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Big Bess Mine (M. S. Bess Mine; M. M. Carpenter Mine), Gaston Co., North Carolina, USA

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Big Bess Mine (ca. 1943)

Big Bess Mine (M. S. Bess Mine; M. M. Carpenter Mine), Gaston Co., North Carolina, USA

The Big Bess mine pegmatite lies nearly flat at the level of the shovel. Material at higher levels is partly decomposed schist with thin pegmatite stringers. Circa 1943. Figure 51, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional Paper 248, 1953. Photo courtesy of USGS.
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