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| Today, several dozen ruby mines exist, and the Franklin area is recognized as the only significant source...source of rubies in the United States. Ruby Mines of North Carolina S T E V E N P. Y U R K O V I C H Department...Department of Earth Sciences Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723 to nearly 7,000 tons...varieties ruby and sapphire, has been mined and collected from a wide area of western North Carolina since...extraction at a reasonable cost. Mining of corundum in North Carolina took place dur ing two periods |
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| GEMS AND GEM MINERALS OF NORTH CAROLINA* Josnrn HvoB Pnerr North Carolina is one of the more notable...search for other minerals, or in the commercial mining of these, such as gold, corundum, mica, and monazite...material. The variety of gem minerals found in North Carolina is probably greater than in any other state...following: Diamond Spodumene Hiddenite Kunzite Corundum Ruby Sapphire Oriental Emerald Oriental Amethyst Oriental...Labradorite Zicon Hyacinth Cyanite Blue Green Spinel Ruby Grahnite Zoisite' Thulite Olivine Peridot Epidote |
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| No. 1380. OCCURRENCE DUM AND IN NORTH By DISTRIBUTION CAROLINA AND OF CORUN GEORGIA.* JOSEPH...points through out nearly its entire length. The mining of corundum has been, however, confined to a narrow..., to northeastern Georgia and southwestern North Carolina, with the exception of the emery mines at Chester...oriental sapphire, the red sapphire as the oriental ruby, t h e green sapphire as the oriental emerald, the...of one surpasses that of the other. The Nbrth Carolina locality for corundum gems which at the present |
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| ... ..-....................._......... Oriental ruby .........--...........'-...'................................................................ North Carolina sapphires^......... ..........._.................... North Carolina..... .... ........................... ................. Macon County ................ .......... .1...................... Clay County.. ...............................................tracts...................... ......... Jackson County ................ ............................. |
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| --......'. Ruby--.----.-..--...-.......-...-...---------------...-.-.-.--.. North Carolina __________................................._........... North Carolina ___..__._....._..._______..__._.____..._.____...........^....................... 116 116 North Carolina .............................................--.......-........-..--.-........--..-. South Carolina -...-.......:..........-.....-----....---.--........ .... ................................ North Carolina ...._.......-._..---...-....-_.._-......_- |
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| OF COWEE VALLEY, NORTH CAROLINA By MELBOURNE SMITH Cashiers, N o r t h Carolina The Ruby Valley of Western...Western North Carolina, along Cowee Creek and its tributaries, enjoyed a brief hope during the summer...summer of 1949 that mining operations in its ruby-bearing gravels might soon be revived after a lapse of 35...older men in the valley cannot forget the enthusiasm for the future of Cowee Valley rubies shown by men...and practical mining authority of Newark, N. J., when they were frequently in Cowee Valley during the late |
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| North Carolina State Library Gift of "JYortk (^arolinti ^Ihranj 0 Digitized by the Internet Archive...in 2019 with funding from State Library of North Carolina https://archive.org/details/corundumperidoti01prat...OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT and JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS North Carolina State Library...Library Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. A. HOLMES, STATE GEOLOGIST VOLUME I CORUNDUM AND...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT AND JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 1905 |
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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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| 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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| Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE IN GARNET RUBY CORUNDUM...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 |
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| 2017 Ey M E R R I M A N D O S T E R Box 5 0 4 , Franklin, N. C . 2 8 7 3 4 The predawn quiet is punctured...crisp call of the bob white echoing through the valley, almost in cadence with the drumming of the ruffed...Nantahala Mountains of Western North Carolina. Into the lower end of the valley moves a small group of prospectors...prospectors, working their way along the Caler Fork of Cowee Creek confident that before this day is gone, the)-...bring fame and possession of precious jewels of ruby or sapphire. No ordinary band of prospectors, this |
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| T H E SHULER RUBY MINE OF T H E C O W E E V A L L E Y , W E S T E R N NORTH C A R O L I N A By PAUL L...201 East Dewdney, Regina, Sask., Canada The Cowee Valley sandy igravel de posits annually yield a considerable...Mogok Val ley ruby gravels of northern Burma. The potential of finding a ruby in Cowee Valley attracts thousands...Fork of Cowee Creek flows roughly east-west for several miles north of Franklin in Macon County, western...western North Carolina. For about 2% miles the sand and gravel deposits associated with the creek are mined |
