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Biotite from
Sawyer Mine, Carolina Slate Belt, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sawyer Mine, Carolina Slate Belt, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:925107
Long-form Identifier:1:3:925107:6
GUID (UUID V4):01411c4b-274b-4f7d-b6f0-0f26d91fb34d
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
5.1km (3.2 miles) New Sawyer Mine (Powell; Ross), Carolina Slate Belt, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Hoover Hill Mine, Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
17.3km (10.7 miles) Redding Mine, Carolina Slate Belt, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
18.6km (11.5 miles) Deep River Mine (Coffin), Guilford County Copper Mining District, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
19.3km (12.0 miles) Lindsay Mine, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
20.1km (12.5 miles) Rush Mine, Carolina Slate Belt, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
20.4km (12.7 miles) Dowd Mine, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
23.7km (14.7 miles) Goliham Mine (Smith), Carolina Slate Belt, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
24.7km (15.3 miles) Fisher Hill Mine, Guilford County Copper Mining District, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
25.7km (16.0 miles) Pilot Mountain, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
References
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Report (issue)
METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA by P. Albert Carpenter, m Reprinted...deposits of the slate belt Distribution of mines and prospects Previous investigations Mine descriptions...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 mine Isenhour mine ..; : Newellmine...Nugget mine Phoenix mine Pioneer Mills mine Propst mine Quaker City mine Reed mine Rocky River mine Silver
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 (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)
Central group ____________________________ _ _ Carolina gneiss ________________________ _ Mica schist...SoutherngrouP----------------------~-- 7 --- Talladega slate ______ ~ _________________ _ Hillabee chlorite schist...__________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina and South Carolina ______ ____ _ Georgia ______________...34 35 35 36 39 44 44 45 46 47 47 49 49 50 50 Mine descriptions ___________ --------- -- .. -------...___ _______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______ _____ _____ _ Franklin ____
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...3 Mining Methods and Recovery 3 Gold in North Carolina 5 History of Mining 5 Production 7 General...Deposits of North Carolina 12 Eastern Carolina Belt 12 Portis Mine 14 Other Mines 14 Carolina Slate
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...occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 23 24 25- U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
239–256 The Russell Gold Deposit, Carolina Slate Belt, North Carolina TERRY L. KLEIN,† U.S. Geological...Abstract Gold deposits have been mined in the Carolina slate belt from the early 1800s to recent times, with...mines in South Carolina. The Russell mine, one of the larger producers in North Carolina, is located in...has shown that a rhyolitic dome near the Russell mine was extruded during the deposition of the lower...Brewer, Haile, and Ridgeway deposits of South Carolina. Gold was mined from at least six zones that are
Report (volume)
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;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Report (issue)
14 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Asbestos ore Lead ore. Balmat Mine, N. Y. Chromite-chromium ore. Wash. Zinc ore, Friedensville...ore. Poncha Springs, Colo. 14. Tungsten ore, North Carolina 5 World Nonbauxite Aluminum Resources Excluding............................ South Carolina-Georgia-Alabama Kaolin Belt....... Argentina..................Corporation................................... North American Coal Corporation.........................major kaolin districts in the South Carolina-Georgia-Alabama kaolin belt................................
Report (issue)
absorbed by an amazing internal expansion." In the North the Champlain-Hudson Canal, completed in 1823, opened...geology in 1816. Amos Eaton had surveyed Rensselaer County, N. Y., and the route of the Erie Canal; further...of the Drift; William Bertram on his Travels in North America; Cotint C. F. Volney's work on the Geology...S. L. Mitchell's Observations on the Geology of North America; Edward Hitchcock's Early Geological Papers;...and Geology; and Elisha Mitchell's work in North Carolina. Louis Agassiz had published his Etudes sur
Book (volume)
.......................................346 North Carolina ........................................................................................356 North Dakota ...............................................................................427 South Carolina ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ...............................
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 (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belt terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............................................ Murphy belt group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . Sandy Springs Group (eastern belt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . Sandy Springs Group (western belt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slate ........ ...... . .. .... . .... ... ...... ...
