 | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound |  | | Report (issue) | | ^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville, Virginia. Figure 7. Locations of mineral deposits in...mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre and Heyl , 19.60 |  | | Journal (issue) | | DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...amazonite, fine moonstone, and topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise...minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which have been used as gemstones and decora...report. Many of the localities will be familiar to Virginia mineral collectors. Someof the areas mentioned...collect minerals. There has been much written on Virginia mineral localities but no reports are available |  | | Report (volume) | | to some aspects of the geology of the Culpeper basin of Virginia. The editors are grateful to the authors...stratigraphic section through the northern Newark basin, New Jersey 19 By MichaelS. Fedosh and Joseph P...of early Mesozoic rocks of the northern Newark basin, New Jersey and New York 31 By R.A. Parker, H.F...and Deep Run basins in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia 40 By Eleanora I. Robbins and Robert E. Weems...phytoclasts of the Newark Supergroup in the Hartford basin 68 By R.K. Kotra, R.M. Gottfried, E.C. Spiker, L |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | accepted abstracts follow. THE GARNET LINE IN OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE, PEGMATITES. M. M. Felch, W. B. Simmons...intermediate and core zones in many of the Oxford County, Maine, pegmatites. This study primarily focuses...similar to the model proposed for the San Diego County pegmatites (Webber et al. 1997, 1999). The garnet...shallow level pegmatite-aplite dikes, San Diego County, California. American Mineralogist 84:708–17. ...MIAROLITIC CAVITIES IN ALKALI DIKES, AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. L. E. Kearns1, R. Rothenberg2, T. Tucker3 |  | | 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 (issue) | | Japan/ Munich, Germany Laguna Beach, California, USA tel: +1 949 494 5155 / info@kristalle.com The ...SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2020 Articles The White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio ...............651 by C. J...(see page 672), from the White Rock quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio. Daniel Trinchillo (Fine Minerals...$324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription...trips to the Mesa Grande district, the Crestmore quarry, and other localities, and Russell’s mineral collection |  | | Journal (issue) | | .......... p. 13 AFMS: Earth science history in USA ......... p. 14 EFMLS: Safety matters .............face to produce variations such as: Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join your club officers...GA) and yellow (left, from the Meikle Mine, Elko County, NV). Photos: Bob Cooke. Barite was named in 1800...deposit) at hot springs. Barite rose from Cleveland County, OK. Photo: Bob Cooke. So what is barite used...webmaster (9 years). In coming back from Madagascar to Virginia, I returned from a third-world country to a first-world |  | | Journal (issue) | | elbaite, our March Mineral of the Month. Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, No in-person social events...from Maine—Poland, Androscoggin County (left) and Greenwood, Oxford County (top). Photos: Bob Cooke. traces...bicolored elbaite were extracted from the Dunton Gem Quarry near Newry in Maine. Some pink elbaite from Mt... March 2021 Elbaite with cookeite from Oxford County, ME. Photo: Bob Cooke. 5 other colors and colorless...comprises the pegmatite fields of eastern San Diego County, CA. In the mining district around Pala, CA, and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing...15 feet to the left, parallel to the wall of the quarry. This tube varied from 6 inches to 2 feet wide |  | | Journal (issue) | | Update on Rare Minerals at the Sweet Home Mine, Park County, Colorado Martin Jensen Collectors Edge Minerals...(including a large crystal with parallel faces), schorl. smoky quartz (including a terminated crystal)...scattered on the floor of the pit. The albite and schorl mixtures were quite artistic! Later, I came up...mucking out 1 some possible cavities looking Large schorl crystal showing termination, found at the Beryl...Farm are now operating a site with notable long schorl "pencils" in quartz. Biotite, calcite, hornblende |  | | Journal (issue) | | website: http://www.novamineralclub.org/ Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our November...The club received a thank-you letter from the Fairfax County School Age Child Care (SACC) program for our...members are welcome on field trips to Manassas Quarry in Manassas, VA, on November 2 and 9, 2013. The...as those found in Maine often have a black base (schorl), a clear green zone (elbaite), and a pink zone...complex. Examples of transition include tourmaline (schorl), to elbaite, to rossmanite; muscovite to lepidolite; |  | | Report (volume) | | Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian... Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are: Diamond Basin, Ada County...County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great Lakes diamond...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mulholland Highway, extreme western Los Angeles County, California. CubicGarnets Foundin Marylandand...mineral concentrates of Rock Run, a small Montgomery County, Maryland stream about 5.5 miles (9 km) long which...spessartine cubic crystal from Rock Run, Montgomery County, Maryland, photo by the author. 2 Mineral News...sands of not only Rock Run, but most of the other county streams. For nearly the next two years, I continued...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com |  | | 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...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and |  | | Book | | originally. Shiny black rutile crystals from Mono County, California, are just as good but smaller. Small...recent rediscovery of elbaite near Pala in San Diego County, California, greatly stimulated an already high...two-colored crystals appear now and then. 2010 County, New Mexico, with its blue-green Madagascar (now...pink—and tourmaline. The shiny black crystals called ‘‘schorl’’ y often in unusually large crystals up to 1 inch...beautiful crystals found with elbaite in San Diego County, California, but the same variety is also found |  | | Journal (issue) | | growing. It will serve as a model for future non-USA chapters of FM. A membership list has been prepared...cm. $5.00. (c) rich. 1.5 x 2.0 cm. $6.00. 2-21. SCHORL xl (Tourmaline). Yinniethane, Western Australia...among bulldozed rubble at the Bound Brook basalt quarry of the Houdaille Company, at Bound Brook, New Jersey...coming from a breccia zone whose contact with the quarry floor was in the form of an ellipsoid approximately...very large natrolite crystals from the Bound Brook quarry, here reproduced natural size. Smithsonian Insti |  | | Book | | be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...The third type is crater, a striking circular basin 3.4 kilometers (2 miles) wide, is one iron-nickel...Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17 x 11...typical crystal shape. Goethite, Tintic, Utah, USA * 16.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 om Drusy These minerals have | | | Book | | be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 cm. Biominerals Crystals formed by biological...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA » 18 x 24 x 8 om 14 MINERALS: PRODUCTS...crater. The Pingualuit crater, a striking circular basin 3.4 kilometers (2 miles) wide, is one example in...for cutting other minerals. Calcite, Oklahoma, USA * 10 x 11 x 8 cm Talc, Mpumalanga, South Africa...* 12 x 23 x 3 cm. Quartz, Mount ida, Arkansas, USA * 14 x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17 x 11 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia CONSULTING EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault...Foundation. ISSN 0035-7529 1978 by The Foote Quarry in Kings Mountain, by LAURA MARBLE 102 Dorset Way...Company spodumene mine at Kings Mountain , Cleveland County, North Carolina consisted of six small prospect...worthwhile . specimens. Milarite from the Foote quarry. Photo by Lewis Perloff l 58 ROCKS AND MINERALS... Thin beds of marble are found in parts of the quarry and another common wall rock is a mica schist with |  | | Journal (issue) | | M. Pryce and J. Chester The Amity Area, Orange County, New Y o rk ............................... 85...115-year-old Oriental mine in Alleghany, Sierra County, California. In August, about five months after...Blount Little Rock, Arkansas 72209 The Jeffrey quarry, near North Little Rock, Arkansas, has produced...to come from the Arkan sas quartz region. The quarry is now closed but specimens of quartz, ankerite... Pulaski County, Arkansas, and south of Camp Robinson. The quarry, known as Jeffrey quarry, is just north |  | | Journal (issue) | | region at the western margin of the lsidis impact basin at 3:07 (UTC) on December 12, 2006, near 21.9 degrees...World's Largest Reddingite Crystals Found at Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine Van King PO Box 90888, Rochester...locality for reddingite is the Abidja N. Fillow Quarry, Branchville village, Redding, Fairfield Co., Connecticut...reported the first rcddingite from the Bennett Quarry and provided a bulk, wet-chemical analysis: MnO...2000 kilomcters in the Nili Fossac-southcrn lsidis Basin region. This argues for extensive pre-existing clay |  | | Journal (issue) | | New York Famous Mineral Localities —The Pulsifer Quarry....................... 72 by Wende|| E Wi|son ...Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas...........................................by Anthony Robert Kampf The Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico......................... 115 by Richard...apatite H (actually fluorapatite), from the Pulsifer quarry near Auburn, Maine; H 3 x 3.8 x 4.3 cm, on display...newsletter, the Quarry. Some club newsletters are, frank ly, boring but the Quarry is alive and interesting |
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