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Beryl from
Alston Mine, Centerville, Franklin County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Beryl
Formula:Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Beryl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alston Mine, Centerville, Franklin County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:340406
Long-form Identifier:1:3:340406:5
GUID (UUID V4):f1686aa6-3add-4356-bfd7-baa347fe8c1f
Nearest other occurrences of Beryl
43.9km (27.3 miles) Tungsten Queen Mine and plant (Hamme Mine; Haile Mines; Sneed-Walker), Tungsten, Hamme Tungsten Mining District, Vance County, North Carolina, USA
References
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Zodac...... .. 7 5 Autunite in Mitchell County, North Carolina. By Bradley Johnson .....................from Colorado, Idaho, M zine, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming and many other...Westthe deep l,lack Yariety of smoky quartz chester County, not far from the Conknown as morion. Small black...are the only ones to do quartz, feldspar or other mine rals and so) but under the cold-quartz lamp , genera...would seem that hyalite, gun1mite, uranophane, beryl, rose when in a liquid sta te. flowed through quartz
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AGARDITE-(La). Red Cloud Coppcr Hlne,Lincoln County,~ev ~cxico, U.S.A. (La,Cn) Cu0 (As O~),(OH)•311... 65x40x40, (23. 8. AHETHYST.Cataburo County,North Carolina,U.S.A. Oenicourt Collection No.4389. A prctty...·40x30xl5. [13. ANOERSOHITE.Repete Hine,San Yuan County,Utuh,U.S.A. Ha..,Ca UO._(C0')).-6H Bright yellov-grcen...quartz. 65x25, (5. APATITE. Sm1th Vein,Carrock Mine,Caldbeck Fells,Cumbria½ Three ~oall,near gc~ quolity...and GILBERTITE. Megiliggar A pretty specimcn County,Ontario, crystal,mottled 30.nm, [2. consisting
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___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...- - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye, Scotland..../ Rich grey-white cleavages , some with minor beryl or mica colourless micro crystals on 3mm matrix...ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Montana U.S.A 963 ALBITE Maine USA Rich pinkish line grained mass...1009 ANDALUSITE Ultevis,North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety
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History Museum specimen is from Terlingua, Texas, USA, and was used for the determination of the mineral's...description of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality. The NHM...00135 Green River Fonnation, Uintah Co., Utah, USA A. Pabst, P.A. Estep, E.J. Dwornik, R.B. Finkelman... Aerugite (Neotype) BM 1963,00481 South Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis...34. Afwillite (Cotype) BM 1925,00080 Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa J. Parry and F. E. Wright
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massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near Creston...Spain Rich grey-white cleavages, some with minor beryl"or mica Small yellowish green crystals on matrix...£3 2x2 £4.50 2x3 £6.50 Feldspar 963 ALBITE Maine USA 811 ANATASE Tysse, Hardanger,Norway variety CLEA
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Norway 686 BERYL Hoydalen,Tordal,Norway Rich grey-white cleavages , some with minor beryl or mica variety...·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South Norway Rich fine...ALMANDINE Epteland, Evje-lveland area, South Norway 164 BERYL Kolsva, Vastmanland Sweden Rich red granular mass... . --- .. ------- - -· 1009 ANDALUSITE Ultevis,North Sweden 1099 CATAPLEIITE Bratthagcn, near Larvik...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden
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grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE...possible Molybdenite. About l/2ins size. (Wolfram Camp North Queensland,Australia) £12 063 CAVANSITE Ca (V 0...in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360 PARATELLURITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE
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.......................................... North Carolina ....................................................................... _............ . North Carolina ..................................................................................... . North Carolina .............................................the gem sapphires came from the mines in Fergus County, where they occur in a rock matrix. The majority...The development of the opal deposits of Humboldt County, Nev., was attended with much success, and o. quantity
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£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some with micro...£12 7.x2 £24 Hydrocarbon 963 6 ✓ ALBITE Maine USA variety CLEAVELANDITE, pure white sheafy, masses...no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine grained...£7.50 Ag Sb 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was solved independently by Pauling (1928) and Alston and West (1928) and later refined by Ribbe and...Location map of major topaz deposits. 1. San Diego County, California pegmatites; 2. western U.S. topaz rhyolite...rhyolite belt (includes some pegmatites); 3. Mason County, Texas; 4. topaz rhyolite belt of Mexico; 5. Appalachian...Figure 3 (above). Topaz, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. NMNH specimen 147660....131821. figure 9 (left). Topaz, 10.5 em long, Dassu mine, BaItNan, Pakistan. NMNH specimen 165994. figure
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grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4 040 BITYITE Li...Mica white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE...dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE Ba Na Ti B...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH U...possible Molybdenite. About l/2ins size. (Wolfram Camp North Queensland,Australia) £12 063 CAVANSITE Ca (V 0
Journal (issue)
circulation manager Articles The Boltsbum mine, Weardale, County Duiham, England ......................... Bariand Arsenate minerals of the Sterling Hill mine: an overview .....................................without sur­ charge, to the following people: COVER: BERYL crystal, 7 cm tall, from the Virgem da Lapa district...1144 W .M IRACLE MILE TUCSON. ARIZONA 8 5 7 0 5 . USA 6 0 2 8 8 8 -6 0 1 5 < rDistinctivtJrDisplays Number...The Mineralogical Record Jan uary-February, 1982 mine Weardale, CpuntyJ)urham, England t h e B o l
