 | | Report (issue) | | CI &£ c*z NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT BEN E. DOUGLAS, DIRECTOR DIVISION...BULLETIN NUMBER 67 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY RICHARD J. COUNCILL UN 11 &» RALEIGH 1954...1954 •^^CAHOUNAS SSU^UBftwy NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT BEN E. DOUGLAS...BULLETIN NUMBER 67 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NORTH CAROLINA By RICHARD J. COUNCILL RALEIGH 1954 MEMBERS...Canton S. ALLEN Durham W. B. AUSTIN Jefferson North Wilkesboro CARL BUCHAN, JR SCROOP W. ENLOE, JR |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...phenakite (microcrystals), quartz* (smoky, crystals), titanite (microcrystals), topaz* (crystals, sherry and...6.6 cm tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil specimen and photo. Downloaded |  | | Report (issue) | | C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...Printed and bound by The Williams Printing Co., Richmond, Va. IV to Anna, Bill, Bruce, "Buddy," C.S....updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Topaz Staurolitc Datolite Gadolinite Thaumasite Titanite Uranophane Vttrialitc Astrophyllite Hemimorphitc...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GRANITES OF NORTH CAROLINA.' CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. DISTRIBUTION OF THE GRANITES. TYPES OF THE GRANITES...City area. The Rocky Mount area. The Wadesboro-Rockingham porphyritic granite area. GRANITES OF THE PIEDMONT...REGION. General characters. The northeastern Carolina Granite Belt. Lithological characters. The Raleigh...Mountain area. The Mooresville area. The Mecklenburg county areas. The Western Piedmont gneiss and Granite...Published by permission of the state geologist of North Carolina. 373 THOMAS L. WATSON 374 STRUCTURAL FEATURES |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals found in Ver mont slate. Figure 2. Slate quarry, Poultney; photo by Roger Bacon. The granite industry...decorator tiles. The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi cant locality...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...the locality; it is near er to the quarry than the village of Lowell and is the last set tlement seen...locality from the south. The Belvidere Mountain quarry has produced worldclass crystals of grossular (the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Georgia (Cook 1982), Tennessee (Paris 2011), North Carolina (Kenny Gay, pers. comm., 2012; Wilson and ...page). The Bassett Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the...The fluorite pictured in figure 2 is from this quarry. Terry Huizing photo. Downloaded by [Northeastern...on dolomite from the Bassett Stone quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky. Terry Huizing specimen...the Lexington Quarry Company Catnip Hill facility near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 100 COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA C. HENRY KING, FRANKUNVILLE, N.C. ALAMANCE—The North State pyrophyllite...Ore Knob copper mine in the eastern part of the county has produced chalcocite, bornite, pyrite, pyrrhotite...Mountain. BURKE—Three diamonds have been found in this county. One specimen is at the State Museum in Raleigh...reported from this county. CAMDEN—The Pamlico Formation characterizes this coastal plain county. Shell beds...Little Buck Creek. Much corundum is found in this county, usually associated with the large peridotite masses |  | | Report (issue) | | phyllite schist, Springfield, Vt . .............. 21—Quarry, granite-gneiss. Zenolith of Cavendish schist,...25—Areal map of Rockingham, Vt . ............................ 26—Cross section in Rockingham, Vt. ...................... 29—Anticline, phyllite sehist, Rockingham, Vt . ................. 30—Pegmatite dike cutting...between two slopes 240 34—West-East section at north end, along line A-B .............. 241 35—East-West...geology southward into Springfield, Grafton and Rockingham. It is hoped that he may be able to carry forward |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | State. Finally, were amalgamated and accreted to North America dur- Chapter J tabulates all of the isotopic...1 «" CAMBRIAN TO LATE PROTEROZOIC 8 E 1 Ga North | > LATE PROTEROZOIC MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC basement...11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 3. Stratigraphic units north and northwest of the Boston basin.................Cambrian strata of the Hoppin Formation at the north end of Hoppin Hill Reservoir......................northwest corner of the Narragansett basin, near North Attleboro and West Wrentham (Hoppin Formation). |  | | Report (volume) | | ................................ 49 Individual quarry areas.................................................. 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County.......................granite of the Richmond-Petersburg area.. Dark blue-gray biotite granite of the Richmond-Fredericksburg............................... 79 Gneiss of the Richmond-Fredericksburg area.................. 80 Gneiss................. 