 | | Journal (issue) | | May 1983 No. 2 STRONTIUM MINERALS FROM WISE COUNTY, VIRGINIA - AN UPDATE 2 1 D. Allen Penick and Lynn...relative abundance in the area around East Stone Gap i n W i s e County, V i r ginia. Celestite is strontium...strontium o x i L . ~ l the l strontianite in W i s e County is probably calciostrontianite where calcium content...areas in Virginia. These localities, a l l i n the Valley and Ridge Province, extend frcm Wise County i n...n Southwest Virginia to Frederick County i n the northwestern corner of the State (Figure 1). A l l exposures |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CARBONATE MINERALS OF VIRGINIA By J. ALEXANDER SPEER Department of Geology Virginia Polytechnic Institute...Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 INTRODUCTION Simple anhydrous carbonate minerals are...form such minerals as magnesite, gaspeite, and calcite. Larger cations such as C a , Sr, Pb and B a ,...80 rhodochrosite Cd .95 otavite Ca 1.06 calcite Eu I.25 Sr 1.27 strontianite Pb 1.32 cerussite...ortho rhombic carbonates prefer larger cations. ..Calcite, for example, rarely contains more than 3000 ppm |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l |  | | Journal (issue) | | February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed |  | | Journal (issue) | | yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | near Pyriton, Clay County, Ala., was worked for copper. One was mined near Stone Hill in the southern...southern part of Cleburne County at what was called Wood's copper mine and also at Smith's copper mine about...Kansas City 3, Mo., a nice brownish-gray section of calcite stalactite from Diamond Cave, Ark. A note with...1, 1954, reads "As to the item on the find of calcite which was taken advantage of by those who went...am sending you a sample of the same. The yellow calcite crystals are formed on a matrix of what appears |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AlexennenSpeeR Departmentof GeologicalSciences Virginia PolytechnicInstituteand State Uniuersity Blacksburg...correctedfor for the elementswere syntheticSrCO' (Sr), calcite man torsion balance,using toluene, (Pb). Carbonwas...Ceman! (Hardet, 1964) (Mitchetl Belton Quafty, Eaet Stone cap, ilise County, Vitginia and p\@rr, 1961) (Knapf...(Knapf, 1918) Itud. HiLLs, Ba?st@, San Bemardina County, Califomia CLa! Center, jttM Caunty, ahio (Monison...what appearedto be opti- of material from the same quarry (#) shows a cally untwinnedmaterialyieldedalmost |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CALCIOSTRONTIANITE FROM WISE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Rrcneno S. MrrcnBrr., LlnittersityoJ Virginia AND 190 R. S....resembling satin spar gypsum' ch an found loosein the quarry. The pieceis tabular, measuringabout veinl t he...sections also observed filling veins and vugs in the quarry' Thin dolomite show embeddedmicroscopiceuhedralcelestitecrystals'...intimately associated with celestite cor deeply or quarry, especially with celestite which is frosted which...gemmy celestite crystals up to fi inch, and gemmy calcite scalenohedrons.Most evidencesuggeststhat the calciostrontianiteis |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tourmaline in quartzite, lound in an old roadbed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, on Highway...at the barite mines at Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. "A sample was sent to the Smithsonian...prisms occur in the Appalachian Minerals Company quarry near Monticello (Jasper Co., Ga.), according to...ILLINOIS—"I am enclosing a specimen of Iceland spar (calcite) I found along the Illinois River about 4 miles...colorless little cleavage showing double refraction. A calcite which shows double refraction is called an Iceland |  | Berridge, N. G., Pattison, J., Samuel, M. D. A., Brandon, A., Howard, A. S., Pharaoh, T. C., Riley, N. J. (1999) Geology of the country around Grantham - Memoir for 1 :50 000 Geological Sheet 127 (England and Wales) British Geological Survey. | Book | | (including 'Fen Gravel', Sleaford Sand and Gravel Belton Sand and Gravel, Fulbeck Sand and Gravel, Balderton...Lincoln Edge, beyond which it slopes down to the fens east of Sleaford. Partially covered by Anglian to Recent...deposited 011 the 1·elatively shallo,,v mari11e East Midlands Shelf, which shows evidence of temporary...have in the past provided brick clays, buildir1g stone and iron ore. In contrast, the Carboniferous strata...geology-based economic pote11tial. L�over photograph