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Quartz from
Plumtree Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Plumtree Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:864575
Long-form Identifier:1:3:864575:3
GUID (UUID V4):ffd39518-deed-41ed-a44e-dba5925ca864
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.6km (0.4 miles) A Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Field Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Emmons Knob Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Grapevine Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Fall Branch Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Slippery Elm Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Friel Vance Mine (Freel Vance Mine; Jose Camina MIne), Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Little Elk Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Johnson Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.5km (1.0 miles) George Burleson Mine, Plumtree, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
noftonclature* Frui>ar«d in oooperation >dth the liorth Carolina Dep&rtaent of Conservation and Development* C05TSHTS...Metamorphic rocks ................ Mica rocks of the Carolina-type ....... Mioa gneiss .............. Mica schist...schist .............. Petrograpljy of the Carolina-type rocks . Structure and texture ....... Mineral.............. Cranberry gneiss ................ Carolina-type rocks .....*.......* Roan-type rocks ......mica ................ Garnet .................. Quartz .................. Accessory minerals ........
Report (volume)
the Spruce Pine District ! Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...with the Min\ eral Resources Division of the North \ Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...the Spruce Pine District Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina By DONALD A. BROBST ! CONTRIBUTIONS...with the Mineral Resources Division of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Geologic map of Spruce Pine pegmatite district, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties, N.C.__________________
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... Geologic map of part of the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and Tennessee. 2-6. Maps showing location of
Report (issue)
c\ NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF MINERAL...Structure of Part of the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina A PROGRESS REPORT BY JOHN M. PARKER, III GEOLOGICAL...SURVEY AND THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF...Structure of Part of the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina A PROGRESS REPORT By M. PARKER, III Geological...BETWEEN THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
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)
It is also found in pegmatites and associated quartz veins from which relatively large crystals have...to 15 cm long with staurolite in quartz at Windham, Cumberland County, Maine. Blue-bladed crystals to...to 2.5 cm long occur at Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts, and, historically, kyanite crystals that...biotite in quartz at Ratlum Mountain, Hartford County, and at Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut...Figure 1. An attractive 7.3-cm kyanite crystal on quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Marcus Grossmann
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
not abated' The corundum and peridotites of North Carolina have been described in detail in the admirable...Volney Lewis: Corundum and the peridotites of North Carolina. N. C. Geol,.Suney, l' 1905. '?Desilicated...of rose quartz, beryl, anc tourmaline were exhibited. Mr. Gordon reported on a trip to Avery, Mitchell...Mitchell, and Macon counties, North carolina, exhibiting specimens of transparent, bluishgreen, aquamarine-like...aquamarine-like oligoclasg from Plumtree, Avery County, N' C' Mr' Boyle spoke of his trip to Unionville, Beryl
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of rose quartz, beryl, anc tourmaline were exhibited. Mr. Gordon reported on a trip to Avery, Mitchell...Mitchell, and Macon counties, North carolina, exhibiting specimens of transparent, bluishgreen, aquamarine-like...aquamarine-like oligoclasg from Plumtree, Avery County, N' C' Mr' Boyle spoke of his trip to Unionville, Beryl
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 (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 _______________________________
Report (volume)
Quartz Crystal Deposits of Southwestern Virginia and Western North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...BULLETIN 1072-D Quartz Crystal Deposits of Southwestern Virginia and Western North Carolina By JOHN B. MERTIE...deposits of southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina. Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1958...Contributions to economic geology) "A detailed report on quartz crystals from 37 sources and an explanation of...of their origins." Bibliography: p. 295-296. 1. Quartz. i. Title. (Series: U. S. Geological Survey. Bulletin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
KAOLIN IN NORTH CAROLINA, WITH A BRIEF NOTE ON HYDROMICA2 W. S. BARLEY. The kaolinsare residualwhite-'burning...derivedfrombroadexpanses of igneous or metamorphic rocks. In North Carolinabothtypesare present.All, sofar asknown...structurelessmass of kaolin surroundingirregularly round quartz grainsof the sameshapes as thosein granularpegrnatites...products occupythe samerelationsto the kaolinand quartz as do muscovite and biotite in ordinary pegrnatites...theStateGeologist of NorthCarolina. 236 KAOLIN IN NORTH CAROLINA. 237 dikes, especiallyat moderatedepths,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
