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| Mineralogy of Paleocene Petrified Wood from Cherokee Ranch Fossil Forest, Central Colorado, USA George E. Mustoe... Bellingham, WA 98225, USA Poudre School District, Ft. Collins, CO 80526, USA; mviney@psdschools.org...discovered in 2010 on private property in central Colorado, USA, has not previously been described in scientific...transported driftwood. A preliminary study of petrified wood specimens reveals evidence of a complex mineralization...the buried wood. Trace element analyses suggest that Fe is the main source of fossil wood color. Keywords: |
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| Although Colorado may be most noted for rhodochrosite or amazonite, the many varieties and associations...a k e w o o d , Colorado 80225 DIANNE L. K I L E 333 S a l e m Street Aurora, Colorado 80011 C O L O...and J. A. Mur phy for an update to Minerals of Colorado: A 100-Year Record (Eckel, 1961). 374 ROCKS... Quartz was a familiar gemstone to many early Colorado residents, as documented by an extensive body...body of literature. The first published list of Colorado mineral localities (in cluding quartz) was included |
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| Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 Lazard Cahn Honorary President “Pick & Pack” Vol...SPEAKER: Steven Wade Veatch with Ben Elick “Castle Rock Quarries” ** Members with last name A-L bring...719-309-4714 GUEST SPEAKER: Steven Wade Veatch: “Castle Rock Quarries” with Ben Elick Steven Veatch, with...with Ben Elick, will share the story of the Castle Rock Quarries. He has worked on this project for 23 years...Quarrymen pose at the Madge Quarry, later known as the Douglas Quarry. Some workers hold shovels, others hold |
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| Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 Lazard Cahn Honorary President “Pick & Pack” Vol...SPEAKER: Steven Wade Veatch with Ben Elick “Castle Rock Quarries” ** Members with last name A-L bring...719-309-4714 GUEST SPEAKER: Steven Wade Veatch: “Castle Rock Quarries” with Ben Elick Steven Veatch, with...with Ben Elick, will share the story of the Castle Rock Quarries. He has worked on this project for 23 years...Quarrymen pose at the Madge Quarry, later known as the Douglas Quarry. Some workers hold shovels, others hold |
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| 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...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...Magnetite PRATT FERRY, Bibb Co., (near) Verigated Marble ROCK RUN to JACKSONVILLE, Calhoun Co. Bauxite ROCKFORD...Pima Co. ♦Fluorspar HOLBROOK, Adamana region Petrified Wood KELVIN, Pinal Co., 2 mi S. of E. side of Verde |
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| London) and located very near the famous Windsor Castle, part-time home of the Queen. The last time I looked...about stopping in for tea! After observing the castle I asked local citizens about the rocks that were...construction material as "stone". But, is that a quarried rock of some sort, dressed river cobbles, or perhaps...different types of rocks cropping out in the area and doing some rock hounding. However, I should have acquired...acquired a geological map of the area before having those grandiose thoughts about finding minerals. Mostly |
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| mining in Alabama in the Cragford district of Clay County, the workings which entered the unoxidized zone...Palmer, Alaska. ARIZONA—From a locality in Mohave County in N . W . Arizona, we have an interesting specimen...came from the same area as the glauberite xls mailed you last June from Imperial County near Bertam Siding...Sea, about 20 miles north of Hi land, Calif. The area is entered by permission now. "I thought this material...puzzling to Mr. Clutter. COLORADO—"About 10 miles east of Castle Rock (Douglas Co.), Colo., I was searching |
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| TURQUOISE Albuquerque’s Turquoise Museum Shines ROCK & GEM • Vol. 49 No. 10 • U.S. $5.99 Issue Code:...TRAVELS Visiting Albuquerque’s Turquoise Museum Castle Helen Serras-Herman 50 THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL...Mineral Attraction Earth Science In News.......28 Rock & Gem Kids ...............44 Poland Mining Camps...Antoinette Rahn Community Outlook ...........47 Rock Science .....................48 37 Maine Mineral...Gems 38 Antoinette Rahn SUBSCRIPTION QUESTIONS? Rock & Gem (ISSN 0048-8453, USPS 486290) is published |
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| Mineralogical Societies (RMFMS) www.rmfms.org Colorado Federation of Gem & Mineral Societies (CFGMS)...225 North Gate Blvd., I-25 exit 156A Colorado Springs, Colorado (Free Parking) Fun for the entire family...fossil vendors, free gold panning, rock identification, a special kids area, silent auction, food vendors...Denver Museum of Nature and Science Sponsored by Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Adults $5, Children...csms.us and www.wmmi.org COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 2 COLORADO June 2012 PICK SPRINGS |
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| SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas...rockhounds I ever met, William Harris, of the Harris Rock Shop, Sarasota, Florida EARTH TREASURES (Volume...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text...description of the type (and often the quality) of the rock, mineral, or fossil material to be found there |
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| detail shows more symbols, labels, and features. Rock Fever! A Guide to 91 of Montana’s Best Rockhounding...information for land managers Additional information on rock shops, attractions, and local history Cover photos... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23. Lolo Hot Springs Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 53. Castle Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 56. Gallatin Petrified Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Easy-to-understand instructions for recognizing rock formations; glossary. How to identify gem minerals...is a precise explanation of h< to recognize the rock formation* which gems occur. The tabular Gem ...Maryland; Professor Richard Pearl of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Professor Jack Hanahan of Belmont... contents fun to hunt for gems 1. It's 2. How 3. Rock formations 4. How 5. Characteristics of important |
