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he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS
OF
ILLINOIS:
Mining
Districts
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DAVID L . REINERTSEN
Illinois Geological Survey
Champaign, Illinois 61820
M A N H A S A L W A...(Quaternary and older) in Illinois (after
Lineback, 1979, 1981). Location of Illinois mining districts
shown..."fields" of ex
treme southeastern Illinois, a part of the Illinois-Kentucky
fluorspar district in Hardin...from primary
crusher at gravel pit near McHenry, Illinois. Hammer han
dle is 11 inches long. (ISGS photo | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | road cut
along old IN-37, near Harrodsburg,
Monroe County, Indiana. Note the
semispherical opening, lower...formations in Kentucky, and the Warsaw Formation in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. Geodes occur primarily in...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 | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and
the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite.
BALDWIN COUNTY
MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper.
BANKS COUNTY
COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal.
BARROW COUNTY
WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States
BARTOW COUNTY
AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper.
CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors),
jasper.
BIBB COUNTY
MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | Cooper
Nottingham, England
Anthony R. Kampf
L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist.
Los Angeles, CA
Joseph A. Mandarino...397
by I. V. Pekov
The Minerals of West-Central Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Telephone: 719-598-1233
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West-Central Illinois
Paul L. Garvin
Department of Geology
Cornell College...1430 N. Broad
Galesburg, Illinois 61401
Well-crystallized, varicolored Illinois fluorite and associated...collectors around the world. And excellent specimens
of Illinois galena, sphalerite, calcite and iron sulfide minerals | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurs as
a dense, eggshell-like veneer over the County (in Eastern California), is 12
porous and fragile...sediments containing County, is in southern Connecticut.
these specimens.
ILLINOIS—"Enclosed you will find...quarry,
We now have evidence that Paoha Is- Hamilton, Illinois, these are my favorites.
342
ROCKS AND MINERALS...crystals with some unusual
capillary crystals of marcasite.
No. 4—Quartz lined geode and has
some very nice...Quarry always be happy ones.
Hamilton, in W. Hancock County, is
in western Illinois.
KANSAS—From Mrs. Mary | 👁 Image
| | Book | | Mineral
Trails
Lakes States
Wisconsin,
Indiana,
Illinois,
Michigan,
by
June Culp Zeitner
$5.95
Gem...new species of fossils have been collected in Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported... Michigan and Huron virtually
surrounding it. Illinois and Indiana are bordered in part by Lake Michigan...and
the Keweenaw peninsula of Michigan. Southern Illinois, southern Indiana and
southern Ohio have milder...through Itasca and St. Louis Counties into Lake County.
Hibbing is about the center of this historic area | 👁 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...Ala.
:
CALIFORNIA—We are indebted to
Howard V. Hamilton, 187A Franklin
Avenue, Vandergrift, Pa., for the...development near Mountain Pass,
San Bernardino County, Calif. Molybdenum Corporation of America is at...COLUMBIA — Again
we are indebted to Howard V. Hamilton,
187A Franklin Ave., Vandergrift, Pa.,
for another...Idaho, gives this interesting information:
"Lemhi County, Idaho, Fair held at Salmon, had a new treat this | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Calcite, 5.5
cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith
County. Terry Huizing specimen,
Jeff Scovil photo.
Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1
cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith
County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing
specimen and photo.
Figure 4 (right). Cumberland
mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack
Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard...Sevier County (Coskren
and Lauf 2000).
The following index is arranged alphabetically by county.
It is | 👁 Image
| | Journal (issue) | | us
The Senior Center is located at
1514 North Hancock in Colorado
Springs.
and meeting place, date and...us
The Senior Center is located at 1514
North Hancock in Colorado Springs.
July 7th 2012 Peridot Field...eruptive rocks from the CCVF cover an area of
Park County.
approximately 8500 sq. mi. including most of the...field trip headed south from Hartsel on CO 9 and County 53 Rd and noted the
Antero Formation of Oligocene...further south to the club peridot claim located near County Rd. 53, The gemmy olivine comes
from a rock unit | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have been found along the Cahaba River in Shelby County, Ala. The
colors are gray with red veins, red and...vein in white dolomite at Danbury, Conn."
248
ILLINOIS — The following letter,
dated April 6, 1956, comes...ago I spent some time
in Pope and Harding Co., Illinois, seeking out some good to unusual fluorite
and...'Teche'
our Boxer, spent Easter Sunday near
Hamilton (Hancock Co.), 111., combing
the bluffs along the R...visit."
Fortville is in N . W . Hancock County
close to the Hamilton County line; the
gravel pit is close | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Postcard view of the Waukon iron mine, Allamakee County, cia. 1912. John Taylor collection.
ARTHUR E ...Iowa Geological Survey.
Localities by County
Allamakee County
Lansing, Lansing lead mines = Captain...(crystals), dolomite,
galena, goethite, hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz
(drusy), smithsonite (Garvin,...yellow to purple
color-zoned, cubic), gypsum, marcasite, pyrite, siderite, sphalerite (Prior 1994).
Waukon...(coatings), galena, goethite (after marcasite and
pyrite), hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz (drusy),
sauconite | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Gkasileb GolUndxw,
Illinois
State Geological Survey
Guidebook
WESTERN ILLINOIS
October 17 and 18
Quincy...Quincy,
Illinois
Series
6
Digitized by the Internet Archive
in
2012 with funding from
University...University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
http://archive.org/details/28thannualtrista06coll
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...hand signal and pull
to the side of the road. An Illinois Survey vehicle following the convoy will
stop...explore the site.
the signal to load autos. An Illinois Survey vehicle will wait five minutes after
the | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | Illinois
ILLINOIS
Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level.
Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral
collectors...in the Lead-Zinc mining dists.
of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin...the famed Coal Measures so often mentioned
in Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous...these coal seams the collector may often find Marcasite and
Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | Illinois
ILLINOIS
Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level.
Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral
collectors...in the Lead-Zinc mining dists.
of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin...the famed Coal Measures so often mentioned
in Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous...these coal seams the collector may often find Marcasite and
Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Georgia..........Dr. S. W. McCallie, Atlanta.
Illinois...........Mr. F. W. DeWolf, Urbana.
Indiana.....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...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works;
St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | meeting at Showalter's Quarry in Blue
Ball, Lancaster County, Pa.
During the election presided over by
founder...PENNSYLVANIA, is being reprinted by the
Society. C. C. Hamilton of 2153 Chestnut
Avenue, Ardmore, Pennsylvania...Members are taking part in a Field Trip to the Oxford County
Region in July to collect.
The April Field Trip...the Newark Mineralogical
Society, the Rockland County Mineral & Gem
Society, the Newark Lapidary Club...Appalachian Mineral Society made a trip to Gaston
County, North Carolina, just west and south
of the town | 👁 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...a
very large and interesting one from Lawrence County, Arkansas."
CALIFORNIA—Emmett Klopfenstein,
Box...amygdules
were filled with gray opaque chalcedony.
ILLINOIS—"I would like to inform you
of some géodes found...at a location called
'Crystal Glen' near Hamilton, Hancock
Co., III. The géodes were plentiful both
near...patches of impure
reddish hematite occur in Lincoln County,
Kansas, near Juniata.
KENTUCKY — Sandstone containing | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | brown limonite.
Wickenburg is in N / W Maricopa
County in western Arizona.
xline—crystalline
tain a...
The Dallas Gem Mine is in southern
San Benito County in western California.
COLORADO — "Would you please...surface shows the interior
cently found in San Benito County, here to be an attractive moss agate of pleasing...term "astonishing" is not an exaggeraSan Miguel County is in southwestern
tion ! W e were lucky in being...greenish datolite.
Meriden is in N / E New Haven County
in central Connecticut.
FLORIDA — Mary G. Poole | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the many quartz slabs we
found. From Tellar County, Colorado."
— on label.
30
PLEASE SEND THEM I...Hunter Street, Atlanta, Ga. Editor - A. S.
Furcron.
ILLINOIS — R. Pickens, 610 N . Martin Ave., Waukegan, 111..."Millerite from limestone quarry.
Hamilton (Hancock Co.), Illinois." —
on label.
I N D I A N A — Harry...These occur to 2 " individual
xls, some with marcasite inclusions."
IOWA — "Would you please identify...Opal Butte, in extreme southern part of
Morrow County of northern Oregon, is
especially noted for hyalite | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | ...............................
105
107
115
Illinois.................................................Atlanta.
Idaho______.Mr. Robert N. Bell, Boise.
Illinois-_____.Mr. F. W. DeWolf, Urbana.
USEFUL MINERALS...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;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay
County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.; | 👁 Image
| | Book | | ....243
APPENDIX II: MINERAL SPECIES
LISTED BY COUNTY ...............................248
ABOUT THE AUTHORS...Marquette County include
the Presque Isle body, the Yellow Dog body in the
northern part of the county, and...Ishpeming. Several bodies
also occur in Dickinson County near the mouth of
the Sturgeon River. A distinctive...outcrops in the SW¼ section 27, T44N, R31W,
Iron County, about 1.6 kilometers west of Lake
Ellen, and about...Falls in Iron County and
16 MINERALOGY OF MICHIGAN
Hermansville in Menominee County. Some of
these | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | map; prepared by
William Besse.
IOW
AITE
Sioux County, Iowa
BRUCE CAIRNCROSS
Department of Geology
University...serpentinites 1,000–1,500 feet below the surface in Sioux County, Iowa (Kohls and
Rodda 1967); approximately thirty-five...best known for geodes from
the Keokuk area in Lee County (Wherry 1918;
Smith 1997; Huizing 2017). The Keokuk...state rock for Iowa. Pint’s
quarry in Black Hawk County has produced
collectible, attractive calcite, some...good-quality
yellow-amber-colored fluorite; and euhedral
marcasite and pyrite crystals (Anderson and
Stinchfield | 👁 Image
| | Book | | Co.
Hematite
CALERA, Shelby Co.
Wavkllite
CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E.
STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of*
Marble Crystalline
TALLADEGA COUNTY
Marble, (crystalline)
VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co.
Hematite...Feldspar
HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near)
Beryl
JACKSON COUNTY
Hematite
KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near)
Magnetite
MILLERVILLE...DELANEY, Madison Co.
Quartz, (clear crystals)
GARLAND COUNTY
Quartz Crystals
HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co.
Malachite...Malachite
HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT
Quartz Xls
LAWRENCE COUNTY
Pearls
LITTLE ROCK
Quartz Crystals
MAGNET COVE, | 👁 Image
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"Specimen comes from a mine somewhere in Yuma County, Arizona."—on
label.
ARKANSAS—In the March-April...(west of the city). That
would be in Jefferson County."—letter
dated—June 31, 1956, from Marie
Kennedy...of a fish.
Nokomis, in the S.W. part of Sarasota
County, is on the Gulf of Mexico.
GEORGIA—The following...between Canton
and Ball Ground (both in Cherokee County, Ga.). It is 2 cm. across, dark red
apparently...rough xls of black
tourmaline occur in pegmatite.
ILLINOIS—Robert Kissick, 7140 Theodore PL, St. Louis 20 |
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