 | | Report (issue) | | DIAMOND-BEARING PERIDOTITE IN PIKE COUNTY, ARKANSAS. By HUGH D. MISEK and CLARENCE S. Ross. LOCATION...exposed in four places near Murfreesboro, Pike County, in southwestern Arkansas, and at three of these places...related igneous rocks FIOUKE 65. Map of parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and adjacent States, showing the area...that contains the diamond-bearing peridotite of Pike County, Ark. was first discovered, which has been known...since 1842, lies 2£ miles south-southeast of Murfreesboro, near the confluence of Prairie Creek with Little |  | | Report (issue) | | A note on newly discovered kimberlites in Riley County, Kansas William L. Mansker, Bill D. Richards, and...petrography of the Twin Knobs ttl lamproite, Pike County, Arkansas . 205 Michael A. Waldman, Tom E. McCandless...McCandless, and Hugo T. Dummett The Cretaceous Arkansas alkalic province; A summary of petrology and geochemistry...Potash Sulfur Springs igneous complex, Garland County, Arkansas Robert E. Zartman and J. Michael Howard .... 235 Isotopic relationships in Arkansas Cretaceous alkalic complexes . 241 G. R. Tilton, Sung Tack |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Prairie Creek Diamond-Bearing Kimberlite Diatreme, Arkansas Subbarayudu V. Gogineni, Charles E. Melton 1,...Athens, GA 30602, USA 2 Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA Abstract. Based...Creek diatreme situated 4 km SSE of Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, are classified as micaceous kimberlite...kimberlite diatreme, situated 4 km SSE of Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, has been known since 1842 when it...Gogineni et al. : Prairie-Creek Kimberlite Diatreme, Arkansas 2. Nomenclature and Geology methods. Individual |  | | Report (volume) | | GEOLOGY OF THE DE QUEEN AND CADDO GAP QUADRANGLES, ARKANSAS BY HUGH D. MISER AND A. H. PURDUE *"**» » ..._______ General geography and geology of the Arkansas Valley _________ ____ 12 General geography...system_________________ __________.____________ Arkansas novaculite.___---____-_-___-__-_--____-_-_-__...rocks of Arkansas. Age of the peridotite-_____________________________________ Comparison of Arkansas and...period._______________________-_----__---_---------Arkansas novaculite deposition... __________________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | PERIDOTITE IN ARKANSAS. By HUGH D. MISER. INTRODUCTION. Four areas of peridotite near Murfreesboro, Pike County...writers have contributed to the literature on the Arkansas diamonds and the geology of the peridotite in...of Arkansas diamonds: Am. Jour. Sci., 4th eer., vol. 24, 1907, pp. 275-276. Diamonds in Arkansas: Bull...pp. 187-194. Fuller, J. T., Diamond mine in Pike County, Ark.: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 87, 1909, pp...and corrections regarding the diamond region of Arkansas: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 87, 1909, pp. 371-372 |  | Pantaleo, Nantelle S., Newton, M. Gary, Gogineni, Subbarayuda V., Melton, Charles E., Giardini, A. A. (1979) Mineral inclusions in four Arkansas diamonds: their nature and significance. American Mineralogist, 64 (9-10) 1059-1062 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pages1059-1062,1979 Mineral inclusionsin four Arkansas diamonds:their nature and significance NnNrBr...Totally-enclosed inclusions recovered from four Arkansas diamonds by burning in air at 820" C are identified...eclogitic garnet, (3) enstatite+ peridotitic garnet + chromite, olivine + pyrrhotite, pyrrhotite, pentlandite...matter from each diamond was reclusions in four Arkansas diamonds. The diamonds coveredfrom the bottom...km SSE of Murfreesboro, Pike sequentto X-ray diffraction analyses,sampleswere County, Arkansas(Gogineni |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals, Arkansas also boasts an array of other minerals, as evidenced by this county-by-county description...continued with mining in north ern and western Arkansas and Magnet Cove during the Civil War, and peaked...in full swing and the demand for and price of Arkansas quartz crystals has skyrocketed. In October 1987...exploited. Continued interest in and study of Arkansas minerals, par ticularly the microminerals, will...for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting. Particular thanks goes to these hardcore |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | kimberlite in the United States was near Murfreesboro, Arkansas, around 1908 (Miser and Ross, 1923). A...kimberlite occur rences include chrome diopside, chromite, magnesian i l menite, pyrope garnet, and omphacite...cm in size have been found. Black, octahedral chromite crystals up to 2 mm across have been reported...rock from the Shaffer 3 kimberlite body in Albany County, Wyoming. During sample preparation, these technicians...Batholith in the South Platte District, Jefferson County, Colorado. This