 | | Journal (issue) | | DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...amazonite, fine moonstone, and topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise...rock unakite. Localities for forty-nine minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which...report. Many of the localities will be familiar to Virginia mineral collectors. Someof the areas mentioned...collect minerals. There has been much written on Virginia mineral localities but no reports are available |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Virginia by RICHARD S. MITCHELL Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...same county. I t also has been observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and...world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is coated...alteration rinds which are brown. It is related to epidote, but con tains rare earth elements and usually...radioactive. The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described |  | | Journal (issue) | | FEBRUARYJMAY 1994 NO. 1 & 2 MINERALS OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. INTRODUCTION RockbridgeCountyhas...the 1800snear the towns of Buena Vista, Goshen, Vesuvius, and in waverAmoldvalley. Otherearly minesinthecounty...Figure 1.LocationmapofRockbridgeCounty,Virginia. reported from the county. Rockbridgecounty is one of the more...more prolific mineralcollectingareasin Virginia. A largepercentageof the mineralsare concentratedin threeareas:...composed mainly of pink to red feldspar, green epidote,and g a y quartz along with other mine& in minor |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The dufrenite locality at Midvale, Rockbridge County, Virginia. Am. Mineral, 5: 197-198. Hidden, W.E...G.A. 1877. On strengite from Rock bridge County, Virginia. Philadelphia Acad. Sci., Proc, 29: 277-278... On sipylite, a new niobate, from Amherst County, Virginia. Am. J. Sci. (3d), 14: 397-400. Marcin, E...Crimoia, Virginia. Rocks and Minerals, 33: 424-425. Medici, J.C. 1972. Minerals of the Fairfax quarry, Centreville...Centreville, Virginia. Mineral Rec., 3: 173-179. Milton, C , K . J . Murata, and M.M. Knechtel. 1944. Weinschenkite |  | | Journal (issue) | | COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY Richmond, Virginia Virginia Minerals Published...Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 VOL. 48 MAY/AUGUST 2002 NO. 2/3 A GUIDE...GEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY John Marr and Roy Sites Virginia has a very interesting and varied geologic history...in unique and exotic geologic terranes. Across Virginia, the landscape exhibits all rock types: igneous...the Division of Mineral Resources offices. 10 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES VOL. 48 Figure |  | | Journal (issue) | | yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard |  | | Book (volume) | | beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...rocks along eastern streams and rivers f o r epidote, unakite, blue quartz, agate, chalcedony, petrified...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with syenite (andesine anorthosite) of Nelson County, Virginia.......................................................................................... Unakite type.............................................characteristics of unakite.............................................. Origin of the unakite................topographic divisions of the Appalachian ranges. In Virginia the Blue Eidge Mountains form a fairly continuous...feet above sealevel; but southwestward through Virginia the ridge becomes broader and higher, and attains |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Globe, Ariz."—on label. Globe, in south Gila County, is in central Arizona. ARKANSAS —• "I am sending...quartz crystals. These are from the Jeffrey Stone Quarry in North Little Rock, Ark."—gift from Woodrow Bettis...terminated. North Little Rock, in central Pulaski County, is in central Arkansas. CONNECTICUT—Mrs. Cecil...Conn." •—on label. Newington, in central Hartford County, is in central Connecticut. MAINE—A few months...albite, and smoky quartz. Acton, in western York County, is in S/W Maine. MINNESOTA—"I am sending you a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS (PART GOOCHLAND By PHILIP East Derry, COUNTY In N edge of the James R...Extensive gold mining formerly on ex treme W and county line around Rte 605 to Rte 606. There are several...deep. Bell Shaft. Garden Wall M. Shaft. FLUVANNA COUNTY 2 / 2 M i 4 4 2 2 ROCKS AND MINERALS ...im portant operation in either county and as it is located on the county line can be ascribed to Goochland...tools and equipment for pay. Pyrite, chlorite, epidote, zoisite, sericite, titanite, mag netite (large |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at the White Elephant quarry dump in Pringle, in late spring 1973. This quarry as well as many other...Univeristy of Chicago. Virginia-Thomas Dagenhart of Charlottes ville, Virginia, has contributed some..."Many collectors are familiar with unakite (Ed: a rock name for epidote granite) from Virginia's Blue Ridge...in some of the unakite from Little Mary's Creek, one mile east of Vesuvius, Virginia on Route 56. X-ray...describe the unakite which consists of coarse grained sodic plagioclase, smoky quartz, epidote, pink