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Quartzite from
Henry Knob Mine, York County, South Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Quartzite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartzite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Henry Knob Mine, York County, South Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1041165
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1041165:8
GUID (UUID V4):96d796cf-7787-42f1-b57f-b0ed9553c4c9
Nearest other occurrences of Quartzite
25.2km (15.6 miles) Unnamed Iron Ore Mine Gl - 074, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
28.3km (17.6 miles) Unnamed Iron Ore Prospects Gl - 087, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
61.3km (38.1 miles) Shuford Mine (Cansler and Shuford Mine; Catawba Gold Mine), Anderson Mountain Mining District, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA
91.7km (57.0 miles) Kluttz Shale Mine, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
94.7km (58.9 miles) Unnamed Quartzite Quarry HI-028 (MRDS - 10079286), Linville Falls, Burke County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
schist and gneiss. Kyanite schist _____ Kyanite quartzite ___________ ______________________ Hornblende...Slate __ . Halifax County Other localities North Carolina Hagers Mountain, Person County.- _.______ Corbett...Corbett deposit, Johnston County Burnsville-Swannanoa area, Buncombe, Yancey, and Mitchell Counties ________...________ ____ Rutherford County Other localities North Carolina-South Carolina Kings Mountain district, Cleveland...Cleveland, Gaston, and Lincoln Counties, N.C., and York County, S.C. ._ __-__ ____ --- ---General geology Rock
Report (issue)
CONTENTS Guide to the Geology of York County, South CarolinaCarolina Geological Society Field Trip October...October 23-24, 1965 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Guidebook for 1965 Annual Meeting Pages 1-6 GUIDE...GUIDE TO THE GEOLOGY OF YORK COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA James Robert Butler Department of Geology University of...of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC teristics of both belts and probably mark a metamorphic gradient....transitional zone between the Charlotte belt and Carolina slate belt contains foliated granitic rocks, biotite
Report (issue)
outcrops of high alnzina quartzite exhibit compositional layering (i«e», kyanite quartzite is interlayered with...with stauro lita quartzite, and with non-kyanitic tiagnotiferous quartzite); high alunina quartaite beds...Sr^ith and- Hewcc-abe (1951) that the Vyanite at Henry Knob developed by hydro-thermal introduction of slumina...study indicates that kyanite in the xyanito quartzite here, as throughout the district, is of metaledjbrcnt...Districtt North Carolina and South Carolina. «« . Structure Sketch Map of the Kings Mountain-Henry 22100 area
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF KYANITE DEPOSITS AT HENRY SOUTH LAURENCE CAROLINA. L. SMITH ß KNOB, • AND ROY NEWCOME, JR...principalrock of Henry Knob, a conspicuous monadnock, three mileswestof Clover,South Carolina. The depositis...I NTRODUCTIO N. THE Occurrence of kyaniteat Henry Knob wasmentionedas longagoas 1846 by MichaelTuomey'...abundanttalus which has accumulatedon the flanksof the knob. More recentquarryingoperations haveuncovered perti-...of Commercialores Incorporated. TOPOGRAPHY. Henry Knob is one of the numerousmonadhocksin the Carolinaswhich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
01:09 24 December 2014 Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia B lue minerals are a traditional favorite...Sagadahoc County, Maine. Gemmy lazulite masses are found in Chittenden Township, Rutland County, Vermont...Vermont. It is reported from Stoddard, Cheshire County, and from the Palermo and Charles Davis pegmatites (possibly...(possibly scorzalite) at North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Lazulite is best known in the southeastern...lazulite crystal on sugary “quartzite” matrix from Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. The 4.6-cm-high
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Guidebook for 1956 Annual Meeting Pages 1-4 KINGS MOUNTAIN BELT1 CAROLINA...were contorted. Non-schistose beds are typical quartzite, and for the most part contain no kyanite. Drag...other weak rocks, but rarely in pure quartzite unless the quartzite is thin-bedded and contains beds of...away from mine faces containing loose slabs. The lunch stop on Saturday will be at Henry Knob. Bring your...cuts the bedding. STOP 1 Outcrop of “kyanitic quartzite,” which was given stratigraphic status by Keith
Report (issue)
Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina by W. R. Griffitts, K. A. Duttweiler...Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina, begun in 1978 that is part of a multidisciplinary...of the staurolite, garnet, and kyanite, in the Carolina Slate Belt are recycled in that way. The nearly...mined on a large scale from quartzite at Henry Knob, and kyanitic quartzite is present in many other places...and Potter, 1960). Some of the known kyanitic quartzite deposits are unlikely to be mined; such as those
Report (issue)
Mozambique • • Republic of South Africa Republic of the Sudan Somali Republic . • South-West Africa .. Burma...Martin and Mr. D. C. Heath, Geological Survey, South-West Africa; Mr. A. V. Briebach, Morgan Refractories...important producing countries are the Republic of South Africa, the United States and India. At one time...letter chi (X). Tl1e chief sources of andalusite are South Africa, Sweden, the United States and Korea. The...in economic quantities are known in Australia, South-West Africa and India. Mullite was named by Bowen
Report (volume)
The Crystalline Rocks of South Carolina By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces of South Carolina UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,...and Precambrian(?) age_______________________ Carolina slate belt_________________________________________...______ ___ _____ Phyllonite, blastomylonite, quartzite, and dolomite_ _ __ Henderson Gneiss_________...hornblende gneiss_____________ Tallulah Falls Quartzite of Teague and Furcron (1948) _ Dolomite______
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
familiar to collectors because the kyanite-rich “quartzite” once exploited at Graves Mountain, Georgia, is...Cumberland County, Maine. Blue-bladed crystals to 2.5 cm long occur at Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts...at Ratlum Mountain, Hartford County, and at Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Kyanite associated...Prospect Park area, Delaware County, and at East Bradford, Chester County, Pennsylvania; crystal groups...Willis mountains and other sites in Buckingham County, Virginia, although none of the localities are
Report (issue)
Il • CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Field Trip Guidebook 1981 October 24-25, 1981 Gaffney, South Carolina...Carolina - CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1981 OFFICERS +', . I. President: Richard G. Chalcraft Gulf...Schaeffer Duke'Power P.O •. Box 33189 Charlotte, North Carolina 28242 0 Secretary-Treasurer: • S. Duncan Heron...Department of Geology, Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27706 Chairman of the Membership Committee: ...Department of Geology Catawba College Salisbury, No~th Carolina 28144 Field Trip Leaders: J. Wright Horton,
Report (issue)
Charlotte 1° X 2° Quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina The Conterminous United States Mineral...Charlotte 1° X 2 ° Quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina By J. E. Gair, Richard Goldsmith, D....Mines and mineral resources-North Carolina-Charlotte Region. South Carolina. I. Gair, Jacob Eugene, 1922-...the Charlotte 1 °X2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina Schematic diagram for estimating mineral-resource...Charlotte 1 o x 2° Quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina By J. E. Gair, Richard Goldsmith, D.
