 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Arkansas Phosphate Minerals A R E V I E W AND UPDATE The abundance and quality of Arkansas phosphate...N R Y L . BARWOOD Arkansas Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute Arkansas Tech University Russellville...Russellville, Arkansas 72801 H E N R Y DELINDE 6 Homestead Court Mabelvale, Arkansas 72103 H A R D L Y...emerald-green crusts of variscite crystals from Arkansas. The abundance and quality of these specimens...minerals from Arkansas was made in 1877 when specimens (apparently from Montgomery County, Arkansas) were recognized |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Moore and Ito, I978 ) from several localities in the USA and West Germany, where it forms greenish-yellow...in radiating aggregates pseudomorphous after rockbridgeite and other phosphates. In I968 one of us (H.C...B. a sample of kidwellite from Coon Creek mine, Polk County, Arkansas, which yielded an infrared spectrum...starting material other than dufrenite, perhaps rockbridgeite (Kingsbury, I957) or even the rare andrewsite...from Wheal Phoenix (RSWB 68-4Ol ) and from Coon Creek mine (RSWB 78-69) were measured in 'Nujol' mulls |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS of Arkansas A survey phates of mineral that occur resources in several reveals Arkansas ALBERT...Houston, Texas 77079 My first serious exposure to Arkansas minerals was in the summer of 1948, when I was...assist in a sur vey of the mineral resources of Arkansas. Local landowners and prospectors were encouraged...prospect on Fodderstack Mountain, near Norman, Arkansas, which was further sampled in the field. I recognized...interest. It was later identified as being mostly rockbridgeite but with a coating o f a lighter green mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | abundance as a late-stage mineral associated with rockbridgeite, dufrenite, beraunite, and strengite in novaculite...a replacement of rockbridgeite and beraunite from the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas; Indian Mountain,... Alabama; Irish Creek, Virginia; Waldgirmes, West Germany. A related, but apparently distinct, species...subfamily of 5 A fibre-axis structures: dufrenite, rockbridgeite, beraunite, lipscombite, barbosalite, laubmannite...mineral occurrences in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas, including their paragenesis and probable modes |  | | Report (issue) | | solutions acting on earlier phosphates, may be post-mine; in cave deposits, the phosphate derived from guano;...phosphosiderite, ferrostrunzite, beraunite, mitridatite, rockbridgeite, jahnsite, roscherite, “limonite”. Distribution:...Arnsbach [TL], near Gräfenthal, and in the Garnsdorf mine and the Feengrotten (Cave), Saalfeld, Thuringia...Leoben, Austria. In the USA, from near Bethel Church, Pike Co., Indiana; at a coal mine in Jackson Township...Monday Creek Township, Perry Co., Ohio; from the Coon Creek mine, near Shady, Polk Co., Arkansas; in the |  | | 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 (issue) | | X-ray Powder Pattern: Fodderstack Mountain, Arkansas, USA. 9.41 (100), 3.413 (55), 3.813 (40), 3.193 (40)...[100.08] 100.00 (1) Fodderstack Mountain, Arkansas, USA; original total given as 100.07%, corresponds...of earlier phosphate minerals. Association: Rockbridgeite, beraunite, strengite, dufrénite, chalcosiderite...Distribution: In the USA, in Arkansas, from the Coon Creek and York mines, Polk Co; on Fodderstack Mountain...Cherokee Co.; at Irish Creek, Rockbridge Co., Virginia. In Germany, from the Rotläufchen mine, Waldgirmes, near |  | | Report (issue) | | dufrénite, bermanite, stewartite, cacoxenite, rockbridgeite, vivianite, apatite, leucophosphite, phosphosiderite...Czech Republic. In Sweden, from the Leveäniemi mine, Svappavaara, and in the Kiruna iron mines. At Iglesias...Portugal. In the Bomi Hill Caves, Liberia. In the USA, from the Palermo #1 and Fletcher mines, near North...at Three Oak Gap and the Coon Creek mine, Polk Co., Arkansas; in the Wood mine, Cooke Co., Tennessee; from...from the Bull Moose mine, five km southeast of Custer, Custer Co., South Dakota; at Pala, San Diego Co |  | | Journal (issue) | | Treasure of the Rockies The Story of the Sweet Home Mine. Andrey Atuchin: An Interview with a Natural History...Treats Provided by the Fossil Group MEMORIES OF ARKANSAS: COLLECTING PHOSPHATES AND BAUXITE Mike Nelson...Nelson csrockguy@yahoo.com I have fond memories of Arkansas. Applied for a few jobs in universities and turned...suspect many CSMS members have been to the State of Arkansas on a collecting trip, most likely to collect quartz...quartz crystals and dabble in the diamond mine (see December Pick & Pack). I actually would be interested |  | | Journal (volume) | | on some Microminerals from the Ohio pit, Baraga County, Michigan Al Falster 920 McIntosh Wausau, Wl 54401... i The Ohio pit in Baraga County, Michigan, is an old open-pit iron mine. In vugs and cavities of the...minerals can be collected. Due