Belton House, now in the care of tl1e Natio11al Trt1st |  | | Journal (issue) | | Schneeberg, Saxony (now Schneeberg, Karl-MarxStadt, East Germany). Collection of the Mineralogisches Institut...A C L E MI L E T U C S O N . ARIZONA 8 5 7 0 5 . USA 602 888-6015 Wanted to Buy or Exchange CRYSTAL...in the matrix. Green Vaults collection, Dresden, East Germany. The specimen is about 10 cm across. sented...the government of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The Mineralogical Record, July—August...natural-looking specimens of auriferous quartz from stone which, from previous assay, contained no trace of |  | | Report (volume) | | Maryland Geological Survey: vol.. 10; Anne Aruiidel. County. Baltimore, Md. Mazama, vol. 5; no. 3.. Poutkind...BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY, 1918. Virginia Geological Survey: Bulletin, nos. 16, 18. Charlottesville...23, nos. 1-5. Chicago, 111. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Barbour-Upshur:Randolph...on back of topographic map], New York (Suffolk County), Moriches quadrangle (Camp Upton edition), U.... 8 pis., 27 figs.,, 1918. Abstract, by. R, W.. Stone* Washington Acad. Sci., Jour.,, vol: 8, no. 14, |  | | Thesis/Dissertation | | relationship e. The calcite-barytes relationship ••• f. Relationship of sphalerite-galena to calcite-barytes .••...direction from near the Lanarkshire-Dumfriesshire County .bounciary. 'rhe i1hotograph was t.aken prior to...are separated by the Dumfriesshire- Lanarkshire county boundary which follows the watershed of the Lowther...of the area was gold, which is associated with stone age implements in the south of Scotland, the focal...rocks which have been intensely folded along north-east to south-west axes. The general succession comprises |  | | Journal (issue) | | VOLUME 15 East Midlands Geological Society President Tony Morris Vice-President Dr Richard Hamblin...filmer@which.net The Mercian Geologist is published by the East Midlands Geological Society and printed by Norman...the Society. Registered Charity No. 503617 © 2001 East Midlands Geological Society ISSN 0025 990X Cover... Graham Lott Geology and building stones in the East Midlands 97 Landmark of Geology The Fauld crater...Peterborough – Harry Langford Lecture Reports Crags of East Anglia – Richard Hamblin Soom Shale fossils – Richard |  | Chakhmouradian, A. R., Mitchell, R. H., Burns, P. C., Mikhailova, Y., Reguir, E. P. (2008) Marianoite, a new member of the cuspidine group from the Prarie Lake siliconcarbonatite, Ontario. The Canadian Mineralogist, 46 (4) 1023-1032 doi:10.3749/canmin.46.4.1023 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA Yulia MIKHAILOVA Geological Institute, Kola Science...cuspidine group of minerals, occurs in phlogopite–calcite silicocarbonatite in the western part of the Mesoproterozoic...cuspidine, dans une silicocarbonatite à phlogopite + calcite dans la partie occidentale du complexe intrusif...Mariano & Roeder 1989, Keller et al. 1995, Mitchell & Belton 2004). During a detailed mineralogical study of...immediately northwest of Prairie Lake, some 110 km east of the town of Nipigon in the Thunder Bay district |  | | Catalog/List | | 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon. South Molton. [SS 652 290]. Ex Keat's...Barstow. SW.B1 Apatite on orthoclase - Colcerrow Quarry, Cornwall. Barstow green stock label. SW.D10 Sphalerite...Copper - County Bridge Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall. V.Holyer 1976. [SW 722 220]. SW.Q4 Serpentine - County Bridge...Bridge Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall. V.Holyer 197-. [SW 722 22]. SW.R8 Stilbite - Dean Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall...Hot Lode, Sampsons Shaft. SW.1T1 Chalcocite and calcite - Geevor Mine, Levant, Cornwall. 1976. [SW 374 |  | Beard, A. D., Howard, K., Carmody, L., Jones, A. P. (2013) The origin of melanophlogite, a clathrate mineral, in natrocarbonatite lava at Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania. American Mineralogist, 98 (11) 1998-2006 doi:10.2138/am.2013.4264 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | S Oldoinyo Lengai 1800 Sereng o 37 E o 36 E East Afric A 1999 Kilimanjaro 3oS TANZANIA Lake...showing the (a) location of Oldoinyo Lengai within the East African Rift, Northern Tanzania and (b) sample location...titanian magnetite in a groundmass of Sr-rich calcite. Significantly, the combeite 2000 BEARD ET AL...and titanian magnetite in a matrix of Sr-bearing calcite. Similar composite crystal aggregates also occur...titanian magnetite, barite, galena, and Sr-rich calcite are common as groundmass phases. However, unlike |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . Sections showing the workings in the East and \V est Blackc1·aig :l'IHnes (Newton Stewart)...Frontispiece) sbows, veins occur in nearly every county. l\,lauy of the.se have Leen worked a,t one ti1ne...a very early period. 