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Microcline from
Hawkins Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hawkins Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:670963
Long-form Identifier:1:3:670963:1
GUID (UUID V4):66c58e4f-d225-4071-a912-53b4b005687a
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
2.2km (1.4 miles) Buchanan Mine (Buchanan pegmatite), Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) Deer Park No. 2 Mine, Penland, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Chestnut Flats Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) English Mine (English Knob Mine), Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) Wiseman Mine (Old Mart Wiseman Mine; Sullins-Wiseman Mine), Greasy Creek Township, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Poteat Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) McHone Mine pegmatite, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) Chalk Mountain Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) Sinkhole Mine, Bandana, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) Chestnut Branch Mine, Double Island, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
References
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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 ______ _______________...sill of granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _...and other units in the Big Bess pegmatite, Gaston County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
really appears to be the start of a quickly abandoned mine and is located near Huntsville (Madison Co.), Alabama...mining operation is a barite mine operated by the National Lead Co. The mine is easily seen from Highway...dump of the old open pit Sodium Sulphate mine in Imperial County near BertROCKS AND MINERALS ram siding...the east side of the Saltón Sea, about 20 miles north of Hiland, Calif. Downloaded by [University of...the Mulligan Stew pocket. "No. 2—Microcline and Albite. This microcline is rather an unusual color, almost
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located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of the village ofQuinnesec...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...obvious even when visiting some of the Garland County mines. I also planned to do some Magnet Cove collecting...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
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photo March/April: Fluorite, Dow Scar vein, Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria, England; Jesse Fisher specimen...Lawrence County, New York; Steven C. Chamberlain specimen, Michael Walter photo July/August: Microcline, quartz... and albite, Kestral Pocket, Smoky Hawk mine, Teller County, Colorado; Martin Zinn specimen, Jeff Scovil...September/October: Gold and quartz, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California; Scott Rudolph specimen, Jeff...York City, New York County, New York State, R. B. Cook, 244–52 Amethyst, South Carolina, 66–68 Amphibolite
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Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isère, France...Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals,...Treasure Chest Pocket, Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo
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University] at 07:55 02 December 2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse...listed. L O CA L I T I E S B Y C O U N T Y Albany County Indian Ladder: brookite; F. Old Callanan quarry:...11 August 1859: olivinebronzite chondrite. Bronx County Various excavations: chabazite, harmotome, quartz...(amethyst), stilbite; F. Clinton County Au Sable Forks, iron mines north of: microcline (sunstone), magnetite,...calcite, gypsum, microcline, augite, stilbite, titanite, zircon, others; F, C. Columbia County Ancram lead
Journal (issue)
Photo: 5.1.Pekov. The Baringer Hill Pegmatite Llano County, Texas Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Introduction...Ownership: Excalibur Mineral Corporation, 1000 North Division Street, Peeks kill, NY 10566-1830. Publisher:...Nikischer (info@excaliburmineral.com). Editor: Mitchell Portnoy (mitchpnyc@aol.com). Periodicals Postage...the specimens is meager usually giving just Llano County or 5 miles south of Bluffton. However, when reading...were few other pegmatites recognized in the Llano County area so Baringer Hill can be accepted as their
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Staurolite Stilbite Zoisite BRISTOL COUNTY The major portion of Bristol County shows sedimentary rocks consisting...similar to the Diamond Hill area of Providence County. The Bristol area, in the vicinity of portsmouth...B u l l . 5 9 7 . S e em a p . See also A. C. Hawkins, and C. W. Brown: Basic Rocks of Rhode Island....druses. KENT COUNTY Fringes of sedimentary rocks are found in the east section of this county in contact...Moosup Valley,which runs northward into Providence County, in this discussion.. The rocks of this extreme
Journal (issue)
d'Ossola, Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...V anadiun1 l\'line, l\fagnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas is Reclaimed and Collecting Ceases...Located on the east rim of Magnet Cove, the Christy Mine, fonnerly known as the Christy brookite locality...as big, or bigger. One location is in Campbell County, Virginia where huge ones up to about a foot long
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
16:34 01 January 2015 Benson Mines St. Lawrence County, New York B ENSON MINES is a Grenville-aged (about...located in the Adirondack Mountains, St. Lawrence County, New York. It was mined as an open pit that grew... New York 13323 dbailey@hamilton.edu MICHAEL HAWKINS Downloaded by [University of Tennessee, Knoxville]...become the newest Adirondack lake. Huge mounds of mine tailings (waste-rock sand, see outline of dashed...Tumialan 1969; Lupulescu, Bailey, and Hawkins 2010); as a result, the mine has not received much attention
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Photographs January/February: Crocoite, Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Francis Benjamin specimen...Scovil photo. March/April: Galaxy opal, Opalville mine, lease 135, Jundah, Queensland, Australia. Owner...July/August: Silver, Wolverine mine, Kearsarge lode, Keweenaw County, Michigan. William Severance specimen...(Hallelujah Junction), Petersen Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada. Paul Geffner specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...November/December: Millerite, Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York. National Museum of Natural
