 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Houston, Texas 77036 ROBERT 0. FAY Oklahoma Geological Survey Norman, Oklahoma 73019 Downloaded by [The Aga...713 15th Street NW Ardmore, Oklahoma 73401 OKLAHOMA Figure 1. Oklahoma counties. Mineral Locality...known for its gypsum crystals and barite roses, Oklahoma also boasts a variety of other species, including...unaware of the variety of minerals available from Oklahoma and think primarily of the prolific gypsum crystals...crystals that are easily collected from the Great Salt Plains, where they continue to form. Most collectors |  | | Book | | ROCKHOUND'S GUIDE TO THE GEMS & MINERALS OF OKLAHOMA © E.L.GILMORE 1992 No part of this book may...rockhounds to know where to look for minerals in Oklahoma. who would like This data has been drawn from...from many sources: The publications of the Oklahoma Geological Survey; Scientific publications; the observations...from the author’s own experience in rockhounding Oklahoma for the past 30 years. Some parts of this book...desire of the author to list all minerals found in Oklahoma. The work on this book has covered a period of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | McCurtain County Oklahoma DAVID LONDON School of Geology and Geophysics University of Oklahoma 100 East...Street Room 710 Sarkeys Energy Center Norman, Oklahoma 73019 dlondon@ou.edu T he barite rose, the State...General location map for named quartz prospects in Oklahoma, showing the towns of Broken Bow and Hochatown;...by William Besse Dr. David London, a native of Oklahoma, is a Stubbman-Drace Presidential Professor, Norman...at the University of Oklahoma. Figure 2. At Opah, a typical quartz dig in Oklahoma: mud, water, tree roots |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the numerous tungsten mines in the Darwin, Inyo County, California, area."—note from James H. Richardson...on the south bank of the Etowah River, in Dawson County, Ga. Chatoyant masses of olive-gray tourmaline...found this specimen at Graveyard Point In Owyhee County, Idaho, in 1957."—on label accompanying the agate...golden brown calcite xls, alabaster, selenite and satin spar. The selenite xls on white gypsum were found in...odd pyrite concretion which he found in Baltimore County, Md. It consists of dark bronzy-black pyrite imbedded |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOLOGY AiJD GROUND- JATER FEATURES OF SALT SPRINGS, SEEPS, AND PLAINS IN THE AR-WJSAS AMD RED RIVER BASINS..................... 8 Previous work related to salt springs....................... 9 Acknowledgments............... 13 Salt deposits.......................................... 18 The salt map................Solution features................................. 24 Salt water..................................................... 38 Salt springs..................................................... 40 Salt springs. Continued |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ames Bixeman and Olin Lewis of the Imperial Polk County Gem and Mineral Society, Lake Wales, presented...an Arm Chair Field Trip to the Great Salt Plains, near Jet, Oklahoma to observe how gypsum crystals are...presentation. The Northern Oklahoma Gem and Min eral Society, Ponca, Oklahoma advises that these beds will...will likely be flooded in an attempt to control salt polution of the Arkansas River. Guess how the Tomoka...visible length of petrified wood." The Frederick County Rock and Mineral Club, Frederick, are continuing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | LVV—long w a v e Twinning is also very common in selenite, fishtails and butterfly wings are terms used...forms of selenite. The accepted names are swallowtail and fishtail. In the United States selenite has been...cleavable and transparent crystals under the heading SELENITE. Fine crystals have been reported from Ellsworth...at Lockport, N . Y. comes thick tabular xls of selenite with petroleum inclusions. These are very showy...is, of course, almost no end to the sources of selenite in the U.S. and there are several very famous |  | | Journal (issue) | | MlNERALORE — Fleener and Wilson . Page 460 Selenite Crystals — Carpenter . . Page 466 Utah Locality...revolutionary it may appear. NEVADA EXHIBITS The Clark County Gem Collectors of Las Vegas, Nevada will sponsor...mineralogy and medicine: A development conceivably of great signifi cance; a development that actually relates...piezoelectricity. Piezo electricity has been known in Rochelle Salt crystals since about 1870. In the nineteenth century...mankind, include quartz, tourma line, Rochelle Salt and