small district is significant to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | along Prairie Creek just south of Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. The near-oval shaped area is an...kimberUte diatreme (volcanic pipe) near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas (The Crater of Diamonds State Park)...and carbon dioxide. A view of kimberUte breccia (Arkansas) with an enclosed nodule is shown in Figure 1...omphacite, kyanite, zircon, rutile, ilmenite, chromite, chrome spinel, magnetite, phlogopite, biotite...half is enstatite. It was re covered from an Arkansas diamond (Newton et al, 1977) and is about 100 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | zones in the olivine lamproite from Prairie Creek Arkansas and the paragenesis of haggertyite, Ba [Fe6Ti5Mg]O19...around accidental inclusions in the Prairie Creek, Arkansas, lamproite, extended the type of occurrence of...the crater of Diamond State Park, southwestern Arkansas. The history of the diamond mining activity has...geochronology of the Cretaceous igneous rocks of Arkansas and confirmed a previously determined age of 108...groundmass. Its composition varies from being chromite-rich to having higher proportions of magnetite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have been found along the Cahaba River in Shelby County, Ala. The colors are gray with red veins, red and...taking a couple of hours for this side trip." ARKANSAS—A find of considerable interest, which has received...an abandoned diamond mine near Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. Murfreesboro has the only diamond mine in the...quartz crystals, of odd, ago at the same mine in Arkansas. Howard A. Millar, Manager, Crater of and unusual...these crystals will be opaque—but Diamonds, Murfreesboro, Ark., is a submany are doubly terminated, recapped |  | | Report (chapter) | | diamondiferous micaceous peridotite at Prairie Creek, Arkansas, as a lamproite substantiate their economic importance...micaceous peridotite at Prairie Creek, Murfreesboro, Arkansas, from a kimberlite (albeit anomalous) (Miser... Rosenbusch (1887) classed the Prairie Creek, Arkansas, lamproite with biotite-peridotites but the Leucite...albanites. Tr6ger (1935) placed the Prairie Creek, Arkansas, lamproite in his glimmerite Family (no. 721,...shales and limestones near Hills Pond, Woodson County, SE Kansas (Twenhofel & Bremer 1928; Knight & Landes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bachelor Lake in Lesueur Township, Abitibi-East County, Quebec. Most of it has porphyritic and panidiomorphic...Bachelor Lake is in Lesueur Township, Abitibi-East County, Quebec (Fig. 1) and may be reachedmost conveniently...smaragdite, biotite, perovskite, pyrope, ilmenite, chromite, and other minerals. The name mica-peridotite...Figure 3 with the exception of Bachelor Lake and Pike county, southwesternArkansas, the ultrabasic rocks cut...they are in contact. The mica peridotite of pike county is early upper cretaceous for it cuts Lower cretaceous |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...fiord, North Greenland, where it was first found. ARKANSAS—A deep red jasper pebble, t y 2 x 2 inches, in...the world-famous Crater of Diamonds, near Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark., was presented the Editor of R&M...glauberite xls mailed you last June from Imperial County near Bertam Siding on the Southern Pacific R.R |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Arizona, so this for one thing would be new to us. ARKANSAS — We are indebted to Byron C. Marshall, Prop....the Diamond Mines, at (or near) Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. At the mines, I was kindly given...which I thought you might want to record in your Arkansas part of WORLD NEWS. When at the mines, 1 also...diamond-bearing peridotite from the Mufreesboro, Arkansas area.' "I am also enclosing samples of this Enstatite...literature I have available, is a new record for Arkansas. Also, am sending samples of the garnet fragments |  | | Book | | carbonates in kimberlites and limestones from Riley County, Kansas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2...THE SULLIVAN BUTTES LATITE, CHINO VALLEY, YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZONA. Richard J. Arculus (Research School of...associated with, say, mantle diaperism (Wilshire and Pike, 1975) or plumes (Bonatti ^ , 1977) appear to have...Earth Planet. Lett. 10, 281-84. Wilshire, H. G., and Pike, J. E. N. (1975) Geology 3, 467-70. Wilshire, H...AND Rb-Sr STUDY OF THE ELLIOTT COUNTY, KENTUCKY AND PRAIRIE GREET, ARKANSAS KIMBERLITES Bolivar, S. L. and |  | | Report (issue) | | ___________ Clinochrysotile (Globe-type), Gila County, Ariz___________________________________________...Clinoehrysotile (iron-bearing serpentine), Stillwater County, Mont_________________________ Clinochrysotile...Hill, Harford County, Md____________________ Clinochrysotile and lizardite, Morris County, N.J________...Clinochrysotile and lizardite, variant form, Morris County, N.J.