 | | Report (issue) | | University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Conservation and Survey...Gemstones of Nebraska: A Handbook for Students and Collectors Roger K. Pabian University of Nebraska - Lincoln...Lincoln, rpabian1@unl.edu Allan Cook University of Nebraska - Lincoln Follow this and additional works at:...K. and Cook, Allan, "Minerals and Gemstones of Nebraska: A Handbook for Students and Collectors" (1976)...Resources, School of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion |  | | Book (volume) | | Idaho, lowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, — ; Oregon, South Dakota, Washington...Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington...Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington...Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney To one of the most...Idaho lowa Kansas Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oregon South Dakota Washington |  | | Book (volume) | | Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises 4,460’...Mesozoic era. Thus, as one travels westward across Nebraska they find successively younger formations appearing...disclosing spectacular bedrock formations. Northwestern Nebraska contains most of the gem fields in the state,...that rival the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the...washes, reveal an abundance of gem quality 283 Nebraska petrified wood, often occurring as huge stone |  | | Book | | & Montana Agate Fossil-Maiasaura peeblesorum * Nebraska Rock-Prairie Agate Gemstone-Blue Agate Fossil-Mammoth...Metal-Silver Precious Gemstone-Virgin Valley Black Fire Opal Semiprecious Gemstone-Iurquoise Rock-Sandstone Soil-Orovada...limestone once made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional...white Sylacauga marble from Sylacauga, Talladega County, is considered among the finest white marble in |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip... GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip... GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area |  | | Book (edition) | | for Collectors. -byMAYNARD Salt Lake BIXBY. City, Utah. 1904. Copyright, 1902, by MAYNARD (Third...OFFICER & CO., ASSAYERS AND CHEMISTS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. WRITE FOR PRICES. YOU WANT A GOOD MINE...BIXBY. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MINERAL LOCALITIES. BEAVER COUNTY. (Vy Beaver City, near; hyalite, banded...banded in brownish and white to nearly colorless. Beaver Lake District; azurite. 0. K. Mine; bornite, chalcocite...sulphur. Elsewhere; bismite, bismutite. BOX ELDER COUNTY. Copper Mountain Mine; azurite, Dove Creek; gold |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...North Carolina, a big diamond or two in Arkansas, opal in Idaho, and so on. Old locations suddenly are...eye of the microscope. A few gem materials notably opal and obsidian are amorphous, lacking crystal structure...with light such as creates the unique beauty of opal or labradorite, the starry splendor of star sapphire...are available. As gems lie in the range between opal (sp. gr. 2.1) and zircon (sp. gr. 4.7), quick and |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 180 Nebraska.................................................Indianapolis. Iowa___ __Prof. George F. Kay, Iowa City. Kansas_____Prof. Erasmus Haworth, Lawrence. Kentucky____Mr...Nebraska____.Prof. E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada_____Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith,...Mitchell, Eugene. Pennsylvania__Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Prof. B. L....Perisho, Vermilion. Prof. Victor Ziegler, Rapid City. v Tennessee____Mr. G. H. Ashley, Washington, D |  | | Report (volume) | | Indianapolis. Iowa.............. Prof. George F. Kay, Iowa City. Kansas............Prof. Erasmus Haworth, University... A. Buehler, Rolla. Nebraska.........Prof. E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada......Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Rhode Island...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; |  | | Book | | Vincenzo de Michele. curator of mineralogy at the City Museum of Natural History in M ilan , wrote : •...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...crea ted beautiful Crater Lake Such states as Nebraska and Kansas-the Hig h Plains-owe their fertile...as obs1d1an found with other volcanic eiecta and opal M inerals are classified according to their structure...Oregon are nodules of agate o ft en associated with opal Reniform marcas1te 5 inches 1n diameter, with crystals |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...University of Nebraska recognized this problem in his Minerals and Gemstones of Nebraska (1971),- in which... Louis Moyd, Pauline Moyd, Merrill 0. Murphy, Nebraska Conservation and Survey Division, Nevada Bureau...PRINCIPAL GEMSTONES Diamond, Corundum, Beryl, Topaz, Opal. II 68 IMPORT ANT GEMSTONES The Feldspar Group...crystal forms 23. Views of opal mines, Spencer, Idaho 24. Nodules bearing opal, Spencer, Idaho 25. Drawing |  | | Journal (issue) | | lak* Mead By CHARLES F. THOMAS, JR. Boulder City, Nevada A gem, deep set mid serrate high crowned...sweepstakes wherever it has been shown at state or county fairs. Whe.i asked about his trophies he answered...up or photographed by "those geraniums from the city papers" but he finally consented to tell a little...known as the Invasion, or the Irani p. Johnson County War, of 1892. Twentyfive prominent cattlemen, with...attempted to clean out rustlercontrolled Johnson county. In this audacious undertaking everything seemed |  | | Journal (issue) | | Arizona, Flagstaff. 2 to 4—Annual rodeo at Silver City, New Mexico. 