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Sillimanite from
Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Sillimanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sillimanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1020265
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1020265:2
GUID (UUID V4):7ae5f958-a65e-4b22-9ae3-22d4c42821a1
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.. Open·file"re,pbr! on sinkhofes df.Frankllri County . ... . . Earth science 'teachers' corner ... ...Rh�ems,;in �h�. '--��nq_ft:ti,W.esf 1i�rt of Lancaster County. Bedding dips moderately:,:to the \fig�};��Mi:>s(of...of Gladhill, Pennsylvania, in southwestern Adams County. HISTORY. Fiberglass-based shingles, embedded with...the five levels of bench devel op· ment. Faint south· east-dipping cleav· age is visible in the near...This sequence is more or less continuous to the south through Maryland and Virginia. The geologic setting
Report (issue)
4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis:...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses...Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating...42 9.86 4.77 13.60 100.69 2.277 LOCALITY: Berks County: Birdsboro. MESOLITE m Na Al Si3Oio.2H O 2 2
Report (issue)
York County, South Carolina — Carolina Geological Society Field Trip October 23-24, 1965 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...YORK COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA James Robert Butler Department of Geology University of North Carolina Chapel...transitional zone between the Charlotte belt and Carolina slate belt contains foliated granitic rocks, biotite...INTRODUCTION York County is situated in the north-central Piedmont of South Carolina, adjacent to the...the North Carolina state line. It is especially interesting geo1ogicaUy because it straddles the Charlotte
Report (volume)
Selected Bibliography of Andalusite, Kyanite Sillimanite, Dumortierite Topaz, and Pyrophyllite in the... Selected Bibliography of Andalusite, Kyanite Sillimanite, Dumortierite Topaz, and Pyrophyllite in the...______-____________________________________ -________ Sillimanite _ _________________________________________________...SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANDALUSITE, KYANITE SILLIMANITE, DUMORTIERITE, TOPAZ, AND PYROPHYLLITE IN THE...compilation of 566 references on the kyanite, or sillimanite, group of minerals and pyrophyllite to December
Report (issue)
1. Approximate two-day field trip locations of Carolina Geological Society relative to the generalized... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Guidebook for 1973 Annual Meeting...PLUTONS OF THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PIEDMONT OF SOUTH CAROLINA H. D. Wagoner Chiasma Consultants, Inc. 60...29401 David E. Howell2 Division of Geology South Carolina State Development Board P. O. Box 927 Columbia...reserves of this commodity available in the South Carolina Piedmont, Purposes Reconnaissance mapping
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cape Ortegal (type locality, Spain), Texas, Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) and Heazlewood (Tasmania) were...performed on the ‘‘emerald of nickel’’ of Pennsylvania (USA). Isaacs (1963) performed new chemical analyses on...Fenoglio (1934) studying zaratite samples from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and Lilaz, Valle d’Aosta, Italy...zaratite samples from Heazlewood (Tasmania), and Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) showed similar chemical composition...carried out on zaratite specimens from Texas (Lancaster County, Pennsylvania) and Heazlewood (Tasmania, Australia)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chalcopyrite and gold in a topaz bearing quartz-sillimanite gneiss hosted by quartz-feldspar and quartz-mica...bearing quartz-sillimanite gneiss has an unusual composition with quartz and sillimanite constituting more...Skolgatan 4, S-930 70 Mal~., Sweden quartz-sillimanite paragenesis of the host rocks and the occurrence...1986a, 1986b, 1991). The occurrence of a garnet-sillimanite-cordierite-biotite-hypersthene mineral assemblage...calcsilicate gneisses, and a topaz-bearing quartz-sillimanite gneiss (Fig. 3). The Engtsen supracrustal sequence
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...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...o o r e , M o n t g o m e r y, Randolph, Macon South C a r o l i n a : Chesterfield, L a n c a s t e
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fracture-controlled alteration. Introduction Geologyof the Carolina Slate Belt, M^ss•vEsulfide and gold depositsoccur...in hydrothermallyalteredmetamorphicrocksof the Carolina slatebelt in the Piedmontof SouthCarolina(Fig...Tin-bearingmineralsin theserocksare probablyalso South Carolina The Carolina slatebelt is part of a broad band of...strata-bound in the volcaniclastic rocks, and their The Carolina slate belt is one of several belts of presencemay...the belts farther east. In eastern South Carolina, the Carolina slate belt rocksare divided into lower
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uraninite, 1081 South Crofty mine, Illogan, Redruth: coffinite, uraninite, xc South Terras mine, St...wollastonite, lxx Sithean Sluaigh, Strachur: mullite, sillimanite, xci Ayrshire Byne Hill, Girvan: hydrogrossular...Ambatofinandrahana: kinite, 42 chev- South Africa Klein Spitzkopje, UsaIcos, South-West Africa: florencite, 281...and Trooper Lake, Glamorgan Township, Halliburton County: nepheline, 114 Munro mine: chrysotfle, 467 QUEBEC...forsterite, 730 United States Amelia County, Virginia: albite, 581 Bedford County, Virginia: chevkinite, perrierite
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_________________________________________...crystalline rocks in South Carolina. 2. Map showing geologic belts in South Carolina. 3. Map of the main...main metamorphic facies in South Carolina. 4. Map showing location of samples used for age determinations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
East Ridge in the Appalachian belt of Virginia, USA (Kyanite Mining Corporation 2005). Further studies...(Russia), Proterozoic (Scandinavia) and Palaeozoic (USA) ages. In Norway and Sweden, they occur in Palaeoproterozoic...metamorphic grade, and examples of quartzites with sillimanite or andalusite as the dominant Al silicate are...Norway (e.g. Drag NCA and Drag NC1) and Unimin in USA (Iota STD and Iota 8) are plotted in Fig. 6. Al and...concentrations in the epiclastic Patsoana quartzites, South Africa, which range from <8 to 1,000 μg g−1 for
Report (issue)
photo: Mil8ing PDant, Parks GoUd Mine, McDuffie County, Georgia. Photo courtesy Georgia Department of...District. ......... ,........................ Greene County................................................................................ Lincoln County ................................................................................ McDuffie County ................................ ·.............................................. Oglethorpe County ................................ : .............................
