 | | Book | | MINERALS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY BY GEORGE ROBINSON & SCHUYLER ALVERSON $2.50 In s£> * t•... For many years the mines and fields of St. Lawrence County have furnished museums and many lucky mineral...have been depleted through the the years, St. Lawrence County continues to supply many beautiful specimens...collecting sites at the present time. Potsdam, New York February, 1971 George W. Robinson Schuyler \Y...rock types and mineralized zones of the St, Lawrence County area, A detailed discussion of the geology |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ST ^ - ^ ""^%^ Mineral Occurrences ON ' ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED ^,. PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations:...as specimens. Clarksville is in southern Johnson County in N / W Arkansas. COLORADO — "Recently we took...CALIFORNIA — Mrs. Géorgie Dougherty, 990 Armstrong St., Lakeport, Calif, sent in two interesting minerals...located one mile west of Wilbur Springs in S/W Colusa County in North California. The ore of the Manzanita Mine...Northern Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS fer, Summit St., Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The crystal is a dark black-brown |  | | Report (issue) | | 63 63 66 66 69 71 77 78 79 82 St. John’s to Channel-Port aux Basques St. John’s–Renews occurrences White...Collier Cove barite mine La Manche mine St. Lawrence fluorite mines Terra Nova National Park Wesleyville...occurrence Stewart (Little Harbour) mine Cobbs Arm quarry New World Island jasper occurrences Sleepy Cove mine... North Arm xonotlite occurrence Dormston quarry York Harbour (Blo-mi-don) mine Cliff mine, Lower Drill...Colliers Bay area Cuslett–St. Bride’s area Collier Cove mine St. Lawrence fluorite mines Wesleyville–Trinity |  | | Journal (issue) | | Switzerland photomicrography Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York Articles Amethyst from the Thunder Bay region....... 71 by G. Robinson and S. Chamberlain The fluorite mines of Madoc, O n ta rio .....................Raven Hills Court, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919 USA; tel: (303) 598-1233 66 The Mineralogical Record...(After Vos, 1976; some of these deposits may be under new claims by other peo ple.) ^Do*ior, Grtvel 1 ...pyrite, hematite, goethite, marcasite, barite, fluorite and calcite in uniformly unexciting specimens |  | | Report (issue) | | cabochon set in silver. Cut and set by Jim Robertson, New Liskeard, Ontario. The cabochon measures 12 mm by...Mayo marble quarry Renfrew–Madawaska area Renfrew County Road 4 (Bruce Avenue) roadcut Highway 60 quarry...(Bryson) roadcuts Carswell quarry Bryson marble blocks Bryson roadcut 1 Bryson roadcut 2 New Calumet mine...Most of the collecting localities are in Renfrew County, Ontario. A wide variety of minerals are found...quartz, graphic granite, and corundum from Renfrew County; feldspar (peristerite, amazonite), jaspilite, |  | | Journal (issue) | | world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...(c) = currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite...lead mine-near Faber cerussite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, argentiferous galena, sphalerite, pyromorphite...cleavelandite, columbite-tantalite, fergusonite, fluorite, helvite, microcline (var. amazonite), microlite |  | | Report (issue) | | the Web right now too; let me illustrate… What’s New on the Web The pandemic has caused the Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines...although we are assured that it will be back next year, fine as ever. Meanwhile, a lateApril update on Fabre...that I first got to see some of Jordi’s splendid new specimens from a recent chalcocite find in the Las...website, Jordi has posted 15 handsome specimens of the new chalcocite, from thumbnail to smallcabinet size....Really good Spanish chalcocite is indeed something new, so let us appreciate this significant find from |  | | Report (issue) | | miscellaneous granitic gneisses in St. Lawrence and Jefferson Counties, New York by Kenneth G. Books with Foreword... Foreword by C. Ervin Brown Geologic situation Fine-grained mafic dikes that are generally vertical...vertical, narrow, and undeformed are exposed in roadcuts near Gouverneur, N.Y, and others were noted by geologists...group of dikes are on Grindstone Island in the St. Lawrence River near Clayton, N.Y. and many more are nearby...