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia........................................Calcioferrite from the Moculta quarry, near Angaston, South Australia ........................................chalcopyrite, from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and...a major donation (from an anonymous donor in New York) to help with part of the extra costs on the long-awaited
Report (issue)
information immediately availal-tle to property owners and mine operators concern€\d with exploration for and production...drilling data of the Sinsinawa River area, Grant County, Wis. : 21 p. , 2 figs. , 1 map. May 11, 1953.... F. , East Shasta copper-zinc district, Shasta County, Calif.: 1 map. Sept. 16, 1953. 102 Old Mint Bldg... A brief report on the progress of the Manatee County, Fla., ground-water investigation: 11 p., 4figs...H., Photogeologic map, Clay Hills 16, San Juan County, Utah: 1 map. Jan. 9, 1953. 468 New Customhouse
Report (issue)
14 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Asbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N.Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...Poncha Springs, Colo. 14. Tungsten ore, North Carolina Rutile in Precambrian Sillimanite-Quartz Gneiss...not yet discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once discovered...14 Kings Mountain district, North Carolina14 South Carolina.................................. Graves Mountain...Yuma County, Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Book (volume)
the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust long spurs...the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book
6 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 I N...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...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...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
Report (volume)
___ . _....... _. _. _____ .... ______ 83 Colossus mine ___ ..... _o ••• _ • • • • • • • • • • • •• •••...Blackmon mine._ ... ___ •.......... _..... __ ....... .............. 92 Kings Mountain mine __ ___ ....94 Ferguson mine .....•............. _........ _. __ ___ . __ .. __ . ___ . _ 96 Brown mine ____ . __ ...·schlegelmilch mine .. _. _____ ____ .... ___ ......... _... __ ... . . . . . . . 101 Thompson mine. _ .. ___...West mine ____ . _. _____ . _. _.. _.. __ .. _...... ~ __ . __ .... ·. . . . . . 104 Nott mine __ . ______
Report (volume)
Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone... Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central northern North Carolina and central...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian...map. Occurs in vicinity of Abbyville, Mecklenburg County. Abercrombie Formationl Middle Cambrian: Western...and above Busby quartzite. Underlies and named for Abercrombie Peak, on ridge south of Dry Canyon, in
Report (issue)
PEGMATITE GEOLOGY OF THE SHELBY DISTRICT NORTH CAROLINA by \ Wallace R. Griffitts > \ I ,' -* U. S...Metamorphic rocks....................... h- Carolina gneiss ..................... Ij- General features...district , Worth Carolina. .................... In pocket 3A. Contorted garnet layer in Carolina gneiss * 3B...lens of fine-grained lime- silicate rook from the Carolina gneiss. ............... * k-. Metabasalt with...structure f ron the biotite gneiss member of the Carolina gneiss ...... 5* ** 8 Bedding in marble in Battleground
Report (issue)
NORTH-CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA   TRIP LEADERS: James Hibbard (Emeritus, North Carolina State University)...University) jphibbar@ncsu.edu , Philip Bradley (North Carolina Geological Survey) pbradley@ncdenr.gov and Brent...Clark Carolina Geological Society 78th Annual Meeting, November 3-5, 2017 Roxboro, North Carolina CAROLINA...1.2 of this trip. Back: Stop map for the 2017 Carolina Geological Society field trip. Base map for stops...and NC Flood Plain Mapping) for central North Carolina with a portion of the NCGS open file 1:100,000
Book
Agricola. Translated by Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover. Clothbound $10.00 The Physics of Blown...of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina, William Byrd. $2.00 (tent.) Geographical Essays...BATES STATE PUBLICATIONS, UNIVERSITY INC., NEW YORK Copyright © 1960 by Robert L. Bates. Copyright...America Dover Publications, Inc. 180 Varick Street ew York, N. Y. 10014 Contents Editor's Introduction Preface...professional geologists who may fail to realize that we “mine” such common materials as sand, gravel, and clay
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BROTHERS, STATE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK GEOLOGY OF THE INDUSTRIAL ROCKS AND MINERALS...address Harper © Brothers 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N.Y. D-K Library of Congress catalog card number:...professional geologists who may fail to realize that we “mine” such common materials as sand, gravel, and clay...of this text, Dr. Robert Bates, is a native of South Dakota. His graduate education in geology was obtained...chlorine, whether produced from salt brines in New York, salt beds in Michigan, or salt domes on the Gulf
 
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