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Orthoclase from
Chestnut Mountain, Franklin County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chestnut Mountain, Franklin County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:849447
Long-form Identifier:1:3:849447:4
GUID (UUID V4):ba7642c1-3c73-4614-b77d-2fc99c5b9064
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Report (issue)
Pleaoc teturn this publication to the Virginia Geologieal Survcy whcn you havc no further uce for it...COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSTON ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Deposits of Virginra BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 COMMONWEALTH, OF VTRGINIA STATE COMMISSION...COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN, State Geologist Bulletin...33 Pegmatite Deposits of Virginia BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 RICHMOND: DrvrsroN
Report (issue)
general information on a number of mines in Grafton County and extended other kindnesses; M. M. Kilton, of...Keene; and Edward Howard, of East Alstead; in Virginia by P. Lippert and Capt. McCray, of the Ridgeway...these extremes may be found in the same deposit. Orthoclase and microcline are the most common varieties...with the opening of the Ruggles mine in Grafton County, N. H., about 1803. Later other mines were opened...Cheshire County northward into Sullivan County and the northwestern part of Merrimack County and east
Report (issue)
the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho­ tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound
Report (volume)
to the Knowledge of the Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia, by "William "Morris Fontaine. 1883. 4°. xi, 144...of Leadville, Colorado, with atlas, by Samuel Franklin Emmons. 1886. 4°. xxix, 770 pp. 45 pi. and atlas...meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S. "Williams...cents. 16. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 86 pp....57 pi. Price 25 cents. 38. Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky, by J. S. Diller. 1887. 8°. 31 pp. 1
Book (edition)
corundum mines, iu the chrysolite ledges of the mountain have also added to the catalogue a number of rare...chromite, corun- limestone beds in the piedmont and mountain marl beds in most of the eastern counties,...Albite. 128. Tantalite. 47. Magnetite. 89. Orthoclase. 129. Colnmbite. 48. Chromite. 90. 49. Uraninite...specimens, and communications of new localities Franklin, ville, whom and suggestions from Mrs. H. A...Burdiek, Macon Prof. J. T. I From am of county, of Mr. J. A. D. Stevenson, of States- Humphreys
Book (edition)
kerrite, culsagerite, Among (all number of rare mountain reminerals, and these are maconite, lesleyite...(mica) chromite, corundum, calcite, piedmont and mountain beds in most of the eastern counties, sections...8S. Albite. 7. Lead. 44. Menaccanite. 89. Orthoclase. 8. Antimony. 45. Spinel. 90. 9. Sulphur...ities and suggestions from Mrs. H, A. Burdick county, of Mr. J. of A. D. Stephenson of Statesville...found in sufficient quantity for exploitation are: Franklin, Nash, Granville, Alamance, Chatham, Moore, Guilford
Journal (issue)
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard
Report (volume)
General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________
Book
CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its
Report (issue)
Depositional Sequences of Northern and Central Virginia, by A. S. Furcon -----------------------·----...Pigeon Mountain syncline bounds the McLemore anticline on the east, and the Lookout Mountain syncline...Sequatchie in the Chickamauga Limestone in Walker County, Georgia. In northwestern Georgia Butts and Gildersleeve...Gildersleeve (1948) mapped the Sequatchie with Red Mountain (Silurian). Croft (1964) included all strata between...Formation in the Chickamauga Limestone in Dade County, Georgia. There, Croft (p. 8) divided the Chickamauga
Report (issue)
-Rocky Canyon (Chestnut) mine _________ _ Maxey mine __________________________ _ Mountain Side mine ______...district ______ - - - -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - Mountain House mine __________________ _ Stevenson mine...sections of coal beds in the Eagle Sandstone between Chestnut and Pine Creek, Tps. 2, 3, and 4 S., Rs. 7 and... Hubbard, Bailey and Beadle, Maxey Bros., and Mountain House mines. 7. Maps of the Woodland, Ross, Timberline...Stevenson mines. 8. Maps of the Rocky Canyon (Chestnut) and Mountain Side mines. FIGURE 1. Index map showing
Report (issue)
road, Avery Co. and 0 ~B gneiss from Cane Creek Mountain, Mitchell Co. ...................... 23 3. Photomicrographs...from Cane Creek Mountain, Mitcholl Co. and 0 -M-Q-B-G schist from Cano Creek Mountain, Mitchell Co. ....Aveiy Co. and 0 -B-Q-G gneics from JXmhlehead Mountain, Avery Co. .....................................Long Level Mountain, Avery Co. and 0 -G-Q gneiss fron the south slope of Long LOTO! Mountain, Arery Co...Ave^ Co. and 0 -<^-B-Epi gneiss from Boiibleliead mountain, Avery Co. ............... 28 5Vo photomicrographs
Report (issue)
_____ - __ -- __ ------------Buckeye Lead-Chestnut Mountain belt_ Other areas ____ - - _- - __ - --- -...Cartertown anticlines ____ _ Chestnut Mountain anticline ________________ _ Snag Mountain fault_ ______________________...Cataloochee Divide syncline _________________ _ Buck Mountain, Plott Balsam, and Walker Bald synclines ____...ABSTRACT The Great Smolty Mountains, a rugged mountain mass with summits mon~ than 6,000 feet above sen...eroded and has been largely removed from the higher mountain s•lopes. Except for the post~Ocoee pegmatites
Report (issue)
