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Hypersthene from
Bakersville, Cane Creek Section, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA


Classification
Species:'Hypersthene' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Mg,Fe)SiO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hypersthene data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bakersville, Cane Creek Section, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:241151
Long-form Identifier:1:3:241151:4
GUID (UUID V4):ab12837c-edbc-43e8-ae03-ca07a03372aa
References
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Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK SEPTEMBER 29-30, 1990 GEOLOGY OF GRENVILLE-AGE BASEMENT...CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE, NORTH CAROLINA BY CARL E. MERSCHAT AND LEONARD S. WIENER NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...OBTAINED FROM NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY P.O. BOX 27687 RALEIGH, N.C. 27611-7687 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...President: H. Lee Mitchell South Carolina Water Resources Commission Greenville, South Carolina Vice-President:...Geology Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron, Jr
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...Cassiterite Hematite (in quartz) Pyrite Bronzite Hypersthene Pyroxene Diopside Tourmaline (black) Drauor...Drauor.rt Twelve diamonds have been found in North Carolina, and there are also extensive deposits of itacolumite...Countiesin the westernPiedmont section of the state, and in Franklin County on the eastern edge of the Piedmont
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 (volume)
Knoxville 1 °X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Knoxville 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°X2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina I by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [et al...Geology- Tennessee. 2. Geology-North Carolina. 3. Geology-South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources-...and mineral resources-North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of eclogites from the Eastern Blue Ridge, North Carolina, USA F. Z. PAGE, E. J. ESSENE AND S. B. MUKASA...C.C. Little Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–1063, USA (fpage@umich.edu) ABSTRACT The prograde metamorphism...metamorphism. Eclogites from the Eastern Blue Ridge of North Carolina retain evidence of their prograde path in the...These eclogites, from the vicinity of Bakersville, North Carolina, USA are primarily comprised of garnet...are rimmed with plagioclase and hornblende. Hypersthene is found as a minor phase in some diopside +
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...guidebook may be obtained from: Geological Survey Section Division of Land Resources, N.C. Department of...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
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)
Knoxville 1°x2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°x2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina / by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [etaf...Geology—Tennessee. 2. Geology—North Carolina. 3. Geology—South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources—Tennessee...and mineral resources—North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II...Knoxville l°x2° quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina 2. Paleozoic metamorphic facies map
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large variety of minerals and gemstones in North Carolina annually attracts thousands of collectors to...the world. Some Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina T H E C O L L E C T I N G L O C A L I T I E...McKenzie's publication Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina: Information Circular 24 (1978). For a more...locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can be ordered from the North Carolina Department...Resources, Geological Survey Section, P . O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. The price is $5.00
Report (issue)
BULLETIN NUMBER 47 FORSTERITE OLIVINE DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA By CHARLES E. HUNTER UncleT the...-------------·--·----·--------·--------- 57 Bakersville Deposit ----------------------------- _______...Analysis ------------------------------~--------- 86 Cane Creek D ep osi t ----------------------------------------------------...Ellijay Creek ---------------------------------------------------------------- 100 OF NORTH CAROLINA AND..._ 107 Buck Creek-Shooting Creek Area-------------------------------------- 107 Buck Creek Deposit---
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...Geological Survey Section P. O. Box 27687 Raleigh. N. C. 27611 1823 --~- GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SECTION The Geological...Geological Survey Section shall, by law"...make such examination, survey, and mapping of the geology, mineralogy
Report (issue)
0, I y. 50 .r rVv, rv O. ^ NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE...BULLETIN NO. 50 The Vermiculite Deposits of North Carolina BY THOMAS G. MURDOCK AND CHARLES E. HUNTER...UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JASPER L. STUCKEY, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY RALEIGH 1946 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...BULLETIN NO. 50 The Vermiculite Deposits of North Carolina BY THOMAS G. MURDOCK AND CHARLES E. HUNTER
Report (volume)
North Carolina State Library Gift of "JYortk (^arolinti ^Ihranj 0 Digitized by the Internet Archive...in 2019 with funding from State Library of North Carolina https://archive.org/details/corundumperidoti01prat...OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT and JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS North Carolina State Library...Library Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. A. HOLMES, STATE GEOLOGIST VOLUME I CORUNDUM AND...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT AND JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 1905
