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| VIRGINIA DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES DIGITAL REPRINT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF...OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY Wilbur A. Nelson BULLETIN 77 Adobe Acrobat® Reader® Adobe Acrobat Reader version...rendering of Geology and Mineral Resources of Albemarle County by Wilbur Nelson is to make accessible an...appear to show the bookmark pane is viewable. Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy Division...500 Charlottesville, VA 22903 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT |
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| VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard...Mitchell and William F. Giannini COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION...1988 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard...Mitchell and William F. Giannini COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION...and State Geologist CHARLOTTESVILLE. VIRGINIA 1 988 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| The Minerals of Albemarle County, Virginia PART I: NATIVE ELEMENTS, SULFIDES, HALIDES, AND OXIDES By...Department of Geology University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. Albemarle County is near the center of Class...Class I. Native elements. Virginia in the Piedmont physiographic 1- Silver. Native silver specimens have...° t been found in Albermarle County, county follows the crest of the Blue Ridge but according to Seamon..., and Jones (1932), the gathe James River. The county seat is Char- lena which occurs in the old Faber |
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| "SOME NOTES ON ASTE RI ATE D QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA" By RUDOLPH J. BLAND, Jr. Blsnd Minerals, 2807 W. Cary...asteriated (star) quartz has been considered to be a fairly rare variety of quartz, it is becoming quite...quite common in Virginia. It has recently been found in a variety of colors in this state. In the following...first one of importance is the Ligon mine in Amelia County, Va. This mine is located at the end of State Route...country rock (muscovite gneiss). Mineral Percentage Quartz 68% Muscovite mica - 15% Feldspar (potassic) 10% |
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| 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 |
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| Vol. 27 May 1981 No. 2 BLUE QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA Michael A. Wise1 -@ I n 1885, Robert Robertson described...peculiar variety of quartz from Nelson County, Virginia. This new variety of quartz, as cited by Robertson...waxy luster and acolor varying from pale to deep blue. It therefore appears of interest to ascertain to...occurrence of blue quartz has been reported worldwide. Iddings (1904) noted blue quartz in a gray granite...porphyry in Llano, Texas. Jayaraman (1939) found blue quartz pebbles occurring in the charnockites and gneisses |
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| 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 |
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| HY PERSTHENE SY ENITE AND RELATED ROCKS OF THE BLUE RIDGE REGION, V IR G IN IA 1 BY THOMAS L. WATSON................................................. Quartz-bearing hypersthene-andesine syenite........................................... Comparison with quartz monzonite........................................with syenite (andesine anorthosite) of Nelson County, Virginia.............................................BL U E RIDGE REGION I n t r o d u c t io n The Blue Ridge, which forms the extreme eastern member of |
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| Depositional Sequences of Northern and Central Virginia, by A. S. Furcon -----------------------·----...Sequatchie in the Chickamauga Limestone in Walker County, Georgia. In northwestern Georgia Butts and Gildersleeve...Formation in the Chickamauga Limestone in Dade County, Georgia. There, Croft (p. 8) divided the Chickamauga...established by Miller and Brosge (1954) in southwestern Virginia and mapped in the northwestern part of the Tennessee...Beekmantown (Kingsport-Mascot) of Tennessee and Virginia and the Cotter and Powell Limestones of Arkansas |
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| Richmond, Virginia VOL. 45 FEBURARY 1999 NO. 1 MAMMOTH TOOTH FOUND IN ENDLESS CAVERNS, VIRGINIA David...David A. Hubbard, Jr., Virginia Division of Mineral Resources and Frederick Grady, National Museum of Natural...a passage of Endless Caverns in Rockingham County, Virginia in July 1996. The cavers left the tooth in...within the Commonwealth. GEOLOGIC SETTING 2 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF h4INERAL RESOURCES Figure 1:Mammoth...Pleistocene (100,000 bp to 11,000bp). PREVIOUS VIRGINIA MAMMOTH RECORDS Figure 2: Fred Grady preparing |
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| COMMONWEAL TH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY Richmond, Virginia Published quarterly...GRENVILLE-AGE ULTRAMAFIC PLUTONS IN THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE Stephen W. Kline, Arkansas Mining & Mineral...basement terrane of the Virginia Blue Ridge, age granitoid basement terrane in the Blue Ridge of northern Middleburg...Middleburg quadrangle, Virginia. Primary magmatic textures Virginia~ The first documentation of these...pseudoby Ho{1/atd (1981) on a geologic map of Loudoun County, morphic after magmatic phases. Rock types include |
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| Geological Sciences , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , Rlacksburg, Virginia, 24061 Published...Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Rlacksburg, Virginia 24061 Downloaded...allochthonous platform car bonate rocks beneath the Blue Ridge was adopted in detail, while a modified version...(1987) modeled the data available for onshore Virginia, including the data previously analyzed by James...operation in the Valley and Ridge near Franklin, West Virginia, at distance 475 km along the transect. Using |
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| 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...and N W of Centerville. Rutile with ilmenite in quartz monzonite. Dover Coal Ms. Nr. Henrico Co line....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 |
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| Geology of the Mount Rogers area, revisited, Blue Ridge, VA–NC–TN Carolina Geological Society Annual...High- Geology of the Mount Rogers area, revisited, Blue Ridge, VA–NC–TN Carolina Geological Society Annual...and the Opening and Closing of the Iapetus Ocean, Blue Ridge, VA– NC–TN .................................the Neoproterozoic Mount Rogers Formation, SW Virginia ................................................Yonts Linking the Central and Southern Appalachian Blue Ridge: What We Know and Don’t Know about Stratigraphy |
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| Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that............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; |
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| CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...eastern streams and rivers f o r epidote, unakite, blue quartz, agate, chalcedony, petrified wood and other...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 |
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| Mineral Deposits of the Roseland District of Central Virginia U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1371...Mineral Deposits of the Roseland District of Central Virginia By NORMAN HERZ and ERIC R. FORCE U.S. GEOLOGICAL...deposits in Nelson and Amherst Counties in the Blue Ridge of Virginia UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING ...mineral deposits of the Roseland district of central Virginia. (U.S. Geological Survey professional paper; 1371)...p. Supt. of Docs, no.: I 19.16:1371 1. Geology-Virginia-Roseland Region. 2. Mines and mineral resourcesVirginia-Roseland |
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| ............................................. Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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; |
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| 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........ 06. The core of the Blue Ridge anticlinorium in northern Virginia James W. Clarke Geology and...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 |
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| 1 1/2x2 $1.25, 2x2 $1.50, 2x3 $2.50 BROOKITE, QUARTZ, Magnet Cove. Ark. We selected these while we were...paramorphs after brookite. These on the corroded smoky quartz masses and crystals typical of the Magnet Cove...crystals of about 2x2 to 2x3 size @ $4.50 each. SMOKY QUARTZ CRYSTALS, Mex. Very fine and brilliant smoky Crystals...crystal prisms in and on trans lucent to transparent quartz. Most speci mens showing many tourmaline xl prisms...Gregory.... 810 SOME NOTES ON ASTERIATED QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA—R. J. Bland, Jr. 838 HISTORY OF ANDOVER-SULPHUR |
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| weighed 90 tons. Also huge crystals of sparkling blue Beryl from the Black Hills pegmatites have measured...from 18’ to 27’ long. In addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals, Topaz and Tourmaline add to the fascination...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 |
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| of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061. McIVER, Norman...same re- gions; a third with the geology of the Blue Ridge perspective, we have written short introductory...written he is out hammering on the metabasalts of the Blue Ridge? upon an amazing set of exposures wherein...secrets. Lineations were clear and easy to measure. Quartz AARON C. WATERS xiii Vita: Ernst Cloos Acting...Washington County, in The physical features of Washington County. Md. Geol. Survey, Washington County (Rept |
