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CHAPTER I. GRANITE IN GENERAL .......................................................... 1..........
Varieties of granite..............................................................................
Varieties of the granite ...........................................
Mineral................................................
Granite..................................................................................
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Individual quarry areas......................................... | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | of the
material.
testing
"scratched"
scratch
area,
Wet
the
scratch-tested
mineral,
rub
the
...gems.
Lava is essentially the same material as granite, but so fine
grained that its constituent minerals...plains are
places
thinly distributed over a
wide area and specific locations are
comparatively few, but...Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, or Tom Robert's Rock
the caption. All photographs...through matrix rock.
Polished Fairburn agate
from South Dakota.
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Emerald in matrix. Emerald | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | held to the Wolverine #2 mine, Kearsarge, Houghton County,
Michigan. The collecting guides for the 2022 field...2022.
Kyanite from Balsam Gap, Buncombe County, North Carolina
Tony Nikischer
tony@excaliburmineral.com...quantities of material from Virginia and North
Carolina, states where he could collect later in the season...Mountain, but further south from a place he simply listed as “Balsam Gap,
North Carolina”. My meager library...B.J (1978), Mineral
Collecting Sites in North Carolina, Information Circular 24,
kyanite can be found | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust
long spurs...the color of
the rainbow.
The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area around the
confluence of the Loup River with the...jasper and gem petrified wood.
BUFFALO COUNTY
KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R...petrified wood.
CASS COUNTY
WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry
chalcedony, jasper | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | the western counties,
especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY
CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite.
CLERMONT COUNTY
MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond.
CLINTON COUNTY
WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s...deposit⎯Hematite.
COSHOCTON COUNTY
AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem...CUYAHOGA COUNTY
CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone.
DELAWARE COUNTY
DELAWARE | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | north line of
Sec. 3, T 2 0 S , R7E. (a little south of
Pleasant Grove Church). Another occurrence is...Please Send Them In.
calcite from the West End quarry, Inyo
Co., Calif., and the other is a bluishwhite...specimens are still available from this noted
tungsten area.
Prof. Richard M. Pearl. Colorado Co'le*>e, Colorado...(The dunes extend also into Alamosa Co. to the south). The sample is a
dark brown and reddish fine-grained...in Georgia at
the fo'lowing localities: Cherokee County
—2V2 miles northeast of Ball Ground, 1
mi'e northwest | 👁 Image
| | Book | | help bring you the t r u e picture o f a fabulous area t o fay_
M i c e the collecting in the East is different...p o p u l a r c a b i n e t specimens o f t h e area, f o r
micromounts, fluorescents, a n d i n a f...6
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CHAPTER 1
GEM H U N T I N...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t .
N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee.
Because | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | the western counties,
especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY
CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite.
CLERMONT COUNTY
MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond.
CLINTON COUNTY
WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s...deposit⎯Hematite.
COSHOCTON COUNTY
AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem...CUYAHOGA COUNTY
CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone.
DELAWARE COUNTY
DELAWARE | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | ...
New York. ..............................................................
North Carolina. ...................
South Carolina......................................:....................
South Dakota.......specimens. Some mineral aggregates, such as clay, granite,
limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included because...Arkansas, California, Colorado, New
Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the
literature...edition, 1904.
Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891.
Shannon, C | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | museum specimens. Some mineral aggregates, as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included,...........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa.
Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards...Minneapolis.
Mississippi.......Prof. E. N. Lowe, Jackson.
Missouri..........Dr. H. A. Buehler, Rolla.
Nebraska...Kummel, Trenton.
New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland, State Museum, Albany.
North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde...Charles W. Brown, Providence.
South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston.
South Dakota... .Prof. E. C. Perisho | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | VALLEY AREA
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BY THE
NEWARK SYSTEM
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY
J. W. POWELL, DIRECTOR
CORRELATION...
CHAPTER II. Area occupied by the Newark system...........................
Acadian area ...............Connecticut valley area .................................................
Southbury area ...................
New York-Virginia area .................................................
Barboursville area....... | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | the con
dition of affairs, more especially in the South and in the States and Ter
ritories of the far West...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout
creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are
more faulted und...extends from the south prong of Canoe
creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb
county, a distance...distance of 60 miles. Down to Helena, in
Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6
miles. Below...being
in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south
ern end of this field has a greater thickness | 👁 Image
| | Report (Issue volume) | | industrial mineral industries are
included.
Volume II, Area Reports: Domestic, contains chapters on the minerals...summary of domestic nonfuel minerals.
Volume ill, Area Reports: International, contains the latest available...State mineral production and mineral production by county were prepared in the Division of Statistics and...Resources.
New York: New York State Education Department, New York Geological Survey.
North Carolina: Division...Division of Land Resources, North Carolina Department of Environment, Health, and
Natural Resources.
.
North | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | The Crystalline
Rocks of South Carolina
By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III
GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY...of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge
provinces of South Carolina
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,...and Precambrian(?) age_______________________
Carolina slate belt_________________________________________...Gneiss_________________________________
Biotite granite gneiss_______________________________
Intrusive...Gneiss__________________________________________
Biotite granite gneiss_______________________________________
Whiteside | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in a very restricted area,
though the Jackfork Sandstone has quite
a wide area. This quartzite is beautifully...us—both were from the
famous Gillette pegmatite quarry, Haddam Neck, Middlesex Co., Conn.
One specimen...of deep purple fluorite
occur in the Branford granite-gneiss exposed in excavations at the southeast...quartz
in what is apparently a crush zone in the
granite-gneiss adjacent to the Great Fault
between the...by Seymour F. Dozier, Red Oak, Route
1, Fulton County, Georgia. Large lumps
of this material can be picked | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimen sent you recently.
It was found in Coosa County, Ala., near
Rockford. You have my permission to...ALASKA — "What is the pink mineral? It was found in granite rocks on
the Matanuska River near Palmer, Alaska...gully. About 2 / 3 way up Guy Hill
is pegmatite quarry. Boulders of this material are laced with black...was found here.
None found lately but search of area
could possibly locate more xls."
CONNECTICUT — "Thought...Brown Ave., Terre Haute, Ind.
I O W A — From Marion County, Iowa,
we have an interesting specimen consisting | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | describes sites under
name of the nearest town and county.
The directions and the many maps included
in the...RUSSELL P. MACFALL
Thomas Y. Crowell Company
NEW YORK / ESTABLISHED 1834
This book owes
much of its...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers
Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington.
...include
the range of gem mamore species, such as granite and satin spar,
and a wider choice of quality...there are some exceptions. A few rocks, such
as granite and unakite, are made into jewelry and ornaments | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | MISCELLANEOUS NONMETALLIC PRODUCTS.
MICA DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA.
By DOUGLAS B. STERRETT.
INTRODUCTION.
The extensive...important producers among these have been North Carolina,
South Dakota, New Hampshire, Virginia, Colorado,...Alabama, Georgia, and Idaho. For many years North Carolina
has led in both quantity and value of output and...amount North Carolina is credited with $127,870. The
value of the mica production in North Carolina during..."United States Geological Survey and the North Carolina Geological
Survey. The greater part of the mine | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Science Society of America, Inc.
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
1994
Cover photography supplied by Dr. D.L. Cremeens...Science Society of America, Inc.
677 South Segoe Road, Madison, WI 53711 USA
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication...papers were presented from
workers throughout the USA. The goal of this publication is to present this...Soil Science, Department of
SOil Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
27695-7619
N. B...square millimeter, mm 2 (10 - 3 m) 2
'2
:::=
Area
2.47
247
0.386
2.47 X 10 - 4
10.76
1.55 X 10 - 3 | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern
County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...IDE DS AED
3)
June Culp Zeitner, of Rapid City,
South Dakota, for her lifelong
devotion to the study...by Dr.
George F. Kunz, of Tiffany & Company, New York City, whose famous Gems and Precious Stones
ofNorth...from government sources in
the form of detailed area reports and corresponding geological maps. I have | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Guidebook for 1966 Annual Meeting
Pages 1-16
GUIDEBOOK OF EXCURSION IN...IN CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA1
OCTOBER 22-23, 19662
Harry E. LeGrand
Henry Bell III
1.Publication...minor corrections and reformatted, November 1999
County and perhaps farther. The Charlotte belt consists...delineated. Fro
the Salisbury-Concord area southwestward to the South
Carolina border the eastern boundary has...Cabarrus County into seven units. These are slate and undifferentiated volcanic rocks of the Carolina slate | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ................................... 415
North Carolina........................................................................................425
South Carolina........................................................................................ 429
South D akota................. .........................from Malaspina glacier south of Chaix hills (No. 544).
19. Abandoned lake beds, south side of Chaix hills...on the left (No. 68).
38. Girdled glacier and Granite canyon (No. 40).
39. Diorite peaks, from snow dome | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bolivian Andes; deposits formed by replacement of granite by
late fluids producing a peculiar mica-rich rock...found at the
Martin prospect and Bennett quarry in Oxford County. Good
crystals up to 25 mm have been found...in crystals up to 1 cm at the
Gillette quarry, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Cassiterite as
small crystalline...crystalline grains in narrow quartz veins at Jackson, New
Hampshire, is thought to have been the first...tin “deposit” prospected in the United States (Jackson 1844). In more recent
years, good cassiterite specimens | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | .'.' ..,
Mineral Collecting Sites
in North Carolina
By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie
RUTILE
GUMMITE...Circular 24
Mineral Collecting Sites
in North Carolina
By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie
Raleigh 1978...of this publication may be obtained from:
North CarOlina Department of Natural Resources and Community...for the general welfare of
the citizens of North Carolina.
The Section conducts a number of basic and applied...Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina
27611.
Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist
FRONT | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Circular 24
Mineral Collecting Sites
in North Carolina
By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie
Raleigh 1978...of this publication may be obtained from:
North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community...Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina
27611.
Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist
i
FRONT...COVER PHOTO
Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina,
photo from Smithsonian Institution (slide 78-10)...viable mineral collecting sites through
out North Carolina. Some sites are commercially operated during the |
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