 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | UP ON THE CHALK Figure 1. Panorama of Chalk Mountain Quarry viewed from the Western side. 304 R O C...MATTISON Rt 5 Box 281 A Burnsville, N.C. 28714 Spruce Pine District Just four years after Lee surrendered...tled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Mitchell County, North Carolina; and, things there haven't been the...some seven miles north of presentday Spruce Pine. Their success at the "Sink Hole" Mine, as the digging...district. During ensuing years, the mines of the Spruce Pine area grew to number in the hundreds, producing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 2: Meta-torbernite, Chalk Mountain, Mitchell County, North Carolina. RICHARD D. GREEN 1745 13th...processes. Figure 5 (above): Cuprosklodowskite, Musonoi mine, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. Figure 6 (right):...Uraninite, Deep Creek, Bayson City, Swain County, North Carolina. Photo by Lou Perloff. 248 ROCKS AND...including carnotite, weeksite, and tyuyamunite. Meta-autunite, metatorbernite, becquerelite, uranophane, and...in colorful crystals, will be discussed here. Autunite is one of the most common secondary uranium minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TRIP TO SPRUCE PINES 4812 Wake By J . E . N O R W O O D Forest R d . , Raleigh, N. C . Spruce Pines...Pines in Mitchell County is the best known area in North Carolina to those connected with mining and minĀ...eastĀ ern North Carolina. The type of granite underlying the Spruce Pines region is unique for North Carolina...Carolina and even the U.S.A. In a ten mile radius of Spruce Pines is most of the alaskite granite found in...occur in Avery and Yancy Counties which join Mitchell County. Alaskite consists chiefly of oligoclase, quartz |  | | Report (issue) | | Germany. (2) Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2ā12H2O. Mineral Group: Autunite group. Occurrence: An uncommon secondary mineral...copper deposits. Association: Metatorbernite, autunite, zeunerite, uraninite. Distribution: Many localities...Portugal. Large crystals especially at the Musonoi mine, near Kolwezi, and as rich specimens from Shinkolobwe...Australia. In the USA, at Chalk Mountain, near Spruce Pine, Mitchell Co., North Carolina; large crystals...crystals from the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope district, Pershing Co., Nevada. Name: To honor Torbern Olof Bergmann |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | grass green, the autunite a sulphur yellow, torbernite being the copĀ per uranite, autunite, the lime uranite...black light over some old abandoned mine dumps in Cabarrus County, North CaroĀ lina, revealed quite a bit...blue-white fluorescence. ScheeĀ lite at the Phoenix Mine is hard to recĀ ognize in the field in daylight...fluorescent micro mineral in Chalk Mountain feldspar mine near Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The my collection is...dike uranium strike. They had collected a on Chalk Mountain. Fluorescent lights handful of this radio-active |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cookrob@auburn.edu Autunite Downloaded by [Columbia University] at 23:49 05 October 2014 Daybreak Mine, Spokane...Spokane County, Washington T he naming of minerals that contain water easily lost through simple dehydration...hydration/dehydration-linked pair of minerals, autunite and meta-autunite, are commonly available in good to excellent...discussion as a Connoisseurās Choice. Consequently, autunite, commonly perceived as the dominant and most widespread...classic occurrence at the Daybreak mine near Elk, Washington. Autunite is characterized by color that varies |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at Shinkolobwe,it is more likely from the Musonoi mine in the same district. The specimen is 12.5 cm wide...relationship between such minerals as autunite and meta-autunite, uranocircite and metauranocircite (Cook...is one of at least sixteen members of the meta-autunite group, a suite of tetragonal or orthorhombic uranyl...Hampshire; and at the Bedford quarries, Westchester County, New York. āTorberniteā has been reported from...Lawson and Chalk Mountain mines in the Spruce Pine district, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Here, individual |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SPRUCE PINE, AUGUST 1965 A BEGINNER'S LOOK AT THE BIG NORTH CAROLINA EVENT By HOXIE JONES, JR. 819 Carolina...though I only spent part of two days at the Spruce Pine Festival, I can truthfully say it was about the...rockhunting pal who went along. Charles and I left for Spruce Pine about 7 a.m., August 5, 1965, in his blue pick-up...some Z's." We arrived at the high school in Spruce Pine about 10 or 11 a.m., bought tickets and went...After supper, we headed back to Spruce Pine for the trip to Chalk Mountain. W e were at the end of the dusty |  | | Report (volume) | | Geology of the Spruce Pine District ! Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...the North \ Carolina Department of Conservation and Development 1122-A Geology of the Spruce Pine...Pine District Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina By DONALD A. BROBST ! CONTRIBUTIONS TO...with the Mineral Resources Division of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...ILLUSTEATIONS PLATE 1. Geologic map of Spruce Pine pegmatite district, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties, N.C.