orthoclase |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | identified. The specimen, from Newry's Dunton Gem quarry con sisted of delicately arborescent, snowwhite...Z)flfa?fa-Richard Mitchell of Charlottesville, Virginia, writes that, "Beautiful, large, single and twinned...at the White Elephant quarry dump in Pringle, in late spring 1973. This quarry as well as many other...Univeristy of Chicago. Virginia-Thomas Dagenhart of Charlottes ville, Virginia, has contributed some..."Many collectors are familiar with unakite (Ed: a rock name for epidote granite) from Virginia's Blue Ridge |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountain area. The Mooresville area. The Mecklenburg county areas. The Western Piedmont gneiss and Granite...General characters. Lithological characters. The Unakite area. ' Published by permission of the state geologist...in the large and important granite area in Rowan county, known as Dunn's Mountain, and its southwestern...Gaston county, west of Charlotte. (3) The Mooresville area in Iredell county. (4) The Cabarrus county area...southwest of Concord; and a second area in the same county in the vicinity of Landers station on the Southern |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | .................................... 523 T he Virginia Piedmont r e g io n ..................................................................... 530 Unakite .................................................o d u c t io n The general excellence of the Virginia granites as a building and mon umental stone...has been devoted by the writer to a study of the Virginia granites in the field and in the laboratory, and...t R e g io n geology The Piedmont province in Virginia forms a part of the eastern crys talline area |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA PART I I I : SILICATES By R. S. MITCHELL and R. J. BLAND,... JR. Department of Geology University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. nets at the old iron mine near...Olivine. This mineral is an important ite, and epidote, occur in quartz veins in constituent of an olivine...olivine diabase dike the Superior Stone quarry at Red Hill. which cuts across Everona limestone, on Microscopic...Charlottesville and 1 mile south of monzonite from this quarry (Rector, U. S. Highway 250 (Rowan, 1955). The 1958) |  | | Report (volume) | | ................................ 49 Individual quarry areas.................................................. 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County.......................CHAPTER III. GRANITES OF VIRGINIA ...................................... The Virginia Piedmont region ......Falls Church area.. Yellow-green and pink epidote granite Unakite............... 69 70 70 70 71 71 72 72...77 77 CONTENTS. 5 CHAPTER III. GRANITES OP VIRGINIA Continued. PageScientific discussion Continued |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East D e r r y , N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 (PART INTRODUCTION...mines in Virginia, north of the James River, with the ex ceptions as follows: Albemarle County was very...northern Virginia. Maps used were the U.S.G.S. Topo graphical Sheets. Also used were the county road maps...of H i g h w a y s Richmond, Virginia The price is 2 0 cents per county. Other states could well follow...very high grade iron. Credit should be given the Virginia Department of Mineral Resources in Charlottesville |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NOTES ON POLISHING VIRGINIA UNAKITE By K . W . H E N D E R S O N , J R . 8 8 3 7 Camfield Court, A l...found totally fascinating is Virginia Unakite—not be cause I live in Virginia, or because this is the official...large masses of metamorphic materials such as Unakite. For a truly unforgettable jour ney through a...look like a neophyte with a nose allergy. In one Unakite area where the rich-colored feldspars reared their...comes up with the best specimens. On our last Unakite hunt she found a five-pound boulder of the most |  | | Report (issue) | | of the Uniuersity of Virginia. Dn. J. I). Eccr,nsrox, President of the Virginia Polytech,rfic Inst,itute...portion of Virginia, showing the location of the Irish Creek tin deposits, Rockbridge County 2. PAGE...and to for pubiication as Bulletin XV-A of the Virginia Geological Survey Series of Reports, a manuscript...of a report on "Tin Deposits Near frish Creek, Virginia," by Henry G. tr'erguson, of the Ilnitecl States...Geological Survey, prepareal in coiiperation with the Virginia recommend Geological Survey. The tin deposits |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Whittier, North Carolina. Whittier is located in Swain County, where the Great Smoky Mountains of the Blue Ridge...between North Carolina and Tennessee. Epidosites and epidote-rich rocks are abundant throughout much of the...of North Carolina and Virginia. Unakite, a rock composed essentially of epidote, pink orthoclase and quartz...southwest of Whittier. Another unakite from Millam's Gap in the Blue Ridge of Virginia was describedby Phelan...green epidote." In both the North Carolina and Virginia occurrencesof the unakites, the epidote is considered |
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Unakite Quarry, Vesuvius, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA