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Quartz from
Silly Mine, Yancey 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 Silly Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:868239
Long-form Identifier:1:3:868239:0
GUID (UUID V4):252bdde3-1a65-44bf-b00e-c147ccebd5fa
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.0km (0.0 miles) ā“˜Bittner Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) ā“˜Griffin Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
3.1km (1.9 miles) ā“˜Laws Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) ā“˜Georges Fork Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) ā“˜Hampton Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) ā“˜Johnson's Cove Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) ā“˜Jones Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) ā“˜Ray Mica Mine, Hurricane Mountain, Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) ā“˜Higgins Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) ā“˜M. P. Letterman Mine, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
References
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Book
MINES MINERS MINERALS AND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Western North Carolinaā€™s Hidden Mineralogical Treasures...E L L 2005 PARKWAY PUBLISHERS, INC. Boone, North Carolina Copyright Ā©1999 Lowell Presnell All Rights...Mines, miners, and minerals of western North Carolina : western North Carolinaā€™s hidden mineralogical treasures...(hard cover) 1. Mines and mineral resourcesā€”North Carolinaā€”History. I. Title. TN24.N8P74 2005 338.4ā€š7622ā€š09756ā€”dc22...Domestic Mica Buying Policy 111 20. Western North Carolina & the War Years .119 21. The Mineral Kingdom
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Photographs January/February: Crocoite, Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia. Francis Benjamin specimen...Scovil photo. March/April: Galaxy opal, Opalville mine, lease 135, Jundah, Queensland, Australia. Owner...July/August: Silver, Wolverine mine, Kearsarge lode, Keweenaw County, Michigan. William Severance specimen...September/October: Quartz, Foster Hallman claim (Hallelujah Junction), Petersen Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada...November/December: Millerite, Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York. National Museum of Natural
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
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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...___._ ā€” ā€”ā€” __-__-_-____ 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
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of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 Abstract...calcic than the phenocrysts. Other minerals are quartz (subrounded; embayed), clinopyroxene, amphibole...mantles and groundmass, and subrounded-embayed quartz. The straightforward explanation for G-SVP intermediate...1b). The collection-site subsets are Siphon Draw, Silly Mountain, Dinosaur Mountain, and Peralta Road (Fig...plagioclase, clinopyroxene, amphibole, biotite, and quartz, and accessory minerals titanite and zircon The
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red vanadinite xls and coming from the Red Cloud mine (about 30 miles N . of Yuma), Yuma Co., Ariz., have...the past 2 years, there are still very good fire quartz specimens to be foundā€”apparently an iridescent...the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains. At...of novaculite pebbles (gravel). Of course, both north and south coastal plains and streams thereto, have...were modified by the octahedron. Found in the Lark mine, San Juan Co., Colo." CONNECTICUTā€”We are indebted
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........................................ 54 In quartz-schist...__.._..___.__..__..____.._..-..________...and syenite-pegmatite _....-..-.-.-.---.--... In quartz-porphyry ........................................-...----...------.-.---.--..-.-..._.. Origin in quartz-schist....--...............----..--.-.-................-...-...---------------...-.-.-.--.. North Carolina ______________________________________________................................._........... North Carolina ___..__._....._..._______..__._.____..._.____
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northeast near Jamestown in Cherokee County is another lead mine." ARIZONAā€”A letter dated Sept. 17, 1953...might pass along to you that I found some nice quartz gĆ©odes and calcite crystals in Flagstaff (Coconino...his letter, dated Aug. 19, 1953, writes:ā€” "An old mine near here had cavities in it that contained a sandlike...the Navajo Indian Reservation north of this community (in Apache County) with "high hopes" of finding...Chromrutile, has been found at the Red Ledge chromite mine in the Washington mining district of Nevada Co.
