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Niter from
Great Smoky Mountains, Swain County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mountain Range
Classification
Species:Niter
Formula:KNO3
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Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Niter data
Locality Data:Click here to view Great Smoky Mountains, Swain County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:406322
Long-form Identifier:1:3:406322:3
GUID (UUID V4):4998866b-77c0-4359-bd1f-d774ebf6f116
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500-mile-long state situated mainly between 35° and 36.6° North latitude and bounded on the west by the Mississippi...on the east by high ridges of the Appalachian Mountains. It is geologically diverse. Traveling east from...Plateau. Continuing east beyond the Cumberland Mountains and Cumberland Plateau escarpment, the collector...Valley and Ridge, which change crossing the Great Smoky Thrust Fault to lower Paleozoic TRAVIS A. PARIS...left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure
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the East Tennessee - Western North Carolina area. During the Civil war, niter was obtained from caves in...notable example of this is near Manchester in Coffee county, the locality being called Copperas Cave. Epsomite...miles from Gatlinburg, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This tremendous "rock house"...Ducktown, Tennessee and on across the mountains into Murphy, North Carolina. At Ducktown are located the copper...copper mines. About three miles West of Murphy, North Carolina are talc mines. From these we have obtained
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Some Mineral Localities In Central Dickinson County, Michigan BY W A L D E N P. PRATT 2 1 Publication...erosion, and the the central part of Dickinson County, in resulting peneplain was covered with the upper...is as follows: During early Pro- ern Dickinson County has been a major terozoic time (about one and a...of Dickinson County, available at a small cost from the office of the Dickinson County Road Commission...IN CENTRAL 346 8 •«2 .— \ -^ ' DICKINSON COUNTY, A —c ^ } ^ —L_ MICHIGAN ROCKS AND MINERALS
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granites and altered metamorphic rocks near the North Carolina line to loose sand, silt, and clay near the... Cumberland Plateau Great Valley of East Tennessee Eastern Highland Rim Sequ,\lchie Unaka Mountains Va lley...54 Land of the Rootless Ridges: East Tennessee's Great Valley Tennessee's Eastern Rampart: The Unaka Range...from the south 15 Exposure of loess in Madison County 16 Kentucky Lake 23 Examples of unconformities... Xll Iron-bearing limonite 33 Great Western Furnace, Stewart County Yearlings grazing on bluegrass 38
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......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........bauxite, now the source of material that maintains a great industry, were untouched and were not included in...1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon
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commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...particularly colorful ore cabinet-specimens, have a great advantage over the prospectors of the last century...must be taken with a grain of salt. Although some great mines of Arizona, California, Idaho, and Nevada...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where
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the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to...Fourche and Cheyenne rivers. These pine covered mountains, higher than the Alleghenies, culminate in Harney...Cretaceous Dakota sandstone, which underlies most of the Great Plains, and bent the broken edges sharply upward...with extraordinary homogeneity. Throughout the Great Plains, wells drilled deep into this unit provide...beds, excavations, etc.ď‚ľSelenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm
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Meteoritical Society, and the Gemmological Association of Great Britain, he is a pastpresident of the Southwest...ELEMENTS Arborescent silver on calcite. From Keweenaw County, Michigan, comes this superb example of metal "...brownish-red cast. An interesting specimen trom Canada. Smoky quartz topped by limonite pseudomorph after siderite...system. The mineral classification most used in North America. It is based upon crystal chemistry and...Nitrates are easily soluble in water. Soda niter and niter are the most abundant minerals in this class
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Meteoritical Society, and the Gemmological Association of Great Britain, he is a pastciation for the president...ELEMENTS Arborescent silver on calcite. From Keweenaw County, Michigan, comes this superb example of metal “sculpture...on a rock. crystals. From Creede, Colorado. Smoky quartz topped by limo- Quartz crystals with inclusions...Dana America. It is The mineral most used in North based upon crystal chemistry and combines both ...Nitrates are easily soluble in water. Soda niter and niter are the most abundant minerals in this class
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geology VIII. Geologic Structural framework of North Amer¬ ica; Resume of geological history of Virginia;...Structural framework of North America (map) 8.2. Base of Cambrian in in¬ terior of North America (map) 8.3...paleogeography of central eastern North America (map) 8.4. Triassic basins of eastern North America (map) 8.5. Late...Late Cretaceous of central North America (map) 159 167 172 174 176 App. B.l. Contour lines 183 App...flexible. One or more of these properties may be of great help in the identification of an unknown mineral
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ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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Smith, Director Bulletin 802 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY FOR 1925 AND 1926 BY JOHN M....187 274 274 276 276 278 279 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY FOE 1925 AND 1926 By JOHN M. NICKLES...NICKLES INTRODUCTION The bibliography of North American geology, including paleontology, petrology, and...publications on the geology of the Continent of North America and adjacent islands and on Panama and the...index to the literature listed. The bibliography of North American geology is comprised in the following bulletins
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-Pre-Cambrian formations __________________ _ Carolina gneiss ____________ .___________ _ Roan gneiss..._ Hiwassee slate ________________________ _ Great Smoky formation ________________ _ Nantahala slate...'he rocks __________________________ - ____ _ Great Smoky formation ____ -,- ______________ _ Constitution... _ Cambrian period ______________________ _ Great Smoky deposition ___________ _ Later Paleozoic time...and Eureka mines _____________________ _ 51 Polk County mine ______________________ ------_ 51 Rutile