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
500-mile-long state situated mainly between 35° and 36.6° North latitude and bounded on the west by the Mississippi...(top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(left). Fluorite, 2.5 cm on edge, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis Paris photo (2004). Figure 5 (far right page)
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Ewing MINERAL SPECIMENS (CRYSTALS) I- Richard Mitchell 2-Harold H ueckel 3-Louis Goss GEODES and FLATS-LADIES...White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces...looked like slag from a furnace. This was in Grant County, Oregon, about 5 miles from Seneca. I was on a...another opal prospect near the town of Lona Creek, (north end of Grant Co., Ore.} where some very fine opal...world ·was found in pegmatite. It was a perthitic microcline crystal measuring 7xl2x30 feet. It was mined
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
19:54 09 April 2015 Near Russell, St. Lawrence County, New York STEVEN C. CHAMBERLAIN MARIAN V. LUPULESCU...south of the village of Russell in St. Lawrence County, New York (fig. 2), is one of the classic localities...the junction of Dana Hill Road and St. Lawrence County Route 24. The latitude and longitude for the locality...house on Sand Street in Philadelphia, Jefferson County, New York, Nims collected widely in Jefferson,...Van Buskirk farm, the buildings of which are on County Route 24. The farm parcel of land was divided up
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite in New York is at Bedford in Westchester County. Its complex zoning and mineralogy are approached...by the pegmatite at Batchellerville in Saratoga County. The McLear pegmatite in the St. Lawrence Lowlands...Isachsen 1963). Brief History The first attempt to mine high-quality feldspar from pegmatites in New York...activity. The main product was the high-quality microcline for the ceramic industry (Tan 1966). MARIAN LUPULESCU...to Trenton, New Jersey, for making pottery. The mine was closed around 1938 (Tan 1966). CO MPLEX PEGMATITES
Journal (issue)
VOLUME 39 • NUMBER 1 $15 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...100-year history of the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County collection;...Benitoite Gem mine will note the portion of the story devoted to the 1935 visit to the mine by collecting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JAMES W. HAWKINS, JR. Geological Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University...Nebraska Lincoln user 1788 1789 1790 1786 J. W. HAWKINS, JR.-METAMORPHISM, OKANOGAN RANGE, WASHINGTON ...the Okanogan Range in north central Washington, is about 70 miles (116 km) north of Chelan (Fig. 1). In...studies in the Okanogan Range have been presented by Hawkins (1964, 1968a, b, c, d). The tectonic history of...pdf by Univ Nebraska Lincoln user 1788 J. W. HAWKINS, JR.—METAMORPHISM, OKANOGAN RANGE, WASHINGTON
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 (article/letter/editorial)
JanuaryIFebruary: Pyromorphite, Les Barlow, A., 98 Farges mine, Correze Province, France; Barnes, J. H., see Media...July/August: Silver, Mollie Gibson mine, Bertrandite, New Hampshire, 161 Pitkin County, Colorado; specimen Beryl...Smithsonite, Kelly Russell, 396-99 mine, Magdalena district, Socorro County, New Mexico; Ron Gibbs specimen...Bismuth, South Dakota, 383 tite, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah; Bolt, E., see Spotlight on Juniors Martin...Graphite from Crestmore and Jensen Quarries, Riverside County, California, J. A. Jaszczak, 114; Investigation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
This is the case for the Tilley Foster mine (Putnam County), which was well described by Nightingale...geology and mineralogy of the Sterling mine, Antwerp (Jefferson County), which were well documented by Robinson...in the south and the Adirondack Mountains in the north (fig. 1). Smock (1889) completed the first report...district; 3. Lyon Mountain mines; 4. Benson mine; 5. Jayville mine; 6. Chub Lake prospect; 7. Antwerp-Keen...Rock mine; 9. Clintontype; 10. Columbia County iron mines (Burden iron mine); 11. Dutchess County iron
Report (issue)
MISCELLANEOUS NONMETALLIC PRODUCTS. MICA DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA. By DOUGLAS B. STERRETT. INTRODUCTION. The...most important producers among these have been North Carolina, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Virginia, Colorado...Alabama, Georgia, and Idaho. For many years North Carolina has led in both quantity and value of output...amount North Carolina is credited with $127,870. The value of the mica production in North Carolina during...Geological Survey and the North Carolina Geological Survey. The greater part of the mine descriptions were obtained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...309 Brochantite, New Hampshire, 416 Brookite, Dodo Mine, Subpolar Urals, Russia, R. B. Cook, 192-95 Buchholz... Tourmaline Discovery at the CryoGenie Mine, San Diego County, California, 156-68 Clifford Frondel (1907-2002)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
December 2014 history and geology of the Chateaugay Mine T lyon mountain, new y o r k he Adirondack Mountains...were identified. First among a strong market, the mine continued to expand, and two the discoveries was...(Linney 1934). Prall vein, later renamed the 81 mine (Farrell 1996). In 1803, A major escalation in mining...05:54 30 December 2014 A B Figure 1 (opposite). Mine upgrades following World War I resulted in the addition...a branch of the railroad from Plattsburg to the mine. With this rail service, the mining venture could
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 (issue)
striated horizontally. 6 "Drusy" Quartz, Missouri, USA Denise Bicknell Collection THE BACKBENDER'S GAZETTE...Herkimer and Montgomery Counties area of New York, USA. Austria, Switzerland, and Germany have produced...are common from alpine San Bernardino County, California, USA Denise Bicknell collection localities....known in Maine, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. Another famous North American locality...locality is along the north shore of Lake Superior near Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada where the amethyst crystals
 
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