Report (issue)
1. Approximate two-day field trip locations of Carolina Geological Society relative to the generalized... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Guidebook for 1973 Annual Meeting...PLUTONS OF THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PIEDMONT OF SOUTH CAROLINA H. D. Wagoner Chiasma Consultants, Inc. 60 Smith...29401 David E. Howell2 Division of Geology South Carolina State Development Board P. O. Box 927 Columbia...reserves of this commodity available in the South Carolina Piedmont, Purposes Reconnaissance mapping of
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the material this doesnā€™t happen/ is cold! Panna Mine District India Consists of several mines a few of...someone had been taking diamonds from the Panna Mine in India and pretending to ļ¬nd them in Arkansas...deposit is the state park, the only public diamond mine in the world, all worked by hand The-Vug.com Quarterly...state parks in the whole world. A public diamond mine where, for a minimal fee, you can go and search...the real thing. However, the Panna Mine in India is not a public mine, it is owned by a company who uses
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identified, the Creede Quadrangle in Mineral County, Colorado (USA). CHARACTERISTICS. m Creedite is a member...aluminium silicate); pyrite (iron sulphide); and quartz (silicon dioxide). Creedite is often found embedded...many of which measure over 2.5cm in length. In the USA, there are three major deposits of creedite. The...these is at the Wagon Wheel Gap baryte and fluorite mine in Creede (Colorado), where it forms in association...Inyo County (California), where it forms in clusters embedded in pyrite, and at Granite, Nye County (Nevada)
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modifiedcrystalsin quartzdrusefrom RoundMountain (Nevada,USA).JurgenTron specimen. (Continues on page 2) The...good contrast. The most remarkable associate were quartz crystals, reasonably clear up to 15 cm long with...in crystal to 6-7 cm, overgrown by microscopic quartz (?) crystals from Los Picachos in San Benito Co...than usual and available with more dealers. The Gem Mine in San Benito Co. (California) also produced a few...NJ 1.16 Guadalcazar, Mexico 5.00 First Soviet mine, Russia 0 MnO 1.60 I 13.69 I : 1.73 !
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Program: Holiday Party! In this issue ā€¦ Chiurucu Mine, Peru Smithsonian National Mineral Gallery Photo:..........................p. 16 Lake Drummond: A Carolina bay? Pt 2 ......p. 17 Upcoming events ..........material found at the Kaiser Franz Mine (later called the Kƶnig Wilhelm Mine) in the Harz Mountains of Saxony-Anhalt...manganese oxides (like this specimen from Humboldt County, NV) is often used in lapidary work. Source: Wikipedia;...specimen on the cover (found in a silver and tungsten mine). The Peruvian material usually forms opaque clusters
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................... GEM HUNTING IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. By B. M . Brehm ........................................................... GIRL INJURED AT MINE HILL, CONN........................................this treasure. Just the same the memory of those Quartz filled half geodes never left him, and as he grew...'3 7, produced one fine cluster 0Ā£ __ the green Quartz crystals. Upper N ew, York, aside from the two...Albite along with fine green Amazonite. North and South Carolina rewarded him with a long list of fine
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Mine Vol. 35 No. 1 January 2019 News The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $6.00 Albert Edward Foote...Congress representing the Anti-Monopoly Party (Sioux County Herald I 874). Luckily, he was unsuccessful at...NewYork. Silver Ore from the Eagle Mine Red Cliff District, Eagle County, Colorado Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet...location. The specimen came from the well-known Eagle Mine (fig. 2 on page 3) of Empire Zinc Company, a subsidiary...subsidiary of New Jersey Zinc Company. The mine is located at Gilman, Red Cliff District (also known as
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United States. Thus we sallied forth, like two silly kids, willing to lose ourselves in the wonders of...Enroute from here to there, we took a side trip north to Wenona, 111; where we became acquainted with...next morning, after visiting Wind Cave, we headed north to Custer, S.D., where we made the acquaintance...Rushmore Caverns; and exploring the "Bullion Gold Mine"; we headed for the Badlands area, fifty miles east...specimens of Sectarian Concretions; then headed north for a visit with the Hutsell family and their Rock
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Extending from the Santa Rosa Mountains on the north to Highway U. S. 80 on the south and from a point...LANDMARK NEWS BOOKS MINING COMMENT POETRY The Silly Coyote As told to HARRY C. JAMES 26 February temperatures...of untried temperament, his face turned to the north, blazing a new trail for the chain-mailed conquistadores...conquistadores of Spain. and Quito before he journeyed north on foot into Mexico with Pedro de Alvarado, the...seacoast to the west the south side, women on the north. The graves are unmarked but the bodies are who
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January, 1963 First and foremost ā€” and it may sound silly, but you'd be surprised how many omit it ā€” BE SURE...Sell" night is scheduled for February. The Fulton County Mineral Club, Gloversville, N. Y., had a box luncheon...Amateur Scientist", spoke on growing synthetic quartz crystals. He was assisted by Lynn Perkins of Western...institution's assistance, a splendid specimen of blue quartz from Cornog, Pa., was presented to the Museum for...company and illustrated his talk with slides. The North Jersey Mineralogical Society, Paterson, N . J.,
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OF DEATH VALLEY By Audrey Pavia 40 ROYAL PEACOCK MINE: A LEGACY OF COWBOYS AND OPALS By Amy Grisak 46...SHOW June 23rd ā€“ 26th 2022 (9am to 6pm) Jeļ¬€erson County Fairgrounds Madras, Oregon FREE PARKING FREE ADMISSION...COM | MAY 2022 7 Sale MADEIN INUSA USA MADE MADEIN INUSA USA MADE !)Fydmveft!Bmbtlb!'!Ibxbjj* Sale...0222 12/16/2021 1:45 Page 0921Kingsley Kingsley North North rebel_Layout uv4_Layout 117/15/2021 1:52 PMPM...Catalogs Free Catalogs Free Catalogs William Tell Mine ļ€“ Turquoise ļ€“ļ€ Ithaca 1929turquoise.com 8 ROCK&GEM
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alphabetically by species and then subdivided by county (Appendix Aā€”ā€œCatalog of Mineral Localitiesā€). Chapter...dolomite, fluorite, galena, gypsum, marcasite, pyrite, quartz, and sphalerite). Unfortunately, these photographs...edition (e.g., Gibsonburg in Sandusky County and Tiffin in Seneca County). The second edition of Minerals...plains in the west, then the lake plains in the north, and the Appalachian Plateau in the east. The descriptions...Sometimes the writing verges on the just plain silly, as when Dickas suggests that one reason for the
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find in the famous Prospect Park quarry, Passaic County, New Jersey. Since showtime, at least some of the...8.3 cm, from the Prospect Park quarry, Passaic County, New Jersey. Mineral Classics specimen and photo...acanthite specimens from a great find in the Imiter mine, Ouarzazate, Morocco in the first half of that year...==========ļ‚„ Acanthite, 3.7 cm, from the Imiter mine, Ouarzazate, Morocco. Heliodor specimen and photo...Cinnabar, 1 cm, from the Red Bird mine, Lovelock, Pershing County, Nevada. John Betts Fine Minerals specimen
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prospector found indications of what he supposed mine of native iron.' An assay of a sample of his ore...meteorite from the Sacramento Mountains, Eddy County, New Mexico .ā€) This mass of iron is believed to...railroad crossing westward ), there is an old This mine is close by the road, and on the right hand side...crossing mentioned. The shaft is now pretty silver mine. well filled in with stone and rubbish . Pretty...gold. Native silver has been found in some of the quartz gangue. The two principal shafts were named the
Report (issue)
Geological Survey editorial standards (or with the North American Stratigraphic Code). Any use of trade,...marine record, or as Sangamon and Eemian in the North American and European continental records respectively...Geological Survey editorial standards (or with the North American Stratigraphic Code). Any use of trade,...sharp base. Silt-filled burrows. 6.00 fi VĀ» Silly mud becoming more clay rich upward from a sharp...streaks of green clay in silt-rich base. 7 6.00 Silly mud becoming more clay rich upward from a sharp
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could get better traction with that one. That was a silly notion. It just plooped into the goosh about six...Ā« Maryland - Washington, D.C. ā€¢ Virginia - North Carolina. A l l of the famous localities are covered...others. Hunt for fluorescents, copper minerals, quartz, agate, turquois crystals, unakite, rubies, sapphires...17.50 Stannite, Chalcopyrite and Amblygonrte on Quartz, 2 X 2 - V J " 15.00 Cassiterite on Amblygonrte...10 CTS. PRICE B. E. Clement Minerals U.S. 6 0 North, Box 6 9 , Marion, Ky. 42064 In busmen here 35 years
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inner part of Scoresby Sund. It has an elongated north-south outcropwithin an area of high-grade metamorphic...model occurs. Palaeocurrents here were to the north and north-west. It is suggested that movements along...Conglomerate is confined to a strip of country, elongated north-south, in the innermost part of Scoresby Sund (Fig...stream draining the ice cap through a deep ravine. North of the stream the land rises in one large rounded...gulleys but of less extreme relief than those to the north. To the south-east, the hill slopes gently towards
 
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