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| be changed by heat treatment or dyeing. Only the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of...or two of these qualities. The diamond, emerald, ruby, and sapphire are considered precious gems. Some...canary yellow in the diamond; pigeon-blood red in the ruby; cornflower blue in the sapphire; and grass green...price of a gem stone. Such gems as the diamond and ruby are rare, in addition to being beautiful and durable...the deep redpyrope garnet closely resembles the ruby in color, there is no comparison in expense and |
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| PRECIOUS GEM-STONES OF NORTH CAROLINA By Rurii P. Stanley—THE LADY PROSPECTOR Thurmond, N. C. 28683 ...year 1900, the United States Ruby Mining Company undertook to develop the ruby in matrix lead previously...(1875) in Cowee Valley, and to wash the ruby-bearing gravels left unworked during former mining operations...Widespread interest in the ruby deposits along Caler Fork of Cowee Valley started this operation during...extends from the mountains on the south side of the valley down close to the Creek.) In a report of Mr. Barrington |
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| GEMS < IF NORTH CAROLINA A greater variety of minerals, more than 300, have been found in North Car olina...unique gems in the world. The largest Emerald in North America is a 1,438-carat specimen found at Hiddenite...Hiddenite, near Statesville. Also, the "Carolina Em erald," now owned by Tiffany & Com pany of New York...thousand dollars have been found in the Cowee Valley near Franklin. Gold The first significant gold discovery...discovery in America was made in North Carolina in 1799 in Cabarrus County with the dis covery of a 17-pound |
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| 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 |
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| 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...Blue Ridge 17 Ocoee Supergroup 17 Murphy Belt 18 Valley and Ridge and Paleozoic Portion of the West Flank |
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| noRm c ult * 4 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE, DIRECTOR...NUMBER 49 MICA DEPOSITS OF THE FRANKLIN-SYLVA DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA BY J. C. OLSON AND OTHERS PREPARED...WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH 1946 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT...NUMBER 49 MICA DEPOSITS OF THE FRANKLIN SYLVA DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA By J. C. OLSON and Others PREPARED...DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR IN COOPERATION WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT |
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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]...50. II. Tertiary History of the G-rand Caiion District, with atlas, by Clarence E. Dutton, Capt. U. S |
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| Jensen, E F M L S President to "mine" at Gibson's Ruby Mine where elect, we decided to stop-over for a...day w e have either found fair-size rubies or at Franklin, N . C . W e felt that some pink, bluish or brown...beautiful 22 carat W o r l d " (as named by the Franklin Area ruby at the Gibson mine which should Chamber of...screen for rubies in the Cowee Ashville, N . C . later mounted the stone, Valley which is located only a...found i n its natural state, as a ladies from Franklin, although it is said that ring, using his wire-work |
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| ····-··············· 467 llUBIES OF COWEE VALLEY, NORTH CAROLINA. By Melbourne S1nith ··············...quarters, in the heart of the New York Jewelry district, are four times larger than those formerly had...Boulder Bec!ch on Lake Mead. Nevad~ The Clark County Gem Collectors, Inc. (Paul 0 . Drury, Publicity...wanted to go prospecting in some remote part of the North Woods Possibly in Canada. I had traveled through...explorations to the country surrounding the famous silver mining town of Cobalt. Later, by means of hitch hiking |
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| 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...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. |
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| DIGGING FOR RUBIES IN COWEE VALLEY, N.C. By CLIFFORD A. MARSHALL 93 Justin Ave., Bay Terrace, Staten...miles out of Franklin, over very steep mountainous roads. On the way out we passed the Cowee school—6 miles...AND M I N Franklin, where you turn off for the ERALS. The picture of Cowee Valley, Macon ruby mines. Next...—we included Franklin, N . C , in our va- are no eating places after you leave Franklin) and departed...departed for the Cowee cation trip to the Skyline Drive. Ruby Mines. Our party consisted of four—Mr. and After |
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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..._______ Muscovite granodiorite of Spruce Pine district-_____ ________________________ Pegmatite. ___ |
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