82 Structural relations in the Richmond-Fredericksburg area .......... '82 General statement |  | | Report (issue) | | ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR OTTAWA TO NORTH BAY, ONTARIO; HULL TO WALTHAM, QUEBEC Ann P. Sabina... . . . . . Section 1: 3 Ottawa - North Bay South March quarry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MacMillan quarry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hanna quarry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pakenham quarry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Report (volume) | | State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G...... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION GEORGE DIVISION CAROLINA R. OF ROSS, DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR...THE ♦ REPORT ON MINERALS VOLCANIC-SLATE NORTH CAROLINA BY SAM D. BROAD HURST AND RICHARD J. ...£ Location Map - Volcanic-Slate Series in North Carolina . . . • k £ Areal Distribution General...HIGH-ALOMINA MINERALS IN THE VGLCANIC-SLATB SERIES, NORTH CAROLINA Sam D. Broadhurst and Richard J. Councill...resources of the eastern Piedmont region of North Carolina . Particular attention is being focused upon |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | masses of monazite, a t Mars Hill, Madison Co., North Carolina, large crystals of zircon, with a sp. gr. of...oE garnet from the Jones mine, Green River, North Carolina, gave, on analysis, the followiny results :SiO...40, 62--G4).-At the abandoned Pease quarry, a short distance north-west of Port Henry, a face of white...yellowish-brown titanite crystals ; fine brown tourmalines also occur. West of this quarry is another, where...oscillatory forms. Further west is the Treadway quarry in ophicalcite, containing streaks of pjrrhotite |  | | Report (volume) | | ......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908. Scott |  | | Journal (issue) | | Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard S. Mitchell and Arthur S. Katz...CRYSTALLIZED TURQUOISE from near Lynch Station, Campbell County, is Virginia's unique contribution to the mineral...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin...the same county. It also has been observed in pegmatites in Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and elsewhere...the world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is |  | | Report (issue) | | North Carolina State Library jleigh ( f t NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN RALEIGH...RALEIGH 1958 G. CONRAD Norffe Carolir* St** NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN G. CONRAD...Jefferson F. J. BOLING Siler City H. C. BUCHAN, JR North Wilkesboro SCROOP W. ENLOE, JR Spruce Pine VOIT |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in Alleghany County, Virginia, and several dikes of basalt near the State line on the north, in Pendleton...Pendleton County, West Virgima. Recent investigations by the writers, assisted by Prof. F. J. Wright, of Bridgewater...dikes of diabase in Augusta, Rockbridge, and Rockingham counties, Virginia, and in addition to diabase...including the Mississippian sandstones of Little North Mountain. The dikes closely parallel each other...occurrence to the counties of Rockbridge, Augusta, Rockingham, and Highland, which are located in the extreme |  | | Report (issue) | | Tooey's Lake Gorman Lake Quade Rockingham Mines Ambis Mentor Sundstrom (North) Sundstrom (South) Plexman...Greyhawk Howard Kerr Lockwood York River Barr Feldspar Quarry Percy Spain Mine Peler-Rock (West) Dempsey Goshen...Showing) Plunkett North Mine Plunkett South Mine H. Quirk Robson South State (North) South State (South)...Urban Quebec Occurrence 14—Geology of Showings 17 North, b, c, d and e, Urban Quebec Occurrence 15—Geology...Small Quarry, Barr Feldspar Quarry Occurrence 22—Geology of the Main Quarry, Barr Feldspar Quarry Occurrence |  | | Report (issue) | | quartz core; cover Quadeville. Genesee No. 2 mine, north of Bancroft. (4 The lift lock on the Trent Canal...fossils, Lakefield quarry. 25 Brachiopod, Gastropod and Nautiloid fossils, Lakefield quarry. 27 Pelecypod...Lakefield quarry. 29 An example of unconformity between limestone 30 and granite, Highway 28 north of Lakefield...Lakefield. 31 Indian petroglyphs north of Stony Lake. Picnicking on an outcrop of granite gneiss, Stony...gneiss with nepheline pegmatite, Golding-Keene quarry on the York River. Corundum, Lily Robertson Cooney |  | | Report (issue) | | ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 RICHMOND: DrvrsroN or Puncrress .r,xo pnrrnrc 1932 STATE...Chairrnatn,, Riverton Cor-BrteN Wontnau, Vice-Chaimnoz, Richmond E. Gnrrnrrn DonsoN, Norfolk Tnouas L. Fenne& Charlottesville...Grr-r-rau, E*ecwtive Secretary and, Treaswrer, Richmond 111 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL ColttltoNwBALTE oF...State Commission on Conservation and Development, Richmond, Virginia, January 16, 1930. E. O. FrpprN, Erecuti've...Ridgeway area, Ilenry County, Virginia, and Rockingham County, North Carolina ,-.--..------In pocket |  | | Report (issue) | | ................................24 Hobart and Richmond — sandstone heritage ...........................Chapter 5 Stone selection, resource estimation, and quarry design Selection criteria ..........................44 Data analysis, resource estimation, and quarry design ................................................................................45 vi Quarry extraction costs and operating efficiency ........................................46 Chapter 6 Quarry development and operation Project financial assessment |
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