cape Girardeau County, Mo. Type section cut by northtrending fault with...stream in NEIA sec. 33, T. 16 N., R. 14 E, Wayne County. Named after village of Abington, about 3 miles...most complete, formation divisible into three unnamed members: lower, about 850 feet thick, interbedded...Named for Adam Peak in Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County. Occupies belt about 21f2 miles long on western...feet near Little Pybus Bay. Conformably overlie unnamed conglomerate and sandstone unit in Little Pybus |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals! Today the Sand and Grit of the Imperial Folk County Gem and Mineral Society, Winter Haven, tells of...of a successful trip to the Brooksville Quarry for fossils, chert and calcite! The Gem and Mineral Club...Beach, is exchanging specimens, by mail, with an unnamed club in Tay lor, Michigan. Fossils and specimens...and Mineral Club, Hannibal, joined with the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, in a field trip to...the proc esses. Field Trip Destination: Cinque Quarry, Judd's Bridge, Washington, Conn, for blue blade |  | | Report (issue) | | Quadrangle Appendix B: Bibliography Cross-Referenced by County/Quadrangle Appendix C: Bibliography Cross-Referenced...quadrangles, Appendix B is cross-referenced by county, Appendix C by geologic unit, Appendix D by age...UCMP P3526, Chalk Hills quadrangle, Storey County < 11-County Longitude 119/30/00, Latitude 39/22/30 <-...geology see: Thompson, G.A. 1956. Geology of the Virginia City quadrangle, Nevada. U.S. Geological Survey...W. Melvin, Scot A. Mensing, Dorothy R. Nylen, Virginia M. Page, Michael G. Robinson, Karen I. Rynberg |  | | Report (volume) | | Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...and central southern Virginia. Original reference: F. B. Laney, 1917, Virginia Geol. Survey Bull. 14...14, p. 15, 19-27, map. J. L. Calver, 1960, Virginia Div. Mineral Resources Bull. 75, p. 17. In Pittsylvania...Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian : Central southern Virginia. Original |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains. At...the N. W . part of Dade County, Fla., due west of Miami and near the Monroe County line. Among the samples...gray gypsum that came from the 15,000 foot depth; gray limestone with small masses of white gypsum which...colorless selenite (gypsum). An especially interesting specimen was a % inch gray gypsum cabochon cut from...Lots 612 580 and 649, 19th District of Paulding County."—Spring 1954 issue, page 48. IDAHO—"I am sending |  | | Report (volume) | | 250-12,460 ft, sec. 14, T. 45 S., R. 27 E., Lee County, Fla. Named for the nearby Able Canal. The Able...Accomack Member of the Omar Formation Pleistocene Virginia, Maryland Atlantic Coast basin Mixon, R.B., 1985...Cenozoic deposits in the southern Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia and Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Professional...H-20, northwest of Wattsville, northern Accomack County, Va. Reference sections: facies E and F, sand pits...Wattsville, Persimmon Point, and Accomack, Accomack County, Va. The informal Accomack beds of Mixon and others |  | | Report (volume) | | GWENDOLYN W. LUTTRELL, MARILYN L. HUBERT, and VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ...ted States. I. Hubert, Marilyn L. II. Jussen, Virginia M. III. Title. IV. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1564 1986...Gwendolyn W. Luttrell, Marilyn L. Hubert, and Virginia M. ,Jussen INTRODUCTION This lexicon contains... 147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 17, T. 85 N., R. 7 W., Linn County, Iowa. A-L Peak Rhyolite Oligocene 1. New Mexico |  | | Report (issue) | | Lawrence V. Rickard C. Virginia, by Kenneth J. Englund D. West Virginia and Maryland, by Thomas Arkle...------------------C. Virginia, by Kenneth J. Englund ------------------------D. West Virginia and Maryland,...complex undifferentiated .CAMBRIAN Contact . . Unnamed metasediments Fault-Arrows show relative movement...by later normal faults (fig. 2). At the Masslite Quarry, Plainville, Mass., southeast-dipping thrust faults...normal faults. An 865-foot NX-cored hole near the quarry shows that the Pennsylvanian sedimentary rocks |  | | Report (volume) | | aspects of the geology of the Culpeper basin of Virginia. The editors are grateful to the authors, technical...and Deep Run basins in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia 40 By Eleanora I. Robbins and Robert E. Weems...characteristics of Mesozoic basalts, Culpeper basin, Virginia lOS By Richard P. Tollo Reinterpretation of the...Mesozoic intrusive rocks in the Culpeper basin, Virginia and Maryland 151 By Albert J. Froelich and David...early Mesozoic diabase sheets, Culpeper basin, Virginia 16S By Paul C. Ragland and Jonathan D. Arthur |
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