 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Montana Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015...2015 K NOWN AS THE TREASURE STATE, Montana is rich in mineral and gemstone localities. The state motto...established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces The state can be divided...The middle third of the state is known as the Montana alkali province where the sediments have MICHAEL...Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded by [University |  | | Book | | Montana Hodges Robert Feldman Shaded relief indicates terrain and slope. Second Edition Rockhounding...longitude numbers and grid ticks are GPS compatible. Montana Enhanced detail shows more symbols, labels, and...history Cover photos of Montana agate (front) and ammonite imprint (back) © Montana Hodges Cover design by...imprint of The Globe Pequot Press MONTANA Search for stunning Montana agate along the Yellowstone River...paleontologists excavate dinosaurs in Malta. Rockhounding Montana points the way to the best rockhounding in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collins The Lake Clear-Kuehl Lake area, Renfrew County, Ontario.........................................Grice and R. A. Gault Quartz crystals from the Granite Creek-Lolo Pass area, Montana......................descloizite from the Chalk Mountain mine, Churchill County, Nevada .........................................will be there to serve you. Aftrox Inc., 12496 Montana, El Faao, Tens 79935* (915)592-5227 196 , The...pegmatite, 4 —Lake geological environments, namely: granite pegmatites, nephelineand corundum-bearing gneisses |  | | Journal (issue) | | Walter Mayfield manganese prospect, Jeff Davis County, Texas. men ofa black botryoidal manganese oxide...located about 22 miles south ofVan Hom in Je ff Davis County, Texas (Baker I 934). However, the mineral is ca...fluorite (McAnulty 1974) also no description and quartz. The quartz Antero Aquamarines By Mark I. Jacobson,...Walter Mayfield manganese prospect, Jeff Davis County, Texas. Fig. 3 Romanechite crystals, micro, from...Walte r Mayfield manganese prospect, Jeff Davis County, Te xa s. is described as occ urring as yell ow-brown |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Montana, Treasure State for the Crystal Mineral Collector By GERALD J. NAVRATIL Bex 70, RFD 7, Middleburg...crystal mineral localities within the state of Montana. Quite accurately the state has been officially...crystal locations. Certainly such common minerals as quartz, pyrite, garnet and others occur in crystal form...Amcnnpijiite: In the Emery Mining district (Powell County) the mineral is found in wellformed crystals in...Crevasse Mountain Mining district near Jardine (Park County). At the Kennebec mine in the Crevasse Mountain |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | dolomite—very nice. No pyrite present. ALASKA—From Granite Creek, near Chickaloon, Alaska, we have a specimen...the old open pit Sodium Sulphate mine in Imperial County near BertROCKS AND MINERALS ram siding on the...pocket was lined with feldspar, and smoky quartz xls—the quartz xls are of good gem quality on the inside...a secondary crystallization set in forming the quartz and goethite which produced the onegite. Also running...running through the mass was chalcedony-looking quartz which sometimes pointed up into terminations around |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | purple, and grey. These géodes are found in Pike County, Ala., which is about 50 miles north of Montgomery...Montgomery. I have found them scattered all over the county, but they are especially abundant just south of...rattlebox. ARIZONA—Flat doubly terminated loose smoky quartz xls coated by dark brown drusy dolomite which...made several trips to Magnet Cove (Hot Springs County) which is about 15 miles east of Hot Springs on...apatite stained brown to red by iron (found in a creek bed). 2. Massive, brassy-yellow pyrite in dark brown |  | | Book | | scepter heads growing upon milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...components of mineral oils, mineral waters or coal. Granite, sandstone, marble and other rocks are non-minerals...tal). Colorless or white, six sided crystals of quartz are a familiar and obvious example of a mineral...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence |  | | Journal (issue) | | & M. Koval Mineralogy of the Killie mine, Elko County, N ev a d a ........................413 by G. E.......... 446 COVER: CINNABAR with dolomite and quartz, Guizhou Province, China. The cinnabar crystals...have been col lected at the Duff quarry in Logan County, Ohio, for more than ten years. The crystals are...approximately 2 kilometers north of Huntsville, Logan County, in west-central Ohio. The quarry produces crushed...Vanadinite crystal from the Old Yuma mine, Pima County, Arizona; 3.8 cm. Chris Panczner collection. Figure |  | | Book | | AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185...M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .........................................Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203 An unusual quartz crystal from Zaire ..............................inclusions as negative crystals within quartz from Fonda, Montgomery County, New York. Notice that these also...making up a habit much like that of a distorted quartz crystal. In three of the cavities are visible round |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...Subparallel Biotite, potash feld- Volcanic Absence of quartz Dark green to black color Texture flow amphibole...Absence of quartz augite, Olivine present Plagioclase, Coarse or other py- roxene Granite Light Grainy |  | | Report (volume) | | ..... 139 144 146 153 158 163 169 . 172 174 Montana..................................................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...specimens. Some mineral aggregates, such as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included because...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Book (edition) | | ······································ MO 1-3 Montana .................................................Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah...discovery of gold in 1830 in oldAutauga (now Chilton) County along tributaries of Chestnut and Blue Creeks,...in: Chilton County: nuggets weighing up to 3.38 ounces have been recovered from Blue Creek, a short tributary...Coosa River in the southeastern part of the county. Clay County: area streams, tributaries and gravel benches |  | | Report (volume) | | RECONNAISSANCE IN NORTHERN IDAHO AND NORTHWESTERN MONTANA . ' BY F. C. CALKINS WITH NOTES ON THE ECONOMIC...Coeur d'Alene Valley_______________________ 18 Missoula Valley ____________ _______________ Lakes____...Continued. Acidic intrusives________________________ 43 Quartz mouzonites_____._________________ 43 General d...west base of- Cabinet Itnnge________ 46 Lightning Creek area ___________________ 46 Area east'of Bull Lake__________...Vermilion Creek to Dixon_ 83 Vermilion Creek to Thompson _______________ Prospect Creek ___________________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Riddle's Mill Dist. (gold deposits) of Talladega County, Ala. It is 8l/ 2 x 11 and sells for Si, we believe...identification. There is quite a lot of it. It came from Granite Creek near Chickaloon, Alaska."—item sent in by John...to Clear Creek, San Benito County, Calif., have shown that the jadeite boulders in the creek are still...sending you a chunk of jadeite for which Clear Creek is well known as the first locality for this mineral...discovery having been made public about 1950. Clear Creek, a tributary of the San Benito River, about in the |  | | Report (volume) | | Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...museum specimens. Some mineral aggregates, as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included,...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Johnson, Chair Baker City Ronald K. Culbertson Myrtle Creek Donald A. Haagensen Portland STATE GEOLOGIST Donald...Columbus, Ohio l Oth 1\174 lith 1975 Kalispell. Montana 12th 1976 Atlanta, Georgia 13th 1977 Nonnan...Montana's industrial minerals Richard B. Berg , Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology .....................supply material for container g lass production. and quartz is quarried for nickel smelting, filter beds, poultry...ILICA.")AND I·-lr~ c ~ o\ Q ! \ I ~a L • J QUARTZ [ l / , u •• .!J ' ( • ....._'c• I I |  | | Journal (issue) | | CRYSTALLIZED CALAYERITE from the famous Cripple Creek region. ALTAITE, GEIKIELITE, BROMYRITE crystals...type of phantom Barite. LUSTROUS HEMATITES with Smoky Quartz making as hand some and cheap specimens as can...and prehis toric race, have been located in Cook county, Minn., on the north shore of Lake Superior. In...been discovered before is not strange, for Cook county is an almost isolated point of land, far from any...nearest of the seven newly discovered mines. Then the county is very hilly, rocky, and wild, with little fertile |  | | Book | | Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...Northern Arizona Agate, (in Kuibab limestone) BIG BUG CREEK, Yavapai Co. Onyx Marble BLACK MOUNTAINS, E. Slopo...Cochise Co., 3 ml. N. of Dragoon. ClIRYSOFRASB CAVE CREEK, Maricopa Co., 45 mi. N. Phoeniz Onyx Marble COPPER |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Granite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Hydrothermal alteration of sedimentary rocks and granite ............ , . . . . Page Mineral Deposits and... . . . . . . . . . . . . Radioactivity of the granite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Conclusions. . ...ABSTRACT Zeunerite occurs near the surface of a granite stock on the southwest flank of Brooks Mountain...of pegmatitic granite and, to a minor extent, in openings and cracks the weathered granite enclosing the |  | | Book (edition) | | very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz or cinnabar. Current practice most often names...polished mineral surface, expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage...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...purine-porphyrine group). a nickel porphyrine. With quartz. rutile, piemontite, sursassite, ardennite, Triclinic |  | | Report (issue) | | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs... Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph by J. Scovil....Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...Mountain Mine Quartz, Lovelock area Acanthite Grossular, Nightingale district Quartz epimorph after...district Quartz (amethyst) and Calcite Almandine-Spessartine Annabergite Gypsum Quartz, Petersen |  | | Book (edition) | | SILICA III. l. AND SILICATES. SILICA. 253 Quartz Opal 259 2. SILICATES. General Remarks.- 262...grains when it cannot make distinct crystals. Granite mountains are mountains of crystals, each particle...artificial light, and with a cross-slit to let the light pass in place of the cross-hairs of the first of A ...sometimes called a quartzoid, because it occurs in quartz. (3) Twelve-sided double pyramids. Two planes of...rhombohedrons. They are combined in Figs. 20, 21, forms of quartz. Ehombohedrons vary greatly in the length of the |
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