 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | LONE JACK QUARRY
Rockbridge County, Virginia
R. V . D I E T R I C H
Central Michigan University
Mount...R Y , N E A R G L A S G O W , Rock
bridge County, Virginia, first gained the attention of min
eral collectors...of several minerals have
been collected from the quarry, and some of them are in col
lections throughout...(Dietrich*,
1963). It was prepared especially for this Virginia-emphasis
issue, which was put together to commemorate...commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Virginia Geological Survey.
The quarry is not open to collectors. Groups |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station
Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities:
Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition)
Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I)
Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II)
Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition)
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VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES
( SUPPLEMENT II )
By
Richard |  | | Journal (issue) | | FEBRUARYJMAY 1994
NO. 1 & 2
MINERALS OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
D. Allen Penick, Jr.
INTRODUCTION
RockbridgeCountyhas...Figure 1.LocationmapofRockbridgeCounty,Virginia.
reported from the county. Rockbridgecounty is one of the more...more prolific
mineralcollectingareasin Virginia. A largepercentageof the mineralsare
concentratedin threeareas:...inscatteredoutcropsalong Big MarysCreek,
near Glasgow. InadditionBxger'slimestonequqoutsideLexingtonhas...~mberliteisa~kigneousintrusiverockfoundin
for Rockbridge County. It wasrecognizedasadistinctmineral species |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE AMERICAN
MINERALOGIST,
PALYGORSKITE:
VOL. 54, JANUARY_FEBRUARY,
1969
NEW X-RAY DATAI
C. L....Anaiysis of X-ray diffraction powder data for five palygorskite samples shows that three
of the samples are...Transvaal, palygorskite is presently forming from montmorillonite.
Descriptions of palygorskite in lagoonal...Islands has been described by
Stephen (1954). The palygorskite from Sapillo Creek, New Mexico, reported in...conglomerate.
In spite of the geochemicalimportance of palygorskite, its r-ray
crystallographyand structure have |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | July-August: Turquoise crystals on quartz,
Lynch Station, Virginia; John C. Medici
photographer
September-October:...Aragonite, 236
Bald Knob Manganese Deposit, Allegheny
County, North Carolina, W. B . Sim
mons, Jr., 130
Barite...Columbia, Yukon Territory, 9; rutile,
Hastings County, 284
Canfield, F . A . , 232
Canfieldite, 233
Caryopilite...Bridge, New York, 288
Charlesite, 238
Chips from the Quarry, 4, 108, 156, 212,
261
Chlorite, 159
Chondrodite...Mineral and Fossil Collec
tions and Displays in Virginia, A Com
pilation, 198; A "Pathway to the Past" |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA
MINERAL LOCAL
INDEX
Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species.
and
D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR.
Virginia Division...Mineral Resources
P. O. Box 3667
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index.
The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing
of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index
was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l |  | | Report (issue) | | the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho
tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A.
Michael.
COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY:
Longest dimension approximately 13 cm.,
photograph...of Virginia
R. V. DIETRICH*
Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts
& Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute
Research Division Bulletin 47
Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
Blacksburg, Va. 24061
*... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division
of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970
Printed and bound |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sort of orange.
"The calcite is found in a rock quarry
located almost due south of the little
Brown Church...at
Mille Lacs Lake (North Minnesota) in
Aitkin County, about 2y2 miles west of
Opstead at Liberty Beach...pieces have been found
around Knife Lake in Kanabec County,
Minn.
" W e are keeping the nugget for our
collection...comes from a gravel pit in the hills of
Panola County, Miss., between Sardis
and Batesville. This is...of
moonstone from a new location in Avery
267
County, N. C. This was found on the
farm of Bill Burleson |  | | Catalog/List | | important species.
Kyanite
A.C. Prospect, Union County, Georgia.
This is the most magnificent exhibition...46C7360 ½ Kg
7.90
Sillimanite
Green Prospect, Hart County, Georgia.
Enormous (up to 3.6 x 0.3 x 0.3 cm) gray...Blue-Schist Facies Lawsonite
Reed Ranch, Marin County , California.
Blue-gray lawsonite segregations...Road cut, near San Andreas. Calaveras
84A24
60.00
County, California .
This small suite of specimens was...full centimeter out of the talc crystal
Commercial Quarry , Crestmore. California .
striated toward the poles |  | | Book (edition) | | abbreviations:
Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic.
(municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text,
except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces
Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c
Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts.,
Bavaria. both Germany, and from...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry,
pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010} |  | | Report (issue) | | sectwn of Paleozotc rocks from Butler
County to Stafford County, Kansas Kansas Geol Survey Otl and Gas...wells
on a cross section from Barber County, Kansas, to Caddo County, Oklahoma
Oklahoma Geol Survey Gutdebook...deposits of East Shasta
copper-z10c dtstnct, Shasta County, Cahforma U S Geol Survey Prof Paper 338,
107 p...Borns, H W , Jr 2343
Allen, Jack A
See
Green, Wilham D 1183
Allen, Jack C, Jr Forceful mtruswn of the...4297
Anders, R B Ground-water geology of Karnes County, Texas
US Geol
Survey Water-Supply Paper 1539-G |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.). Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | California.
Howard T. Evans: U.S.G.S., Reston, Virginia.
Ellen W. Faller: Dept. of Geology and Geophysics...Long Island,
New York.
Victor Yount: Warrenton, Virginia.
Josef Zemann: Institut fur Mineralogie der Universitat...Carolina
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