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Quartz from
Gahagan Mine, Hot Springs Barite Mining District, Madison County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gahagan Mine, Hot Springs Barite Mining District, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:340967
Long-form Identifier:1:3:340967:1
GUID (UUID V4):242e4b3d-6ff0-4bcb-a636-eb83feb95b39
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
4.0km (2.5 miles) Betts Sandy Bottom Property (Betts Mine; and Gillespie Mine; Rollins Chemical Company Mine; Includes The Nettie Mine; Martha Mine), Hot Springs Barite Mining District, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
11.3km (7.0 miles) Shut-In Creek Pyrite Occurrence, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
11.7km (7.3 miles) Upper Shut-In Creek prospect, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
11.9km (7.4 miles) Long Mountain Mines, Hot Springs Barite Mining District, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) Unnamed Feldspar Occurrence (N. C. State Univ. Minerals Research Lab No. 4177; MRDS - 10026472), Madison County, North Carolina, USA
15.6km (9.7 miles) Little Pine Garnet Mine, Marshall, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
16.5km (10.3 miles) Unnamed Feldspar Occurrence (N. C. State Univ. Minerals Research Lab No. 4176; MRDS - 10026469), Madison County, North Carolina, USA
16.7km (10.4 miles) Ball Feldspar Mine, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
17.6km (11.0 miles) Sylvia Prospect, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
18.3km (11.4 miles) Williams Mine (Mims Barite Mine; Krebs Barite Mine), Del Rio Mining District, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
References
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Report (issue)
North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development George R. Ross, Director Division of Mineral...Mineral Resources OF THE Hot Springs Window, Madison County, North Carolina By Steven S. Oriel Prepared...Raleigh, North Carolina March 20, 1950 To His Excellency, Honorable W. Kerr Scott Governor of North Carolina...Mineral Resources of the Hot Springs Window, Madison County, North Carolina." This bul letin is another...cooperation of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Hot Springs window is an interesting area from the stand
Report (volume)
Annotated Bibliography and Index Map of Barite Deposits in United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...1019-C Annotated Bibliography and Index Map of Barite Deposits in United States By BASIL G. DEAN and...147 147 152 ILLUSTKATION PLATE 1. Index map of barite deposits in the United States________ In pocket...RESOURCES ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX MAP OF BARITE DEPOSITS IN THE UNITED STATES By BASIL G. DEAN...DEAN and DONALD A. BEOBST INTRODUCTION Barite is now ranked as an important non-metallic mineral commodity
Book
MINES MINERS MINERALS AND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Western North Carolina’s Hidden Mineralogical Treasures...E L L 2005 PARKWAY PUBLISHERS, INC. Boone, North Carolina Copyright ©1999 Lowell Presnell All Rights...Mines, miners, and minerals of western North Carolina : western North Carolina’s hidden mineralogical treasures...(hard cover) 1. Mines and mineral resources—North Carolina—History. I. Title. TN24.N8P74 2005 338.4‚7622‚09756—dc22...1. Early Explorers 9 2. Early Mines 11 3. Iron Mining 15 4. Cranberry Forge 19 5. Gem Mecca 23 6. Gold
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 (issue)
Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina 1011 by Gwendolyn W. Luttrell 12 U.S. Geological... Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina Abstract Gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc,...molybdenum, tungsten, barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product...deposits. Copper occurs with complex sulfide ores in quartz veins in the metamorphic rocks of the 10- Piedmont...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals
Journal (issue)
...................... 3 The Many Varieties of Quartz ................................................................................. 5 Meet the Quartz Family .............................................Varieties of Quartz by Denise Bicknell Member of the Houston Gem & Mineral Society he mineral quartz, SiO2...Properties of Quartz: To understand quartz we must first describe what makes it uniquely itself. Quartz is composed...and is represented by the chemical formula SiO2. Quartz crystallizes in the trigonal system and shows three-fold
Report (issue)
SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY Volume 40 The Carolina Terrane in Northeastern South Carolina: History of an...of Eocambrian Rocks (Ridgeway Gold Mine, South Carolina), Carolina Terrane Mervin J. Bartholomew, Amy...Neoproterozoic Intra-Arc Basin in the Carolina Terrane, South Carolina Kenneth A. Gillon, T. Langdon Mitchell...the Geology of the Ridgeway-Camden Area, South Carolina Piedmont Donald T. Secor, Jr., Chris A. Barker...SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY publication. Cover Photo: Overview of the North Pit at Ridgeway Gold Mine (Kennecott-Ridgeway
