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Sphalerite from
Carolina Queen Mine, Burke County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carolina Queen Mine, Burke County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:951373
Long-form Identifier:1:3:951373:0
GUID (UUID V4):a5548146-f9b7-45b5-8204-4293f8790476
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
16.4km (10.2 miles) Vein Mountain Mine, McDowell County, North Carolina, USA
30.4km (18.9 miles) North Cove Prospect, McDowell County, North Carolina, USA
36.7km (22.8 miles) Unnamed Zn prospect, Linville Falls, McDowell County, North Carolina, USA
37.3km (23.2 miles) Bee Mountain Mine, Bee Mountain, Caldwell County, North Carolina, USA
39.8km (24.7 miles) McKinney Mine (Power Mill Creek Mine), Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
40.7km (25.3 miles) Glenn Mine, Crabtree Creek, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
46.1km (28.6 miles) Martin Marietta Quarry (Hickory Quarry), Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA
53.2km (33.1 miles) Ray Mica Mine, Hurricane Mountain, Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
59.8km (37.2 miles) Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
60.7km (37.7 miles) Cranberry Mine, Cranberry Magnetite Mining District, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
Central group ____________________________ _ _ Carolina gneiss ________________________ _ Mica 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 ____...properties _________ .. _____________ _ Halifax County ______ - _____ - __________ ~- _'- __ _ Virgilina
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87 88 * North Carolina Precious Stone-Emerald Rock-Granite 109 110 90 90 91 91 a2 * North Dakota Fossil-Jeredo...Fossil-Eurypterus remipes 102 103 104 * South Carolina Gem Stone-Amethyst Stone-Blue Granite 106 107...trees are all past evidence of ancient life in North America. Turquoise, flint, quartz, pearl, nephrite...made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional
Journal (issue)
s A 1 I V Kw VJ-i-J WaYne &-,Dona L^icht, 875 North Pacific Coas|flighwa^ Laguna Beach, CA 9 (949) 4...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...in y u lite from the W illard m in e, P ershing County, N e v a d a ....................................Record, volume 31, July-August, 20C Sweet Home Mine Special Issue. Since living in Connecticut I have...fund-raising technique being used by the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. It’s called the “Adopta-mineral”
Journal (issue)
Pakistan • Record-breaking emerald from Hiddenite, North Carolina • Emerald-in-matrix from Bahia, Brazil • 5th...olivine (Mg), corundum (Al), wollastonite (Si, Ca), sphalerite (S), vanadinite (Cl), orthoclase (K), synthetic...Gray-Blue-Violet Hydrogen-Rich Diamonds from the Argyle Mine Hackmanite/Sodalite from Myanmar and Afghanistan...& Gemology PO Box 9022, Carlsbad, CA 92018-9022, USA Complete volumes of 1992–2010 print back issues are...suggested that the rock might be from the Wessels mine in South Africa, which is known for yielding potassian
Journal (issue)
Tucson report • Emerald-bearing gem pockets from North Carolina • Spessartine from Loliondo, Tanzania • Gem-quality...Myanmar • Large gem pocket discovered in San Diego County, California • Green sodic plagioclase from East...Abduriyim et al., 2006). One blue-green stone from that mine GEMS & GEMOLOGY SPRING 2008 showed some different...Cu-bearing tourmalines from the Alto dos Quintos mine in Brazil show complete overlap, whereas the (light)...(light) blue to bluish green stones from the Mulungu mine in Brazil show higher SG values (3.08–3.13: Shigley
Book (chapter)
Calaem = zinc, Hintze I.1, 557 (1900). calaem = sphalerite ?, Aballain et al. 58 (1968). calafatita = alunite...264 (2006). Calfonienerz or Calfonium = yellow sphalerite ore, Papp 11 (2004). Ca-Leptochlorit = blue aerinite...36-1458. carolathine = allophane, Chester 47 (1896). Carolina Emperor = 64.83 ct. dark-green gem Cr±V-rich beryl...beryl, GG 46, 315 (2010). Carolina Queen = 14 gm. dark-green gem Cr±V-rich beryl, GG 46, 314 (2010)...Dana 6th, 38 (1892). Castillit (Rammelsberg) = sphalerite + galena + tetrahedrite + bornite + stromeyerite
 
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