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| | Report (issue) | | University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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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
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| | 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...Idaho
lowa
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oregon
South Dakota
Washington
...volumes, through very precise
directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and
most accessible | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Caldwell Stone
Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County.
Terry Huizing specimen and photo.
K
entucky...Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is
the floor of...of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston
County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...small, nondiamondiferous
kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite
intrusions in Crittenden...McGrain 1982). Some of the veins are exposed
by road cuts and by active quarries where minerals can still | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | these coal seams the collector may often find Marcasite and
Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet...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 | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | these coal seams the collector may often find Marcasite and
Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet...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 | 👁 Image
| | 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...town is well worth the rock hunter’s
visit. Draws, cuts and breaks in the hills along the Minnechaduza Creek | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | township quarry
McFarland quarry
Road-cuts, km 8.2 to 8.4, Highway 38
Road-cuts, km 9.3, Highway 38
Limestone...mine
Sand Road (Card) quarry
Dwyer brucite occurrence
Godfrey -Westport occurrences
Road-cuts at km 4.5...Westport Road
Kingston (Bedford) mica mine
Richardson feldspar mine
Glendower iron mine
Road-cut at km...km 10.9, Westport Road
Hickey-Murphy lead mine
Road-cuts at km 16.7, Westport Road
McLaren phosphate mine...quarry
Road-cut on Highway 38 at km 57.6
Eagle Lake (Blessington) mine
Sharbot Lake road-cuts on Highway | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | 6
McFarland quarry
7
8
3
8
Road-cuts, km 8.2 to 8.4, Highway
Road-cuts, km 9.3, Highway 38
38
Limestone...mine
10
Sand Road (Card) quarry
10
Dwyer
1]
1]
Godfrey-Westport occurrences
Road-cuts at km 4.5, Westport...Westport Road
12
Kingston (Bedford) mica mine
12
13
14
14
1D
1
16
16
17
Richardson feldspar mine...mine
Road-cut at km 10.9, Westport Road
Hickey-Murphy lead mine
Road-cuts at km 16.7, Westport Road
McLaren...calcite occurrence
Long Lake zinc mine
Gabbro quarry
Road-cut on Highway 38 at km 57.6
17
brucite occurrence | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | . .
Road-cuts, mile 5. 1 to 5. 2, Highway 38... . ... . ... .. . . . . . . . . . . .
Road-cuts, mile... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sand Road (Card) quarry.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Westport Road occurrences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Road- cuts at mile 2. 8, Westport Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Richardson feldspar mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Madawaska (Faraday) Mine
Dyno Mine
Highway 620 road-cuts
Paudash - Haliburton - Minden
Bicroft Mine
Silver...Davis Lake corundum occurrence
Minden-Norland road-cuts
Wilberforce Area
Halo Mine
Cardiff uranium mine...occurrence
Wilberforce (Virginia) graphite mine
Richardson (Fission) mine
Dwyer fluorite mine
Schickler...All-Metals mine
Gibson Road (western) occurrence
Gill quarries
Highway 507 road-cut
Fraser quarry
Nu-World...Sound quarry
Cruikshank quarry
Wiarton-Oliphant Road quarries
Albemarle zinc occurrence
Hope Bay quarry | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | University of Nebraska - Lincoln
DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Conservation and Survey...the Invertebrate Fossils of
Nebraska
Roger K. Pabian
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, rpabian1@unl.edu...Rock: A Handbook of the Invertebrate Fossils of Nebraska" (1970).
Conservation and Survey Division. 1....Resources, School of at
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A Handbook of the Invertebrate Fossils of Nebraska
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| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lower Paleozoic
TRAVIS A. PARIS
5604 Malmsbury Road
Knoxville, Tennessee 37921
taparis@msn.com
Figure...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 | 👁 Image
| | Book | | rocks scattered in
their fields. Stop and look at road cuts, excavations, new construction, and
sandy or gravelly...through Itasca and St. Louis Counties into Lake County.
Hibbing is about the center of this historic area...although not in the original site. Stream beds, road cuts, ditches, and
overgrown rock piles may yield some...replaced by dark hematite. Near Calumet in Itasca County abundant
mollusks, arthropods, and sharks teeth...Iron Range is mostly in Crow Wing County, extending into
Aitkin County. In 1936, near the town of Crosby | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Locality Index
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NOWN
AS THE...Farlin, Beaverhead County.
208
ROCKS & MINERALS
Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00...mines at Butte in Silver Bow
County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have
produced many fine crystal...Beaverhead County, the
pegmatites of Jefferson County, and the Snowbird mine in
Mineral County continue...Highlands
Centennial Nugget in 1989 in Silver Bow County. The seventh
largest gold nugget found in Montana; | 👁 Image
| | Book | | collection of Rhode Island minerals ; to Mrs. Ann E. (Richardson ) O'Neill , Miss Beverly J. Johnson , and Miss...Minerals , 21 Bristol County , 21 Barrington ,21 Bristol , 21 Warren , 21 Kent County , 22 Coventry ,22...West Greenwich , 25 West Warwick , 25 Newport County ,26 Jamestown (Conanicut Island ),26 Little Compton...28 Portsmouth Tiverton , 29 , 30 Providence County , 31 Burrillville , 31 Central Falls , 33 Cranston...56 Smithfield , 57 Woonsocket , 57 Washington County ,59 Charlestown , 59 Exeter , 59 Hopkinton , | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SUMMARY
STEVEN C. CHAMBERLAIN
Road-Cut
Mineral
Occurrences
of
St. Lawrence
County,
New York
Figure 1. Fluor-dravite...collected by Edley Brown in 2002
from the fluor-dravite road cut.
Michael Walter specimen and photo.
556
ROCKS...collected by
Edley Brown from the Kents Corners road cut. Steven C.
Chamberlain specimen and photo (syncroscopy...collected by Edley
Brown from the Kents Corners road cut. Steven C.
Chamberlain specimen and photo (syncroscopy...sites; therefore, one might expect that each time a road cut is excavated, interesting min-
eral specimens | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | regional rd. cuts, breaks, river banks, stream beds,
excavations, etc.Selenite roses.
BRULE COUNTY
AREA: in...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...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States
CUSTER COUNTY
AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...outcropRose Quartz.
DOUGLAS COUNTY
CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts, stream banks and gravel | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Chelsea-Gatineau · Parkway occurrences
Chamberlin quarry
Road-cuts along Gatineau Parkway
Sweeney Mine
O'Neill Mine...Mine
Denholme Mine
Occurrences along Lac Ste-Marie Road
Kornerupine occurrence
Pritchard and Sparks Mine...Hazzards Corner marble quarries
Pinewood Park Lake Road quarries
Henderson and Conley talc mines
St. Charles...(Highway 62) quarry
Slate quarry
Curtis quarry
Richardson Mine
Eldorado Mine
Hobson-Nelson-Knob Mine
Blackburn...McIlroy Mine
Wallbridge Mine
Stoklosar (Marmora Road) quarries
Perry Mine
Coe Mine
Perry Lake mine
Blakely | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | brown limonite.
Wickenburg is in N / W Maricopa
County in western Arizona.
xline—crystalline
tain a...from Mr.
Delbert Oswald, who found the pocket
in a road cut recently made near the old
"Dallas Gem Mine"...
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 | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | 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...cubic).
FRANKLIN COUNTY
COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low
ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi
cant locality in the state...producers.
The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the
commonly given but incorrect name for the...cm) were found
in considerable abundance from a road cut near Montpelier
(Washington Co.). This occurrence...lizardite
magnesiohornblende
magnetite
manganite?
marcasite?
magnesite
malachite
margarite
meionite
melanterite...occurrences of many minerals vary from outcrops to
road cuts, which often furnish fine micromount minerals | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | layered wall rock in a road cut
along old IN-37, near Harrodsburg,
Monroe County, Indiana. Note the
semispherical...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...mostly collected from
fresh rock exposures in road cuts (see fig. 1), commercial
digs, and active quarries | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sphalerite
IN BATH COUNTY, CENTRAL KENTUCKY
WILLIAM J. SCHAUB
1908 Blairmore Road
Lexington, Kentucky...The mineralization is exposed in a series of road cuts
along Interstate 64 near Owingsville, Kentucky...approximately 40 miles east of Lexington. The road cuts of interest lie between mile markers 116 and 123...123. Mineralized vugs
are accessible in road cuts between mile 116.2 and 116.5
and at the eastbound exit...off-ramp. Only fallen rocks
have been studied from road cuts at mile 117 and between
mile markers 122 and 123 | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence
County (Koehier 1989) and the Wausau area (Falster 1987)...common minerals as quartz. calcite, pyrite, and
marcasite. A major mining district, the Upper Mississippi...2015
Counties, where coarse galena, sphalerite, marcasite, calcite,
barite, and copper minerals were found...zircon),
particularly in the Wausau area of Marathon County (Falster
1987).
Middle Proterozoic quartzites (1...Wisconsin mineralogy.
The index is arranged county by county (fig. 1). Where possible, township and range | 👁 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...cm
tall, from the Ben
Hogan quarry in
Lawrence County,
Arkansas. Terry
Huizing specimen
(No. TEH 273)...siltstone, and sandstone. Virtually any outcrop, road cut, or mine, especially in carbonate
strata, may...the most significant for the Midwest as a whole. Nebraska, Minnesota, and
North Dakota are not represented |
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