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Quartz from
Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1039753
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1039753:4
GUID (UUID V4):0a66f598-3df4-4e68-87c1-944d80118bb0
Localities for Quartz in this Region
Blackmon Mine (Hegler), Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA
Excelsior Granite Quarry, Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA
Hale's Mine (Haile Gold Mine), Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA
Liberty Hill Deposit, Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CHLORITOID FROM RAWLINSVILLE, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA Surt:ey,Washington,D' CANNaHrnrewnN,l [/...and [130], were measured. A chloritoid from South Carolina also shows both monoclinic and triclinic symmetry'...The indices of refraction of chloritoid from Lancaster county are as follows: a:1.7t9, p:1.721 and.7:1.725...all +0.001. The formula calculated for the Lancaster County material on the basis of a chemical analysis...specimen of chloritoid schist near Rawlinsville, Lancaster County, Pa', in December 1939. The chloritoid was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PETROLOGY OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA GRANITES' THOMAS LEONARD WATSON Brooks Museum, University of Virginia...OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE CRYSTALLINE AREA The South Carolina area of crystalline rocks extends northwestward...rocks are granitegneisses, hornblende schists, and quartz-sericite schists. In com' Published by permission...Director of the U. S. Geological Survey. 2 South Carolina Geological Survey, 1908, Series IV, Bull. No...No. 2, p. 505. 730 PETROLOGY OF SOUTH CAROLINA GRANITES 73I position and texture the gneisses
Journal (issue)
Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds.......................................... 5 Rose quartz locality pegmatite ................................................................... 6 North Carolina ............................................................................................ 6 South Dakota ...........................................Himalaya pegmatite, Mesa Grande District, San Diego County, California. Within a narrow pegmatite small anhe-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology Auburn Universit Rutile=Included Quartz Downloaded by [McGill University Library] at 05:41...issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. The specimen, rutilated quartz from Waterbury, Vermont (see fig.), is interesting...in considerable demand by collectors. Rutilated quartz is also a popular gem material, having been utilized...spheres, and other ornamental devices. Rutilated quartz is known by a number of names that include sagenite...(love’s arrow), and Venus’ hair stone. The host quartz may be colorless, smoky, or amethystine and occurs
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY http://carolinageologicalsociety.org/ 2015 Board of Directors Officers...Tectonic history of the eastern Piedmont in South Carolina Donald T. Secor, Jr, C. Scott Howard, and Robert................... 1 The Haile Gold Mine, South Carolina, USA James M. Berry, Reid M. Mobley, Kenneth A..................................... 51 iii Carolina Geological Society Field Trip October 24-25, 2015...Piedmont in South Carolina Donald T. Secor, Jr C. Scott Howard Robert H. Morrow, IV South Carolina Department
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 (issue)
JOHNSON Diabase Dikes in the Haile-Brewer Area, South Carolina, and Their Magnetic Properties By HENRY BELL...(C) Diabase dikes in the Haile-Brewer area, South Carolina, and their magnetic properties, by Henry Bell...CITED Diabase Dikes in the Haile-Brewer Area, South Carolina, and Their Magnetic Properties By HENRY BELL...showing the location of the HaileBrewer area, South Carolina, known occurrences of dikes of Triassic and...north-central South Carolina ______________ Geologic map of the Haile-Brewer area, South Carolina ________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurs as a dense, eggshell-like veneer over the County (in Eastern California), is 12 porous and fragile...phosphate in the diatomaceous sediments containing County, is in southern Connecticut. these specimens. ILLINOIS—"Enclosed...the other half. No. 2—This is a half geode. It is quartz lined with some dolomite crystals and on top of...dolomite are some quite small cubes of pyrites. No. 3—Quartz lined as usual with some calcite crystals with...marcasite. No. 4—Quartz lined geode and has some very nice small doubly terminated crystals of quartz. No. 5—Quartz
Report (issue)
COASTAL PLAIN NEAR PAGELAND, SOUTH CAROLINA AND WADESBORO, NORTH CAROLINA By HENRY BELL III1 J. ROBERT...Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27214 3 Division of Geology, South Carolina State Development... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Guidebook for 1974 Annual Meeting...COASTAL PLAIN NEAR PAGELAND, SOUTH CAROLINA AND WADESBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Henry Bell III U.S. Geological...of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27214 David E. Howell Division of Geology, South Carolina State Development
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department Belmont Abbey College Belmont, North Carolina 28012 The Piedmont foothills of the Eastern United...sites, notably in New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. Before the opening of the American...Jersey, iron from Pennsylvania, gold from North Carolina, and chromium from Maryland and Pennslyvania....Opening at Choate mine, Soldiers Delight, Baltimore County, Maryland. Paul Clifford of Rocks and Minerals...Susquehanna in Cecil C o u n t y , Maryland, and Lancaster County, Pennsyl­ vania, and the Wood mine in Texas
Report (volume)
. 9 York County................................................................. South Mountain.................................................. Lancaster, Berks, and Lehigh counties.....................at Chickies Rock, on the Susquehanna Eiver, Lancaster County, Pa...................... III. Banded Lower...mile southwest of Emigs- Page. 8 12 ville, York County, Pa.......................................... IV...of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Bellemqnt, Lancaster County, Pa.. VII. Lower Cambrian limestone exposed
