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Picrolite from
Buck Creek, Clay County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Serpentine Subgroup var: Picrolite
Formula:D3[Si2O5](OH)4 D= Mg, Fe, Ni, Mn, Al, Zn
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Antigorite1 photo of Picrolite associated with Antigorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Picrolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Buck Creek, Clay County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:357411
Long-form Identifier:1:3:357411:9
GUID (UUID V4):d73abe2e-9685-48db-9b9a-d0e8df8766fb
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 (volume)
CORUNDUM DEPOSITS IN THE BUCK CREEl( PERIDOTITE CLAY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA BY JARVIS B. HADLEY Strategic.... . . . . . . . . • . • . . . Roan gneiss and Carolina gneiss ...................... Pegma ti tes. ....Geologic map and sections of the Buck Creek peridotite body, Clay County, N. C. . . . • . . . . . . . ....sections of the Corundum Knob area, Buck Creek corund~m district, Clay County, N.c ........ Geology and topography...topography of the eastern part of the Buck Creek area, Clay County, N. C •••....••........•.••...... Geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
were regarded as individual species(williamsite, picrolite, etc.) exhibited only .tl ,': i ,,i ;.. j:...1.2 miles west-northwest of Rock Springs, Cecil County, Maryland. F-14. Serpentine, variety-"Yu-Yen Shi...Hills, Baltimore County, Maryland. F-20. Chrysotile: asbestosdeposits: Gila County, Arizona. F-40. Serpentine...Serpentine, variety-deweylite: Prairie Creek area of peridotite in T. 8 S., R. 25 W., 2| miles south-southeastof...south-southeastof Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. samples.chemical analyseswere not availablefor ail
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)
.'.' .., 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
Report (issue)
(alteration product of pyroxene) from Montville, Morris County, N".J. B, Dark-green serpentine from the well-known...from Montville, KJ. D, Grayish-green picrolite from Buck Creek, N.C. E, A grayish-green serpentine from...Montville, Morris County, N.J. B. Dark-green serpentine, Newburyport, Essex County, Mass. C. Silky, fibrous...Montville, Morris County, N.J. D. Grayish-green picrolite, Culakenee mine, Buck Creek, Clay County, N.C. E. Grayish-green...Grayish-green serpentine, Corundum Hill, Macon County, N.C. Interpretation of Faust and Nagy Chiefly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was some hexagonal brucite crys­ tals The Bergen County Mineral­ ogy and Paleontology Society, Paramus...Calvert Cliffs, Maryland The Rock and Gem Society of North Jersey visited the Herbert R. Imbt Quarry at Bossardsville...MASSACHUSETTS The Northern Berkshire Mineral Club, North Adams, showed a slide program provided by the Gregory...made the best use of days like today letin of the North Shore Rock and Min­ with many field trips. Reports...Cedar Hill Quarry for members (Penna.) they found picrolite, williams- Mineralogical Society, Westford, held
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)
......-...-...---------------...-.-.-.--.. North Carolina ______________________________________________................................._........... North Carolina ___..__._....._..._______..__._.____..._.____...........^....................... 116 116 North Carolina .............................................--.......-........-..--.-........--..-. South Carolina -...-.......:..........-.....-----....---.--........ .... ................................ North Carolina ...._.......-._..---...-....-_.._-......_-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORI'GINOF NICKELSiLICATESAT WEBSTER, NORTH CLARENCE CAROLINA. • S. ROSS, 2 EARL V. SHANNON FOREST...they are probablymore abundant at Webster, North Carolina, than at any other Io'cality. The Webster dunite...townof Webster,. in JacksonCounty,westernNorth Carolina,near the centralpart of the Coweequadrangle. Dillsboro..."On the Nickel Depositsof Webster,WesternNorth Carolina, Canadian Min. Inst. Jour.,vol. 9, pp. 3o3-3x6...but veins of the sametype at Corundum Hill, Macon County, N. C., contain biotite that has not been completelyaltered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
it is proposed to drop the names picrosmine, picrolite, williamsite, bowenite, porcellophite, and baltimorite... Wm., Hand.b. der Mineralogie, p. 523, 1845. Picrolite. Hausmann, J , Mol,l,'s Efemeri.ilen der Berg...and thermophyllite. (3) Franous. Chrysotile, picrolite, baltimorite, metaxite, jenkinsite, and picrosmine...Serpentine (144) "Metaxite" Chrysotile Antigorite "Picrolite" Chlorite Pr,ern L Showing the r-ray difiraction...(ft44), "metaxite, " chrysotile, antigorite, "picrolite" and chlorite. TEE AMEKICAN MINERALOGIST A
