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| Pattern: Crabtree emerald mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA. 3.475 (100), 2.583 (67), 2.961...100.00 (1) Crabtree emerald mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA; average of 10 electron microprobe...country rock. Association: K-feldspar, plagioclase, quartz, beryl, muscovite, garnet, biotite, fluorite. Distribution:...From the Crabtree emerald mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA. Name: As a dravite with dominant...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA (121341). References: (1) Clark, C.M., F.C. Hawthorne |
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| 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...great many very interesting and unique forms of quartz crystals and rutiles, and has added a great number... me some and to, lias of the novel forms of quartz crys- furnished some valuable notes also of |
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| 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...matter of commercial interest. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 6 Dr. C. L. Hunter has also kindly furnished...within a few days, so that the having been of North Carolina list mineral species has been very considerably |
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| '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 |
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| GEMS AND GEM MINERALS OF NORTH CAROLINA* Josnrn HvoB Pnerr North Carolina is one of the more notable...material. The variety of gem minerals found in North Carolina is probably greater than in any other state...June 25,1932. 148 JOURNAL MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY Quartz Rock Crystal Amethyst Citrine Smoky RoseQuartz...Sphene Rutile Octahedrite Cassiterite Hematite (in quartz) Pyrite Bronzite Hypersthene Pyroxene Diopside...Drauor.rt Twelve diamonds have been found in North Carolina, and there are also extensive deposits of itacolumite |
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| c\ NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF MINERAL...Structure of Part of the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina A PROGRESS REPORT BY JOHN M. PARKER, III GEOLOGICAL...SURVEY AND THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF...Structure of Part of the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina A PROGRESS REPORT By M. PARKER, III Geological...BETWEEN THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT |
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| i^orth Caro...ia ^.aie Library Raleigh NORTH ^c CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 58 Halloysite Deposits of Western North Carolina BY CHARLES E. HUNTER AND LEWIS J. HASH...TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY In Cooperation with NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...Raleigh, North Carolina April 22, 1949 To His Excellency, Ron. W. Kerr Scott Governor of North Carolina...Bulletin 58, "Halloysite Deposits of Western North Carolina." This bulletin is another in the series being |
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| Spruce Pine District ! Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...with the Min\ eral Resources Division of the North \ Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Spruce Pine District Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina By DONALD A. BROBST ! CONTRIBUTIONS...with the Mineral Resources Division of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...map of Spruce Pine pegmatite district, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties, N.C.__________________ In |
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| 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... Geologic map of part of the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and Tennessee. 2-6. Maps showing location of |
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| Carolina Geological Society 2008 Fieldtrip and Annual Meeting, Little Switzerland, North Carolina October...Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________________________________...__ Carolina Geological Society (CGS) 2008 Field trip Spruce Pine Mining District North Carolina Co-leaders...Sponsors Active Minerals International, LLC Imerys North America Ceramics Unimin Corporation Vulcan Materials...Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________________________________ |
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| 1888. MICA SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MINING IN NORTH CAROLINA. By WM. B. PHILLIPS. SUPPLEMENT, No. 654....been a curious reticence on the part of the North Carolina HlIca miners and dealers, and a corresponding...the inhabitants of the mountains of West ern North Carolina, nor any upon whose willingness to aid one...the operations of Heap & Clapp in 1869 in Mitchell County soon induced others to enter the field. The...the business vigorously. It was not long before Mitchell and Yancey counties were dotted with prospect |
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| 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...Domestic Mica Buying Policy 111 20. Western North Carolina & the War Years .119 21. The Mineral Kingdom |
