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Granite from
Point Mine, Charlotte Mining District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Granite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Point Mine, Charlotte Mining District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1041965
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1041965:0
GUID (UUID V4):15f0ecde-48a5-4611-9fa8-d9a212e00f1f
Nearest other occurrences of Granite
1.0km (0.6 miles) Davidson Mine, Charlotte Mining District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
2.2km (1.3 miles) Unnamed Gold Mine (MRDS - 10079217), Charlotte Mining District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Unnamed Gold Mine (MRDS - 10089673), Charlotte Mining District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Smith and Palmer Mine, Charlotte Mining District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Clark Mine, Charlotte Mining District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Howell Mine, Charlotte Mining District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Frank Wilson Prospect, Charlotte Mining District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) Parks Mine, Charlotte Mining District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
5.3km (3.3 miles) Unnamed Gold Mine (MRDS - 10079134), Charlotte Mining District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) Unnamed Gold Mine (MRDS - 10079136), Charlotte Mining District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina 1011 by Gwendolyn W. Luttrell 12 U.S. Geological... Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina Abstract Gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc,...barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product silver, occurs in veins...Molybdenum occurs along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten...occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 23 24 25- U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:
Report (issue)
IN NORTH CAROLINA INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND NATURAL RESOURCES ...agencies for the general welfare of the dtizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts basic and applied research...Resources, at Post Office Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687, or call (919) 733-2423. Jeffrey...Chief Geologist GOLD NORTH CAROLINA IN . by P. Albert Carpenter III NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INFORMATION...INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT
Report (edition)
Information Circular GOLD RESOURCES OF NORTH CAROLINA by P. A. Carpenter, D oc ms C% M:*L Raleigh...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 26711. Jeffrey C. Reid Chief Geologist Cover...2 Uses 3 Mining Methods and Recovery 3 Gold in North Carolina 5 History of Mining 5 Production...Deposits of North Carolina 12 Eastern Carolina Belt 12 Portis Mine 14 Other Mines 14 Carolina Slate
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Guidebook for 1966 Annual Meeting Pages 1-16 GUIDEBOOK OF EXCURSION IN...IN CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA1 OCTOBER 22-23, 19662 Harry E. LeGrand Henry Bell III 1.Publication...and reformatted, November 1999 County and perhaps farther. The Charlotte belt consists of widely fractured...sedimentary or pyroclastic rocks. The boundaries of the Charlotte belt are not sharply delineated. Fro the Salisbury-Concord...Salisbury-Concord area southwestward to the South Carolina border the eastern boundary has often been placed
Report (issue)
Studies in Southern Mecklenburg County and Vicinity, North Carolina 'and South Carolina By Frederick Albert...STUDIES IN SOUTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY AND VICINITY NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA By Frederick Albert...applied to part of the Charlotte and Carolina slate belts in southern Mecklenburg County and vicinity to help...into the Charlotte belt where it is mapped as metavolcanic rocks* Gravity models of the Carolina slate...is exposed in the adjacent Charlotte belt antiform. The northern Charlotte belt contains mainly plutonic
Report (issue)
METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA by P. Albert Carpenter, m Reprinted...Previous investigations Mine descriptions Alamance County Copper prospect Foust copper mine Robeson gold prospect...Cabarrus County Allman prospect Buffalo mine Cabarrus? mine Clinemine Crayton mine Furniss mine Eva Furr...Furr mine Isenhour mine ..; : Newellmine Nugget mine Phoenix mine Pioneer Mills mine Propst mine Quaker...City mine Reed mine Rocky River mine Silver shaft Snydermine Troutmanmine Tucker mine Whitney mine Chatham
Report (issue)
1B01YJ JH1lrL~ 11HHJ J\J-rAJii W1.sr B JY1111.Il • CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Field Trip Guidebook 1981 ... October 24-25, 1981 Gaffney, South Carolina - CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1981 OFFICERS +', . I...Schaeffer Duke'Power P.O •. Box 33189 Charlotte, North Carolina 28242 0 Secretary-Treasurer: • S. Duncan...Department of Geology, Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27706 Chairman of the Membership Committee:...Department of Geology Catawba College Salisbury, No~th Carolina 28144 Field Trip Leaders: J. Wright Horton,
Report (issue)
Central group ____________________________ _ _ Carolina gneiss ________________________ _ Mica schist...__________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina and South Carolina ______ ____ _ Georgia ______________...__________________________________ _ History of mining ________________ ·__________________ _ Production...34 35 35 36 39 44 44 45 46 47 47 49 49 50 50 Mine descriptions ___________ --------- -- .. -------...___ _______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______ _____ _____ _ Franklin ____
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]...50. II. Tertiary History of the G-rand Caiion District, with atlas, by Clarence E. Dutton, Capt. U. S
