| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | the veins are exposed by road cuts and by active quarries where minerals can still be collected. The potential...of lesser interest in joint fractures) in limestone quarries throughout Kentucky. State law forbids collecting... and Wayne. Sedimentary geodes are exposed in quarries, road cuts, and streambeds plotted on 118 geological...and Devonian rocks. They are associated with limestone and siltstone deposits and rarely occur in shale...disseminated iron minerals, including copiapite, goethite, halotrichite, marcasite, melanterite, and pyrite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | KARST-TYPE PHOSPHORITES FROM THE LAHN REGION, GERMANY I~ GERMANN I, J.-M. PAGEL 1 and P.P. PAREKH 2'...Freie Universit~t Berlin, Berlin Hahn-Meitner-Institut fiir Kernforschung, Berlin (Received July 10,...karst-type phosphorites from the Lahn region, Germany. Chem. Geol., 25: 305--316. The concentration of...continental phosphorites from the Lahn region in Germany ranges from about 0.01% to 0.18%, the mean value...minerals (kaolinite, iUite), and ferric oxides (goethite, hematite). These mineral phases were investigated | | | Report (issue) | All-Metals mine Gibson Road (western) occurrence Gill quarries Highway 507 road-cut Fraser quarry Nu-World uranium...quarry Cruikshank quarry Wiarton-Oliphant Road quarries Albemarle zinc occurrence Hope Bay quarry Collingwood...Ojibway Mine St. Marys quarries Ingersoll quarries Drumbo Mine Guelph-Hespeler quarries Georgetown-Forks of...quarry Credit Forks celestite occurrence Milton quarries Waterdown area Mount Nemo quarry Nelson quarry...179 Port Colborne quarries Cayuga-Caledonia area Cayuga quarry Haldimand quarries Hagersville mine Caledonia | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | mineral collecting heritage. Its numerous limestone quarries, gravel pits, strip mines. and rock outcrops...calcite, cerussite (crystals), dolomite, galena, goethite, hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz (drusy)...Windrow Formation, mined intermittently 1899-191 8: goethite, hematite (Garvin 1998). Waukon, Mineral Creek...calcite (crystals), cerussite (coatings), galena, goethite (after marcasite and pyrite), hemimorphite, marcasite...chalcedony as “coldwater agate”). Shellsburg area, most quarries, road cuts, and natural outcrops; Devonian-age | | | Book (volume) | sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...Barite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, pink Dolomite, Goethite, Jarosite, Marcasite, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite...City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine...marine fossils. WILL COUNTY LEMONT, area quarries⎯glistening Quartz replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional | | | Book (volume) | sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...Barite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, pink Dolomite, Goethite, Jarosite, Marcasite, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite...City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine...marine fossils. WILL COUNTY LEMONT, area quarries⎯glistening Quartz replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional | | | Book (volume) | CARTERSVILLE: area barite pitsBarite, Geodes, Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Iron minerals; area mines...Stone Mt.), areaQuartz crystals. LITHONIA: area quarriesCalcite, Epidote, Fluorite, Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline...Feldspar, Quartz. STONE MOUNTAIN: two area granite quarriesBeryl, Feldspar, Hyalite opal; area granite...halfway to Refuge ChurchKyanite. TATE: area quarries in the Tate-Marble Hill dist.Almandite garnet...minesMica, Beryl, Quartz; SE 4 mi.: (a) area of the Germany Mt.; (b) at Wilson farmAmethyst (gem quality); | | | Book (volume) | are all undisturbed sedimentaries: sandstone, limestone, shale and clay, with the oldest formation lying...Eastern Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout...Blue Springs): all regional gravel pits and quarriesCalcite, Quartz crystals; SE 3 mi., quarry on...petrified wood. STEELE CITY, area gravel pits, quarries, and stream gravelsagate, chalcedony, jasper...abandoned mine dumpfluorescent moss opal nodules (in limestone coated with white Calcite), opal arrowheads. BAYARD: | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | recorded. The mineral is intimately associated with goethite; chemical, d.t.a., and thermogravimetric analysis...slopes of the hill above the main Carboniferous Limestone at Sandford Hill quarry (O.S. 1-inch map, sheet...revealed it to be a mixture