 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALOGY OF The Granite Mountain Syenite PULASKI AND SALINE COUNTIES, ARKANSAS Within the last few...from the syenite pegmatites of Granite Mountain. HENRY L . BARWOOD Arkansas Mining and Mineral Resources...Resources Research Institute Arkansas Tech University Russellville, Arkansas 72801 A C O M P L E X P L U T O...Saline County to the city limits of Little Rock in Pulaski County. The outcrops in Saline County are weath...the northeast forms a promi nent ridge ("Granite" Mountain) and contains four active and many inactive |  | | Journal (issue) | | Notebook: Martin Marietta Jones Mill Quarry Hot Spring County, Arkansas - Fall, 2000 Art Smith 9118 Concho...Mid-state or Midstate quarry o n the southeast outer na nk o f Mag ne t Cove. The quarry processes metamorphic...activity, but I w,iid not expec t to see how much the quarry complex had sprawled to the west of the original...a coniste nt hard roc k a nd the by-passing o f rock that was less desirable. usually that whic h had...Rutile (1 mm) on orthoclase, Jones Mill Quarry, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, photo by the author. Continued on |  | | Journal (issue) | | after mineral from the Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas' intrusive ring-dike complex are the eightling...John Branner the Arkansas State Geologist paid for the printing of many of the Arkansas Geological Survey...Rose ( 1862) and are actually diagrams of Graves Mountain rutile twins but in Williams ( 1891) labeled lo...to solid inclusions of host rock minerals (i.e .. quartz, pyrite, albite). the emeralds also contain...but an albite-emerald mixture in the white material (Nassau and Jackson. 1970). The core area Yaries |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and anatase in pegmatite pipes that cut alkalic granite in the Ballou and Fallon Brothers quarries. It...Fairfield County, Connecticut; and in greisen with purple fluorite at Irish Creek, Rockbridge County, Virginia...Washington County, Missouri, and has been reported as a rare accessory mineral in syenite in the Big Rock, Granite...Granite Mountain, and Holiday Inn quarries south of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. It has also...tiny crystals at Wimmer No. 3 pit, Rib Mountain, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Several Montana parisite localities |  | | Journal (issue) | | collecting localities. Thus I was excited (though a little skeptical) to learn of a nearby quartz collecting...Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most...particularly prevalent south of Donalda in the Drumheller area which is home to the well-known Tyrrell Museum,...After receiving comments that the Goodall Farm Quarry, also known as the Sanford vesuvianite locality...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea |  | | Book | | Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I •( 11 o •« c »««ou cxi ju4«iO«J...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute Quadrangal...Quadrangal Map index. V Contents and Locality Index Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types....Location 1 Montgomery County quartz deposits................. Other Montgomery County quartz mines...... |  | | Journal (issue) | | PAGE FROM A COLLECTOR'S NOTEBOOK: 3M BIG ROCK QUARRY, ARKANSAS COLLECTING TRIP - FALL 1998, Part 1 Art...Street Houston, Texas 77036-6742 - Our last Arkansas Collecting trip started about a month earlier...group gathered at the 65th Street Denny's in Little Rock at 7:00 AM on October I. _The_encroachment of...proceeded to the 3M Big Rock Quarry in the nephelinc sycnite of Granite Mountain located less than I mile...mile away. Last year, our visit to the Granite Mountain syenitc quarries was almost monomineral with boulders |  | | Journal (issue) | | the MidstateQuarry Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...in the Midstate Quarry located just off the southeast flank of Magnet Cove. This quarry is in the altered... The Stanley Shale is a dark, hard fine-grained rock that contains numerous fractures and mineralization...veins. This hard shale makes for good construction rock, but for the average collector, mineral collecting...aboufo:s mmlong, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, photo by the author. Middle& |  | | Journal (issue) | | the most well-known mineralized veins within the area described as the Central Kentucky Fluorspar District...From A Collector's Notebook: On to the Northeast, Arkansas Collecting-Fall 1999 Art Smith 9118 Concho Street...near Lake Greeson and Mount Ida quartz ~ Our Arkansas collecting trip started early in October, ednesday...after noon. We hit the dumps and moved a bit of rock, but were disappointed and found just a couple of...headed eas t w ith no fur-ther tops. We got to Little Roc k Just be fore complete darkness and checked |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $2.00 from the Mill Creeli. Quarry Polk County, Oregon John Cornish 40 Cedar Glen Lane...The Mill Creek quarry is one of these. The Mill Creek quarry is located in Polk County, off of Highway...one passes the county-maintained Mill Creek Picnic Area. Just beyond the picnic area the road turns into...into the quarry. Park here and hike the short half mile (0.9 km) into the quarry. This small quarry is operated...go to Tucson this year and and I was feeling a little down, I thought that some Mexican minerals like |  | | Journal (issue) | | LuminescentPhantom Quartz From Hudson,St. Croix County,Wisconsin William S. Cordua Dept. Plant and Earth...November-December, 1997 near Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin has revealed some unexpectedly interesting...reached from Interstate 94. One takes Exit 2, marked County F and Carmichael Road, then turns south on Cannichael...crystals associated with beryl, muscovite, and albite from Hu Ya, Ping Wu, Sichuan, China. The crystals...Coeur d' Alene, ID 83816-2043 Montgomery at the "Little Green Monster" Mine Fairfield, Utah 1937 A 96 |  | | Journal (issue) | | from the vicinity of Pikes Peak itself, Stove Mountain and Sentinel and Specimen Rocks; Crystal Park;...Harris Park; Wigwam Creek; and Devils Head. The granite pegmatites of the Pikes Peak batholith offer potential...minerals: smoky quartz, microcline var. amazonite, albite, topaz, fluorite, goethite, and others. The most...from the general area of the Lake George intrusive center, a.k.a. the Crystal Peak area, such as the Dragon’s...more unusual minerals, such as the Stove Mountain-Mount Rosa area noted for riebeckite, astrophyllite, zircon |  | | Journal (issue) | | 89511 Life is a mill a nd men the ore Roughes t of rock may hold in store The s ilver of love a nd gold...Royal Gorge No. 1 Mine, Eight Mile Park, Fremont County, Colorado Mark Ivan Jacobson Perth Pouch P. 0 ...Gorge (Jacobson 1997), Eight Mile Park, Fremont County, Colorado. This photograph was taken by Douglas...until we were well below the o rig inal surfac e rock and repeated the efforts in several places on the...ith no lrth1u111 minera ls outside the excavated area. The original report coinc ided with the September |  | | Journal (issue) | | Book: Climbing and Collecting on Iron Mountain, Jackson, Carroll County, New Hampshire Art Smith 9118 Concho...Jackson in Carroll County, New Hampshire. There is an overgrown pit at the base of the mountain and four sets...up on the mountain slope. The latter were our quest. We drove to the base of the mountain on Jericho...hiked a trail northwest along the base of the mountain for about a mile. W here the trail dies-out, we...Phenakite, 1 mm, in hematite cavity, Iron Mountain, Jackson, Carroll County, New Hampshire, photo by the author |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (1985), North Carolina (1985), Indiana (1986), and Arkansas (1988). Each of the pub lished indices has differed...particular state or area, and to find out who else may already be working on that area. The ultimate result...the locality listings. C O L O R A D O , Chaffee County California mine, west of Nathrop (near head of...fluorite, topaz. I N D I A N A , Allen County May Stone and Sand quarry (Ardmore plant, France Stone C o ...pyrite, calcite. P E N N S Y L V A N I A , Chester County French Creek mine (includes old Keim [lower] and |  | | Journal (issue) | | From A Collector's Notebook: Moat Mountain, Albany, Carroll County, Hew Hampshire-2000 Art Smith 9118...produci ng many of the class ical New Hampshi re granite miarolitic cavity crystal groups of smoky quartz... Bob Eastman had shop in a barn full o f Moat Mountain , pec ime ns and other local material located...collecting area in the W hite Mountain National Forest. This locality Continued on page 6 Fig. 1 Albite, micro...micro, Moat Mountain, New Hampshire, photo by the author. New Mineral Finds in the Second Half of 2000 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector's Newsletter Minerals near Tateville, Pulaski County, l(entucky Alan Goldstein 1607 Washington Blvd...interesting roadcul on US 27 near Tatevillc, Pulaski County, Kentucky. II lies about three hours southeast...did nol see them. There