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Spinel from
Green Mountain, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Spinel
Formula:MgAl2O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spinel data
Locality Data:Click here to view Green Mountain, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:967477
Long-form Identifier:1:3:967477:6
GUID (UUID V4):4186a8db-2401-4e94-9fce-5cb5774b6fea
References
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Report (volume)
North Carolina State Library Gift of "JYortk (^arolinti ^Ihranj 0 Digitized by the Internet Archive...in 2019 with funding from State Library of North Carolina https://archive.org/details/corundumperidoti01prat...OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT and JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS North Carolina State Library...Library Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. A. HOLMES, STATE GEOLOGIST VOLUME I CORUNDUM AND...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT AND JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 1905
Report (issue)
northeast of the small town of Rising Sun, Cecil County, Md. Another deposit that has been recently worked...distribution of the serpentine in Cecil County and Harford County, Md., is taken from geologic maps of those...descriptions in text, pages 95-98. Numbers refer north of Baltimore, and he readily identified the heavy...origin to a locality near Jarrettsville? in Harford County, which afterward became the site of the Heed mine...which is in Little Britain Township, in Lancaster County, Pa., on a hill almost surrounded by a horseshoe
Report (volume)
heat treatment or dyeing. Only the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have...transparent stones. The desired hues are blue, rose, green, and true canary yellow in the diamond; pigeon-blood...ruby; cornflower blue in the sapphire; and grass green in the emerald. Most diamonds, however, are colorless...The term "ruby" was applied to all red stones: spinel, ruby, garnet, and rose tourmaline; the term "sapphire...the term "emerald, " to chrysocolla and all other green stones (Smith, 1949, p. 175). Corundum was referred
Book (edition)
and often gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level for the ist to States contain...and ice, every blood red glow, every touch of green, blue, gold or royal purple. Gem stones have been...DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE WILLEMITE ZIRCON...flakes of mica, and quartzites. Corundum, — — spinel and garnet are associated with such rocks. Because...the mother rock. In general, the United States mountain them. is divided geologically into the areas
Report (volume)
Knoxville 1 °X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Knoxville 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°X2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina I by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [et al...Geology- Tennessee. 2. Geology-North Carolina. 3. Geology-South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources-...and mineral resources-North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II
Report (volume)
-..-..----.-----.-.'-.-.._.-.----.----... 20 Spinel...-..: .................. ............:..........From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...19 LOLLINGITE. From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400...vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific gravity, 6.644 at 20°. Probably...impurities. From the Missouri mine, Halls Valley, Park County, Colo. Analyses, by Hillebrand, of three different
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogist Vol. 43, pp. 601-622 (2005) ZINCIAN SPINEL ASSOCIATED WITH METAMORPHOSED PROTEROZOIC BASE-METAL...P.O. Box 740, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia ABSTRACT Zincian spinel [(Zn,Fe,Mg)Al2O4]... Textural and compositional studies of zincian spinel in thirteen Proterozoic sulfide deposits metamorphosed...the use of zincian spinel composition as a guide to sulfide ores. Zincian spinel from the Independence...and Sedalia deposits and some cases from the Green Mountain, Betty, Caprock, Cinderella, and Cotopaxi deposits
Report (volume)
State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G...... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Report (issue)
BULLETIN NUMBER 47 FORSTERITE OLIVINE DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA By CHARLES E. HUNTER UncleT the...--------------------------------- 100 OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA 5 CONTENTS (CONTINUED) Page..._______________ 56 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA 7 ILLUSTRATIONS (CONTINUED) ...a report on "FORSTERITE OLIVINE DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA." This bulletin is being published...shows huge deposits of olivine in Georgia and North Carolina, will point out a practicable source of this
Report (volume)
......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........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...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908. Scott
Report (chapter)
gneisses from the Grenville basement of the Green Mountain (GMM), Berkshire (BM) and Hudson Highlands...Delaware Georgia Massachusetts Maryland Maine North Carolina New Jersey NH NY PA PQ RI SC TN VA VT New...Province of Quebec, Canada Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Virginia Vermont Northern Appalachians...Lakes massif Canaan Mountain Dutchess County Elmore Mountain Exeter pluton Green Mountain massif Highlandcroft...W WG ZG Kowaligaaugengneiss Kiokee belt Kings Mountain belt Leatherwood granite Mount Airy pluton Murphy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Suprasubduction-zone peridotite in the northern USA Appalachians: evidence from mineral composition R... Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753, USA ABSTR ACT Mineral compositions of small peridotite...deformation and metamorphism, remnant olivine and spinel grains occur; their compositions are taken to represent...Mg/(Mg+Fe) in olivine and very high Cr/(Cr+Al) in spinel indicate that the peridotites formed as highly-depleted...peridotite, subduction zone, Appalachians, Vermont, USA. Introduction THE occurrence of peridotite provides
