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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.

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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References

Shepard, C. U., (1859), On lazulite, pyrophyllite and tetradymite in Georgia, American Journal of Science, 27, pp. 36-40.

Zodac, P., (1939), Graves Mountain, Georgia: Rocks and Minerals, 14:5, pp. 131-141.

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.

Hurst, Vernon J., (1959), The geology and mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Georgia: Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin 68, 33 p.

Barwood, Henry L., (1970), Phosphate Minerals at Graves Mountain, Georgia, Rocks and Minerals, 45:1, p. 30.

Cook, R.B., (1978), Minerals of Georgia: Their Properties and Occurrences, Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin 92, 189 p.

Radcliffe, D., (1978), Geology of kyanite in Twelfth Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals: Georgia Geological Survey Information Circular 49, pp. 69-78.

Barwood, Henry L., and Hajek, B., (1979), Notes on some occurrences in Georgia and Virginia, The Mineralogical Record, 10:1, pp. 48-49.

Reusing, S.P., (1979), Geology of the Graves Mountain area, Lincoln and Wilkes Counties, Georgia, Unpublished M.S. Thesis, University of Georgia, 121 p.

Bell, H., III, Carpenter, R.H., and Feiss, P.G. (1980), Volcanogenic ore deposits of the Carolina Slate belt in Frey, R.W. (ed.), Excursions in southeastern geology: Geological Society of America Guidebook, Annual Meeting, May 1980, p. 149-178.

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

Gordon, J.B., Jr., (1989), Georgia Mineral Locality Index, Rocks and Minerals, 64:3, pp.184-208.

Gray, Julian C., and Schroeder, Paul A., (2003), Mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia, in Elliott, W.C., ed., Field Trip Guide for the 40th Annual Meeting of the Clay Mineral Society and Spring Meeting of the Mineralogical Society of America, Clay Mineral Society, pp. 57-67.

Santamaria, Jose (2004), Mineral History of Graves Mountain, Matrix, 11:4, pp. 233-244.

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