 | | 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 __________________________________________ |  | | 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 ļ¬nancial records, and guidebook...Cooperation, encouragement, and ļ¬eld checking by North Carolina Geological Survey geologists: Carl E. Merschat |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Map of the Foote mine area, Kings Mountain, North Carolina, prepared by William Besse. Unless...john@jwkustos.com FLUORAPATITE Foote Mine Kings Mountain, North Carolina from the Figure 2. Fluorapatite...albite, 1.3 Ć 1 Ć 0.6 cm. Figure 4. The Foote mine ca. 1967. The lightcolored rocks are granitic pegmatites...surrounding country rocks. Geology The Foote mine exploits quartz-microcline-spodumene pegmatites that are...found throughout the tin-spodumene belt of North Carolina (Swanson 2012). These pegmatite intrusions run up |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pegmatites in the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina, USA Samuel E. Swanson*, William B. Veal Department of...texture with coarse (~ 1 cm) grains of feldspar, quartz and muscovite enclosed in a finer grained matrix...the granodiorites; major amounts of feldspars and quartz, accessory amounts of muscovite, garnet, and epidote...recrystallization, include epidote, muscovite, quartz, and grossular garnet. A few of the pegmatites...unzoned. Zoning in the pegmatites is simple with a quartz core, an intermediate zone of graphic granite, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TINāSPODUMENE BELT OF NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, USA Samuel E. SWANSONĀ§ Department of Geology...30605, USA Abstract The TināSpodumene Belt (TSB) along the border of North and South Carolina, southeastern...southeastern USA, is composed of hundreds of en Ć©chelon dikes intruded into amphibolite-facies mica schist...coarse-grained spodumene, plagioclase, K-feldspar, quartz, muscovite, and accessory amounts of beryl, manganoan...replaced by a fine-grained saccharoidal albiteā quartz fabric that also heals fractures in spodumene and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 500-mile-long state situated mainly between 35Ā° and 36.6Ā° North latitude and bounded on the west by the Mississippi...(top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(left). Fluorite, 2.5 cm on edge, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis Paris photo (2004). Figure 5 (far right page) |  | | Report (issue) | | OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS: KEVIN G. STEWART MARK G. ADAMS CHARLES H. TRUPE CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...Loren Raymond Banner Elk, North Carolina September 26-28, 1997 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1997 FIELD...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Edited by: Kevin G. Stewart Department of Geology University of North Carolina Chapel... Trupe Department of Geology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315 TABLE OF CONTENTS...Evolution Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Complex, Western North Carolina .......................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SEPTEMBER_OCTOBER, 1969 A LITHIOPHOSPHATE IN NORTH CAROLINA OCCURRENCE JonN S. Wuttn, ln., National Museum...Mineral Company spodumene mine at Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina is the site of the secondoccurrenceof...supplied the samplesused in this study. The Foote mine is rapidly becoming one of the most interesting...found on quartz and albite crystal druseswhich line open fissures in massive albite-microcline-quartz-spo...be one of the latest phasesto form at the Foote mine. The crystals are limpid and their faces well-developed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina, USA Loren A. Raymond, Arthur Merschat & R. Kelly...the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina, USA, International Geology Review, 58:7, 874-912...the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina, USA Loren A. Raymonda, Arthur Merschatb and R...State University, Boone, NC, USA; bUS Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA; cDepartment of Geology and Geography...Geography, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Metaultramafic rocks |  | Garihan, John M., Ranson, William A., Muthukrishnan, Suresh, Bridgeman, James L., Goforth, Tom (2012) Geologic Studies of the Inner Piedmont, Brevarrd Zone, and Blue RIdge, South Carolina and North Carolina. Field Trip Guidebook. Carolina Geological Society | Report (issue) | | South Carolina and North Carolina Guidebook for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Carolina Geological...Muthukrishnan, James L. Bridgeman, and Tom Goforth CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2012 FIELD TRIP Geologic Studies...Ridge, South Carolina and North Carolina October 12-14, 2012 Greenville, South Carolina Guidebook for...for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Carolina Geological Society 73rd Annual Meeting Founded at Furman...Ranson Carolina Geological Society Board of Directors 2012 President Scott Howard South Carolina Geological |  | | 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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3.1. Quartz cores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5...direction of elongation, the grain size of the graphic quartzāK-feldspar intergrowth coarsens upward. Light blue...the quartzāfeldspar intergrowth in relation to Manebach twin planes. Swamp dike, Little Three mine, Ramona...Ramona, California (USA). Pegmatites share textural features in common with hydrothermal veins, including |  | Robinson, Gilpin R., Lesure, Frank G., Marlowe, J. I., Foley, Nora K., Clark, S.H. (2004) Bedrock geology and mineral resources of the Knoxville 1Ā° x 2Ā° quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Open-File Report 2004-1075. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20041075 | Report (issue) | | Knoxville 1Ā°x2Ā° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1Ā°x2Ā° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina / by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [etaf...GeologyāTennessee. 2. GeologyāNorth Carolina. 3. GeologyāSouth Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resourcesāTennessee...and mineral resourcesāNorth Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II...Cashiers District 47 Feldspar 47 Kaolin 48 Mica 48 Quartz 49 Zircon 49 Other Industrial Minerals 49 Barite |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA ā¢ Tel: +1 949 494 5155 ā¢ Email: info@kristalle.com...by W. E. Wilson The Hallelujah Junction scepter quartz deposit, Petersen Mountain, Nevada ..............by C. J. Stefano Giroux Point, the Bagdad mine, Yavapai County, Arizona .....................................................................297 COVER: QUARTZ SCEPTER, 29.7 cm, from the Hallelujah Junction...$278/two years, (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription |  | | Report (issue) | | Contents Block-in-matrix structures in the North Carolina Blue Ridge belt and their significance for...Chunky Gal Mountain, North Carolina Alfred J. Lacazette, Jr., and Nicholas Rast The Macon Complex; An ancient...of the Morgan Run Formation (of debated age) and Mine Run Complex, some of which contain possible ophiolite...in the Carolinas and Georgia, that border the Carolina terrane as defined by Secor and others (1983);...(Rodgers, 1968) at the eastern edge of ancestral North America (e.g., Bird and Dewey, 1975). Rowley and |  | | Report (volume) | | Knoxville 1 Ā°X2Ā° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Knoxville 1Ā°X2Ā° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1Ā°X2Ā° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina I by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [et al...Geology- Tennessee. 2. Geology-North Carolina. 3. Geology-South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources-...and mineral resources-North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals of microcline, bladed albite, and smoky quartz are enhanced by a purple or green cube of fluorite...Granite, near Red Stone quarry, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Henry Minot specimen and photo...Teller and Park counties, CO, USA Crystal ParkāBear Creek, El Paso County, CO, USA Pikes Peak Granite NYF... 3 Mount Antero and Mount White, Chaffee County, CO, USA Mount Antero Granite NYF Miarolitic beryl...Mountains, Boise, Custer and Elsmore counties, ID, USA Sawtooth Granite in the Idaho batholith NYF Miarolitic |  | | Report (issue) | | ............ Hypothetical resources .......... North Florida district ........ Northeast Florida district...Georgia ..................... South Carolina ................. North Carolina ................. Offshore .....estimates ........ Montana ................... Swanson estimates .......... Bauer and Dunning estimates...hypothetical phosphate rock resources of Florida, by county ................. Summary of phosphate rock resources...Florida and North Carolina and offshore in the shallow Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to southern |  | Raschke, Markus B., Anderson, Evan J.D., Allaz, Julien, Friis, Henrik, Smyth, Joseph R., Tschernich, Rudy, Becker, Randy (2016) Crystal chemistry of brannockite, KLi3Sn2 Si12O30, from a new occurrence in the Golden Horn Batholith, Washington State, USA. European Journal of Mineralogy, 28 (1) 153-161 doi:10.1127/ejm/2015/0027-2477 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in the Golden Horn Batholith, Washington State, USA MARKUS B. RASCHKE1,*, EVAN J. D. ANDERSON1, JULIEN...JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA *Corresponding author, e-mail: markus.raschke@colorado...Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA 3 Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Blindern... 0318 Oslo, Norway 4 Moxee, WA 98936 USA 5 Yakima, WA 98908 USA pr oo f 1 co rre ct ed Abstract:...of the Golden Horn Batholith, Okanogan County, Washington, USA as sub-millimeter euhedral bladed clear |  | | Report (issue) | | NEAR SCHOOL HOUSE, LOT 110, 15th DJST., DeKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA, SHOWING PEGMATITE DIKE IN MICA SCHIS'.............................................. . Carolina gneiss ..................................................................................... . Quartz ............................................................................................ . Carolina gneiss ............................................... . Baldwin County .......................................... . Warren County ................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Franciscan Complex, Western Matin County, California Samuel E. Swanson 1 and Peter Schiffman 2, 1 GeologyDepartment...Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina 28608, USA 2 GeologyDepartment, Stanford University...University, Stanford, California 94305, USA Abstract. Petrogenesis of Franciscan pillow basalts from the Franciscan...Franciscan Complex of western Matin County California entails both dynamic crystallization of tholeiitic... sphene and quartz. Metamorphism of pillow interiors, manifested by: (1) veins of quartz, pumpellyite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Orthopyroxene + sillimanite predating sapphirine + quartz: A rare case of ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism...Congolite and trembathite from the KÅodawa salt mine, central Poland: Records of the thermal history...pluton of the Wausau syenite complex, Marathon County, Wisconsin A.U. Falster, T.W. Buchholz & W.B. Simmons...tināspodumene Belt of North Carolina and South Carolina, USA S.E. Swanson 1589 Quartz replacement by ākeroliteā...ākeroliteā in graphic quartzāfeldspar intergrowths from the VÄžnĆ” I pegmatite, Czech Republic: a complex |  | | Report (volume) | | W. J., and Kopf, R. w., 1957, Geologic names of North America introduced in 1936-1955: U.S. Geological...Hubert, M. L., Wright, W. B., Jussen, V. M., and Swanson, R. W., 1981, Lexicon of geologic names of the...1968-1975: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1520, 342 p. Swanson, R. W., Hubert, M. L., Luttrell, G. W., and Jussen...643 p. SELECTION OF NAMES FOR THE LEXICON The North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature...classification and terminology throughout the continent of North America, formulates a code of recommended procedures |  | | Book | | MINES MINERS MINERALS AND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Western North Carolinaās 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 Carolinaās hidden mineralogical treasures...(hard cover) 1. Mines and mineral resourcesāNorth CarolinaāHistory. I. Title. TN24.N8P74 2005 338.4ā7622ā09756ādc22...Domestic Mica Buying Policy 111 20. Western North Carolina & the War Years .119 21. The Mineral Kingdom |  | | Report (issue) | | .......................................... North Carolina..................................................................................... South Carolina.................................................Adams Gap and Shinbone Creek Roadless Areas, Clay County, Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey OpenFile Report...and Adams Gap RARE II Further Planning Area, Clay County, Alabama: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report...Adams Gap and Shinbone Creek Roadless Areas, Clay County, Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous |  | | Journal (issue) | | contains some coal that was mined in Cumberland County in the late 1800's. The Valley coal fields lie...counties by a series of thrust faults. In Wise County the Pigeon Creek flexure and the Powell Valley...that extends northeastward from Kentucky into Wise County. The coal occurs in a sequence of sandstone, siltstone...Formation, which is exposed at the surface in Tazewell County. This formation is present in the subsurface in...shown in Figure 2. It contains three prominent quartz arenite beds 100 to 450 feet (30 to 137 m) thick |
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