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Zircon from
Henry Knob Mine, York County, South Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Henry Knob Mine, York County, South Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:338600
Long-form Identifier:1:3:338600:2
GUID (UUID V4):bb883a54-b3f4-4cb8-9683-d7ee44e6f684
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
4.7km (2.9 miles) Ford Biotite Granite Quarry, York County, South Carolina, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Jackson Quarry, Clover Area, York County, South Carolina, USA
7.3km (4.5 miles) Clover Quarry (Blythe Brothers), York County, South Carolina, USA
7.5km (4.7 miles) Will Knox Sillimanite Property, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) Whiteside Quarry, Filbert, York County, South Carolina, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) The Pinnacle Kyanite Prospects, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
11.5km (7.2 miles) Foote Lithium Co. Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
23.1km (14.3 miles) E. R. Self Mine (Old Neale Mine), Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
23.3km (14.5 miles) LCA Mine, Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
23.9km (14.8 miles) Big Bess Mine (M. S. Bess Mine; M. M. Carpenter Mine), Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
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...Cleveland, Gaston, and Lincoln Counties, N.C., and York County, S.C. ._ __-__ ____ --- ---General geology Rock...Page Kyanite deposits Continued North Carolina-South Carolina Continued Kings Mountain district, etc
Report (issue)
Sr^ith and- Hewcc-abe (1951) that the Vyanite at Henry Knob developed by hydro-thermal introduction of slumina...Districtt North Carolina and South Carolina. «« . Structure Sketch Map of the Kings Mountain-Henry 22100 area...Cheaical and modal analyses of kyanite quartzita from Henry fflioo » » » »» « « ... «. «« 98 Chenical and modal...Mountain-flenry Knob aroa, Gaston County, North Carolina and York County* South Carolina. Geologic Map...Gaston Counties, North Carolina* Geologic J'ap of Henry Knob, Tork County, South C-rolina Geologic Hap
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF KYANITE DEPOSITS AT HENRY SOUTH LAURENCE CAROLINA. L. SMITH ß KNOB, • AND ROY NEWCOME, JR...principalrock of Henry Knob, a conspicuous monadnock, three mileswestof Clover,South Carolina. The depositis...I NTRODUCTIO N. THE Occurrence of kyaniteat Henry Knob wasmentionedas longagoas 1846 by MichaelTuomey'...abundanttalus which has accumulatedon the flanksof the knob. More recentquarryingoperations haveuncovered perti-...of Commercialores Incorporated. TOPOGRAPHY. Henry Knob is one of the numerousmonadhocksin the Carolinaswhich
Report (volume)
The Crystalline Rocks of South Carolina By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces of South Carolina UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,...and Precambrian(?) age_______________________ Carolina slate belt_________________________________________...crystalline rocks in South Carolina. 2. Map showing geologic belts in South Carolina. 3. Map of the main...main metamorphic facies in South Carolina. 4. Map showing location of samples used for age determinations
Report (issue)
Mozambique • • Republic of South Africa Republic of the Sudan Somali Republic . • South-West Africa .. Burma...Martin and Mr. D. C. Heath, Geological Survey, South-West Africa; Mr. A. V. Briebach, Morgan Refractories...important producing countries are the Republic of South Africa, the United States and India. At one time...letter chi (X). Tl1e chief sources of andalusite are South Africa, Sweden, the United States and Korea. The...in economic quantities are known in Australia, South-West Africa and India. Mullite was named by Bowen
Report (issue)
Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina by W. R. Griffitts, K. A. Duttweiler...Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina, begun in 1978 that is part of a multidisciplinary...and to identify. The NM fraction also contains zircon, sillimanite, kyanite, spinel, apatite, sphene...of the staurolite, garnet, and kyanite, in the Carolina Slate Belt are recycled in that way. The nearly...been mined on a large scale from quartzite at Henry Knob, and kyanitic quartzite is present in many other
Book (volume)
the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust long spurs...the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza
Report (issue)
Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina by John P. D'Agostino, Jesse W. Whitlow...Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina for the Conterminous United States Mineral...samples were mostly wet, whereas soils, saprolite, and mine dump material were dry. The stream sediment was...at the stream site, whereas soils, saprolite, and mine dump material were placed in a field container and...samples were taken based on a grid; and from any mine, samples were selected from available dump material
Report (issue)
Charlotte 1° X 2° Quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina The Conterminous United States Mineral...Charlotte 1° X 2 ° Quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina By J. E. Gair, Richard Goldsmith, D....Mines and mineral resources-North Carolina-Charlotte Region. South Carolina. I. Gair, Jacob Eugene, 1922-...the Charlotte 1 °X2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina Schematic diagram for estimating mineral-resource...Charlotte 1 o x 2° Quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina By J. E. Gair, Richard Goldsmith, D.
