 | | Report (issue) | | of the Uniuersity of Virginia. Dn. J. I). Eccr,nsrox, President of the Virginia Polytech,rfic Inst,itute...ILLUSTRATIONS FIGUaE l. r Sketch map of the Trish Creek tlistrict, showing the location of tin-bearing veins...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...illustrations of a report on "Tin Deposits Near frish Creek, Virginia," by Henry G. tr'erguson, of the Ilnitecl States |  | | Journal (issue) | | FEBRUARYJMAY 1994 NO. 1 & 2 MINERALS OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. INTRODUCTION RockbridgeCountyhas...Figure 1.LocationmapofRockbridgeCounty,Virginia. reported from the county. Rockbridgecounty is one of the more...more prolific mineralcollectingareasin Virginia. A largepercentageof the mineralsare concentratedin threeareas:...theyareassociatedwithmanyofthemineralsfoundthecounty. -is Creek; thevesuvius iron-manganesedistrict; andin t h e...tonequqoutsideLexingtonhas LittleMarys Creek, andIrish Creek. It is composed mainly of pink to red feldspar |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 936-K TIN DEPOSITS OF IRISH CREEK VIRGINIA BY A. H. KOSCHMANN, J. J. GLASS AND J....Plate ; j Page 43. Map of the No. 1 workings, Irish Creek, Va., showing location of samples and list of...workings, Irish Creek, Va.... :Figure 29. Map of Virginia, showing location of the Irish Creek tin. district... 290 III 273 276 TIN DEPOSITS OF IRISH CREEK, VIRGINIA By A. H. Koschmann, Jo J. Glass, and J...discovered along Irish Creek in the Blue Ridge in the northern part of Rockbridge County, Va., in 1846, |  | | 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) | | THETINMINESOFIF ISH CREEK, VIRGINIA EDWARD I. MARCIN 1917 Meadowbrook Road, Merrick, L. I. The tin deposit...deposit at Irish Creek, Rockbridge county, Virginia is one of the few localities of the western hemisphere...workings are located at the junction of two streams Irish Creek and Panther Run (we Yankees would call these...one to the Irish Creek mines. The other way is from the Blue Ridge Parkway where the Irish Gap exit is...route although he prefers the Blue Ridge Parkway—Irish Gap exit circuit. It is good policy to stop at Cornwall |  | | 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) | | Fluorite OCCURRENCES IN THE Downloaded by [Northeastern University] at 12:22 21 November 2014 SOUTHEASTERN...University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Fluorite is a very widely distributed mineral in the southeastern...economic geology literature. The occurrence of fluorite in the southeastern United States has been well...Bassett Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the older underground...the limestone pillars of the older workings. The fluorite pictured in figure 2 is from this quarry. Terry |  | | 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...minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which have been used as gemstones and decora...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 (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) | | where parisite occurs with aegirine, riebeckite, fluorite, ilmenite, and anatase in pegmatite pipes that...Fairfield County, Connecticut; and in greisen with purple fluorite at Irish Creek, Rockbridge County, Virginia...major magnetite deposit at Pea Ridge, Washington County, Missouri, and has been reported as a rare accessory...Holiday Inn quarries south of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. It has also bee? found as tiny crystals...crystals at Wimmer No. 3 pit, Rib Mountain, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Several Montana parisite localities |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia by R . V. DIETRICH Department of Geology Central Michigan University...outward crystal form it has, e.g., quartz after fluorite" ( A . G . I . "Glossary . . . " ) A few people...been able to determine, John G . Meem, of the Virginia Military Institute, wrote the first paper dealing...dealing primarily with pseudomorphs found in Virginia. I n 1886, he described and illus trated several...as precursor and/or end-product constituents of Virginia pseudomorphs. Several addi tional examples of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS (PART GOOCHLAND By PHILIP East Derry, COUNTY In N edge of the James R...Midlothian, Line Creek Mills. Extensive gold mining formerly on ex treme W and county line around Rte...about four feet of clay-gravel on the bottom of the creek that is very difficult to work but has never been...processed by Powhattan Mining Co. on Little Byrd Creek. Hydraulic op erations were 30 to 40 ft. above...deep. Bell Shaft. Garden Wall M. Shaft. FLUVANNA COUNTY 2 / 2 M i 4 4 2 2 ROCKS AND MINERALS |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at 04:13 19 December 2014 Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado A s virtually every collector knows...and some districts, such as those in San Diego County, California, and many of those in Minas Gerais...premier aquamarine localities, Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, was highlighted by Jacobson and Lees...at the addresses above. 338 ROCKS & MINERALS fluorite, the micas and feldspars, and quartz; there appears... at Waterford, Oxford County; and the Square pit at Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine. Good crystals are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama 36849-5305 SCHEELITE CAMP BIRD MINE, OURAY COUNTY, COLORADO I n keeping with the theme of the 1996...associated with cassiterite, wolframite, topaz, and fluorite in high-temperature hydrothermal quartz veins;...have been pro duced. The Boriana mine in Mohave County, Arizona, has fur nished orange euhedral crystals...of the famous Camp Bird mine near Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. A complete description of this spectacular...occurred in and on a matrix of sugary colorless fluorite with variable amounts of associated quartz, calcite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University, Washington, DC 20052, USA b U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO 80225, USA c Department of Earth Sciences...Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA d U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 20192, USA Abstract Emplacement of...complexes occur throughout the Blue Ridge province of Virginia and North Carolina, and were emplaced at shallow...peralkaline rocks of the Robertson River batholith and Irish Creek pluton may be derived from more chemically primitive...1985; Simpson and Eriksson, 1989). In southwestern Virginia, interlayered metavolcanic and metasedimentary |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1. L., 1979, Reconnaissance geologyof the Ginny Creek zinc-lead-silver and Nimiuktuk barite deposits,...AGE OF MINERALIZED GREISENS IN THE IRISH VIRGINIA BLUE CREEK TIN DISTRICT, RIDGE T. A. HUDSON...Georgia,Athens,Georgia30602 Introduction The Irish Creek tin district is developedin Precambriangneisses...Precambriangneisses locatedalongthe westernflank of the Virginia BlueRidge,approximately45 km north of Lynchburg(Fig...and it is likely that greisenformation in the Irish Creek districtwas,at leastin part, associated with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral has been mined quite extensively in Clay County, Alabama, from one end to the other. It is quite...ARKANSAS—Brown jasper pebbles have been found in a creek bed near Benton, Saline Co., Ark. ROCKS AND MINERALS...south of Antimony Peak, near Hollister, San Benito County, California. While it might sound like exaggeration...the Red Mountain Range. The dump yields cubes of fluorite (white and green); good micros of huebnerite,...tinge) mass with massive smoky quartz. Fluorite: tiny brownish fluorite cubes, tiny brassy-yellow pyrite cubes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is...in California recently I visited the Los Angeles County Museum in Los Angeles to see the famous collection...in Los Angeles can walk across the lawn to the County Museum for another thrill—the display of some of...Leadville (Lake Co.). Colo., almost at the end of Lake County, I found a specimen of small radiating chrysocolla...of Culloden, and one mile S. of the Monroe-Lamar County line. The cordierite occurs in knots and irregularshaped |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BERYLLIUNT MINERALS IN THE VICTORIO MOUNTAINS' LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO* Wrr.r.rauT. HorsBn, Cornell[Jniaersity...containing 0.2 per cent BeO is interlayered with fluorite and garnet in tactites at the same locality. Beryllium...Victorio Mountains, 5 miles south of Gage, Luna County, New lvlexico. The area was visited in September...unpatented claims, formerly called the Brinkman, Irish Rose, or Kimmick claims. Sincehis visit, the vein...determine its relations with the other minerals. Fluorite is rare, and galena, pyrite, wulfenite, lead carbonates |  | | Report (volume) | | Beryllium Deposits of the Mount Antero Region, Chaffee County, Colorado By JOHN W. ADAMS A CONTRIBUTION TO ECONOMIC...analyses of minor elements in beryl from Chaffee County, Colo_-.-__ -_-------_------m 108 109 A CONTRIBUTION...BERYLLIUM DEPOSITS OF THE MOUNT ANTERO REGION, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO By JOHN W. ADAMS ABSTRACT Pegmatite...vicinity of Mount Antero and White Mountain, Chaffee County, Colo. The pegmatites, which generally do not exceed...INTRODUCTION Mount Antero and White Mountain, in Chaffee County, Colo., have been known for many years as a source |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Riddle's Mill Dist. (gold deposits) of Talladega County, Ala. It is 8l/ 2 x 11 and sells for Si, we believe...There is quite a lot of it. It came from Granite Creek near Chickaloon, Alaska."—item sent in by John W...to Clear Creek, San Benito County, Calif., have shown that the jadeite boulders in the creek are still...sending you a chunk of jadeite for which Clear Creek is well known as the first locality for this mineral...discovery having been made public about 1950. Clear Creek, a tributary of the San Benito River, about in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA REVISITED By LAWRENCE AND HARRIETTE SCHOPPEE Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 23:24...Greenbrier St., Springfield, Mass. We revisited Virginia in May 1958, four years after our first trip,...interesting. We started collecting at Amelia, Virginia, and proceeded clockwise in a circle which ended...360 (toward Richmond) approximately 1.2 miles to county route 609, a left turn, with the sign "Powhatan...encouraging and thrilling news. Going westward to Rice, Virginia, we found that Mr. and Mrs. Hodges, mentioned |  | Rogers, J. J. W., Ragland, P. C., Nishimori, R. K., Greenberg, J. K., Hauck, S. A. (1978) Varieties of granitic uranium deposits and favorable exploration areas in the eastern United States. Economic Geology, 73 (8) 1539-1555 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.73.8.1539 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | vein deposits, commonly associatedwith quartz-fluorite veins; and autometasomaticdeposits, including...Crossnoreplutons); (3) the central and northern Virginia Blue Ridge (Irish Creek tin district and RobertsonRiver and...Carolinaand Virginia; (5) the 300-m.y.-oldplutonbelt of Georgia,South Carolina,North Carolina,and Virginia; (6)...morphology. Form of deposit: Veins Examples: Quartz-fluorite veinsat R6ssing, SouthWestAfrica(Bern!ng et al...1958);carbonate-hematite-fluorite veinsat BokanMr., Alaska(MacKevett, 1963);and carbonate-fluorite veins at Oka carbonatite |  | | Report (volume) | | rhombic crystal faces, from Nugget mine, Gilpin County, Colo.-................... II. A, Wedge-shaped...rhombic crystal faces, from Nugget mine, Gilpin County, Colo.............................. IV. A, Hiibnerite...from Clifton mining district, Deep Creek Mountains, Tooele County, Utah; B, Scheelite and gray quartz...Scheelite, 6 miles south of Osceola, White Pine County, Nev............................. XV. .4, Stolzite...from Clifton mining district, Deep Creek Mountains, Tooele County, Utah; C, Specimen of reddish caramel |
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