 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l |  | | Journal (issue) | | February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed |  | | Report (issue) | | Okenite Ca5 Si9 O23 ² 9H2 O ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Triclinic...Maharashtra, from the Syhadree Mountains; the Bombay quarry, Bombay; around Poona; and in the Nasik and Kolhapur...In the USA, at Crestmore, Riverside Co., California; in the Fairfax quarry, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Virginia;...Virginia; and at Skookumchuck Dam, near Bucoda, Thurston Co., Washington. In the Je®rey mine, Asbestos... 565. (2) Gard, J.A. and H.F.W. Taylor (1956) Okenite and nekoite (a new mineral). Mineral. Mag., 31 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mary Lynn White Minerals of the Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Virginia................ John C. Medici ...universi ties in the area, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, California Institute...314-726-2236). amlier linritc on ijolilen csilcite! mcailc county* south ilakotn Extensive mining of six miles of...workings. In the 1870’s the Trigo Mountains, Yuma County, Ari zona occurrences were discovered. The list...analysis. The vanadinite is from the Apache mine, Gila County, Arizona, and the arsenopyrite is from Zacatecas |  | | Report (issue) | | ^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville, Virginia. Figure 7. Locations of mineral deposits in...mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre and Heyl , 19.60 |  | | Catalog/List | | plus post 1147 ■■ ALTAITE Organ Mts, Dona Anna County, New Mexico a few silvery I mm spots in dark matrix...- - - - -~ ---1152 ■ AL UNITE Marysvale, Piute County, Utah Pure orange-pink crystalline mass KAISO/4OH..._ Fcldsp3~ -·· ~ 510 ■■ CHALCEDONY Greystones Quarry, lezant, Cornwall Grey banded massive lx2 £1 2x2...- -- -- - -- - - -- - 134 ■ CHALCOCITE Swinless Quarry, Kilbirnie, near Glasgow, Scotia Rich metallic...127 ■■ DELAFOSSITE Consolidated Copper Co. Nevada. USA Tiny black spheres in while matrix Fairiy rich. Micro |  | | Journal (issue) | | September Minutes 2 Show Volunteers Needed 3 Okenite 4 Geology is fun Science Festival 5 Photos...for email and mailing address). The Northern Virginia Mineral Club October 2010 THE MINERAL NEWSLETTER...as the show, Sat 10-6, Sun 10-4. The Northern Virginia Mineral Club Silent Auction on Sunday 2 PM. Rob...stalwart club volunteers take everything back to our Fairfax storage unit and put everything away carefully...looking minBy Sheryl Sims eral, I encountered okenite for the first time at a recent mineral sale. While |  | | Journal (issue) | | yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard | | | Catalog/List | | DOMEYKITE pure metallic mass about Ix1 Keweenaw County. Michigan USA £ 14 11. BARYTES and QUARTZ translucent...attractive small group about l x2 inches ( Coldstones Quarry, Yorkshire) £7 19. ANAPAITE pale green micro... about 1 .5 inches long . Maroon Pass, Colorado USA£7 23. YANADINITE variety ENDLlCHITE intergrown brown...with some minor green Pyromorphite 79 Mine Arizona USA £10 26. SMALTITE dark grey 5 111111 vein on the surface...greyish-green over 5x3 inch surface with some Okenite and Apophyllite (Poona India) £25 30. PREHNlTE |  | | Journal (issue) | | growing. It will serve as a model for future non-USA chapters of FM. A membership list has been prepared...among bulldozed rubble at the Bound Brook basalt quarry of the Houdaille Company, at Bound Brook, New Jersey...coming from a breccia zone whose contact with the quarry floor was in the form of an ellipsoid approximately...very large natrolite crystals from the Bound Brook quarry, here reproduced natural size. Smithsonian Insti...02138 The Franklin-Sterling Hill area in Sussex County, New Jersey, never ceases to provide specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing...15 feet to the left, parallel to the wall of the quarry. This tube varied from 6 inches to 2 feet wide |  | | Book (volume) | | beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep |  | | Book | | United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of...ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...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...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and |  | | Book | | AI)480100]o3ZHZO (not associated with zeolites) okenite CalOSilS04601SHZO tacharanite CalZAlZSi lS0SlolSHZO...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....seawater followed faults along the eastern coast of County Antrim and was the fluid in the cavities that produced...formed after the overlying lake had flooded the basin and became sodium borate rich (William Wise, pers | | | Book | | AI)480100]o3ZHZO (not associated with zeolites) okenite CalOSilS04601SHZO tacharanite CalZAlZSi lS0SlolSHZO...