| | 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) | Bull Run Quarry Loudoun County, Virginia H O W A R D R. F R E E L A N D 10340 Hollyberry Drive Richmond...Richmond, Virginia 23234 Most collectors are familiar with fine prehnite, apophyl lite, and zeolite specimens...Narsavage, 1977), and at the Fairfax quarry near Centreville, Virginia (Medici, 1972; Mitchell, 1977). There...are several other "trap" quarries in northern Virginia which have yielded beautiful and sometimes rare...environments. Bull Run quarry located in Loudoun County, Virginia, is one such quarry. To date, nearly twenty | | | 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 | | | Report (issue) | ^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville, Virginia. Figure 7. Locations of mineral deposits in...mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre and Heyl , 19.60 | | | 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) | glass and plagioclase to <1 vol% crystals of laumontite (~10 µm size). Keywords: Hydratable glass, hydratable...and 9g; compositions 4, 5, and 6 in Table 3). Laumontite occurs as a few thin tabular oriented crystals...and detrital plagioclase partially replaced by laumontite, (f) prismatic ferrosilite and hexagonal mazzite...glass, (g) ferrosilite and glass, (h) laumontite, (i) laumontite, (j) authigenic calcite. Compositions...pigeonite, Fs = ferrosilite, Lmt = laumontite, LmtPl = laumontite plagioclase, Mz = mazzite, Pl = plagioclase | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | framework will entirely collapse as found for laumontite, which becomes amorphous at ca. 350 °C (Ståhl...after the type locality in Goose Creek quarry, Loudoun County, Virginia. The structure was further characterized...determination (Rouse and Peacor1986). Samples from Loudoun County occur in vugs in altered seams that cut diabase...from two sources: the type locality in Loudoun County, Virginia, U.S.A. (kindly provided by the Smithsonian...molecules (small, black spheres). from both Loudoun County and Jalgaon Quarries were mounted in open 0 | | | Journal (issue) | the Month for April. Some of us have found it in Virginia, and more of us can seek it when we return to...little-known facts about this mineral. Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, No in-person social events...Newsletter Prehnite, O&G Southbury Quarry, Southbury, New Haven County, CT. Photo: Bob Cooke. the specimens...through many shades of green. The Upper New Street Quarry was active from 1893 to 1925, although specimens...Prospect Park Quarry, Paterson, NJ. Bottom: Prehnite with babingtonite, Roncari Quarry, East Granby, | | | 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 | | | 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) | Geochemistry, Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, Virginia. Barrer, R.M. (1978) Zeolites and clay minerals...Geochemistry, Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, Virginia. Bish, D.L., Vaniman, D.T., Chipera, S.J...Geochemistry, Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, Virginia. Chipera, S.J. and Bish, D.L. (1991) Rehydration...and Bird, D.K. (2003) Hydrogen-bonded water in laumontite II; experimental determination of site-specific...Petrology, 27, 259–282. ——— (1971) P-T stabilities of laumontite, wairakite, lawsonite, and related minerals in | | Meisser, N., Brugger, J., Ansermet, S., Thelin, P., Bussy, F. (2010) Francoisite-(Ce), a new mineral species from La Creusaz uranium deposit (Valais, Switzerland) and from Radium Ridge (Flinders Ranges, South Australia): Description and genesis. American Mineralogist, 95 (10) 1527-1532 doi:10.2138/am.2010.3413 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | (now usually dissolved) acicular crystals of laumontite. A similar evolution from magmatic hydrothermal...Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, Virginia. Coats, R.P. and Blissett, A.H. (1971) Regional...Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, Virginia. Mandarino, J.A. (1976) The Gladstone-Dale...Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, Virginia. Meisser, N. (2003) La minéralogie de l’uranium | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Monograph 1, Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, Virginia. Manuscript received August 11, 2009 Manuscript...(kutnahorite) G Ky kyanite A Lrn larnite G Lmt laumontite A Lws lawsonite G Lzl lazulite A Lzr lazurite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | volumes of these phases if partial dehydration of laumontite is taken into account. Similarly, Carey and Bish...volumetric differences and water contents of laumontite, “leonhardite” (partially dehydrated 1458 ...Kim and Burley (1971), and Manghnani (1970). laumontite), and wairakite. As discussed above, more recent...Geochemistry, Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, Virginia. Bish, D.L., Vaniman, D.T., Chipera, S.J...837–849. Liou, J.G. (1971) P-T stabilities of laumontite, wairakite, lawsonite, and related minerals in | | | Book | for naming stilbite, analcime, harmotome, and laumontite although he only popularized and more completely...faujasite, ferrierite, gmelinite, goosecreekite, laumontite, levyne, mazzite, merlinoite, montesommaite,...pressure collapses. At high pressure heulandite or laumontite is replaced by lawsonite, and analcime by albite...scattered sites. Rarely, erionite, mordenite, and laumontite are found. Merlinoite is found with plagioclase...