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Muscovite from
Elkin Quarry, Surry County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Elkin Quarry, Surry County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:560536
Long-form Identifier:1:3:560536:1
GUID (UUID V4):2a0ae750-66de-4613-acdb-b9eec71aa3e8
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
11.8km (7.3 miles) Crouch Deposit, Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Yorke Prospect, Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
22.4km (13.9 miles) Mathis Quarries, Antioch Community, Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
22.9km (14.2 miles) Kirby Prospect, Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
23.6km (14.7 miles) Rock Quarry Road site, North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
25.0km (15.5 miles) Fitches Knob Quarry site, Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
26.0km (16.2 miles) J. C. Styers Prospect, Yadkin County, North Carolina, USA
26.8km (16.6 miles) Hauser Mine, Yadkin County, North Carolina, USA
27.0km (16.8 miles) Unnamed mica prospect, Yadkin County, North Carolina, USA
30.7km (19.1 miles) 115 Quarry, Oakwoods, Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...brought to a Pi 7 ? f 3 : GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA. 2 many new and rare species. The Mica veins...within a few days , so that the list of North Carolina mineral species has been very considerably...crease of more than 25 per cent. GEOLOGY OE NORTH CAROLINA. 4 than has been discovered in any other
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...matter of commercial interest. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 6 Dr. C. L. Hunter has also kindly furnished...within a few days, so that the having been of North Carolina list mineral species has been very considerably
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]...separately. Price $2.50. XVI. The Paleozoic Fishes of North America, by John Strong Newberry. 1889. 4°. 340
Report (issue)
3 : ^> I North C: 3 Library NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS...BULLETIN NUMBER 61 SILLIMANITE DEPOSITS in North Carolina BY LEWIS J. HASH AND EARL C. YAN HORN EDITED...TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY RALEIGH 1951 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...DEPOSITS in North Carolina By LEWIS J. HASH and EARL C. VAN HORN Edited by KEFTON H. TEAGUE North Carolina...Raleigh, North Carolina April 19, 1951 To His Excellency, HONORABLE W. KERR SCOTT Governor of North Carolina
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1980 OFFICERS President: J. Robert Butler Department of Geology University...University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Vice-President: Van Price, Jr. Savannah River Laboratory...Department of Earth Sciences University of North Carolina at Wilmington Wilmington, N.C. William S. Henika...Radiometric Dating in the Sauratown Mountains Area, North Carolina (P.D. Fullagar and J. R. Butler). . . . . .... 7 Metamorphic Gradients in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (J. P. Gregory). . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEMS AND GEM MINERALS OF NORTH CAROLINA* Josnrn HvoB Pnerr North Carolina is one of the more notable...material. The variety of gem minerals found in North Carolina is probably greater than in any other state...Drauor.rt Twelve diamonds have been found in North Carolina, and there are also extensive deposits of itacolumite...westernPiedmont section of the state, and in Franklin County on the eastern edge of the Piedmont. They have...localities. Three diamonds have been found in Burke County, two of which were from near the "Ford of Brindletown
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK October 21 – 23, 1983 GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS IN...IN THE BLUE RIDGE OF NORTHWE3STERN NORTH CAROLINA Edited by Sharon E. Lewis Virginia Division of Mineral...NRCD Post Office Box 27687 Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1983 OFFICERS...South Carolina 29613 Vice-President: John J. Chapman Department of Earth Science Western Carolina University...University Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723 Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron, Jr. Department of Geology
Report (issue)
gneiss _____________________________________ Muscovite schist and gneiss. Kyanite schist _____ Kyanite...Slate __ . Halifax County Other localities North Carolina Hagers Mountain, Person County.- _.______ Corbett...Corbett deposit, Johnston County Burnsville-Swannanoa area, Buncombe, Yancey, and Mitchell Counties ________...________ ____ Rutherford County Other localities North Carolina-South Carolina Kings Mountain district, Cleveland...Cleveland, Gaston, and Lincoln Counties, N.C., and York County, S.C. ._ __-__ ____ --- ---General geology Rock
Report (volume)
Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wales, anal., opt., 652; metamict, .4remtal, North Carolina, and Ontario, heat treatment of, 52I Ahnandine...Ishikawa-gun, Fukttshirna prefecture, Japan, muscovite, 42i Ardnamurchan Centre 111 Complex, clinopyroxene...ATKtN (D.), see LIVINGSTONE(A.), 441 Auchinstarry quarry, Kilsyth, Scotland, julgoldite, 76I Avondale, Auckland...Wales, anal., X-ray, 765 Cookstove Mtn., El Paso County, Colorado, genthelvite, danalite, 627 Coordination... by, I68 ELLIS (B. G.), anals, by, 256 El Paso County, Colorado, genthelvite, 627 ELSDON (R.), Manganoan
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...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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)
.'.' .., 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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Victoria, 381 Broken Hill, New South Wales, muscovite, myrmekite, 57o Bronzite, Sitathali meteorite...margarite, Io6; Nigeria, 579 Corundum Hill, North Carolina, hornblende, 389 Corvock, Mayo, Ireland, granite...J.), Variations in the optical properties of muscovite due to proton irradiation, 631 Diamond, genesis...composition range of, evaluation of t5oo anals., 389; North Catvlina, France, India, Switzerland, and Tanzania...and other manganese oxides, 493 Macon Co., North Carolina, hornblende, 389 Magnesia-cordierite, solubility
Report (issue)
Winegrapes in Polk, Henderson and Buncombe Counties, NC Carolina Geological Society – Guidebook for the 83rd Annual...Hendersonville, North Carolina Field Trip Leaders: Joseph Forrest, Rick Wooten, Bart Cattanach Carolina Geological...site at 3400 feet on the Blue Ridge escarpment. Carolina Geological Society 2022 Board of Directors President...Engineering Secretary Cheryl Waters-Tormey - Western Carolina University Treasurer Jeff Chaumba - UNC Pembroke...Soil Geomorphology in North Carolina Brad Johnson 105 Western North Carolina Soils, Geology and Wine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
calcite, 8 cm, Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo....Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers...Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level. There are some noteworthy mineral...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden...Greb, Kentucky Geological Survey. in Crittenden County has one major shaft called the “Rock shaft.” The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
indicate a continuation of the Hylas zone to the north. Superposed deformation and intermittent reactivation...metavolcanic rocks in the Carolina slate belt in southern Virginia and North Carolina (Brown, 1937, p. 16)... 740 BOBYARCHICK A N D GLOVER a two-feldspar muscovite-biotite granite with at least one poorly to moderately...same stress field. These lineations plunge gently north-south to southeast and, less commonly, northeast...biotite, garnet, and epidote to feldspar-quartz-muscovite-chloriteepidote-sphene-magnetite. Recrystallization
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:
Report (issue)
note that the hardness of the Brewer topaz, South Carolina, is only 7, and its specific gravity 3-509. When...diaspore with which it is associated, and the South Carolina topaz is said to bear strong casual resemblance...include the andalusite-staurolite association of north-east Scotland (the Buchan type of Read3) and instances...activity during which the kyanite was converted to muscovite and the sillimanite to clay, chiefly kaolinite...The Henry Knob kyanite deposit4 in York County, South Carolina, was previously considered to be the result
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SeveroSeliyar petroleum exploration areas located north and northeast of Khanty Mansiisk on the right side...(after primary biotite), and mica (secondary muscovite) aggregates. Kfeldspar is locally replaced by...Geol. Geofiz. 44 (1/2), 120–143 (2003). 2. E. A. Elkin, V. I. Krasnov, N. K. Bakharev, et al., Stratigraphy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composition is as follows: quartz ~70%, mica (muscovite) ~18%, chlorite (magnesian high-alumina chamosite)...violarite. Based on the bulk chemical composition, muscovite–quartz schists correspond predominantly to greywacke...composition, we deal with muscovite. The SiO2 content (wt %) in muscovite varies from 46.57 to 48.6 and...Mater., Novosibirsk, 1999) [in Russian]. 3. E. A. Elkin, V. I. Krasnov, N. K. Bakharev, E. V. Belova, V
Report (issue)
province in North Carolina and Tennessee, as well as smaller gneiss domes of Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia...domes of Maryland; and the Sauras Massif of North Carolina. Still farther east are the isolated Grenville...Appalachians—the real boundary between the craton of North America and that of the AfricanEuropean mass with...opposing cratons, e.g., the Grenville rocks of the North American craton from probably more ancient Precambrian...discovery of 2-billion-year or older rocks in eastern North America or, alternatively, Grenville rocks
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
 
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