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...Community Development Geological Survey Section P. O. Box 27687 Raleigh. N. C. 27611 & ^5 o Z M' tsS...about the Section please write: Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611...FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian Institution (slide
Report (issue)
the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity, North Carolina and Tennessee By BRUCE BRYANT and JOHN C. REED...______ ____________________ _____ 10 10 Wilson Creek Gneiss ------------------------Megascopic features...granite gneiss _______________ 36 40 41 21 26 Bakersville Gabbro ------------------------ 41 Quartz porphyry...Chilhowee Group --------------------------- 45 Slices north of the Grandfather Mountain window ------------...belts in parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, and southern Virginia. 4. Geologic section and simple Bouguer
Report (issue)
Smoky Mountains National Park, Western North Carolina Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip November...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...Blythewood, South Carolina Kubal, Furr and Associates, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation,... Spruce Pine, North Carolina Organization, registering participants, keeping financial records, and guidebook...Cooperation, encouragement, and field checking by North Carolina Geological Survey geologists: Carl E. Merschat
Report (issue)
GENERAL FEATURES OF THE MAGNETITE ORES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EASTERN TENNESSEE.1 By W. S. BAYLEY. INTRODUCTION...DISTRIBUTION. The iron ores of western North Carolina and Carter County, Tenn., comprise brown hematite (limonite...of North Carolina have increased in importance. Brown ore and magnetite produced in western North Carolina...353 60,593 43,483 44,482 o From reports of North Carolina Geol. and Econ. Survey and Mineral Resources...total recorded .production of magnetite from North Carolina is about 1,331,600 tons and of brown hematite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
khERIC.4 United States Cwolina nretabasalk to Bakersville 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 b. Amphibolites BK BK BK BK...Leesburg, Loudon, Co., Va. 01. diabase, Charlotte, S. Carolina Diabase, First ~Vatch~g, Paterson, yew Jersey...AD AD -AD AD 50 51 52 54 55 56 Diabase, Squaw Creek, Black Hills, S.D. Gabbro, Black Hills, S.D. Basalt...\V. of Spanish Peaks, Cola. 01. gabbro, Cripple Creek, Colo. Quartz gabbro, Iron Hill, Colo. 253 ! 1...(Eocene): Basaltic andeaite dike Andesite flow Hypersthene basaltic an&site from the Sheep Rock Plug Ohvine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
present in the amphibolites are hornblende, hypersthene, augite, biotite, plagioclase, quartz, scapolite...C = 42°, Ny = 1.697, N z - N x = 0.024) and hypersthene (2V = ( - ) 61° and therefore En67 (Leake, 1968))...plagioclase (An4.6) are present in moderate amounts. Hypersthene has 2V = ( - ) 56°, N z = 1.711 and is therefore...gneisses. In addition to plagioclase (An35-4o), hypersthene (2V = (—) 60° and therefore En 66 ; Leake, 1968)...Modal analysis Quartz Microcline Plagioclase Hypersthene Augite Hornblende Scapolite Biotite Chlorite
Report (volume)
-----_-_----..-_--_----___.-----___________-.._... Hypersthene......................'.........................From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...LOLLINGITE. From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400 at 14.5°...vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific gravity, 6.644 at 20°. Probably...impurities. From the Missouri mine, Halls Valley, Park County, Colo. Analyses, by Hillebrand, of three different
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coun:oo, s t a r t i n t h e N o r t h e a s t e r n section o f each s t a t e and proceed t o t h e S o u...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
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of Geology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (deceased). HADLEY, Jarvis...unrecognized. and the Reading Prong; and a last section on the Piedmont. In order to relate the individual...written short introductory comments for each section. table in a volume gaps. We have As is almost...2, p. Huntington Broedel, Reverse faulting north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull...Washington County, in The physical features of Washington County. Md. Geol. Survey, Washington County (Rept
Report (volume)
...................... 1. Rocks from Aroostook County..... ^..................'........... 2. Miscellaneous............................................. North Carolina..............................................1. Elliott County dike............................................... 2. Crittenden County dike...................................... Rocks of Cripple Creek district..............'................... Miscellaneous....................................... 3. Colfax County................ I.............................
Report (issue)
Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the Grenville orogen in North America Edited by Richard P. Tollo Department of...George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 USA Louise Corriveau Geological Survey of Canada GSC-Québec...Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, New York 12866 USA Mervin J. Bartholomew Department of Earth Sciences...Tennessee 38152 USA Memoir 197 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box 9140 ■ Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA 2004 MWR197...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA. Copyright is not claimed on any material prepared
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
source of CAMP basaltic dykes from southeastern North America Sara Callegaro a,∗ , Andrea Marzoli a ,...46 Allée d’Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 7, France c Section des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Genève...Quest, 14243 Murphy Terrace, Gainesville, VA 20155, USA f Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University...magmatic province (CAMP) occur in southeastern North America (SENA) and were intruded between 202 and...entire magmatic province, including its eastern North American (ENA) part (i.e. Beutel et al., 2005; De
 
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