____________________________ Lizardite plus...section___________-___ Lizardite (deweylite), Delaware County, Pa__-___________-_____________-_---__---__--_-Lizardite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 4, 1956, at the Crater of Diamonds, near Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. The Crater of Diamonds is an abandoned...which has been cut and given the name "Star of Arkansas." The finder of this diamond was Mrs. A. L. Parker...the Dallas, Texas paper concerning the "Star of Arkansas." Th!s diamond has been appraised as high as $100...times ARKANSAS—From a hillside located in W l / 2 N W & Section 7, T.I., R 19W of Garland County, Ark...occurrence. This material comes from Chattahoochee County near Columbus, Ga. To better preserve the specimen |  | | Book | | Inc. (SME) 8307 Shaffer Parkway Littleton, CO, USA 80127 (303) 973-9550/(800) 763-3132 www.smenet.org...Crater of Diamonds vent complex, Prairie Creek, Arkansas 134 7.4 Geological sketch map and cross section...of lamproite bodies in the Ouachita province in Arkansas 226 13.13 Swells and grabens in Africa and distribution...were also lamproites—these were found at Murfreesboro, Arkansas, and Majhawan, India. The Majhawan pipe...diamond deposits in the former Soviet Union, Alaska, Arkansas, and other localities. In the late 1950s, as chief |  | | Book (volume) | | RELATIONSHIP OF 2HE œ•URFREESBORO KI•E•LITE ARKANSAS,U.S.A. AUTHORINDEX K. F. Steele 382 AND OTHER...(20%), garnet (20%) and chromite orthopyroxene (20%)• garnet (20%) and chromite km km east east of of...garnet/olivine, 2 garnet/orthopyroxene, 11 olivine/chromite, olivine/chromite, 11 orthopyroxene/silica phase, 1 garnet/clino...relatively rare mineral type (clinopyroxenes, chromite, kyanite), as well as all inclusions of unusual...olivine, 2 garnet/orthopyroxene• one olivine/ chromite and one orthopyroxene/silica phase of peridotitic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA (Received May 12, 1992; accepted in revised form...inferred from the dist~bution of phosphate and chromite crystals in the troilite nodules ( BUCHWALD,197...MALVINet al. ( 1984b) as group IIIE. Cachiyuyal and Murfreesboro, which have certain chemical similarities, were...the chemical and mineralogical properties of Murfreesboro and its exposure age ( BUCHWALD, 1975) suggest...respectively, 25.7 ppm (SCOTT et al., 1973)) than Murfreesboro but could conceivably be 3459 Explanation |  | | Journal (issue) | | SPECIMENS Orplmeat Fluorite Hematite Umonlte dtibnite Chromite Clnnebar Braunita Eaarglte Goethlte Talc Beryl.................................. State Stones (Arkansas) — George Kosel.................................Coral Jewelry — Emily Danker . . . Diamonds In Arkansas Hills...........................................Mineral and G m Show (5th Annual) of the Rockland County Min eral & Gem Society, Inc., to be held at Rosary’...Norwich, N. Y. 13815 (Off of Route 12 or 23 on County Road 32) Chairman: Mrs. John A. Coleman, R. #3 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Museum Fine octahedrite Botetourt Ataxite Denton County Hexaliedrite Descubridora De Buckeberg Fine...Carlton Finest octahedrite octahedrite Forsyth County Ataxite Fort Duncan Hexahedrite Fort Pierre...octahedrite Grand Rapids Fine octahedrite Greenbrier County. Coarse octahedrite Fine octahedrite Groslee ....Carthage Casas Grandes *Casey County Central Missouri. Guilford County Medium Hammond Hammond octahedrite...octahedrite . octahedrite octahedrite *Jackson County Fine octahedrite Jamestown Jennie's Creek Coarse |  | | Catalog/List | | enlarged photograph of a piece of Obsidian, from Lake County, Oregon, which shows a Conchoidal fracture. t...mixture of cliachite and gibbsite) Pisoliti c, gray; Arkansas .......................... Pisoliti c, gray; British...in calcite with pyroxene; New York ....... . . CHROMITE (ferrous-magnesium metach romite-metaluminate)...(titano-niobate of calcium and iron) XI, �ubo-octahedron ; Arkansas. 1,4 ", 6 for 25c. ELAEOL ITE-See Nepheline ELLSWORTH...Selected masses, extra strong ; Arkansas .......... Medium strong; Arkansas ........ ................ 1 |  | | Journal (issue) | | .. .. ............. .. •. ............... 20 Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds by Larry Hothem ..... . ....World's Fair of Gems and Minerals." Host. Clark County Gem Collector•. Las Vegas Convention Center. Las...Western Maine Gem and Mineral Festival. Oxford County Mineral and Gem Association sponsor. Gould Academy...and Mlne,.I Socletlff. 10th Annual Show. " Lake County 'Diamonds' and green Onyx." Masonic Temple. Highway...Washington St.. Dubuque 52001 . July 13 and 14. Lincoln County Gem and Mlne,.I Society. 6th Annual " Down-Maine" |
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