 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | large variety of minerals and gemstones in North Carolina annually attracts thousands of collectors to...the world. Some Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina T H E C O L L E C T I N G L O C A L I T I E...McKenzie's publication Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina: Information Circular 24 (1978). For a more...locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can be ordered from the North Carolina Department...27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WILLIAM DIVISION JASPER P. OF L. SAUNDERS, MINERAL...RESOURCES GEOLOGIST Circular 16 LOCALITIES NORTH OF CAROLINA BY JAMES F. CONLEY Doc NC DENR LIBRARY...... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MINERAL COLLECTING IN NORTH CAROLINA , . . . . # . WHERE TO COLLECT f ... f ......THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY COUNTIES . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite .......ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 7 Emerald, Hiddenite and Associated Minerals f , 7 Rutile and Rutilated |  | | Report (issue) | | GENERAL FEATURES OF THE MAGNETITE ORES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EASTERN TENNESSEE.1 By W. S. BAYLEY. INTRODUCTION...DISTRIBUTION. The iron ores of western North Carolina and Carter County, Tenn., comprise brown hematite (limonite...magnetite (mixtures of magnetite with ilmenite or with rutile). Hematite alone also occurs, but the quantity...of North Carolina have increased in importance. Brown ore and magnetite produced in western North Carolina...353 60,593 43,483 44,482 o From reports of North Carolina Geol. and Econ. Survey and Mineral Resources |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Foote quarry make it a favorite with mineral collectors. The Foote Quarry, Kings Mountain, North Carolina...JACK HANAHAN Belmont Abbey College Belmont, North Carolina 28012 I N 1938 T H E F O O T E M I N E R A...Company spodu mene mine, hereafter called the Foote quarry, consisted of six small prospect pits, and there...outermost edges of the dumps. The quarry is located in Cleveland County in the tinspodumene belt that is...stretching from Gaffney, South Carolina, to Lincolnton, North Carolina. The material quarried is a qu |  | | Report (issue) | | Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE IN GARNET RUBY...CORUNDUM GOLD TORBERNITE GARNET IN MICA ANATASE RUTILE AJTUNITE AND TORBERNITE THULITE AND PYRITE ...Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North CarOlina Department of Natural Resources and Community...for the general welfare of the citizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts a number of basic and | | | Report (issue) | | Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist i ...FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian Institution (slide...viable mineral collecting sites through out North Carolina. Some sites are commercially operated during |  | | Report (issue) | | Map of the Kings Mountain Districtt North Carolina and South Carolina. «« . Structure Sketch Map of the...Mountain-flenry Knob aroa, Gaston County, North Carolina and York County* South Carolina. Geologic Map of tha...f Lincoln and Gaston Counties, North Carolina* Geologic J'ap of Henry Knob, Tork County, South C-rolina...property, Gaaton County, North Carolina Geologic Map of The Pinnacle, Gaston County, North Carolina Geologic...Geologic Hap of the North End of Clubb Mountain, Lincoln County, North Carolina Geologic map of the Will Khox |  | | Report (issue) | | THE LOS BURROS DISTRICT, MONTEREY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. By JAMES M. HILL. INTRODUCTION. The following...district, in the southwestern part of Monterey County, Calif., are based on observations made during...rugged Coast Range, near the south line of Monterey County, in Tps. 23 and 24 S., R. 25 E. Mount Diablo meridian...Monterey and San Luis Obispo. It is reached from King City, a station on the Coast Line of the Southern Pacific...slate, were noted. LOS BURROS DISTRICT, MONTEREY COUNTY, CALIF. 325 Only one small lens of radiolarian |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mile west of the community of Levesque in Cross County. The locality may also be given as 6 miles east...sent in by Sgt. Brown. Wynne, in southern Cross County is in eastern Arkansas. CALIFORNIA—"Thought you...They all come from the desert area around Plaster City, Calif."—items from Don Erpelding, 5041 Acuna St...specimens very interesting. Plaster City, in S/W Imperial County, is in southern California. GEORGIA—In...unusual will advise." LaGrange, in central Troup County, is in western Georgia. ILLINOIS—An unknown reader |  | | Report (volume) | | The Crystalline Rocks of South Carolina By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces of South Carolina UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...and Precambrian(?) age_______________________ Carolina slate belt_________________________________________...crystalline rocks in South Carolina. 2. Map showing geologic belts in South Carolina. 3. Map of the main metamorphic...metamorphic facies in South Carolina. 