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Calcite from
Kings Mountain, Lincoln County, Kentucky, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Amethystⓘ2 photos of Calcite associated with Amethyst at this locality.
Celestineⓘ1 photo of Calcite associated with Celestine at this locality.
Baryteⓘ1 photo of Calcite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Quartzⓘ1 photo of Calcite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kings Mountain, Lincoln County, Kentucky, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:290164
Long-form Identifier:1:3:290164:0
GUID (UUID V4):a4e0ca9f-5178-4fb6-b4c6-13fa9b2ee893
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
such as those of the Elmwood-Gordonsville and Kentucky-Illinois districts and less-important though similar...Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the older underground...Bassett Stone quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...Hill facility near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing photo...Catnip Hill facility, Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing photo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kentucky Kentucky Mineral Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [Dalhousie University] at 18:01 27 December...Figure 1. Twinned calcite, 8 cm, Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen...in the Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point...quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level. There are...nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden
Report (volume)
years, and no production has been recorded from Kentucky since 1926. Deposits in Alabama, Colorado, Illinois...amounts of galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and calcite. Deposits not described in the literature as to...district, Calhoun County: 2, 65, 102, 118. 2. r Beaver Creek Valley, St. Clair County and Greens Valley...Valley, Etowah County: 2, 102, 118. 3. r Leeds, Jefferson County: 2, 102. 4. r Longview-Saginaw district...district, Shelby County: 2, 102. 5. r Sinks district, Bibb County: 2, 28, 54, 67, 74, 102, 118, 143. 6. v Southeastern
Report (volume)
South-Central Kentucky GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1435-D Prepared in cooperation with the Kentucky Geological...Relation to Other Clastic Units in South-Central Kentucky By RICHARD Q. LEWIS, SR., and ALFRED R. TAYLOR...BULLETIN 1435-D Prepared in cooperation with the Kentucky Geological Survey A general description of the...relation to other clastic units in south-central Kentucky. (Contributions to stratigraphy) (Geological Survey...Bulletin 1435-D) "Prepared in cooperation with the Kentucky Geological Survey." Bibliography: p. 15. % Supt
Journal (issue)
STORY : Fairfieldite from the Foote mine in Kin!!$ Mountain, North Carolina. Now part of the Smithsonian Collection...ISSN 0035-7529 1978 by The Foote Quarry in Kings Mountain, by LAURA MARBLE 102 Dorset Way Lyman, South...Mineral Company spodumene mine at Kings Mountain , Cleveland County, North Carolina consisted of six small...quarry near Bessemer City just a few miles from Kings Mountain offers a second source of for many of the more... chemical anaJyst for the Foote Company in Kings Mountain and to Thomas L. Kesler, formerly Chief Geologist
Report (volume)
...... _..... __ ....... .............. 92 Kings Mountain mine __ ___ ......... ___ . _..... _ ~ .. ___...in November at the !ash tin mine, in Rockbridge County, Va., to ascertain if this deposit is related to...Messrs. L M. Carpenter and A. , Rudisill, of Kings Mountain. The writer is glad of this opporJ.nity to.... TOPOGRAPHY. 11 On the northwest is the mountain belt of the Appalachian system, made up of sedimentary...the Blue Ridge is the easternmost range of this mountain zone. Skirting the eastern flank of the Appalachians
Report (issue)
113 Zircon. ........................ 113 Calcite and dolomite. ................. Sulfide minerals...gradually in those directions. The town of Kings Mountain lies near the middle of the tin-spoduneue telt...about 80C feet in the southeastern part of the Kings Mountain quadrangle to about 1,050 feet at the base...quadrangle. The Pinnacle, altitude 1,705, Crowders Mountain, altitude 1.62t feet, Carpenter Knob, altitude...area A . "*': / COUNTY ALEXANDER iCOUNTY ^x'lREDELL v , COUNTY ^ BURKE COUNTY HicKory area" Burke
Report (edition)
Mines 24 Kings Mountain Belt Kings Mountain Mine Other Mines 25 25 25 South Mountain Belt 27 Mills...Mills Property 27 Sprouse Mine 27 Vein Mountain Mine 29 Other Mines 29 Western Belt 29 Fontana...mine in 1896 Figure 2. Barringer Mine, Stanly County site of the first gold lode to be worked in North...photo 1972 6 Figure 3. Cotton Patch Mine, Stanly County 11 Figure 4. North Carolina's major gold-producing...Operations of the Norlina Mining Company, Wood, Franklin County, about 1935 14 Figure 7. Plant construction
Report (volume)
minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by some unusual...Erasmus Haworth, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Kentucky........Mr. J. B. Hoeing, Frankfort. Mr. J. H.....Prof. E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley...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;
Report (issue)
occurrences of the Goldville District of Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Seven of the volume's papers deal with...accretionary plate margin, Zn-Pb resources of the central Kentucky district, and the geochemistry of America's first...32 The Royal Vindicator Gold Deposit, Haralson County, Georgia: A Metamorphosed Epithermal Hot-Springs...Geochemical Investigation of the Mason Mountain Sperrylite Occurrence, Macon County, North Carolina (Robert B. Cook...Polymetallic Sulfide/Fluorspar Mineralization in Western Kentucky: Lead and Zinc Reserves for the 21st Century (Ed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Corresponding Editor. President: Mrs. Grace Dearborn, 146 Lincoln St., Newton Highlands, Mass. 02161 1st Vice President:...min­ erals to be found in the Foote Mine at Kings Mountain. NEW YORK The Westchester Mineral and Gem...Tompkins County Gem and Mineral Club, Ithaca, viewed the new Federation Slide Program on Topaz Mountain, Utah...Society, Columbia, went to the Foote Mine at Kings Mountain, N. C. A pro­ gram was devoted to the identification...moonstone, unakite and breccia. ALABAMA The Calhoun County Rock and Min­ eral Club, Jacksonville, reports
Report (issue)
__-___-_____- __ Willis Mountain and vicinity____________ Woods Mountain and vicinityBaker Mountain-Madisonville... area____ Leigh Mountain __ __ _ _ Southern Prince Edward CountyOrigin of kyanite deposits Other mineral...Slate __ . Halifax County Other localities North Carolina Hagers Mountain, Person County.- _.______ Corbett...Corbett deposit, Johnston County Burnsville-Swannanoa area, Buncombe, Yancey, and Mitchell Counties ________...____ Rutherford County Other localities North Carolina-South Carolina Kings Mountain district, Cleveland
Report (volume)
Boletfn de Minas, nos. 2, 8. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no....1-15. Lawrence, Kans. Kentucky Geological Survey: Supplementary Report, Harlan County. Frankfort, Ky. Lake...Geological Survey: vol. 4, pt. 30; vol. 7, pts. 18, 19. Lincoln, Nebr. New Jersey Geological Survey: Final Report...Chicago, 111. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Braxton-Clay. Morgantown, W. 'Va. Wyoming...357-401, 64 figs., November 20, 1916... 41. The Boyd County mastodon, Tetrabelodon-osborni: Nebraska Geol.
Report (issue)
Mine 35 9 Kings Mountain Belt 38 Placer Mining ~ Charlotte Belt 34 10 Kings Mountain Mine 38 ... Non-refractory Ores 10 Crowders Mountain Mine 40 Refractory Ores 12 wng Creek Mine 40 Ores Containing...Sprouse Mine 42 History of Mining 14 Vein Mountain Mine 42 Proouction 16 Marion Bullion Company...alteration zones in the Nesbit Mine area, Union County, North Carolina 18 11. Generalized geologic map...southern Carolina slate belt 36 24. Mines of the Kings Mountain belt and vicinity 39 25. Sketch geologic
Report (issue)
beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...Alamance County ........................................................... 24 24 Alexander County ......Alleghany County ....................................................... 25 Ashe County ............Avery County ............................................................... 25 Buncombe County ......Burke County ............................................................... 26 Cabarrus County ...