of beudantite and goethite in approximately equal proportions. Five similar...same locality were also found to be beudantite-goethite mixtures; three of which also contained appreciable...analysis (by N. Cogger) of a galena-free beudantite-goethite sample, which had only several minute cerussite | | | Book (volume) | ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite, and second in the production of...Other collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT...COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co....countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered crystals sharply | | | Book (volume) | ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite, and second in the production of...Other collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT...COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co....countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered crystals sharply | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | it, or to the numerous quarries that were opened in the Carboniferous Limestone. Mention of a few mineral...number of old workings and active and disused quarries. This examination has covered an area nearly 30...latter seem to have been in the Carboniferous Limestone, and small amounts have been found in calcite...of soft yellow iron oxides in one or two of the quarries. I t is also intermixed with some of the zinc...of the quarries. There are, in addition, a number of minerals whose occurrence in a limestone district | | | Book | new construction covers up old sites, or because quarries or mines have changed hands. Large construction...regulation and insurance costs make it difficult for quarries to allow visitors. And, of course, many once productive...glaciated, and all have great rivers and valleys. Limestone built up from ancient seas is the common surface...are a must. Safety shoes are required in some quarries and are sensible formine dumps too. Safety goggles...for fossils which must be worked out of thick limestone layers, heavy mauls, crowbars, or mattocks should | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Briar Fork—near Schuyler (excavation on Rt. 6) goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry—Esmont...mine—near Charlottesville chalcopyrite, cuprite, goethite, malachite, siderite Alleghany County Peters Mountain—(roadcut...dolomite, pyrite, sphalerite Augusta County Belmont limestone quarry—Staunton calcite crystals (some with pyrite...cryptomelane, psilomelane, pyrolusite Simons limestone quarry (Valley stone quarry)—Staunton aragonite...inclusions) Bedford County James River Hydrate quarries—(two sites) near Buchanan aragonite, barite, calcite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | sulfides) and precipitation as replacement of limestone. They may have value for special industrial purposes...subdivided into un displaced blocks of friable limestone with sizes of 2-20 cm (Table 1, specimen 1/2)...boundaries of these blocks become fuzzy, and the limestone is transformed to a friable silty rock having...calcareous friable bulk appearance with relict limestone fabric, but at the same time one can see that...In places, there is metasomatic replacement of limestone by clayey aluminosilicate material, which often | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | owned quarry, producing an excellent quality limestone. The operators are very friendly but permission...calcite, and some micro specks of hematite on limestone. The vugs in which these xls are found appear...whitish dogtooth calcite xls) and all on grayish limestone which fl. brown (both lights). Tiny, lustrous...calcite—strange that the calcite does not fl., only the limestone. Corydon, in central Harrison County, is in southern...to know for sure whether they are limonite or goethite."—sent in by Mrs. Mary G. Poole, 705-5th Ave. | | | Book | 05 : GOLD Peroxide of Iron Water : { : GOETHITE : . : GMELINITE : : : : : Alumina Soda Lime...Druid .) Chlorite. Chondrodite. Copper. Cuprite. Goethite. (Huel Harmony.) Magnetite. Wolfram . ( Huel James...Erythrine. Jasper. Opal. Constantine. (Granite quarries.) Beryl. Schorl. Topaz. Crowan . (Huel Abraham...Condurrite. Chalybite. Copper. Cuprite. Fluor. Goethite. Hema rite. tite . Limnite . Mica. Mispickel...Tin. Bornite. Cassiterite. Chalybite. Cuprite. Goethite. Hematite . Chlorite. Limnite. Lithomarge. Melaconite | | | Book (edition) | GERSDORFFITE-Nickel sulfarsenide GIBBSITE-Aluminum hydroxide GOETHITE-Hydrous iron oxide GOLD-Native element GOSLARITE-Hydrous...crystals in schists, granites, and crystalline limestone associated with chlorite, calcite, quartz, and...masses of tremolite occur in the dolomitic limestone at the quarries outside of the village of Canaan. Tremolite...Mountain leather and mountain cork occur at the limestone quarries in the Beaver Brook District of Danbury,...Mountain paper has been found at the lime stone quarries in Canaan. MONOCLINIC URALITE Uralite, a white | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | enclosing bundles of acicular and minute balls of GOETHITE. earthy hematite, quartz (Broadhead 1873b, 1877)...(38-40-23N 092-13-54W), an agricultural and road limestone quarry between Ashland and Jefferson City on U... a limestone quarry northwest of Poplar Bluff CALCITE as yellow scalenohedra, DOLOMITE, goethite (limonite)...aragonite, barite, CALCITE, CHALCOPYRITE, DOLOMITE, GOETHITE, GYPSUM, hematite, jarosite, KAOLINITE, malachite...BARITE, CHALCOPYRITE, goethite (limonite), MALACHITE in drusy cavities in goethite, smithsonite, and sphalerite | | | Report (issue) | of southern limestone the in occurring CO 2 which vigorously erosion of the limestone has given rise...are of common occurrence in the Triassic diabase quarries of Adams, Lancaster, Berks, and ; Hydrous deposits...WEATHERING PRODUCTS: Hydroxides: azurite, (in goethite; Phosphates: part hydrometamorphs) hydrous...OF MINERALS 21 eluded here are the residual goethite and limonite deposits caused by the weathering...Dynamo-metamorphism may cause marbles from the limestone. recrystallizations of the Silica: quartz, | | | Book (volume) | Fall River Co., all regional side rds., look for limestone outcrops and ridgesFairhill agates; in Bull...pitsCarnotite. 439 South Dakota HOT SPRINGS: area quarriesCalcite and chalcedony (both fluorescent), Gypsum;...(purple), Silver, Tellurium. SPEARFISH: area quarriesGypsum; S, in gravels of adjoining Spearfish...formations are mainly Cambrian and Ordovician limestone, dolomites, sandstones and shales dipping toward...commercial minerals, principally Barite, coal, limestone, clay, Pyrite and Zinc. Another major metal mined | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 2) those associated with Paleozoic rocks (limestone quarries and other occurrences). Calcite Associated...r Duntile Quarry 10 Beamsville Quarries 11 Amherstburg Quarries 12 Inverhuron Cliffs 13 N. Bancroft...Figure 4: Calcite, parallel crystal growth on goethite with minor pyrite and dolomite from the George...5: Calcite crystal group with minor coating of goethite from the George W. McLeod mine near Wawa, Ontario... Among these, exposures of vuggy crystalline limestone, granite pegmatite, and gneisses on Highway 62 | | Cooper, D. C., Cameron, D. G., Young, B., Cornwell, J. D., Bland, D. J. (1991) Mineral exploration in the Cockermouth area, Cumbria. Part 1: regional surveys. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme Report 118. British Geological Survey | Report (issue) | the survey area Lateral variation in the Fourth Limestone Direction of ice movement deduced from glacial...abandoned and restored. Two large modem quarries produce limestone, mainly as crushed rock aggregate and...roadstone, and the area includes many abandoned limestone quarries. Sandstone was formerly worked for building...most detailed recent study of the Carboniferous Limestone is that by Stabbins (1969). The geochemistry of...revision geological mapping of the Carboniferous Limestone north of Cockermouth during 1986-7 revealed that | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | referred to as "the Pittsburgh of the East." Some quarries of historic note have been omitted because they...for the Connecticut State Capitol; the sandstone quarries of Portland, w h i c h supplied the rock for the... stone Point, Waterford, and resulted i n two quarries. A t one time, the granite was used for the construction...Navy as an underwater sound laboratory, and both quarries now house the Millstone Point Nuclear Power Plants...mining in Connecti cut. Now, trap rock, marble/limestone, sand and gravel, gran ite, and crushed stone | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | collecting sites in ridges and abandoned Devonian Limestone quarries. These areas are rich. in the colonial coral...concentrica. About one thousand feet northwest of these quarries is a ridge offering a great variety of fossils...road, near the bottom of the railroad cut is a limestone bed of Morrow age. Crinoids, brachiopods, bryozoans...Carboniferous period fossils can be found in the limestone rocks outcropping in the hills between Springdale...the geode, such as the black metallic growth of Goethite, or the grassy silken1k . f i e hairs 0 Millerite |
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