 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Metate asbestos mine near Globe (Gila Co.), Ariz. Mr. Jack Neal, one of the owners of the mine, states that...that it occurs in large quantity throughout the mine."— letter dated July 1, 1955, from C. C. Corley, 2534...fifteen years ago from a farm home, about ten miles north of Heber Spring. Cleburne Co., Arkansas. They were...uranous silicate, has been found in the La Sal No. 2 mine, Mesa Co., Colo., and named coffinite in honor of...Danbury, Conn. "Petrified Pound Cake" Found 10 miles north of Heber Springs, Cleburne Co., Ark. 480 Nice |  | | Report (issue) | | .'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North CarOlina Department of Natural Resources and Community...for the general welfare of the citizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts a number of basic and...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist FRONT | | | Report (issue) | | Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist i ...FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian Institution (slide...viable mineral collecting sites through out North Carolina. Some sites are commercially operated during |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | amount of money toward the purchase of a splendid beryl crystal to assure its remaining in the State, and...exhibit in the Clifton Public Library in March The North Jersey Mineral ogical Society, Inc., Upper Montclair...of the sales benefitting the Club treasury Bill Bowman, a member of the Southeastern Massachu setts Mineral...a trip invite a friend or two to go along. NORTH CAROLINA The Charlotte Gem and Mineral Club, the sponsors...Show. A field trip was made to the Tweedy Garnet Mine. PENNSYLVANIA The Central Pennsylvania Rock and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | They are sometimes found in town libraries or county buildings. Occasionally club members in a community...the collecting days ahead. I recall a friend of mine telling me that when he was a boy, he spent every...Memphis Archeological and Geological Society. SOUTH CAROLINA Graves Mountain was the site for treasure hunting...hunting by the members of the Western South Carolina Gem and Mineral Society, Greenville. Such goodies as...happy digging the members of the Central South Carolina Gem and Mineral Society, Columbia, journeyed to |  | | Book | | MINES MINERS MINERALS AND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Western North Carolina’s Hidden Mineralogical Treasures...E L L 2005 PARKWAY PUBLISHERS, INC. Boone, North Carolina Copyright ©1999 Lowell Presnell All Rights...Mines, miners, and minerals of western North Carolina : western North Carolina’s hidden mineralogical treasures...(hard cover) 1. Mines and mineral resources—North Carolina—History. I. Title. TN24.N8P74 2005 338.4‚7622‚09756—dc22...Domestic Mica Buying Policy 111 20. Western North Carolina & the War Years .119 21. The Mineral Kingdom |  | | Book (volume) | | vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...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...CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all tributary branches |  | | Report (issue) | | C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Nenadkcvichite Prehnite Bavenite Axinite Beryl (Aquamarine) (Golden beryl) Cordieritc Tourmaline Group Elbaite...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com mon rock-making materials |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham... Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8 km off Browns Road: beryl (Furcron,...km south of 1-85 on U . S . 441 near Commerce: beryl, garnet, muscovite. Downloaded by [University of |  | | Journal (issue) | | placement tests. (Continued on page 2) A group of red beryl crystals on rhyolite matrix, sometimes called “bixbite”...story of her exploits in the woods of Rappahannock County, Virginia, follows.—Editor) This past winter I...(1905) described a few deeply-colored strawberry-red beryl crystals that Maynard Bixby had sent him to examine...of gem quality, Alexander County, North Carolina; [strawberry-red] rose beryl, Dugway Range, Utah; crystallized...napalite, Aetna mine, California; pseudomorphs of hematite after enargite, Copperopolis mine, Utah; and malachite |  | | Book (volume) | | grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯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; |  | | Book (volume) | | grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯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; |  | | Report (volume) | | Deposits of Southwestern Virginia and Western North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1072-D Quartz...Deposits of Southwestern Virginia and Western North Carolina By JOHN B. MERTIE, JR. CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC...deposits of southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina. Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1958...______________________________________ Ernest L. Bowman farm_______-____________________________ J. Otis...area_______---____--_--_-________________-__--____ Patrick County.