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Stony Point, Alexander Co., North Carolina, USA

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Stony Point, Alexander Co., North Carolina, USA

Photo: Joseph A. Freilich
Latitude: 35°51'N
Longitude: 81°3'W
Stony Point is about 35 miles southeast of the Blue Ridge, and 16 miles northeast of Statesville. The surface of the country is rolling, the elevation being about 1000' AMSL. The soil is generally a red, gravelly clay, resulting from the decomposition of the gneissoid rock. Unaltered rock appears at a depth of 26 feet and is unusually hard, especially along the walls of the gem-bearing pockets which form in veins of quartz that traverse the gneiss. These veins are usually quite narrow, and generally strike east and west, and dip to the north. Some of the veins widen out occasionally and form cavities several inches wide and several feet in length, or in rare cases much larger.

References

Kunz, G. F. 1907. History of the Gems found in North Carolina: Beryl Gems and Spodumene (Hiddenite). North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, Bulletin No. 12. Chapter 6, pages 37-48.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
'Apatite'
Beryl
var: Aquamarine
var: Emerald
Calcite
'Clay'
Dolomite
Holmquistite
'Mica Group'
'Monazite'
Monazite-(Ce)
Muscovite
Quartz
var: Citrine
var: Rutilated Quartz
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz

Rutile
Spodumene
var: Hiddenite
Xenotime-(Y)


21 entries listed. 10 valid minerals.

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