 | | Report (issue) | | PYRITE DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA FRONTISPIECE-PLATE I .. • ~~~ · ., i;:~~· ~:·. .. .,.. ., ~:,V: ...S'I'ANDARD PYRITES COMPANY, CHEROKEE COUNTY. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA S. W. McCALLIE, State Geologist...REPORT ON A PART OF THE PRYITES DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA BY H. K. SHEARER and J. P. D. HULL, • Assistant... THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE Geological Survey of Georgia IN THE YEAR 1918 (Ex-Officio) His ExcELLENCY, HUGH...HUGH l\1. DORSEY ........ Governor of Georgia PRESIDENT OF 'rim BoARD HoN. HENRY B. S'l'RANGE ... |  | | Report (issue) | | COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chalcopyrite ........................................................................................ 170 County Index ........................................ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEORGIA Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX JENNINGS...JENNINGS B. GORDON, JR. P . O . Box 6214 Rome, Georgia 30162 Although perhaps best known for its gold, rutUe...rutUe, and staurolite (the state mineral), Georgia has, in fact, almost two hundred mineral species. ...have been reported and verified from the state of Georgia. The index has been compiled from the literature...be either a report on the economic geology of Georgia or a field guide for lapidaries, it excludes commercial |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | terranes of the southernmost Appalachians, Alabamaand Georgia. The rock assemblages of the Talladega,Ashland...LaMont and Hastings, 1964; Magee, 1968; Alabama-Georgia state line; and (3) the Wedowee terrane extends...Stow, 1980a and b, 1982; Whittington,1982), very little hasbeen written concerningthe possibleoriginal...mineralization. onlap in central Alabama to Cartersville, Georgia; The basalclasticrocks of the TalladegaGroup (2)...continentalshelf.Althoughcorrelations salient centered in Clay County and a southern are uncertain, the overlying carbonaterocks |  | | Report (issue) | | SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF GEORGIA ATLANTA 1978 BULLITIN 93 For convenience in selecting...SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF GEORGIA STATE OF GEORGIA Department of Natural Resources Joe D...Protection Division J. leonard Ledbetter. Director Georgia Geologic Survey John R. George, Acting State Geologist... CONTENTS Page The Huber Formation of Eastern Central Georgia by B. F. BUIE . Contact of Huber Formation overlain...Tertiary strata, Figure 3. Macon-Gordon area, Georgia . . . . . . . . Table 1. Detailed stratigraphic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Interstate 20 and U . S . Highway 27 in Carroll County, Georgia. The occurrence is similar to those described...Neathery and Hollister (1984) at the Little Bob mine, Paulding County, Georgia, and at several locations near...Villa Rica, Carroll County, Georgia. A GAHNITE OCCURRENCE IN CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA JENNINGS B. GORDON...GORDON, JR. P . O . Box 6214 Rome, Georgia 30162 The gahnite occurs in zones of intense chloritization,...pyroxene. Sulfides in the quartz veins are pyrite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite. It is uncommon to find spessartine—a |  | | Report (issue) | | Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division Georgia Geologic Survey Cover and title page photo: ...Division Harold F. Reheis, Assistant Director Georgia Geologic Survey William H. McLemore, State Geologist.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Georgia Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Variation diagrams of mafic rocks of the New Georgia Group ...........................................FeO*, MgO+Mnoplotofmeta-igneousrocksofthe New Georgia Group ........................................ |  | | Report (volume) | | mines, Swain County, North Carolina, the Toncrae mine, Virginia, and the Stone Hill mine, Alabama UNITED...------------------------------Geology of Swain County copper district__________________________ Sedimentary...Counties, Alabama___________________________ Stone Hill mine ___________________________________________ - -...Swain County copper district, North Carolina. 