'fhe finding of bronze and stone implements * in some old surface workings at Leadhills...common gangue minerals of the veins are quartz, calcite, dolomite and barytes. In many instances they occur...systems according to direction, nan1ely, north-east, east-and-west, north-west, and north-north-west. |  | | Book | | followed in the text by the old county name, old regional or present county names, as appropriate, depending...Mineral Collection localities use predominantly old county names to an extent. SCOTLAND.THECOUNTRY, PHYSIOGRAPHY...is close to the sea. To the east, extending from south-west to north-east, lie the Grampian mountains...impressi\-e line of deep lochs running south-west to north-east from Fort" uliam to Im·erness marks the site of...second-highest mountain Ben ::\lacdhui (1309m) in the north-east Cairngorm massif. Characteristically, the Cairngorms |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132, USA [Received 20 November 2008; Accepted 6 February 2009]...Jones (1995), Mitchell (1997, 2006), Mitchell and Belton (2004) and Zaitsev et al., (2008). In September...nephelinite ash (J. Keller, pers comm; Mitchell and Belton, in prep.). The kind of eruptive style observed...Oldoinyo Lengai on 18th July 2008 by one of us (Belton) provided an opportunity to collect some of the...peralkaline combeite- R. H. MITCHELL AND F. A. BELTON wollastonite nephelinites with or without melilite |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | Surv.) PLATE I (A.8325) A. HOLWELL IRONSTONE QUARRY, LEICESTERSHIRE. i (A.5558) B. NEWBRlDGE IRONSTONE...Limonite (p. 23); Magnetite (p. 23); Pyrite (p. 23); Calcite (p. 24); Fonns of Silica; Opal (p. 24); Quartz...The Pre-Dogger Ironstones of Rosedale . .. .. .. . East Mines (p. 47); Sherriff Mine (p. 48); West Mines...Harlaxton to Melton Mowbray (p. 1 1 1 ); Area III. East and south of Melton Mowbray (p. 1 12); Summary (p...3), Hanington, Barkiston and Syston (p. 1 1 7); Belton and Grantham (p. 11 8); the Great Gonerby and Barrowby |  | | Book | | United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of...ADULARIA Adu 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...nepheline, biotite and albite-antiperthite crystals in calcite-cored vein-dikes (by L. Moyd) 21:235-248 ALICE...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187 |  | | Catalog/List | | group of pale CALCITE. Capnic, Romania. Veinstone with small quartz, chalcopyrite and calcite xls to 5mm...doubly terminated composite calcite xl 45x15x15mm. 60x50x30mm. £28. 10. CALCITE TWIN ON MATRIX. Egremont...completely covered in colourless sharp scalonhedral calcite xls to 6mm. On these to one side is a single colourless...80x80x40mm. £375. 11. CALCITE. Carrock Mine, Carrock Fells, Cumbria. a quartz/calcite veinstone showing thin...thin white platey hexagonal calcite xls to 8mm scattered over about half of a 70x60mm area. Handwritten |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Instztute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Recewed 15 July 1970 Revised version received 26...careful analyses of the latest spectroscopic data by Belton [13] and Gray, Schorn and Barker [14, 15] have...The abundance of CO2, CO, HCI, and HF found by Belton [13] in his analysis of the spectroscopic data...CaaMgSI208 + 2CO2 Calcite + lime Magneslte + perlclase Siderite + w us t i t e Calcite + quartz + w ol...enstatlte Siderite + quartz + FeSIO 3 (a < 1) Calcite + e ns t a t l t e + m o n t i c e l l i t e Magneslte |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of conglomerate, as at San Angelo, in Tom Green county, where it attains a great thickness and areal development...over extensive upland areas, as seen east of Abilene in Taylor county, and in other places. Some of the...the Llano Estacado, in southeastern New Mexico, east of Eddy, indicating its extent beneath the Tertiary...now the visible remnant. South of the Colorado and east of the Pecos the occurrence and extent of the sands...Carboniferous series, except in the valley of the Colorado east of the Burnet granite area, as previously noted |
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