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book
6 CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________.........._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T I N...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...n d m 1799 i n Cabarrus C o u n t y, N o r t h Carolina, b y a s m a l l b o y w a l k i n g along a m
Report (issue)
14 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Asbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N.Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...Poncha Springs, Colo. 14. Tungsten ore, North Carolina Rutile in Precambrian Sillimanite-Quartz Gneiss...not yet discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once discovered...14 Kings Mountain district, North Carolina14 South Carolina.................................. Graves Mountain...Yuma County, Arizona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Report (volume)
further subdivided by geographic areas (State and county) and by subjects, which include general, geology...formerly imported from India, Kenya, and the Union of South Africa for this purpose. In recent years, however...the White Mountains, Mono County, Calif., and near Hawthorne, Mineral County, Nev. KYANITE Kyanite generally...Prince Edward County, and Willis Mountain, Buckingham County, in Virginia, and at Henry Knob, near Clover...Clover, York County, S.C. These are the only deposits now producing kyanite in the United States. Kyanite
Report (issue)
Il • CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Field Trip Guidebook 1981 October 24-25, 1981 Gaffney, South Carolina...Carolina - CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1981 OFFICERS +', . I. President: Richard G. Chalcraft Gulf...Schaeffer Duke'Power P.O •. Box 33189 Charlotte, North Carolina 28242 0 Secretary-Treasurer: • S. Duncan Heron...Department of Geology, Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27706 Chairman of the Membership Committee: ...Department of Geology Catawba College Salisbury, No~th Carolina 28144 Field Trip Leaders: J. Wright Horton,
Report (issue)
PEGMATITE GEOLOGY OF THE SHELBY DISTRICT NORTH CAROLINA by \ Wallace R. Griffitts > \ I ,' -* U. S...Metamorphic rocks....................... h- Carolina gneiss ..................... Ij- General features... 113 Andalusite. ...................... 113 Zircon. ........................ 113 Calcite and dolomite...district , Worth Carolina. .................... In pocket 3A. Contorted garnet layer in Carolina gneiss * 3B...lens of fine-grained lime- silicate rook from the Carolina gneiss. ............... * k-. Metabasalt with
Report (issue)
NORTH-CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA   TRIP LEADERS: James Hibbard (Emeritus, North Carolina State University)...University) jphibbar@ncsu.edu , Philip Bradley (North Carolina Geological Survey) pbradley@ncdenr.gov and Brent...Clark Carolina Geological Society 78th Annual Meeting, November 3-5, 2017 Roxboro, North Carolina CAROLINA...1.2 of this trip. Back: Stop map for the 2017 Carolina Geological Society field trip. Base map for stops...and NC Flood Plain Mapping) for central North Carolina with a portion of the NCGS open file 1:100,000
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia........................................Calcioferrite from the Moculta quarry, near Angaston, South Australia ........................................chalcopyrite, from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and...a major donation (from an anonymous donor in New York) to help with part of the extra costs on the long-awaited
Report (volume)
California. Economic geology. Chromite, El Dorado County: Cater, F. W., Jr. Healdsburg quadrangle: Gealey...W. K. Mercur~·, New Almaden mines, Santa Clara County: Bailey, E. H. San Francisco Bay counties: Bowen...Bowen, 0. E , Jr., 3 Mineral resources, Fresno County: Logan, C. A. Geologic maps. Bitterwater Cre€k area:...Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Transactions. New York City. Am. Jour. Botany-American Journal of Botany...History Bulletin. New York City. Am. Mus. Novitates-American Museum Novitates. New York City. Am. Philos.
