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Sphalerite from
Wilson County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wilson County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:914744
Long-form Identifier:1:3:914744:7
GUID (UUID V4):7586adce-fa7b-4826-9964-d6e67c9a3c89
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
500-mile-long state situated mainly between 35° and 36.6° North latitude and bounded on the west by the Mississippi...left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...specimens until the recovery of spectacular fluorite, sphalerite, and barite specimens at the Elmwood zinc mine
Report (volume)
Mercury and Other Trace Elements In Sphalerite and Wallrocks From Central Kentucky, Tennessee And Appalachian...1251-F Mercury and Other Trace Elements In Sphalerite and Wallrocks From Central Kentucky, Tennessee...germanium, gallium, and strontium content of sphalerite from ore deposits of the Central and Eastern...Mercury in sphalerite ______________________________. Cadmium, germanium, and gallium in sphalerite ____________...24 TABLES Page TABLE 1. Mercury content of sphalerite from Central and Eastern U.S. mineral districts
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 (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)
;-2- THE SIMS PLUTON, NASH AND WILSON COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA By J. Alexander Speer iiC. DOCUMENTS...DOCUMENTS CLEARINGHOUSE BULLETIN 97 NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION OF LAND RESOURCES DEPARTMENT...for the general welfare of the citizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts basic and applied research...Survey Section at P.O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687, or call (919) 733-2423. Jeffrey...Geologist THE SIMS PLUTON, NASH AND WILSON COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA By J. Alexander Speer Mineralogical
Book (volume)
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...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts,
Book (volume)
Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...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
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)
Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial Diamonds have been found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area...CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...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
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Report (issue)
Nevada Bureau of Mines, University of Nevada North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development..._____ Phosphate in northern Florida and South Carolina- ____________________________ High calcium limestone..._ Colorado Plateau.______________________ Gila County, Arizona_--__-_--__--------Crooks Gap area, Wyoming...us lignite in the Williston basin, Montana and North Dakota___-_____-Chattanooga shale, Tennessee and...gas__________--__---_McAlester basin, Oklahoma-_____________ Wilson County, Kansas.-..-------------Horseshoe atoll, Midland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
thin, brown, phosphatic laminae which contain sphalerite. Though the units differ greatly from other local...possiblesyngeneticor early diageneticorigin of the sphalerite. Covehey (1977) notedthat a possiblezinc enrichment...was sampledat nine locations. Unusually high sphalerite concentrations, found in the Hushpuckney,indicated...laminations(Fig. 2B and C) whichcontainthe majority of the sphalerite. Larger phosphate-carbonate Petrography nodules... Note the warping of beddingplanesaround the sphalerite. The tiny bright flecks in the matrix are ch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
"Specimen comes from a mine somewhere in Yuma County, Arizona."—on label. ARKANSAS—In the March-April...(west of the city). That would be in Jefferson County."—letter dated—June 31, 1956, from Marie Kennedy...have been found in a huge cut at the junction of North High Street and Laurel Street in East Haven (New...hundred feet north of U.S. No. 1. "In Branford (New Haven Co.), a few hundred feet north of North Main Street...Street, just off North Ivy Street to the right is green fluorescing hyalite in thin ROCKS AND MINERALS
Book
Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I COAL CITY, St. Clair Co. Sphalerite COLUMBIANA, Shelby...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Pyrrhotite and some Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Report (issue)
Beryllium in the Mount Wheeler area, White Pine County, Nevada-__________ Beryllium in the Lake George...__ Pegmatites of the Spruce Pine district, North Carolina.______________________ Vermiculite deposits...22 Development of the Fredonia anticline in Wilson County, Kansas._________________________ 22 Austin...______________________________ 22 Water withdrawal in Reeves County, Texas____ 23 Aquifer filled in Haskel and Knox...investigations in Wyoming26 Ground-water investigations in North Dakota-27 27 Ground-water investigations in South
Book (edition)
anthracite region 10. Structure section in Tazewell County, east of Richlands, southwest 8. 9. 12. 13. ...103 Map of California oil fields and pipe lines North-south section, showing structure of western field...grahamite fissure to anticlinal fold, in Ritchie County, W. Va Plan of Trinidad pitch lake Section of gilsonite...Wyoming 91. Section of Carboniferous strata on north side of Montpelier Creek, Idaho 275 92. (a)...limestone, brown phosphate district, phosphate district North-south section through Missouri and Statehouse Mountains
Report (issue)
ore, Poncha Springs, Colo. 14. Tungsten ore, North Carolina The Potential for Porphyry Copper-Molybdenun1...ore, Poncha Springs, Colo . 14. Tungsten ore, North Carolina The Potential for Porphyry Copper-Molybdenum...Brunswick _______ _ 12 Deboullie stock, Aroostook County, Maine ___ _ 12 13 Eagle Lake, New Brunswick ---------------13...prospects __ 15 Machias occurrence, Washington County, Maine 17 Granite Quarry Hill molybdenum prospect...Halifax County, North Carolina, 25 prospects -----------------------------25 Newell prospect, North Carolina-------------26
Book
Rex Buchanan Landscapes: A Geologic Diary Frank Wilson Rocks Laura Tolsted and Ada Swineford Minerals...Gove County Schermerhorn Cave, south of Galena, Cherokee County A waterfall in Cherokee County Sandstone...Sandstone in Chautauqua County Osro Falis, along the Caney River, Chautauqua County Burning grass in the Flint...Morris County Layers of flint in limestone, Riley County Glacial debris atop a hill, Wabaunsee County Alcove...Oregon Trail, Marshall County Pillsbury Crossing, along Deep Creek, Riley County Hart House, made of native
Report (volume)
Bibliography of North American Geology, 1961 -· GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING... BIBLIOGRAPHY·OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1961 INTRODUCTION• This annual volume of the "Bibliography of North American...appeared during 1961 concerning the geology of the North American continent, Greenland, the West Indies and...in foreign journals are cited if they deal with North American localities or are of a general nature,...they deal only with foreign areas. Articles on North America by "foreign authors are included regardless
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...100 detail maps 1500+ hunting locations: sites in North America A directory to coUpcfing O E Pi rin...directory listing over fifteen hundred localities in North America where gem specimens may be found. Interspersed...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic
Report (volume)
-GEOL_OGIC .AL ,.,.. i ' I Bibliography of North American Geology, 1957 By RUTH REECE KING, VIRGINIA...___________ III 1 3 9 271 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1957 By RuTH REECE KING, VIRGINIA...appeared during 1957 concerning the geology of the North American continent, including Greenland, the West...in foreign journals are cited if they deal with North American localities or are of a general nature,...with foreign areas. Articles by foreign authors on North America are included regardless of place of publication;
Report (issue)
financially in part by, the numerous Federal, State, County and City agencies listed on pages A133 to A136...States__________________ Massive-sulfide copper deposit in North Carolina.._ __________________________ Magnetite deposits..._______ Pegmatites in the Blue Ridge area, North Carolina. ____________________________ Aluminum deposits...___ Mineral deposits in the Piedmont of South Carolina. ____________________________ Beryllium in volcanic...studies._________________________ Origin of the Carolina Bays._________________ Eastern Plateau region
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Ham p:;hire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Peru1Sylvania...Clapp's Museum Publications; not indexed here) North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Mineral Resources 253 Education Building Raleigh, North Carolina r:). 7 /.i..-0 J, / V _,,Ohio Division of... South Carolina Division of Geology State Development Board Box 927 Columbia, South Carolina :,J.. ...4 Report on the geology of (See also B. 28) 13 north-eastern Alabama and adjacent portions of Georgia
 
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