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Kyanite from
Afton, Dawson County, Georgia, USA


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Kyanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kyanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Afton, Dawson County, Georgia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:316448
Long-form Identifier:1:3:316448:8
GUID (UUID V4):bfca6857-3c5d-428e-8fa1-7568f5b9de83
Nearest other occurrences of Kyanite
5.4km (3.3 miles) Juno, Dawson County, Georgia, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Partain prospects, Holcomb, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) Hendrix Mountain, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
11.5km (7.1 miles) Marble Hill, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
13.5km (8.4 miles) Federal School, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) Longswamp Creek, Jasper, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
14.8km (9.2 miles) Fourmile Church, Cherokee County, Georgia, USA
16.7km (10.4 miles) Shiloh Church, Cherokee County, Georgia, USA
17.8km (11.0 miles) Harmony School, Tate, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
18.6km (11.5 miles) Refuge Church, Tate, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEORGIA Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX JENNINGS...JENNINGS B. GORDON, JR. P . O . Box 6214 Rome, Georgia 30162 Although perhaps best known for its gold, rutUe...rutUe, and staurolite (the state mineral), Georgia has, in fact, almost two hundred mineral species. ...have been reported and verified from the state of Georgia. The index has been compiled from the literature...be either a report on the economic geology of Georgia or a field guide for lapidaries, it excludes commercial
Book (edition)
CHIASTOLITE a\ DIAMOND CRYSTALS DIOPSIDE EMERALD KYANITE LAZULITE t^^*l IDOCRASE lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^...regions in the east from Maine down through Georgia and westward to Tennessee and in the west including...in which spare North America. States, all the Georgia to they were created by volcanic fires. Others...Diamond Locations place Table North Carolina and Georgia Diamond Locations E: NORTH CAROLINA weight plac«...mountain, 1893 % Canary yellow Cleveland Co. GEORGIA Branch of Muddy Creek, 1843 Williams' Ferry
Book (volume)
..........................................122 Georgia .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
..........................................122 Georgia .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Road-cut (Renfrew County Road 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crocan Lake kyanite occurrence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . Narco kyanite mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Golden Rose (Afton) Mine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . ...Most of the collecting localities are in Renfrew County. Ontario. A wide variety of minerals are found
Report (issue)
Mayo marble quarry Renfrew–Madawaska area Renfrew County Road 4 (Bruce Avenue) roadcut Highway 60 quarry...Company of Canada mine Mattarig mine Crocan Lake kyanite occurrence Eau Claire (MacLaren) beryl occurrence...mine Nipissing Black Granite quarry Golden Rose (Afton) mine Témiscaming area Narco mine Laniel garnet...Most of the collecting localities are in Renfrew County, Ontario. A wide variety of minerals are found...Numerous former feldspar mines as well as deposits of kyanite, garnet, muscovite, niobium, and brucite occur
Report (issue)
COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF............................................ 106 Kyanite ........................................................................................... 170 County Index ........................................
Book (volume)
..........................................140 Georgia ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map ..........................................
Journal (issue)
Creede, population 350, is the seat of Mineral County, an 878-square-mile tract of forests, meadows,... FOR MORE INFORMATION Visit the Creede/Mineral County Visitor Center and Chamber of Commerce website...frozen much fellow returned to Silverton and Juan County, Colorado. HERITAGE AUCTIONS was able to get his...Arts Museum in San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in collaboration with the National...is much greater than on earth’s surface, where Kyanite, a major index mineral, is often found with other
Journal (issue)
output, but increased in value. Aplite, clays, kyanite, and soapstone all increased in production and...that cannot be disclosed: Aplite, cement, gypsum, kyanite, and values indicated by symbol W . . . . . . ...REFERENCE INDEX ALBEMARLE COUNTY Southern: Pegau, A. A., 2. ALLEGHANY COUNTY Clifton Forge-White Sulphur...AMELIA COUNTY Morefield mine: Pegau, A. A., 3. AMHERST COUNTY Cormack, W. B. ARLINGTON COUNTY Great Falls...Washington, D. C. to Luray: Stow, M. H. AUGUSTA COUNTY Afton-Staunton, north: Appalachian Geol. Soc., 1.
Journal (issue)
MINERALS ALLANITE (EPIDOTE GROUP) / @ Amherst County - Black pitchy allanite is found in a small pegmatitemass...used because of their radioactivity. Campbell County - Andalusitecrystals,somevery large,have been reported...locality is associated with quartz, sillimanite, kyanite and blue corundum. Many of the anddusite crystals...attractive cabochons can be cut. BERYL Amelia County - Clear gem quality beryl fragments measuring 0...The quarry is operated by Tarmac Inc. Powhutcan County - Clear beryl crystals (goshenite) occur at the
Book (volume)
Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes it the...highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the Lookout...mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily divides into five major physiographic provinces...The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries of Gold... some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively prospected for gold since colonial
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...GARNET IDOCRASE RUBY V. IOLITE SAPPHIRE ^ KYANITE SPHALERITE TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS...may be diamond, aquamarine, topaz, tourmaline, kyanite, or apatite. Conversely, such a chameleon as tournaline...17 ROCK FORMATIONS IN WHICH GEMS OCCUR and kyanite, a large intrusive mass of granite, and rocks that...chiastolite, the corundum gems, garnet, jade, kyanite, lapis lazuli, and vesuvianite. In such places
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA (e-mail: mange@geology.ucdavis.edu) 2British Geological...analysed . Fully analysed sections includ e the Afton, Scaur and Nith Water traverses (Fig. I), part of...mid-Caradoc formations have been sampled in the Afton Water type section and in the Nith section. The...:·:·:·:·:-:· e m ro :J GWH I. )06 «:~ ~ "'-' AFTON WATER TYPE SECTION I .~C:- 0 N(i~l ~ tf lIt... Tectono-and heavy mineral stratigraphy of the Afton and Nith-Scaur Water type sections projected as
Book
aton1. Olivine, garnet, epidote, vesuvianite, kyanite, topaz, titanite, zircon, amphibole, pyroxene,...128 fluorite (colourless, blue, green), p. 106 kyanite (blue), p. 170 mica {white, brown, black), p. 204...nugget recorded is fro1n Carson Hill, California, USA, weighing 72.78 kg. Transylvania, Ron1ania; Rorai...Copper (48728): Dendritic, or tree-like, habit. Afton Mines, Kam/oops Division, Yale District, British... Canada's Best Localities: Craiginont Mine and Afton Mine, Kam loops Disttict, British Colu1nbia; Burwash
bonded in a group around a central silicon atom. kyanite, topaz, titanite, zircon, amphibole, pyroxene,...green), p. 106 olivine (green, yellowish), p. 164 kyanite (blue), p. 170 pyroxene (green to black), p. 192...nugget recorded is from Carson Hill, California, USA, weighing 72.78 kg. Transylvania, Romania; Roraima...rocks. Canada’s Best Localities: Craigmont Mine and Afton Mine, Kamloops District, British Columbia; Burwash...Lake, Labrador, Newfoundland; Cap d’Or, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Other Localities: Keweenaw Peninsula
Book
cement and phosphate rock. Kaolin is shipped from Georgia to Japan, talc from Montana to Belgium, barite...for example, are almost entirely derived from the USA and Tur- key, a situation too narrowly based comfort...Minerals International Congress took place in Boston, USA, in April 1988. 4| a) envi at wererieryre' humus...(4) Serpentinized dolomitic limestone (Arizona, USA; the Transvaal). The Minerals About 95% of world...Africa Amosite Crocidolite Chrysotile Italy Greece USA India Amphibole Swaziland Chrysotile with cigarette
Book (edition)
PENTZ QUARRY SONOMA COUNTY . HUMBOLDT COUNTY EEL RIVER BEAR CANYON CREEK TRINITY COUNTY 8 9 9 9 9 10 II...................................... 20 21 LAKE COUNTY ................................................................................... 21 MONTEREY COUNTY ..................................... 21 BIG SUR... HIGH SIERRA GEM STONES Inside Back Cover INYO COUNTY COLLECTING 28 ONYX DEPOSIT.................................................... SAN LOUIS OBISPO COUNTY.................................... NIPOMO....
