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Quartz from
Fall Branch 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 Fall Branch Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:881358
Long-form Identifier:1:3:881358:9
GUID (UUID V4):a128b4ba-bbc2-4e84-aa49-ef3477b30afb
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.1km (0.0 miles) Grapevine Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Slippery Elm Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Friel Vance Mine (Freel Vance Mine; Jose Camina MIne), Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Johnson Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Emmons Knob Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Plumtree Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Benfield Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Field Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Hoppey Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) A Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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.__________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
500-mile-long state situated mainly between 35° and 36.6° 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)
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)
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 ........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
presentpaperdeals. FxG. x. View of Ballard (Krebs) barite mine, Sweetwater district, showing bedrock pinnacles...the district,but in only one, the Ballard (Krebs) Mine, five miles eastof Sweetwater,are the vein depositswell...depositsof the Fall Branch district of upper East Tennessee,and those of Cocke County, where well-fo...mmonlyaccompanies the vein deposits in the Fall Branch,district,upperEast Tennessee, s but it should...y replaced by euhedralcrystals of dolomite. (• quartz. X 5o. Igneousrocksare not known in the Sweetwaterdistrict
Report (volume)
district, Calhoun County: 2, 65, 102, 118. 2. r Beaver Creek Valley, St. Clair County and Greens Valley...Valley, Etowah County: 2, 102, 118. 3. r Leeds, Jefferson County: 2, 102. 4. r Longview-Saginaw district...district, Shelby County: 2, 102. 5. r Sinks district, Bibb County: 2, 28, 54, 67, 74, 102, 118, 143. 6. v Southeastern...Southeastern corner, Cherokee County: 1, 2, 54, 74, 102. 7. v Southern Cleburne County: 1, 2, 54, 74, 102. 8...Vincent-Harpersville-Wilsonville district, Shelby County: 2, 54, 102. ARIZONA General: 4, 8, 13, 43, 85
Report (issue)
Current mineral economy, by Albert E. Schreck and Avery H. Reed, Jr ___________________________ _ Relationship...265 Tripoli and rottenstone__ __ _____ ___ __ 266 Quartz abrasives____________________ 266 Artificial a...____ Districts in Appalachia__________________ North Carolina_____________________ South Carolina_____________________...___________ Ne~ 1:ork_________________________ North Carolina__ _ ________ __ ______ __ Ohio________...sulfides____________________________ Sulfide-bearing quartz veins__________ Native copper deposits __________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
distinctivebarite occurrences in the Del Rio district,Cocke County, Tennessee,were recognized previously onthe basisof...detaileddescriptions of the stratigraphicand structural setting,mine locations,mining historyand production,vein mineralogy...Tennessee (Laurence, 1960), Stackhouse-HotSprings, North Carolina(Dahners,1949;Oriel, 1950;Stuckey,1942), and...Rio and Fall Branch-Greeneville districtsand in isolatedworkings suchas the Lost Creek mine (Fig. 1)...commonlyas concentrated residual deposits(Sweetwater,Fall Branch- 91 92 D. J, TIEMAN AND O. C. KOPP KENTUCKY
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
black coating on chert. The writer also found small quartz crystals with the graphite in one clay bank. The...velvety-black specimen is basanite, a variety of quartz. A common name for basanite is touchstone. ARIZONA—From...mile west of the community of Levesque in Cross County. This locality may also be given as 6 miles east...— "Please identify the green inclusions in this quartz specimen? It comes from Woodbury, Litchfield Co...Parker, R.F.D. 1, Woodbury, Conn. The dark smoky quartz mass contains bright green thin plates of green
Report (issue)