a number of other mineral substances. Moreover |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | consolidated stratified sediments near Ovid, Sedgwick County, Colorado. Many of the nodules are geodes which...) . The barite occurs about 1,000 feet east of County Road 23 at a place 3 miles south of the Union Pacific...Tertiary (Oligocene) deposits at Stoneham, Weld County, Colorado (2) (3). Bluish tabular barite crystals...clay at die Singleton ranch in southeastern Banner County, Nebraska (4). These sediments also are probably...sending you some more hourglass xls of selenite from the Great Salt Plains near Cherokee, Okla., You published |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chrysotile. The first four are gem stones, some of great rarity and value, and the fifth is important commercially...This chatoyance or shifting light is caused by great numbers of very small hollow tubes or canals, as...on Beryllium pros4. Chrysoprase. A member of the great pecting and mining comparing the proceedures quartz...M. Bexar County Mineral Hobby Club The Secretary read the minutes of the preThe Bexar County Mineral Hobby...elected a mem- lation meeting on July 1, 1954, in the County Park. The club fund furnished the refreshber. The |  | | Book | | Introduction Chapter 1 U.S. Highway 160 From the High Plains to the Coal Fields 19 Chapter 2 Interstate 70...Joseph 131 Chapter 4 U.S. Highway 83 The High Plains and the Chalk Beds 169 Chapter 5 Interstate 135/U...sinkhole, Hamilton County 20 Bear Creek Fault 21 Cimarron River bed, Grant County 26 A dust storm near...Basin, Clark County 39 St. Jacob’s Well, Clark County 40 The bridge at Keiger Creek, Clark County Red Hills...Hills, Barber County 47 A slump feature, Barber County 48 Satin spar from the Red Hills 49 Flowerpot Mound |  | | Journal (issue) | | Connecticut -.-----Garnet, Lulubell Mine, Son Diego County, California. low in silica. Biotite is one of...and cteavelandite, Little Three Mine, San Diego County, California. and with a hardness of 5, as well...crystals of spodu mcne, q.v., found in Alexander County, North Carolina, at Hiddenite, the type locality...to 8. Phenacite Epidote in quartz ,Son Diego County, Calif. THE MI NERALOGIST See corundum. Sa.pphire... '- " � 7 Doubly terminated tourmaline, Son County, California. Diego gane..«e occurs rather rarely |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | been a great upsurge of interest in earth science. Project Mohole, the Space program, the great surge...and talk of a field trip to the Great Salt Plains to hunt for selenite crystals for the High Point Min...a slab saw to the Club. PENNSYLVANIA The Bucks County Gemcutters Guild, Solebury, encourages members...members of the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills The Rock and Mineral Club, Harrisburg...Club, Jacksonville, has reserved a booth at the County Fair for the members' exhibits. NEW YORK The |  | | Book | | be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals encompass a great variety of chemical compositions and crystal structures...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...fine way to recognize their hard work! Gypsum (selenite variety), Galetta, Ontario, Canada * 12 x 13 x...Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17 x 11 |  | | Book | | Shaub -y Treasures from the earth PUBLIC LIBRARY COUNTY, FORT WAYNE AND ALLEN IND. Treasures from...the blowpipe. Since blowpipe analysis provides a great deal of vital information about a mineral, and since...be easily learned and applied, it has been given great emphasis here. Other methods of analysis discussed...you attempt to break a crystal of halite (rock salt), you will find that it breaks readily, producing...mineral gypsum (calcium sulthe variety known as selenite, has Two have one direction each and the third |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Norseman were ( alled It at once aroused a great deal of controversy as to its authenticity. The...stone was identified as Cormorant Lake in Becker County, Minnesota. At the place on Cormorant Lake where...Rocks’ or “Mooring Rocks” and have attracted a great deal of interest. Several other mooring rocks have...and to him historians everywhere will ever owe a great debt of gratitude. Water-wheels Turn by Dr. J...know Passes of nothing to equal it anywher« The great Grotto itself, covering more than a quarter of a |  | | Book (edition) | | Missouri Commission 144; South Dakota Tourism 149; Oklahoma Tourism Tourism Department 163; Texas Highway...use of energy.” This does not mean giving up the great North American