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| HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...the sociologists to decide Not everyone takes up rock hunting because of an interest in mineralogy There...comes when, after hours of hammering, a resistant rock splits just the way you want it to. And in the end...Keep Your Eyes Open PLACES TO SEARCH Active Mines Rock Masses 3 Aid the for for Experts and Ouarnes |
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| protect them. In other countries and especially in the USA, there were many more such sites protected by a number...doing so other than through land ownership. In the USA the situation was completely different. The westward...focusing in particular on Great Britain and the USA because this is where most of the interest was manifest...Reserve in 2001), intrusive dykes like the Whin Sill, County Durham and Northumberland (Loughlin 2003), coastal...rocks within Edinburgh itself—Castle Rock surmounted by Edinburgh Castle, Calton Hill with the Observatory |
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| the soc1olog1sts to decide " Not everyone takes up rock hunting because of an interest in mineralogy. There...comes when after hours of hammering, a resistant rock splits just the way you want 1t to. And in the end...Ouarnes Rock Masses Abandoned Ouarr,es and Mines When and How to Go Immovable Areas of Loose Rock WHAT...LIKE Freestandmg Crystals Cav1t1es 18 Crystals in Rock Format,ons Compact and Special Forms Druses and...and Crystal Amorphous Forms VII PHASES OF ROCK COLLECTING 28 Inspection and Gathering / Picking I |
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| A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises...Kimball Co. where it overlooks both Colorado and Wyoming. The subsurface rock strata of the entire state are...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...extensive collecting region of agatized and opalized wood for high gem quality is the Sandhills country around |
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| MINERALS AND JEWELRY 10 DEADLY MINERALS Petrified Wood Collect with Care! ARIZONA WULFENITE Down...50th show by Helen Serras-Herman REGULAR COLUMNS Rock & Gem Kids .......................................Shop Talk .................................20 30 Rock Science ..........................28 What to Cut...advertisements. For this reason, advertisements appearing in Rock & Gem should be considered as requests to inquire...notice. 4 www.rockngem.com rg_toc_0914.indd 4 Rock & Gem (ISSN 0048-8453, USPS 486-290) is published |
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| Minerals The Rock-Hunter's Range Guide Petrified Forest Trails Arizona Gem Trails and the Colorado Desert of...Ransom EMS of and MINERAL AMERI A A Guide to Rock Collecting HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS ....... New...form in A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals and The Rock-Hunter's Range Guide, both by Jay Ellis Ransom....Foreword xi xiii Part I: The Fundamentals of Rock Collecting 1. Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones 1...Serpentines; The Metamorphic Rocks; Metamorphic Rock Types; Collectable Metamorphic Gemstones and Minerals; |
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| Eagle-Picher Minerals, Inc., operation in Malheur County, mining diatomaceous earth. Related article on...Eighty-Eight. Neil Goldschmidt, Governor Crater Rock Museum specimens featured in State Capitol display...display currently shown in the Oregon Council of Rock and Mineral Clubs (OCRMC) display case at the State...than 50 specimens from the collection of the Crater Rock Museum owned by the Medford club. The museum, located...shows materials from nine Oregon counties: Petrified wood rounds and limbs from Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam |
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| Columbia County Permit denied; spacing unit violation. 352 ARCO SEV4 sec. 27 Columbia County 44-27 T...009-00191 Columbia County Location; 2,360. NEV4 sec. 4 T.5 N.,R. 5 W. Columbia County SEI/4 sec. 6 354...354 ARCO Columbia County 44-6 T. 6 N., R. 5 W. 009-00193 Columbia County Application; 3,000. 353 ARCO...sec. 7 355 ARCO Columbia County 31- 7 T. 6 N., R. 5 W. 009-00194 Columbia County Application; 3,000. SWI/4... 21 356 ARCO Columbia County 13-21 T. 6 N., R. 5 W. 009-00195 Columbia County Application; 3,000. D |
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| ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel...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, regional...regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine |
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| ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel...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, regional...regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine |
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| Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 April 2015 PICK&PACK Vol 55 ...... Number 3 Inside...Thursday, April 16, 7:00 PM ** Ugly Rock Contest—Bring your Ugliest Rock!! ** Refreshments provided by the...UGLY ROCK CONTEST by Joyce Price The Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society will have an UGLY ROCK CONTEST...join in the fun. To enter, just pick the ugliest rock you have or can find between now and the meeting...pieces)--no chunks of concrete or pavement. 2. Label the rock and where it came from. 3. Decision of the judges |
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| ]3E~rW]~]£N OF GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS EASrr-CENTllAL COLORADO, CENTRAL WYOMING AND SOU~rHEllN MONTANA BY 'VILLIS..._________________________ _ Locu.liticl:l in foothills of Colorado _______________ _ Colorttdo Spri ngs ________________...details-Continued, Localities in foothills of Colorado-Continued, Thompson Canyoll_________________________...____ __ __ ____ _ _ _ Localities between eastern Colorado and the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming _________... ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 1. Geologic sections between Colorado Springs, Colo., and the Wind River Mountains, |
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| Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 Lazard Cahn Honorary President “Pick & Pack” Vol...meant to him. COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 2 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 80901-0002 July... 1045 Lower Gold Camp Road, Colorado Springs. Sponsored by the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society;...19 - 22: Thurs - Sun, 9 AM – 5 PM, Woodland Park Rock, Gem and Jewelry Show; 19250 E. US 24 (“between...will be outside on the shady lawn. Sept 10-18: Colorado Mineral and Fossil Fall Show, at the Crowne Plaza |
