 | | Report (volume) | | ...................... (B) Colemanite in Clark County, Nev., by L.F. Noble (published Feb. 23,1922) (C).............. (F) General features of the brown hematite ores of western North Carolina, by 'W. S. Bayley...1922)............... (H) Peridotite dikes in Scott County, Ark., by H. D. Miser and C. S. Ross (published............ (I) Diamond-bearing peridotite in Pike County, Ark., by H. D. Miser and C. S. Ross (published........... (J) The Los Burros district, Monterey County, Calif., by J. M. Hill (published April 28, 1923) |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I •( 11 o •« c »««ou cxi ju4«iO«J...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute Quadrangal...Quadrangal Map index. V Contents and Locality Index Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types....Location 1 Montgomery County quartz deposits................. Other Montgomery County quartz mines...... |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | learned that the key to finding allusive diamonds in Arkansas is perspiration and persistence. He passed away...THOROUGH AND ACCURATE HISTORY OF GENUINE DIAMONDS IN ARKANSAS TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE I DEDICATION 4 INTRODUCTION...JUST HOW SMART WAS OLD JOHN HUDDLESTON? 6 THE ARKANSAS DIAMOND COMPANY 7 THE MAUNEY'S DIAMOND FIELD 9...9 KJMBERLEY, THE NEW DIAMOND CITY OF PIKE COUNTY, ARKANSAS ll THE MAUNEYS DO SOME MrNING 11 OTHER DIAMOND...17 THE KIMBERLITE I MAUNEY / OZARK MINE 23 THE ARKANSAS DIAMOND CORPORATION MINE 32 f[NALLY A MORE DETERMINED |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Book | | M>f*es MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE v MAP OF ARKANSAS Rur Reproduced on a reduced scale from map by...1 /. I y & ..vu. t u.vy UNIVERSITY OF I Arkansas," Washington, D. C., 1 907. , / \/ QUATERNARY...Mississippian ECONOMICS & SOCIOLO, Rocks MINERA IN ARKANSAS INCLUDING A REVIEW OF OIL AND GAS CONDITIONS...MINES, MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE STATE OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 1922 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page...Features Principal Arkansas Minerals and Their Location by Counties Counties of Arkansas and Their Mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | currently being mined at Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. The more familiar and more highly regarded...fragments were found at Mount Mica, Paris Hill, Oxford County, Maine, in 1820 among the roots of a fallen tree...discovery occurred at the Dunton mine, Newry, Oxford County, in 1972, consisting of a series of pockets that...tourmaline (elbaite) from the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California. Tino Hammid photo. =VS\TL 1HU\HY`-LIY\HY`...emerald, from the Rist mine, Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina; 12.7 cm high. Houston Museum of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and set out for the "diamond mines" of MURFREESBORO, Arkansas. We also planned to try gold prospecting...but that's another story. These two mines in Murfreesboro are the only two true diamond mines in the western...picked up county road 26 to the diamond mines. Entering the little mineral village of Murfreesboro, we proceeded...serpen tine, and phlogopite, with lesser amounts of hematite, quartz, pyrite, diopside, oli vine, augite,...available. Our next trip is to Hot Springs to dig Arkansas quartz, the purest, clearest, in giant crystal |  | | Report (volume) | | DEPOSITS NEAR THE LITTLE MISSOURI RIVER PIKE COUNTY, ARKANSAS BY DAVID GALLAGHER Strategic Minerals...and topographic map of part of the southwestern Arkansas quicksilver district, showing location of areas...showing location and extent of the southwestern Arkansas quicksilver district, Idealized sketch of Z-bends...RIVER, PIKE COUNTY, ARKANSAS By David Gallagher ABSTRACT The quicksilver district of Arkansas, where...the southwestern part of the State, in Clarice, Pike, and Howard Counties. During the Ouachlta mountain-building |  | | Book (volume) | | Wyoming vowr-.1E3: SoutheastStates Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi...exclusively i.n the Blue Ridge Mountains of Mitchell County, North Carolina, to be true hiddenite. Preface...here. A 40.23-carat white gem found in Murfreesboro, Arkansas vvas cut into a 14.42carat emerald-cut...of people visit Crater of Diamond tate Park in Arkansas,where, for a fee, they can mine America's only...Gemstone: Star Blue Quartz (1990) State Mineral: Hematite (1967) State Stone/Rock: Marble (1969) • SECTION |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Arkansas A most interesting sand, from the world famous diamond mines of Murfreesboro, Pike Co....mining area and it is located at Byron in Oxford County. From the stream known as East Branch, Mr. Marble...dolomite rock, dolomite crystals, and Herkimer County "diamonds." "Your magazine is still tops. Best...the little community of Howes Cave in Schoharie County. This is a commercial cave and one is not allowed...the largest of the Inner Hebrides, belongs to the county of Inverness, from the mainland of which it is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 20059, USA Branch, Code 691, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA 3Faculty...type of magnetic mineral (with the exception of hematite). The same method is applied to the Murchison... 