Underground Treasures: How and Where to Find Them: A Key for the Ready Determination of All the Useful Minerals Within the United States — John Shaqi
Underground Treasures: How and Where to Find Them: A Key for the Ready Determination of All the Useful Minerals Within the United StatesOrton, James
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Underground Treasures: How and Where to Find Them: A Key for the Ready Determination of All the Useful Minerals Within the United States
Orton, James
Mineralogy, Determinative; Prospecting
LOCALITIES.--Found in limestone with _Garnet_ and _Zincite_. Hamburg and
Stirling Hill, N. J.
31.--GALENA.
Occurs in crystals and masses; brilliant lustre; brittle; easily broken;
powder, when finely rubbed is black; can be cut with a knife; heated it
gives off sulphur and melts; dissolves in nitric acid leaving a white
powder at the bottom; gravity 7.5--or a little heavier than cast-iron.
VALUE.--The main source of lead (yielding eighty per cent), and also
smelted for the silver it contains. Used also in glazing stone-ware.
LOCALITIES.--Generally found in limestone with _Iron Pyrites_, zinc-ore,
etc. That found in slate is richest in silver. Abounds in Missouri,
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Arkansas; Rossie, Wurtzboro, Ancram,
Macomb and Ellenville, N. Y.; Lubec, Blue Hill Bay, Bingham and
Parsonsville, Me.; Eaton, Shelburne, Haverill, Warren and Bath, N. H.;
Thetford, Vt.; Southampton, Leverett and Sterling, Mass.; Middletown and
Roxbury, Conn.; Phœnixville, Charlestown, Schuylkill, Pequea Valley
and Shannonville, Pa.; Austin’s and Walton’s Mines, Va.; Cabarras
County, N. C.; Brown’s Creek and Haysboro, Tenn.; Chocolate River,
Mich.; Ingo County, Cal.; on Walker’s River and Steamboat Springs, Nev.;
Castle Dome and Eureka, Ariz.; Clear Creek County, Col.; Virginia City
and Red Bluff Lode, Mont.; Cache Valley, Utah.
32.--GARNET.
Occurs in crystals with four-sided faces; often nearly round; deep red,
which grows darker by heat; rarely yellow; also in brown masses; melts
at a high heat; brittle; not scratched by a knife; glassy lustre;
gravity 4.
VALUE.--The clear deep red and yellow varieties are used for jewelry;
the massive brown is ground for “emery.”
LOCALITIES.--Found in slate and granite rocks. Bethel, Parsonsfield,
Phippsburg, Windham, Brunswick and Ranford, Me.; Hanover, Franconia,
Haverhill, Warren, Unity, Lisbon and Grafton, N. H.; New Fane, Cabot and
Cavendish, Vt.; Carlisle, Boxborough, Brookfield, Brimfield, Newbury,
Bedford, Chesterfield and Barre, Mass.; Reading, Monroe, Haddam and
Middletown, Conn.; Rogers’ Rock, Crown Point, Willsboro, Middletown,
Amity, and near Yonkers, N. Y.; Franklin, N. J.; Pennsbury, Warwick,
Aston, Knauertown, Chester, Leiperville and Mineral Hill, Pa.; Dickson’s
Quarry, Del.; Hope Valley, Cal.; near Virginia City, on Yellowstone and
Madison Rivers, Mont.
33.--GOLD.
Occurs in scales, grains and nuggets, or disseminated through cellular
quartz; metallic lustre; without tarnish; can be cut and hammered into
thin plates; not dissolved by nitric acid; gravity 19, when pure and of
a rich gold yellow color. The pale or brass yellow specimens are much
lighter, the gravity being as low as 13. A grayish yellow gold,
occurring in small, flat grains has a gravity of about 16.
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