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were supplied by the Carolina Biological Supply Company of Burlington, North Carolina. To those whose efforts...counties, provinces, territories, cities, towns, mountains, valleys, islands, rivers, lakes have been included...names. A few examples include andesite (Andes Mountains), atlantite (Atlantic ocean), corsite (Corsica)...(Nelson County, Virginia), nevadite, norite (Norway), pacificite, tinguaite (Tingua Mountains, Brazil)...Aztecs, Bantus, Mayas, Mongols, New Zealand Maoris, North American Indians, Tartars. Although uncommon, some
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Tellico archaeology. Bibliography: p. 1. Indians of North America-Tennessee Tellico Lake Region-Antiquities...anthropology and zooarchaeology respectively was of great help. Behind the scenes support at the University... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.1 Glaciated North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....explorers and traders from Virginia and South Carolina. The second, historic archaeology, is the excavation...second--an abbreviation of the county , and third--a number within that county. Hence, Icehouse Bottom (40MR23)
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Elevations of selected summits east of the Rocky Mountains .................................. XXX THE NATIONAL...Cliffs of the Seven Double Pillars, Foot of the Mountains Run, and Canon del Rajadero de los Negros. Some...of the larger lakes, and longer rivers; a few mountains; and thousands of smaller places and natural features...from the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi River, and up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains. Geographic...locality, or civil division (city, village, or county) named for a physical feature is always listed
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Plain-------------------------------Central region and Great Plains ---------------Arkansas ----------------...Dakota ---------------------------Northern Rocky Mountains --------------------Mineral-resource studies ...l-geologic studies -----------Southern Rocky Mountains -------------------- 1 1 1 2 4 5 5 5 5 7 8 8...mineral-resource investigations--Continued Southern Rocky Mountains-Continued Mineral-resource studies -----------------Geophysical...-Mississippi ------------------------------North Carolina --------------------------Puerto Rico ----
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listed on pages A263-A268. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies and other organizations..._______________________ Maryland. __ _________________ _ _____ North Carolina_--__-___________________ South Carolin...____-_______-------Montana __ __________________________ North Dakota.. --_---_-_--_-- --------Wyoming ____.___-_--_---___---_..._________________________________ Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. Eastern plateaus....___ Ohio._____________________________________ North Dakota._--___--_-__---__--__________ Kansas.___
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Smith, Director Bulletin 823 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1919-1928 BY JOHN M. NICKLES ... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1919-1928 By JOHN M. NICKLES INTRODUCTION The bibliography of North American...publications on. the geology of the Continent of North America and adjacent islands and on Panama and the...index to the literature cited. The bibliography of North American geology to the end of 1926 is contained...4, 5, 8; Museum Paper, nos. 5, 6; County Report, no. 1 (Clay County). Montgomery, Ala. Alberta, Scientific
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This well-traveled author highlights his favorite North American locations for landscape photography BY...Hotspots .’’ It may not be fair to narrow down North America to just eight prime locations, but the process...afraid to let itself be heard , the fish owl has a great variety of distinctive hooting and mewing calls...’t measure up . The technique worked , but at a great cost . I found my words held far more power than...autofocus tracks almost any subject, producing more great shots per roll. The exclusive "Quick Control Dial"
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Norton. Second Vice-President 11945 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood. CA 91607 Mrs. Jeanne Mager. Secretary...Boomtown U.S.A. Gem-A-Rama and Convention Show." North Tex•• Gem and Mineral Society, host. Burkburnett...World's Fair of Gems and M inerals." Host, Clafll County Gem Collectors. Las Vegas Convention Center, Las...LAPIDARY SOCIETIES Annual Show, "Gem-Main-IA". Lincoln County Gem and Mineral Society, host. Exposition Bulld...Gem and Mineral Society. 18th Annual Show. GIia County Fairgrounds, Hwy 60, Globe, AZ.. 31 and 1, 10-9;
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A293-A298 of this chapter. Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and...Geochemical prospecting for breccia pipes, San Juan Mountains, Colo. . ........................ . Iron .......region and Great Plains .................. . Kentucky Michigan .. Nebraska Northern Rocky Mountains ........ Geophysical studies ........ Southern Rocky Mountains ..................... . Mineral-resource studies...mineral-resource studies-Continued Southern Rocky Mountains-Continued Stratigraphic studies .............
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Norton. Second Vice-President 11945 Magnolia Blvd .• North Hollywood. CA 91607 Mrs. Jeanne Mager, Secretary...Boomtown U.S.A. Gem-A-Rama and Convention Show." North TexH Gem end Mineral Society, host. Burkburnett...LAPIDARY SOCIETIES Annual Show, Gem-Main-IA . Lincoln County Gem end Mineral Society, host. Exposition Building...PIion,: (7141 253-7514 18th Annual Show. GIia County Fairgrounds, Hwy 60, Globe, AZ. 31 and 1, 10-9:...Society. Annual Show. Exposition Bldg., Solano County Fairgrounds, Interstate 80 and Hwy 37, Vallejo
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1965. 1966. 1967. 1968. Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and..._________________________ Nevada__----__-___-__--_____-______ North Carolina-__--___--__--__-_-___-._ Oregon._ ________...plains_---______________________ Central region and Great Plains._____________ Kentucky__ _ __________________...-----72 Montana.________--__----------------73 North Dakota ____._-_._ ____--_-_ 74 South Dakota____...cooperators________-____________________ State, county, and local cooperators_____________ Other cooperators
 
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