1). The only exception from this trend is MD hematite, which saturates near 0.1 mT due to its low spontaneous...rock 399 © Meteoritical Society, 2003. Printed in USA. 400 G. Kletetschka, T. Kohout, and P. J. Wasilewski...iron-nickel spheres (Wasilewski 1981), and 1 mm hematite and magnetite (Kletetschka, Wasilewski, and Taylor |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on the Post territory which covers most of Yuma County, Arizona, and a small area in California."—letter..."—letter dated Nov. 26, 1955, from Mr. Falck. ARKANSAS—A most interesting illustrated 4-page brochure on the...the Crater of Diamonds near Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark., has been recently released by the Crater of...of Diamonds, Murfreesboro, Ark. The Crater of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond...Liggett military reserjade deposits in (Monterey County) Cali- vation are some of the very few found on |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wulfenite, 12 cm wide, Defiance mine, Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona; Joe and Susan Kielbaso specimen. The...University] at 09:03 02 January 2015 Figure 7 (left). Hematite, field of view 6.4 cm, Eisenkaute mine, Marienberg...cm wide, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California; Martin Zinn specimen. So I am a sucker...Figure 13. Gold, 4 cm wide, Round Mountain mine, Nye County, Nevada; Alan Day specimen. The crystallization...carats, Crater of Diamonds State Park, Murfreesboro, Arkansas; Matilda Pfeiffer specimens. The natural |  | | 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 (issue) | | Newsletter $3.00 A Quick and Short Collecting Trip to Arkansas in April 2004 Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Having...Having missed this past fall's Coon Creek trip to Arkansas I was chomping at the bit to get up there and...area on Lake Greeson that is just north of Murfreesboro, Arkansas. He had already examined and collected...(Continues on page 3) ----2 Quick and Short Arkansas Collecting Trip in April 2004 (Continued from...signing in at the Queen of Diamonds Motel in Murfreesboro we drove about ten miles south to the Fish Net |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | diameter, were received. They are hematites. One hematite pebble had a few spots of whitish quartz. ARIZONA...more. "The Glove Mine is located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, near the little town of Amado, on the...from George Bideaux, P.O. Box 2386, Tucson, Ariz. ARKANSAS—The following item, dated Jan. 16, i960, was sent..."Last week on Jan. 13, I960 I made a trip to Murfreesboro (Pike Co.), Ark., and had about five hours to spare...the TRUE MAGAZINE, Sept. issue about the 339 Arkansas Diamond Mine. This is very interesting reading |  | | Book | | Minerals of Arkansas ISSUED BUREAU OF BY MINES, MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE STATE OF ARKANSAS W. N...N. WILKES, Commissioner 1925 MINERALS of ARKANSAS Published STATE BUREAU and by of MINES, MANUFACTURES...AGRICULTURE W. N. WILKES, Commissioner PUBLISHED in ARKANSAS 1925 INTRODUCTION of “Minerals an The book...the mineral exhaustive study of the State. as Arkansas” understand as their and the part the finished...paid or ores uses criticism of “Minerals of Arkansas” because of the fact that given State. our |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | approximately 13 km north of Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA. Occurrence: In fractures in the...phosphate–hydroxide from the Funderburk prospect, Pike County, Arkansas, U.S.A. Canadian Mineralogist 41, 721-725... Township 24 South, Range 11 East, Emery County, Utah, USA. Occurrence: In a silicified tree in the Shinarump...Robert (Bob) Jones (b. 1926), of Cave Creek, Arizona, USA, in recognition of his enormous contribution to the...new mineral species from Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah, U.S.A. Canadian Mineralogist 41, 83-90. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | te from a newly discovered locality in Yavapai County, Ariz., on the Verde River near Camp Verde, Ariz...be of interest. These were collected in Yavapai County, East of Prescott, Arizona. "They were taken from...shows a much deeper pink than at the center." ARKANSAS—Azurite occurs in the copper mines at Tomahawk...north of Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. "Did you know that the government built a dam near Murfreesboro that...from Mr. Millar (owner of the diamond mine in Murfreesboro) there was no point in it at all, and no reason |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at its southend but the Ouchita Mountains of Arkansas strike east and if continued would join the ...placesknown to be severalhundredfeet. In Perry County, Missouri, a great fault zone crossesthe Mississippi...the uplift. They include the basicdikes of Elliot County in easternKentucky,the basic and acid dikesof CrittendonCounty...GenevieveCounty, Missouri, the pegrnatitesof Camden County,southcentralMissouri,and the graniteof Sl•avinaw...sulphideoresof the Mississippivalley region. In Woodson County, Kansas,at Silver City, sandstonesof 2 Weller, |
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