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| AN OVERVIEW Rhode Island MINERALS & COLLECTORS F. WILLIAM MILLER Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford...A L SPECIES and many varieties occur within Rhode Island. Part of this abundance is attributable to the...Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...towns of Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport...Newport County. The greatest number of species and varieties appear in the Northern Zone. Miller attributes |
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| NORTHEASTERN RHODE ISLAND 286 ROCKS AND M I N E R A L S The adjacent towns of Cumberland and Lincoln in northeastern...northeastern Rhode Island offer col lecting in several localities, including the Conklin Limestone quarry, the...the Old Dexter quarry, Diamond Hill, the Route 114 road cut, and the Iron Hill mine. T H E T O W N S H...U M B E R L A N D at the northeast corner of Rhode Island is not so famous mineralogically as Cumberland...there is enough interest ing in this town and in Lincoln—the adjacent town to the south—to warrant a field |
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| vanadinite (lustrous, drusy, brownish xls on gray quartz rock). ARKANSAS—The following item was sent in by Byron...of Western Grove,in the N.E. section of Newton County. All these are in N . W . Arkansas. "It happened...a very large and interesting one from Lawrence County, Arkansas." CALIFORNIA—Emmett Klopfenstein, Box...plenty of zoisite. One of the dumps near the old lime Kiln is still full of massive topaz, but it's not...strongly radioactive microlite occurs at the Slocum quarry in E. Hampton. A few of the octahedral crystals |
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| 1 " VE M NlN[W �IUWPS�l- ( MASSACHUSETTS RHODE ISLAND 1 #'vp ,#,V,4 I' vr Go � - PRICE $2...Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island PERHAM'S MAINE MINERAL S'toRE INC. JUNCTION...Talc Mine Saxtons River, Vermont Davis Soapstone Quarry South Newfane, Vermont Adams Hill Site NEW HAMPSHIRE... Massachusetts Pfitzer Quarry Ashland, Massachusetts Bayer - Mingolla Quarry Blandford, Massachusetts...Goldmine Brook Site Bolton, Massachusetts Bolton Lime Quarry Granby, Massachusetts Granby Dinosaur Museum |
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| University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals. Most...Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke, Washington County. It has also...at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut; as good micromount material at the...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as...rosettes of pearly plates in calcite veins cutting trap rock at Moore, the long-abandoned iron mine at Andover |
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| Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island o GEOLOGICAL 5. I 09 8* Ci PI O i o TJ i i I to & Ol BULLETIN...State of Rhode Island Development Council i M SURVEY I C.to 1295 Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island...1295 Prepared in cooperation with the State of Rhode Island Development Council Lithology, structure, and...geological studies in Rhode Island____._.________.-__.-_-____. Position of Rhode Island in the Appalachian...-___--_Older gneissic rocks of northwestern Rhode Island.____________ Nipsachuck Gneiss------------- |
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| A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises...overlooks both Colorado and Wyoming. The subsurface rock strata of the entire state are all undisturbed sedimentaries:...borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming line is good rock hunting country, especially along the southern slopes...of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive rock beds east of the Orella railroad sta. ranks among... The Sandhills Museum in town is well worth the rock hunter’s visit. Draws, cuts and breaks in the hills |
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| Postcard view of the Waukon iron mine, Allamakee County, cia. 1912. John Taylor collection. ARTHUR E ...limestone quarries, gravel pits, strip mines. and rock outcrops are scattered throughout the state and...Unfortunately. with today’s environmental laws and mine and quarry regulations. the prolific collecting of the 1950s...Iowa Geological Survey. Localities by County Allamakee County Lansing, Lansing lead mines = Captain...calcite, cerussite (crystals), dolomite, galena, goethite, hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz (drusy) |
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| was collected in May 1970 by Dietmar Stitz from rock excavated for a bank-building foundation on South...a very aesthetic specimen (fig. 19). On Staten Island an excavation at the foot of the Verrazano-Narrows...on Staten Island, dark red almandine crystals to 20 mm across were found in the 1960s in rock excavated...that was collected at College Point, Queens, in rock that was dumped there from the excavation of the...radiating brown crystals to 10 mm long. On Staten Island large masses of “fibrous serpentine” throughout |
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| Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...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...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin |
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| ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALASKA Famous mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen) 8:4-12...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and |
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| Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...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...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin |
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| Oxalic Acid Northwest Area Lakeville Goethite Mine Conklin Quarry Prospect Mountain Judd's Bridge Kyanite...West Redding Garnet Locality Biermann Quarry Captain Cook Quarry Honey Hill Road Outcrop Northcentral...Silliman Gravel Pit Southcentral Area Cheshire Trap Rock Quarry Cheshire Barite Mines Hamden Copper Mine Arsenic...Haven Trap Rock Northcentral Area Diamond Ledge Diamond Lake Dinosaur State Park Hollister Quarry Glastonbury...Prospects Simpson Quarry Andrews and Hale Quarries Case Quarries Strickland Quarry Hale-Walker Quarries |
