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.
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