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| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Houston, Texas 77036
ROBERT 0. FAY
Oklahoma Geological Survey
Norman, Oklahoma 73019
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Ardmore, Oklahoma 73401
OKLAHOMA
Figure 1. Oklahoma counties.
Mineral Locality...known for its gypsum crystals and barite
roses, Oklahoma also boasts a variety of other species, including...unaware of the variety of
minerals available from Oklahoma and think primarily of the
prolific gypsum crystals...hundred
years, extends into the northeast corner of Oklahoma and has
produced notable specimens. Unfortunately | 👁 Image
| | Book | | ROCKHOUND'S
GUIDE TO THE
GEMS & MINERALS
OF OKLAHOMA
©
E.L.GILMORE
1992
No part of this book may...rockhounds
to know where to look for minerals in Oklahoma.
who would like
This data has been drawn from...from many sources: The publications of
the Oklahoma Geological Survey; Scientific publications; the observations...from the author’s
own experience in rockhounding Oklahoma for the past 30 years.
Some parts of this book...desire of the
author to list all minerals found in Oklahoma.
The work on this book has covered a period of | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | .Prof. Erasmus Haworth, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Kentucky........Mr. J. B. Hoeing, Frankfort....
Prof. G. D. Hubbard, Oberlin College, Oberlb
Oklahoma........Prof. D. W. Ohern, Norman.
Oregon........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;...following localities:
Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County,
T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson | 👁 Image
| Huizing, Terry E., Richards, R. Peter, Clifford, Janet H., Cook, Robert B. (2017) Connoisseur's Choice: Calcite from the American Midwest, Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Rocks & Minerals, 92 (1) 46-63 doi:10.1080/00357529.2017.1241690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | American Midwest
Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee
C
alcite is ubiquitous in the American...Tennessee
Lead-Zinc district
near Carthage in
Smith County. Calcite
from this locality is
noted for high luster...chalcopyrite, 8 cm
tall, from the Ben
Hogan quarry in
Lawrence County,
Arkansas. Terry
Huizing specimen
(No...dolostone at
the Black Rock quarries of the Lawrence County Zinc district. Specimens often feature calcite... twinned
on {001} from
the Black Rock
quarry, Lawrence
County, Arkansas. Terry Huizing
specimen (No. | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | .............................................
Oklahoma.................................................Mineral resources of Oklahoma and statistics of production
from 1901 to 1914: Oklahoma Geol. Survey Bull... Iowa City.
Kansas_____Prof. Erasmus Haworth, Lawrence.
Kentucky____Mr. J. B. Hoeing, Frankfort.
Mr....See Bauxite and Halloysite.
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; | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | location a~ included at the end of each entry.
Adair County
Chariton River (40-04-05N 92-4 I -23W). septarian...septarian concretions about 2 miles north of the Macon county line. CALCITE
crystals enclosing bundles of acicular...hematite, quartz (Broadhead 1873b, 1877).
Audrain County
Mexico, in fire clay pits and spoil piles: PYRITE...University Library] at 19:58 29 October 2014
Barton County
McKarrow’s coal bank (37-37N 94-28W), 2.5 miles...PICKERINGITE, pyrite, siderite (Broadhead 1873b).
Bates County
Panther Creek, northwest of Rockville in coal
deposits: | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 00:11 06 November 2014
Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado
W
orld production of zinc is enormous...found in recent years in the Dolomite Products quarry,
Walworth. Good sphalerite specimens are also occasionally...mines of the BalmatEdwards district in Saint Lawrence County (Smith and
Figure 1. A fine example of jet-black...in the zinc ores of the Franklin mines, Sussex County,
New Jersey (Palache, 1937).Although approximately...specimens. These
include the Eastern Industries quarry (black-orange colorzoned crystals to 3 cm) and | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | near Glen wood, Pike ROCKS AND MINERALS, p. 123.
County, Arkansas.
Mr. Young also sends a note on a
Downloaded...development near Mountain Pass,
San Bernardino County, Calif. Molybdenum Corporation of America is at...specimen with drusy quartz. At Crystal
River limestone quarry (Crystal River),
nice sharp calcite xls were found...Idaho, gives this interesting information:
"Lemhi County, Idaho, Fair held at Salmon, had a new treat this...brown xled sphalerite, associated with
xline marcasite, and coming from the
noted Blackjack mine at Galena | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | ......................................... 39
Marcasite ................................................barite,
celestite, copiapite, epsomite, fluorite, marcasite, melanterite, millerite, pyrite,
pyrrhotite, smythite...of geodes from Big Walnut Creek, Putnam County; and many
quarry operators for granting us permission to...Indians knew of and used Wyandotte Cave in Crawford
County (4).2 Ball (1941, p. 39) summarized the various...The Indians found that Wyandotte Cave, Crawford County, Ind., contained
two desirable products, a jaspery | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | the western counties,
especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....Dolomite crystals, Fluorite
(fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial...ASHTABULA COUNTY
CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite.
CLERMONT COUNTY
MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY
WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite.
COSHOCTON COUNTY
AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY
CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone.
DELAWARE COUNTY
DELAWARE | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | the western counties,
especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....Dolomite crystals, Fluorite
(fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial...ASHTABULA COUNTY
CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite.
CLERMONT COUNTY
MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY
WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite.
COSHOCTON COUNTY
AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY
CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone.
DELAWARE COUNTY
DELAWARE | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | expansion, especially Eleanor Krimmel, from the USA, whose generous donations really put us over the...central Missouri to the
Tri-State area of Missouri, Oklahoma and
Kansas. Two recent producers, the Viburnum...sphalerite in this Tri-State district (Cherokee County, Kansas)
specimen shows shimmering, purple iridescence...strong
white glow.
The Tri-State area of Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas has probably produced a
greater variety...area—calcite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, marcasite, and even small amounts of
enargite—was far greater | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 07:55 02 December 2014
Figure 1. County map of New York State,
prepared by William Besse...Hudson highlands, the
Adirondacks, and the St. Lawrence Valley. A few localities
have yielded interesting...B Y C O U N T Y
Albany County
Indian Ladder: brookite; F.
Old Callanan quarry: dolomite, barite, strontianite;...11 August 1859: olivinebronzite chondrite.
Bronx County
Various excavations: chabazite, harmotome, quartz...quartz
(amethyst), stilbite; F.
Clinton County
Au Sable Forks, iron mines north of: microcline (sunstone) | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | professor. In 1955 Dr.
Weis began teaching at Lawrence University in Appleton,
Wisconsin. Ten years later...6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI)
Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia... If you have ever had the desire to detonate a quarry
blast or create an earthquake you will be able...Figure 7—Manganoan Calcite – Montreal Mine (Iron County, WI).
Figure 3 (left) - “Wonderful World of Agates”...mineral specimens from the Montreal Mine (Iron County, Wisconsin).
Most of the specimens came from the | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | boundary with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence,
Meade, Custer and Pennington the land rises abruptly...Northern Section, centered in lead and Deadwood
in Lawrence Co.; and a Southern Section, covering a somewhat...beds,
excavations, etc.Selenite roses.
BRULE COUNTY
AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches.
CAMPBELL COUNTY
MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal.
CORSON COUNTY
LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | take a fishing pole."
CONNECTICUT-From a limestone
quarry near Canaan, Litchfield Co.,
Conn., we have a very...13, Kans.
"This petrified wood came from Barber County, Kansas. I am not sure of
its exact location but...MICHIGAN—"Orange colored sheets
of selenite are found in the quarry at
National City, Iosco Co., Mich. These
sheets...MINERALS
MISSOURI—Three groups of nicely
xled marcasite—two pale brassy-yellow,
the third tarnished b...Mineral Shop), 9207 Argyle,
Overland 14, Mo.
"Marcasite, Phelps Co., near the Missouri School of mines | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CHAMBERLAIN
Road-Cut
Mineral
Occurrences
of
St. Lawrence
County,
New York
Figure 1. Fluor-dravite, 5.9 cm...occurrences in St. Lawrence County have a
small footprint. In other words, if the many dots on a county
map showing...mineralization and
T
HE BASEMENT ROCKS of St. Lawrence County are
Volume 92, November/December 2017
557...2017
Figure 4. Map of St.
Lawrence County,
New York, showing the
county seat, Canton,
and the location...the
localities.
Other Articles in this St. Lawrence County,
New York, Road-cut Series
by Steven C. Chamberlain | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | northern
"Petrified Doughnut"
Found near Smirhville, Lawrence Co., Arfe
419
Arkansas and southern Missouri...this about sixteen years ago, near
Smithville, Lawrence Co., Arkansas. It
will weigh about 150 pounds...parked
in the road leading to the quarry which
stopped the quarry trucks from entering."