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exotic rocks that do not contain feldspar and biotite like ordinary sedimentary quartzites, and their...Mountain and East Ridge in the Appalachian belt of Virginia, USA (Kyanite Mining Corporation 2005). Further...Appalachian belt are of Archaean (Russia), Proterozoic (Scandinavia) and Palaeozoic (USA) ages. In Norway...granitic plutons of the Transcandinavian Igneous Belt (Ihlen 2000). The rocks typically underwent upper...Skjomen, belonging to the Sørdalen supracrustal belt (Fig. 3a), which is part of the Palaeoproterozoic
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Report (volume)
Smith, Director Bulletin 784 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY FOR 1923-1924 BY .,/. JOHN...OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY FOR 1923-1924 BY JOHN M. NICKLES INTRODUCTION The bibliography of North American...publications on the geology of the Continent of North America and adjacent islands and on Panama and the...index to the literature listed. The bibliography of North American geology is comprised in the following bulletins...cumulated under the title "Geologic literature on North America, 1785-1918," in Bulletin 746 (Part I, Bibliography)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fundamental break which separates Gondwanan from North American basement and pre-Late-Paleozoic assemblages...assemblages provide some constraints; for example, the North American affinities of the Ordovician and Silurian...from North America. We suggest that they are instead part of the Rondonian/Sunsas Orogenic Belt of western...and that, if this is true, the Rondonian/Sunsas Belt would have represented the areally most extensive...Brunswick magnetic 'terrane' of offshore eastern North America. Other correlations, many of which have
Report (issue)
Sc ce i en e T ec tonic s R es earc h nc Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October 19-20...southwestern Brushy Mountains, centralwestern North Carolina Guidebook Editors: Robert D. Hatcher, Jr....Columbia, South Carolina Carolina Geological Conultants, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina Central Savannah...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...South Carolina Kubal and Furr, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
Book (volume)
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...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY STUDIES OF PRECAMBRIAN AND PALEOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY IN THE WESTERN BLUE RIDGE...edited by STEPHEN A. K ISH November 9-10, 1991 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1991OFFICERS President: Vice-President:...Mitchell 1991Bill Hoffman Don Hathaway Vic Zuello Carolina Geological Society Field Trip 1991 Joseph G. Aylor...Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-1410 Carl Merschat North Carolina Geological Survey 59 Woodfin Place Asheville...Box 6666 New Haven CT 06511 Leonard Wiener North Carolina Geological Surve 59 Woodfin Place Asheville
Book
Feldspar 106 Fluorspar Garnet Graphite 110 Slate Sodium sulfate 122 = 130 Iodine 138 Sulfur...come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many rocks and...eclipsing the mineral magnesite in some areas; the trona mine rather than the Solvay plant is now the main source...for example, are almost entirely derived from the USA and Tur- key, a situation too narrowly based comfort... The takeover of soda-ash markets, at least in North America, by the mineral trona is another marked
Report (volume)
U.S. Geological Survey published Bulletin 191, North American Geologic Formation Names, by F.B. Weeks...chronologically, is as follows: Weeks, F.B., 1902, North American geologic formation names: Bibliography... W.J., and Kopf, R.W., 1957, Geologic names of North America introduced in 1936-1955: U.S. Geological...Hansen, B.E., 1959, Index to the geologic names of North America: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1056-B...Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature, now called the North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature
Report (volume)
beds of Eocene age in Orangeburg County and vicinity, South Carolina, by George E. Siple and William K... Anarchist Group ____ _ Late (?) Permian ___ North-central Washington. Anvil Rock Sandstone Member..._________ late Eocene (Jackson)_ Montana ____. South Carolina and Georgia. Basey Member (of Snowshoe Formation)...and surrounding counties in south-central South Carolina) as uppermost of its four formations; overlies...Triassic ________ Wyoming ___. Late(?) Permian ___ North-central Washington. Bumblebee Granodiorite_ Precambrian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
xline—crystalline CALIFORNIA — From near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif, we have a deep blue dumortierite that was... This fine 3x5 inch specimen comes from Teller County, Colorado. ARIZONA — "Would you please identify...was found July 2, 1959, near Cave Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona." — sent in by Clyde N. Hall, Elbridge... Ball Ground is in the northern part of Cherokee County of Northern Georgia. ILLINOIS — An anonymous reader...the state). We never heard of geodes in Hardin County — the specimen sent in may represent an isolated
Book (volume)
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...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
 
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