were also no Texas or Arkansas minerals 10 get me excited bul Chinese, Euopean...Missouri's Viburnum Trend. While there has been little of note over the past two months, the spring and...Valley Quarry closed The following lelter was received from the owner of the Gopher Valley Quarry near |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ferroaxinite from New Melones Lake, Calaveras County, California, a remarkable new locality...........Detroit is at a new location this year: the Holiday Inn in Troy, Michigan, on 16 Mile Road (not to be...be confused with their former location in the Holiday Inn in Hazel Park, on 9 Mile Road!). The Tucson Show...e w E T R O I T IMD-MINERAL SHOW at the Holiday Inn - Troy, Detroit 2537 Rochester Court 1-75 & 16... /3 m i.rd .-fv- . F orm er r 1Location. Ho/. Inn H azel - Park. 8 m f.rd . ARM ORY K # SHOW Abel |  | | Journal (issue) | | by Vandall King. from Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...1 White fluorite, 2 mm, Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas, photo by the author. ,/" 2 Minero!...follows: "Outcrop of • pegmatite ledges in canyon of Arkansas River just above the Royal Gorge, Colorado. Two...About 7 miles above Canyon [sic] City. Fremont County, Colorado." My best guess is that the gem pegmatite...vertical outcrop of whitish, coarse-grained appearing rock. The scenery is distinctive enough that one should |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter Pebble Beach Pegmatites Lake Buchanan, Llano County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Str. Houston, Texas...Canine Road Marble Falls, Texas 78654 .7 l Llano County has long been known for its rare-earth granitic...inclusions of galena, draw~ng_by_the author. Hydraulic Rock Trimm Wydar has perfectedthe art of hydraulic trimmers...Ph.D: seriksson@vt.edu. Midstate Quarry names The Midstate Quarry (Magnet Cove, AR) which has been described... it has no official name. Area mineral collectors called it the 51 Quarry for years, because it was alongside |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pink Tourn1aline at the Cryo-Genie Mine, San Diego County, California Kenneth L. Gochenour 2670 East Walnut...mine near Warner Springs in northern San Diego County, California. The crystals were found at a depth...specimen will soon find its home the Los Angles County Museum of Natural History. Another , rge crystal...in the Hams-Weeks Pegmatite, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston...known as the Province ake Quarry or just Hams or Weeks Mine, pegmatite, or quarry) loc~ted abou_t si x mi |  | | Journal (issue) | | Historic Katerina Mine Pala District, San Diego County, California Jesse Fisher 380 Pennsylvania A venue...dike system low on the southern slope or Hiriart Mountain, the eastern-most of four hills which make up...Diego County, California. First discovered during the "Gem Rush''that occurred in San Diego County during...masses on fracture and void surfaces in volcanic rock. Crystals average 5 µm wide by 50 µm long of various...Continuedon page 4 2 Minernl News Greater Denver Area Gem and Mineral Council makes grant to Mineral Information |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 STOP 3 - King's quarry, upper half of Cow Branch Formation. . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . 23 Virginia Solite plant and quarry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....motels, and King of the Sea Restaurant3 3. Equal-area circular histogram of clast, long axes from STOP...of Cow Branch Formation seen at STOP 3 (King's quarry) . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6. Stratigraphic section...roadcut on top of Whiteoak Mountain going north on U.S. Highway 29, Pittsylvania County, Virginia (from Myertons |  | | Journal (issue) | | Colorado-Utah Minerals Crystal-Linn International Mountain Minerals International Williams Minerals Martin...Mart, Sept. 12-15, 1985 Denver Satellite Show, Holiday Inn North, Sept. 11-14, 1985 The Mineralogical Record...Aluminum phosphate minerals from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, A rkansas.............................unusual quartz pipe deposits o f the Kingsgate mining area were among Australia's leading producers o f molybdenite...material. T INTRODUCTION The Kingsgate mining area lies in rugged, heavily wooded coun try near the |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...Yedlin, is also featured. The consumer education area holds examples of all kinds of turquoise treatments |
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