TABLE OF CONTENTS 1977 |
| January/February | Whole #445 | 52:1 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Cerussite and Hydrocerussite on Altered Civil War Lead Bullets: Are They Minerals? | Richard S. Mitchell | 5 |
| Westmoreland, New Hampshire - The Closing of a Collecting Site | Ernest S. Schlichter | 7 |
| Selection of Faceting Material | Gilbert Wegad | 11 |
| A Bicentennial Project: Okinawa's Plaza of States | Mervyn E. Roberts Jr. | 12 |
| Old Park Mine, Trumbull, Connecticut | Mark Block | 16 |
| ANNUAL INDEX - VOLUME 51 | 23 | |
| The Lady in Stone - An Unusual Rock Picture | William F. Jud | 19 |
| The Micromounters Corner - Micromounting in the Winter | Robert L. Cox | 20 |
| Thumbnails - Fluorescent Thumbnails | John Reiner | 21 |
| Native Lead | Kay Jensen | 22 |
| Fossil Department - Collecting Devonian Trilobites | Anthony G. Zvirblis | 29 |
| Chips and Bits from EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 30 |
| Sponges - Animals with Holes | Steve Stansbury | 34 |
| Coming Events | 36 | |
| Swapping Corner | 41 | |
| Letters | 42 | |
| Mineral Localities Information | 44 | |
| Classified Advertising | 45 | |
| March | Whole #446 | 52:2 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| The Zinc Minerals | Royal R. Marshall | 57 |
| Minerals and Dinosaur Tracks from Little Falls, New Jersey | Chris Laskowich | 66 |
| Tracking Soapstone Artifacts with Rare Earth Trace Elements | C. G. Holland & Ralph Allen | 67 |
| Calcite Crystals from Oahu, Hawaii | Michael C. Mackiewicz | 70 |
| South Dakota's Big Chief Mine | Martha Linde | 72 |
| World News on Mineral Occurrences | Vandall T. King | 74 |
| The Micromounters Corner-Weeding, Thinning and Cultivating | Robert L. Cox | 76 |
| Fossil Department - Looking Back | Anthony G. Zvirblis | 78 |
| Thumbnails - The Metallic Minerals | John Reiner | 79 |
| Chips and Bits from EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 80 |
| Assembly of a Junior Mastodon | David E. Jensen | 84 |
| What To Do if a Creature Bites You | Dolores Katz | 85 |
| Coming Events | 87 | |
| Mineral Localities Information | 94 | |
| Letters | 95 | |
| Swapping Corner | 98 | |
| Classified Advertising | 99 | |
| April | Whole #447 | 52:3 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Mineral Environments of New York's North Country | Bradford B. Van Diver | 109 |
| Knob Country - Revisited | David E. Jensen | 117 |
| Pierrepont, New York - A Classic Collecting Site | 120 | |
| Checklist of New York Minerals | William Ulrich | 122 |
| World News on Mineral Occurrences | Vandall T. King | 124 |
| The Micromounters Corner - First Impressions Vs Observations | Robert L. Cox | 126 |
| The Study of Minerals - The Usefulness of Cleavage | Vandall T. King | 127 |
| Chips and Bits from EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 132 |
| Australian Opals | John Loughlin | 139 |
| Fossil Fern Fragments-Clues to Part of West Virginia's Prehistoric Past | Attison McClanahan | 141 |
| North Carolina Restores Reed Gold Mine | 142 | |
| Tip on Mounting Micros | Quintin Wight | 143 |
| Directions for Contributors | 145 | |
| Coming Events | 147 | |
| Letters | 154 | |
| Swapping Corner | 157 | |
| Mineral Localities Information | 158 | |
| Classified Ads | 159 | |
| May | Whole #448 | 52:4 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Classified Advertising | 211 | |
| Chromium and Color | Winslow H. Hartford | 169 |
| The Theropod Dinosaurs of the Edmonton Formation, Alberta, Canada | Richard L. Coulton | 176 |
| Mineral Collecting in Woodbury-Southbury, Connecticut | William Brunet | 182 |
| New Sulfide-Mineral Prospect, Louisa County, Virginia | Darrell Smith | 184 |
| World News on Mineral Occurrences | Vandall T. King | 186 |
| The Micromounters Corner - Quality of Micromounts | Robert L. Cox | 188 |
| Fossil Department - Relics of the Pennsylvanian Period | Anthony G. Zvirblis | 190 |
| Chips and Bits from EFMLS Clubs | Vernon Wertz | 194 |
| Coming Events | 199 | |
| Swapping Corner | 207 | |
| Letters | 208 | |
| June | Whole #449 | 52:5 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Some Noteworthy Minerals from Virginia | Richard S. Mitchell | 221 |
| Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia | Palmer C. Sweet | 230 |
| A Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia | R. V. Dietrich | 236 |
| The Geology of Virginia | W. Cullen Sherwood | 244 |
| Prehnite-Apophyllite Plus! | Lindy Cooper | 250 |
| OFFICIAL SHOW PROGRAM EASTERN FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIETIES COLONIAL GEMBOREE '77 | 251 | |
| The Orthorhombic Carbonate Minerals of Virginia | J. Alexander Speer | 267 |
| Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia | Richard S. Mitchell and Arthur S. Katz | 275 |
| Peter's Mountain: Hematite and Hematite Incrustation Pseudomorphs After Barite Howard R. Freeland | 279 | |
| Fossil Collecting in Virginia | Eugene K. Rader | 281 |
| Rice's Fossil Pit-Virginia Miocene Fossils | Ruth Mattison | 283 |
| Geological Displays and Collections in Virginia | Richard S. Mitchell | 286 |
| An Introduction to VPI's Museum of Geological Sciences | Carl A. Francis | 289 |
| Unakite | 229 | |
| Nelsonite: A Unique Virginia Rock | 235 | |
| Book Review: Minerals of Virginia by R. V. Dietrich | Carl Francis | 242 |
| Rock Clubs in Virginia | 243 | |
| William Barton Rogers | 274 | |
| Jeffersonite: A Mineral Named for Thomas Jefferson | 272 | |
| Classified Advertisements | 292 | |
| July/August | Whole #450 | 52:6 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Up on the Chalk | Boyd Mattison | 304 |
| The Minerals of Virginia's Old Dominion Soapstone Quarry | Eugene T. Watson, David C. Trimble, Steven C. Cowg | 309 |
| Is Your Amber Real? | Mark C. Blazek | 315 |
| Pegmatites from Black Mountain, Maine | Bruce W. Buckley | 317 |
| Selenite Crystals from Princeton, British Columbia | Raymond Lasmanis | 320 |
| A Good Use for Extra Specimens | Bea Lincks | 314 |
| Geology Gift | 316 | |
| World News on Mineral Occurrences | Vandall T. King | 320 |
| The Micromounter's Corner - Micromounting, the Conservation of Mineral Collecting | Robert L. Cox | 327 |
| Thumbnails-Young Collectors | John Reiner | 329 |
| The Study of Minerals | Vandall T. King | 331 |
| The Washington Scene | Ken Zahn | 334 |
| Chips and Bits from EFMLS Clubs | Florence Lyons | 335 |
| Coming Events | 338 | |
| Mineral Localities Information | 344 | |
| Swapping Corner | 345 | |
| Letters | 346 | |
| Classified Advertising | 347 | |
| September | Whole #451 | 52:7 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| 'Odell' Diamonds - Barite Crystals from Gage County, Nebraska | Richard S. Mitchell | 357 |
| The History and Mineralogy of a Revolutionary War Iron Mine in Virginia | Thomas V. Dagenhart, Jr. Gary L. Maddox | 360 |
| Topographic Maps, A Primer on Terms, Uses and Sources | Toni Le Duce | 367 |