Book (edition)
Edition Robert M. Overstreet with Howard Peake MADISON COUNTY CANTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Canton, MS 39046 ...Special thanks is due the Cherokee Museums in North Carolina and in Tahleguah for their support. We are...mussels, etc. lived in or along rivers, creeks, springs, ponds, swamps and lakes. Early man preyed on...next to springs and cave openings have also produced relics. Such a place is Castillian Springs, just above...such as agate, petrified wood, agatized coral, quartz crystal, flint, jasper, Horse Creek chert, Buffalo
Journal (issue)
this explain why Hydroseals Tee IN THE MAJOR MINING PUMPS PROTECTED CENTERS OF THE WORLD Most...machines like the “Caterpillar” Diesel products mining throughout the world. Tractors. Bulldozers, Motor...repiling bauxite and loading trucks for Reynolds Mining Corporation, near Hurricane Creek, Arkansas. CATERPILLAR...JJ SYD)! te up in a wooden pail. Missouri lead mine about 1890. —_—— ; eee if atOT ace | | Horse...fashioned blasting methods and other inefficient mining techniques have become so drill pattern and loading
Journal (volume)
A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. Jenkins, Chief Geologist McK. Laizure, District W. Burling...Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas...Chas. V. Averill, District Mining Engineer San Francisco Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles Los Angeles...Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) San Francisco San Francisco TABLE OF CONTENTS Page DISTRICT REPORTS...REPORTS OF MINING ENGINEERS—— 7 Redding Field District 7 Sacramento Field District 7 San Francisco
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out a notice about the parking situation on the north side of our building. We do not own that area nor... sphalerite, quartz, or calcite from the American Tunnel at Gladstone a few miles north of Silverton...relatively new portal into what was the old Sunnyside mine higher in the mountains under Lake Emma that use...now-ghost town of Eureka. During my visits, the mine was producing some gold along with the zinc, lead...other shops at Ouray or Silverton. Ouray, on the north side of the Mountains, has had several mineral shops
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ore provinces in the Otavi Moutain Land in the north and around Rosh Pinah in the south of Namibia being...being the principal areas of current mining activities (Fig. 1). In the Otavi Mountain Land, two deposit...bodies to the south (Bushmanland Terrane) and to the north (Kakamas Terrane) of the Richtersveld Terrane. These...Rosh Pinah mine, 2 Skorpion mine, 3 Obib mountains, 4 Kolke, 5 Abos, 6 Haruchas, 7 Hoits mine preceded...associated with silicification and cross-cutting quartz veins in limestone of the Huns Member (Fig. 3)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
analytical artifact. Precision and accuracy on quartz standards are ±0.1‰ (1σ), and duplicate analyses...Madagascar and in the Ambohitra igneous province in the north, which includes the Nosy Be archipelago. These large...in the Isalo sedimentary basin: The Ilakaka mining district is located in the Isalo massif, between the...Ilakaka (Figs. 1 and 3). Other districts are found north of Ilakaka and near Bezaha, 120 km southwest of...no detailed geological information about the two mining areas and the ruby host rock is unknown. The Miarinarivo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to 5-km-wide structural corridor east of a major north-northwest–striking lineament and in spatial association...of the 330 to 327 Ma Pataz batholith; (2) at the mine scale, strong lithological controls of the vein...lodes occurring as fairly continuous ≤5-km-long quartz veins inside or along the margins of the batholith...where more than 80 percent of the quartz veins are emplaced in north- to northwest-striking, eastdipping...sequence, with a first stage composed of milky quartz, pyrite, arsenopyrite, and ankerite and a second
Conference Proceedings
GSA~®U® Denver, ANNUAL MEETING Colorado, & USA EXPOSITION PROGRAM '1 '1 '1 '1 Expert technical...Park, Colorado, 25-28 September • Denver, Colorado USA 3 INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIFFRACTION DATA...by Kea Giles. 25-28 September • Denver, Colorado USA 5 TOOLS INFLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY (011(0 01 0. MATHIAS...access to the Yellowstone hot spot and volcanic activities and many historic mining districts of the Rocky...visitors from Cuba who will join their European and North American colleagues for a symposium on the complex
Report (issue)
Quaternary and Upper Tertiary alluvium in the Phoenix North 30' X 60' quadrangle, Arizona: K.A. Dem.sey (from...Mystic mine, Maricopa County, Arizona: Dale G. Armstrong Clemontine mine area, Maricopa County, Arizona:...gold mine: Spencer and others (from Arizona Geology) Road log from Wickenburg to the Vulture mine: Joe...mineralization at the Yarnell deposit, Yavapai County, Arizona -- A field guide: M.A. Miller and J.D...between Wickenburg and 1-17 north of Phoenix . To reach Stop 1, take 1-17 north from Phoenix and exit onto