Report (edition)
Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County...County Monroe County Northampton County Sullivan County York County 18 20 21 23 . 25 28 37 38 39 ...decorative, colored 3 glassware, the mineral quartz is the source for silicon and oxygen. The metals...pseudomorphs after pyrite found near Columbia in Lancaster County, described in this report. If the only description
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COLLOFORM PYRITE AT THE HAILE GOLD DEPOSIT, SOUTH CAROLINA: A TEXTURAL KEY TO GENESIS NORA FOLEY,† ROBERT...Auriferous iron sulfide-bearing deposits of the Carolina slate belt have distinctive mineralogical and...events. Ore horizons at the Haile deposit, South Carolina, contain many remnants of early pyrite: (1)...textures are present in other major deposits of the Carolina slate belt, such as Ridgeway and Barite Hill,...processes. Exploration strategies applied to the Carolina slate belt and correlative rocks in the eastern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DICK D A Y V A U L T Department of Geology East Carolina University Greenville, N.C. 27834 The Liberty...northeastern Kershaw County, South Carolina. In the past few years dark, gemmy smoky quartz crys­ tals have...Granite. Location of the Liberty Hill pluton and quartz mine (modified from Overstreet and Bell, 1965a...area where smoky quartz crystals are found encompasses south central Lancaster County as well as northeastern...northeastern Kershaw County (Fig. 1). These areas are sparingly populated agri­ cultural and timber producing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bottom of the Paquea Creek at Soundersburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I was hoping to find some of...in the Conestoga Creek near Millersville in Lancaster County. B u t , a couple of hours of panning the...sieved from a small stream in A k r o n , Lancaster County, only a few 126 miles away. I n this sample...reading confirmed that phrrhotite is common in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. T h i s incident reminded me...About two years ago while collecting in North Carolina I sampled some black sand from a dirt road. Naturally
Book (edition)
the con dition of affairs, more especially in the South and in the States and Ter ritories of the far West...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...extends from the south prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance...distance of 60 miles. Down to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below...being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater thickness
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
grained gray sand consisting almost entirely of quartz (chiefly colorless, some smoky, also brownish)...white sea shells. Rehoboth Beach in eastern Sussex County in S.E. Delaware is on the Atlantic Ocean. "Here...sand from Naples, Fla. Naples, in N . W . Collier County in southern Florida, is on the Gulf of Mexico....grained, gray sand consisting almost entirely of quartz (chiefly colorless, some white) plus some sea shells...Idaho Ashton, in the southern part of Fremont County, is in the eastern part of Idaho. From a locality
Report (edition)
Lapham of a thin slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green and red), serpentine...localities, the Grace mine in Berks County, the Stillwell quarry in Lancaster County, and the Medusa Cement Company...Company quarry in York County, are now This fourth printing is essentially closed to collectors. D...Adams County 23 Allegheny County 31 . Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Clinton County Cumberland County Dauphin County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County
Report (edition)
.... . .. . Adams County .... . .. ... ............... . . ... . Allegheny County .... . ...... . ............ . Armstrong County . . . . . . .. . .... ........ .. . .. . Berks County ..... . ..... ......... ...... . Blair County . . .. . ... ... . . .. . .... ........... . Carbon County ..... ..... .............. . Cl1ester County .... . . . .... ... ........... . .. . Cumberland County ...... . ..... . ....... . . Delaware County ... . .. .... . . . .... . . . .. . . . .. . Fulton County . ...... .. . . .
Report (volume)
Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards...Mr. D. H. Newland, State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota...Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota... .Prof. E. C. Perisho...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Ute Mountain Gem & Mineral Society. Montezuma County Annex Bldg., 103 N. Chestnut. Info.—John Ferrin...Mineral & Jewelry Festival sponsored by the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. Oxford Fair­ ground...sponsored by the Reno Gem and Min­ eral Society. South Meeting Rooms, Reno/ Sparks Convention Center, 4590...Mattituck, NY 11952. Jury 25-28—Franklin, North Carolina. Gem & Lapi­ dary Wholesalers (G&LW) Gem Trade...July 31-Aug. 4—Spruce Pine, North Carolina. 34th Annual North Carolina Mineral & Gem Festival. Pine­ bridge
Report (volume)
....................................... North Carolina. ........................................................ South Carolina......................................:.................... South Dakota.......of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature...edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon, C
Journal (issue)
.. 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...aesthetically pleasing roofing armor are silica sand, vein quartz, 2 novaculite, feldspar, mica, greenstone, talc...the five levels of bench devel op· ment. Faint south· east-dipping cleav· age is visible in the near
Report (volume)
Prospecting for Zinc, Lead, Copper, and Silver, Lancaster Valley, Southeastern Pennsylvania GEOLOGICAL ...Prospecting for Zinc, Lead, Copper, and Silver, Lancaster Valley, Southeastern Pennsylvania By JACOB FREEDMAN...patterns of zinc, lead, copper, and silver in the Lancaster area UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...zinc and lead in soil in the thrust belt of Lancaster County. 4. Geologic map of the Pequea silver mine...prospects _ 2. Generalized geologic map of Lancaster County and adjacent areas in Pennsylvania _____________
 
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