2 to 4—American Legion celebration...Wagon Days at Salt Lake City, Utah. 24 to 26—Horse racing program at Beaver City, Utah. Volume 2 COVER...market slump or climb, He horns his way through the city cars, And lays his bed under desert stars. OUTLOOK...for the "needle in a haystack." We left Salt Lake City early in the morning, stopped for lunch in Green...affairs, returned to St. Louis and later founded the city of St. Joseph, Missouri. Within a year, or by 1823 |  | | Journal (issue) | | WEST PARIS. MAINE STA N L E Y 1. PERHAM OXf'ORO COUNTY MINIEIIA L S AN D GE M S A SPECIALTY A M BER M...Lazuli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Precious Opal (doublet) . . . . . . . . Tow-rnaline, pink, facetted...ambition it was to make Ron1e the most beautiful city in the world. that he found the Capitol n1ade of... ROCKS AND Honor in ~fontreal's reconstructed City HaJI, the choice of marble tiles was such that the...commercial quantities in Little Borax Lake, Lake County. A considerable tonnage of borax was recovered |  | | Book | | produces mainly kaolin and silica, often in the form of opal. Diagenesis then convert the soft cuff, mildly silicized...Nevada, have been filled with blue opal (21 cm). Similar blue opal can be found in several other localities...precipitation or through an intermediate stage of opal. The geochemistry of this process is hypothesized...Left - Chapinire from Camp Irwin in San Bernardino County, California (15.5 cm). Right - A slice of Srefoinite...precursor of amorphous silica, called opal-A. The transition from opal to jasper is usually attributed to |  | | Book (edition) | | III. l. AND SILICATES. SILICA. 253 Quartz Opal 259 2. SILICATES. General Remarks.- 262 1. ...alluded to, and one example of these is the mineral opal, in which even the microscope detects no evidence...sometimes in minute portions supposed not to be opal. But if we exclude coals and resins this mineral...hexagonal in tridymite; and uncrystallizable in opal (G. Titanium dioxide has an orthorhombic form (G...as in some common talline. same signification. opal. Under this section occur also globular, botryoidal |  | | Report (volume) | | Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian...map. Occurs in vicinity of Abbyville, Mecklenburg County. Abercrombie Formationl Middle Cambrian: Western...above Pope Creek coal. Named for Aberdeen, Butler County, Ky., where it stands out in prominent cliffs along |  | | Report (volume) | | 5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute...Pre-Cambrian : Central southern Virginia (Mecklenburg County). F. B. Laney, 1917 (Va. Geol. Surv. Bull. 14,...ft. at Abilene, Kans., to about 50 ft. at Ponca City, Okla. In majority of exposures this calc. material...Pleistocene : Southern South Carolina (Charleston County). E. Sloan, 190 (S. C. Geol. Surv. geognostic map...West Virginia, southwestern Virginia (Tazewell County), and eastern Tennessee ( ?). D. B. Reger, 1926 |  | | Book | | spinel, 232 ; ; tourmaline, 236 turquoise, 238 opal, 240 ; ; ; quartz, 240 ; ; ; 229 beryl... which light in (e.g., banded a changeable opal, Chatoyant stones, when cut is out bands of...corundum (sapphire diamond, 3*52 275 emerald, 27 opal, 2*2. Thus it will be seen that the ; the felspars...(hexagonal). Chalcedony dioxide of silicon, SiO 2 Opal hydrated dioxide of silicon, SiO 2 + wH 2 O. . ...Soluble in aqua in Occurs California regia. (Calveras County), Colorado (Cripple Creek) and Western Australia |  | | Report (issue) | | ore deposits of Utah in the S. F. Emmons; the Park City district, by J. M. FIELD .WORK AND AUTHORSHIP. ...were collected by V. C. Heikes, of the Salt Lake City office of the Geological Survey. SCOPE OF THE REPORT.... . . . . . . . . . . Region south of Salt Lake City, by B. S. Butler, G. F. I"oughlin, and F. C. Calkins...Calkins .. __ .. _............ Cottonwood-Park City region .......................................... _...Range-Continued. Region south of Salt Lake City-Continued. Cottonwood-Park City region-Continued. Cottonwood-American |  | | Journal (issue) | | MAID WITH PET, photo b y L o w m a n , K a n s a s City, Missouri. Hubert PHOTOGRAPHY Desert Sun, b y...crossing the reservation for the first time, from Tuba City, Arizona, to Bluff, Utah, I tried to make friends...industrial development. He and Win Cady, from the city desk of the Salt Lake Tribune, and I, later visited...reservation. We started for Monument Valley from Salt Lake City on Highway 50. At Crescent Junction we turned south...Pacific war area, Frank O'Brien and I, marooned in the city, hope to join again in a visit to the Kinlichini |  | | Report (issue) | | features Composition . Quartz monzonite of the Beaver Lake area . Areal extent Petrographic features...several districts 82 San Francisco district 82 Beaver Lake district 86 Rocky district 87 Star district...('erargyrite 96 Fluorite ... 96 Oxides 96 Quartz 97 Opal 97 Cuprite .......................................development San Francisco district Star district Beaver Lake district Rocky district Production Nature...the ore Ore shoot Concentrating and smelting ore Beaver Carbonate mine Location History Underground developments |  | | Book (volume) | | New York, NY USA EDITORS Jerry L Hatfield National Soil Tilth Laboratory Ames, IA USA Kate M Scow...Scow University of California Davis, CA USA David S Powlson Rothamsted Research Harpenden UK Michael J...Davis, CA USA Cynthia Rosenzweig NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies New York, NY USA Donald L...L Sparks University of Delaware Newark, DE USA EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD R Bardgett Lancaster University... J L Boettinger Utah State University Logan, UT USA K Ritz Cranfield University Silsoe UK G Gee Pacific |  | | Journal (volume) | | Mining Review 1601 Walker Bank Building SALT LAKE CITY , UTAH 2 620.05 SI V.16 INDEX TO VOLUME XVI...Wyoming. Votes of Chloridizing Leaching at Park City. . . . JO ... . . . . . . Leaching at Chuquicamata...Coal Co. By Will C. Higgins Somerset Manley Beaver County Flourishing The White Plague in Mines . Goldfield...Prospector and His Burro . By Will C. Higgins . Needles City . By John D. Shaffer In Adjoining States Trade Notes...Brown California Mining News. Oil Strike in Millard County New Capital for McCoy District Coal Notes and Personals |
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