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| AN OVERVIEW Rhode Island MINERALS & COLLECTORS F. WILLIAM MILLER Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford...A L SPECIES and many varieties occur within Rhode Island. Part of this abundance is attributable to the...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 |
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| NORTHEASTERN RHODE ISLAND 286 ROCKS AND M I N E R A L S The adjacent towns of Cumberland and Lincoln in northeastern...northeastern Rhode Island offer col lecting in several localities, including the Conklin Limestone quarry, the...the Old Dexter quarry, Diamond Hill, the Route 114 road cut, and the Iron Hill mine. T H E T O W N S H...U M B E R L A N D at the northeast corner of Rhode Island is not so famous mineralogically as Cumberland...there is enough interest ing in this town and in Lincoln—the adjacent town to the south—to warrant a field |
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| Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island o GEOLOGICAL 5. I 09 8* Ci PI O i o TJ i i I to & Ol BULLETIN...State of Rhode Island Development Council i M SURVEY I C.to 1295 Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island...1295 Prepared in cooperation with the State of Rhode Island Development Council Lithology, structure, and...geological studies in Rhode Island____._.________.-__.-_-____. Position of Rhode Island in the Appalachian...-___--_Older gneissic rocks of northwestern Rhode Island.____________ Nipsachuck Gneiss------------- |
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| simply as being from New York, New York. In 1967 almandine crystals in biotite schist were discovered in...cm wide. A fine almandine crystal was collected in May 1970 by Dietmar Stitz from rock excavated for a...Meadowlands, where it was accessible to collecting. The almandine crystal is opaque reddishbrown, measures 55 mm...a very aesthetic specimen (fig. 19). On Staten Island an excavation at the foot of the Verrazano-Narrows...schist studded with small, black to dark red almandine crystals to 9 mm ROCKS & MINERALS 4. 204-243_RM |
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| BITS May the year bring you all many fine days for rock collecting.' In the October issue of ROCKS AND MINERALS...Eastchester, found excellent rhodonite in the Berts Quarry, Plainfield, Mass. Robert Middleton, Earth Science...on silversmithing Member Bob Culver of the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, found a "fair sized"...on the AFMS Uniform Rules. At the Cedar H i l l quarry (Penn.) mem bers found pyrite-octahedral-crystals...Superintendent of all mu seums in Nassau County, spoke with the Long Island Mineral and Geology So ciety, Massapequa |
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| describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...a precise explanation of how to recognize the rock formations in which gems occur. in The tabular...1 2 How fun to hunt for gems to identify 3 Rock formations How which gems occur 1 21 stone...that comes from opening a nodule or a pocket in rock and being the first to see a sparkling crystal fresh...of the gem prosall efforts to olies. pector. Rock formations which gems occur in They say that |
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| ............. 554 MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................505 511 514 532 533 551 551 553 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY GEOLOGIC HAZARDS COMMITTEES NAMED Clarence Allen...and August 1st, 1965, in Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to swap or dig your own tourmaline plus...Annual Rock Swap at Jo Scholl's Place, North Gorham, Maine. July 26-31, 1965 — Charlotte Rock and Min...sponsor the 25th Annual Convention and Silver Jubilee Rock and Gem Festival of the Midwest Federation of Mineralogical |
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| fact some were extraordinary like the 6 inch almandine garnet found during subway excavations at 36th...old label indicated the locality only as Sonoma County, California. However in view of it's association...effervesces in HCl, in carbonatites and zeolite-carbonate rock in Khibina and Vuorijarvi alkaline massifs, Kola...know that George Gerhold and Anthony Kampf (LA County Museum) are preparing a CD-ROM of mineral data...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com |
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| Vili Fossil-Stegosaurus * Alabama Mineral-Hematite Rock-Marble Fossil-Basilosaurus cetoides Gemstone-Star...Blue Quartz Soil-Bama Series Mineral-Rhodochrosite Rock-Yule Marble 22 22 Zo 24 * Connecticut OG G& BY...Mineral-Quartz Crystal Soil-Myakka Fine Sand Series Rock-Bauxite Soil-Stuttgart Series * Georgia * California...Fossil-Shark Tooth Gem-Quartz 35 36 36 38 38 38 Rock-Serpentine * Hawaii Fossil-Sabre-Toothed Cat Gemstone-Benitoite...Stone-Salem Limestone River-Wabash River 49 50 * Iowa Rock-Geode DZ * Kansas Soil-Harney Silt Loam Series |
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| 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...currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarry—Alberene amphiboie asbestos, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry—Esmont dolomite, limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite |
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| Acid Northwest Area Lakeville Goethite Mine Conklin Quarry Prospect Mountain Judd's Bridge Kyanite Deposit...West Redding Garnet Locality Biermann Quarry Captain Cook Quarry Honey Hill Road Outcrop Northcentral...Silliman Gravel Pit Southcentral Area Cheshire Trap Rock Quarry Cheshire Barite Mines Hamden Copper Mine Arsenic...Haven Trap Rock Northcentral Area Diamond Ledge Diamond Lake Dinosaur State Park Hollister Quarry Glastonbury...Prospects Simpson Quarry Andrews and Hale Quarries Case Quarries Strickland Quarry Hale-Walker Quarries |
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| like this piece, as most of the fluorites from the quarry are green, and this one is truly atypical. After...COVER: gold on quartz, 4.5 inches tall, Placer County, California Dedication This book is dedicated...Doris L. Behnke, Walter A. Behnke, Lawrence H. Conklin, C. Melanie Duque, Joseph A. Freilich, Michael...Group, Inc., 650 Danbury Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877 USA, www.maplegatemedia.com Library of Congress Control...the crystals analyzed years ago, and they are almandine, an iron-bearing garnet, rather than spessartine |
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| Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...gratefully dedicated. Gene Foard (right) at Swamp #1 quarry, Topsham. Gene Foard speaking with Frank Perham...Gene Foard with Yan King, 1994 (left) at Nevel quarry, Newry. In Memoriam Gene Foord Gene [Eugene Edward]...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified |
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| 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...currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry-Esmont dolomite. limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite...crystals, muscovite crystals, tourmaline AMHERST COUNTY Crystals of goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite; |
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| MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Easy-to-understand instructions for recognizing rock formations; glossary. How to identify gem minerals...is a precise explanation of h< to recognize the rock formation* which gems occur. The tabular Gem ... contents fun to hunt for gems 1. It's 2. How 3. Rock formations 4. How 5. Characteristics of important...that comes from opening a nodule or a pocket in rock and being the first to see a sparkling crystal fresh |
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| _----_--_---_--_--_-_____-_--___-______---____-______ Rock descriptions____-___-__--______________-______-__-____-___-_...mostly under conditions representative of the almandine amphibolite facies. Four zones of progressive...by structure or differential credibility of the rock units. The Yantic River drains eastward and appears...set. The area has been glaciated at least once. Rock crops out in 6 percent of the quadrangle, and areas...the Narragansett Basin, Rhode Island, available to me before its publication. ROCK DESCRIPTIONS Six metasedimentary |
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| Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California......................................................................369 by L. H. Conklin Letters to the editor ........................... 8th Friday, Oct. 9th BEY'S ROCK SHOP GRAYSON LAWRENCE H. CONKLIN PICKENS GRENVILLE MINERALS ...learned to transform intractable masses of hard rock into works of great beauty. The People’s Republic...gem fields. Sapphire deposits on windswept Hainan Island are under in vestigation. In 1976 the first major |
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| BONANZA Rock collecting, sightseeing and a look at history in Colorado by Steve Voyn ick CONKLIN QUARRY...QUARRY Minerals and gem materials in Rhode Island by James R. Mitchell FEATURES 10 48 51 Page 122 A PICTURE...Vanguard blade. aluminum oxide wheel for sharpening rock picks, chisels, etc. Use fine grit • Handy, adjustable...CENTER CADILLAC OF ROCK GRIPPERS _ __._..__._....., SHIM The new 4 POINT SOVA ROCK VISE Designed and...This toot puts four equal pressure points on your rock. holding odd shaped pieces solidly for accurate |
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| publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum |
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| Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin VOLUME 2: THE SOUTHEASTERN...rockhounds I ever met, William Harris, of the Harris Rock Shop, Sarasota, Florida EARTH TREASURES (Volume...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text...description of the type (and often the quality) of the rock, mineral, or fossil material to be found there |
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| color. Prices on request. ANALCITE CRYSTALS, Lincoln Co., Oregon. A very limited supply of choice translucent...weigh ing 20 to 30 lbs. or more. FLUORITE, Cave in Rock. III. Choice medium to deep purple crystals averaging...available. Prices on request. FLUORITE, Cave in Rock, III. Choice me dium to deep purple xls with other...DOLOMITE CRYSTALS IN PENN.—Richard Haefner.... 808 RHODE ISLAND HOLDS ANNUAL CORN BOIL—Gardiner E. Gregory............... 858 MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .............................................. |
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| 602-297-6709 Articles The Iron Cap mine, Graham County, A rizona.................................81 by...Ouray County, Colorado ............... 89 by B. & J. Muntyan Anatase on quartz from Ouray County, Colorado.................................... 77 by L. H. Conklin What's new in minerals? ........................made in Arizona (the Iron Cap mine) and in Ouray County, Colorado, are described in three articles, and...huge i show organized by Herb Duke at the Pima County Fairgrounds. Following the advertising section |
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| Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Renato Pagano Milan, Italy Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas...Thirty-eight, Number Three Articles The Lonavala Quarry, Pune District, Maharashtra, India . . . . . ..... . . . . .193 by J. A. Mandarino Lawrence H. Conklin: Fifty years of dealing in minerals . . . . . ...Record, volume 38, May–June, 2007 The Lonavala Quarry une Distri t Ma aras tra n ia Tomas Pras kier |
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| HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...the sociologists to decide Not everyone takes up rock hunting because of an interest in mineralogy There...comes when, after hours of hammering, a resistant rock splits just the way you want it to. And in the end |
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| Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohio’s Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin |
