 | Robinson, Gilpin R., Lesure, Frank G., Marlowe, J. I., Foley, Nora K., Clark, S.H. (2004) Bedrock geology and mineral resources of the Knoxville 1° x 2° quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Open-File Report 2004-1075. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20041075 | Report (issue) | | Knoxville 1°x2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°x2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina / by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [etaf...Geology—Tennessee. 2. Geology—North Carolina. 3. Geology—South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources—Tennessee...and mineral resources—North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II...District 47 Cashiers District 47 Feldspar 47 Kaolin 48 Mica 48 Quartz 49 Zircon 49 Other Industrial Minerals |  | | Report (volume) | | Knoxville 1 °X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Knoxville 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°X2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina I by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [et al...Geology- Tennessee. 2. Geology-North Carolina. 3. Geology-South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources-...and mineral resources-North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II |  | | Report (issue) | | along the North Carolina – Virginia State Line Guidebook for the 1999 Meeting of the CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...along the North Carolina – Virginia State Line Guidebook for the 1999 Meeting of the CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...Eastern Appalachian Piedmont along Lake Gaston, North Carolina and Virginia by Paul E. Sacks 16 Porphyroblast...case study in southern Virginia and northern North Carolina by J. Wright Horton, Jr., and David L. Daniels...study along the Hollister fault zone, eastern North Carolina by David P. Lawrence 49 A field guide to |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE FOR NORTH CAROLINA EON ERA PERIOD EPOCH GEOLOGIC...GEOLOGIC EVENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA Recent Deposition of sediments in Coastal Plain. Erosion of Piedmont...Pliocene o Phosphate deposited in eastern North Carolina (Beaufort and Pamlico Counties). Miocene ...E u o E n Formation of the Atlantic Ocean as North America and Africa drifted apart. Weathering and...Piedmont and Mountains. 240 Final collision of North America and Africa.Thrust faulting in west; deformation |  | | Report (issue) | | .'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...GARNET RUBY CORUNDUM GOLD TORBERNITE GARNET IN MICA ANATASE RUTILE AJTUNITE AND TORBERNITE THULITE...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 | | | 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) | | Cover photo: Mil8ing PDant, Parks GoUd Mine, McDuffie County, Georgia. Photo courtesy Georgia Department...District. ......... ,........................ Greene County................................................................................ Lincoln County ................................................................................ McDuffie County ................................ ·.............................................. Oglethorpe County ................................ : ............................. |  | | Report (issue) | | ~ PREPARED I N PART IN COOPERATION WITH NORTH CAROLINA DE PARTMENT OF CONSERVATI ON AND DEVELOPMENT... 17 Mica mine or prospect Number refers to list of mines and prospects 0 1o ") , Mica mine or prospe...Haywood, Jackson, Macon,and Clay Counties 1. Frank Medford prospect 2. Truelove Mountain mine 3. Champion F...prospect 9. Old Sharp mine 10. Burnett prospect 11. Roy Medford (Nicks Creek) mine 12. Holt prospect 13...Big Ridge mine 15. Upper Big Ridge (Buchanan) mine 16. Putnam (Gray) mine 16. Upper Putnam mine. 17. Spruce |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Group of the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, met under the leadership of Bob...first show. SOUTH CAROLINA Member B i l l Carpenter of the Western South Carolina Gem and Mineral Society...Tinman showed black calcite crys tals from South Carolina Dr. Ed Babin, Professor of Geology at USCSpartanburg...Mineral Club and discussed the origin of the unique "Carolina Bays". John L . Thompson, member of the Wateree...sented Member Chet Kunsman of the Imperial Polk County Gem and Min eral Society, Lake Wales, presented |  | | Book | | 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...7. Early Economy 31 8. Hiddenite & Emerald 33 9. Mica Mining 37 10. Feldspar 55 11. Corundum 61 12. Copper |  | | Report (issue) | | Contents Block-in-matrix structures in the North Carolina Blue Ridge belt and their significance for...Chunky Gal Mountain, North Carolina Alfred J. Lacazette, Jr., and Nicholas Rast The Macon Complex; An ancient...of the Morgan Run Formation (of debated age) and Mine Run Complex, some of which contain possible ophiolite...in the Carolinas and Georgia, that border the Carolina terrane as defined by Secor and others (1983);...(Rodgers, 1968) at the eastern edge of ancestral North America (e.g., Bird and Dewey, 1975). Rowley and |  | | 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...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals...occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 23 24 25- U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: | | | 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...Exploration Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development... Lower Precambrian basement complex.___________ Mica and hornblende gneiss and schist-_______ Layered |  | Higgins, M.W., Atkins, R.L., Crawford, T.J., Crawford, R.F., Brooks, Rebekah, Cook, R.B. (1988) The structure, stratigraphy, tectonostratigraphy, and evolution of the southernmost part of the Appalachian Orogen. Professional Paper 1475. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp1475 | Report (issue) | | River allochthon ................................ Macon melange ................................................. 58 39. Generalized geologic map of the Macon melange and Little River allochthon ..............in the Potato Creek and Juliette slices of the Macon melange .......................... 64 41. Photographs...Photographs showing structural discontinuities in the Macon melange ..........................................66 42. Photographs showing exotic blocks in the Macon melange ....................................... |  | | Report (issue) | | orthogneiss and the Nutbush Creek fault zone. CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK November...WESTERN FLANK OF THE RALEIGH METAMORPHIC BELT, NORTH CAROLINA Edited by: Edward F. Stoddard Department of...and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8208 David E. Blake...Sciences University of North Carolina at Wilmington Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-3297 Copies of this...obtained from: North Carolina Geological Survey P.O. Box 27687 Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 (919) |  | | Report (issue) | | BibYiography of North American Geology. Each article was read, annotated, and indexed by county, subject, and...geographic area of the subject was greater than a county, subdivisions of the state, based upon physiographic...Science Letters. Published commercially by the North Holland Publishing Company from Amsterdam, Holland...Published by the North Carolina Academy of Science from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. EXPLORER. The Explorer...Journal of Hydrology. Published commercially by the North Holland Publishing Company from Amsterdam, Holland |  | | Report (volume) | | SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 740 MICA DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES DOUGLAS B. STERRETT...Physical properties_____________________________ Mica mining__________________ ____ _ ________ . Hist...Methods_____________________:_____________ Preparation of mica for the market____________________ Uses________...General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__ |  | | 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 (issue) | | occurrences of the Goldville District of Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Seven of the volume's papers deal with...32 The Royal Vindicator Gold Deposit, Haralson County, Georgia: A Metamorphosed Epithermal Hot-Springs...in the Lilesville Sand and Gravel Deposits, North Carolina (James R. Craig and John E. Callahan) .......Mason Mountain Sperrylite Occurrence, Macon County, North Carolina (Robert B. Cook and James R. Bumell)...Central Piedmont Metallogenic Province, South Carolina (Steven K. Mittwede) ........................ |  | | Report (issue) | | of previously little· known basic rocks in Towns County. It includes a review of the minerals known to...investigation 6 Metamorphic country rocks 8 Garnet mica schist 11 Biotite gneiss 11 . . Coarse-banded...FIGURES Page 1. The ultramafic belt of eastern North America . . 2 2. 7 Contour diagram of isojoints...map of the Lake Chatuge area, Towns County, Ga., and Clay County, N.C.. . . .in pocket viii :;:. LIST...the sill and the country rock, previously termed Carolina Gneiss, are parallel suggesting contemporaneous |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Massivepyrite and gold have beenmined at the Haile mine. In the M½Cormick-Lin½olnton area,a near-surface...fracture-controlled alteration. Introduction Geologyof the Carolina Slate Belt, M^ss•vEsulfide and gold depositsoccur...in hydrothermallyalteredmetamorphicrocksof the Carolina slatebelt in the Piedmontof SouthCarolina(Fig...Tin-bearingmineralsin theserocksare probablyalso South Carolina The Carolina slatebelt is part of a broad band of low-rank...althoughProterozoicZ rocksmay be included, especiallyin the north,mostof the Carolinaslatebelt is early Paleozoic |  | | Report (issue) | | MISCELLANEOUS NONMETALLIC PRODUCTS. MICA DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA. By DOUGLAS B. STERRETT. INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION. The extensive commercial applications of mica have placed it among the important mineral products...products of the world. In value of production mica does not rank high as compared with certain other mineral...several important industries. The world's supply of mica is drawn chiefly from India, Canada, and the United...southwest Africa, and Brazil. In the United States mica deposits have been found in about 20 States. The |  | | Report (issue) | | Each article was read, annotated, and indexed by county, subject, and geological age where applicable....geographic area of the subject was. greater than a county, subdivisions of the state, based upon physiographic...a , Emory G e o r fl I a iii University, NORTH\_jFLOYD Figure 1. Subdivisions of Georgia used...Published by the North Carolina Academy of Science from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. FLORIDA GEOL. SURVEY...Tallahassee. FRAGMENT A MINERAL. PALEONTOL. Fr agmenta mine ralogica et paleontologica. Published by the Hungarian |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AsheFormationin North Carolina, and sulfidedepositsare similarto thoseseenin the Asheat Ore Knob,North Carolina... 1522 c. E. ABRAMSAND K. I. McCONNELL NORTH CAROLINA SOUTH CAROLINA TENNESSEE GEORGIA % % •,?,,,,,...Contact /' Gradational contact •' Abandoned mine X Abandoned prospect MUD CREEK FORMATION (no...AMPHIBOLITE / HORNBLENDEGNEISS • BIOTITE GNEISS / MICA SCHIST / AMPHIBOLITE KYANITE QUARTZ GRANOFELS [alteration...located. located. Ax•s of malor fold. • Abandoned mine x Abandoned prospect COBB CO 0 0L 1 1 2 |  | | Report (volume) | | State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G...... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson |
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