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beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...COUNTIES Alamance County • .' 22 24 24 Alexander County 24 Alleghany County 25 Ashe County • 25 Avery...Avery County 25 Buncombe County 26 Burke County 26 Cabarrus County 27 Caldwell County 27 Caswell...Caswell County 27 Catawba County 28 Chatham County 28 Cherokee County 28 Clay County • • 29 Cleveland...Cleveland County 29 Davidson County • 30 vi Davie County Durham County 31 Franklin County 31 31
Report (issue)
placer deposits in crystalline rocks near Kings Mountain. Cobalt minerals with ores of 16 iron or...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:...Appalachian 21 Mountains, a highly dissected mountain plateau bounded on the east by 22 the Blue Ridge...Metavolcanic rocks occur also in the Grandfather Mountain Window area, which lies 16 partly in the Piedmont
Report (issue)
(volcanic slate) Upper Precambrian Grandfather Mountain window Linville metadiabase Montezuma schist Flattop...Lower Paleozoic (?) Stokes County and Kings Mountain belt Kings Mountain group Lower Cambrian (?) 25...western edge of the Coastal Plain. The Grandfather Mountain window is the second area of metavolcanic rocks...relatively small area in the northwest corner of Ashe County. The Carolina Slate belt consists of volcanic-sedimentary...well developed cleavage. Rocks in the Grandfather Mountain window include schists, altered basalt and amygdaloidal
Report (volume)
....................................... 135 Kentucky.................................................that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by reason...Nebraska____.Prof. E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada_____Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Lodi, Cal...See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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;
Report (issue)
The Geology of Crowders Mountain State Park, North Carolina – A Guide for the Non-Geologist By Philip...prominent topographic features in the Crowders Mountain State Park area. Prepared in conjunction with...NC DENR. The Land and the Rocks of Crowders Mountain State Park Geologic and technical terms used in...glossary at the back of this guide. Crowders Mountain State Park lies within the Piedmont physiographic...Piedmont surface. Figure 1: Location of Crowders Mountain State Park and physiographic provinces of North
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cover Photographs January-February: Dioptase on calcite, Namibia; Harold and Erica VanPelt photographers...Aragonite, 236 Bald Knob Manganese Deposit, Allegheny County, North Carolina, W. B . Sim­ mons, Jr., 130 Barite...190 Brushite, 190 Bustamite, 237 Cacoxenite, 79 Calcite, 114, 124, 159, 215, 237, 287 Callahan, J . , Pegmatites...Columbia, Yukon Territory, 9; rutile, Hastings County, 284 Canfield, F . A . , 232 Canfieldite, 233 Caryopilite...Impurities, A. Dunn, 286 Colorado, Mount Antero, 14; Kings Kanyon lithium pegmatites, 219 Columbite, 267 Coming
Report (volume)
Representative districts.-______--_---___._-_-_-________ Mountain Pass district, California..-____-.-_.._______...Hansonburg district, New Mexico___________________ Kings Creek district, South Carolina.._______________...districts___________________________._._. Washington County district, Missouri______.-__.-__ Sweetwater district...in the residual deposits of barite in Washington County, Mo _________________.____-__--__----_- .100 101...in veins is commonly associated with fluorite, calcite, dolomite, quartz, and sulfide minerals including
Report (issue)
13. 14« 15. 16. 17* PAGE Index Map of the Kings Mountain Districtt North Carolina and South Carolina...Carolina. «« . Structure Sketch Map of the Kings Mountain-Henry 22100 area .. .«.. . . « « Photomicrograph of...kyanite Aggregates of kyanite in quart zite at Clubb Mountain.* Figure 19. Figure 20. Figure Figure Figure...folds shoving flowage Quartz-kyanite vein at Clubb Mountain Photomicrograph of tyanlte quartzite , Photomicrograph...139 151 Sunmary of the geologic history of the Kings MountainsnoD area. ............................
Report (issue)
Geological investigations of the Kings Mountain belt and adjacent areas i_n the Carolinas edited by J...24-25, 1981 GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE KINGS MOUNTAIN BELT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN THE CAROLINAS Edited...idealized cross section of the Kings Mountain belt from Kings Mountain westward for 8 miles. {Lieber,...termination of the Kings Mo un taln belt D. J . Milton • • • • ... 1 Geologic map of the Kings Moun tatn be...Wilson • 28 Mine r alogy of the Foote mine , Kings Mo,mta i n , NorLh Carolina J . S . Whit e . .
Report (issue)
POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 4 Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee...POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 4 Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Kentucky R. Randall Schumann 7. Preliminary Geologic Radon...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...The reports are available in county formats and State summaries. The county reports typically contain both
 
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