| azurite, Utah boasts an array of mineral species. AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT Mineral Collecting in Utah Downloaded...Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84106-3313 JAMES R. WILSON Weber State University Ogdeo, Utah 84408-2507 PAULA...PAULA N. WILSON University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1183 sion to visit or collect material; indeed...to collectors. Many specimens were produced when mining districts were active in the late 1800s through...districts mentioned below, most historically active mining districts in the state have been inactive for decades |
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(2023) Millisite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America |
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| 99-19.07 Z = [2] X-ray Powder Pattern: Fairfield, Utah, USA. 4.84 (100b), 2.98 (80b), 2.81 (80b), 3...99.9 100.00 6.87 2.66 1.73 16.54 (1) Fairfield, Utah, USA; average of two analyses, corrected by removal...variscite nodules (Little Green Monster mine, Utah, USA); in phosphatic laterite (Taiba mine, Senegal);...Florida, USA). Association: Wardite, apatite, crandallite (Little Green Monster mine, Utah, USA); crandallite...crandallite, augelite, wavellite, turquoise (Taiba mine, Senegal); crandallite, wavellite, goethite, kaolinite |
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Bullock, Kenneth C. (1981) Minerals and mineral localities of Utah. Bulletin 117. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey |
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| CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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(2002, September) Geonieuws Vol. 27 (07) Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen |
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| TV-zenders, zoals VRT, VTM, RTBF, ATV. Ook in de USA haalde het nieuws talrijke TV-stations, zij het dan...paesina - Marmor aus Italien - Bildersandstein aus Utah/USA 14-20 Pietra Paesina 21-23 Landschafts-Sandsteine:...in Rock, Illinois, USA 1-4 Denver shows 2001 5 Pea Ridge mine closes (Missouri, USA) * DER AUFSCHLUSS...Graveglia manganese district, Liguria, Italy 393-400 The Shirley Ann claim, Inyo County, California 403-405...voorbereid. De CD bevatte foto’s van het Sterling Hill Mining Museum, het Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence |
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MacFall, Russell P. (1951) Gem Hunter's Guide (1st ed.) Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. |
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| weathering of older rocks beds by ancient seas. — clay, These are the stones and conglomerates. In from...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive... a trip. desert, such Green River country of Utah or the far southern part of California, is no place...behind great moraines or of boulders, gravel and clay which the ice had carried Diamonds are found in...recent perhaps because of the decline in placer mining for gold in made dis- faces helps to distinguish |
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Beste, Bob (2014) Location Guide for Rockhounds in the United States (4th ed.) Vol. 4 - Part IV - South Dakota through Wyoming. |
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| 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...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...stream gravels, cut banks, breaks, hillsides, etc.Fairfield agates. CUSTER: N, (1) near Laughing Water Cr |
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Larsen, Esper S., 3d, (1942) The mineralogy and paragenesis of the variscite nodules from near Fairfield, Utah, Part 1. American Mineralogist, 27 (4) 281-300 |
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| PARAGENESIS OF THE VARISCITE NODULES FROM NEAR FAIRFIELD, UTAH. Part 1. EspnnS. LansnN,3d, H araaril Uni.aer...aer M ass.* si.ly,Cambrid,ge, Assrnect The Fairfield variscite deposit is located about 50 miles south...INTRODUCTION The descriptive mineralogy of the Fairfield variscite deposit has been known since the publication...variscite deposit. Since the mineral assemblageat Fairfield is unique, so far as known, there is the logical...Palache, who had acquired a large new collection of Fairfield specimens for the Harvard Mineralogical Museum |
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Beste, Bob (2005) Location Guide for Rockhounds in the United States (3rd ed.) Vol. 3 - Part III - Ohio through Wyoming. |
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| quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in...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...exposures of blue clay, as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area |
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Beste, Bob (1996) Location Guide for Rockhounds in the United States (2nd ed.) Vol. 3 - Part III - Ohio to Wyoming. |
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| quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in...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...exposures of blue clay, as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area |
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(1917) Useful minerals of the United States. Bulletin Vol. 624. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/b624 |
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| ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................... Utah...................................................more extensive deposits of some others, such as clay, coal, and iron ore, are mentioned only in general...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely |
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Schrader, FC, Stone, RC, Sanford S. (1914) Useful minerals of the United States. Bulletin Vol. 585. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/b585 |
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| more extensive deposits of some others, such as clay, coal, and iron ore, are mentioned only in general...it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...excellent museum specimens. Some mineral aggregates, as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included |
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(2020) Mineral Collections in Arizona - II. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 51 (1.1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil photo...cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below) Stock...Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This special... considering the historic importance of copper mining in Arizona, native copper would be the logical...deemed more appropriate (and more likely to gain mining industry support) to propose designating copper |
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(1996) World of Stones 11. "Plus" Ltd. Publishing |
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| Petersburg University specimens **- St.-Petersburg Mining Museum specimens 2 W o r l d of Stones. Ng 1 I...the authors of this article, was opened in the Mining Museum of St. Petersburg not long ago and another...popularity in the world, while it is the leader in the USA. Recently, well known jewelry stones have been joined...graduating from the Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) Mining Institute. Working here for nearly a year, the...right to the 1 4 W o r l d of Stones, N9.11 /96 mining and exploration for chromediopside here. A portion |
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Larsen, Esper S., Shannon, Earl V. (1930) The minerals of the phosphate nodules from near Fairfield, Utah. American Mineralogist, 15 (8) 307-337 |
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| THE MINERALS OF THE PHOSPHATE NODULES FROM NEAR FAIRFIELD, UTAH1 Espen S. LansnN,Haraard Uni.aersi.ty, and...INrnonuctron In 1894, Mr. F. T. Millis of Lehi, Utah, sent to the United States National Museum a nodule...Smithsonian Institute. 2 Packard, R. f . Variscite from Utah, Am. f . Sc., [III], 47, p. 297, 1894. sDennison...the south fork of Clay Canyon, about three-quarters of a mile above the road and clay pit, 2.8 miles from...from Fairfield South, and 5| miles west of Fairfield, Utah. It was prospected by a short tunnel and drift |
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Clopton, E. L., Wilson, W. E. (1996) The Mineralogical Record Index - Volumes I - XXV 1970 - 1994. Mineralogical Record Inc. |
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| 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...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson |
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(2011, March) Geonieuws Vol. 36 (03) Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen |
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| 396-413 Creede, the last wild west silver mining camp in Colorado (USA) 414-424 Colorado miner&l treasures...Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA 426-431 Calaverite, Cripple Creek, Colorado (USA) 434-439 Mineral treasures...36th Rochester mineralogical symposium (blue wavellite from de Linde Quarry, Arkansas; fluorescent tourmaline;...The Clay Canyon variscite mine, Fairfield, Utah 355-370 The Blackbird mine, Lemhi Co., Idaho, USA 373-386...ontstaan van de maan 40-43 Op mars-expeditie in Utah, VS 44-48 Archeoseismologie - reconstructie van |
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(1981) List. David New Minerals |
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| sections on brown rhyolite with minor cream colored clay inclusions. A very fine large display specimen from...½"terminated crystals scattered over tan to gray wavellite matrix. 3½x5" $150. 00. 25. QUART~ Car_rara...crystals in brownish 32. VARISCITE Clay Canyon, Garfield Co., Utah. Se leet µile green lxl II to lx2 TInodules |
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Bernard, Jan, Hyršl, Jaroslav (2004) Minerals and their Localities (1st ed.) Granit, Prague. |
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| abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...mineralogie et de cristallographie CCM - Clays and Clay Minerals ChE- Chemie der Erde (Jena) CM - Canadian...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado |
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(2014) Mineral Collections in Colorado (supplement) The Mineralogical Record Vol. 45 (6.1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...are the National Mining Hall of 4 Farne Museum in Leadville, the Cripple Creek District Museum, and the |
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Ransom, Jay Ellis (1974) Gems and Minerals of America - A Guide to Rock Collecting. Harper & Row. |
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| Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin... limestone (and/ or sandstone), marble, and the clay minerals for baking into ceramics and pottery or...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...miners were unbelievably careless in their hasty mining of only the highest-grade ores. Rock hunters today |
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Back, Malcolm E., Mandarino, Joseph A. (2008) Fleischer's Glossary of Mineral Species 2008. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| (Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar |
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(2014) Mineral Collections in Texas (A Supplement to the Sept-Oct issue) The Mineralogical Record Vol. 45 (5.1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas...in the Gien Rose Limestone formation of Lampasas County. Lampasas celestine first became well known among... HI STORY_....,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _......., J COUNTY MAp o, '1~AAa M'Al.t.OFM.11.ES An 1870 map of...are similar to those found in Sicily. Sadly, the mining method does not allow the preservation of specimens |
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Roberts, Willard Lincoln, Rapp, George Robert Jr., Weber, Julius (1974) Encyclopedia of Minerals (1st ed.) Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. |
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| Smith, Geological Society of America, Memoir 122. "Clay Mineralogy," by R. E. Grim (McGraw-Hill, 1968)....light; the bands move as the mineral is turned. clay ( l) A mineral fragment having a diameter less than...diameter, usually composed of calcium carbonate or _clay_-ironstone; often hollow or transected by veins of...Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous lignite...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson, |
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MacFall, Russell P. (1975) Gem Hunter's Guide (5th ed.) Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. |
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| MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...the earth sciences from his efforts. Fresh air, sunshine, and vigorous exercise are certain rewards of...Rockies and Black Hills, the Cascades and the Grand Canyon, the Oregon and Washington beaches, the Mojave...usually grow straight and free like blossoms in the sunshine. Instead, they are distorted by the conditions...winter's ice, and summer's sun crumble the rocks into clay, sand, and gravel. The detritus becomes consolidated |
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Sinkankas, John (1964) Mineralogy for Amateurs (1st ed.) Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. |
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| the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...apatite group, the pyromorphite series, turquois, wavellite, etc. The chromates are rare, and only one species...not be apparent in some species, as chlorite or clay minerals, where sheets are often so small that they... Feldspar species, however, easily alter into clay minerals. Owing to the preponderance of oxygen...solutions are quartz, calcite, zeolite minerals, clay minerals, and numerous others. CRYSTALS whose |
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