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Muscovite from
Lick Ridge 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 Lick Ridge Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:821251
Long-form Identifier:1:3:821251:1
GUID (UUID V4):77065356-5d30-464b-a4f1-e89b20bc3717
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
0.9km (0.6 miles) ⓘRoby Mica Mine (Tim Twiggs Mine), Hawk-Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.0km (0.7 miles) ⓘBranch Feldspar-Mica Mine (Zach Young Mine), Hawk-Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) ⓘBen Mica Prospect, Hawk-Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘPaul Mica Prospect (Sol Biddix Prospect), Hawk-Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) ⓘDewey McKinney Mica prospect, Hawk-Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) ⓘPaul McMahan Mica prospect, Hawk-Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) ⓘCharles Stamey Feldspar Mine, Hawk-Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) ⓘMossy Rocky Mica Mine, Hawk-Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) ⓘIvy Knob Mica prospect, Hawk-Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) ⓘAzaline Mica Mine, Hawk-Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
GEOGRAPHY. The Brinton arsenic mine is located on the south slope of Lick Ridge, one of the minor elevations...of the Appalachian Mountains, at Brinton, Floyd County, Va., about 14 miles southeast of Christiansburg...(See fig. 33.) So far as is known this is the only mine in the eastern United States which has mined arsenic...shipment to arsenic plants located at other points. The mine is reached from Christiansburg by a very good mountain...which the only steep grades are within a mile of the mine. According to the Survey's topographic map of this
Book (edition)
Geology of North Carolina. QE 147 .A22 1866-1887 Pt.2 V.2 Chap.1 Digitized by the Internet Archive...org/details/mineralsminerall01 nort n o o / Geology of North Carolina. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It F. A. GENTH...brought to a Pi 7 ? f 3 : GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA. 2 many new and rare species. The Mica veins...within a few days , so that the list of North Carolina mineral species has been very considerably...crease of more than 25 per cent. GEOLOGY OE NORTH CAROLINA. 4 than has been discovered in any other
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
symplectites after clinopyroxene from the Appalachian Blue Ridge (ABR) and Western Gneiss Region (WGR) suggest that...Kentucky, 101 Slone Building, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, USA e-mail: edande0@uky.edu with slow/low overstepping;...Symplectite  Omphacite  Eclogite  Eastern Blue Ridge  Western Gneiss Region  P–T path  Retrograde...metabasites of the Blue Ridge Province of the southern Appalachian orogen (USA), and the Western Gneiss... Geological setting of samples Southern Blue Ridge (USA) Occurrences of HP rocks are rare within the
Book (edition)
LOCALITIES NORTH CAROLINA, BEING CHAPTER I, OP THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. Reprinted...OF E. M. UZZELL RALEIGH, N. C. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CHROLINS. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It has F...data have been embodied. Sev- GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 4 eral causes have been operative in giving...matter of commercial interest. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 6 Dr. C. L. Hunter has also kindly furnished...within a few days, so that the having been of North Carolina list mineral species has been very considerably
Report (volume)
'THE GEOLOGICAL vt- ,(231 > ' " ^THE MINERALS CAROLINA''" i '- OF, - :l|^fe^H - GOTEENMENT LIBRARY... W. Powell, director | | The | minerals of North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Geiitk | [Vignette]...J. W. Powell, director | | The | mineralsof North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Genth | [Vignette]...W. Powell, director | | The | :aainerals of North Carolina | by | FrederickAugustusGenth j [Vignette]...separately. Price $2.50. XVI. The Paleozoic Fishes of North America, by John Strong Newberry. 1889. 4°. 340
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20013, USA Keywords: epidote, chemistry, pegmatites. INTRODUCTION...from granitic pegmatites occurs sparingly in muscovite–rare-element and miarolitic pegmatites (Černý...fracture, Lick Ridge, North Carolina. (C) Fine-grained epidote replacing pegmatite, San Diego County, California...Zoned gabbro pegmatites of Eureka Peak, Plumas County, California. Journal of Geology 67, 253–268. MAGLOUGHLIN...epidote bearing leucotrondjhemite pegmatite from the North Cascades, Washington. Geological Society of America
Book (volume)
grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Book (volume)
grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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...Domestic Mica Buying Policy 111 20. Western North Carolina & the War Years .119 21. The Mineral Kingdom
Report (issue)
METAMORPHISM, AND TECTONICS OF THE BLUE RIDGE OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS: KEVIN G. STEWART MARK G. ADAMS...ADAMS CHARLES H. TRUPE CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1997 FIELD TRIP AND ANNUAL MEETING Trip Leaders:...Loren Raymond Banner Elk, North Carolina September 26-28, 1997 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1997 FIELD...METAMORPHISM, AND TECTONICS OF THE BLUE RIDGE OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Edited by: Kevin G. Stewart Department...Department of Geology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315 Mark G. Adams Department of
Book (volume)
along the southern slopes and ridges of the Pine Ridge Escarpment and along Whiteclay Creek near the Sioux...vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townï‚Ÿagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza
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,...barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product silver, occurs in veins...deposits in 11 crystalline rocks west of the Blue Ridge. 12 complex ores of gold, copper, lead, zinc,...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
peach, green and silvery white prevent listing muscovite alone. MOLYBDENITE—Fine micro xls of this mineral...visitors. The slide subjects—New minerals of the Foote mine (Perloff), a 6 month's western mineral trip (Rothstein)...of Tucson. 3. The Phosphates from the Bull Moose mine, Custer, S D. are really good. Look for strengite...right guy. From Jack we got specimens from the Foote mine at Kings Mt., a locality for unusual things. We...Axinite, thulite (terminated xls) from the McKinney Mine, Little Switz.; autunite and torbernite in parallel
Book
CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________............._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T...l a c h i a n s a r e t h e spectacular B l u e Ridge a n d S m o k y M o u n t a i n r a n g e s w h...h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because t h...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o
Report (issue)
the Mount Rogers area, revisited, Blue Ridge, VA–NC–TN Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October...the Mount Rogers area, revisited, Blue Ridge, VA–NC–TN Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October...Merschat, Scott Southworth, Crystal G. Wilson i Carolina Geological Society http://carolinageologicalsociety...University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, SC Lee Phillips Univeristy of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro...Opening and Closing of the Iapetus Ocean, Blue Ridge, VA– NC–TN ....................................
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York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...and abandoned, one is also sure to find extensive mine dumps sloping steeply down from the shaft or tunnel...prodvced by atmospheric oxidation, can be found. Old mine dumps often reveal a varied assortment of brightly...unusual for a casual visitor to an old gold rush mine to kick up a solid gold, silver, or native copper
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Beauchamp Geology and Geophysics, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta...Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA Email: Ronald.Blakey@nau.edu Peter M. Burgess Department...Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA Email: fettens@uky.edu William E. Galloway Department...Geological Sciences, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA Email: galloway@mail.utexas.edu Martin R. Gibling...Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Email: ringer@ess.ucla.edu L.S. Lane Geological Survey
 
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