 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Geology Auburn Universit Rutile=Included Quartz Downloaded by [McGill University Library] at 05:41...issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. The specimen, rutilated quartz from Waterbury, Vermont (see fig.), is interesting...in considerable demand by collectors. Rutilated quartz is also a popular gem material, having been utilized...spheres, and other ornamental devices. Rutilated quartz is known by a number of names that include sagenite...arrow), and Venus’ hair stone. The host quartz may be colorless, smoky, or amethystine and occurs commonly |  | | Report (volume) | | the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...flat base and a faceted top terminating in a low point, was invented and used for cutting large diamonds...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green |  | | Report (issue) | | .'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...THULITE AND PYRITE MONAZITE EMERALD CUPRITE SMOKY QUARTZ ZIRCON TORBERNITE ~/ UBRAR'l USE ONLV ...Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North CarOlina Department of Natural Resources and Community...for the general welfare of the citizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts a number of basic and | | | Report (issue) | | Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist i ...FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian Institution (slide...viable mineral collecting sites through out North Carolina. Some sites are commercially operated during |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEMS AND GEM MINERALS OF NORTH CAROLINA* Josnrn HvoB Pnerr North Carolina is one of the more notable...material. The variety of gem minerals found in North Carolina is probably greater than in any other state... JOURNAL MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY Quartz Rock Crystal Amethyst Citrine Smoky RoseQuartz Praseand Chrysoprase...Sphene Rutile Octahedrite Cassiterite Hematite (in quartz) Pyrite Bronzite Hypersthene Pyroxene Diopside...Drauor.rt Twelve diamonds have been found in North Carolina, and there are also extensive deposits of itacolumite |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WILLIAM DIVISION JASPER P. OF L. SAUNDERS, MINERAL...RESOURCES GEOLOGIST Circular 16 LOCALITIES NORTH OF CAROLINA BY JAMES F. CONLEY Doc NC DENR LIBRARY...... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MINERAL COLLECTING IN NORTH CAROLINA , . . . . # . WHERE TO COLLECT f ... f ......THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY COUNTIES . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ......... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 7 Emerald, Hiddenite and Associated Minerals |  | | Book (edition) | | gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gemstones of North Carolina By GEORGE A. BRUCE, International Import Company 604 Peachtree Street, N...Atlanta 8, Georgia "The Land of the Sky" that is North Carolina is also the Land of Gemstones. This beautiful...to initiate the systematic mining of gems in North Carolina was Mr. C. W. Jenks. This was in 1871 when...Franklin, Macon County. The next was the Buck Creek, or Cullakeenee Mine, in Clay County. This was followed...followed by the mining of emeralds at Stony Point, Alexander County. These gem "pioneers" pointed the way |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | large variety of minerals and gemstones in North Carolina annually attracts thousands of collectors to...the world. Some Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina T H E C O L L E C T I N G L O C A L I T I E...McKenzie's publication Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina: Information Circular 24 (1978). For a more...locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can be ordered from the North Carolina Department...27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................... GEM HUNTING IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. By B. M . Brehm ............................this treasure. Just the same the memory of those Quartz filled half geodes never left him, and as he grew...'3 7, produced one fine cluster 0£ __ the green Quartz crystals. Upper N ew, York, aside from the two...Albite along with fine green Amazonite. North and South Carolina rewarded him with a long list of fine...seen as he stooped the were partly filled with Quartz crystals, glittering geode in the stream. So many |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California; in the Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of South...Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs very rarely in pegmatites...Ticonderoga it occurs in graphitic quartzites, in small quartz veins, and in pegmatites. At Lewiston. Yarmouth...sulfide, has been found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It has been mine on San Augustin Peak...tains, New Mexico, with argentite in a Randolph County, Alabama; and from a sulfide zone near the center |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 00:39 19 January 2015 Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia B lack and nearly black minerals-no...include ilmenite, anatase, brookite, hematite, quartz, titanite, chlorite, muscovite, kyanite, andalusite...star stones and cat’s eyes, and rutile-included quartz is a relatively common and popular lapidary material...material (for a detailed treatment of rutile-included quartz, see Cook 1996). Rutile in good to fine specimens...near Waterbury, Vermont; at Poker Hill, Providence County, Rhode Island; and in Essex, Orange, and Warren |  | | Book (edition) | | Geology of North Carolina. QE 147 .A22 1866-1887 Pt.2 V.2 Chap.1 Digitized by the Internet Archive...org/details/mineralsminerall01 nort n o o / Geology of North Carolina. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It F. A. GENTH...brought to a Pi 7 ? f 3 : GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA. 2 many new and rare species. The Mica veins...great many very interesting and unique forms of quartz crystals and rutiles, and has added a great number...collection of quartzes, he has “ one group of 13 smoky crystals, having 52 moveable bubbles and 9 basal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some...the littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...visually. Muscovite crystals are monoclinic with point group 2/m. They are tabular to columnar, are striated...silky luster, and may occur as colorless, gray, smoky brown, green, yellow, or rose-red crystals. Dark...from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This is typical of the specimens |  | | Book (edition) | | LOCALITIES NORTH CAROLINA, BEING CHAPTER I, OP THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. Reprinted...OF E. M. UZZELL RALEIGH, N. C. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CHROLINS. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It has F...data have been embodied. Sev- GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 4 eral causes have been operative in giving...valuable of Catawba and Burke, of list we owe Alexander and elsewhere. quartzes, he has (juartz crystals...his extraordinary collection of "one group of 13 smoky crystals, moveable bubbles and 9 basal planes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 100 COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA C. HENRY KING, FRANKUNVILLE, N.C. ALAMANCE—The North State pyrophyllite...Creek Formation.) ALEXANDER—Emeralds were first discovered about 1875 near Stony Point; a few years later...to collectors for a fee. Bronzite, tourmaline, quartz xls, and rutile found here. BRUNSWICK—Fossilized...magnetite, alleghanyite, rhodonite, spessartite, quartz, calcite, and tephroite. ANSON—About two miles...Ore Knob copper mine in the eastern part of the county has produced chalcocite, bornite, pyrite, pyrrhotite |  | | Book | | Einschlüsse im Quarz Magie World: lnclusions in Quartz Vorwort Foreword Einführung 7 8 1ntrod...Sulfates, Wolframates Carbonates Silicates Synthetic quartz Final comments Acknowledgements References Photo...only represent a small and limited selection of quartz inclusions and should encourage the readers to...venture on their own journey into the magic world of quartz inclusions, maybe discovering a new, fantastic...aber auch wunderschöne crystals in pegmatites, quartz Kristalle in Pegmatiten, Quarzveins, ore deposits |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | wonderful > job they did. "Rockland Nuggets", Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Inc., Editor, Marvin Klibonoff;...collected rocks! The words Division of the Rockland County Mineral "Founded 1886" following the name of and...showed slides on the Jamesville Quarry. The Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society. Inc., SufFern, heard Tim...MacCarry speak on "The Palisades Formation of Rockland County". Miss Jessie Weinberger spoke on "The Geology...Geology and Paleontology of Saint Lawrence County, New York". Tim MacCarry also spoke to the Junior Club on |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________............._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because...n d m 1799 i n Cabarrus C o u n t y, N o r t h Carolina, b y a s m a l l b o y w a l k i n g along a m...n t h e e a r l y 1840's i n b o t h N o r t h Carolina and Georgia. C r y s t a l s were recovered f |  | | Book | | 44 45 xvi xiii Ruby Cerussite 46 Sapphire Quartz Malachite 47 Azurite 48 Rock crystal 88 ... Selenite 52 91 Celestite 92 Rose quartz 53 Barytes Chalcedony 54 Wulfenite Agate 55 Moss...90 50 51 Amethyst 87 Aurichalcite 49 Smoky quartz Citrine 86 64 103 Wavellite 104 105 Alexandrite...sophisticated age refers to as the conchoidal fracture of quartz. Probably by about 4500 B.C. man had learnt to...by Stone Age man, and stones of the hardness of quartz were cut and polished in pre-dynastic Egypt and |  | | Journal (issue) | | III , NO . 5 - JULY , 1896 . CONTENTS CONCERNING Quartz - Part II . RAMBLES IN MONTANA , HISTORY OF CLAYSTONES...including Rutilated Quartz , scotions of Stalactitie Barite , Perthite ( Sunstone ) , Rose Quartz , Green Opal...FOOTE , WARREN M . Foote , Manager . 1224 - 26 - 28 NORTH FORTY - FIRST ST . PHILADELPHIA , PA , U . S . A...recoverable by the OCR engine. ODD FORMS OF QUARTZ FROM NORTH CAROLINA . Collection of A . C . BATES . MINERAL...1896. No. 5. Kor The Mineral Collector. CONCERNING QUARTZ. By A. C. Bates. PART II. The Mineralogist who |  | | Book (volume) | | vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all tributary branches |  | | Journal (issue) | | ... 3 NOTES ON GYPSUM CRYSTALS IN MORTON COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA. By Robe,-, H. Mitchell and Wilson M...SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCALITIES. 3. Rincon, Sao Diego County. By f ark Schwartz ............... ..............of phlogopite from Clark's H ill, St. Lawrence County, New York (page 633, figure 2) ; and a crystal...crystal of clinochlore from W est-town, Chester County, Pennsylvania (page 646). It is also interesting to note... Mr. Jefferis resided in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. H e started collecting in 1837 and |  | | Book (volume) | | grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |
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