 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Cassiterite Downloaded by [University of Saskatchewan Library]...2012 CiNOVEC, CZECH REPUBLIC This classic cassiterite specimen is from Cinovec, Czech Republic, much...wide and consists of an aggregate of dark brown cassiterite crystals to 3.5 cm attractively placed on a matrix...acquisition of a good suite of cassiterite within the scope of most collectors. Cassiterite has been known for centuries...Julius Caesar. Tin, presumably derived from cassiterite, was used by the Chinese even earlier, with their |  | | 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 ......... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 7 Emerald, Hiddenite and Associated Minerals |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | Wise, Michael A., Harmon, Russell S., Curry, Adam, Jennings, Morgan, Grimac, Zach, Khashchevskaya, Daria (2022) Handheld LIBS for Li Exploration: An Example from the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, USA. Minerals, 12 (1) 77 doi:10.3390/min12010077 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Li Exploration: An Example from the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, USA Michael A. Wise 1 , Russell S. Harmon...Li Exploration: An Example from the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, USA. Minerals 2022, 12, 77. https:// doi...20560, USA; wisem@si.edu Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University...University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA; accurry3@ncsu.edu (A.C.); dkhashc@ncsu.edu (D.K.) SciAps, Inc., 7...7 Constitution Way, Woburn, MA 01801, USA; mjennings@sciaps.com Piedmont Lithium, Inc., 5706 Dallas Cherryville |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT HARGROVE BOWLES, JR., DIRECTOR DIVISION...GEOLOGIST Circular 17 BERYL OCCURRENCES IN NORTH CAROLINA BY WILLIAM F WILSON Ooc RALEIGH 1962 CONTENTS...USESo 8 o . . . BERYLLIUM MINERALS IN NORTH CAROLINA 9 Varieties * o ••••••••.• Mode of Occurrencec...RESOURCES IN NORTH CAROLINA . H OCCURRENCES OF BERYL IN NORTH CAROLINA. 13 Alexander County ...•••••...••.• Ashe County,* ... 0 o * * • o o Burke County* • * • . • . • • • * • • Catawba County* • « . » * |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ROCKS IN THE TIN–SPODUMENE BELT OF NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, USA Samuel E. SWANSON§ Department of...30605, USA Abstract The Tin–Spodumene Belt (TSB) along the border of North and South Carolina, southeastern...southeastern USA, is composed of hundreds of en échelon dikes intruded into amphibolite-facies mica schist...beryl, manganoan fluorapatite, triphylite, and cassiterite. The pegmatitic fabric is replaced by a fine-grained... Tin–Spodumene Belt, fluorapatite, North Carolina, South Carolina. Introduction Spodumene pegmatites |  | | 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) | | .'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...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...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist FRONT |  | | 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 (issue) | | RESOURCES OF THE KINGS MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA. By ARTHUR KEITH and DOUGLAS B. STERRETT...equally divided between North Carolina and South Carolina, the part in North Carolina being a little larger...including Gaffney, Blacksburg, Kings Mountain, Bessemer City, and Gastonia. The Kingville & Marion branch...through Lincolnton and Cherryville. Between Bessemer City and Gaffney the Southern Railway passes within...MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, Mine or prospect NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA. TIN RESOURCES OF KINGS MOUNTAIN |  | | 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) | | 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) | | ......... 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ·II. Limestone quarry at Gaffney ________________________ ·____________...in the Carolina belt_ 4. Sketch of narrow pegmatite dike, sho""·ing distribution of cassiterite._. ___...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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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, |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pegmatites are a valuable part of North Carolina's natural heritage, important both for their commercial...mineral enthusiasts. Pegmatites and Alaskites OF NORTH CAROLINA JOHN C A L L A H A N Geology Department Appalachian...Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina 28608 P E G M A T I T E S A R E O N E O F T H E most...commercially important types of rocks found in North Carolina. Extraction of feldspar, mica, quartz, spo...hundreds of pegmatites, mainly located in western North Carolina, to try their luck in finding over a hundred |  | | Report (issue) | | TIN-SPODUMENE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA Prepared in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation...TIN-SPODUMENE BELT NORTH CAROLINA By W. R. Griffitts Prepared in cooperation with the North Carolina Department... BERYLLIUM RESOURCES OF THE TIN-SPODUMENE BELT NORTH CAROLINA By W. R. Griffitts CONTENTS Page Page Abstract...Pegmatite dikes in the tin-spodumene belt of North and South Carolina uniformly contain about 0.05 percent BeO...pegmatite contains spodumene, feldspar, mica, cassiterite, and columbite, as well as beryl, but separating |  | | 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 (issue) | | 10° 20° 30° 40° 50° 60° 80° BRAZIL Bessemer City Kings Mountain 45° Aracuai Minas Gerais James...adjacent areas in the State of Minas Gerais; the city of Campina Grande in the State of Rio Grande do...granites of southeastern China—for example, the city of Nanping in Fujian Province—may supply some of...pegmatite bodies of North Carolina (at the Kings Mountain crushed rock quarry near Bessemer City), South Dakota...pegmatites at the Palermo Mine on Bald Mountain near North Groton, New Hampshire, and at Beryl Mountain near |  | | Report (issue) | | of this type include the Kings Mountain and Bessemer City operations in the United States and Koralpe...Mineral Company's Kings Mountain operation in North Carolina, with a production capacity of 1,540 metric...on careand-maintenance status). Silver Peak* Bessemer City Zimbabwe .............. Bikita Total ......... . . . . . . . . . . Beryl ................ Cassiterite . . . . . . . . . . . . . Columbite . . . . ... ----do.------------ PREC United States North Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt Kings Mountain 35° 15'N |  | | Journal (issue) | | if you are visiting the Carson City, Lake Tahoe, and Virginia City vacation areas, please give me a...Dovid P. Wilber 4701 Red’s Grade, Lakeview Carson City, Nevada 89701 (Phone) 702-883-3242 M in e r a...Keester Braunite and Sursassite from Los Angeles County, California......................................Childrenite, Cronstedtite, Torbernite, Ludlamite, Cassiterite, Chalcophyllite, and very many others.” “Matlockite...The Mineralogical Record as, New Mexico, North Carolina, and other Southern States.” “Arizona Minerals |
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