the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity, North Carolina and Tennessee By BRUCE BRYANT and JOHN C. REED...and hornblende schist ______ _ 12 12 12 12 17 Quartz monzonite gneiss ----------- -----Phyllonite and...20 Beech Granite -----------------------------Quartz monzonite gneiss _____________________ Aegirine-augite...Bakersville Gabbro ------------------------ 41 Quartz porphyry --------------------------- 45 Chilhowee...Chilhowee Group --------------------------- 45 Slices north of the Grandfather Mountain window ------------
Journal (issue)
.................................. AvENTURIN E QUARTZ FROM INDIA .......................... ...........···································· GAP NICKEL MINE ···············································......................................... CHESTER COUNTY, PENN., RUTlLE ..................................in the southern part of the state (in N . Pinal County). The occurrence is quite interesting in that...calcite ·with the MineraJight, the ore veins of the mine, copper and gold, ,vere located. The calcite does
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
inclusionsin sphalerite,fluorite, dolomite,and quartz from East Tennesseehomogenizedat 82ø-149ø C. Most...eglobulesof oil. The exceptionsinclude several quartz, fluorite, calcite, and barite samplesthat containedonly...3-ram cube fromrug,enclosingmany small crystals of quartz andcarbonate, some ofwhich serve tooutline thegrowth...methane. Coy mine, had three large primary inclusionsin it. Fro. 3. Fluorite, Coy Mine, Mascot-JeffersonCity...samesample. ER 65-114. Fro. 4. Fluorite, Ballard mine, Sweetwater barite district, East Tennessee. Both
Report (issue)
of the Great Smoky Mountains Tennessee and North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY This volume was published...OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, TENNESSEE AND NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 349-D...beneath Great Smoky fault________----_-__ Syncline north of Chilhowee Mountain. _______ Guess Creek fault...OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, TENNESSEE AND NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY OF THE WESTERN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS...were derived from a crystalline source toward the north and transported down steep slopes into a poorly
Journal (volume)
challenging research problems in this important branch. Since the publication of the 1938 volume, nine...Howarop I. Surru. (T.P. 1489) Bald Eagle Magnesite Mine, California. By Josepu B. Perry and G. M. Kirwan...209 Oe eee Convergence of Roof and Floor in the Mine of the United States Potash Company. ByviGAlbinr...M. M. LErcHton P. M. TYLER J. R. THOENEN 1942 Fall Meeting H. A. ReEtcHenBacH, Chairman . H. BEHRE...white rock was regarded as a potential magnesite mine. The complete ignorance of the many producers as
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pre-MiddleOrdovicianunconformity at the Lost Creekbarite mine in Union County; (2) baritein basalMiddleOrdovicianbeds(AthensShaleand...the Trotter prospectnear DouglasDam in Sevier County; and (4) oolitic hematiteand pyritiferousbedsnear...laminated breccia sphalerite at the Lost Creek mine in Union County; matrix that conformsto beddingin the countryrock...reportedthat the ore mineralsare also Dam in Sevier County; and (4) oolitichematiteand brecciated. Hill and...GeologicalSurvey. 792 Lost Creek Barite Mine, Union County Brief accounts(Finlayson,1961,p. 5; Maher
Report (volume)
applications to be made direct to MINERALS SEPARATION NORTH CORPORATION AMERICAN Head Office, Engineering...Canada THE MINES HANDBOOK Meeting tbe Needs of Mine and Smelter Hundreds of plants on both American...(all types) Crushers Crushing Rolls NEW YORK Mine Pumps Oil Engines Sampling Machinery Screens Stamp...all the metals, and a corresponding expansion of mine work. The MINES HANDBOOK will hereafter be published...Tuckahoe, N. Y., April, 1920. Vll THE MINES MINE HOISTS HANDBOOK AND Years of experience in building
Report (issue)
fluorite, calcite, dolomite, and cryptocrystalline quartz) has been considered a characteristic of individual...associated minerals include fluorite, calcite, dolomite, quartz, iron sulfides, celestite, and gypsum. Other common...Table 1 according to abundance or major product in a mine or district, with minor or by-product commodities...limits used for the preliminary metallogenic map of North America (Guild, 1981). The size limits, in metric... zinc and barite distribution can be seen from north to south. All of the large barite deposits that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright ¢2, 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/97 $17.00 + .00 Pergamon...48109-1063, USA 2Department of Geology, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri 65401-0249. USA (Received...water line (Fig. 1 ). The 6D values of Gays River fall below those observed in the Upper Mississippi Valley...Greeneville-Fall Branch barite-fluorite (-sphalerite) districts (Fig. 2). Farther to the north in Virginia...-51.0 NA NA NA NA NA NA Sphalerite Greenville-Fall Branch GFJN3-BA NA -65.0 3 4 . 9 26.3 -22.1 12.4 -36
Report (volume)
1922 The FLOTATION PROCESS MINERALS SEPARATION NORTH CORPORATION AMERICAN owns or controls over seventy...applications to be made direct to MINERALS SEPARATION NORTH CORPORATION AMERICAN Head Office, Engineering...California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE • MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments...Compressor NEW YORK Crushing Rolls Air Compressors Mine Pumps Ball Mills Blast Furnaces Oil Engines Screens...considered to be working the public and not the mine. Many suspicious promotions are however not positively
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 876 COAL DEPOSITS OF PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY BY CHARLES B. HUNT, GUY H. BRIGGS,...and altitudes of coal beds in division 1, Pike County, Ky._.__.___.____.______..________ In pocket 2...and altitudes of coal beds in division 2, Pike County, Ky____________________.______________ In pocket...and altitudes of coal beds in division 3, Pike County, Ky__,________________________________ In pocket...and altitudes of coal beds in division 4, Pike County, Ky___________________________________ In pocket
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
significantly less radiogenic than that found in other North Appalachians, whichextendroughly fromthe Virginia-TenValley-type...Botetourt County,6 = Austinville, 7 = Russell-Tazewell, 8 = Marion,9 = Greeneville-Fall Branch, 10 = CopperRidge...close,dueto the highinfluxof groundwaterintothe mine. replacing barite.The rare occurrences of chalcopyrite...havebeendeposited early,though inclusions in the Bowers-Campbell mine, estimatedfrom smalleramounts persisted intolaterstages...withcrystalline melting standards. 1 levelof the mine(Gray,1961).In the Timbervilledistrict,a Freezingpoint
Report (volume)
.............. North Carolina.................................................. North Dakota ................................................. South Carolina.................................................transcontinental line at Odin, Illinois. A short branch from this line extends toMemphis, Tennessee. The...Kansas, following the line of the Kansas Pacific branch of the U nion Pacific Eailroad, and terminates...Railroad. A. & N. C. R. R ......... Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad. A., T. & S. F. R. R ...... Atchison
Report (volume)
Mahoning sandstone, Little Ice Creek, Lawrence County, Ohio...... 14 IV. General sections, showing the...coal (Kentucky No. 6) in northern part of Boyd County..................................................4) and Torchlight (Kentucky No. 3) coals in Boyd County.............---.....-.......; 10. 11. 12. 13. 14...is within Kentucky, including the whole of Boyd County, the larger part of Lawrence, and parts of Carter...Ky. A small part of Wayne County, W. Va., and the south end of Lawrence County, Ohio, make up the remainder
Book
many buildings and other structures throughout North America. Limestone from other parts of Indiana became...cross.The road routes run from east to west and north to south, but are written so they serve those traveling...roadlogs and are arranged in the same east-west, north-south order as the roadlogs. The thirteen geographic...rocks began as a shallow sea flooded across inland North America at the beginning of Cambrian time, about...shale z Ellsworth shale Antrim shale o > LLJ North Vernon limestone Jeffersonville limestone Traverse
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case we have failed to trace the copynght holder. NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY Adapted from JVlvdem Physical...12- 13 After Orme, T/11,> Physirnl Geography ef North America, Oxford, 2002. 17 (top) Adapted fron1 "Groundwater...1958. 23 After Orme, The Physical Geography ef North America, Oxford, 2002. 2-1 From H . Driver et a... c:.1pturi11g C\t'r) rhing fron1 creek beds to county line~. this ,ttl.h otTcr-; up-to-d.1te. precise...thJt arc cxpl,1111cd 111 bnl'C belovv. U.S. & NORTH AMERICAN STATISTICS U.S. sta tistical d ata showing
 
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