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Muscovite from
Pickens County, South Carolina, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:948608
Long-form Identifier:1:3:948608:9
GUID (UUID V4):bbba9216-dcfc-430a-a401-4c125f5489a6
Localities for Muscovite in this Region
B. E. Woodson Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
C. H. Ellis Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Davis Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
G. F. Fuller Deposit, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Harvey Harper Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Head Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
John Walker Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Josie McMadden Deposit, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Kirksey Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Liberty Quarry (Beverly Quarry), Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Mattie Falls Deposit, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
McComb Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Meece Mine, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Morgan Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Murphrie Deposit, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Robinson Prospects, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Ross Morgan Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
7.3km (4.5 miles) G. F. Fuller Deposit, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) C. H. Ellis Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
8.4km (5.2 miles) B. E. Woodson Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
8.9km (5.5 miles) Liberty Quarry (Beverly Quarry), Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
13.4km (8.3 miles) R. S. Berry Prospect, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA
16.2km (10.1 miles) John Walker Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
17.8km (11.1 miles) Will Cleveland Prospect, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA
17.9km (11.1 miles) Josie McMadden Deposit, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
18.4km (11.4 miles) W. F. Holloway & J. J. Brown Prospects, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA
18.6km (11.5 miles) McComb Prospect, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
GUIDE TO THE GEOLOGY OF PICKENS AND OCONEE COUNTIES, SOUTH CAROLINACAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD...FIELD TRIP OCTOBER 26-27, 1963 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Guidebook for 1963 Annual Meeting Pages 1-7...1-7 GUIDE TO THE GEOLOGY OF PICKENS AND OCONEE COUNTIES, SOUTH CAROLINA C. J. Cazeau Department of Geology...rock complex of the westernmost portion of South Carolina, where the Piedmont and Blue Ridge physiographic...past three years by Brown in Pickens County and Cazeau in Oconee County. The overall geologic setting
Report (issue)
. ~ Residual boulders of massive kyanite, Pickens County. ·~· LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Department of...known only from India were discovered in Cherokee, Pickens, and Dawson counties. Both of these minerals are...-- _ SILLIMANITE IN TOWNS COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND CLAY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA--------------------------Location...Frontispiece. Residual boulders of massive kyanite, Pickens County. Figure 1. Sillimanite crystals in biotite...Hart County ________________ 14 Figure 2. Oglethorpe formation, on Burnt Mountain, Pickens County, containing
Report (issue)
Ridge, 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...Blue Ridge, South Carolina and North Carolina October 12-14, 2012 Greenville, South Carolina Guidebook...Guidebook for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Carolina Geological Society 73rd Annual Meeting Founded at...Ranson Carolina Geological Society Board of Directors 2012 President Scott Howard South Carolina Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PETROLOGY OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA GRANITES' THOMAS LEONARD WATSON Brooks Museum, University of Virginia...OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE CRYSTALLINE AREA The South Carolina area of crystalline rocks extends northwestward...Director of the U. S. Geological Survey. 2 South Carolina Geological Survey, 1908, Series IV, Bull. No...No. 2, p. 505. 730 PETROLOGY OF SOUTH CAROLINA GRANITES 73I position and texture the gneisses...quartz and mica (biotite with frequently some muscovite), much microcline and some acid plagioclase (oligoclase)
Report (issue)
GEOCHEMISTRY AND ORIGIN OF PEGMATITES CHEROKEE-PICKENS DISTRICT, GEORGIA Alexander J. Gunow and Gregory...Creek, Cherokee County. THE GEOCHEMISTRY AND ORIGIN OF PEGMATITES CHEROKEE-PICKENS DISTRICT, GEORGIA......... ... .. . .... . ...... ........... 13 Muscovite Chemistry .. .. ...... .. . . ....................... .. 21 Chemical Zonation in Color-Zoned Muscovite ................ . .. ............................. 26 Trace Element Distribution in Biotite-Muscovite Pairs ....... .. . .... ...... ........ . ...
Report (issue)
Purpose _ __ _ _ _ _ STRATIGRAPHY Metamorphic Belts Carolina Series Definition Gneiss Facies _ _ Schist Facies...from the vicinity of Tate and Marble Hill in Pickens County. Talc, ground for fillers and cut into pencils...obtained from Fort and Cohutta mountains in Murray county. Sheet mica is produced from many districts in...suitable for grinding is produced at Hartwell in Hart County. The kyanite-mica schists of Rabun and Habersham...for many years. Chlorite and sericite mined in Pickens and Cherokee counties are ground and sold as fillers
Report (issue)
"'< Sheet Mica from the Early-Vaughn mine, Lamar County. J '\ LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL DEPARTMENT OF...pegmatite---------------------------------------Muscovite --------------------------------------------------Biotite...Counties---,----------------------------Cherokee and Pickens Counties------------------------------------Lumpkin...Counties------------------------------------Rabun County ------------------------------------------------Hart...Monroe Counties------------------------------Upson County -----------------------------------------------T
Report (volume)
The Crystalline Rocks of South Carolina By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces of South Carolina UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,...and Precambrian(?) age_______________________ Carolina slate belt_________________________________________...Argillite__________________________________________ Muscovite schist___________________________________ Qua...Cherryville Quartz Monzonite_______________________ Muscovite pegmatite_______________________________ Unnamed
Report (issue)
NEAR SCHOOL HOUSE, LOT 110, 15th DJST., DeKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA, SHOWING PEGMATITE DIKE IN MICA SCHIS'.............................................. . Carolina gneiss .................................................................................... . Carolina gneiss ............................................... . Baldwin County .......................................... . Warren County .............................................. . Columbia County .......................................... . Other counties
Report (issue)
COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing........................................... 143 Muscovite .......................................................................................... 170 County Index ...........................................from Washington and Bleck ley counties to Irwin county. Some minerals described herein have never been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other large...the Black Hills of South Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches...noted in the School Section pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut...pink and green crystals at Ohio City, Gunnison county, Colorado; dark green, pink, and indicolite tourmalines...tourmalines from pegmatites near Keystone, South Dakota; deep blue tourmalines at the Chickering mine near
Report (issue)
SLIDING AND PUSHING TO THE SOUTH: GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE OF THE PALEOZOIC THRUST STACK AND HINTERLAND-DIRECTED...HENDERSON COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA, AND GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA Carolina Geological Society – Guidebook...Annual Meeting October 4-6, 2019 Travelers Rest, South Carolina Leaders: John M. Garihan, Scott Brame, and...coordinators: Tyler Clark and William A. Ranson Carolina Geological Society 2019 Board of Directors President...Merschat - USGS Vice-President Robby Morrow - South Carolina Geological Survey Secretary Treasurer Timothy
Report (issue)
FRONTISPIECE-PLATE I OLD DEVER QUARRY, ROCKMART, POLK COUNTY, WHILE OPERATED BY THE GEORGIA SLATE COMPANY, BETWEEN...of potash, I spent two weeks examining the Pickens .County deposits. Since that time I have made several...deposits ............................... . Polk County ................................................................................ 104-128 Bartow County .................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Gordon County .... , .......................................
Report (edition)
ON THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD, GILMER COUNTY, GEORGIA. . . " -.. ~. . ~- .. _ .......chapter on the serpentine deposits of Cherokee County, known to the trade as V erd Antique marble. Care...OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MARBLE INDUSTRY IN PICKENS COUNTY, GEORGIA .. (I) Tht:! Georgia Marble Company...GEOLOGY ..... 31-34 CHAPTER IV MARBLES OF FANNIN COUNTY. ................... 35-43 Description of Individual... . . . . . 35-43 CHAPTER V MARBLES OF GILMER COUNTY ..................... 44-48. Description of Individual
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Providence County, Rhade I s W at 3e&lehern, New Hampshire: near Watertown, Litchficld County, Connecticut;...quarry, Wrightsvilk, Yurk County; the Safe Harbor quarry, Lancavter County; the H. J. Smith quarry, where...the UniversaLAtias Cement Company quarry, Monroe County, where it occurs with tahular brown brookite. Historically...Historically, it has been fouud at Arvon, Buckinghatn County, Virginia. SmaH but excellent anatase crystals...University] at 09:27 07 January 2015 several North Carolina localities. Dark blue to black crystals to I cm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intergranular spaces. Platy minerals such as muscovite are sometimes present and probably add support.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.3. South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.4. North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...based on the later work of Lieber (1858) in South Carolina. Eschwege’s work caused much interest when...who noted that the itacolumite he found in South Carolina gradually passed into sandstone. When Orville
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...corundum, muscovite, quartz (Hurst, 1956c). Wood pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line:...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8...Rise KOA—0.85 km south of 1-85 on U . S . 441 near Commerce: beryl, garnet, muscovite. Downloaded by
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIC NOTES Volume 13 October 1969 Number 4 Carolina Geological Society Guidebook October 3-5, 1969...1969 A Guide to the Geology of Northwestern South Carolina...............................................Migmatitic Inner Piedmont Belt of Northwestern South Carolina Villard S. Griffin, Jr.......................Part of the Blue Ridge of Northwesternmost South Carolina Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.................................................... ............. 11 Carolina Geological Society 1969 Field Trip Stops #1 through
Report (edition)
Each article was read, annotated, and indexed by county, subject, and stratigraphic interval where applicable...where the area involved was larger than that of a county, subdivisions of the state, based upon physiographic...published by the Academy from various places. NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. CONSERV. AND DEVEL. DIV. MINERAL RESOURCES...the Division of Mineral Resources of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, published...published by the Department from Raleigh, North Carolina. PALAEONTOGRAPHICA, ABT. B. Palaeontographica
Book (edition)
the con dition of affairs, more especially in the South and in the States and Ter ritories of the far West...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...extends from the south prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance...distance of 60 miles. Down to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below...being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater thickness
Report (issue)
-----------------------------------Kyanite in Pickens and Cherokee counties........ ----------------..._______________________________________ Talbot CountY-----------------------------------------------...-----------------------------Kyanite in Fulton County, by Geoffrey W. Crickmay -----------------,------...--------···---------------------------·-North Carolina.. -------------------------·--···············........ · 41 41 41 42 43 43 44 VI Page Towns CountY-----------------------------------------------
Report (volume)
...... 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County........................................................ Light-gray muscovite granite of the Fredericksburg area........ Dark......... Chesterfield County (south of James River)................ Henrico County (north of James River)......................................... Fairfax County area ............................................Edward counties..................... Charlotte County...............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cumberland County, Maine. Blue-bladed crystals to 2.5 cm long occur at Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts...at Ratlum Mountain, Hartford County, and at Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Kyanite associated...Prospect Park area, Delaware County, and at East Bradford, Chester County, Pennsylvania; crystal groups...Willis mountains and other sites in Buckingham County, Virginia, although none of the localities are...across occur about 12 kilometers south of Lynchburg, Campbell County (Dietrich 1990). Masses of blue kyanite
Report (issue)
Descriptions of deposits. ________________________ Upson County ___ _ ________________________ Bell mine. ____...Continued Descriptions of deposits— Continued Upson County—Continued Blount No. 1 mine __ _____________ ——...Field work and acknowledgments- ___ Cherokee and Pickens Counties __ _______________ General features_-...Outlying deposits in Georgia—Continued Cherokee and Pickens Counties—Continued Descriptions of deposits_______-_____________..._____ Amphlett (Franklin) mine _______________ South. Amphlett prospect________________ Other mines and
Report (edition)
Each article was read , annotated , and indexed by county , subject, and stratigraphic interval where applicable...where the area involved was larger than that of a county , subdivisions of the state, based upon physiographic...published by the Academy from various places. NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. CONSERV. AND DEVEL . DIV . MINERAL...the Division of Mineral Resources of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development,...published by the Department from Raleigh, North Carolina . PALAEONTOGRAPHICA, ABT. B. Palaeontographica
 
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