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed | | | Book | for naming stilbite, analcime, harmotome, and laumontite although he only popularized and more completely...faujasite, ferrierite, gmelinite, goosecreekite, laumontite, levyne, mazzite, merlinoite, montesommaite,...pressure collapses. At high pressure heulandite or laumontite is replaced by lawsonite, and analcime by albite...scattered sites. Rarely, erionite, mordenite, and laumontite are found. Merlinoite is found with plagioclase...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed | | | Journal (issue) | van prehniet van de Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, NJ, USA aangeboden. Meer details hierover vindt...Pelckmans Reisbelevenissen in Nevada en Oregon (USA) De reis die Herwig en zijn gezin dit jaar maakte...PORT (76). Salle Les Pommiers (plus chapiteau) CHANTILLY (60). Espace Bouteiller. Beurs (M-F-J-E). IMSBACH...prehniet Prehniet-aggregaten van Paterson, New Jersey, USA. Verzameling en foto © Ron Gibbs www.theimage.com...gipskristallen (Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, New Jersey, USA). Í Steil-pyramidale tot bijna prismatische | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | and octahedral pyrite crystals at the Kip’s Bay quarry in east midtown Manhattan (Chamberlin 1888). Colorless...graphite crystals to 5 mm across from New York County. Graphite crystals included in ROCKS & MINERALS...expansion of the New York and Harlem Railroad tunnel. Laumontite, Ca4[Al8Si16O48]•18H2O: Another late-forming...late-forming zeolite found in bedrock fractures is laumontite, which generally occurs as small white crystals associated...collection is a cluster of blocky, white, 10-mm laumontite crystals found at Harold Avenue (an obsolete | | | Catalog/List | TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near clear thumbnails...at $15.00 each. BROOKITE: Magnet Cove, Garland County, Arkansas; Dipyramidal thumbnail crystals mounted...apophyllite, prehnite, heulandite, stilbite, laumontite, calcite, okenite and other minerals, all exceptionally...diameter, priced at $5.00 each. CA VANSITE: Wagholi Quarry, Poona, India: Beautiful bright blue radiating...Hill, Calaveras River, Valley Springs, Calaveras County, California: Really neat little buggers for sure | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | zeolites such as clinoptilolite, heulandites, and laumontite (Andrews 1980; Alt and Honnorez 1984; Cummings...magmas, Columbia River Basalt Group, north-western USA. Mineralogy and Petrology, 80, 1–25. Cummings, M...Geochemistry, Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, Virginia. Orzol, L.L. (1987). Explosion structures...smectite in an Entisol at Red Rock Canyon, Kern County, California. Clays and Clay Minerals, 36, 5, 425–431 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Geochemistry, Mineralogical Society of America, Chantilly, Virginia. Bursill, l.A., lodge, E.A., Thomas, J.M...and Bird, D.K. (2003) Hydrogen bonded waterin laumontite I: X-ray powder diffraction study of water site...site occupancy and structural changes in laumontite during room-temperature isothermal hydration/dehydration...Geochemistry, Mineralogical Society of America. Chantilly, Virginia. Meier, W.M., Olson, D.H., and Baerlocher | | | 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 | | Kruszewski, Łukasz, Palchik, Vyacheslav, Vapnik, Yevgeny, Nowak, Katarzyna, Banasik, Kamila, Galuskina, Irina (2021) Mineralogical, Geochemical, and Rock Mechanic Characteristics of Zeolite-Bearing Rocks of the Hatrurim Basin, Israel. Minerals, 11 (10) 1062 doi:10.3390/min11101062 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | heulandite, thomsonite, mesolite, scolecite, stilbite, laumontite, wairakite, and yugawaralite [1,2]. The diversity...Rees, L.V.C., Ed.; John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ, USA, 1980; Volume 52, pp. 2115–2130. Mumpton, F.A. Commercial...Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers Inc.: New York, NY, USA, 1983; pp. 1418–1431. Utada, M. Zeolites in Hydrothermally... Eds.; Mineralogical Society of America: Chantilly, VA, USA, 2001; Volume 45, pp. 305–322. Scott, M.A...Science and Technology; CRC Press: New York, NY, USA, 2003; p. 1204. Hall, A. Zeolitization of volcaniclastic | | Voudouris, Panagiotis, Melfos, Vasilios, Mavrogonatos, Constantinos, Tarantola, Alexandre, Gӧtze, Jens, Alfieris, Dimitrios, Maneta, Victoria, Psimis, Ioannis (2018) Amethyst Occurrences in Tertiary Volcanic Rocks of Greece: Mineralogical, Fluid Inclusion and Oxygen Isotope Constraints on Their Genesis. Minerals, 8 (8) 324 doi:10.3390/min8080324 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | in the veins is associated with the zeolites laumontite, heulandite, and analcime, and with platy calcite...in the veins is associated with the zeolites laumontite, heulandite, and analcime, and with platy calcite...heulandite-Ba (Kornofolia); 14, 15: analcime (Kirki); 16: laumontite (Kirki); bd = below detection limit, na = not...and heulandite-Ba at Kornofolia, and analcime, laumontite and heulandite at Kirki are closely related with...alternations of thin layers of quartz, smectite, laumontite and heulandite, then analcime and calcite, followed | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA ARTICLE HISTORY Downloaded by [University of Sussex...Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, USA © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis...Klamath Mountains z z pumpellyite T CR z 40° laumontite z lawsonite bluesch z ultramafics z z z...Coastal Belt include calcite + quartz + albite ± laumontite, reflecting maximum pressures of 2–3 kbar at...of Sussex Library] at 05:08 13 July 2016 and laumontite in order to determine metamorphic grade, and |
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Chantilly Quarry, Chantilly, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA