 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | reply, dated March 28, 1956: Limonite cubes (pseudo pyrite) may be "Your letter has been received by us, found...got a permanent job with a gravel company who was just opening up a new pit. Now isn't that a tough job...tourmaline. This comes from the gravel pit. "The owner of the gravel pit doesn't mind an occasional rock...want a mob like at Muscatine, Iowa. I live at the pit in a trailer house and collectors who wish to do...County close to the Hamilton County line; the gravel pit is close by, just over the line in Hamilton County |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ITALY Gonnardite Dr. H . Meixner of Bergdirektion, Austria, published an account o f "Some New Occurrences...Weilberg, Rhineland, West Germany; and K l o c h , Styria, Poland. The Sicilian gonnardite closely resembles...(Long. 83° 2'E; Lat. 18° 17'NJ of Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh, India. The rock types around...material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun tain is a...Chert Formation which is of Ordovician age. The gravel pit (actually a quarry) is 3 miles north of Mount |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Can anyone supply information on the occurrence? District oí Columbia—On a recent visit to Washington, the...R & M recently about 6 lbs. of pebbles from the gravel beds of Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa. Among the...carefully the pebbles picked up on a trip to a gravel pit, if you have the time, but bring home also a...found pebbles of green plasma (quartz) in a large gravel pit located 2 miles southwest of Moose Lake. He also...olive-brown vesuvianite crystals are found in the Scratch Gravel Hills near Helena, Lewis & Clark Co., Mont. ROCKS |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SEND THEM I N . ALABAMA—A bed of brassy-yellow pyrite several feet thick extends northeast for several...(almost black) matrix; small masses of brassy-yellow pyrite are also present. CONNECTICUT—The following letter...of calcite and quartz are found in the Rogers gravel pit (which is more like a huge quarry) just north...Fortville, Ind. Mr. Johansen works in a sand and gravel pit in Hamilton Co., Ind., near Fortville which is...4 9 ) . H e sent us a number of pebbles from the pit, two of which were nicely polished, one is reddish |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of gray granite showing specks of brassyyellow pyrite. A 4'á inch piece of the root with a very slender...color) have been found in the Silver Mountain district, Alpine Co., Calif. COLORADO-"Prof. Richard M...octahedra in quartz from the Mica Lode, Royal Gorge District, (Fremont Co. ), Colorado. The garnet ranges in...(Litchfield Co.), Conn., have large garnet gravel pits, which gravel is used for top dressing on all the dirt...Delavan (Tazewell Co.), Illinois."—on label. INDIANA-Pyrite has been mined with coal (bituminous) at Terre |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collecting heritage. Its numerous limestone quarries, gravel pits, strip mines. and rock outcrops are scattered...dolomite, galena, goethite, hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz (drusy), smithsonite (Garvin, Ludvigson...purple color-zoned, cubic), gypsum, marcasite, pyrite, siderite, sphalerite (Prior 1994). Waukon, Iron...goethite (after marcasite and pyrite), hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz (drusy), sauconite, smithsonite...NovemberlDecernber 2002 405 Locality Cross-Reference Acme gravel pit, Muscatine Co. Downloaded by [University of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead District 42 0 THE MINERALS OF ILLINOIS: Mining Districts 10 70...50 m. 0 10 20 30 40 SO 00 Illinois Fluorspar District Holocene and Wisconsinan J2_-~-_-_-_- C a h...Henry w i n d b l o w n sand, a n d sane sand and gravel outwash. Formation combined alluvium Wisconsinan...Wisconsinan). Glacial till w i t h some sand, gravel, and silt. G r o u n d moraine G l a s f o r d...o r m a t i o n , glacial till with some sand, gravel, and silt; age assignments of some units is uncertain |  | | Book (volume) | | association with Gold, such as Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite and some Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY... area, and at Reid’s Mt., extensive depositsPyrite. CATOOSA COUNTY GRAYSVILLE, SE 1½ mi., in Knox...quartz pebbles (pastel colors), petrified wood, Pyrite; rd. cuts, banks, cliffsSelenite crystals. COLUMBUS...left side of US 27N, on the Roland Hancock farm, a pitgemmy chert. CHEROKEE COUNTY BALL GROUND: area:...Elberton and Hartwell in Hart Co. The known mica district includes some 250 sq. mi., with most mining revolving |  | Thompson, Woodrow B., Bearss, Gene T., Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Nizamoff, Jams W. (2000) The Estes Quarry, Cumberland County, Maine: A New Pegmatite Mineral Locality. Rocks & Minerals, 75 (6) 408-418 doi:10.1080/00357520009605667 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Prior to the opening of the Estes quarry, a gravel pit was being worked at the base of the hill. In...Smith College led a group of geologists to this pit during a Friends of the Pleistocene field conference...the large pegmatite boulders scattered around the pit. The mineral was identified as purpurite, and this...a new development on the hillside behind the gravel pit. The thin cover of glacial till had been scraped...early September revealed a quarry pit had just been opened. This pit was square and had vertical walls |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | associated with pyrite. Sometimes the brilliant black marmatite is sandwiched between bright pyrite and makes...the fish-tail twins of selenite. W e also found pyrite and marcasite but most of them were badly weathered...Eagle-Picher Mine and the TriState Mine. We found galena, pyrite, marcasite, sphalerite, and calcite. Many of the...were crusted with pyrite and calcite and were a beautiful sight in the sun as the pyrite looked green, blue...calcite crystals had been made in the Tri-State District. Supposed to be in a mine which had been worked |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Melrose, Iowa, sent in a xled, brassy-yellow mass of pyrite on a dark brownish limestone. "Found at a coal..."This rock comes from my dad's gravel News on Mineral Occurrences.' pit on the outskirts of Bogalusa (Wash"The...number of specimens were received. from his father's pit, as we need items One was a loose colorless xl (no...through the Copper Country in Michigan and the district just east of Sault Ste Marie in Ontario, and can...noted Little Pipestone District, of Jefferson Co., Mont. MINNESOTA—From a gravel pit at Hopkins, (Hennepin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | will contain all the above, and I almost forgot, pyrite xls. On Sultan Mt. the dumps yield the same thing...tiny brownish fluorite cubes, tiny brassy-yellow pyrite cubes, small brownish stilbite xls in dark gray...encrustation on dark gray (stained brown) mica schist. Pyrite: Brassy-yellow masses, some showing striated faces...Some of this is mined as low grade iron ore in open pit operations near the canyons. The area is very colorful...veins. "Iron pyrite is the only conspicuous metal-bearing mineral on the dumps. Pyrite occurs as isolated |  | | Report (issue) | | a test core drilled, a mine shaft sunk or a gravel pit dug—additional mineral discoveries may be made...gratitude. I also wish to thank the many quarry, gravel pit and mine operators in Iowa, and many private...I Appendix II Appendix III Appendix IV Index Pyrite and marcasite ................................................................... Minerals from gravel deposits and drift boulders Epidote..............3) 4) 5) 6) Upper Mississippi Valley zinc—lead district Mineral crystals, isometric ................. |  | | Book | | pre-Anglian DADA WOOO INI III CRETACEOUS 5 EPPING DISTRICT organic rich deposits up to 1m soft grey silts...grey laminated silts up to 13m Glacial Sand and Gravel poorly sorted sandy gravels up to 10m Boulder...grey and brown silty clays DN t IVE 24m Head Gravel Hee Older Head EOCENE PALAEOCENE IN THE SEQUENCE...Chelmsford. Much of the ground in the north of the district forms part of the extensive boulder clay plateau...Other publications of the Survey dealing with this district and adjoining districts Crown copyright 1987 |  | | Report (issue) | | summer and winter accommodation throughout the district. There are many lakes, and fishing is good. Many...45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 5 1. 52. 53. 54. 55. Gravel pit exposing the interior of the Omemee esker. Burleigh...Moira Lake. Norwood esker ridge, near Norwood. Open pit of Marmoraton iron mine. (viii) FIGURES Page 1...mining, the area has produced fluorspar, talc, pyrite, gold, lead and marble. The talc and marble industries...Bridgenorth and Norwood eskers. These long, sinuous gravel ridges mark the courses of glacial rivers which |  | | Book (volume) | | seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet thick in... jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate...(SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS CITY: on the Dallas Cr...quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined with Marcasite & Pyrite with rhombs of Calcite, Sphalerite); e extensive...Dolomite, Goethite, Jarosite, Marcasite, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Selenite, Smithsonite and |  | | Book (volume) | | seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet thick in... jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate...(SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS CITY: on the Dallas Cr...quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined with Marcasite & Pyrite with rhombs of Calcite, Sphalerite); e extensive...Dolomite, Goethite, Jarosite, Marcasite, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Selenite, Smithsonite and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | calcite, chalcedony in many colors, gypsum, dolomite, pyrite, etc. One I found at Harrodsburg, Ind., recently... kaolin (white earthy coating on quartz, etc), pyrite (tiny striated cubes, dark brown in color), quartz...1 to iy2 x 2 inches in size) have been found in gravel at Emmetsburg and Graettinger, both in Palo Alto...(spessartite), tiny brownish gemmy crystals on quartz; pyrite masses; and pyrolusite, black, earthy, on quartz...Among the localities are Blue Earth Co. (State gravel pit on State Highway 83, between Judson and Cambria) |  | | Report (issue) | | Mafeking quarries Highway 10 road-cut Souris gravel pit Silver Plains Mine Morden selenite occurrence...MacLeod-Cockshutt Mine Hard Rock Mine Amethyst crystals with pyrite-coated fluorite cubes Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine...trading post Joseph B. Tyrrell field party Souris gravel pit Selenite crystal, Morden Selenite crystals on...contains deposits of limestone, gypsum, clay and gravel whit:h provide collecting sites for fossils, 'micro'...years) 2 Groups, Formations: members, types Souris gravel and sand Tertiary 63 Cretaceous 138 MESOZOIC |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the entrance to the old abandoned Leona Heights Pyrite Mine in Oakland, Calif125 ornia. By going far...many years ago. This locality contains auartz, pyrite, and arsenopyrite in fairly good quantities. The...Idaho. Scheelite (Tungsten) has been found in the gravel and sands of the placers 17 miles below Shoup,...you one of the Gasteropods completely replaced by Pyrite. "Some time ago I received about two hundred from...replaced by Pyrite that may want to trade? "I find that by using a brass wire wheel on Pyrite specimens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at the Holland mine in Washington Camp Mining District near Nogales, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz ARKANSAS—"Last...showing a part of an old abandoned titanium II pit and the other showing part of the barite pits."—letter...(found in a creek bed). 2. Massive, brassy-yellow pyrite in dark brown limonite. 3. Greenish-black, lath-shaped...white albite xls, stained brownish, with a few pyrite cubes (from an old titanium d u m p ) . 6. Black...cellular gypsum (from the titanium pit). 11. Tiny brassy-yellow, striated pyrite cubes in a cellular quartzose |  | | Report (issue) | | Saskatchewan Float, Occurrences «05-2. Algoma District........ fe. Aikens Island, Float No. tee Wg...9 40 sae U)............-. el 42 Cochrane District sces 1s Float No.1-Zn Auden Township .. ...coc) Bay Area Float No. 1- Au ae Yee Kenora District (Patricia Portion)....... Balmer Township Float...Train- cor VI 2 ae : Sebastopol Sudbury District... Beaumont Township Float Train- ne. ... +...Ulster Township Float No.1-Zn....... Thunder Bay District 2.0 <2 seca oe 0. 2... eee Cu. . . eee ee |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Bob Janules, pers. com., 2000). Albany, Government pit, 3 miles NW of junction of U.S. Highway 15 and State... miarolitic cavities in decayed Conway Granite. Pit opened in 1955, 1970s brought productive collecting...243 Figure 3. Quartz, 6.6 cm tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil specimen...(Hollmann 1987; Smith 2001a). Albany, Passaconway gravel pit, 12 miles W of Conway near Downes Brook Crossing...fluorescent) (Gallant 1960). Conway, Lovejoy gravel pit, about 2 miles NW of Conway, miarolitic cavities |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ala., sent in the following item: "Limonite after pyrite, I have found in fairly nice specimens in an old...of my men brought in a perfect clam altered to pyrite with a xl cluster o. l"xUA" on o^.e end; the entire...at Danvers, McLean Co., 111., in a real deep gravel pit. It is good enough that I have it placed in my...under the short wave). "I picked these up near a gravel deposit in Grant County, Indiana, near the city...chalcedony. It was found with many other pieces in gravel in what is known as Clear Creek in western Vernon |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CALIFORNIA — "This material was picked up at a gravel pit in Alturas (Modoc Co.), Calif. Notice the fan-shaped...enclosing a few pebbles that were collected from river gravel from the Chattahoochee River as dredged in southern...Acton Silver Mines and I think they are: galena, pyrite, and copiapite but would be interested in your...specimens consist of lead-gray galena, brassy-yellow pyrite and brownish (iron stained) quartz. N o copiapite...walnut to a basketball and are also found in similar gravel pits along Crowleys Ridge which roughly parallels |
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