 | | Report (issue) | | Piedmont Part 9. Thomaston-Barnesville District, Georgia Part 10. Outlying Deposits in Georgia GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Piedmont Part 9. Thomaston-Barnesville District, Georgia Part 10. Outlying Deposits in Georgia By E. WM. HEINRICH... C. - Price $1.50 (Paper) CONTENTS Part 9. Thomaston-Barnesville district, Ga_ ----------Abstract____...___ History _ _________________________________ Mine workings and mining methods _ ________ Production...________________________ Upson County ___ _ ________________________ Bell mine. _____________________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | _ Sulfide minerals ___ ______ _______ ___ _ Tourmaline _______________________ _ Other accessory minerals...pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ ...between pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight mine ______ _______________...of granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 9. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEORGIA Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX JENNINGS...JENNINGS B. GORDON, JR. P . O . Box 6214 Rome, Georgia 30162 Although perhaps best known for its gold, rutUe...rutUe, and staurolite (the state mineral), Georgia has, in fact, almost two hundred mineral species. ...have been reported and verified from the state of Georgia. The index has been compiled from the literature...be either a report on the economic geology of Georgia or a field guide for lapidaries, it excludes commercial |  | | Report (issue) | | GEORGIA STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES. MINING AND GEOLOGY GARLAND PEYTON, Director...BULLETIN NUMBER 48 MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF GEORGIA By A. S. FURCRON Assistant State Geologist and...< "'< Sheet Mica from the Early-Vaughn mine, Lamar County. J '\ LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL DEPARTMENT...herewith Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin No. 48, "The Mica-Bearing Pegmatites of Georgia," by Dr....connection with the prosecution of the present war. Georgia is one of four or five states in the nation which |  | | Book (edition) | | ONYX • PERIDOT* • ZIRCON • CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • • AMETHYST URINE • •... lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^ RUTILE SAPPHIRE 1^ TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS 4 GEM hunter's GUIDE...six or eight different gem as color, its tourmaline may B are, in fact, A blue gem minerals...found many of stones, such as quartz amethyst, tourmaline, beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose |  | | Report (issue) | | FRONT COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF............................................. 170 County Index ...........................................Page Table 1. Classification and composition of Georgia minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 |  | | Book (volume) | | Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes it the...highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the Lookout...mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily divides into five major physiographic provinces...The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries of Gold... some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively prospected for gold since colonial |  | | Report (issue) | | STATE GEORGIA DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY A. S. Furcron, Director...Bulletin Number 79 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEORGIA GEOLOGY THROUGH 1959 by Howard Ross Cramer, Arthur...James George Lester Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia ATLANTA 1967 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Department...Governor of Georgia and Commissioner Ex-Officio State Division of Conservation Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Dear...and Geology entitled, "Annotated Bibliography of Georgia Geology Through 1959," by Drs. Howard R. Cramer |  | | Report (issue) | | GEORGIA STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY A. S. FURCRON, Director...Governor of Georgia and Commissioner Ex-Officio State Division of Conservation Atlanta, Georgia Dear Governor...report contains a number of articles prepared by Georgia geologists and by some geologists working outside...Structure of an Area in the Vicinity of Adairsville, Georgia, by K. Spalvins -·-------·--------------·-----...of the Murphy Marble Belt in Parts of Northern Georgia, by William M. Fairley ------------------------------------------ |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................122 Georgia .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................122 Georgia .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some...the littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...in tin-tungsten deposits (such as the Panasquiera mine) and is a constituent of granite, aplite, gneiss...from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This is typical of the specimens...cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Barbara Muntyan specimen |  | | Book | | _ _ .... ____________________ ..... CHAPTER 11 Georgia 1 CHAPTER 12 Alabama 0 0 . . . . . . . . _...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...y ' s f i r s t g o l d r u s h a t Dahlonega, Georgia. S o m u c h gold w a s f o u n d b y eager prospectors...t a r t o f t h e C i v i l W a r . O t h e r Georgia counties a n d n e i g h b o r i n g s t a t e...f gold! Gold c a n s t i l l be f o u n d i n Georgia a n d i n t h e r i v e r s a n d streams o f i |  | | Report (issue) | | data for mica specimens, arranged by lot and by mine or prospect-_-___--_-___-_-.___---___-_____--_ Results..._______________ 13. Test data for mica (not identified by mine), taken from the production line of the Colonial...at least 850 deposits in the States of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia....apatite, garnet, pyrite and other sulfides, quartz, tourmaline, zircon, zoisite, and other minerals can be removed...from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama were determined and then were correlated |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such... *' ^ *D * D } '<&*=> 4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet...IOLITE SPHALERITE RUBY i^b TOPAZ CRYSTALS TOURMALINE CRYSTALS (Cro»$-$«ction ot righl) ^ \b7 CHRYSOBERYL...of feldspar that make parallel to is and tourmaline, and the pearly cleavage unmistakable. Kunzite...aquamarine, topaz, tourmaline, cyanite, or apatite. Conversely, such a chameleon as tourmaline may be found |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state... \ °* A DEMCO 38-297 KEY 4& Diamond M Tourmaline fQl Ruby, O Sapphire Quartz crystal 'y^...Every year brings news of a lucky strike gem tourmaline by the bushel basketful in Maine and California;... V. IOLITE SAPPHIRE ^ KYANITE SPHALERITE TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS (Cross-section ot right)...of the crystal are characteristic of topaz and tourmaline, and the pearly cleavage of feldspar is unmistakable |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Indiana 46408 Abstracl Mica crystals from the Tourmaline Queen mine have monocrystalline muscovite cores surrounded...associated zoned tourmaline, consisting of schorl cores surrounded by alkali tourmaline, suggests that...within complex pegmatites associated with zoned tourmaline. Lepidolite ,typically contains 4.O to 7.7 percent...investigation were collected from the dump of the Tourmaline Queen mine (located on Queen Mountain ca 3 km north...lepidolite flakes, massive quattz, prismatic tourmaline crystals, and albite. The albite generally appears |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...it a veritable not just a picof informa- is mine tion, telling everything the collector needs to...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it should...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic |  | | Book (volume) | | 5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...Illinois. Detailed information on the State of Georgia was supplied by Dr. A. S. Furcron, Chief Geologist...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...operator of the Little Three Mine at Ramona, and Ralph R. Potter of the Himalaya Mine at Mesa Grande provided |  | | Book | | difficult task. On the Cover: Old Chestnut Flat Mine, around 1930 Names of the Miners: L-R: Emmett Duncan...inspects remnants of the muck car at Colberts Creek Balsam Mica Mine on August 23, 1997. The small hole in...in the center is all that is left ofan old mica mine in Western North Carolina. Another 100 years, and...he was using. The clay came from a site in Macon County, then called the Joree Mountains, now called the...with a group of men and equipment. He located the mine and purchased five tons of the precious clay from | | | Book | | not just a picture book. Rather, it is a veritable mine of information, telling everything the collector...you If you plan to vIsIt an operating quarry or mine where a permll Is required make the necessary arrangements...LAKE BAILEY N I DELAWARE MINE DUMPS IOATOUTE CHLORASTROUTEI 2 AMYGDAlOID MINE DUMPS 3 AGATE HARBOR (AGATES...(AGATES THOMSONITE ON BEACH\ )l MUD VLAKE TO MANDAN MINE - HARD SURFACE Field drawing to locate a collecting...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque |  | | Journal (issue) | | prospectors may pan a little color by James R. Mitchell GEORGIA GOLD Panning locations in the home state...order plus postal charges at cost. Residents of Georgia add 4% to all items. 1985 GEM CATALOG FREE ON...showing 300 gold sites in North Carolina, 500 in Georgia, 200 in Virginia, 140 in Alabama and 130 in South...out, bite, and loot very closely at abandoned old mine dumps and prospect pits. Make sure that the dumps... Frequently , new locations are referred to by county only, and in not just a few instances, simply the |  | | Report (issue) | | * Gold was discovered in the region in Powell County in 1852. Mining began in the 1860's, and since...Stemple-Gould district Finn district Marysville (Silver Creek) district Black Mountain-Stemwinder Hill subregion...Mineral deposits Ophir (Showshoe-Carpenter Creek) distirct Dog Creek area Austin district Stemwinder Hill area...Mineral deposits Montana City district McClellan-Mitchell district Warm Springs district iv Golconda area...Indian Creek district Silver Wave vicinity Giant Hill Diamond Hill Morning Glory Indian Creek placers |  | | Journal (issue) | | produced superb and very large gem crystals of tourmaline, beryl, topaz and many other highly prized gem...effect. PO Box 93070-19, Pasadena, CA 91109 Outside USA send $8.00 US Funds PLANNING A * Take a GEMBOOK...Tremolite Ollgoc:lue Serpentlnite Gnetu Black Tourmaline Parfitt Graph,tt is based on the idea that a...operation. Wykoff in Master Faceting Horn Corel Tourmaline - xi portion llvant Ruby Corundum - xi Chkmte...about the places where opal has been found - how to mine opal - how to cut and polish the rough stones - |  | | Journal (issue) | | COVER ... I -- Pictured on our cover are a magni- County, California; Baja California and ficent faceted...specimen Gem Mine, Benitoite Mine, Gem of this material, both through the Mine and Dallas Mine have been...copyright 1981 by Harold and Erica use Gem Mine . Benitoite Gem Mine Van Pelt, Photographers, Los Angeles,...minerals, baotite and fresknown as the Sapphire Mine. Some of noite, all found in a single block of the...preliminary paper in 1907, followed by extending the mine deeper. a classic paper in 1909 on the mineraTwinning |
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