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Corundum from
Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Corundum
Formula:Al2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Corundum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1004923
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1004923:9
GUID (UUID V4):83fe14e7-b4a8-43aa-949e-3d3f4546c935
Nearest other occurrences of Corundum
1.6km (1.0 miles) Lookout Mt, Montreat, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
13.7km (8.5 miles) Swannanoa River Occurrence, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
24.9km (15.5 miles) Democrat Olivine Deposit (Democrat Chromite Prospect; T Mine; Democrat Chromite Placer Deposit; ITS; Ivy River-Democrat Chromite Deposit), Canton-Democrat, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
25.8km (16.0 miles) Holcombe Branch Olivine Deposit, Canton-Democrat, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
27.7km (17.2 miles) Carter Mine, Mars Hill, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
32.7km (20.3 miles) Hendersonville Quarry, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA
37.7km (23.4 miles) Hayes Mine (Egypt Mine), Sampson Mountain, Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
45.4km (28.2 miles) J.C. Mills Mine (Mill's Mine; Mills's Mine), Brindletown, Burke County, North Carolina, USA
46.6km (28.9 miles) Pressley Sapphire Mine, Canton, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA
52.7km (32.7 miles) Walker Top Mountain, Burke County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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...kerrite, culsagerite, Among (all number of rare mountain reminerals, and these are maconite, lesleyite
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
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...lanthanum and yttrium. The corundum mines, iu the chrysolite ledges of the mountain have also added to the...matter of commercial interest. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 6 Dr. C. L. Hunter has also kindly furnished
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...27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can
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)
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 (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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
100 COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA C. HENRY KING, FRANKUNVILLE, N.C. ALAMANCE—The North State pyrophyllite...clay of the Pleistocene; black clay, sand and peat of the Cretaceous. (Black Creek Formation.) ALEXANDER—Emeralds...Ore Knob copper mine in the eastern part of the county has produced chalcocite, bornite, pyrite, pyrrhotite...was limestone, shellrock, blue clay, white and black sands. BERTIE—A mound was reported on the bluffs...Archaeological possibilities. ROCKS AND MINERALS BUNCOMBE—Chromite was formerly mined at Holcombe Branch;
Report (volume)
the Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area and Extension, Buncombe County, North Carolina By F. G. LESURE...of the Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area and Extension, Bunc1m County, North Carolina. (Geological...3:1515 1. Mines and mineral resources-North Carolina-Buncombe Co. I. Grosz, Andrew E., jof author. II...forest land in the Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area and Extension, North Carolina, that is being considered...studied is in the Pisgah National Forest in Buncombe County. CONTENTS Page Summary ---------------
Report (volume)
North Carolina State Library Gift of "JYortk (^arolinti ^Ihranj 0 Digitized by the Internet Archive...Library of North Carolina https://archive.org/details/corundumperidoti01prat CORUNDUM AND THE PERIDOTITES...OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT and JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS North Carolina State Library...Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. A. HOLMES, STATE GEOLOGIST VOLUME I CORUNDUM AND THE PERIDOTITES...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT AND JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 1905
Book
MINES MINERS MINERALS AND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Western North Carolina’s Hidden Mineralogical Treasures...E L L 2005 PARKWAY PUBLISHERS, INC. Boone, North Carolina Copyright ©1999 Lowell Presnell All Rights...Mines, miners, and minerals of western North Carolina : western North Carolina’s hidden mineralogical treasures...(hard cover) 1. Mines and mineral resources—North Carolina—History. I. Title. TN24.N8P74 2005 338.4‚7622‚09756—dc22...Emerald 33 9. Mica Mining 37 10. Feldspar 55 11. Corundum 61 12. Copper Mining 69 13. Graphite, Chromite
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
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
Book (edition)
by Prof. John G. Smock, and that for the Eocky Mountain region by Mr. C. Whitman Cross. To these gentlemen...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
Report (issue)
Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development..._ _______----Spruce Pine district- ___________ Buncombe district__-_-__--_--_ Woodlawn district_____________
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...South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908. Scott, Samuel, Map of the Black Hills
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...to list more than fifteen hundred localities in North America where gems can be found. This is the only...included contain such specific details as farm roads, mountain paths, stretches of stream beds, and easily identifiable...amateurs alike had not gone out to every corner of North America, discovered the rich gem resources of the...Colorado; and Professor Jack Hanahan of Belmont, North Carolina, with locations in their respective states
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California; in the Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of South...Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs very rarely in pegmatites...sulfide, has been found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It has been mine on San Augustin Peak...tains, New Mexico, with argentite in a Randolph County, Alabama; and from a sulfide zone near the center...the School Section mine near Little Switzerland, North Caropegmatite of the Eight Mile Park area lina.
Book
as mica, apatite, sphene, zircon, fluroite and corundum are associated with light-colored igneous rocks...combine to form Minerals - " Rubies and Sapphires (Corundum) which combine with Biotite Mica to form R°ck...the middle Northwest one can see bands of almost black substance between layers of sedimentary rock. This...desires. Sometimes the talus slopes at the base of a mountain contain rich indications of a dike or sill above...famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in
Book (volume)
tH MSTONESof - NORTH AMERICA ~ VOLUME olor phot raphs yo. Erica and. Harol d Van I [iL Albuquerque...87109 N.M. N_E. Bivd. Gkapats GEMSTONES of NORTH AMERICA ~ NASMI EPPA GEMSTONES OF THE WORLD...+ GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA, by John Sinkankas ON@“THE VOLUME III COVER North American gems from...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75
Report (volume)
From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...19 LOLLINGITE. From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400...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...ZINKENITE. From the Brobdignag mine, Red Mountain, San Juan County, Colo. Specific gravity, 5.21 at 18°.
Book
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...photographs as well as with diagrams, both in color and black and white. The second section describes tests...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
Report (issue)
South Carolina .......................................................................77 North Carolina...Montana, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts...chlorite and tremolite. Talc in the Murphy belt, North Carolina and Georgia, is found in the Cambrian Murphy...deposits in Massachusetts are mostly located in a north-trending belt of Cambrian and Ordovician metasedimentary...Talc deposits in Vermont are mostly located in a north-trending belt of Cambrian and Ordovician metasedimentary
 
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