to the fact that the mine has been abandoned for several years, the lower...AUSTRALIA, GERMANY RUSSIA, NORWAY, ITALY, NEW ZEALAND, USA & MEXICO Write for free list. Dealer prices available...In addition, they have purchased several fine Arkansas collections giving them a supply of fine kidwellite |  | | 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...friends in the Coon Creek Association for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AMAX/Homestake shut down their mineralogically famous galena mine at Boss, Missouri. Lead prices are generally about...Similarly, iron mining is way down. The huge Minorca mine in Minnesota's Mesabi range had an early shutdown...the discovery of the new Chimney Creek gold deposit in Humboldt County, Nevada, as well as some new area...east of their Mosquite mine in Im perial County, California. The Sunnyside gold mine in Silverton, Colorado...and byproduct silver. In Michigan, the White Pine mine has been sold by Echo Bay mines to the local miners |  | | Journal (issue) | | older members who were coming in from all over the USA. Her concern was that upon arrival, they might well...different versions. This version is primarily on his Arkansas experiences and on the naming of kidwellite. Why...talk, and tonight the entire thrust will concern Arkansas. I grew up in the southeast corner of Missouri...Missouri which by all rights should have been Arkansas. The story goes that when the boundary line was to be...not live in Arkansas, so they drew the line around her. My first mineral trip to Arkansas was in 1934 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | during the past twenty years than the --------Arkansas Magnet Cove locality. - - - - - - - - Minerals...Vanadium Mines POTASH SULPHUR SPRINGS, ARKANSAS J. MICHAEL HOWARD Arkansas Geological Commission 3815 West...Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 DON R. OWENS Earth Science Department University of Arkansas at Little Rock...Rock 2801 South University Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 Unless otherwise noted, all photos by J. Michael...unknown reason, the name Sulphur Creek, the small north-south creek draining the area, was dropped from |  | | Journal (issue) | | stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...http://www.iea.com/-lream Web address change for Arkansas site A few months ago, the Mineral News ran a |  | | Report (edition) | | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 S P EC I ES O F A RKA N SA A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard \ 1987... / ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist s·' , STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...23 SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION...State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission |  | | Report (edition) | | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 MINERAL SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised...Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised 2007 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL...Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission |  | | Journal (issue) | | phosphate minerals from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, A rkansas.......................................outcrops. In 1877, J. Feeney, a stockman on Yarrow Creek Station (which encompassed the Kingsgate deposits)...mo u t h mineral on the surface near the old tin mine. His curiosity aroused, Feeney sent the specimen...took samples to W. H. Yates, who operated a tin mine on the Severn River near Raid Knob. Yates immediately...molybdenite was saved; most was discarded in the mine dumps or treatment plant residues where it remains |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................19 Arkansas ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................19 Arkansas ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................22 Arkansas ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map .............................................................42 Arizona – Yavapia Co. Burro Creek area Site Map ................................. |  | | Book | | P L AT E 8 Chalcopyrite and Calcite. Groundhog mine, Vanadium, New Mexico. 4 x 5 cm. Thesecrystals formed...I ( o p p o s i t e ) Elbaite. Tourmaline Queen mine, Pala, California. i o-cm crystals. The dramatic...Spitzkoppe, Namibia (crystal, 4 x 4 cm); Mason County, Texas (gem, 48.35 ct). Topaz is one of many gem...than in pegmatites. ■ ;_. • Triphylite. Smith mine, Newport, New Hampshire. 2.5-crn crystal. Well-formed...into the basins. P L AT E 4 0 Calcite. Carter County, Montana. 8 x t o cm. The iciclelikeform of these |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Georgetown, Clear Creek co., and at Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187 |  | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite |
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Coon Creek Mine, Shady, Polk County, Arkansas, USA