 | | 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 (issue) | | the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard |  | | Report (volume) | | for the following observation. At the W. Wilson mine, "a few secondary minerals, mainly metatorbernite...alphas per milligram of rock per hour. The White Mountain magma series of Mississippian(?) age consists...mg per hr) was detected in samples of the Long Mountain granite. There are not enough data on the percentages...content (references 7 and 21). Except for the White Mountain series, the available data are too few to determine...dikes, in schists, in the Ohio City area, Gunnison County, Colo. The microlite, associated with lepidolite |  | | Report (issue) | | Electric Co.'s mine; Andrew T. Orr, of the Mica Products Co.; C. W. Bryant, of the Standard mine; L. R. Brown...general information on a number of mines in Grafton County and extended other kindnesses; M. M. Kilton, of...Keene; and Edward Howard, of East Alstead; in Virginia by P. Lippert and Capt. McCray, of the Ridgeway...large sheet mica. The average price paid for run of mine mica, not split or sorted, ranges from $50 to $200...two, muscovite and phlogopite, have extensive application in the industrial world. -Only muscovite is mined |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan...from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced most of the rare minerals, ceased...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991)...Bell Bexar Blanco Brazoria Brazos Brewster Briscoe Brooks Brown Burleson Burnet Cameron 21 22 23 24 25 26...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence |  | | Journal (issue) | | Everitt ................ SOME RECENT BERYL FINDS IN VIRGINIA. By W. R. Brown .... RIEBECKITE FROM WEST QUINCY............................................ THE FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE MUSEUM OF NATIJRAL HISTORY................................. .-.............. MINE YIELDING GEM SPHALERITE ABANDONED MANY YEARS .·...extremity of Milan, and Diamond Ledges on Long Mountain in the northern extremity of Stark, are localities...Amethyst has been found between North Peak and Square Mountain in the township of Kilkenny and two places in |  | | Book (volume) | | rocks are exposed as thick bands around the entire mountain system. The rising granite mass intruded the famed...an inexhaustible supply of cold artesian, Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Center Reston, Virginia 22092 A. Krishna Sinha Department of Geological Sciences Virginia Polytechnic Institute...Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 Norman Herz Department of Geology The University...core of the Blue Ridge anticlinorium in northern Virginia James W. Clarke Geology and age of the Robertson...8 Rb-Sr age for the Robertson River pluton in Virginia and its implication on the age of the Catoctin...Evolution of the Grenville terrane in the central Virginia ee ee eee ORNS eee i FVein.) A. K. Sinha and M |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE |  | | Report (volume) | | features..._---_--_--____-____-_-_-_.._-_____-._____ Franklin limestone--.--------.-___-_-_-_______-_____-___...____________________________________________ Principal areas of Franklin limestone and Pickering gneiss._____ General ...____________ Chestnut Hill area_-----_------_-_---______-._-_____Structure of Franklin limestone and...and Pickering gneiss____--_-__Relations of Franklin limestone and Pickering gneiss to surrounding rocks...____-__--_------_---_-____--_-___---____ Age of Franklin limestone and Pickering gneiss._-._--._-_-_-._ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in the Appalachian Mountain region, a large number of districts in the Rocky Mountain area, and the inner...pegmatites of Western Australia and the Rocky Mountain belt (including the Black Hills) of North America;...America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI), Ytterby (Sweden), Tanganyika...Hale deposit (Glastonbury), and the Blueberry Mountain pegmatite at Woburn, Massachusetts,are Devonian...to the Late Ordovician (Taconic revolution).e Virginia and the Carolinas a Landes, Kenneth K., Origin |  | | Journal (issue) | | Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia CONSULTING EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault...COVER STORY : Fairfieldite from the Foote mine in Kin!!