(Gushing and others, 1910; Smyth, 1894), but those in New York have aroused only slight geologic notice. In the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...towns of Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport...Newport County. The greatest number of species and varieties appear in the Northern Zone. Miller attributes...Island—for example, steatite from Johnston in Providence County for carving bowls and pipes; red and yellow ochre...(originally Hackleton's Rock) at Lincoln, Provi dence County, in 1640. Limestone was quarried there and "burned" |  | | Book (edition) | | Bancroft and Region l Old Mines Quarries Outcrops Roadcuts '· Maps • .• ·' f J : .... ! ' Identification...compilation of old mining sites, quarries and roadcuts fmmd in the Bancroft area. The inclusion of a...radius there are numerous abandoned mines, quanies, roadcuts and outcrops that contain dozens of varieties...whites and pinks of quartz and the purples of fluorite. There is also the opportunity to become better...mine Monmouth XV, lot 28 At Wilberforce, take County Road #4 west 0.6 km from highway 648; take the |  | | Book | | milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...person wishing to examine a locality personally. New information relating to Washington's mineral diversity...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...than 2,200 mineral species have been identified and new ones are discovered and described each year. Over...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence |  | | Journal (issue) | | Zeolites and Associated Minerals near Pinehurst, Adams County, Idaho Lanny R. Ream Sometimes, we really do get... I finally got around 10 checking out We many roadcuts that expose the lower Columbia River basalts along...analcime crystals mostly 2-4 mm, near Pinehurst, Adams County, Idaho A Page from a Collector's Notebook: The...thrust of our collecting activity would be in Polk County. First as the Mona Lisa turquoise mine on Porter...been 10 it 20 years ago was apparently blocked by a new structure but we had it localed on a topographic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...(c) = currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarry—Alberene amphiboie asbestos...lead mine—near Faber cerussite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, argentiferous galena, sphalerite, pyromorphite |  | | Journal (issue) | | .....................180 by W. E. Wilson What's new in minerals? Tucson Show 1989 .....................there is nothing at the edge of their vision. Many new miners have spent long, bruising first shifts getting...contact person. This information must be sent to the new editor, Roy I. Grim, 9155-A Hitching Post Lane, Laurel...southern African countries, and to Australia and New Zealand, $7.50 each. E9 The Mineralogical Record...pendently derived by Evgraf Stepanovich von Fedorov in St. Peters burg, Russia; Paul Heinrich von Groth of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sphalerite, E l m w o o d calcite, and Rosiclare fluorite are classics. These deposits share certain char...quartz, calcite, dolomite, barite, celestite, and fluorite among the nonmetallic minerals. Rarer species...Green River and also Buck Creek, both in Lincoln County near Halls Gap, are traditionally good places to...scalenohedrons from Danville, Kentucky. Right: Fluorite on sphalerite from Danville, Ken tucky. Specimen..."geode, Knob Region; Samuel Settles photo. Right: Fluorite on barite, Dan ville ; specimen 5 "across. Walt |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MICROMOUNTER Conducted by Neal Yedlin—129 Englewood Drive, New Haven, Conn. Downloaded by [University of Arizona]...This is what we propose to do, beginning after the new year. Perhaps you'd like to do the same. (You'll...5. Clean and sharpen your tools. Design and make new gadgets — toolholders, storage boxes, etc. 6. Catalog...and any others you find useful. Sinkankas has a fine book on general collecting. Get it. 9. Get yourself...immediately and tell him what you have to exchange. A fine supply of rose quartz xls from Newry, Me. turned |  | | Report (issue) | | Chute occurrences York River tactite zone occurrence Morrison quarry Davis quarry York River corundum occurrence...mine Richardson (Fission) mine Dwyer fluorite mine Schickler fluorite occurrence Tripp (Nu-Age) Mine Harcourt...Amhertsburg quarry McGregor quarry · Ojibway Mine St. Marys quarries Ingersoll quarries Drumbo Mine Guelph-Hespeler...10 11 12 n 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Bancroft-York River Bessemer Road Hybla-Monteagle Valley Cardiff...Lake Road occurrence Uraninite crystal in calcite-fluorite matrix, Cardiff Uranium Mine Fluor-richterite |  | | Book | | gem, mineral and fossil hobbyists. | treasure the fine specimens from these