2. Geologic map of the Fontana mine, Swain County, N.C....Creek mine, Swain County, N.C. 4. Geologic map and sections of the Hazel Creek mine, Swain County, N.C |  | | Report (issue) | | geographic coordinates and, where applicable, by county and section, township, and range. Both published...these concentrations are of economic importance. Little change in the amounts of cobalt present occurs...many places contain deposits of pentlandite, chalcopyrite, and pyrrhotite. These deposits are often ...nickel-plus-copper in the deposit. The Gap mine (Pennsylvania) and the San Julian mine (California),are examples of...deposits varies widely. Some, like the Bluebird mine (Arizona), are small deposits containing 16 mostly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | productionof sulfuricacid,alsocontain pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite,and sphaleritewith trace amountsof gold. These...the New Georgia Group and immediately overlie units of the Sandy Springs Group. New Georgia Group rocks...and Crawford, 1970; Cook, 1970). It is a major Georgia (Fig. 1) has resulted in a reevaluationof thesisof...depositsof the precious metal depositsof western Georgia are andformedwithina bimodalvolcanogenic area....metaGeorgia. The northern Piedmont in western Georgia morphosedto kyanite grade to form amphibolite, |  | | Report (issue) | | that the geologic literature contains surprisingly little quantitative information on the pyrite content...common" or "pyrite is the most abundant sulfide," and little information is given about the reserves of recoverable...sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration and...California Auschwitz mine, Lake County - 2, 4 Coso Range deposits, Inyo County - 14 Coyote Mountain deposits...Imperial County - 13 Crater (Last Chance Range) mine, Inyo County - 9, 11, 15, 16, 17 Elgin mine, Colusa |  | | Report (issue) | | slate belt 177 Lincolnton-McCormick district, Georgia and South Carolina Other slate belt deposits 188...deposits. 37. Index map of the Appalachians in Georgia and Alabama. 38. 196 199 Lead isotope ratio...range diagrams of sulfur isotope variation in Haile mine pyrite. 50. 259 265 U versus Pb, Th versus Pb...Vance County pluton. 57. 295 Lead isotope ratio diagrams illustrating results from Vance County pluton...pluton K-feldspar fields with Hamme galena and Vance County pluton albite analyses on lead isotope ratio 59 |  | | Book (volume) | | Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes it the...highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the Lookout...mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily divides into five major physiographic provinces...The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries of Gold... some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively prospected for gold since colonial |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | examined sulfide-rich specimens dominated by chalcopyrite, a mineral that it closely resembles and with...developed cubanite crystals from the Henderson No. 2 mine in the Chibougamau mining district, Quebec, Canada...grains, granular masses, or thin lamellae in chalcopyrite. Cubanite is copper-iron sulfide, having the...formula CuFe,S,. Most published analyses suggest little or no elemental substitution. Microscopic pseudomorphs...commonly occurs as oriented intergrowths in chalcopyrite. It has been observed as an uncommon accessory |  | | Report (issue) | | OCCURRENCES IN THE WEST-CENTRAL GEORGIA PIEDMONT The Carroll County gold belt and the southwestern portion... German Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division Georgia Geologic Survey...workings at the Yorkville Mine, Paulding County (Circa 1930). Photo courtesy of Georgia Department of Archives...OCCURRENCES IN THE WEST-CENTRAL GEORGIA PIEDMONT The Carroll County gold belt and the southwestern portion...portion of the Dahlonega gold belt Jerry M. German Georgia Department of Natural Resources J. Leonard Ledbetter |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | handsome specimen of dioptase containing some dainty little greenish xls of dioptase. Their letter of July...when a new pocket was broken into in the Mammoth Mine, Tiger, (Pinal Company), Arizona." ARKANSAS — Another...locality in the State is Russell Gulch in Gilpen County. A small but very fine crystal group from Russell... June 26-29, 1952. CONNECTICUT — The old copper mine near Bristol, Hartford Co., Conn., used