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Muscovite from
Randall Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Randall Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:414060
Long-form Identifier:1:3:414060:3
GUID (UUID V4):74ecc7e3-dbe5-4cac-89c6-6f8df8a65593
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Waterhole Mine (George Howell Mine), Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Flukens Hill Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Thomas Mine (Black Bull Mine), Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Johnson Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Banner Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Robert Phillips Mine (Old Susie Phillips Mine), Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Jake Buchanan Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Ralph Jarrett Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Sinkhole Mine, Bandana, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Clyde Sparks Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
publication] Page (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G) (H) (I) Muscovite in the Spruce Pine district, N. C., by T. L. Kesler...deposits of the Nightingale district, Pershing County, Nev., by W. C. Smith and P. W. Guild (published........ Topaz deposits near the Brewer mine, Chesterfield County, S. C., by Carl Pries, Jr. (published...quicksilver deposits of the Del Puerto area, Stanislaus County, Calif., by H. E. Hawkes, Jr., F. G. Wells, and...Quicksilver deposits near the Little Missouri River, Pike County, Ark., by David Gallagher (published in October
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1329 Arizona Economic geology Aluminum, Maricopa county, Wickenberg (Sheridan, Michael F , et al.) tt-t2...(Mclean, W. John, er a/.) 7-E 1103 Hemihedrite,Pinal county, Florencemine, Maricopacounty, Wickenburg,Rat Tail...a/.) 7-8 1088 Kinoite, SantaRita mountains,Pima county (Anthony, John W., er a/.) 5-6 7O9 Phoenicochroite...Jerome,United Verde mine (Wood, Michael M.) 5-6 729 Wherryite, Tiger, Mammoth mine (Mclean, W. John.)...) 3 - 4 5 51 Fraser,Horace John Bibliography (Mitchell, G. P., et al.) 3-4 554 Hallimond,Arthur Francis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
senopyrite in Darien (Fairfield Co.), Levesque, Cross County, Arkansas. The Conn., for over a year. A few weeks...R. S. we succeeded in finding their source. It Mitchell, University of Virginia, from is a small quartz...down, but we have not yet ing prepared by Prof. Mitchell and Mr. determined its length on the surface....A H O — "This specimen was found in Twin Falls County about 10 miles south of Hagerman, Idaho. These...a fairly new limestone quarry in eastern DeKalb County, 111. There were a few small fossils in the limestone
Report (issue)
CI NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF MINERAL...Feldspar Deposits of The Bryson City District, forth Carolina BY EUGENE N. CAMERON PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH 1951 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT...Feldspar Deposits of the Bryson City District, North Carolina By N. CAMERON EUGENE PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL...DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR In cooperation with the NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Berry, L. G. The space Allophanes from Lawrence County, group of conichalcite. 557 f n d i a n a(. W h...Mount MarcY 330 81oss,F.D...... quadfalrgler Essex CountY' Blggild, O. B. The Mineralogy of N.Y. (Jafre)...m a nI ., . . . . Enchanted Rock pluton, Llano County, Texas, texture of. (Hutchinson). . . 346 Endellite...and origin of. (Jahns) 563 Giardini, A. A. with Mitchell, R. S. Oriented olivine inclur36 sionsin diamond...uranium-bearirg bodies in San Bernardino .. 1040 County, California .340,342 Goldsmith,J. R. 341 Goodman
Journal (issue)
3:07 (UTC) on December 12, 2006, near 21.9 degrees north latitude, 78.2 degrees east longitude. The image...spotted hydrated silica (opal or volcanic glass). muscovite or illite, and additional locations where kaolinite...l .39µm, 1.92 to l .93µm, and 2.18 to 2.26µm. Muscovite (or illite) shows absorption features at l.4µm...Ownership: Excalibur Mineral Corporation, 1000 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY 10566-1830. Publisher:...Nikischer (info@excaliburmineral.com). Editor: Mitchell Portnoy (mitchpnyc@aol.com). Periodicals Postage
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND X-RAY ANALYSIS OF AN I~NUSUAL MUSCOVITE-BIOTITE INTERGROWTH RANDALL L. G R E S E N S & H O W A R D...63--69. A specimen of intergrown biotite and muscovite from a pegrnatite was subjected to detailed chemical...the crystals are an equilibrium intergrowth. Randall L. Gresens & Howard L. Stensrud, Department of...1969, 1970}, including a ~tudy of coexisting muscovite and biotite. For comparison with the New Mexico...Mexico samples, an unusual intergrowth of muscovite and bioti::: from Georgia was obt;tined. The relationship
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mostly in small amounts. A bed near Pyriton, Clay County, Ala., was worked for copper. One was mined near...of Cleburne County at what was called Wood's copper mine and also at Smith's copper mine about a mile...Ariz., is a resort on the Colorado River, 37 miles north of Yuma. From the locality we have 2 specimens sent...which is part of the Colorado River and 37 miles north of Yuma, Ariz., we find wide terraces and plains...one little mine I obtained a few specimens of pyrite xls. The small xl enclosed is from a mine about 4 miles
Report (issue)
Physical Characteristics of Commercial Sheet Muscovite in the Southeastern United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Valley Authority Physical... Physical Characteristics of Commercial Sheet Muscovite in the Southeastern United States By RICHARD H. JAHNS...under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Falley Authority UNITED...6 7 8 11 12 12 15 16 16 17 17 22 24 26 Sheet muscovite in the Southeastern States.____________ Distribution
Report (volume)
and indexes, particularly the "Bibliographies of North American Geology," covering 1785-1957. These were...have contributed their knowledge. The late J. S. Randall of Georgetown, the late E. P. Chapman, Jr., of...real gold and "fool's gold"--commonly either muscovite or pyrite. As soon as vein gold was found in place...recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed as...occurrences, but no references. The citations to J. S. Randall are from his compilations of the known facts on
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...____ Whiteside Granite-_____________________ Muscovite granodiorite of Spruce Pine district-_____ __
Report (issue)
pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ ...between pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight mine ______ _______________...of granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 9....and other units in the Big Bess pegmatite, Gaston County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
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 _______________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
locality maps. The chrysoberyl locality is just north of Haddam, Connecticut. From the Amer­ ican Journal...chrysoberyl was found approximately one to two miles north of Haddam on the west side of the Connecticut River...in diameter, albite, green beryl, columbite, muscovite, and black tourmaline (Seybert, 1824; Webster...chrysoberyl in a pegmatite vein in gneiss one mile north of High Rock Springs at Saratoga Springs (Steel...orthoclase(?), black tourmaline, garnet (almandine?), muscovite, biotite, and columbite (Navias and Ostrom, 1951)
Journal (issue)
It has also been found in India, Georgia, North Carolina and elsewhere around the planet. The itacolumite...several internet sites including Mindat.org. The North Carolina itacolumite is a “schistose sandstone” rock...found in North Carolina (NC) is clearly due to the formation of minute flakes of muscovite, KAl2□AlSi3O10(OH)2...minerals into muscovite, while the grains of sand remained unaffected. It is the muscovite that is intimately...long specimen. The deposit of itacolumite in North Carolina is found in the Sauratown Mountains located
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lustrous black magnetite. Madison is in S/E New Haven County of southern Connecticut near Long Island Sound...of black magnetite and silvery muscovite. Bureau is in S/E Bureau County of northern Illinois. Dune sand..." — on label. Great Bend is in southern Barton County of central Kansas. Beach sand from Naskeag Beach...of black magnetite, pale silvery to brownish muscovite and white sea shells also present. Naskeag Beach...Beach on Blue Hill Bay is in southern Hancock County in southern Maine. Ant hill sand from Virgin Valley
Show/Event (guide)
Eye Candy Clockwise from top left: Silver, ZCA #3 mine, Balmat, NY; Fluor-dravite, road cut near Gouvemeur...Gouvemeur, NY; Quartz (Japan-Law twin), Ellenville Lead mine, Ellenville, NY; Quartz, Bower Powers farm, Pierrepont...helping to curate one of the top collections in North America and publishing numerous articles on minerals...analogue of hopeite from the Palermo #1 Pegmatite, North Groton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire - A. R. Kampf...historic Spinelli Prospect, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut - A. J. Albini & H. Moritz. 2:30
Journal (issue)
................ 285 MINERAL COLLECTING IN NORTH CAROLINA. BJ' Da1·id Sea111a11 ..................................................... 291 ICE IN CAVE, MINE AND MOUNTAIN. By A . C. Hau·kins .......... 292...you for some time and it is the respect for the mine or quarry operators' rights by mineral Jllectors...York Ci_ty, and in the rocks at the Tilly Foster mine. Often these minerals are stained by limonite, or...the two dumps." Rumor h:is it the old siderite mine near Roxbury Station, Conn., has been fenced in
Report (issue)
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R. Randall Schumann EDITOR OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-292-A Prepared...Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. CONTENTS SECTION_...Assessments: An Introduction Linda C.S. Gundersen, R. Randall Schumann, and Sharon W. White 1 Appendix A: Geologic...Radon Potential Summary Linda C.S. Gundersen, R. Randall Schumann, and Sandra L. Szarzi 36 3. Preliminary...Assessment of Connecticut Linda C.S. Gundersen andR. Randall Schumann 47 4. Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential
Report (issue)
chartoflithologic units in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... 31 9. Modal analyses of felsic igneous rocks north of the Brevard fault zone . . . . . . . . . . ....Austell, Sand Hill, Kennesaw and Dallas gneisses north of the Brevard zone. The oldest rocks present in...rocks that have many similarities to lithologies north 1 To produce a geologic map of an area as large...10911 0111 11211311411 511611711B119120- Rome North Shannon Adairsvi lie White West White East Waleska
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ALABAMA—Cherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the little...10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals ranging from those...mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and to...around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively in recent years. The...over Cherokee County. "Lots of Indian relics are found too." A map of Cherokee County, prepared by Buddy
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bearing Mica, Spodumene, Beryl, Black Tourmaline, Muscovite (White Mica) .... and .... remember the 'experts'...Silver specimens are not uncommon at the Monte Cristo Mine. To reach the Monte Cristo, take road to Constallation...drives. There is a store at Crown King; Crown King Mine is no longer in operation. Good Pyrites of Iron...the northeast corner of the State. Farther to the north (toward Kingman) pegmatite minerals are found, especially...National Gypsum Co. plant. The new plant, fed by a mine 1700 feet long, will turn out enough wallboard in
Journal (issue)
Gold Mines Middle Buttes Volcanic Complex Kern County, California Allan R. Blaske allan.blaske@gmail...volcanic complex is located in southeastern Kern County, approximately 9 miles southwest of the town of...of Mojave, and approximately 60 miles north of Los Angeles, California. The complex was host to six epithermal...Spanish Fork and Price, UT. Mine dumps can be seen from the highway on the north side, but the mines themselves...the Pleasant Valley Coal Company's Winter Quarters mine (famous for an explosion on May I", 1900, that killed
 
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