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| mineral phosphuranylite, hitherto known only from North Carolina on the basis of the original description by...found in the Flat Rock pegmatite in Mitchell County, North Carolina. The original description stated only...PnospnunANYlrrE Yale speciFlat Rock mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina' The Penn Stale and conmens, and additional...comparison, of phosfilms by coated garnet and muscovite quartz, feldspar, or milky sist of smoky crystals phuranylite...phosphuranylite. with filled partly quartz and uraniNewry, Oxford County, Nlaine. A large book of muscovite |
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| C . Spruce Pines in Mitchell County is the best known area in North Carolina to those connected with...east ern North Carolina. The type of granite underlying the Spruce Pines region is unique for North Carolina...Counties which join Mitchell County. Alaskite consists chiefly of oligoclase, quartz, microline, and muscovite...gneiss. This is a formation common to much of North Carolina and is more abundant than any other formation...into the Toe River Valley, which is central Mitchell County, some ancient people had sunk many shafts. |
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| .'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...THULITE AND PYRITE MONAZITE EMERALD CUPRITE SMOKY QUARTZ ZIRCON TORBERNITE ~/ UBRAR'l USE ONLV ,~O...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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| closes over Buncoll;be County, and at the Clarissa ( Buchanan) mine, Mitchell County. quickly or slowly-the... . Albite occurs at the Presley mine, Haywo,?� County, It is beyond the scope of these ar�I...large scale; th� sImple at the WisellJan mine, Mitchell County, and rogersIte [Continued from SUPPLElIlENT...whether it is practicable or !lot MICA MINING IN NORTH CAROLINA. tle pearly beads upon samarskite." on a large...tre�tment as the folloWIng ite and phosphuranylite on quartz and feldspar at the to.preserve valuable trees |
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| York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite in Cheyenne Canyon near...Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate of...present. It is not uncommon in the mica region of North Carolina. Small crystals have been noted at the Deer...one half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine...and the Ramsey mine near Toledo in Yancy County, North Carolina. Large masses of Monazite occurred at the |
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| Amphibolc AEGIRINE-AUGITE-Sce Pyroxene AGATE-Sec Quartz ALABANDITE (magancsc sulfide) Xline, with sphalcritc...Peristerile (Jvfoonstone), opalescent cleavage, with quartz showing albite twinning or polysynthetic twin bands...cerium orthosilicate) Massive; Virginia, or N. Carolina ................. . 34 Orthite, high grade; Norway...Smaragdite Green xline, with pink corundum, North Carolina . . . 92 Tremolite Fibrous, coarse, greenish-gray...metasilicate) "Asbutos", fibrous with talc; North Carolina . . . . . . . . . 17 ANTHRACITE-See Mineral |
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| minerals of microcline, bladed albite, and smoky quartz are enhanced by a purple or green cube of fluorite...Granite, near Red Stone quarry, Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Henry Minot specimen and photo...Teller and Park counties, CO, USA Crystal Park–Bear Creek, El Paso County, CO, USA Pikes Peak Granite NYF... 3 Mount Antero and Mount White, Chaffee County, CO, USA Mount Antero Granite NYF Miarolitic beryl...Mountains, Boise, Custer and Elsmore counties, ID, USA Sawtooth Granite in the Idaho batholith NYF Miarolitic |
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| NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT HARGROVE BOWLES, JR., DIRECTOR DIVISION...GEOLOGIST Circular 17 BERYL OCCURRENCES IN NORTH CAROLINA BY WILLIAM F WILSON Ooc RALEIGH 1962 CONTENTS...USESo 8 o . . . BERYLLIUM MINERALS IN NORTH CAROLINA 9 Varieties * o ••••••••.• Mode of Occurrencec...RESOURCES IN NORTH CAROLINA . H OCCURRENCES OF BERYL IN NORTH CAROLINA. 13 Alexander County ...•••••...••.• Ashe County,* ... 0 o * * • o o Burke County* • * • . • . • • • * • • Catawba County* • « . » * |
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| gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE |
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| Shows and Symposia SPRUCE PINE, NORTH CAROLINA HOST TO LONG-RUNNING MINERAL AND GEM FESTIVAL JO W O...O O D Y Route 1, Box 719 Spruce Pine, North Carolina 28777 Photos by Mabel Cox Figure 2: Pinebridge Coliseum...festival site. 220 ROCKS & MINERALS T H E NORTH CAROLINA MINERAL A N D GEM FESÂ T I V A L will be held...at the Pinebridge Coliseum in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, 2 through 6 August. This festival, one of...observed its thirtieth anniversary last year. The Mitchell County Chamber of Commerce initiated the first festival |
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| North Carolina State Library jleigh ( f t NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN RALEIGH...RALEIGH 1958 G. CONRAD Norffe Carolir* St** NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN G. CONRAD...Jefferson F. J. BOLING Siler City H. C. BUCHAN, JR North Wilkesboro SCROOP W. ENLOE, JR Spruce Pine VOIT |
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