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....seawater followed faults along the eastern coast of County Antrim and was the fluid in the cavities that produced...formed after the overlying lake had flooded the basin and became sodium borate rich (William Wise, pers |  | | Journal (issue) | | M. Pryce and J. Chester The Amity Area, Orange County, New Y o rk ............................... 85...115-year-old Oriental mine in Alleghany, Sierra County, California. In August, about five months after...Pyrargyrite—Quartz—Sphalerite Calcite—Etc. INDIAN ZEOLITES Okenite puff balls Apophyllite —S tilbite—Gyrolite Prehnite—Etc...Blount Little Rock, Arkansas 72209 The Jeffrey quarry, near North Little Rock, Arkansas, has produced...to come from the Arkan sas quartz region. The quarry is now closed but specimens of quartz, ankerite |  | | Catalog/List | | squares arc new entry for this list ANALCIME Dean Quarry, Lizard ,Cornwall Achmclvich, near Lochinvcr, Scotbnd...ANATASE Lauvland, Frigstad, Evjc Norway 933 Hingston Quarry,Cornwall 16 Rich grey-white cleavages , some with...Newhaven Sussex, England ANDRADITE Franklin New Jersey USA SO 12 Pure hard white sphere shaped nodule. Quite...ANGLESITE Broken Hill, NSW. Australia Marysvale, Piule County, Utah 1152 15 Good coverage of small grey crystals...ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Riddarhyttan,Swedcn 7 Saga Quarry, Tvcdalcn near Larvik, Nomay 10 03 Red vcinlets |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bavaria, Germany (1) Blue Chihuahua mine, San Diego County, 57-59% California (2) 67-80% Poland, Maine (3)...glucinium calcium phosphate and fluoride, from Oxford County, Maine. American Journal o f Science, 3rd Series...Iron-Manganese Phosphates of the Williams Pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (1975) P.B. Leavens and T.A. Simpson,...Mineralization of the Four Peaks Amethyst Deposit, Maricopa County, Arizona (1976) J. Lowell and T. Rybicki, Mineralogical...Diamond Mines Diamond Bearing Peridotite in Pike County, Arkansas (1923) H.D. Miser and C.S. Ross, U.S |  | | Book | | granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology...crystal form. Other crystals Wulfenite (Arizona, USA) 29 may show lesser symmetry on a scale at the...rubbish which may harm animals. If the site is a quarry careful arrangements with respect to equipment...potential for specimen sales. Shale (Pennsylvania, USA) 57 Mineral Descriptions For each species the |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Vanadinite from the J. C. Holmes claim, Santa Cruz County, A rizona........................................currence. Sometimes a village or township and a county, or a village and a state have the same name and...hap pens that the village or city is not in the county of the same name nor even in the state. For example...minerals. Chester is also a large city in Delaware County. We have frequently run across minerals from Chester |  | | Book | | milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please...dachiardlte, ferrierite, gmelinite, levyne, erionite, okenite 5. 6. BRECCIA ZONES AND BRECCIA PIPES Breccia |  | | Journal (issue) | | quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by...significant mineral localities in C o l o r a d o ,by county. In addition, there is a complete listing o f all...comments are invited. COLORADO LOCALITY INDEX BOULDER COUNTY Caribou Mine Caribou (near Nederland), Caribou...District (Silver, Barite, Galena, Siderite) CHAFFEE COUNTY California mine Nathrop, Browns Creek Area (Beryl...District (Almandine, Magnetite, Chlorite) CLEAR CREEK COUNTY Alice Glory hole Alice, Yankee Hill District (Pyrite |  | | Journal (issue) | | GOLD—1 02. - large crystals $3,500 - Calaveras County, Calif. GOLD on Quartz—$1,400 Crystal Mine, Angels...GOLD—1.4 oz. mass, large crystals $3,200 - Ma dera County, Calif. GOLD on Quartz—$2,750 Crystal Mine, Angels...perched on the wall of a glacial cirque, Jumbo Basin, and near the mine and around the collecting localities...by the intrusion of the stocks and in the Jumbo Basin area axes of folds trend generally parallel to the...calcareous rocks. The skarn at Stanley Butte, Graham County, Arizona, produces pocket groups of andradite very |  | | Book (edition) | | 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...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...Pennsylvania, and at Chervonograd, LvivVolhynia basin, Ukraine. AM 61, 338, 1976. Achavalite * FeSe (2 |  | | Book | | copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to 5 cm in size and...Keweenaw Peninsula near Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from...Colorado, USA. Fine crystals were also found in Berezovsk, Ural mountains and in the Lena River basin, Siberia...were found in Klondike, Alaska; Tuolumne County, California, USA and in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Fine |
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