 | | Report (issue) | | IN NORTH CAROLINA INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND NATURAL RESOURCES ...agencies for the general welfare of the dtizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts basic and applied research...Resources, at Post Office Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687, or call (919) 733-2423. Jeffrey...Chief Geologist GOLD NORTH CAROLINA IN . by P. Albert Carpenter III NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INFORMATION...INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT |  | | Report (issue) | | Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina 1011 by Gwendolyn W. Luttrell 12 U.S. Geological...related deposits of North Carolina Abstract Gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, pyrite, tinf-, cobalt, 5-...barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product silver, occurs in veins...10- Piedmont province and in massive pyrrhotite-pyrite deposits in 11 crystalline rocks west of the...metamorphio rocks. 15- Lead and zinc occur in Pyrite occurs in crystalline Tin occurs in pegmatite |  | | Report (edition) | | Information Circular GOLD RESOURCES OF NORTH CAROLINA by P. A. Carpenter, D oc ms C% M:*L Raleigh...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 26711. Jeffrey C. Reid Chief Geologist Cover...2 Uses 3 Mining Methods and Recovery 3 Gold in North Carolina 5 History of Mining 5 Production...Deposits of North Carolina 12 Eastern Carolina Belt 12 Portis Mine 14 Other Mines 14 Carolina Slate |  | | Report (volume) | | 'THE GEOLOGICAL vt- ,(231 > ' " ^THE MINERALS CAROLINA''" i '- OF, - :l|^fe^H - GOTEENMENT LIBRARY... W. Powell, director | | The | minerals of North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Geiitk | [Vignette]...J. W. Powell, director | | The | mineralsof North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Genth | [Vignette]...W. Powell, director | | The | :aainerals of North Carolina | by | FrederickAugustusGenth j [Vignette]...50. II. Tertiary History of the G-rand Caiion District, with atlas, by Clarence E. Dutton, Capt. U. S |  | | Book (edition) | | Geology of North Carolina. QE 147 .A22 1866-1887 Pt.2 V.2 Chap.1 Digitized by the Internet Archive...org/details/mineralsminerall01 nort n o o / Geology of North Carolina. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It F. A. GENTH...Mica mining industry, for example, has brought to a Pi 7 ? f 3 : GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA. 2...York, has spent many months in explorations and mining for these mineral rarities, and has himself added...elsewhere. Hanna, of the U. S. Assay Office, Charlotte, I have obtained quite an extended list of mineral |  | | Book (edition) | | LOCALITIES NORTH CAROLINA, BEING CHAPTER I, OP THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. Reprinted...OF E. M. UZZELL RALEIGH, N. C. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CHROLINS. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It has F...data have been embodied. Sev- GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 4 eral causes have been operative in giving...some number of them not hitherto or, The Mica mining industry, elsewhere discovered iu America. great...with Mr. W. E. Hidden, of New explorations and mining for these mineral Among these, York, has spent |  | | Report (issue) | | Central group ____________________________ _ _ Carolina gneiss ________________________ _ Mica schist...__________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina and South Carolina ______ ____ _ Georgia ______________...__________________________________ _ History of mining ________________ ·__________________ _ Production...34 35 35 36 39 44 44 45 46 47 47 49 49 50 50 Mine descriptions ___________ --------- -- .. -------...___ _______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______ _____ _____ _ Franklin ____ |  | | Report (issue) | | METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA by P. Albert Carpenter, m Reprinted...Previous investigations Mine descriptions Alamance County Copper prospect Foust copper mine Robeson gold prospect...Cabarrus County Allman prospect Buffalo mine Cabarrus? mine Clinemine Crayton mine Furniss mine Eva Furr...Furr mine Isenhour mine ..; : Newellmine Nugget mine Phoenix mine Pioneer Mills mine Propst mine Quaker...City mine Reed mine Rocky River mine Silver shaft Snydermine Troutmanmine Tucker mine Whitney mine Chatham |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Pentlandite Cubanite Covellitc Violarite Stibnite Pyrite l .ocllingite Marcasite Arsenopyrite Molybdenite...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com mon rock-making materials |  | | 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... RUTILE AJTUNITE AND TORBERNITE THULITE AND PYRITE MONAZITE EMERALD CUPRITE SMOKY QUARTZ ZIRCON...