$ Mountain, North Carolina. Now part of the Smithsonian...0035-7529 1978 by The Foote Quarry in Kings Mountain, by LAURA MARBLE 102 Dorset Way Lyman, South Carolina...Foote Mineral Company spodumene mine at Kings Mountain , Cleveland County, North Carolina consisted of six...28012 GENERAL DESCRIPTION The geology of the Foote Mine was described by Kesler ( 196 1). It is part of |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin, Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |  | | Report (volume) | | General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | (CaBSiO4OH) vesicle filling from a basaltic Houghton County lava flow. Small specks of native copper occur... the 1845 discovery of the Cliff Mine ( first in the world to mine native copper as its sole product)...exceptionally fine, twinned analcite crystals from Houghton County ························-··-······-··-········...····· 41 2. Ankerite on siderite from Alpena County ···-··············-··················· 46 3....stalactitic limonite from Negaunee in Marquette County .............................................. |  | | Report (issue) | | ........................................... . Virginia.................................................212pp., 1913. Geology and ore deposits of Copper Mountain and Kasaan Peninsula, Alaska, by C. W. Wright...Gregory, 161 pp., 1917. Economic geology of Gilpin County and adjacent parts of Clear Creek and Boulder Counties...119pp., 1891. *126 A mineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties, Mass., by B...of South Mountain, Pa., by Florence Bascom, 124 pp., 1896. *139 Geology of the Castle Mountain mining district |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin, Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |  | | Report (issue) | | ...........................................80 Virginia ................................................Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont...marble with talc and tremolite. Talc deposits in Virginia are all derived from ultramafic rocks and are...for which production is reported are indicated by mine symbols on these figures, however, the quantity...material that must have been removed to constitute a mine is an indefinite one. Areas that are permissive |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | 20192 J. Ryan Thigpen Department of Geosciences Virginia Tech University Blacksburg, VA 24061 Robert J...J. Tracy Department of Geosciences Virginia Tech University Blacksburg, VA 24061 Richard D. Warner School...Survey 2090 U.S. Highway 70 Swannanoa, NC 28778 Virginia L. Peterson Department of Earth Sciences Grand...Warner, Jeffery G. Ryan, Steven P. Yurkovich, Virginia L. Peterson Geology and petrogenesis of mafic and...........91 Jeffrey G. Ryan, Steven Yurkovich, Virginia Peterson, Jonathan Burr, Sarah Kruse Petrology |  | | Report (volume) | | .........Prof. George H. Perkins, Burlington. Virginia...........Dr. Thomas L. Watson, Charlottesville...Washington....... Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin......See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson |  | | Book | | REPORT OF PROGRESS c^ TTTE GEOLOGY PHILADELPHIA COUNTY AND OF THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF MONTGOMERY AND By...regions : 1881. address Pleasantville, Venango county, Pa. Sutton VVall, to report on the coal and...and Fulton counties address Uniontown, Fayette county. Pa. W. G. Platt, geologist for Centre and Clearfield...Delaware river at the east end of the district, to Chestnut Hill, Spring Mill and Conshohocken on the Schuylkill...all outcrops in the southern townships of Bucks county and new surveys were made along the Bound Brook |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Library] at 00:39 19 January 2015 Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia B lack and nearly black minerals-no...ferberite, and rutile, especially that from Graves Mountain, Georgia. To some, however, the beauty and importance...aluminous schists; and alpine-type pockets. The Graves Mountain rutile nominated for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...brookite, hematite, quartz, titanite, chlorite, muscovite, kyanite, andalusite, and pyrophyllite. Microscopic...near Waterbury, Vermont; at Poker Hill, Providence County, Rhode Island; and in Essex, Orange, and Warren |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tennessee 37830 rjlauf@msn.com Figure 2. Golden muscovite crystals, to 3 cm, on albite, Galileia, Brazil...Zussman 1962) described nine “common species”: muscovite, paragonite, glauconite, phlogopite, biotite,...(less often) O, Cl, or S. Figure 1. Twinned muscovite (“star mica”) crystals to about 3 cm; Riacho Genipapo...prismatic muscovite crystals, Hiddenite, North Carolina. Specimen about 6 cm wide. Figure 4. Muscovite var...chromphyllite ferro-aluminoceladonite ferroceladonite muscovite nanpingite paragonite roscoelite tobelite KAl(Mg |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |
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