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...Mica mining industry, for example, has brought to a Pi 7 ? f 3 : GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA. 2...York, has spent many months in explorations and mining for these mineral rarities, and has himself added...elsewhere. Hanna, of the U. S. Assay Office, Charlotte, I have obtained quite an extended list of mineral
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...some number of them not hitherto or, The Mica mining industry, elsewhere discovered iu America. great...with Mr. W. E. Hidden, of New explorations and mining for these mineral Among these, York, has spent
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
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)
C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com­ mon rock-making materials...to occur only as traces. ACCOMACK COUNTY: none given. ALBEMARLE COUNTY: actinolitc, agate, almandine, amethyst
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phyllites from the Appalachian orogen of South Carolina: Mineralogy and metamorphic history WILLIAM A... Greenville, South Carolina 29613, U.S.A. ABSTRACT Phyllites from the Charlotte belt (Central Piedmont)...Piedmont) of South Carolina contain porphyroblasts of black corundum in a matrix of margarite and minor muscovite...margarite-corundum phyllites from the Charlotte belt (Central Piedmont) of South Carolina (Ranson and Stuart 1992)...appears to be unique in the piedmont of South Carolina. Although Sloan (1908) cites twelve deposits of
Report (issue)
the Clarksville North and Boydton 7.5-minute Quadrangles, Mecklenburg and Charlotte Counties, Virginia...Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, product... Government. 1997 ABSTRACT The Clarksville North and Boydton 7.5 minute quadrangles include an area...km to about 21 km north of the Virginia - North Carolina State line, mostly north of and along a ponded...Formation and Aaron Formation of the Virgilina copper district in the western part of the slate belt. The phyllite
Report (issue)
.'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
319-335 (1986) The Northern Charlotte belt, North Carolina and South Carolina: a deformed composite batholith...Reston, Virginia 22092, The Charlotte belt in North Carolina and South Carolina, U.S.A. is characterized...approximately 400 my old; (3) the Landis (‘big feldspar’) granite approximately 300 my old. Geophysical and geologic...the batholith. - KEY WORDS Charlotte belt North Carolina South Carolina Batholith Metamorphics 1...1. Introduction The Charlotte belt is a major belt of rock in the southern Appalachian Piedmont of the
Report (volume)
alluvial gravels and igneous rocks, especially granite and pegmatite deposits. INTRODUCTION Gem stones...flat base and a faceted top terminating in a low point, was invented and used for cutting large diamonds...even color distribution. Igneous rocks, such as granite, are formed deep in the earth's interior and some...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian
Report (issue)
CI &£ c*z NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT BEN E. DOUGLAS, DIRECTOR DIVISION...BULLETIN NUMBER 67 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY RICHARD J. COUNCILL UN 11 &» RALEIGH 1954...1954 •^^CAHOUNAS SSU^UBftwy NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT BEN E. DOUGLAS...BULLETIN NUMBER 67 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NORTH CAROLINA By RICHARD J. COUNCILL RALEIGH 1954 MEMBERS...Canton S. ALLEN Durham W. B. AUSTIN Jefferson North Wilkesboro CARL BUCHAN, JR SCROOP W. ENLOE, JR
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...museum specimens. Some mineral aggregates, as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included,...State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G.
Report (issue)
Inside back cover Monazite placers of North and South Carolina ........................................were mined in the Piedmont province of North and South Carolina from 1887 to 1911, and again intermittently...mineral mining in Florida. The southeastern placers were not exhausted by the earlier mining and new...Va., south-southwestward for 200 miles into North Carolina. Monazite-bearing rocks near. Rion, S. C.,...the placers that were formerly mined in North and South Carolina. These placers were sampled, and the monazite
Report (issue)
WATER RESOURCES ACTIVITIES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA DISTRICT OF THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1988-90 Compiled...Report 91-475 Prepared in cooperation with the NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND NATURAL...FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL AGENCIES Raleigh, North Carolina 1992 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL...purchased from: District Chief U.S. Geological Survey 3916 Sunset Ridge Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 U...agencies 9 District organization 10 Water-resources data 12 Streamflow network in North Carolina (NC001)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, U.S.A. Received July 21,...maximum width of about 300 km in North Carolina and South Carolina and narrows along strike to the northeast...very fine-grained, were also modally analyzed. The point-count method of CHAu (1956) was used for fine- or...was used, and 1000 to 1500 points were counted. A point count of two to four thin sections was used to determine...Appalachians in North Carolina and South Carolina. See Fig. 2 for units in Charlotte belt. Localities:
Report (volume)
The Crystalline Rocks of South Carolina By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces of South Carolina UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...and Precambrian(?) age_______________________ Carolina slate belt_________________________________________...plutons _______________________________ ---___ Charlotte belt __________________________________ -_---_--___...Gneiss_________________________________ Biotite granite gneiss_______________________________ Intrusive
 
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