Report (issue)
Sc ce i en e T ec tonic s R es earc h nc Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October 19-20...southwestern Brushy Mountains, centralwestern North Carolina Guidebook Editors: Robert D. Hatcher, Jr....Columbia, South Carolina Carolina Geological Conultants, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina Central Savannah...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...South Carolina Kubal and Furr, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
Journal (issue)
throughout the West, Gulf Coast and Mid Continent MINING WORLD, Executive, advertising year; other countries...at Columbia St., is semi-monthly, States, North, Bristol, Conn Seattle 4, at Central under Washington...principal cities of the world . [World Mining Section—2} MINING WORLD The NC-1 Truck climaxes 20 years...equipment is the fi NC-1 ‘ clude long soft springs, a friction mechanism—controlling vertical and...COUPLERS © NC-1 TRUCKS @ DRAFT GEARS © [World Mining Section—3} NACO STEEL WHEELS \ st 3 PACIFIC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, OR 97520, USA Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University... 1001 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Received 20 October 2006; received in revised form...Hyattville, HL—Hudson–Lander, LN—Linden, MS—Maverick Springs, MY—Mayworth, MB—Medicine Bow, N—Nowood, RC—Red...foreland basin in the Early Cretaceous of western North America. Refer to Fig. 1 for the location of the...cross-stratified, very fine- to medium-grained, quartz arenites interpreted as estuarine to shoreface
Report (issue)
orthogneiss and the Nutbush Creek fault zone. CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK November...WESTERN FLANK OF THE RALEIGH METAMORPHIC BELT, NORTH CAROLINA Edited by: Edward F. Stoddard Department of...and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8208 David E. Blake...Sciences University of North Carolina at Wilmington Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-3297 Copies of this...obtained from: North Carolina Geological Survey P.O. Box 27687 Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 (919)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(alexandrite), kornerupine, topaz, spinel, crystal quartz and amethyst, among others. Gem mineralisation...Gondwana correlation. shear zone system in the north and the Achankovil Shear Zone in the south is by...into the PalghatCauverv shear zone system. Here mining operations have been in progress for several decades...history on to the Archaean Dharwar craton in the north and punctured at different places by younger magmatic...(Oddanchathram), among others. At Lachmanapatti ruby mine, corundum crystals of various sizes ranging up to
Report (issue)
Department of Geology Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, USA (csiddoway@coloradocollege.edu). 91 92...is based on the reconstructions of Lawver and Gahagan (1994) and Sutherland (1999). The present-day position...ö�������������������������������� rner, 1991; Lawver and Gahagan, 1994; Luyendyk, 1995). Although the origins of...order of 600 km in the south, up to >1000 km in the north achieved in as little as 20 m.y. (DiVenere et al...ö�������������������������������������� rner, 1991; Lawver and Gahagan, 1994; Sutherland, 1999). Wrench deformation and
Report (issue)
Geochemistry of the Otuk Formation in the Red Dog District, Northwestern Alaska Professional Paper 1795–B...Geochemistry of the Otuk Formation in the Red Dog District, Northwestern Alaska By Julie A. Dumoulin, Robert...geochemistry of the Otuk Formation in the Red Dog District, northwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional......................................19 Red Dog District.................................................Endicott Mountains Allochthon in area of the Red Dog Mine........................3 Diagram showing stratigraphic
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mantie processes; hot regions are red and cold regions are blue and green. The hot mantie material rises...and uplifts the surface of the planet. The rising hot mantie simulates a mantie plume. This convection...Institute, Houston, USA) and Louise Kellogg (University of California, Davis, USA) for the planet Mars...3.1. Duluth Complex, Mid-continent Rift System, USA 8.3.2. Noril'sk-Talnakh, Siberian Traps, Russia ...Soutbwestern Africa, and the Mid Continent Rift System, USA 9.3.1. Metallogeny ofthe Damara and Irumide orogens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
overgrowth, with Mn-rich zones, possibly formed by hot fluids related to cooling melt sheet in the crater...filled with several generations of coelestite, barite, K-feldpar, and sparry calcite. XRF core scanning...elements Cr, Co, Fe, and Ni in the clay layer. Shocked quartz occurs in the crossbedded unit but is absent in...hardground, the lack of siderophile elements, shocked quartz, or Ni-rich spinels in the clay layer, and the... 1113 © Meteoritical Society, 2004. Printed in USA. 1114 J. Smit et al. Fig. 1. Map showing the
 
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