______________________________________________ |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________............._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...n d m 1799 i n Cabarrus C o u n t y, N o r t h Carolina, b y a s m a l l b o y w a l k i n g along a m |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the information about cinnabar from the Red Devil Mine of Sleetmute, Alaska, and thought you might like...siderite have been found in the Junction copper mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Ariz. ARKANSAS — A black mass...in a road cut on Little Tujunga Road, 8.8 miles north of its junction with Foothill Blvd. in Pacoima,...sphalerite (gem quality) from the famous Big Four zinc mine near Heeney, Summit Co., Colo. Some small specimens...us — very nice material. "From the Big Four zinc mine near Heeney, Summit Co., Colo., by the Green Mountain |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | some three miles northeast of here, in Western North Carolina. This is one of the few spots in the United..."At the Crabtree Mountain locality in Mitchell County, the emeralds occur in pegmatite enclosed in mica...mainly of feldspar, quartz, black tourmaline and beryl, and encloses horses of biotite-tourmaline schist...Mitchell County to be emerald crystals. Rhorison, in association with the late D. A. Bowman of Bakersville...emerald mine. A good specimen of emerald from this mine has been on exhibit in the Museum of North Carolina |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and pink tourmaline, colorlessand light yellow beryl (goshenite), columbite, and cassiterite. The rose...fluorite, colorlessto pink beryl, cookeite,lepidolite,columbite, and microlite (Bowman, 1902,1903). The columnar...in parallel position or in twinposition (Fig.2). Bowman (1902,p.120) states,"Among (the micas) themselves...greenishwhite muscovite--lepidolite-fibrous muscovite." Bowman notes the occurrence of similar material at Auburn...fine-grained rosemuscovite on lepidolite,after Bowman(1902A). X5. Virginia Rutherford pegmatite,Amelia |  | | 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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | 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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | areas of the Laurentian Shield of northeastern North America, the Fennoscandian Shield in northwestern... contain pegmatites. Examples of the latter in North America are the belt of pre-Cambrian rocks in the...(including the Black Hills) of North America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI)...Ytterby (Sweden), Tanganyika, and India; and the beryl pegmatites of BraziI and South Africa. PelBozorc...the Mesozoic in the Cordilleran region of western North America were accompanied by pegmatites. Granitic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | northeast near Jamestown in Cherokee County is another lead mine." ARIZONA—A letter dated Sept. 17, 1953...his letter, dated Aug. 19, 1953, writes:— "An old mine near here had cavities in it that contained a sandlike...the Navajo Indian Reservation north of this community (in Apache County) with "high hopes" of finding...Chromrutile, has been found at the Red Ledge chromite mine in the Washington mining district of Nevada Co....clear, but presumably it was around 1949. Red Ledge mine was originally developed as a gold-bearing property |  | | Journal (issue) | | Division, Beln1ont Abbey College Belniont, North Carolina Richard Mitchell Professor of Environnzental...EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault University of South Carolina Frank Mayo Atlanta, Georgia Arthur J. Ehlmann...Prairie Creek j ust 10uth of Murfree• boro, Pike County, Arkansas. The near-oval shaped area is an enclosed...diatreme (volcanic pipe) near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas (The Crater of Diamonds State Park)....origin and derivation of mineral names. SO ROCKS AND MINE~ Natural Diamonds and Their Imperfections When |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lapidary, map reading and others. . . . The Fulton County Mineral Club announced its 8th Swapping Bee and...people. . . . The Junior Division of the Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Suffern, enjoyed the Eastern...books going back several hundred years. . . . The North Jersey Mbieralogical Society, Inc., Paterson, learned...PENNSYLVANIA The Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Levittown, asks, "Now that we know what the minerals...on "How safe are you when you enter a quarry or mine dump?" . . . The Pennsylvania Earth Science Association |  | | Journal (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ...after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...archival material related to the Harding pegmatite in north-central New Mexico. This well-known collecting locality...geologic setting and mineralogy of the mine site. The Harding mine catalog will provide researchers and...citations on the Harding mine and information about other collections of Harding mine specimens. The museum |  | | Report (volume) | | State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G...... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota....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 |
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