 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | petrogenesis of pegmatites in the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina, USA Samuel E. Swanson*, William B...Granitic rocks (mainly granodiorites) of the Spruce Pine Plutonic Suite occur as small plutons and numerous...coarse (~ 1 cm) grains of feldspar, quartz and muscovite enclosed in a finer grained matrix of the same...of feldspars and quartz, accessory amounts of muscovite, garnet, and epidote. Secondary minerals, formed...subsolidus recrystallization, include epidote, muscovite, quartz, and grossular garnet. A few of the pegmatites |  | | Report (volume) | | Geology of the Spruce Pine District ! Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...the North \ Carolina Department of Conservation and Development 1122-A Geology of the Spruce Pine...Pine District Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina By DONALD A. BROBST ! CONTRIBUTIONS TO...with the Mineral Resources Division of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...ILLUSTEATIONS PLATE 1. Geologic map of Spruce Pine pegmatite district, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties, N.C.__________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | Physical Characteristics of Commercial Sheet Muscovite in the Southeastern United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Valley Authority Physical... Physical Characteristics of Commercial Sheet Muscovite in the Southeastern United States By RICHARD H. JAHNS...under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Falley Authority UNITED...6 7 8 11 12 12 15 16 16 17 17 22 24 26 Sheet muscovite in the Southeastern States.____________ Distribution |  | | 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...Whiteside Granite-_____________________ Muscovite granodiorite of Spruce Pine district-_____ ________________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TRIP TO SPRUCE PINES 4812 Wake By J . E . N O R W O O D Forest R d . , Raleigh, N. C . Spruce Pines...Pines in Mitchell County is the best known area in North Carolina to those connected with mining and min...east ern North Carolina. The type of granite underlying the Spruce Pines region is unique for North Carolina...Carolina and even the U.S.A. In a ten mile radius of Spruce Pines is most of the alaskite granite found in...join Mitchell County. Alaskite consists chiefly of oligoclase, quartz, microline, and muscovite, listed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE PEGMATITES OF THE SPRUCE PINE DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA. C. S. MAURICE. (Continued from ["ol....I78 Genesis of Plagioclase and Commercial Sheet Muscovite in Pegmatites ..................................teoccur in lensesof kyanite gneiss within the Carolina gneiss series. They consistmainly of quartz, kyanite...distributionof thesebodies •58 SPRUCE PINE DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA. 159 and their composition and...massivequartz at the Phillipsmine,No. 9 •, andthe Deer Park mine,No. 235, both in Group IV-A. Para#enesis in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lithium sources such as the Foote mine at Kings Mountain, North Carolina; the giant crystal-bearing pegmatites...the Black Hills, South Dakota; the Harding mine in Taos County, New Mexico; the enormous Bernic Lake pegmatite... apatite, and gem tourmaline, in addition to muscovite, feldspars, quartz, and such interesting associated...Androscoggin County; Georgetown, Sagadoho County; and Andover and Newry, Oxford County, Maine. Purple...for cabachons was found near Lithia in Hampshire County, Massachussetts. Small fragments of pale purple |  | | Report (issue) | | c C.2 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF...BULLETIN NUMBER 66 THE SCRAP MICA RESOURCES of NORTH CAROLINA BY SAM D. BROADHURST AND LEWIS J. HASH PREPARED...TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY RALEIGH 1953 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...BULLETIN NUMBER 66 THE SCRAP MICA RESOURCES of NORTH CAROLINA By SAM D. BROADHURST and LEWIS J. HASH PREPARED...JR. Spruce Pine BUXTON WHITE Elizabeth City LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Raleigh, North Carolina March |  | | 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...Domestic Mica Buying Policy 111 20. Western North Carolina & the War Years .119 21. The Mineral Kingdom |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District...District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite...Quartz, 14.2 cm across, Newbeny Mountains,Clark County. Steve Scott specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...Lovelock mine, Churchill County. Figure 2 (bottom). Wulfenite, 1.1 mm high, Chalk Mountain, Churchill...Churchill County. Dan Behnke specimens and photos. Hot Springs Iron meteorite Lake (Mopung Hills) District Various |  | | Report (volume) | | General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 23:49 05 October 2014 Daybreak Mine, Spokane County, Washington T he naming of minerals that...its outstanding