to produce...this locality consists of sharp drusy xls of chalcopyrite with small white platy barite xls on grayish-white |  | | Report (issue) | | ‘ Li, aie! BARTLETT'S/27 FERRY FAULT } i GEORGIA ALABAMA sy .i % OP A iar an waeew ows mp ede...ug 5; “A BARTLETT'S/.2 FERRY FAULT ? ALABAMA GEORGIA 50 . Lee 50 MILES SO KILOMETRES UNIVERSITY...Hollister in this volume on the sulfide deposits of Georgia-Alabama. from does It has been the authors not...Alleghany County, North Carolina (John E. Callahan, J. Hatten Metal Howard Mines Georgia Models and...at Four Gold Slate Belt Mine, 97 F. Hollister) Lancaster Mines in County, is 124 (Henry Bell) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | westernBlue Ridge continentally derived sedimentswith little or no (Hadley, 1970; Hatcher, 1978) do not resemblethe...upperPrecambrian however, the ores at Ducktown have little or no sediments of the Blue Ridge,andpresumablyof...abbreviations: bn = bornite;cc = chalcocite;cpy = chalcopyrite;mg = magnetite;po = pyrrhotite;py = pyrite ...iron as pyrite 1972),and(2) concentration and chalcopyrite,has the highestiron contentof disseminatedsedimentary...groupsI and II Mineral abbreviations:cpy = chalcopyrite;gn = galena;po = pyrrhotite; py = pyrite; sp |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................122 Georgia .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................122 Georgia .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Suites of ores were examinedfrom the Homestake Mine, South Dakota; Parry Sound, Ontario; Fierro, New...New Mexico; Ducktown, Tennessee;Sullivan Mine, British Columbia; Sudbury, Ontario; Noranda and Abana Mines...Mines,Manitoba;Cuyuna Range, Minnesota; and Potosi Mine, Chihuahua,Mexico. One or more specimens wereexaminedfrom...Range,Ontario; Cooke City, Montana; Little Bob Mine, Georgia; Cook County,Minnesota;and rfianyothers. The...inepolaoaaoc?ofod THE PARAGENESISOF PYRRHOTITE. •ldern•ac Mine. Quebec Pu • ½• BeatenMine, ALaska Ber•, •eden |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | heard George Ehrenfried tell of the Independence Mine, on the west side of Pikes Peak, Colorado, and of...Mississippi rivers. - Ron Allen, a geologist with A.D. Little Company, Cambridge, discussed the "Balance of Mineral...crystals for the lucky ones. Also found: Garnet, chalcopyrite, epidote, ilmenite, rutile, sphalerite and granular...Society, Birmingham made a field trip to Wood's Copper Mine. A postscript added: "Time permitting, we will also...before the trip had been to "Hog Mountain Gold Mine". This mine was opened in 1844. The best finds were crucibles |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gold Depositsof the Dahlonegaand Carroll County Gold Belts, Georgia JERRYM. GERMAN GeorgiaGeologicSurvey...UniveterFormation.Mostgolddepositsof the Dahlonega and Carroll County belts can be groupedinto six districts:the Villa...smallerscale(Yeates called the Dahlonegaand the Carroll County gold et al., 1896). belts.Thesebeltscanbe tracedacross...tracedacross Georgiafrom Gold was first discoveredin Georgia in 1829. For Alabamato North Carolina(Fig. 2) andconsistof...political and Countybeltsarelargelyconfinedto the New Georgia economicconditionsand the availability of mining |  | | Book | | _ _ .... ____________________ ..... CHAPTER 11 Georgia 1 CHAPTER 12 Alabama 0 0 . . . . . . . . _...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...y ' s f i r s t g o l d r u s h a t Dahlonega, Georgia. S o m u c h gold w a s f o u n d b y eager prospectors...t a r t o f t h e C i v i l W a r . O t h e r Georgia counties a n d n e i g h b o r i n g s t a t e...f gold! Gold c a n s t i l l be f o u n d i n Georgia a n d i n t h e r i v e r s a n d streams o f i |  | | Report (issue) | | COBALT-COPPER DEPOSITS OF ~ BLACKBIRD DISTRICT lEMHI COUNTY, IDAHO by :r. 5. Vhay Geological Survey For...cobalt-copper deposits of the Blackbird district, Lemhi COunty, Idaho, has been re"leased for limited distribution...the c~untry. Cobaltite and the copper mineral. chalcopyrite, the principal ore minerals are ssociated w~th... deposit~ of the Blackbir~ ,I.st :n.ct~ ~emh1. County, Idano"p from the D1rector, U. So Geolog1cal Survey~...Stellite blocks north ot Blackbird Creek and in Little Deer Creek is probably in error, but it is relocated |
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