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Updated websites for Virgina Gem and Mineral clubs:
Gem and Mineral Society of Lynchburg
Gem and Mineral Society of the Virginia Peninsula
Northern Virginia Mineral Club
Shenandoah Valley Gem and Mineral Society 

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A Rocky Business: Quarries in Virginia September 8, 2008

Modern quarries in the Old Dominion owe their existence to the automobile – and muddy roads. In fact, in 1928, before the state took over road maintenance, Fairfax County opened a quarry near Centreville to extract crushed stone for county roads. Now privately owned, the Luck Stone Corporation quarry site on Route 29 provided material [...]Full Story»

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Division of Geology and Mineral Resources:

Geology & Mineral Resources

Customer Self-Service Workstations are now available in the Charlottesville office, offering customers easy access to the DMME Web Store to purchase and obtain publications and maps.
DGMR Data
Text-based search or Division of Geology and Mineral Resource's publications and datasets.
DMME Interactive Map
Search DMME databases for mines, minerals and energy information.

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If you happen to be near one of these areas,
Harrisonburg  check out the - JMU Mineral Museum
Blacksburg  check out the - Museum of Geosciences
Richmond check out the - Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Charlottesville check out the - DGMR Educational Rock and Mineral Garden
Lovingston checkout the -  Keith Frye Memorial Rock Exhibit.
Martinsville checkout the -  Virginia Museum of Natural History
 

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Past Issue's of Geosciences Magazine at Virginia Tech
 

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For a video concerning the geology of Rockfish Gap, check out:
http://web.wm.edu/geology/virginia/google_earth/video/rfgap.mov

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Back issues of Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Virginia Minerals publication are now online in .pdf format.  "Virginia Minerals" are a publication containing lots of articles on rockhounding in Virginia,  mineral resources and industries, geologic studies, road log descriptions of geologic features, mineral and fossil characteristics, topographic mapping and DMR activities.
   

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