4. Map showing location of samples used for age determinations of |  | | Report (issue) | | 1B01YJ JH1lrL~ 11HHJ J\J-rAJii W1.sr B JY1111.Il • CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Field Trip Guidebook 1981 ... October 24-25, 1981 Gaffney, South Carolina - CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1981 OFFICERS +', . I...Schaeffer Duke'Power P.O •. Box 33189 Charlotte, North Carolina 28242 0 Secretary-Treasurer: • S. Duncan...Department of Geology, Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27706 Chairman of the Membership Committee:...Department of Geology Catawba College Salisbury, No~th Carolina 28144 Field Trip Leaders: J. Wright Horton, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Foote Quarry in Kings Mountain, by L A U R A M A R B L E 102 Dorset Way Lyman, South Carolina 29365 ...spodumene mine at Kings Mountain, Cleve land County, North Carolina consisted of six small prospect pits, and...Milarite from the Foote quarry. Photo by Lewis Perloff MINERALS North Carolina is one of the premier...HAN AH AN JR. Belmont Abbey College Belmont, North Carolina 28012 G E N E R A L DESCRIPTION The geology...tin-lithium belt between Lincolnton, North Carolina and Grover at the South Carolina line. The lithium pegmatite |  | | Book (volume) | | vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all tributary branches |  | | Report (volume) | | ......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908. Scott |  | | Book (volume) | | grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip... GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area |  | | Book (volume) | | grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip... GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area |  | | Report (volume) | | Indianapolis. Iowa.............. Prof. George F. Kay, Iowa City. Kansas............Prof. Erasmus Haworth, University...State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G...... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Report (volume) | | _.._ Virginia____ _____ ___________________ North Carolina, by W. S. Bayley________________ Distribution...Continued. Kaolins from pegmatites Continued. North Carolina Continued. Kaolins in the mountain region Continued...of the Clay Products Co_ 36 Sprucepine, Mitchell County __ 36 Sprucepine mine- ____-_ 36 Sparks mine 39...Herren property________________ Birdtown, Swain County _____________ Cole & Black property____________...Mitchell County__________________ Jefferson, Ashe County ______________ Bare property_________________ Kaolins |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________............._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because...n d m 1799 i n Cabarrus C o u n t y, N o r t h Carolina, b y a s m a l l b o y w a l k i n g along a m...n t h e e a r l y 1840's i n b o t h N o r t h Carolina and Georgia. C r y s t a l s were recovered f |  | | Report (issue) | | the Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina by W. R. Griffitts, K. A. Duttweiler...the Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina, begun in 1978 that is part of a multidisciplinary...of the staurolite, garnet, and kyanite, in the Carolina Slate Belt are recycled in that way. The nearly...coarser than in most other places, and usually have rutile in larger and more abundant grains than elsewhere...exploration cannot as readily be used in and near the Carolina Slate Belt because of the coarse rounded kyanite |  | | Report (issue) | | Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina 1011 by Gwendolyn W. Luttrell 12 U.S. Geological... Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina Abstract Gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc,...barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product silver, occurs in veins...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals...Cleveland, and Gaston Counties, tore-earths occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 |  | | Report (volume) | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ·II. Limestone quarry at Gaffney ________________________ ·____________...showing distribution of pegmatite and tin in the Carolina belt_ 4. Sketch of narrow pegmatite dike, sho""·ing...in Rockbridge County, Va., to ascertain if this deposit is related to those of he Carolina belt. Early... GEOGRAPHY . 3 'I'lw a rl't 3 1 nnd :35° 3 1 north. I <· boundnr ' linr and includes pans 0 lin n...ridges eX.tending southwestward across Lincoln, Gaston, and Cherokee counties and part of Cleveland and |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | State mineral production and mineral production by county were prepared in the Division of Statistics and...York Geological Survey. North Carolina: Division of Land Resources, North Carolina Department of Environment...Environment, Health, and Natural Resources. . North Dakota: North Dakota Geological Survey. Oklahoma: Oklahoma...Department of Environmental Management. South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey. South Dakota: South... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • 359 North Carolina, by Steve W. Sikich, P. Albert Carpenter, Ill |  | | Journal (issue) | | Science Division, Belmont Abbey College Belrnont, North Carolina Richard Mitchell Professor of Environmental...EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault University of South Carolina Frank Mayo Atlanta, Georgia Arthur J. Ehlrnann...Fairfieldite from the Foote mine in Kin!!$ Mountain, North Carolina. Now part of the Smithsonian Collection (NR... The Foote Quarry in Kings Mountain, by LAURA MARBLE 102 Dorset Way Lyman, South Carolina 29365 HISTORY...spodumene mine at Kings Mountain , Cleveland County, North Carolina consisted of six small prospect pits, and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | particular, analysis no. 10 (from Alexander County, South Carolina; Palache et al. 1930) is the one most deviating...for holmquistite from the Martin Marietta quarry (North Carolina) were reported by Kloprogge et al. (2001)...for Lorentz-polarization and absorption following North et al. (1968). Unit-cell dimensions for the crystals...TAP), corundum (AlKα TAP), magnetite (FeKα, LIF), rutile (TiKα, LIF), and Mn metal (MnKα LIF). Estimated...holmquistite, from the Martin Marietta Quarry, Bessemer City, NC, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 65, 775–783 |
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