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Graphite from
King Mine, Ashland Graphite, Clay County, Alabama, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Graphite
Formula:C
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Graphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view King Mine, Ashland Graphite, Clay County, Alabama, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:959193
Long-form Identifier:1:3:959193:6
GUID (UUID V4):037073f4-8600-4498-b17e-ae196912b19b
Nearest other occurrences of Graphite
1.3km (0.8 miles) Monitor Mine, Alabama Tin Belt, Clay County, Alabama, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) American Mine, Ashland Graphite, Clay County, Alabama, USA
4.3km (2.6 miles) Peerless Mine, Carbon Mountain, Ashland Graphite, Clay County, Alabama, USA
4.4km (2.8 miles) Carbon Mountain Mine, Carbon Mountain, Ashland Graphite, Clay County, Alabama, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Griessemer Mine, Ashland Graphite, Clay County, Alabama, USA
7.5km (4.7 miles) May Brothers No. 1 area, Ashland Graphite, Clay County, Alabama, USA
8.0km (4.9 miles) Alabama No. 1 Mine, Ashland Graphite, Clay County, Alabama, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) Axton-Noe Mine, Ashland Graphite, Clay County, Alabama, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) Pocahontas Mine (Alabama Flake Graphite Company), Ashland Graphite, Clay County, Alabama, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) Walter S. Smith property, Ashland Graphite, Clay County, Alabama, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GRAPHITE DEPOSITS OF ASHLAND, ALABAMA? JOHN S. BROWN. CONTENTS. Introduction .....................themetamorphic rocks ................................ Graphite ...................................................... Massive graphite andgraphite veins ................................. Graphite inTalladega slate...belt. 2 Two areas,the moreimportantone entirelyin Clay • Society of EconomicGeologists,New York Meeting...Surv.of Alabama, •923, PP. t3, 98. 208 GRAPHITE DEPOSITS OF ASHLAND, ALABAMA. 209 County,the other
Report (issue)
Definition Quartzite Biotite Gneiss Mica Schist _ ___ Graphite Schist Marble Little River Series ___ _ Definition...talc, kyanite, ground mica, sand and gravel, and clay products, are valued at $6,505,052. Of this total...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
Report (issue)
.. . .......... ... ................. Shale and clay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clay ................................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clay, sand and gravel, and fill material . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Strategic Graphite A Survey By EUGENE N. CAMERON and PAUL L. WEIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY...___________________-__--_---__------__--____________ The graphite problem--__-_____-----------------_---_._____...occurrence of natural graphite._-_.._._.___ Minerals associated with various types of graphite.____________________...production.________________________ Geology of graphite deposits in the United States__-_._________--...deposits in carbonate rocks._________________ Graphite resources and reserves.__________________________________
Report (volume)
more extensive deposits of some others, such as clay, coal, and iron ore, are mentioned only in general...each of the States, the State lists begin with Alabama and end with Wyoming. Under each State the minerals...excellent museum specimens. Some mineral aggregates, as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included...statements regarding their respective States: Alabama.........Dr. Eugene A. Smith, University. Arkansas...compilation. ALABAMA. Aluminum. See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum
Report (volume)
......................................... 5 Alabama..................................................more extensive deposits of some others, such as clay, coal, and iron ore, are mentioned only in general...museum specimens. Some mineral aggregates, such as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included...form. 10 USEFUL MINERALS OF UNITED STATES ALABAMA. ALABAMA. Alum. See Halloysite. Aluminum. See Bauxite...Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Book (edition)
together. 9194 MIN 44 690 MINERAL RESOURCES. ALABAMA—Mined. Mineralogical name. Coal, var. bitu minous...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater
Book
: =: n 1871, shortly after the University Alabama reopened by Federal returned of after its...Alabamians. he accomplished transformed became Alabama the from What catalyst that an aimless and...“Little Doc,” as told in Eugene Allen Smith’s Alabama, sources: Smith’s is drawn from many transcribed...histories of the state and of the University of Alabama, and contemporary newspapers. How he accomplished...lush EUGENE ALLEN SMITH’S ALABAMA EUGENE ALLEN SMITH’S ALABAMA How a Geologist Shaped a State
Report (issue)
Four areas of peridotite near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Ark., were known at the time of the writer's visit...1908, pp. 187-194. Fuller, J. T., Diamond mine in Pike County, Ark.: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 87, 1909...C., and Brackett, E. N., The peridotite of Pike County, Ark.: Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser. vol. 38, 1889, pp...thinner. It consists of intercalated beds of marly clay, sand, gravel, and limestone. The principal bed...consists of intercalated beds of gravel, sand, and clay. The gravel occurs in several beds throughout the
Book (volume)
............... xi Mineral Locations by State Alabama ....................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map .....................................................................................2 Alabama Stream Map ............................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ..........................................