| Update on Collecting in Paterson, New Jersey | Robert J. Narsavage, Jr. | 372 |
| Major Geologic Formation in Western Germany | Joseph Molon | 377 |
| Turquoise Certification Process Developed at Arizona State University | 380 | |
| World News on Mineral Occurrences | Vandall T. King | 382 |
| The Micromounters Corner - On the Growth of Micromounting | Robert L. Cox | 386 |
| Chips and Bits from EFMLS Clubs | Florence G. Lyons | 387 |
| Coming Events | 391 | |
| Swapping Corner | 396 | |
| Mineral Localities Information Department | 397 | |
| Letters | 398 | |
| Classified Advertisements | 399 | |
| Advertiser's Index | 402 | |
| October | Whole #452 | 52:8 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Ohio Celestine | Henry Fisher | 411 |
| Ilmenite Occurrences in Litchfield, Connecticut | William M. Brunet | 415 |
| H. Wallace Noyes: An Historical Sketch and a Look at Species Collecting | Vandall T. King | 421 |
| Fossil Fan Palms of the Northwest | Peter Thorne | 427 |
| The Micromounter's Corner - Mounting Small Specimens | Robert L. Cox | 436 |
| Thumbnails-Collecting in New Hampshire | John Reiner | 438 |
| Chips and Bits from EFMLS Clubs | Florence G. Lyons | 440 |
| Smithsonian Opens New Naturalist Center | 443 | |
| Coming Events | 444 | |
| Letters | 449 | |
| Errata | 450 | |
| Swapping Corner | 451 | |
| Mineral Localities Information | 452 | |
| Classified Advertisements | 453 | |
| Advertiser's Index | 456 | |
| November | Whole #453 | 52:9 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| Last of the Alabama Gold Mines | Lou W. Sloat | 463 |
| Specimen Preparation-Suggestions on the Trimming, Washing and Repair of Mineral Specimens | Dave and Kay Jensen | 468 |
| Preparing and Cleaning Fossils | Karen Martineau | 471 |
| Some Geological Points of Interest along the Fall Zone of Northeastern Virginia | James V. O'Connor | 473 |
| Collections and Displays - Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, Richmond, Virginia | 482 | |
| World News on Mineral Occurrences | Vandall King | 486 |
| Chips and Bits from EFMLS Clubs | Florence G. Lyons | 491 |
| Thumbnails - Pint's Quarry | John Reiner, Kenneth Van DeBogert | 495 |
| Rare Meteorite Found in Australia | 497 | |
| Coming Events | 498 | |
| Publications Recently Received | 501 | |
| Swapping Corner | 503 | |
| Letters | 504 | |
| Classified Advertisements | 505 | |
| Advertiser's Index | 508 | |
| December | Whole #454 | 52:10 |
| Title | Author | Start Page |
| The Shawangunk Mountain Lead-Zinc Deposit | George Heusser | 515 |
| The Early Days of Copper Mining in California | Dana Batory | 521 |
| Looking for Maine Apatites | Duane L. Leavitt | 524 |
| Books, Magazines and Sources of Information on Mineralogy, Fossils, Gemstones, Other Geosciences and Metal Craft | Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford David E. Jensen | 527 |
| ANNUAL INDEX-VOLUME 52 | 533 | |
| Riker Hill, New Jersey - An Active Collecting Area | Ross Pollack | 541 |
| Micromounters Corner - Art and Micromounting | Robert L. Cox | 543 |
| Chips and Bits from EFMLS Clubs | Florence G. Lyons | 545 |
| 1977 Bulletin Editors Contest Winners | 547 | |
| The Washington Scene | Ken Zahn | 549 |
| Minerals which Look like Jade - and Some Fakes | Katherine Jensen | 551 |
| Coming Events | 552 | |
| Swapping Corner | 555 | |
| Mineral Localities Information Department | 556 | |
| Classified Advertisements | 557 |