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Anthophyllite from
Round Mountain Mine, Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Anthophyllite
Formula:◻{Mg2}{Mg5}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Anthophyllite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Round Mountain Mine, Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:818562
Long-form Identifier:1:3:818562:4
GUID (UUID V4):5d4888ab-896d-49b4-89bf-c65ee4d53441
Nearest other occurrences of Anthophyllite
3.2km (2.0 miles) Jennings No. 1 Asbestos Mine, Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County, North Carolina, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Jennings No. 2 Asbestos Mine (Whitewater Corundum Mine), Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Coldsides Mountain Mine, Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
7.8km (4.9 miles) Miller Asbestos Mine, Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County, North Carolina, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Bad Creek Prospect, Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) Socrates Corundum Mine (Socrates Asbestos prospect), Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County, North Carolina, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Asbestos Mine, Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Hogback Creek Mine, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
10.5km (6.6 miles) Oakland Asbestos Mine, Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County, North Carolina, USA
11.4km (7.1 miles) Rattlesnake Mine (Rattlesnake Asbestos Prospect), Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...semi-opal") in the Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey
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)
C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com­ mon rock-making materials...to occur only as traces. ACCOMACK COUNTY: none given. ALBEMARLE COUNTY: actinolitc, agate, almandine, amethyst
Report (issue)
and the ''Corundum and Peridotites of Western North Carolina," by Joseph Hyde Pratt and ,Joseph Voltney...rocks .............•........•.••..........•..... Carolina gneiss ..................•.............•.............. Amphibole-pyroxene gneiss-near Hatcher Mountain ......... . Hornblende schist-near Dahlonega .............. . Olivine gabbro-Hog Creek Corundum Mine ................. . Troctolite-near Young Harris.......................... . Enstatitite-Pig Pen Mountain ............................ . Enstatitite, altered-Worley
Catalog/List
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
Report (issue)
Vt.; Casper, Wyo.; Grand Canyon, Ariz.; Sail Mountain, Ga.; Kamiah, Idaho; and Bedford, Va. At the localities...almost invariably chrysotile, but rarely it is anthophyllite. Some asbestos of the slip-fiber type is chrysotile...mass-fiber type, so far as known is always anthophyllite. MODES OP OCCURRENCE. By the term "modes of...mode of occurrence is as mass-fiber amphibole (anthophyllite), composing stocks and dikes of fibrous amphibolite...in the deposits worked for many years at Sail Mountain, Ga. Asbestos of this mode has recently been opened
Book (volume)
.......................................346 North Carolina ........................................................................................356 North Dakota ...............................................................................427 South Carolina ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ...............................
Report (issue)
__-___-_____- __ Willis Mountain and vicinity____________ Woods Mountain and vicinityBaker Mountain-Madisonville... area____ Leigh Mountain __ __ _ _ Southern Prince Edward CountyOrigin of kyanite deposits Other mineral...Slate __ . Halifax County Other localities North Carolina Hagers Mountain, Person County.- _.______ Corbett...Corbett deposit, Johnston County Burnsville-Swannanoa area, Buncombe, Yancey, and Mitchell Counties ________...____ Rutherford County Other localities North Carolina-South Carolina Kings Mountain district, Cleveland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GRAHAM S. TEALE Teale and Associates, P.O. Box 740, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia ABSTRACT...Sedalia deposits and some cases from the Green Mountain, Betty, Caprock, Cinderella, and Cotopaxi deposits...dominated by Mg-rich minerals such as phlogopite, anthophyllite, gedrite, tremolite, forsterite, cummingtonite...et certains échantillons des gisements de Green Mountain, Betty, Caprock, Cinderella, et Cotopaxi, ont...dominance de minéraux magnésiens, comme phlogopite, anthophyllite, gédrite, trémolite, forstérite, cummingtonite
Report (issue)
ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SIERRITA MOUNTAINS, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA. By F. L. RANSOME. INTRODUCTION. The Sierrita...nearly meridional mountain ranges of southern Arizona. They separate the Santa Cruz Valley on the east from...from Altar Valley on the west. The range has a length between 13 and 14 miles and a width roughly estimated... on the south; those near Mineral Hill, on the north; and those near the abandoned Olive camp, between...the descent of the general slope toward the Altar Valley is interrupted by a belt of ridges and isolated
Report (issue)
a short article on California diamonds. Amador County: A few small stones have been picked up near the...the towns of Volcano, Oleta and Fiddletown. Butte County: In 1853 it was observed that diamonds occurred...the gravels at Cherokee Flat, about nine miles north of Oroville. More than three hundred good diamonds...Smith's Flat. Fresno County Small diamonds are reported to have been found a few miles north of Coalinga. Nevada...Nevada County A 1-^ carat stone was found at French Corral. Siskiyou Count}' Diamonds occur in the placer
Report (issue)
observed in the gold gravels at Cherokee, Butte County, and this locality, became the most noted one in...short articles on California diamonds. A Amador County: few small stones have been picked up near the...towns of Volcano, Oleta and Fiddleto^vn. Butte County: In 1853 it was observed that diamonds occurred...the gravels at Cherokee Flat, about nine miles north of Oroville. More than three hundred good diamonds...placers at Thompson Flat, two miles north of Oroville. El Dorado County: A diamond weighing 1| carats was
