 | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...twin planes. Swamp dike, Little Three mine, Ramona, California (USA). Pegmatites share textural features...pegmatite from near Palomar Mountain, San Diego County, California, shows typical zonation and texture...those of the LCT family far outnumber the NYF plagioclase-rich border zone plagioclasetourmaline wall zone...pegmatite at the San Diego mine, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County, California (USA), in which large K-feldspar |  | | Report (issue) | | Smoky Mountains National Park, Western North Carolina Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip November...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...Blythewood, South Carolina Kubal, Furr and Associates, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation,... Spruce Pine, North Carolina Organization, registering participants, keeping financial records, and guidebook...Cooperation, encouragement, and field checking by North Carolina Geological Survey geologists: Carl E. Merschat |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WILLIAM DIVISION JASPER P. OF L. SAUNDERS, MINERAL...RESOURCES GEOLOGIST Circular 16 LOCALITIES NORTH OF CAROLINA BY JAMES F. CONLEY Doc NC DENR LIBRARY...... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MINERAL COLLECTING IN NORTH CAROLINA , . . . . # . WHERE TO COLLECT f ... f ......THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY COUNTIES . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ......... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 7 Emerald, Hiddenite and Associated Minerals |  | | 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) | | 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) | | e r M in k COPPER MINES, PERSON CO UN TY, NORTH CAROLINA BULLETIN OF T H E GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA...VIRGILINA COPPER DISTRICT, VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA * BY THOMAS LEONARD WATSON (.Presented before the...Montgomery, Randolph, and Stanly counties, North Carolina. Nitze describes the basic rocks as being dark...reports on economic subjects issued by the North Carolina Geological Survey. Such references as bear...reviewed: After describing the Gillis copper mine in Person county, North Caro lina, the earliest discovered |  | | Report (issue) | | Sc ce i en e T ec tonic s R es earc h nc Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October 19-20...southwestern Brushy Mountains, centralwestern North Carolina Guidebook Editors: Robert D. Hatcher, Jr....Columbia, South Carolina Carolina Geological Conultants, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina Central Savannah...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...South Carolina Kubal and Furr, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation, Spruce Pine, North Carolina |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Creasey, 1965b 62 63 63 biotite biotite biotite McDowell, 1966 Damonet al., 1964 Creasey, 1965 62 biotite...64 63 biotite biotite 58 58 biotite biotite McDowell, 1966 Creasey and Kistler, 58 60 biotite biotite...and Cook, 1965 sill 62 55 hornblende biotite McDowell, HcDowell, Morenci diorite monzonite 1965 1966...Rose and Cook, 1965 65,69 biotite Creasey, plagioclase and quartz-sericite 10. 1962 1967 alteration...m.y. Kingman ignimbrite 3. New Cornelia yes Thomas, 1949 Damon et al., Pliocene to Pleistocene Gila |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE LEOPARDITE (QUARTZ PORPHYRY) OF NORTH CAROLINA.' INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT. WHILEengaged, during the...past summer, in a study of the granites of North Carolina for the State Survey, opportunity offered for..."leopardite," which occurs near Charlotte in Mecklenburg county. Knowledge of the occurrence of this rock in the...leopardite found near Charlotte, Mecklenburg county, North Carolina. He says: "It is noticed by Professor Shepard...feldspar, as the leopard stone of Charlotte, North Carolina." Professor Shepard regarded it as composed |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION GEORGE DIVISION JASPER CAROLINA L. R. OF ROSS, RESOURCES...♦ THE EASTERN PIEDMONT PEGMATITE OF NORTH DISTRICT CAROLINA BY WARREN G. STEEL RALEIGH 1952 THE... THE EASTERN PIEDMONT PEGMATITE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA By Warren Ge Steel INTRODUCTION The Eastern...pegmatite district of North Carolina consists of several areas located in the north central part of the...corner of Caswell County. The Inez- Wake Forest area extends from Inez in Warren County, southwestward |  | | Report (volume) | | Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geoscience Transect 20. Central Appalachians: Cratonic North America to the Atlantic Abyssal Plain a a Richard...Geoscience Transect 20. Central Appalachians: Cratonic North America to the Atlantic Abyssal Plain, International...Geoscience Transect 2 0 . Central Appalachians: Cratonic North America to the Atlantic Abyssal Plain RICHARD T...Grenvillian structural front in the cratonic interior of North America. The character of the continental crust...Paleozoic development of the eastern margin of North America related to: (1) structural development of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Memoriam Luther Thomas (1911–2006) W e were saddened and distressed to lose Luther Thomas on 8 August 2006...admirers. James Luther Thomas was born to Robert E. Lee and Mattie McCurry Thomas on 12 August 1911, “up”...“up” Cane Branch near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina. His lean and sinewy frame suggested a...five to ten miles over the hills to a prospect or mine, labor until dark, and then walk home, only to repeat...afterward. In fact, hardly any roads existed in Yancey County in those days, only well-worn foot trails. No wonder |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2014); (C) Topaz at the Honeycomb Hills rhyolite, USA, as a primary phenocryst phase including biotite...Breadpan topazite dike, in the Flying W Ranch area, USA (Kortemeier and Burt, 1988), composed of larger anhedral...Lukkari, 2005). Note the lP euhedral form of plagioclase crystals against topaz; (J) Medium-grained Li-F...second generation with several inclusions of plagioclase and ur quartz (Soufi et al., 2018). (A), (B)...albite; Kfs, K-feldspar; Ms, muscovite; Pl, plagioclase; Qz, quartz; Tpz, topaz; Znw, zinnwaldite. Pegmatitic |  | | Report (issue) | | Carolina Geological Society 2008 Fieldtrip and Annual Meeting, Little Switzerland, North Carolina October...Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________________________________...__ Carolina Geological Society (CGS) 2008 Field trip Spruce Pine Mining District North Carolina Co-leaders...Sponsors Active Minerals International, LLC Imerys North America Ceramics Unimin Corporation Vulcan Materials...Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________________________________ |  | Merschat, Arthur J., Holm-Denoma, Christopher S., Levine, Jamie, McAleer, Ryan J., Southworth, Scott, Wilson, Crystal G. (2016) Geology of the Mount Rogers area, revisited, Blue Ridge, VA–NC–TN. Field Trip Guidebook. Carolina Geological Society | Report (issue) | | Rogers area, revisited, Blue Ridge, VA–NC–TN Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October 29–30...Rogers area, revisited, Blue Ridge, VA–NC–TN Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October 29...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....................................77 v vi Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October 29-30 |  | | Report (volume) | | -Part of a color shaded relief aeromagnetic map of north-central Minnesota. Color changes represent broad...vegetation in the Snow Camp-Saxapahaw area, North Carolina, and the resulting expressions in Landsat TM...................... 189 Aeromagnetic survey of north-central Minnesota By Robert J. Horton, Warren C...silver, mercury, copper, and palladium in Lemhi County, east-central Idaho By George A. Desborough, William...the belt (the eastern part of which comprises the Thomas Range-Tin tic volcanic field of Stokes, 1986), |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GRANITES OF NORTH CAROLINA.' CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. DISTRIBUTION OF THE GRANITES. TYPES OF THE GRANITES...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...permission of the state geologist of North Carolina. 373 THOMAS L. WATSON 374 STRUCTURAL FEATURES...on a study of the granites and gneisses of North Carolina during the past field season, while I was engaged |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Igneous Activity in the Suwannee Terrane, Southeastern USA: Petrogenesis and Gondwanan Affinities A.L. Heatherington...Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32621, USA (Manuscript received December 1,2002; accepted January...Suwannee terrane is exotic with respect to native North America, is Gondwanan or peri-Gondwanan in origin...circum-Atlantic terranes such as Avalon, Cadomia, and the Carolina terrane (Cfamer, 1973; Odom and Brown, 1976; Pojeta...Mueller, 1999a). The Suwannee terrane was sutured to North America approximately 300 Ma, during the Alleghanian |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | •9o6 No. 4 DEPOSITS2 WALTER HARVEY' WEED AND THOMAS LEONARD WATSON. INTRODUCTION. The presence of...State. Many and costly attempts have been made to mine the ores, but thus far the only productivepropertieshave...whichincludes Halifax county, Virginia; and Person and Granville counties, North Carolina. (b) The depositson...SouthwestMountain, Albemarle county;thoseof the EasternBelt near Keysville, Charlotte county; and at Dillwyn, Buckingham...Buckingham county. II. The Blue Ridge Region. Includesthosedepositsfrom near Front Royal southward, and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Location map of major topaz deposits. 1. San Diego County, California pegmatites; 2. western U.S. topaz rhyolite...rhyolite belt (includes some pegmatites); 3. Mason County, Texas; 4. topaz rhyolite belt of Mexico; 5. Appalachian...Figure 3 (above). Topaz, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. NMNH specimen 147660....crystals with inclusions and bixbyite (right), Thomas Range, Utah. NMNH specimens 117591-2and 131821...131821. figure 9 (left). Topaz, 10.5 em long, Dassu mine, BaItNan, Pakistan. NMNH specimen 165994. figure |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1329 Arizona Economic geology Aluminum, Maricopa county, Wickenberg (Sheridan, Michael F , et al.) tt-t2...(Mclean, W. John, er a/.) 7-E 1103 Hemihedrite,Pinal county, Florencemine, Maricopacounty, Wickenburg,Rat Tail...a/.) 7-8 1088 Kinoite, SantaRita mountains,Pima county (Anthony, John W., er a/.) 5-6 7O9 Phoenicochroite...Jerome,United Verde mine (Wood, Michael M.) 5-6 729 Wherryite, Tiger, Mammoth mine (Mclean, W. John.)...Intrusive Utah, San Juan county, MosesRock dike, kimberlite (McGetchin, Thomas R., et al.) 9-10 1738 British |  | | Report (issue) | | CI NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF MINERAL...Feldspar Deposits of The Bryson City District, forth Carolina BY EUGENE N. CAMERON PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH 1951 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT...Feldspar Deposits of the Bryson City District, North Carolina By N. CAMERON EUGENE PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL...DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR In cooperation with the NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 89557, USA Abstract. The key to mantled feldspar genesis is epitaxial nuclea- tion of plagioclase on K-feldspar...K-feldspar or K-feldspar on plagioclase. Once this nucleation takes place there is a relatively straightforward..."antirapikivi" textures. The most common mantling is plagioclase on K-feldspar which occurs in both volcanic and...the volcanic environment the morphology of the plagioclase overgrowth typically is dendritic, though in...non-cellular shell of plagioclase. In the plutonic environment, early stages of plagioclase overgrowth also |
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