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | production. of the Mississippi, the state of South Carolina has seen two abandoned gold mines reopened and...by Piedmont Mining Company at the Haile mine, by Wesunont Mining Company at the Brewer mine, and by the...the Ridgeway mine. TheRidgewayminebecamethe 10thlargest producer of gold in the United States in 1989....EXPLORATION IN VIRGINIA Interest continues in the Gold-pyrite belt in the Virginia Piedmont province and the...mineralized areas in the Blue Ridge province; metal-mining companies are evaluating various properties. A |  | | 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, |  | | Report (volume) | | (E) Tungsten deposits of Vance County, N. C., and Mecklenburg County, Va., by G. H. Espenshade (published...deposits near Seiad and McGuffy Creeks, Siskiyou County, Calif., by F. G. Wells, C. T. Smith, G. H. Rynearson...Chromite deposits of Boulder River area, Sweetgrass County, Mont., by A. L. Howland, E. M. Garrels, and W...corundum deposits in the Buck Creek peridotite, Clay County, N. C., by J. B. Hadley (published in December...the tungsten deposits of Vance County, N. c., and Mecklenburg County, Va •••.•••••...••••. Geologic map |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TungstenQueenDeposit,HammeDistrict,VanceCounty, North Carolina:A StableIsotopeStudyof a Metamorphosed...Abstract The TungstenQueenmine, Vance County,North Carolina, is a large quartz-huebnerite vein depositof...deposit,a singlevein in the Hamme district,Vance County,North Carolina,has a geologicsettingand vein mineralogythat...also indicate that the deposit in the Cordilleraof North and SouthAmerica (e.g., studies have made substantial...suggested thatthe veinsof the Hamme understanding district were depositedby hydrothermalfluids which had |  | | Report (issue) | | Studies in Southern Mecklenburg County and Vicinity, North Carolina 'and South Carolina By Frederick Albert...STUDIES IN SOUTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY AND VICINITY NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA By Frederick Albert...applied to part of the Charlotte and Carolina slate belts in southern Mecklenburg County and vicinity to help...into the Charlotte belt where it is mapped as metavolcanic rocks* Gravity models of the Carolina slate...is exposed in the adjacent Charlotte belt antiform. The northern Charlotte belt contains mainly plutonic |  | | Report (issue) | | CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING AND FIELD TRIP NOVEMBER 8-10, 2013 SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA...THE CAROLINA TERRANE IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ONE ARC, TWO ARCS, OLD ARC, NEW ARC THE CAROLINA TERRANE...TERRANE IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS: James Hibbard and Jeff Pollock TRIP LEADERS: James Hibbard,...Ganis Carolina Geological Society Annual Meeting, November 8-10, 2013 Salisbury, North Carolina Carolina...Waddell University of South Carolina Allen Dennis University of South Carolina, Aiken Vice President William |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...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. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | calcite, barite, chrysocolla, sphalerite, cerussite, pyrite, and even wood and bone. Azurite, shattuckite,...Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick...Jersey; the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania;...workings of the copper mines at Ducktown, Polk County, and the zinc deposits of eastern and central Tennessee;...Gossan Lead district in Carroll and Grayson Counties, and mines of the Virgilina district, Charlotte County |  | | Journal (issue) | | world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...(c) = currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite...pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry-Esmont dolomite. limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite, siderite Faber...Faber lead mine-near Faber cerussite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, argentiferous galena, sphalerite, pyromorphite |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet thick in...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet thick in...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | the gem fields in the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust...vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...nodules, fossils, Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area around the confluence of the Loup...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville |  | | Report (volume) | | from the liquid, and heating it; this produced black bands. Today the same effect is achieved by first...colorless, pale yellow or pale brown; also gray and black, rarely green, blue, or pink. Crystal form: Isometric...Murfreesboro, Ark. Kimberlite is a dark, greenish-black igneous rock of the peridotite family. It is composed...a soft, friable, yellowish or greenish mass and black soil in which most of the diamonds have been found...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville |
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