__________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Granite-_____________________ Muscovite granodiorite of Spruce Pine district-_____ ________________________ Pegmatite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SPRUCE PINE MINERAL AND GEM FESTIVAL AUGUST 5 - 8, 1964 By WARNER LORD Warpas Road, Madison, Conn. -...of filled with pleasant memories of the most North Carolina and environs are not, for enjoyable four days...land, New York, New Jersey or PennsylSpruce Pine, North Carolina with Howard vania. Pate of Fluorescent House...go to Connecticut. Without Howard, the trip Spruce Pine was that it would be a golden would have been...area of offer. I also thought about the fabuSpruce Pine. lous minerals one hears about from this Free camping |  | | Report (issue) | | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright Ā© 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph... Davis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References ...Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with Conichalcite Gold, Round Mountain Mine...Almandine-Spessartine Annabergite Gypsum Quartz, Petersen Mountain Heterogenite Quartz (amethyst), faceted Arsenolite | | | Report (issue) | | 3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA CopyrightĀ© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph... Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG ...Hen1in1orphite Azurile Barite, N1eikJe Mine Barite, '\forthun1berland Mine Bante, Rosebud t1ine Barile v;ith...inclusions BoltĀ½'OOdite Calcite, Meikle Mine Calcite, Getchell Mine Callaghanite Cassiterite and Hema tile |  | | Book (edition) | | and often gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level for the ist to States contain...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...the mother rock. In general, the United States mountain them. is divided geologically into the areas...the east and west, and the plains between The mountain regions in the east from Maine down through...plains have been buried deep under debris brought north by glaciers or washed down down from have been |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73 |  | | Catalog/List | | S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ā key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (rā -,u. .SVā¢t- tor cr11ā¢tā¢J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...on feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless to...chalcophanite crystals on \/ad. 104 ADAMITE, Quartz Mountain, Nevada. Pale blue to colorless nearly equant |  | | Journal (issue) | | Division, Belmont Abbey College Behnont, North Carolina Richard Mitchell Professor of Environmental Sciences...Mayo Richard D. Dayvault University of South Carolina Atlanta, Georgia Margaret A. McBrien Arthur...behold the splendid sparkle of the distant mica-mine dumps in New England sunshine to agree with tftis...Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina. Muscovite (twinned) from the Nello Teer Quarry...Deposits of muscovite of commercial value occur in North Carolina, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Idaho, New Mexico |  | | Report (volume) | | Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico...mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as...Shinkolobwe, Belgian Congo, and from the Eldorado mine, Great Bear Lake, Canada. The Shinkolobwe deposit...Schuiling, H. J., 1930, The structure of the Kambove mine: Internat. GeoL Gong., 15th, South Africa 1929, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185 by...Grys, M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .......................................Monazite and caldoancylite from the Foote mine, North Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203 An unusual...(1 inch) on antlerite crystals from the Southwest mine, Bisbee, Arizona. For more information on this recent... Chairman c/o St Joe American Corporation 2002 North Forbes Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85745 CALL FOR PAPERS: |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in...Dakota, especially at the Beecher Lode, Custer County, as masses up to 200 tons in weight; as rounded...feet in thickness at the Giant-Volney mine at Tinton, Lawrence County; and as masses 20-40 feet long at the...Ingersoll, and Peerless mines, Keystone, Pennington County. It also is found in Arizona, New Mexico, California |  | | Journal (issue) | | FedEx Shipping in Continental 48 States Kingsley North, Inc. P.O. Box 216: Dept 3, Norway, MI 49870-0216...Manifestations of an Enigmatic Phenomenon (Part I) 18 North Star Turquoise Joe Dehmer New, Natural and Native...Turquoise rough recently extracted from the North Star Mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado; a specimen of Morrisonite...faulting, continental collisions, subducting, mountain-building, volcanism, and more. In all those billions...started in 1894 underground at the United Verde mine. The fire seems to have started spontaneously when |  | | 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...1914: Oklahoma Geol. Survey Bull. 22, pt. 2, 1914. Mitchell, John Graham, Minerals of Oregon: Oregon Univ |  | | 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 | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of todayās 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...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation, |
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Chalk Mountain Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA