SECTION A ROCKS

SECTION A ROCKS

SECTION A ROCKS

SECTION A ROCKS

AMPHIBOLITE, hornblendite

CHERT

GNEISS (resembles a schist)

LIMESTONE, gray

   Kern Co., California

   Missouri

   Mariposa Co., California

   Hudspeth Co., Texas

   Black Hills, South Dakota

CLAY, Loose soil only. 

*GNEISS, titanite

MARBLE, fine-grained, carbonaeous

ANDESITE, amygdaloidal

   $1.95 in small plastic bag

   Tuolumne Co., California (*)

   Calaveras Co., California

   Alameda Co., California

   Kern Co., California

GNEISS, granite

MARBLE, medium-grained

ANDESITE, metasomatized

CLAY, Kaolin, somewhat friable

   Boulder Co., Colorado

   Inyo Co., California

   Lake Co., California

   Amador Co., California

*GNEISS, corundum

MARBLE, dolomitic

AUGITE-ANDESITE-AGGLOMERATE

CLAY, Bentonite

   Gallatin Co., Montana (*)

   Inyo Co., California

   Lassen Co., California

   Inyo Co., California (powder only)

GNEISS, garnet

   Kern Co., California

ANDESITE, hornblende

   Bentonite Spur, Wyoming -to B

   Madison Co., Montana

MARBLE, coarse-grained

   Plumas Co., California

COAL, Anthracite   to 2x3cm only

GNEISS, banded

   Riverside Co., California

ANDESITE, Red Mountain Andesite

   Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

   Putnam Co., New York

MARBLE, OPHICALCITE

   San Bernardino Co., California

COAL, bituminous   -to size C

*GNEISS, cordierite-anthophyllite

   Yerington, Nevada

ANDESITE, propylitized

   Utah (no further locality given)

   Norway (*)

MARBLE, fine-grained, gray

   near Virginia City, Nevada

*COAL, Cannel  

GRANITE

   Wingdale, New York

ANDESITE PORPHYRY  -to size C

   Cannel City, Kentucky (*)

   Inyo Co., California

NEPHELINE PHONOLITE

   near Weeks, Nevada

*CONGLOMERATE  Chrysocolla-

   Massachussets, coarse -to size D

   Lincoln Co., Oregon

ANDESITE  -to size E

   cemented.  Alaska (*)

   Silver Bow Co., Montana

NEPHELINE SYENITE

   Klamath Co., Oregon

CONGLOMERATE

   Barre, Vermont

   Magnet Cove, Arkansas

*ANDESITE, hypersthene

   Boynton, Missouri

GRANITE, graphic granite

   Ontario, Canada

   Klamath Co., Oregon (*)

   Elko Co., Nevada

   San Diego Co., California

NOVACULITE

ANHYDRITE

   Medicine Bow, Wyoming

   Delmoe Lake, MT -size E and

   Hot Springs, Arkansas

   Cumbria, England

CONGLOMERATE, flat pebble

   up, ask about F.

*OBSIDIAN, nodule in perlite

*ANORTHOSITE (LABRADORITE)

   Size E and up, ask for price over F

GRANITE, reddish

   Arizona.  -to size C. 

   Nain, Labrador (*)  -to size D

   Deadwood, South Dakota

   Fort Collins, Colorado

OBSIDIAN, loose nodules, -to sz C

*ANORTHOSITE (LAURVIKITE)

CONGLOMERATE, small pebble

*GRANITE, Adamellite  -to size C

   Arizona

   Larvik, Norway (*)

   near Nemo, South Dakota

   Shap, England (*)

*OBSIDIAN, spherulitic, exhibiting

ANORTHOSITE   -to size D

COQUINA, sandy, silty

GRANITE, epidotised, "Unakite"

   lithophysae. Glass Mt., CA (*)

   Kiowa Co., Oklahoma 

   Contra Costa Co., California

   Flag Pond, Tennessee

OBSIDIAN, black  -to size C

APLITE -to size D

DACITE

GRANODIORITE

   Glass Mt., Inyo Co., CA

   Washoe Co., Nevada

   Japan  - to size E

   Sacramento Co., California

OBSIDIAN, gray-black

ARGILLITE (shale)

DIABASE, fine-grained

GREENSTONE

   Lake Co., California

   Contra Costa Co., California

   New Haven Co., Connecticut

   El Dorado Co., California

OBSIDIAN, black  -to size D

*BASALT, amygdaloidal

DIABASE, sodaclase diabase

   Plumas Co., California

   Madoc Co., California

   Washoe Co., Nevada (*)