Report (issue)
olivine gabbro superimposed. Rocks from the Canyon Mountain complex ophiolite, eastern Oregon. Crossed nicols;...A note on newly discovered kimberlites in Riley County, Kansas William L. Mansker, Bill D. Richards, and...petrography of the Twin Knobs ttl lamproite, Pike County, Arkansas . 205 Michael A. Waldman, Tom E. McCandless...Potash Sulfur Springs igneous complex, Garland County, Arkansas Robert E. Zartman and J. Michael Howard...H. Mitchell, and D. McKay Contents Slickrock Mountain intrusive complex, Big Bend National Park, Texas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Province, USA Robert S. Houston Geology Department, Universityof Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82070, USA (Received...near plate margins of the Archean Wyoming Province, USA. In: G. Gadl and K. Schulz (Editors), Precambrian...82070, USA. 0301-9268/92/$05.00 margin is exposed in the Sierra Madre and Medicine Bow Mountain uplifts...MINERAL DEPOSITS NEAR PLATE MARGINS, WYOMING PROVINCE, USA and Houston, 1984; Gosselin et al., 1988; Houston...blocks range in age from an Archean sliver on the north to Proterozoic arc volcanics on the south 88
Book (volume)
rocks are exposed as thick bands around the entire mountain system. The rising granite mass intruded the famed...an inexhaustible supply of cold artesian, Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds
Report (issue)
Smoky Mountains National Park, Western North Carolina Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip November...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...Blythewood, South Carolina Kubal, Furr and Associates, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation,... Spruce Pine, North Carolina Organization, registering participants, keeping financial records, and guidebook...Cooperation, encouragement, and field checking by North Carolina Geological Survey geologists: Carl E. Merschat
Book
CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________............._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because...n d m 1799 i n Cabarrus C o u n t y, N o r t h Carolina, b y a s m a l l b o y w a l k i n g along a m...n t h e e a r l y 1840's i n b o t h N o r t h Carolina and Georgia. C r y s t a l s were recovered f
Report (volume)
Hampshire _________________-_____ 16 Gardners Mountain mines__________________________ 16 Warren mine...character of ores____________________ Hartford County deposits__________________________ Simsbury (Newgate)...mine_________________________________ New Haven County deposits________________________ New York ____...55 55 57 Pennsylvania__________________ South Mountain region _ : Northern coal region _________________________^__...mine ______________^_-_____ Albemarle County (Southwest Mountain)_____________ 89 89 Triassic area (Londoun
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in a road cut on Little Tujunga Road, 8.8 miles north of its junction with Foothill Blvd. in Pacoima,...that they are the sole distributors of the rare green sphalerite (gem quality) from the famous Big Four...mine near Heeney, Summit Co., Colo., by the Green Mountain Reservoir. Some galena xls also found here...specimen is a white xline calcite (fl. p a l e green) on gray cellular limestone. GEORGIA — "Light gray...metagraywacke along the county road half way between Chestnut Gap and Lebanon School, Fannin County, Ga. These crystals
Report (issue)
Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the Grenville orogen in North America Edited by Richard P. Tollo Department of...George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 USA Louise Corriveau Geological Survey of Canada GSC-Québec...Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, New York 12866 USA Mervin J. Bartholomew Department of Earth Sciences...Tennessee 38152 USA Memoir 197 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box 9140 ■ Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA 2004 MWR197...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA. Copyright is not claimed on any material prepared
Book (volume)
tH MSTONESof - NORTH AMERICA ~ VOLUME olor phot raphs yo. Erica and. Harol d Van I [iL Albuquerque...87109 N.M. N_E. Bivd. Gkapats GEMSTONES of NORTH AMERICA ~ NASMI EPPA GEMSTONES OF THE WORLD...+ GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA, by John Sinkankas ON@“THE VOLUME III COVER North American gems from...measures about 25 mm (1 in.) across. TOP GROUP. Green fluorite (121.39 ct), Westmoreland, New Hampshire;...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink
Book (volume)
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
Book (volume)
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
Report (issue)
Geological Survey, 1950) Trinity Anemousite County, California. Contributions to Mineral¬ (discredited...1920) NMNH 106112 from the Hillside Mine, Yavapai County, Ari¬ L. G. Berry, 1947. Composition and Optics...Aluminocopiapite Utah NMNH K. J. Murata, Trinity County, California M. C. Bandy, 1938. Utah. J. M. Axelrod...Aluminocopiapite NMNH 93834 Island Mountain, Mountain, from Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona (L. J. Cabri, 1976)... = Amber) NMNH 128739 Near Charleston, South Carolina (H. S. Washington, 1917) 103544 Temple Rock
Report (volume)
Deposits of Zinc-Copper-Lead Sulfides and Zinc Spinel (Gahnite) in Colorado U,S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Deposits of Zinc-Copper-Lead Sulfides and Zinc Spinel (Gahnite) in Colorado By DOUGLAS M. SHERIDAN and...deposits of zinc-copper-lead sulfides and zinc spinel (gahnite) in Colorado. (Geological Survey bulletin...DEPOSITS OF ZINC-COPlf»ER-LEAD SULFIDES AND ZINC SPINEl~ (GAHNITE) IN COLORADO By DOUGLAS M. SHERIDAN...and laboratory data indicate that gahnite, a zinc spinel, can be used by geologists and prospectors as a
 
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