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Schist from
Whiteface Mine, Celo, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Schist
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schist data
Locality Data:Click here to view Whiteface Mine, Celo, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1042509
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1042509:5
GUID (UUID V4):7f7a42d1-82ac-4a05-9ef6-2cb310d53bbe
Nearest other occurrences of Schist
2.4km (1.5 miles) Red Mine (Bennett Mine), Celo, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
15.2km (9.4 miles) Day Book Chromite Prospect, Day Book, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
25.9km (16.1 miles) Senia Olivine Deposit, Frank, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
27.9km (17.4 miles) Holcombe Branch Olivine Deposit, Canton-Democrat, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
28.3km (17.6 miles) Frank Olivine deposit, Frank, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
37.4km (23.2 miles) Unnamed Gold Prospect (MRDS - 10078663), Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, USA
41.8km (25.9 miles) Unnamed Asbestos Prospect (MRDS - 10078668), Morganton, Caldwell County, North Carolina, USA
42.9km (26.6 miles) Pax Hill Mine, Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, USA
43.8km (27.2 miles) Schist Quarry (MRDS - 10272459), Avery County, North Carolina, USA
44.2km (27.5 miles) Scott Hill Mine (Miller Gold Mine), Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
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...complex.___________ Mica and hornblende gneiss and schist-_______ Layered granitic gneiss______________________
Report (issue)
........................................... II SCHIST BELT............................................................................. IV BEAUCOUP-WHITEFACE.................................... V--DOONERAK...Summary of the geochemical anomalous areas within the Schist Belt geochemical lithologic subdivision, Wiseman...of the geochemical anomalous areas within the Whiteface-Beaucoup geochemical lithologic subdivision, Wiseman...subdivisions: I, Angayucham; II, Schist belt; III, Skajit; IV, Beaucoup-Whiteface; V, Doonerak, and VI, Endicott
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
coarse xline galena has been found in the Aleo lead mine in Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., III. INDIANA—Slender...IOWA—Tiny black magnetite xls in dark green chloritic schist were found in a large rock in a ditch in Melrose...13, Kans. "This petrified wood came from Barber County, Kansas. I am not sure of its exact location but...vein in a road cut approx. 1 mile east of road on north side of Beltway, Baltimore Co., Md. "There is a...(garnet) xls perched on a lustrous dark gray mica schist. Thin plates of black biotite coat the garnet so
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
anorthosite magma. In dealing rvith the marginal or Whiteface facies of the anorthosite Buddington quotes the...follol.ing from my papers: "This syntectic is the Whiteface anorthosite, a marginal phase of the Marcy intrusive...problems of Adirondack geology is rvhether the Whiteface anorthosite is or is not a chilled margin Cushing...traces of primary fabric . . indicate that the Whiteface facies was delinitely finer grained than the rock...mountains the folds are overturned tou'ard the north Buddington estimates the depth of burial of anorthosite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
anorthosite magma. In dealing rvith the marginal or Whiteface facies of the anorthosite Buddington quotes the...follol.ing from my papers: "This syntectic is the Whiteface anorthosite, a marginal phase of the Marcy intrusive...problems of Adirondack geology is rvhether the Whiteface anorthosite is or is not a chilled margin Cushing...traces of primary fabric . . indicate that the Whiteface facies was delinitely finer grained than the rock...mountains the folds are overturned tou'ard the north Buddington estimates the depth of burial of anorthosite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
403 Chilled border facies of the anorthosite (Whiteface anorthosite). . . . 404 Chemical composition....border phases of the anorthosite be classed as Whiteface anorthosite, a name given by Professor Kemp to...abundantly on Mount Whiteface, near Lake Placid. At the summit of Mount Whiteface the rock is me­ dium...generally not well foliated. More exceptionally the Whiteface type is nearly pure white, being quite free from...practically the same as in the Marcy anorthosite. Whiteface anorthosite is unusually extensively developed
Report (volume)
