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Vermiculite from
Ball Mine, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Vermiculite
Formula:Mg0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)6(Si,Al)8O20(OH)4 · 8H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Vermiculite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ball Mine, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1033778
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1033778:1
GUID (UUID V4):3130df1f-5a03-4540-9288-a600d41da764
Nearest other occurrences of Vermiculite
3.8km (2.3 miles) ā“˜Mason Donnan Mine, Enoree Vermiculite Mining District, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) ā“˜Schumacher Mine, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) ā“˜New W.D. Abercrombie Mine, Enoree Vermiculite Mining District, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) ā“˜Lois Abercrombie, Enoree Vermiculite Mining District, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) ā“˜Craig Mine, Enoree Vermiculite Mining District, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) ā“˜American Vermiculite No. 1 Pit, Enoree Vermiculite Mining District, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) ā“˜Templeton Mine, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA
5.7km (3.6 miles) ā“˜Tommy Blakely Mine, Enoree Vermiculite Mining District, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA
5.9km (3.6 miles) ā“˜Wright No. 1 and No. 2 Mine, Enoree Vermiculite Mining District, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) ā“˜Davis-Dewitt Mine, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
State Geologist BULLETIN NO. 46 KYANITE AND VERMICULITE DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA By LOUIS M. PRINDLE Associate...for publication a report on the Kyanite and Vermiculite Deposits of Georgia by Louis M. Prindle, W. D...behind the recent commercial uses of kyanite and vermiculite is little known to the general public .. Years...not available to make an extensive search for vermiculite. The deposits described are of doubtful importance...-------------------------------------------------Ball Ground area ...Ā·-------------------------------
Report (issue)
A. Burdick, Manager of the Laurel Creek Corundum Mine, Pine Mountain, Rabun Co., Ga., Mr. Corn of Visage...hexagonal in Gellivara, Dr. J. Lawrence Smith; Emery Mine of Chester; Scientific Kesearches, p. 42. 3 ...Cudgegong river, at Mudgee and other points in New South Wales." 1 HISTORY OF CORUNDUM IN NORTH AMERICA...hundred yards above the works at Track Rock Mine, Union county, Ga., there are several slabs, one of which...HISTORY OF CORUNDUM. KIG I. Track Eock, Union County, Georgia. The dum in first authentic date
Report (Issue volume)
State mineral production and mineral production by county were prepared in the Division of Statistics and...Geological Survey. North Carolina: Division of Land Resources, North Carolina Department of Environment...Environmental Management. South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey. South Dakota: South Dakota Geological.... . . . . . . . . . . . . ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ 359 North Carolina, by Steve W. Sikich, P. Albert Carpenter, Ill... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ South Carolina, by Steve W . Sikich and Norman K. Olson .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ussher Society, January 1988 Industrial minerals: south-west England's connections to the world G.M. CLARKE...CLARKE. Clarke, G.M. 1988. Industrial minerals: south-west England's connections to the world. Proceedings...Lower Marsh, London SEI 7RJ. We all know where south-west England is but when I came to preparing this...the internationally recognised home of traditional ball clays, are the obvious counties to be included....Avon which represents the northern part of the old county of Somerset, and with it one of only four major
Book
130 Iodine 138 Sulfur Talc 260 265 274 Vermiculite 145 Magnesite & magnesia Manganese minerals...come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many rocks and...eclipsing the mineral magnesite in some areas; the trona mine rather than the Solvay plant is now the main source...for example, are almost entirely derived from the USA and Tur- key, a situation too narrowly based comfort...comfort. Users of chromite, who must the USSR, South Africa, Albania, and wish that chromite deposits were
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 districtā€”between the State Sanitarium...pitā€”east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...propertyā€”Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8...about 7.0 km east of Lula: kyanite, sericite, vermiculite (Furcron, 1960c). Maysville areaā€”T. J . Carr
Journal (issue)
phosphate rock, sand and gravel, sulfur, and vermiculite. CEMENT a- Three companies, one each in Warren...cement in Virginia. Riverton Corporation in Warren County produces masonry cement at their plant north of...Total XX $2,116,581 Production as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production (including...Cement Company operates a plant in western Botetourt County. The facility manufacturesportlandcementfrom locally...producers in the central-to-easternpart of Virginia mine Triassic-age shale and clay residuum in Orange and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
commercial vermiculite based on statistical analysis of bulk chemical data: Fingerprinting vermiculite from...(XRF) analysis, were obtained on 34 samples of vermiculite to ascertain whether chemical differences exist... and V can be used to distinguish the Libby vermiculite samples from the garden products. In general...of the Libby and South Carolina deposits appeared similar, but differed from the South Africa and China...certainty, grouped the garden samples with the South Africa ore. INTRODUCTION In the fall of 1999, the
Report (volume)
_______-_--_______________-_-___-_____-Chouteau County, _________________ _____________-________ Origin...Map of the Yogo sapphire deposit, Judith Basin County, Mont._-----.-.-------.-_--------------------_--...deposit._________________________________ In pocket 4. Mine workings and sections of the Elk Creek corundum...corundum deposits--.. 3 2. Property map of the New Mine Sapphire Syndicate---------8 3. View eastward along...along the old open-cuts of the British sapphire mine _________________________________________________
Journal (issue)
cars or by tanker truck to various markets in the south and midwest. Refined borate powder, appears like...daily barged out of the Yorktown refinery north and south to all the major ports along the Atlantic Coast...sulfur is sold to an electric company in North Carolina where it is converted into sulfur trioxide. The...coke is sold to processors in the Charleston, South Carolina area, who crush, size, and resell the material...to Roanoke Cement Company in southern Botetourt County, north of Roanoke, for use in cement manufacture
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless H i l l s , visited the American CopĀ­ per Mine at Somerville, N ....Appalachia Rock Club, Middleton Depot, went to the Silver Mine K n o b i n Hares Valley to look for pyrite, zinc...N D MINERALS ALABAMA MARYLAND T h e Calhoun County Rock and MinĀ­ eral Club, Jacksonville presented...Lapidary and Mineral Society of Prince Georges County, Md., Hyattsville, found a lot of very excellent...the identification of minerals. ā€” T h e Bergen County Mineralogy and PaleonĀ­ tology Society went to the
Journal (issue)
phosphate rock, sand and gravel, sulfur, and vermiculite. The exploration for heavy minerals was continued...available XX Not applicable Production as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production (including...cement in Virginia. Riverton Corporation in Warren County,just north of Front Royal, produces masonry cement...Cement Company operates a plant in western Botetourt County. The facility manufactures portland cement from...producers in the central-to-eastern part of Virginia mine Triassicage shale and clay residuum in Orange and
Book
of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina, William Byrd. $2.00 (tent.) Geographical Essays...Metamorphic Minerals 306 Graphite; Asbestos; Talc; Vermiculite 10. Sedimentary Minerals and Sulfur Diamond;...professional geologists who may fail to realize that we ā€œmineā€ 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...shipped from county to would do as well), it rapidly decreases to place value is shown county, still less
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.......................................... 139 Vermiculite Group ................................................................................... 170 County Index ...........................................from Washington and Bleck ley counties to Irwin county. Some minerals described herein have never been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
an in a recent letter he writes: "Bastnaand old mine tunnel located west of Tucson. There were also calcite...much of the barite with cal- tain Pass, Calif. The mine is about 3 miles cite and galena." David P. Record...Mart, 4400 Mission Road, road leads to the mine. The mine consists of one shaft. Some bastnasite has...crystals. It is an attractive speciassaying. This mine will be a potential men. source of cerium metal...March-April, 1950, manganese mine near Glen wood, Pike ROCKS AND MINERALS, p. 123. County, Arkansas. Mr. Young
Book
Metamorphic Minerals Graphite; Asbestos; Talc; Vermiculite 10. Sedimentary Minerals and Sulfur Diamond;...professional geologists who may fail to realize that we ā€œmineā€ 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...the fact that little gravel is shipped from county to county, still less from state to state, and none...extended to refer to the exploitation itself. The term mine is generally understood to refer to underground
Report (issue)
..............................15 Municipal and County Regulations..............................................................................28 Acid Mine Drainage..........................................Lightweight Aggregatesā€”Pumice, Scoria, Perlite, and Vermiculite..........................................59 Classification............................................14 12. Mine sites or quarries preserved for recreational use...............30 20. Sedimentation pond at a coal mine site near Craig, Colorado......................
Report (issue)
series will be dropped. THE This publication on Vermiculite _is the first of the new issues. Constructional...latter are situated in hot climates, the mineral vermiculite, which is already widely employed elsewhere for...possi-bilities for Colonial vermiculite of good quality. Occurrences of vermiculite are already known in a...In presenting tl1e salient facts concerning vermiculite it is hoped that the search for and development...individuals that are concerned in any way with vermiculite. The assistance of those who have kindly aided
Report (issue)
Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh 1978...of this publication may be obtained from: North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community...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 78-10)...viable mineral collecting sites throughĀ­ out North Carolina. Some sites are commercially operated during the
Book (edition)
L. Gittson Tripoli, By Ropert W. MercaLr Vermiculite. By Joun B. Myers J Meh eee ee 945 965 ...Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Angola and the Union of South Africa supply most of the remainder. Brazil, which...Brazil; ballas chiefly from Brazil but a few from South Africa. Bort comes from all diamond-producing centers...e 0.20 Turkey: Kalah. .. Gumuch. Samos..... USA. Virginia... Chester, Mass..| New York New York...syenites in Canada and feldspathic rocks in India and South Africa. The origin of corundum has been discussed
Report (issue)
.'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh 1978...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 applied...Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist FRONT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
signatures of Late Eoceneā€“Oligocene sediments, South Carolina M.P. Segall a,*, D.L. Siron 1,b, D.J. Colquhoun...84108, USA Division of Hydrogeology, Bureau of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, South Carolina Department...29201, USA c Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA Abstract...Abstract Surficial and near-surface soils of the South Carolina Coastal Plain reflect a variety of lithologies...is based on distinctive hydroxy-interlayered vermiculite (HIV) signatures. Intervals of HIV-enrichment
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...townļ‚¾agate, 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
I{orth Carolina State IJniaersity, J. B. Wenen, DepartmentoJCrop Sc,ience, Raleigh, l{ orth Carolina. Asstn...of vermiculite whereas diquat was preferentially adsorbed on the internal surface of vermiculite and...Departments, North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Raleigh, North Carolina. Published with the...fraction remaining on the screen. The flakes were then ball-milled in water to provide clay-sizevermiculite...The micas were hand-picked from large books and ball-milled under water. No attempt was made to obtain
Report (Issue volume)
and Science Service. North Carolina: Office of Earth Resources, ~orth Carolina Department of Natural and...Puerto Rico. South Carolina: South Carolina Division of Geolog\. State Development Board. South Dakota: South...South Dakota State Geological Sur\'e,. Tennessee: Division of Geology, Tennessee Department 0Ā£ ConsenĀ·ation...-------- ----------------------- -- - ---- 511 North Carolina, by Roland W. Merwin and Stephen G. Conrad ___...Fulkerson _____ ______ ___________ ___ _ 649 South Carolina, by Robert G. Clarke and Alan J. Lehocky ___
 
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