Report (issue)
aie! BARTLETT'S/27 FERRY FAULT } i GEORGIA ALABAMA sy .i % OP A iar an waeew ows mp ede eel (...CAROLINA ug 5; “A BARTLETT'S/.2 FERRY FAULT ? ALABAMA GEORGIA 50 . Lee 50 MILES SO KILOMETRES UNIVERSITY...this volume on the sulfide deposits of Georgia-Alabama. from does It has been the authors not involve...Appalachians in Paleorift the Southern Flank Alabama (Robert W. of Turkey Haven Schafer and J. Settings...Copper Anomaly at the Peachbottom Deposit, Alleghany County, North Carolina (John E. Callahan, J. Hatten Metal
Journal (issue)
M. Shaub Northampton, Massachusetts Vandall T. King State University of N...68 World News on Mineral Occurrences Vandall T. King 72 Thumbnails John Reiner 73 Chips and Bits...Prairie Creek j ust 10uth of Murfree• boro, Pike County, Arkansas. The near-oval shaped area is an enclosed...diatreme (volcanic pipe) near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas (The Crater of Diamonds State Park)....origin and derivation of mineral names. SO ROCKS AND MINE~ Natural Diamonds and Their Imperfections When
Report (issue)
Reconnaissance of the ore deposits in northern Yuma County, Ariz.: Bull. 451, 130 pp., 1911. 30c. -. The ore...geology and mining district'of Leadville, Lake County, Colo.: Second Ann. Rept, pp, 201-290, 1882. $2...pp., 1912. The Grand Gulch mining region, Mohave County, Ariz.: Bull. 580-D, pp. 39-58, 1914. Some mining...LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, and BANCROFT, ROWLAND, Ferry County, Republic (Eureka) district [Washington]: Bull...Independence quadrangle, Kansas [stone, lime, glass sand, clay] : Bull. 296, pp. 52-61, 1906. 50c. SCHULTZ, A.
Book (volume)
.................v Mineral Locations by State Alabama .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States ALABAMA Alabama comprises two geological regions. The northeast...are exposed and commercially mined in Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Randolph, Tallapoosa, and parts...series includes granites, schists (mica, garnet, graphite, quartz), and gneisses, as well as numerous granite
Book (volume)
.................v Mineral Locations by State Alabama .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States ALABAMA Alabama comprises two geological regions. The northeast...are exposed and commercially mined in Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Randolph, Tallapoosa, and parts...series includes granites, schists (mica, garnet, graphite, quartz), and gneisses, as well as numerous granite
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation,
Report (issue)
COLLABORATING STATE AGENCIES Geological Survey of Alabama, University, Ala. Department of :ty.lines, Mining...___ _ Resource potentiaL ____________________ _ Clay, by John W. Hosterman, Sam H. Patterson, J()hn W...Introduction __________________________ _ Miscellaneous clay and shale ____________ _ Types and occurrence ______________...______________ _ Resource potentiaL ________________ _ Fire clay _________ - _- _- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...potentiaL _____________ -_-Pottery and stoneware clay __________ ---Potassium-bentonite ________________
Report (issue)
deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...of deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent... Pyrrhotite appears to be been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills...(Malcolm, 1912), galena was widely considered by mine operators to be correlated with better gold grades...was described in a carbonate quartz veinlet in one mine in the Mother Lode system (Knopf, 1929). Method
Report (issue)
technical in£onnati6n relative to· the p~oduetion of Graphite v?ill form a part of the volume• or volmne.s on...especially mica,, whicl1 is freque,n tly present in graphite- deposits. The useis of grapl1ite, aJ.~e n ume1"0...aphites in about equaJ p1·oportio11s. A flake graphite of l1igh graphitecontent may be useless for lubricating...the trade sense, and refers to that variety of graphite in which the particles are so fine as to give...special p~oses and of different v.alue. CeJ1lo11 graphite is sold a1s l11mp, ·chip and · .d ust., there
Report (volume)
20, no. 7; vol. 21, nos. 1-3. St. Louis, Mo. . Alabama Geological Survey: Bulletin, no. 12. Montgomery...Bulletin, nos. 19, 21. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 6, nos...Olympia, Wash. West Virginia Geological Survey: County reports Doddridge-and Harrison counties. Morgantown...production of Alabama for 1910; compiled from Mineral Resources of the United States: Alabama Geol. Survey...Sketch of the geological history of Green Lake County, Wisconsin : School x Quart., Berlin, Wis., vol
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
KeIIy, New York State Geological Survey; Dr. Robert King, John Moore Countryside Museum; and Dr. George W...Dale, N. C. 1924. The box-vein of Lyomdale, Lewk County, New York. New York State Museum Bulletin 251:134-48...contains at least two other phases, one probably a clay mineral and the other a pale bluish glassy phase...exterior of the crystal is only 1-2 mm thick, and the clay occurs in a cavity in the pale blue mineral. The...Press. ON THE NATURAL OCCURRENCE OF SPHERICAL GRAPHITE. J. A. Janczuk, Department of Physics and the
Book (volume)
quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...exposures of blue clay, as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area
Book (volume)
quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...exposures of blue clay, as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area
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...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8...Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 Barrow County Arnold mine—1.6 km northeast of Statham, near the head­
Report (Issue volume)
State mineral production and mineral production by county were prepared in the Division of Statistics and...following cooperating organizations: Alabama: Geological Survey of Alabama. Alaska: Division of Geological...which 329), which placed the collection of min- Mine Safety and Health Administration), eral statistics...SECTION 1. Mine or group c011ered by this report. Name State____________ SECTION 2. County _ __ _ _... 441 • ~ C 0 Ill ,o, Please indicate any mine• opened or closed by your company during the month
 
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