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic... These are prized as ornaments. Virginia and Georgia are major sources of such crystals known as...pegmatite (g) Mount Antero, 12.000 (h) Chaffee County, Colorado (i) from the Smith collection feet
Report (issue)
79 Man-made 79 deposits Soil stratigraphy Afton 81 82 Soil Yarmouth Soil 83 Soil 85 84...northern hemisphere (37° 35' N. latitude, in Johnson County); it is where the outwash drainageways from the... Shelbyville Drifts Paris D. Harrisville D. Afton Soil D. D. Champaign Ridge Farm D. West Ridge...'.*:;>. MISSISSIPPIAN Includes Devonian Hardin County in DEVONIAN Includes Silurian in Douglas Champaign...Missouri and in Illinois, the gravel con- Calhoun County, tains boulders of quartzite as much as 2 and
Book
topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...angles. These are prized as ornaments. Virginia and Georgia are maior sources of such crystals. The group of...mine , canyon) district where found (township, county, state) how obtained (found , given , etc., with...in pegmatite Mount Antero , 12,000 feet Chaffee County . Colorado from the Smith co llection 1/10/74 ...Holbrook ; University of Arizona. Tucson . California· County Museum. University of California and University
Report (issue)
16 and 17, Con. XI, Faraday Township, Hastings County, Ontario. ROM:M31141 This specimen was collected.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kyanite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...localities under each species are broken down by county (or district), township, con cession, and lot,...would begin like this: ZIRCON ZrSiO 4 HASTINGS COUNTY FARADAY TOWNSHIP Concession XI, Lot 16, 17 Faraday...cases, what he thought was the nearest place. Some county and township names are misleading, as the actual
Book (edition)
JADEIT E: S AN BEN IT O JADE SKETCH . J\IONTEREY COUNTY i\fON TEREY NEPHRITF. S IU,TCH PARKPIELO DISTRICT...CENTRAL AND EAST CALIFOR IA INYO CO UNTY ONYX INYO COUNTY ONYX DEPOSIT SKET CH DEATH VALLEY . TIN MOUNTAIN...SKETCH WILDROSE CANYON . WILDROSE CANYON SKETCH KERN COUNTY CINNABAR SKETCH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COLLECTING...VALLEY COLLECTING SHARK TOOTH HILL . DRY LAKES, KERN COUNTY . CACHE CREEK (HORSE CANYON) 5 7 7 7 7 7 8 9...PRING S NORTH END OF EAGLE C RAGS GOFF JOURNAL AFTON CANYON BAKER'S DOZE!\ CADY MTS. LAVIC JASPER ALVORD
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Petrology/IUGS R.S.A.; F. R. Boyd, U.S.A.; J. B. Dawson, U.K. 0. L. Anderson, A. L. Boettcher, F. R,...carbonates in kimberlites and limestones from Riley County, Kansas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2...THE SULLIVAN BUTTES LATITE, CHINO VALLEY, YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZONA. Richard J. Arculus (Research School of...formation of plagioclase, hercynite and corundum. Rare kyanite and quartz-feldspar veins in clinopyroxenite may...Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, Illinois 60637 J. B. Dawson, Department of Geology, The University of Chicago
Book (edition)
FOSSIL HUNTER SONOMA COUNTY HUMBOLDT COUNTY CARPENTERIA FOSSILS SAN MATEO COUNTY FOSSILS SANTA BARBARA...LEA VITT MEADOWS HIGH SIERRA GEM STONES MONTEREY COUNTY SAN BENITO JADEITE CINNABAR LOCALITY DARWIN MINERALS...CANYON AND LAST CHANCE CANYON KERN COUNTY DRY LAICOUNTY ONYX DEPOSIT WILDROSE CANYON . . .... . . . . . . . . THE GOFF JOURNAL . . . . . . AFTON CANYON . . . . . . THE F ABU LO US CALICO MOUNTAINS...DELVINGS . . . . . DELVING INTO ORANGE COUNTY RIVERSIDE COUNTY . . . . WILEY WELL DISTRICT . CHUCKWALLA
 
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