classic occurrence at the Daybreak mine near Elk, Washington. Autunite is characterized...most “autunite” specimens that have been found on mine dumps or have resided in collections for decades...some localities, including that from the Daybreak mine described below, dehydrates in such a way that what...of autunite aggregates from the Daybreak mine, Spokane County, Washington; John Lucking specimen, Jeff |  | | Journal (issue) | | Division, Belmont Abbey College Behnont, North Carolina Richard Mitchell Professor of Environmental Sciences...Mayo Richard D. Dayvault University of South Carolina Atlanta, Georgia Margaret A. McBrien Arthur...behold the splendid sparkle of the distant mica-mine dumps in New England sunshine to agree with tftis...their layered atomic structure. Of the micas, muscovite, phlogopite, and lepidolite are of the most economic...general formula : by MARK C. BLAZEK Descriptions MUSCOVITE, KA1 2 (A1Si 3) 0 10 (OH)2 : In any discussion |  | | Journal (issue) | | Anne Robert T. Curran, Jr. Richard Hauck Roger Mitchell Barbara L. Narendra <01999 All rights reserved...HISTORIC MINERAL FEATURE The Harn.me Brothers Tungsten Mine by Joseph A. Dague 27 PORTRAIT GALLERY The Legendary...White 40 ON THE COVER: Pyromorphite, Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. A l2X8 cm mass of oil-green...overall mineralogical experi my friend Roger Mitchell (see MATRIX, Y6N4). Roger is an ence took place...Jef beautifully crystallized brucite from the Wood Mine lo feris was not a skilled writer. Light editing |  | | Report (volume) | | 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...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle, |  | | Report (issue) | | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph... Davis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References ...Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with Conichalcite Gold, Round Mountain Mine...Almandine-Spessartine Annabergite Gypsum Quartz, Petersen Mountain Heterogenite Quartz (amethyst), faceted Arsenolite |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | ......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon...1914: Oklahoma Geol. Survey Bull. 22, pt. 2, 1914. Mitchell, John Graham, Minerals of Oregon: Oregon Univ | | | Report (issue) | | 3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph... Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG ...Hen1in1orphite Azurile Barite, N1eikJe Mine Barite, '\forthun1berland Mine Bante, Rosebud t1ine Barile v;ith...inclusions Bolt½'OOdite Calcite, Meikle Mine Calcite, Getchell Mine Callaghanite Cassiterite and Hema tile |  | | Report (volume) | | .--.--....-..--...-.....---...... 69 70 70 Muscovite ..........................^.....................Bulletin 61. COVELLITE. From the East Greyrock mine, Butte, Mont. Collected by G. W. Tower. Analysis...[BULL. 220. POLYDYMITE. A massive ore from the mine of the Canadian Copper Company, Sudbury, district...Another nickel-iron sulphide, from the Worthington mine, SauTt branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 25...STROMEYERITE. From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis |  | | Report (volume) | | having predominantly north-northwest and northeast trends. Although most of the north-northwest-trending...were related to regional epeirogenic events. The north-northwest-trending Ancestral Front Range and northwest-trending...Plutonic and volcanic activity accompanied uplift. The north-trending Sawatch Range was the first of the major...Front Ranges. Extensional faulting related to the north-northwest-trending Rio Grande rift (Tweto, 1977)...from about 33 Ma at Climax to 12 Ma at Treasure Mountain, and many are associated with major molybdenum |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation, |  | | Report (volume) | | Principal tectonostratigraphic terranes are the Pine Nut, jungo, Sand Springs, and Paradise terranes...metavolcanic rocks; less areally extensive units are the Mountain Well sequence and Marble Butte rocks. The distribution...south half of quadrangle and included the northern Pine Nut Mountains, Churchill Butte, the Desert Mountains...Mines and Geology subsequent to publication of county reports for these areas (Moore, 1969; Bonham, 1969)...to update the geologic maps in the county reports. Much of the north-central and northeastern parts of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2014); (C) Topaz at the Honeycomb Hills rhyolite, USA, as a primary phenocryst phase including biotite...Breadpan topazite dike, in the Flying W Ranch area, USA (Kortemeier and Burt, 1988), composed of larger anhedral...Evans, 2010): Ab, albite; Kfs, K-feldspar; Ms, muscovite; Pl, plagioclase; Qz, quartz; Tpz, topaz; Znw...Czech Republic (Jarchovský, 2006); (E) Quartz-muscovite-topaz greisen from the Vykmanov granite stock...association of anhedral to subhedral topaz and muscovite substituting ur plagioclase in the greisenized |
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Chalk Mountain Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA