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Fanny Gouge Mine (Spruce Pine Mica Company No. 10 Mine), Micaville, Celo, Spruce Pine District, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA

Ref.: Rocks & Min.:60:65-66,99; Urban(1932).A mica mine located 2.5 mi. SE of Micaville. A mine in an Uranium-bearing muscovite pegmatite. Produced a mica "book" which weighed in excess of 2,000 kg!
Deposit:: LESURE, F.G., 1968, MICA DEPOSITS OF THE BLUE RIDGE IN NORTH CAROLINA: U.S. GEOL. SURVEY PROF. PAPER 577, P.12
Deposit:: 1968 COMPILE LESURE, F.G., REPORT
Production:: LESURE, F.G., 1968, USGS PROF. PAPER 577
Deposit:: REF: CRIB RECORD NO. K001902.
Deposit:: OLSON, J C, 1944, NC DEPT OF CONS & DEVEL BULL 43, PLATE 2.





Map Reference: 35°52'N , 82°11'W

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Mineral List:
  • Almandine
  • 'Apatite'
  • Autunite
  • Biotite
  • Calcite
  • Clarkeite
  • 'Columbite'
  • Epidote
  • 'Feldspar Group'
  • 'Garnet Group'
  • 'Gummite'
  • 'Mica Group'
  • 'Monazite'
  • Muscovite
  • Opal
    var: Opal-AN
  • Quartz
  • 'Sericite'
  • Torbernite
  • Uraninite
  • Uranophane
  • Zircon
    var: Cyrtolite
  • Zoisite
    var: Thulite


    22 entries listed. 10 valid minerals.

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