Report (issue)
— -1: c^ 2 Liarch NORTH CAROLINA DEPART^NT OP CONSERVATION AND DEVELOBENT R. BRUCE ETHERipGE, DIRECTOR...2 . . March 1942 INFORMATION CIRCULAR NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT. OF.CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT... MINERAL RESOURCES PRODUCTION OF MICA IN NORTH CAROLINA By T. G. ^fardock* For the last 25 years...quite pronounced. In view of the fact that North Carolina has produced 60 per cent of the domestic sheet...quite apparent. The possible contribution of North Carolina mica has been recognized 1/ and during 1940
Report (issue)
MICA, GRAPHITE, ETC. MICA DEPOSITS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA/ By DOUGLAS B. STERKETT. INTRODUCTION. Though...relative rank, are given by G. CK Smith 6 as North Carolina, Colorado, New Hampshire, Georgia, South Dakota...the total production, amounting to $201,155, North Carolina is credited with over two-fifths. During some...domestic production. The mica deposits of western North Carolina have been examined by several.investigators-in...work by the writer, under the direction of the North Carolina Geological Survey, chiefly during the field
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
grayish-green chalcedony and dark red jasper (all quartz — therefore the composition is silicon dioxide)..."Here is an item for World News! "From the Rawley mine at Theba, Ariz., we have found mimetite (acicular...here we went to what we believed was the Old Dick Mine in the same area and found pyrite, chalcopyrite..."Theba is in Maricopa County on Route 80, 5 miles S / W of Gila Bend and the mine is off the road to Painted...believe the Rawley mine was worked for barite. The Bagdad mine was a low grade copper mine. "I have micros
Report (volume)
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...Pershing County, Nev.................................. In pocket Geologic map of the Nightingale mine area
Report (issue)
under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Valley Authority Physical...under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Falley Authority UNITED...___._ — —— __-__-_-____ Inclusions of muscovite, quartz, and apatite in muscovite..-._-_.____-__-_-_--...Production of sheet and punch mica, 1912-14, in North Carolina, the Southeastern States, and the entire United...data for mica specimens, arranged by lot and by mine or prospect-_-___--_-___-_-.___---___-_____--_ Results
Book (volume)
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...townagate, 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...CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all tributary branches
Book (edition)
Phone (907) 586-1785 Jade, gold, serpentine, quartz, asbestos, rhodonite, chrysoprase Fossils Garnets...lbs., 400/lb. over 100 lbs. Black Mountain Opal Mine. Write Lander's Turquoise, 321 East Andy Devine...Phone (501) 262-2058. Fee: $2.00. Coleman Crystal Mine, Jessleville. AR 71949. Fee: $2-00. Under 12 yrs*...year. Free camping. **John Moundy, Mt. Ida. AR. Mine on High Peak Mountain. Ocus Stanly, P.0. Box I63...**Rush Zinc Mine, Fred Dirst, Guide, Yellville, AR 72687. Black quartz, "coontail” quartz, titanium with
Journal (issue)
Cannock Chase and . . North Warwickshire 14 4.-Horizontal section from the north end of the South Staffordshire...Staffordshire Coalfield to the north end of the Warwickshire Coalfield, showing the structural relations...miles broad, that separates Cannock Chase, at the north end of the South Staffordshire Coalfield, from the...boring. Powerful faults, running approximately from north to south, mark the boundary of the basin, both to...with the development in the Pennine area to the north. The higher goniatite stages G and R 9 are represented
Report (issue)
c C.2 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF...BULLETIN NUMBER 66 THE SCRAP MICA RESOURCES of NORTH CAROLINA BY SAM D. BROADHURST AND LEWIS J. HASH PREPARED...TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY RALEIGH 1953 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...BULLETIN NUMBER 66 THE SCRAP MICA RESOURCES of NORTH CAROLINA By SAM D. BROADHURST and LEWIS J. HASH PREPARED...Raleigh, North Carolina March 25, 1953 To His Excellency, HONORABLE WM. B. UMSTEAD Governor of North Carolina
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE PEGMATITES OF THE NORTH SPRUCE PINE DISTRICT, CAROLINA. C. S. MAURICE. ABSTRACT. Several...district--the largestproducerof muscoviteand feldspar in North America--may be applied to other districts. and...the main sourceof feldsparand sheetmuscovitein North America, the abovegeneralizations on the composition...end of article. SPRUCE PINE DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA. 51 reds and bluesproducedby the dispersionin...Mines(43: 46) and bulletinsandeconomic papersof the North Carolinastatesurveys. All of theimportant mineralogical
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...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...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...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...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;
 
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