Report (issue)
in Southern Mecklenburg County and Vicinity, North Carolina 'and South Carolina By Frederick Albert Wilson...IN SOUTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY AND VICINITY NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA By Frederick Albert Wilson...part of the Charlotte and Carolina slate belts in southern Mecklenburg County and vicinity to help interpret...as metavolcanic rocks* Gravity models of the Carolina slate belt Indicate that it is a synform containing...produced the metamorphic reaction K-feldspar -f sillimanite *» quartz -h muscovite reflected in the mineral
Report (volume)
_____-____-_--.-_-.-.___ 11 j Geology of Catoctin-South Mountain___________________ 13 * , * m ,t L...southeastern Pennsylvania. It comprises parts of Lancaster, Chester, and York Counties and lies within a...of the earth's crust that originally lay farther south was driven northward and westward across the folded...metamorphism, because the slaty Conestoga limestone near Lancaster is folded just as strongly as its metamorphosed...autochthonous and the overriding rocks in Carroll County, Md., are more feebly metamorphosed than the corresponding
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
Report (volume)
zircon, rutile, monazite, staurolite, kyanite, sillimanite, tourmaline, and spinel. Stream and flood-plain...plains and low hills. The Coastal Plain from North Carolina to Alabama ranges from 100 to 200 miles in width...report (fig. 47) is mainly the inner belt. In South Carolina this inner belt has about the same boundaries...formations K sampled. A geologic map of the North Carolina Coastal Plain by . Berry (1949) also was used...formations of Tertiary age, but in parts of ; South Carolina and Georgia, the McBean and Barnwell formations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA ' ABSTRACT The Protogine Zone comprises a system...of the Sveconorwegian (1200-900Ma) province in south-west Sweden. Ages of granulite facies metamorphism...Neoproterozoic exhumation of the granulite region of south-western Sweden. Muscovite in phyllonites associated...eastern boundary of the Svecononvegian province in south-west Sweden (Fig. 1). A characteristic mylonitic...coast northward to the Caledonide nappe front. South of Lake Vattern, the Protogine Zone is characterized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
community of Talucah near Vahlermoso Springs, in Morgan County, north Alabama. A large portion of this cave had...us two very interesting specimens—gem quality sillimanite. The specimens are 2 inch pebbles, mottled brown...in Kentucky last summer. On Red River in Wolfe County, Ky., about 18 miles from Pine Ridge on Route 15...Bulletin on the mineral resources of Montgomery County, in which this formation is located, and I am sure...with the proceedings of quarry work." ' N O R T H CAROLINA—An interesting clipping was sent in by Charles
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK October 7-8, 1978 GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE...central South Carolina) Edited by Arthur W. Snoke Department of Geology University of South Carolina Columbia...Columbia, South Carolina 29208 Front cover photograph: S-shaped fold of amphibolite in pelitic schist...schist, Lake Murray spillway, central South Carolina Piedmont CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1978 OFFICERS President:...Eldon Allen North Carolina Geology and Mineral Resources Section Raleigh, North Carolina Vice-President:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
traskite, verplanckite and muirite from Fresno County, California Stinson, NI. C. and Matthews, R. A... Seven new barium miuerals from eastern Fresno County, Californier (abs.) 1.2+ 2r0+ 278 273 Stinson... Seven new barium minerals from eastern Fresno County, California AJlan, D. with Brown, V. (Book 314... 843 man, Jackson) Andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, mullite, thermodynamic properties of (Waldbaum)...seven new, Barium (Hubbard) from eastern Fresno County, 2040 (Alfors, Aplite-pegmatites, composite, of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization at the Barite Hill Gold Deposit, Carolina Slate Belt, southeastern United States: a window...Hill gold deposit, at the southwestern end of the Carolina slate belt in the southeastern United States,...Geological Survey, 954 National Center, Reston, VA 20192, USA e-mail: rseal@usgs.gov; Fax: +1-703-6486383 for...Barite Hill deposit in South Carolina is one of four gold mines in the Carolina slate belt of the southeastern...province. Gold was ®rst discovered in the North Carolina portion of the belt as a large nugget (>7 kg)
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
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1995 OFFICERS President Fred C. Beyer, Jr. Vice-President Ralph Willougby...individuals have helped in the preparations for the 1995 Carolina Geological Society Annual Meeting, Field Trip...recognize the contributors to volume 38 of South Carolina Geology, bound with this field guide. The reviewers...quadrangle. SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY VOLUME 37 1995 FIELD TRIP GUIDE FOR THE 1995 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE CAROLINA TERRANE IN NORTHWESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA ALLEN J. DENNIS, J. ROBERT
 
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