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Keystone Trap Rock Quarry at Cornog, Chester County, Pa. thru the courtesy of the owners Messrs J....Limestone Products Company, Lime Cr,est, (Sussex County) N . J. There were 187 persons registered, the...Shulman. The Loux family's showing of local (Bucks County) fossil wood was outstanding. There was also a...field trip to the Middleville section of Herkimer County, N.Y. proved to be an unusual success. More than...of the country such as Maine, Connecticut. North Carolina, New York and New Jersey localities, California
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...arfvedsonite, penninite, bronzite, enstatite, picrolite spinel, deweylite, prochlorite, cerolite, fibrolite...within a few days , so that the list of North Carolina mineral species has been very considerably
Report (issue)
___________ Clinochrysotile (Globe-type), Gila County, Ariz___________________________________________...Clinoehrysotile (iron-bearing serpentine), Stillwater County, Mont_________________________ Clinochrysotile...Hill, Harford County, Md____________________ Clinochrysotile and lizardite, Morris County, N.J________...Clinochrysotile and lizardite, variant form, Morris County, N.J.____________________________ Lizardite plus...section___________-___ Lizardite (deweylite), Delaware County, Pa__-___________-_____________-_---__---__--_-Lizardite
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...arfvedsonite, penninite, roflite, bronzite, enstatite, picrolite, spinel, deweylite, prochlorite, cerolite, fibrolite...matter of commercial interest. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 6 Dr. C. L. Hunter has also kindly furnished
Report (volume)
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...From the Brobdignag mine, Red Mountain, San Juan County, Colo. Specific gravity, 5.21 at 18°. Analyzed
Journal (issue)
VII, pp. 334-338 (quartz after interstices from North 1926, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., LXXVIII,'pp....defined by its matrix. Carolina). Chalcedony after interstices from Chester County, Pa., has been described...and opal after thenardite, gypsum, and anhydrite; clay after halite; and, in part (?) pseudomorphs of limonite...no Spec. No.; radially fibrous gypsum nodules in clay replaced by barite. Barite after Witherite: I,...Silesia, 8678 Cervantite after Antimony: I, C 2 Kern County, California, 17240, 18383 (stibioconite ?) Cervantite
Journal (issue)
THE GEOLOGY OF LOWER MILFORD TOWNSHIP, LEHIGH COUNTY, PENN. (Part 3). By Charles W. Brotvn ········............................... 412 FREEDMAN ON BUCK CREEK, N . C. By Charles A . Belz ...................of ing ~r. the 11es ear ing "Five leagues north of Guasabas. at about a stone's throw easnvard from...small hill, at the foot of which it lies, from the north side around by the south to the east. This vein... It also apeears that " Opotu " is ten leagues north ot Guasabas, on the banks of a river locally called
Report (volume)
meteorite from Texas.. . . 91 Meteoric iron from North Carolina . 93 ... . Pallasite from Kansas. 94 Meteoric...Nock, Massachusetts. . 121 Websterite from North Carolina and Maryland . 122 Feldspars from Minnesota...apple-green, foliated talc from Hunter's Mill, Fairfax County, Virginia.. Analysis as follows.: SiO2 . A1203...from Montville. D. Grayish green picrolite from Buck Creek, North Carolina. E. A. grayish green mineral from...from Corundum Hill, North Carolina, which was supposed at first to be deweylite. It is an ordinary, massive
Book (volume)
limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay. In these coal seams the collector may often find...grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...Mississippi R.⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in...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
Book (volume)
limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay. In these coal seams the collector may often find...grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...Mississippi R.⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in...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
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
Report (issue)
bibliography is modeled after the Bibliography of North American Geology which is published annually and...References were read, annotated, and indexed·. by county, subject, and geological age. In many entries a...a portion of the state larger than a county is discussed, so that larger subdivisions of the state are... are outlined in Fig. 1. Each index entry to a county or one of the larger subdivisions is also referred...from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. BRICK AND CLAY RECORD. Brick and Clay Record. Published commercially from Chicago
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.............................
 
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