IV Drs. Jacob Freedman and John W. Price of Franklin and Marshall Col lege provided the location of...zinc-lead oxides at Mary Ann Furnace, Cumberland County, to the author's attention, and therefore deserves...appreciated. The old cross-section maps of the Chester County, Wheatley-Brookdale-Phoenix mines, and "new" Perkiomen...Introduction Occurrences grouped by county ' 2 Bedford County Geochemical data for the Woodbury prospect...prospect area 305 149 Berks County Grace Mine 271 Oley Valley "2 Blair County CanoeCreekQuarry Keystone
Report (issue)
Exposed Precambrian core of the recumbent Canyon Mountain anticline with the Suce Creek thrust fault along...the Kootenai Formation on the west flank of Chestnut Mountain anticline ___ _ 6. Repeated reverse graded...sandstone member of the Fort Union Formation at Grassy Mountain __________________________________________________...Beartooth Range in east-central Gallatin County and west-central Park County, southwestern Montana (fig. 1). The...zone or Lake Basin geographically in the Rocky Mountain region. There- lineament and along the southeastern
Report (issue)
pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ _______________________...pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...bulge in the hanging wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight...granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 9. Same granite...and other units in the Big Bess pegmatite, Gaston County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Report (volume)
Composition _______ _________________ Kaolins in the mountain region_______________ Occurrence ___-____________________...Continued. North Carolina Continued. Kaolins in the mountain region Continued. Kaolin mines Continued. Page...Sprucepine, Mitchell County __ 36 Sprucepine mine- ____-_ 36 Sparks mine 39 Franklin, Macon County___-__...Lumber Co_ __ Undeveloped deposits___________ _ _ Franklin, Macon County_______________ . McGuire property...Herren property________________ Birdtown, Swain County _____________ Cole & Black property____________
Report (volume)
Clay County. Macon County. Jackson County. Transylvania County. Swain County. Haywood County. Buncombe...Buncombe County . Madison County. Yancey County. Mitchell County . Watauga County . Wilkes County. Ashe County...County . Alleghany County . Physiography and ecology of the peridotites. 28 28 29 32 34 35 36 38 42 46...mag¬ nesian rocks. Shooting Creek region, Clay County, North Carolina. Elf dunite. Elf amphibole-peridotite...Harzburgite on Big Ridge. Amphibole-peridotite of Shoal Mountain. Vicinity of French Broad River. French Broad
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . 35 23. Map showing Lost Mountain Amphibolite type locality ......................and dimension stone from quarries in the Stone Mountain, Panola, Palmetto, and Ben Hill Granites and Lithonia...Birmingham Cumming Bu ford Dam Fiowery Branch Chestnut Mtn. 155156157158159160161 162163164165166- ...Mableton Northwest Atlanta Northeast Atlanta Stone Mountain Snellville Loganville Between 230231 2322332...first of two reports on the hydrology of Bartow County in which he indicated that much of the Lower Cambrian
Report (volume)
Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...and central southern Virginia. Original reference: F. B. Laney, 1917, Virginia Geol. Survey Bull. 14...14, p. 15, 19-27, map. J. L. Calver, 1960, Virginia Div. Mineral Resources Bull. 75, p. 17. In Pittsylvania...Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian : Central southern Virginia. Original
Report (issue)
basement rocks._______________ Basement rocks of the Mountain City window. _ Plutonic complex of Pardee Point...Mountains. _______ Basement rocks southeast of the Mountain City window.____________________________ General..._____________________ Iron Mountains._______________ Holston Mountain._____________ Southeast of the Iron MountainsHampton... Local features.-_---_--_-___________ Holston Mountain and the Iron Mountains.__________________ Southeast...-_____-___-____.___ Doe River cove___________________ Johnson County cove.______________ Manganese and iron content
Report (issue)
Geology of the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity, North Carolina and Tennessee By BRUCE BRYANT...nomenclature _______ _______ 9 9 Grandfather Mountain window ----------------------- 59 General geology...g Rock Gneiss __ ______________________ Brown Mountain Granite __________________ --Grandfather Ddountain...Grandfather Mountain window -----------------------------Slices southeast of the Grandfather Mountain window...Rocks older than Ddontezuma Member of Grandfather Mountain Formation --------------------------Felsic volcanic
Report (issue)
Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. Geology of Standingstone Mountain quadrangle, western Inner Piedmont, North and...between upper Tallulah Falls Formation and Poor Mountain Amphibolite ....................................C. Hill vi STOP 6 Intensely migmatitic Poor Mountain (and Tallulah Falls?) Formation at Camp McCall...STOP 8 Dysartsville Tonalite northwest of Turkey Mountain ............................................ 135...Williams and Brendan R. Bream STOP 9 (ALTERNATE) Poor Mountain Amphibolite Migmatite at Houston House.......
Book
epidosirobus were derived in all likeli­ hood, from the county of Fife, as that is the nearest tract to the Orkneys...jof the bleak, the treeless moor— The sterile mountain, sered and riven; The shapeless cairn, the ruined...passing of the Reform Bill of 1832 the Orkneys had a county member all to themselves, and the royal burgh *...unrepresented. Now, the proud Orcadians have to share their county member with their poor cousins in the north; and...the Harray lairds and the voters for burgh and county a large number of the old Norse names still surviye
 
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