   Lane Co., Oregon

GYPSUM

OBSIDIAN, black, some sheen

BASALT PORPHYRY

DIATOMITE, diatomaceous earth

   Nye Co., Nevada

   Madoc Co., California

   Plumas Co., California

   Napa Co., California

HEMATITE, oolitic

OBSIDIAN, brown

   Boulder Co., Colorado

DIORITE

   Oneida Co., New York

  Glass Mt., Oregon

BASALT, dense black "Trap Rock"

   El Dorado Co., California

*HORNFELS, Sericite

OBSIDIAN, double-flow (black and

   Meriden, Connecticut

   Essex Co., NY  -to size E

   Kyoto, Japan (*)

   red-brown)  Glass Mt., Oregon

BASALT, vesicular

ECLOGITE -to size C

LATITE  -to size C

OBSIDIAN, "flowering" or "snowflake"

   near Fernley, Nevada

   Alameda Co., CA

   Calaveras Co., California

   near Murray, Utah

   Washington Co., Utah

   Marin Co., CA

LATITE VITROPHYRE  -to size E

PEGMATITE, granitic  -size D and up

BASALT  

FELSITE, orbicular

   Lyon Co., Nevada

   San Diego Co., California

   Douglas Co., Oregon   -to size D

   Guanajuato, Mexico

*LEUCITITE

PEGMATITE, granitic   -to size B

   Lane Co., Oregon

FELSITE

   Albano Hills, Italy (*)

   Lun, Canda

BASALT, columnar,  only size E and

   White Pine Co., Nevada

*LIMESTONE, crinoidal

PEGMATITE -to size E

   up, ask for prices over F.

FLINT

    fossiliferous.

   Sweden

   Lane Co., Oregon

   Denmark  - to size D

    Bentonville, ARK. (*)

PEPERINO (leucite tuff)

BASALT SCORIA

   Dover, England

    Near Waco, TX (*)

   Albano Hills, Italy

   near Fernley, Nevada

GABBRO

LIMESTONE, fossiliferous,

PERIDOTITE, mica-augite. Kimberlite,

   Washington Co., Utah

   El Dorado Co., California

   archaeocyathid

   "blue-ground".

BASALT BRECCIA

   Cold Springs, Minnesota

   Inyo Co., California

    Murfreesboro, Arkansas 

   Coos Co., Oregon

   Tillamook Co., Oregon

LIMESTONE, oolitic  -to size C

PERIDOTITE, olivine (Dunite) -to sz D

BRECCIA, chert breccia

GABBRO, hornblende norite

   Inyo Co., California

   Jackson Co., N. Carolina  

   Baxter Springs, Kansas

   Nevada Co., California

LIMESTONE, pisolitic

PERLITE, reddish to gray  -to sz E

BRECCIA, jasper breccia

   Santa Barbara Co., California

   Inyo Co., California

   Pioche, Nevada

   San Mateo Co., California

GABBRO, scapolitized

LIMESTONE

PHONOLITE

   Namib Desert, Namibia

   Mariposa Co., California

   ferruginous travertine

   Teller Co., Colorado

BRECCIA, rhyolite breccia

GABBRO, syenogabbro

   Inyo Co., California

PHOSPHORITE

   Custer Co., South Dakota

   Humboldt Co., Nevada

LIMESTONE

   Powell Co., Montana

BRECCIA, cinnabar-cemented

GABBRO, sodaclase gabbro

   Classic statuary "marble"

PHYLLITE, greenish   -to size E

   Pershing Co., Nevada

   Lane Co., Oregon - to size E

   Carrara, Italy

   Inyo Co., California

CALICHE

GEYSERITE (SILICEOUS SINTER)

LIMESTONE, Chalk

PHYLLITE, black slaty

   Kern Co., California

   Washoe Co., Nevada -to size C

   Dover, England

   Mariposa Co., California

CAMPTONITE -to size E

GNEISS, phlogopite-garnet

LIMESTONE, banded travertine

PITCHSTONE, divitrified obsidian

   Mohave Co., Arizona

   Minas Gerais, Brazil

   Silver Bow Co., Montana

   Pershing Co., Nevada

CHERT, radiolarian, green

GNEISS, xenolithic  -to size C

   Namibia

   Custer Co., So. Dakota

   San Benito Co., California

   Calaveras Co., CA

   near McCamey, Texas