for the following observation. At the W. Wilson mine, "a few secondary minerals, mainly metatorbernite...uranium minerals along joint planes and fissures. In North America, the average thorium/uranium ratio of granitic...dikes, in schists, in the Ohio City area, Gunnison County, Colo. The microlite, associated with lepidolite...from pegmatite within a few feet of the pegmatite-schist contact in the Strickland quarry, Portland, Conn...found in several pegmatites in Georgia. In Lamar County, yellow and green secondary uranium minerals occur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abraham Wood, Charles Russell Wright, Charles Malcolm Yancey, John Wesley, Jr. Zambrano, Aureo Elias Zook, Robert...States: New theory 4. B. G. THOM: Relationship of Carolina Bays to regional geomorphology 5. J. T. NEAL:...associated with an ultramafic complex, Siskiyou County, California 5. M. A. KAYS* AND B. H. HELMING: Anomalous...the mineral paragenesis of the Moppin Schist, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico 7. R. J. EBENS* AND S. B....E. J. ESSENE: Soda pyroxenes in the glaucophane schist fades, California * Speaker Downloaded from https://pubs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Elizabethtown Almandine, anorthosite, summit of Whiteface Mountain Almandine, Treadway Mountain Formation...Almandine, Barton Mine, Pit 1, garnet amphibolite, Gore Mountain, NY Almandine, Barton Mine, Pit 2, metagabbro...Grossular, Willsboro Mine, clinopyroxene-bearing rocks, Willsboro, NY Almandine, Barton Mine, Pit 1, garnet...Angeles Museum, Bishop, Inyo County, CA (Anne Hofmeister) Almandine in mica schist, Fort Wrangell, AK, from...Jagersfontein Mine, South Africa (Howard Wilshire) Pyrope in garnet peridotite, Jagersfontein Mine, South Africa
Book
searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research...ciifce—Westchester County.................. Tne McLear pegmatite—5t. Lawrence County.............................. Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County.....................................St. Lawrence Counties.. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County................. Clinton hematite
Book
searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research...pegmatite-Westchester County .......... . The Mclear pegmatite-St. Lawrence County .......... . Minerals.......... . Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County ....................................St. Lawrence Counties .. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County ......... . Clinton hematite ..
Book
QC limestones (undivided, some Silurian) I Ss schist, quartzite lnwood marble SI ...... :::::;;,~:_ff...other publications, as noted. The photographs are mine, too, with the exceptions of the ERTS-1 satellite...Junction-Lake Placid-Jay ......................... 313 Whiteface Mountain Memorial Highway ......................marble, Ordovician?), and Taconics (Ordovician). 3. Schist: This is a generally dark, sparkly rock that splits...carved a step-like landscape on thjs sequence, with north-facing scarps carved from the upturned ends of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for this mouth-watering specimen is Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee (Cochise Co.), Ariz. ARKANSAS—"First off...have found in the Magnet Cove area of Hot Spring County, Arkansas. I am sending you a specimen under separate...on Delaware Bay, is in the N / E part of Sussex County, Del. From this beach, Bob and Hazel Reynolds,...item or two. ROCKS AND MINERALS IDAHO—"In Bonner County, Northern Idaho, at a place called Chimney Rock...is an active salt mine hundreds of feet below the surface of the ground? The mine has been in operation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
e-pdf/27/1/645/3413703/BUL27-0645.pdf by East Carolina University user 646 H . L . A L L IN G ----............................................. 664 North Hudson Lake.......................................e-pdf/27/1/645/3413703/BUL27-0645.pdf by East Carolina University user 647 M U L T IP L E GLACIATIO...e-pdf/27/1/645/3413703/BUL27-0645.pdf by East Carolina University user 648 H . L . A LL IN G -----G...Gothics, and Basin, as well as on the sides of Whiteface and Sentinel.4 Tbe origin of rocky pockets occupied
Journal (issue)
Sept. 6, 1936, when Dr. and Mrs. John R. Evers of North Tarrytown, N. Y., pulled up at my house, opened...locality for quartz crystals, the famous Herkimer County "diamonds". I engaged Mr. Raithel in conversation... crystals however were at home and A few miles north of Boonville, a we would have to go there for them...mountains loomed up in the As the men were from the County distance, on the right, which I believe Poor House...five seemed to extend along its course to miles north of Carthage and on Route the top of the mountain)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF ALKALI FELDSPARS FROM CHARNOCKITIC ROCKS ON WHITEFACE MOUNTAIN, NEW YORK PBncv Cnosnv,35 WestLenor Stree[...charnockitic gneisses near the anorthosite contact on Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondack Highlands, after computer...determined for mesoperthite-microperthite from Whiteface Mountain suggest that minor internal changes within...Samples were collected from the upper 1000 feet of Whiteface Mountain at chained intervals using a diamond...consult a geologic sketch map and cross-section of Whiteface Mountain and vicinity included in crosby (196s