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× 2.5 cm (DM 23387), from the White King mine, Lake County, Oregon, the type locality. His label states...× 9.5 × 7.5 cm (DM 23095), from Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona. the life of Professor Heinrich and his...dated 13 August 1930 notes seeing an old lead/silver mine from atop the Castle Marksburg, near Braubach. Another...shifted to kaolinite deposits near Aiken, South Carolina. Heinrich found himself leading the drilling program...assignment in the pegmatite program sent him to look for beryl in the Avon district east of Moscow, Idaho. They
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16 Rich grey-white cleavages , some with minor beryl or mica [3Jack micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...lxl£3 ALBITE Kragero Norway ANDALUSITE Ultcvis,North Sweden 6 1009 Rich orange-red masses with darker...lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal..._lx2_ _80 _ _____ _,o 1129 ALMANDINE Braslad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Unknown location I 1 63 □a
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South Africa,Cobaltian Gersdorffite from Gortdmm Mine Containing unusual elements , Iquiqueite,Galkhaite...grey masses with possible Als1oni1e Fallowficld mine. Ix½ £4 Ba Ca C0/3 micros. Hexham.Nonhumbcrlond..._ _ magnification there arc small cr stals _ __ County. _ AI1zona 60 AMAZO:-;ITE 2x3i nch£5 Madagascar...IxI£4 TiO --- - 37 ANC\'LITE Cc Ix1/, £2.50 Ix I£4 County. Rich pinkish fine grai ned mass in calc i te Dark..._ _ __ ___ _____ _ _ _ _ 21 7 ANDORITE San Jose Mine, Oruro. Bol ivia 6x6mm £3 Pure grey metallic mass
Journal (issue)
George R. Rossman and Richard L. Squires The Palermo Mine, New Hampshire..........................274 by Woodrow...Described Mineral From Siberia Found at the Getchell Mine, N ev ad a ....................290 by Gerald Jungles...postage paid at Bowie Md. SPODUM ENE, U rucupa mine, Itam bacuri, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Smithsonian...Pala M ining D istrict, C alifornia; M ariposa County, Calif.; Baja Calif., Mex.; and South A frica....ir firs t stop. W e are located only 55 m inutes north of San Diego International A irp o rt. W e take
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mile west of the community of Levesque in Cross County. The locality may also be given as 6 miles east...sent in by Sgt. Brown. Wynne, in southern Cross County is in eastern Arkansas. CALIFORNIA—"Thought you...very interesting. Plaster City, in S/W Imperial County, is in southern California. GEORGIA—In the last...letter was printed from Ed Schwab, Rt. 2, c/o Big Beryl Mine, LaGrange, Ga. Another letter, dated March 2...be interested to know a bit more about our Big Beryl Mine. W e received a new order for 500 tons of pure
Journal (issue)
length of arsenolamprite in matrix from Alacaran Mine (Pampa Larga, Copiapo, Chile). All the specimens...Precious Stones report stated that the Himalaya Mine was brought into notice in 1898 by Mr. Charles Russell... A. E. Heighway who had operated the tourmaline mine? And how did this lead to the work by the Himalaya...Andre Gorsatt. a strahler from Binntal. brought beryl var. aquamarine from a recent find at \\'annigrat...well-earned since he was 6 foot, 3 inches in height (USA passport app Iication 1921 ). As a canoer and sail
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be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...or etched by corrosive solutions, as occurs with beryl, or they may be fractured by rock movements during...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS... Located on an island about 300 km (185 miles) north of Yellowknife, the Acasta River deposit is believed...Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17 x 11
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■b m m m M ' Wayne & Dona Leicht. 875 North Pacific Coast Highway. Laguna Beach, CA 926 ^ (949) 494-7695...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...tours for collectors are permitted by the friendly mine management, and visitors have even been allowed...the area and purchased the rights to the Verchniy mine. Operations to extract copper, lead and zinc began...observed that mineral formation at the Verchniy mine involved four phases: (1) the pre-ore skam phase
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...ecord Articles Rare sulfosalts from the Van Silver mine, British C olum bia...............................Famous mineral localities: The Brownley Hill mine, Alston Moor, Cumbria, England........................COVER: ATACAMITE in GYPSUM, 6.8 cm, from the Lily mine, lea, Peru. Irv Brown collection; Jeff Scovil photo...British Columbia the Silver Tunnel o f the Van Silver mine has produced hundreds o f rare and beautiful crystal
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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...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...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
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vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all tributary branches
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museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...minerals of mica schists which may also provide beryl. The mica forms distinct bands which help to identify...depends on the number of Si04 groups in the ring. Beryl is a major example; rings give elongated crystals...Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology
Catalog/List
ferroedenite ✓767 ■■ 62 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA / ' Blue -green veinlets with some...across £10 766 ■■ DIOPTASE Christmas Mine, Gita County, Arizona ,USA Green elongated micro crystals, Ok...£24 Hydrocarbon 1129 ■■ ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Rich fine grained mass like...crystal. ½"£6 5mm£3 · AgFeS 768 ■■ AXINITE Obira Mine, Oita Prefecture,Japan Brown mass, with one or two...interest. ½" £3 Ix! £5 lx2 £8 1 ■ BANALSITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales rich brown mass with red-grey HEMATITE
 
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