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Graves Mountain, Lincoln Co., Georgia, USA

Photo: 2007 JBS
Latitude: 33°44'29"N
Longitude: 82°31'28"W
A quartz-sericite-kyanite deposit. Mined for kyanite. Located South of US highway 378 between Lincolnton and Washington.

References

- Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 910.

- Matrix 11:4 pp 233-244.

- Rocks & Minerals: 64: 198.

- Hurst (1959).

- Reusing (1979).

- Barwood & Hajek (1979).

- Bell et al. (1980).

- Cook, R.B. (1985). "Famous mineral localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln Co., Georgia." Mineralogical Record, 16(6), pp: 443-458.



Mineral List

Alunite
Andalusite
Baryte
Cacoxenite
Copiapite
Coquimbite
Covellite
Crandallite
Dickite
Ferricopiapite
Gibbsite
Goethite
Gold
Gorceixite
Hematite
Ilmenite
Jarosite
Kaolinite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Kyanite
Lazulite
Magnetite
Muscovite
var: Fuchsite
var: Sericite
Paracoquimbite
Paragonite
Phosphosiderite
Pyrite
Pyrophyllite
Quartz
var: Blue Quartz
Rhomboclase
Rutile
Strengite
Sulphur
Topaz
Turgite
Variscite
Wavellite
Woodhouseite


41 entries listed. 36 valid minerals.

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