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Corundum from
Cherokee County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Corundum
Formula:Al2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Corundum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cherokee County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:820615
Long-form Identifier:1:3:820615:2
GUID (UUID V4):636d0cc3-ec48-4c90-a270-e74a27eeaa08
References
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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...uranium, cerium, lanthanum and tions yttrium. The corundum mines, in the chrysolite ledges of the gion...within a few days , so that the list of North Carolina 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
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...titanium, uranium, cerium, lanthanum and yttrium. The corundum mines, iu the chrysolite ledges of the mountain...matter of commercial interest. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 6 Dr. C. L. Hunter has also kindly furnished
Report (issue)
Residual boulders of massive kyanite, Pickens County. ·~· LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Department of Mines...previously known only from India were discovered in Cherokee, Pickens, and Dawson counties. Both of these minerals...-- _ SILLIMANITE IN TOWNS COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND CLAY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA--------------------------Location... Residual boulders of massive kyanite, Pickens County. Figure 1. Sillimanite crystals in biotite. gneiss...Hart County ________________ 14 Figure 2. Oglethorpe formation, on Burnt Mountain, Pickens County, containing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...Sanitarium and the Oconee River: andalusite, biotite, corundum, muscovite, quartz (Hurst, 1956c). Wood pit—east...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8
Report (issue)
COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing................................................ Corundum .......................................................................................... 170 County Index ...........................................from Washington and Bleck ley counties to Irwin county. Some minerals described herein have never been
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)
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....Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found in...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
Book (edition)
Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4. Fluorite 9. ...actually 42.4 times harder than talc hard as corundum. field rests, the following information is...right) CHRYSOBERYL EPIDOTE PERIDOT SPHALERITE CORUNDUM FELDSPAR ^ PHENACITE SPODUMENE DANBURITE...elements such as diamond (carbon), oxides such as corundum (aluminum oxide), carbonates such as malachite...with tiny golden flakes of mica, and quartzites. Corundum, — — spinel and garnet are associated with
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)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Corundum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....chartoflithologic units in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... 31 9. Modal analyses of felsic igneous rocks north of the Brevard fault zone . . . . . . . . . . ....Austell, Sand Hill, Kennesaw and Dallas gneisses north of the Brevard zone. The oldest rocks present in...rocks that have many similarities to lithologies north 1 To produce a geologic map of an area as large
Report (issue)
I. C. 1 Doocmbcr NORTH 1940 CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT H. BRUCE STKERIDGE...STATE GEOLOGIST CIRCULAR NATIONAL DEFENSE- NORTH CAROLINA'S POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION LIBRARY N. C,... i.e. i December 1940 IHFORMATTOiJ CIRCULAR NORTH CAHOLIHA DEPARTMEHT DIVISION OF CONSERVATION AND...IlIrJERAL FOR RESOURCES NATIONAL DEFENSE - NORTH CAROLINA'S POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION By T. 0. :.iurdoc#...in 1938 the value of mineral products of Worth Carolina only amounted to about ;'15,000,000 and the State
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey
Report (volume)
further subdivided by geographic areas (State and county) and by subjects, which include general, geology...the White Mountains, Mono County, Calif., and near Hawthorne, Mineral County, Nev. KYANITE Kyanite generally...Baker Mountain, Prince Edward County, and Willis Mountain, Buckingham County, in Virginia, and at Henry...Henry Knob, near Clover, York County, S.C. These are the only deposits now producing kyanite in the United...been produced only in very small amount in North Carolina (Stuckey, 1937, p. 75). The most promising
Report (volume)
The Crystalline Rocks of South Carolina By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces of South Carolina UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...and Precambrian(?) age_______________________ Carolina slate belt_________________________________________...crystalline rocks in South Carolina. 2. Map showing geologic belts in South Carolina. 3. Map of the main metamorphic...metamorphic facies in South Carolina. 4. Map showing location of samples used for age determinations of
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)
ALABAMA—Cherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the little...a 10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals ranging from...coal, mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and...around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively in recent years. The...found all over Cherokee County. "Lots of Indian relics are found too." A map of Cherokee County, prepared
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
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...r t a n b u r g , U n i o n , Oconee Georgia: Cherokee, Dawson, L u m p k i n , M c D u ff i e , G i
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California. CORUNDUM: Although Georgia led the nation in the production of abrasive corundum in the late...Morgan County. Pink corundum in smaragdite is found near the Hogg Creek corundum mine in Towns County. On...grade red corundum crystals can be found. It is rumored that truck loads of this rich corundum containing...Gainesville. Typically, diamonds found in Hall County weighed from 2 to 6 carats; a few were of larger...pinkish red garnet from near Covington in Newton County. Perhaps the best known garnet location is on a
Report (issue)
by Fritz Cirkel, and the ''Corundum and Peridotites of Western North Carolina," by Joseph Hyde Pratt and...rocks .............•........•.••..........•..... Carolina gneiss ..................•.............•.......................... . Olivine gabbro-Hog Creek Corundum Mine ................. . Troctolite-near Young.................... 125-137 Asbestos deposits of North America .................................. 127-189...142-189 Rabun County ........ , ..................... , .................. 142-149 Towns County .........
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...and Ultramafic Rocks 31 Asbestos 39 Chromite 39 Corundum 39 Nickel 40 Olivine 40 Platinum-Group Elements
Report (issue)
Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE IN GARNET RUBY CORUNDUM GOLD...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)
-----------------------Kyanite in Pickens and Cherokee counties........ ----------------------------..._______________________________________ Talbot CountY-----------------------------------------------...-----------------------------Kyanite in Fulton County, by Geoffrey W. Crickmay -----------------,------...-----------···---------------------------·-North Carolina.. -------------------------·--············........ · 41 41 41 42 43 43 44 VI Page Towns CountY-----------------------------------------------
 
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