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 today’s 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,
Book (volume)
.......................................295 North Carolina ........................................................................................302 North Dakota ...............................................................................366 South Carolina ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham
Book (volume)
.......................................295 North Carolina ........................................................................................302 North Dakota ...............................................................................366 South Carolina ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham
Report (issue)
_ Blue Ridge ________________________________ _ Valley and Ridge ___________________________ _ Appalachian...Ocoee Series ________________ --- _---Grandfather Mountain Formation and Mount Rogers Volcanic Group ___..._________________________________ _ 27 28 30 30 Valley and Ridge province,.-_-----------Appalachian Plateaus...96 Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces ______ _ Valley and Ridge province ______________ _ Appalachian...______ Slate__________________________________ Valley and Ridge slate belt__________ West Virginia slate
Book
York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South...the most ancient of all Egyptian burials, in the Valley of the Royal Tombs at Abydos west of the ancient...archaeologically from the time of Jacob; assigned to Judah) , sapphire ( more probably lapis lazuli, assigned to Dan)...undetermined ancient gemstone sometimes labeled also sapphire, although this is unlikely because it was orange...and amethyst (probably a purple sapphire as distinct from Dan's "sapphire" rather than the present purple
Journal (issue)
Peggy Norton. Secretary 11945 Magnolia Blvd.. North Hollywood. CA 91607 Edwin Porter. Treasurer P.O...contains 10, 14. and 18 gauge round. 6. 8, 12 and 14 gauge half round and 6 gauge half pear. Regular...Vanadinlte • Turquois Jasp-Agate Conichalcite •sapphire Sand Ulexlte Mlzzonlte-Scapolite Bloodstone Tigereye...Specimens Anhydrite Quartzite Microcline Tufa Anthophyllite Marble Sodalite Anorthite Muscovite Peridotite...CA. Host. Gem and Mineral Society of San Mateo County. H.B. Murnan. P.O. Box 53, NAS Moffett Field. CA
Journal (issue)
Peggy Norton, Secretary 11945 Magnolia Blvd.. North Hollywood, CA 91607 Edwin Porter, Treasurer P.O...Texas 78204 Mlcrocry•tal Collectlng In Keweenaw County, Michigan by Jean R. Rentmeister ................Corpus Christi, TX 78412. June 7 thru 9. Rocky Mountain Federation ol Mlneraloglcal Societies Annual Show...CA. Host, Gem and Mineral Society ol San Mateo County. H.B. Murnan, P.O. Box 53, NAS Mollett Field, CA...34th Annual Convention and Show. Host. Tualstln Valley Gem Club. Pacific University Field House. Forest
Book (volume)
Dick's deep concern for the fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest...interest in mining history led him to purchase the mine in order to form a living museum so that it would...mineralogical community. Through his efforts, the Sterling mine has been declared a national historic landmark....greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...probably a greater variety of minerals in a single mine in Franklin, New Jersey, or Mont Saint-Hilaire,
Book (edition)
GEMSTONES $CS of NORTH AMERICA . In Two Volumes $30.00 GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes ...REINHOLD BOOK / '- ✓ ( ..., ■ GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes Volume II T ourmaline...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...lnternatiunal, Inc. F RO. Tl!>PI£CE GEMSTONES of NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes Volume II John Sinkankas...publication of the first volume of Gemstones of North America in 1959 so much has transpired that the
Report (issue)
RANDATHER QUNTAN of£4 vA, ATE BELT CAROLINA aes \ eer =~CAROLINA ‘ Li, aie! BARTLETT'S/27 FERRY FAULT...OVERLAP \ GRANDFATHER TENNESSEE ~~ MOUNTAIN KIOKEE BELT SOUTH CAROLINA ug 5; “A BARTLETT'S/.2 FERRY FAULT...admittedly speculative, for gold mineralization in the Carolina slate belt; it complements the paper by Neathery...the South-Central Sulfide Mineralization along Mountain, Cleburne Co., Marc OF CONTENTS Metal Deposits...Anomaly at the Peachbottom Deposit, Alleghany County, North Carolina (John E. Callahan, J. Hatten Metal Howard
Report (volume)
Bibliography of North American Geology 1948 By EMMA MERTINS THOM, MARJORIE HOOKER and RUTH REECE DUNAVEN...-------------__-in 13 183 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1948 BY EMMA MERTINS THOM, MARJORIE...REECE DUNAVEN INTRODUCTION The bibliography of North American geology, including paleontology, petrology...publications on the geology of the Continent of North America and adjacent islands and on Panama, the...index to the literature cited. The bibliography of North American geology to the end of 1947 is contained
Report (issue)
........................................ Spor Mountain Be-F-U deposits, by D. A. Lindsey and D. R. Shawe...lead-zinc(-barite-fluorite) deposits ("Mississippi Valley-type" deposits), by W. P. Pratt.......... Page...States are in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Rift-related nickel deposits.--Nickel deposits...with chromite zones. 19 Selected References Jackson, E. D. 1961, Primary textures and mineral associations...Complex, Montana: U.S. Prof. Paper 358, 106 p. Jackson, E. D. 1968, The Chromite deposits of the Stillwater
Report (issue)
commercial borates. Lawsonite, first found in Marin county in 1895, has proved to be of great petrographic...nickel telluride, melonite, found in Calaveras County in 1867. New minerals and new mineral this is ...products. The gem-bearing pegmatites of San Diego County have aroused special masses, interest. Many ...short articles on California diamonds. A Amador County: few small stones have been picked up near the...recently, one of 21 carats near Plymouth. ; Butte County: In 1853 it was observed that diamonds occurred
 
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