outdoors with its manifold opportunities...lnkcoduction Stars crinkling overhead at night on the High Plains of Texas, the piney breath of mountain air in British...Ozarks—all these can be part of a vacation in the great North American outdoors. Camping, backpacking and...seemed incredible only a decade ago. There have been great strides in technology, a vastly increasing metropolitan |  | | Journal (issue) | | the diamond grease eliminates friction and heat. Great for opal. Diamond makes short work of rubies and...ocean by Stella J. Pepper 40 PETRIFIED WOOD IN OKLAHOMA Locations in the Sooner State by Harry Lovell...in only 6-10 days. Also deburrs and burnishes. Great for flnlshlng small, delicate parts. Super tough...Meyerholferlte Agate Barite-"Rose" Form Aventurlne Selenite Rhodonite Stlbloonlte Blue Calcite Prue Orbicular...brilliant red, blue and green flashes against a jet black background danced in the mind's eye as I attempted |  | | Book | | 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...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson |  | | Journal (issue) | | The weather, s urro undings and collecting were great, and it did not take long for everybody to gather...roughed continued on page 24 By Vi Wilhelmsen Amador County Gem and M ineral Society Six years ago, after...after much discussions, our club, The Amador County Gem and Mineral Society, decided on a project - a gemstone...two years. Gem and Mineral Society of San Mateo County: President; Vice-President; Show Chairman; Secretary;...Knowledgeable speakers, programs related to this great hobby of ours will be presented for your enjoyment |  | | Report (volume) | | Sigma Gamma Epsilon. Geophysics, University of Oklahoma. Norman, Okla. Water School of Geology and ...Compact Comm. Comm. Bull. Committee Bulletin. Oklahoma City, Okla. Revue der Interstate Oil Compact...Proceedings of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain. St. Dunstan's House. London, England. Jour...Ky. Kentucky Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky...Analysts. Houston, Tex. Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. - Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science |  | | Journal (issue) | | Moss Drive, P.O. Box 740252 Houston Texas, TX 77074 USA Tel : +1 832 641 5014 ; +234 803 715 8372 Fax : +1...more, it is possible to explore and discover some great finds. All the networking suggestions apply to either...with others attending the public show. It is a great place to start if you are a beginner. Wear comfortable...Languages) WWW.ROCKNGEM.COM | JANUARY 2022 23 T he great majority of minerals do not respond with color under...the activator. How Fluorescence is Activated The great majority of activators are atoms of certain metal |  | | Book (edition) | | and Rabun County, Georgia. Between 1900 and 1905 the corundum deposits of Gallatin County, Montana, were...to a small extent. The Corundum Hill mine, Macon County, North Carolina, is about 8 miles northeast of...occur in peridotite. The most important Jackson County deposits are in the extreme northeastern part,...counties, but the Lucas mine at Laurel Creek, Rabun County, is one of the best known corundum mines in the...vicinity of Elk Creek in the central part of Gallatin County, Montant., where the ore c>ccur11 in ayenite!J |  | | Journal (issue) | | are "closer than you think". In fact , it takes a jet plane less time to fly from Fairbanks to Seattle...strictly amateurs - G&M staff members who had a great time combining strands, twisting, untwisting , combining...be held July 26, 27 and 28, 1985 at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura , California. It was reported...of the Mohave County Gemstoners will be held September 29 and 30 at the Mohave County Fairgrounds in...RUF-ROX Send lor our FREE Lisi Mail Order Only' !USA only) 615 W. Austin St.. Tolono. IL 61880 See our |  | | Journal (issue) | | He brought out some very fine tourmaline and a great deal of granular and crystalline albite, most of...crystal or crystal group. This was it! Here was the great “dream pocket”! A total of thirty-five crystals...museum quality.” (Szenics, 1967) Spruce Peak, King County, Washington, 1977 Beautiful pyrite and quartz specimens...room was a mass of chloritic clay studded with great smoky quartz crystals. Large quartz crystals festooned...and chores to assist in the cleaning out of the great pocket. To their joy, they found that the earthy |
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Great Salt Plains, Jet, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, USA