—Noie dated...staurolites
(Fairy Crosses) which come from Fannin
County, Georgia. There were 25 xls in
the packet—all loose...MASSACHUSETTS — A deep black
vugs, is found in the Ross quarry near striated magnetite xl perched on a pale
Ottawa | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | road cut
along old IN-37, near Harrodsburg,
Monroe County, Indiana. Note the
semispherical opening, lower...commercial geode mine at St. Francisville, Clark County,
Missouri. This specimen appeared on the dust jacket...quartz geode, from a locality
near Revere, Clark County, Missouri. Cincinnati Museum Center specimen (No...from Sheffler’s geode mine, near Alexandria, Clark County, Missouri. Fred and Sue Keitel specimen, Terry...rhombohedron. In a locality
near Revere, Clark County, Missouri, calcite occurs as beautiful pink, manganese-rich | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | or pieces at a time, which of
section of Newton County. All these course would leave pits. See ROCKS AND...record a
very large and interesting one from Lawrence County, Arkansas."
CALIFORNIA—Emmett Klopfenstein...strongly radioactive microlite occurs at the Slocum quarry in E. Hampton.
A few of the octahedral crystals...patches of impure
reddish hematite occur in Lincoln County,
Kansas, near Juniata.
KENTUCKY — Sandstone containing...for this peculiar mineral is another
Berkshire County town, Chester, about 20
miles from Hinsdale. These | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the world. These are the Tri-State district
of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri and the world-class Viburnum...from southwestern Missouri through Kansas into Oklahoma (fig. l), was one of the
primary zinc-producing...titled
“Minerals of the Vanadinite Mine, Mohave County, Arizona.”
400
ROCKS 81 MINERALS
rized in Lasnianis...Mining did not
start in Kansas until 1877 and in Oklahoma until 1891.
In 1853 lead mining began at Granby...the
Granby Mining and Smelting Company. In Jasper County, a
large lead deposit was discovered by J. B. Sargent | 👁 Image
| | Book | | Chalcocite,
bomite, chalcopyiite, covellite, py1ite, marcasite, pytThotite, pentlandite, stibnite, cobaltite...(dark grey), p. 34
cobaltite(silver-grey), p. 64
marcasite (pale brass yellow), p. 48
bismuth (reddish silver-white)...con1prises the core of the Continent.
2 The St. Lawrence Lowlands fo1n1 the southen1most portion of Canada...Platfo1m. In the southern prairies and the St.
Lawrence valley, this fragile layer of sedin1ents
,,,....Canadian Shield
CJ Appalach ian Region
16
St . Lawrence Lowlands
Beginner's Guide to Minerals and Rocks | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Paleozoic Sedimentary Rocks of Northeastern Wisconsin, USA John A. Luczaj 1, *, Michael J. McIntire 2 and Megan...University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA Department of Natural & Applied Sciences (Chemistry)...University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA; mcintirm@uwgb.edu Department of Natural & Applied...University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI 54311, USA; olsonhum@uwgb.edu Correspondence: luczajj@uwgb.edu;...mineralization occurs throughout northeastern Wisconsin, USA, and is recognized as the source of regionally extensive | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | such as aragonite, barite, celestite, fluorite,
marcasite, pyrite, sphalerite, and strontianite are present... 4 cm
across; Meshberger Stone, Inc. quarry, Bartholomew
County. Richard Russell specimen and photo....Calcite with marcasite inclusions;
largest crystal 3.5 cm across; Berry Materials quarry, Jenn
ings C...Pyrite, 1.5 cm high; Rensselaer
Stone C o . quarry, Jasper County. Vernon Swanson speci
men; Richard Russell...Calcite, twinned on {0112},
1 cm across; Meshberger quarry,
Bartholomew Co. G . Pirman
specimen; T . Huizing | 👁 Image
| Lupulescu, Marian, Chamberlain, Steven C., Walter, Michael, Wallace, Scott (2010) Diagenetic Uvite with Overgrown DraviteBigelow, St. Lawrence County, New York. Rocks & Minerals, 85 (3) 250-259 doi:10.1080/00357529.2010.487359 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | as rossmanite and olenite from Newcomb in Essex
County (Lupulescu and Rakovan 2008) and species potentially...from a road cut north of Gouverneur in
St. Lawrence County (Lupulescu 2008; Chamberlain, Lupulescu, and...feruvite
from the Jayville iron deposit in St. Lawrence County, and the
hydroxyl-dominant analog of uvite...Alexandria Bay in Jefferson County and
from the Wight mine–Arnold pit in St. Lawrence County
(Lupulescu 2008)....Precambrian terrain in either the St.
Lawrence Valley or Orange County. However, one tourmaline locality |
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