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
invited me to join him on a trip some fifteen miles North to a Perkinsville, Vt., soapstone quarry in search...Westmoreland fluorite workings, the Colony spar mine, the fabulous Palermo pegmatite, the Dodge Gold...reflected summer-light of an open feldspar and mica mine. This combination is near ly intoxicating, especially...equipment proved a desirable link Gore Mt. Mine - North Village, N. Y. ROCKS AND MINERALS 451 Downloaded...seen by anyone. The sights and and beauty. Other mine dumps yielded sounds, the odors and feelings, above
Report (issue)
Regional Geology of the St. Lawrence County Magnetite District Northwest Adirondacks, New York GEOLOGICAL...PAPER 376 Regional Geology of the St. Lawrence County Magnetite District Northwest Adirondacks, New York...Francis, 1891Regional geology of the St. Lawrence County magnetite district, northwest Adirondacks, New...Francis, 1891Eegional geology of the St. Lawrence County magnetite district, northwest Adirondacks, New...1921joint author. II. Title. III. Title: St. Lawrence County magnetite district, northwest Adirondacks, New
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales 2113, Australia Although in...samples analyzed, only the quartz-chlorite-muscovite schist (sample 3 in Fig. 1 of the comment by Pidgeon and...namely, a quartz-biotite schist and a quartz-muscovite-cordierite-biotite schist) have Rb/Sr ratios that...exist in the Precambrian section of northeastern North America. The minimum total volume of anorthosite...evaporites in the Adirondack lowlands, based on mine and drill-hole data (Lea and Dill, 1968; Whelan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of alkali feldspars from charnockitic rocks on Whiteface mountain, New York Czamanske, Gerald K. Improved...diatreme, a kimberlite pipe in northem Larimer county, Colorado Einaudi, Marco T. The intermediate product...Mg- and Na-bearing muscovite in the crystalline schist from Amakusa, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan Harada...Hydroxylellestadite, a new apatite from Chichibu mine, Saitama prefecture, Japan Harris, D. C. Reflectance...Diopside and actinolite from skarn, Clearwater county, Idaho Hogarth, Donald D. Wakefieldite, yttrium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales 2113, Australia Although in...samples analyzed, only the quartz-chlorite-muscovite schist (sample 3 in Fig. 1 of the comment by Pidgeon and...namely, a quartz-biotite schist and a quartz-muscovite-cordierite-biotite schist) have Rb/Sr ratios that...exist in the Precambrian section of northeastern North America. The minimum total volume of anorthosite...evaporites in the Adirondack lowlands, based on mine and drill-hole data (Lea and Dill, 1968; Whelan
Journal (issue)
York's only volcano and subsequently stopping at North Creek to collect specimens of the world's largest...is surmise on my part. We departed from the North Creek mine with a number of specimens and the recollection...fluorite add color to the mass. It is not necessary to "mine" the wall. Recross the bridge. On the same side...on indefinitely, both collecting in St. Lawrence County and writing about it. Let it suffice that we obtained...and Long Lakes, lunching at Placid, visiting Whiteface Mountain the first day it was open in 1939 ( and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
concluded that relics of the primary fabric in the Whiteface type are typically finer grained and perhaps more...completely granulated to the leucoeratic phase of the Whiteface-type anorthosite. The anorthosite core of the...silhmonlte garnet gneiss I graphlhc and pyritic schist, quartzite, feldspathlc quartzite, calc-sd=cate...quartzite Quartz-rich graphltlC sllhmanite gneiss . and schist, grading into felaspathic quartzite ~ Biotite...associated with morbte and graphltic sllhmanite quartz schist Marble with interbedded calc-sllicete ond pyrlbohte
Book
pages story continues in the canyonlands to the north. In Zion Canyon are essentially the same sedimentary...creating high mountains along the edge of ancestral North America. Mountains are temporary landscapes subject...Canyon tell of relative plate tectonic calm, when North America was either merged with another continent...sedimentary rock sequence rest directly on Vishnu schist, an unconformity that spans fully 1200 million...4^-! ^^•*.'i4^ Death Valley salt ^% ^t'*.-. north pan and the Funeral Mountains, looking 73 K^
Book (volume)
ILLUSTRATIONS PRINTED WITH THE TEXT. Page. map of North America, Fig. Geological Fig. Teschemacher's...from Mulliken's brook to North Lisbon, Fig. Section up South Branch, North Lisbon, 336 Fig. Section...Me., locations of specimens collected in Coos county, Section lake to the Fig. 30 Mount Desert...from Mt. Lafayette to Mt. Fig. 26, Section from north-east corner of Plate XII, Map showing Mountain...in Littleton to Albee copper mine, (290) From Young's pond, Lyman, to North Monroe, (289) From Ammonoosuc
 
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