 | | Book | | historian-collector William J. Brunet set out to trace three ilmenite occurrences mentioned in late 19th-century literature...ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses could be seen on the old dumps. In 1975-1976...Brunet collected sharp, black, flattened hexagonal ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz...judgment, many more "lost" localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b )...Amity-Edenville entry for Edenite and Spine!). Ilmenite is not common in the metasedimentary rocks of |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontenac Quarries Limited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melochville quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . Shawinigan and St-Maurice quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . St-Marc -des -Carrieres quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riviere -a-Pierre quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Book | | 02'34"}65)--Quartz-plagioclasemicrocline.bioti te gneiss. Acc>essory minerals: clinozoisi te, garnet, zircon... magnetite, muscovite, hornolende. 'Actinolite Gneiss >and Cpondrodite Limestone (76(locality uncertain}ltl)--westward...pyrite, Plrrhotite, ahd calcite in hornDlendle gneiss. Eaat of Center Pend, oa fara ot M.J. ~lder.an...p.150,195)--.erpentine mar'le found in a bed in gneiss on the river in Becket. Mattetite (75(see L.e)374...a11Anit., apatlt., calCite, epidote, fl rite, ilmenite, muscovite, pyrite, sphene, zircon. A18om~croscopic |  | | Report (volume) | | mineral content, and origin___________________ Gneiss and granite___ _ ______ ________ 7 9 9 9 ' 11..._________________________ 43 Geologic observations at the quarries, by T. Nelson Dale_______ 45 Microstructure____________________...Inclusions _________________________________ 47 Plicated gneiss structure_________________________ 47 Granite ...discussion Continued. Geologic observations at the quarries Continued, Page. Segregations__l_.____ '.____...Nelson Dale_______________ Description of the quarries and their product__________ ____ Method______ |  | | Book | | Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Ruorite crystals from the People's...metamorphic rocks. Above: corundum crystal contained in gneiss formed in a metamorphic environment at high temperature...from the summit of Pizzo Forno in the Ticino Canton of Switzerland. A particular type of metamorphism,...area, although the closing of many of the local quarries during recent decades has done much to diminish...diminish opportunities. The still-active quarries include one in the small town of Oltrefiume, which has furnished |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals are found filling seams in schist and gneiss. Many apophyllite-(KF) specimens have been recovered...long in the pegmatites that cut the schist and gneiss. The locality at 190th Street and Amsterdam Avenue...where both minerals coated fractured plates of gneiss. Many of these specimens exceed 50 cm across. A...and blue cubic fluorite crystals 6 mm across on gneiss from rock blasted during the excavation at Hell’s...crystals 25 mm long were recovered from the old gneiss quarries in east midtown near 43rd Street (Chamberlin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | black olivine-enstatite rock and the inclosing gneiss. Professor Emerson says :9 “A gainst the olivine...pegmatites of granitic composition in which feld spar quarries have been opened are fairly abundant over parts...black olivine-enstatite rock and the inclosing gneiss. Here it occurs abundantly in granular anorthite...stituent of the Hatfield tonalite and of the Pelham gneiss, but the finest crystals are found at Grilbertville...asso ciation is that of allanite with magnetite, ilmenite, epidote, zircon, fluorite, quartz, etcetera, |  | | Report (volume) | | County, extensive quarries near Birmingham and Bessemer; Talladega County, several quarries. Used for road...Gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Quarries at Tallassee Falls, in Elmore County. Galena....County, near Guntersville. Gas. See Natural gas. Gneiss. See Granite. Gold. In metamorphic rocks, Chilton...St. Glair County, at Cooks Springs. Sandstone. Quarries: Calhoun County, at Anniston; Colbert County,...Rover mine. Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral Park, and Stockton Hill districts |  | | Report (volume) | | examples_________________ Fluidal cavities in granite gneiss.________ Fluidal cavities in small dikes or veins_____...England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product__________ Method of tr...The granite railroads_______________________ The quarries, their granite and finished product_______ Caledonia...________ Geology of Byegate quarries__________ Quarries ________________________ Groton____________________________...Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product Continued. Vermont Continued. Page. The quarries, their granite |  | | Report (volume) | | .......................... 51 Descriptions of quarries................................... 51 Baltimore............................. 54 Descriptions of quarries................................... 54 Woodstock............................. 56 Descriptions of quarries .................................. 57 Port Deposit...Jones Falls quarries .......................................... 67 Gwynns Falls quarries........................................... 68 Other gneiss quarries......................................... CHAPTER | | | Book | | Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Fluorite crystals from the People's...crust is called a magma chamber. The cooling of in gneiss formed in a metamorphic environment at high temperature...from the summit of Pizzo Forno in the Ticino Canton of Switzerland. A particular type of metamorphism,...area, although the closing of many of the local quarries during recent decades has done much to diminish...diminish opportunities. The still-active quarries include one in the small town of Oltrefiume, which has furnished |  | | Book (volume) | | ..377 North Carolina – Spruce Pine – Little Switzerland Area Map .....................379 North Carolina.........................511 Virginia – Leesburg quarries Site Map .......................................gemmy minerals, petrified wood; area limestone quarriesCalcite, Celestite, marble; SIXMILE (hamlet...Magnetite, Pyrite, etc.; limestone and dolomite quarriesBarite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of...5 mi., in Trenton limestone, in old Civil War quarriesGalena. (Loose pieces of galena are found over |  | | Book (edition) | | gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Fine quarries at Tallahassee falls on Tallapoosa river in sili...rock" outcrop. Chewacla lime works—a porphyritic gneiss quarried for mill stones. Grindstones are made...Rockford, Coosa county, loose crystals in granitoid gneiss. Southeast of Ashland, Clay county ; works erected...argentiferous in many places. Occurs in veins in gneiss,with pyrite, sphalerite, galena, and tetrahedrite...slates noted for their excellence. A fine-grained gneiss quarried at Higganum. Plymouth, Litchfield county; |  | Sheridan, Douglas M., Maxwell, Charles Henry, Albee, Arden Leroy, Van Horn, Richard (1967) Geology and uranium deposits of the Ralston Buttes district, Jefferson County, Colorado, with sections on Paleozoic and younger sedimentary rocks. Professional Paper 520. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp520 | Report (issue) | | _ Hornblende gneiss unit _________________ _ Microcline-quartz-plagioclase-biotite gneiss unit ______...____ _ Microcline-quartz-plagioclase-biotitc · gneiss complexly interlayered with other rocks ______...-----lnterlayered biotite-quartz- pia gioclase gneiss and mica schist ________________ _ Quartzite unit...__________________________ _ Quartz-feldspar cata.clastic gneiss and associated rocks ______________________ _ Cataclastic..._________ _ 8, 9. Garnetiferous biotite-quartz gneiss, Schwartzwalder mine __________________________________ |  | | Book (volume) | | ⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet...Magnetite, Pyrite, etc.; f limestone and dolomite quarries⎯Barite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of...5 mi., in Trenton limestone, in old Civil War quarries⎯Galena. (Loose pieces of galena are found over...worked by Indians.) PELL CITY, NE 3 mi., area quarries⎯black marble. (The marble belt extends through...and Tourmaline (Minerals in veins in schist and gneiss.); e S. of Pleasant Grove church on the Hobbs farm⎯Turquoise |  | | Book (volume) | | ⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet...Magnetite, Pyrite, etc.; f limestone and dolomite quarries⎯Barite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of...5 mi., in Trenton limestone, in old Civil War quarries⎯Galena. (Loose pieces of galena are found over...worked by Indians.) PELL CITY, NE 3 mi., area quarries⎯black marble. (The marble belt extends through...and Tourmaline (Minerals in veins in schist and gneiss.); e S. of Pleasant Grove church on the Hobbs farm⎯Turquoise |  | | Book | | delving beneath the surface or looking into nearby quarries, road cuts, and bluffs beyond the immediate boundaries...• • -. ... ' -- Jay Ellis Ransom . RocK QUARRIES. The best place f-:)f hunting minerals, crystals...spodumene, and rhodonite. Accessory Minerals Ilmenite Black to brownish black (geikielite), steel gray...significant minerals; sulfur Anorthosite Magnetite, ilmenite; gem labradorite (N.Y.) Basalt Quartz gemstones...(primarily eastern U.S. diabase exposures) Diorite Ilmenite, gold ores, copper Felsites Primarily a host |  | | Book | | olivine, pyroxene, or hornblende; it often carries ilmenite or chromite in considerable amounts. of igneous...Igneous intrusives Dark minerals, Limestone quarries Calcite, celestite, dolomite, fluorite, galena...titanifdeposit. Titanium ore minerals include ilmenite, be the various erous magnetite. Grouped separately...sericite, chlorite, muscovite, biotite varieties), gneiss, hornfels, marble, serpentine, breccias, silica...w, in the Trenton limestone, in old Civil War quarries opened by the Confederate government—ga/ena. Note: |  | | Report (issue) | | published and unpublished data on dimension stone quarries, prospects, and historical sites in the southern......................................5 Historic quarries...............................................................................8 Fraser Range — gneiss, charnockite, and mafic granulite ................................43 Wombarella Creek — granitic gneiss ............................................................107 Nanutarra red and white marble quarries ............................................. |  | | Report (volume) | | County, extensive quarries near Birmingham and Bessemer. Talladega County, several quarries. Clay (brick)...Gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Quarries at Tallassee Falls in Elmore County. Galena. Calhoun...St. Glair County, at Cooks Springs. Sandstone. Quarries: Calhoun County, at Anniston; Colbert County,...glance). Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral Park, and Stockton Hill districts...pyrite). Mohave County, in pre-Oambrian granite gneiss in Chloride and Mineral Park districts; Minnesota-Connor |  | | Report (issue) | | Quarry 74 Flat Shoals . . • . • • . . . 76 Granite-Gneiss . • . , • . . . • 77 Mrs. M. J. Hill's Property...So The H. W. Hill Property. So Other Outcrops of Gneiss . 8I The T. B. Tigner Quarry • . 82 Coweta County...Quarry . • • • • . 9r Foliated Granite (Granite-Gneiss) • 94-96 Pike County . . . . . . . . . • . . •...• III-143 Stone Mountain and Its Quarries . . II3-II9 The Quarries of the Adjacent Lowland Belt . . ...Lithonia Area of Contorted Gneiss 125-143 The Rock-Chapel Mountain Quarries . 128 The Jake Chupp Quarry |  | | Book | | was that marble regenerated itself in certain quarries. Nevertheless he was suspicious of claims that...basalt was the main raw material, and basalt axe quarries were abundant (McCoy and Gould 1977). In eastern...Mayan structures appears to have come from local quarries. Most of the region of Mayan civilization is underlain...Quartzite Shale >> Slate >> Phyllite >> Schist >> Gneiss 3.5 Metamorphic Rocks 59 that is completely...Pharaonic Gebel el-Asr gneiss quarries of Egypt were the source of an anorthosite gneiss used in funerary vessels |  | | Book | | DIRECTOR See erweiwE POR |S —$<$_____ MINES AND QUARRIES IQO2 PREPARED UNDER THE SUPERVISION CHIEF...1.—Character of inquiries concerning mines and quarries: 1850 to 1902 ...........--..----------.--2-----Table...included in Census reports concerning mines and quarries: 1850 to 1902........--.---.-.--.---Maplers—=Mlininostatistics...aes Table 13.—Productive and unproductive mines, quarries, and wells: 1902.......-..---------------------+------Table...quantity and value of such materials obtained from quarries included under other GlASsiti Caton sal OO 2Re |  | | Book (volume) | | BUILDING STONEd, ; General Remarks . Granite and Gneiss . Basalt and Trap . . . . _ .5 3 2 —534 . 534—538...General C’ ullou, who in 1845' traced it in the gneiss south of Trivamlram northwards as far as Cochin...appears to he a pseudo laterifee formed of decomposed gneiss in situ. One speci men now in the Geological Museum...it occurs are said to cross the'strike' of the gneiss. Apparently this not easily accountable mode of... • boweyer, o f the matrix being limestone -or gneiss. Possibly some speci mens, now in the Museum, |  | | Book (edition) | | kingdom as carbon in the organic. Granite and gneiss are nearly three-fourths and the silica; rest...quartz compounds (aluminous silicates) make granite, gneiss, mica schist, syenite, and some sandstones, and...combinations of these forms, and commonly imbedded in gneiss, mica slate, and other crystalline rocks. Color...brownish red. tion : Oxygen, lustre, Titanic iron (Ilmenite) resembles hematite closely, 30, iron, 70. but...sedimentary beds have been altered into granite, gneiss, or mica schist, and compact limestone into statuary-marble |
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