Report (volume)
___ . _....... _. _. _____ .... ______ 83 Colossus mine ___ ..... _o ••• _ • • • • • • • • • • • •• •••...Blackmon mine._ ... ___ •.......... _..... __ ....... .............. 92 Kings Mountain mine __ ___ ....94 Ferguson mine .....•............. _........ _. __ ___ . __ .. __ . ___ . _ 96 Brown mine ____ . __ ...·schlegelmilch mine .. _. _____ ____ .... ___ ......... _... __ ... . . . . . . . 101 Thompson mine. _ .. ___...West mine ____ . _. _____ . _. _.. _.. __ .. _...... ~ __ . __ .... ·. . . . . . 104 Nott mine __ . ______
Report (volume)
Crossroads: Lyons, P. L., 4. Gilbert H., 10. Colorado, South Silverton area: Expanding horizons: Lay, R. L.,L...and man: Benn, guide: Dunbar, M., 1. J. H. , 1. Carolina bays, interpretation, cf. Rocky Mtn. exploration:...area, color: Shale nomenclature: Clark, T. H. ,6. South Texas Geol. Soc., 7. Silicates and their reaction...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite
Report (issue)
Winegrapes in Polk, Henderson and Buncombe Counties, NC Carolina Geological Society – Guidebook for the 83rd Annual... North Carolina Field Trip Leaders: Joseph Forrest, Rick Wooten, Bart Cattanach Carolina Geological...site at 3400 feet on the Blue Ridge escarpment. Carolina Geological Society 2022 Board of Directors President...Engineering Secretary Cheryl Waters-Tormey - Western Carolina University Treasurer Jeff Chaumba - UNC Pembroke...Soil Geomorphology in North Carolina Brad Johnson 105 Western North Carolina Soils, Geology and Wine John
Report (issue)
14 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Asbestos ore Lead ore. Balmat Mine, N. Y. Chromite-chromium ore. Wash. Zinc ore, Friedensville...Poncha Springs, Colo. 14. Tungsten ore, North Carolina 5 World Nonbauxite Aluminum Resources Excluding............................................. South Carolina-Georgia-Alabama Kaolin Belt....... Argentina................................................. South Africa.......................................................................................... South Korea .........................................
Journal (issue)
Shipments by mines for 1958, 1959, 1960 B96 Open Pit Mine Production ef 3 Technological ; Advances Tons...Tons mined and stripped & 99 Underground Mine Production from 1955 through 1960 > 101 Geology and...ATLAS COPCO Dept. MWA-60-5, 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, N.Y. Gentlemen: Please send me_ Name _ []...built for heavy off-highway service in construction, mine, quarry and industrial tons For work under large...Ribbon Equipment U. S. MINE Awards Services Supplies REVIEW L. Rice Henry O. Sulphur, Argall,
Report (issue)
Shawe, and E. M. MacKevett, Jr. ---------Nickel, by Henry R. Cornwall ---------------------·-----------------------Niobium...must know not only in which direction a particular mine opening should be extended to continue in an ore...Behrens, W. W. III, 1972, The limits to growth: New York, Universe Books, 205 p. Park, C. F., Jr., 1968,...changing as the advance of technology permits us to mine or process minerals that were once too low in grade...technologic advances will make it profitable to mine resources that would be much too costly to produce
 
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