localities which | have in...reclamation projects in old mining areas, because new construction covers up old sites, or because quarries...hobbyists have nowhere to start. On the other hand, new discoveries are being made each year; exploration...used more often by field collectors, giving them a new edge. Other collectors are out collecting by boat...agate ever reported was found in Minnesota, and new species of fossils have been collected in Illinois |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | was influenced by the belief that young people and new devotees to the hobby need to get out into nature...ore producer to this day (Taylor, 1978). That very fine calcite occurs locally in a range of habits along...Ontario (Marmoraton mine, Marmora Township, Hastings County), is cited in university geo physics courses as...and for fine, dog-tooth calcite (Figures 6, 7, and 8) (Hewitt, 1969). From time to time, fine calcite...Concession X I V of Hun tingdon Township, Hastings County, in the late 1800s by the Henderson family while |  | | Report (issue) | | X-ray Powder Pattern: Crestmore quarry, California, USA. 2.424 (s), 4.462 (ms), 2.143 (ms), 2.129 (ms), 7...willemite, fluorite, hydrozincite, pyrochroite, zincite, rhodochrosite (Sterling Hill, New Jersey, USA). Distribution:...Norberg, Sweden. In the USA, around Edenville and Amity, Orange Co., New York; in New Jersey, from Sterling...Large crystals from the Cardiff mine and several roadcuts in the vicinity of Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada...Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland. Abundant at the St. Dizier tin deposit, 20 km northwest of Zeehan, Tasmania |  | | Report (issue) | | Faraday metagabbro roadcut, Highway 28 near Bancroft. York River below Baptiste Lake. Young rockhounders in...carbonate body, Silver Crater mine. High Falls, York River at Baptiste Lake. Dragfold truncated by fault...nepheline pegmatite, Golding-Keene quarry on the York River. Corundum, Lily Robertson Cooney farm. Sodalite...sodalite mine. Dragfolding in gneiss, Egan Chute on the York River. Folding in gneiss, Egan Chute. Pillowed basic...Black River, Highway 7 east of Madoc St. Peters church, Madoc. Fluorite crystals, Madoc. Abandoned Perry |  | | Report (issue) | | Gregg 4 , and Richard D. Hagni 4 COVER The Arch, St. Louis, Missouri. lIllinois State Geological Survey...T147: 1 This field excursion starts and ends in st. Louis, Missouri. Established as a fur trading post...post in 1764 by French trader Pierre Laclede, st. Louis thrived because of its excellent location where...French. Today, with a population of about 2 million, st. Louis is one of the larger cities in the United...the major structures in the field trip area. The st. Francois Mountains, which constitute the highest |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | locations are described below, including one new find, I believe. NEW FIND: Leaf casts, beautiful colors (a)...Benton Formations yield good fossils in this area. Fine, large brachiopods occur in the clay mines (underground)...is found in a chert residuum of the St. Louis limestone in roadcuts along Hiway 453 thru the Kentucky Wildlife...good locality for fossils in Minnesota is Brown County, in the Cretaceous formations. Along the river...plants, mostly leaves. In a belt extending from New Ulm to Springfield there are many clay pits. In these |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ROCKS AND MINERALS in western I L ) . silty, fine quartz sand. Figure 1: Simplified geologic map...transforming" power attributed to crystals by an cient or New Age mystics. Although Illinois mineral placenames...than 1,500 pounds, found near Canton in Fulton County (Crook, 1929), is on display at the Illinois State...recovered from a gravel pit near McHenry in McHenry County (figure 2). Gold. Small but interesting amounts...Illi nois River valley south of Hennepin in Putnam County. Po tosi " d r u s e , " found in sand and gravel |  | | Journal (issue) | | colorful vanadium minerals: a brief review and a new classification .................................... Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California.......................................................... 355 by T. P. Moore What's new in Minerals? ......................................chondrodite from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Brewster, New York.” Two of the plates show 21 complex, finely drafted...Academy of Art! and Sciences, Box 93-A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 (Mention this offer of the Dana prints |
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