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| Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course...minerals are leached from the surrounding country rock during metamorphism. Ramsay and Huber (1983) suggest...such as pegmatite veins or cavities in sedimentary rock. The localities for faden quartz are numerous, and...repeated cracking and healing of grains in the country rock, which are broken and exposed when the fissure grad...the stretched crystal fiber hy pothesis, when the rock first fractures, crystal grains are broken, and |
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| world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarry—Alberene amphiboie asbestos, apatite...Schuyler (excavation on Rt. 6) goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry—Esmont dolomite, limonite |
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| severalof the Arkansas antimonymines in Sevier County,Arkansas (Smithand Staszak, 1996).This districtis...very thin coatings and dustings of yellow-brown goethite. I originally thought these crystals might be...information on this page: LR Ream Publishing Hydraulic Rock Trimmer Wydar has perfectedthe art of hydraulic...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...Fresnoite find at the Junnila Mine, San Benito County, California Scott Kleine 3895 Lisa CT, Apt C Reno |
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| ............. 554 MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................505 511 514 532 533 551 551 553 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY GEOLOGIC HAZARDS COMMITTEES NAMED Clarence Allen...and August 1st, 1965, in Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to swap or dig your own tourmaline plus...Annual Rock Swap at Jo Scholl's Place, North Gorham, Maine. July 26-31, 1965 — Charlotte Rock and Min...sponsor the 25th Annual Convention and Silver Jubilee Rock and Gem Festival of the Midwest Federation of Mineralogical |
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| Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Inc., Editor, Marvin Klibonoff; and the "Unaka Rock and Mineral...any Editor, who writes to Mrs. alis", Northland Rock and Mineral Club, Ruth Wertz for them. This will...collected rocks! The words Division of the Rockland County Mineral "Founded 1886" following the name of and...Lapidary Society, Editor, Dr. Philip Limecrest Quarry, Sparta, New Jersey C. Eisman; "Triassic Valley...Reminiscences". The field trip to the Limecrest Quarry was very productive. Mr. Paul Desautels, Associate |
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| world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite, apatite...Schuyler (excavation on Rt. 6) goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry-Esmont dolomite. limonite...muscovite crystals, tourmaline AMHERST COUNTY Crystals of goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite; largest, |
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| Values of the mole fraction of trapped CO2 in the goethite total carbon as determined for seven samples vary...CO2 could indicate whether the environment of goethite formation was relatively open or closed to mixing...mixing with CO* from the Earth’s atmosphere. In goethite samples subjected to HzOz treatment, calculated...‘3C/‘2C ratios in organic matter associated with goethite could be a source of information on the Earth’s...geographic distribution. EXPERIMENTAL The natural goethite samples employed in this study were originally |
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| Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California......................................................................369 by L. H. Conklin Letters to the editor ........................... 8th Friday, Oct. 9th BEY'S ROCK SHOP GRAYSON LAWRENCE H. CONKLIN PICKENS GRENVILLE MINERALS ...learned to transform intractable masses of hard rock into works of great beauty. The People’s Republic...gem fields. Sapphire deposits on windswept Hainan Island are under in vestigation. In 1976 the first major |
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| map; prepared by William Besse. IOW AITE Sioux County, Iowa BRUCE CAIRNCROSS Department of Geology University...serpentinites 1,000–1,500 feet below the surface in Sioux County, Iowa (Kohls and Rodda 1967); approximately thirty-five...best known for geodes from the Keokuk area in Lee County (Wherry 1918; Smith 1997; Huizing 2017). The Keokuk...is also the official state rock for Iowa. Pint’s quarry in Black Hawk County has produced collectible,...attractive calcite, some associated with euhedral goethite crystals; good-quality yellow-amber-colored fluorite; |
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| PSEUDOBROOKITE FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and...Ladick Trucking and Excavating weathered granite quarry is located approximately 1 mile east of State Highway...quartz-pyrite-fluorite vein was recovered from a pile of shot rock derived from blasting large boulders removed from...arsenopyrite or marcasite (now represented by goethite pseudomorphs), molybdenite, cassiterite, fluorapatite...is present in overlying sediments as abundant goethite replacements of pyrite and marcasite. It is hoped |
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| R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia....................................Simmons & F. J. Wicks Calcioferrite from the Moculta quarry, near Angaston, South Australia ................. from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and Bob Sullivan;...York Mineralogical Club field trip to Penitentiary quarry, Snake Hill, New Jersey, on September 4, 1893 (photo |
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| chalcophanite ..................................... Goethite, dickite, fluorite, and barite .................Pace-and-compass map of the Racine Boy and Silver Cliff quarry area showing sample localities Map showing sample...this study. Associated minerals are bromargyrite, goethite, dickite, fluorite, barite, and minor amounts...the Silver Cliff-Rosita mining district, Custer County, Colo. (fig. 1), on the east side of the Wet Mountain...Canon City o pueblo Study area (fig. 2)' XUSTER COUNTY . Walsenburg tAlamosa 37' FIGURE 1. Location |
Conklin Quarry, Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA