 | | Report (issue) | | IN NORTH CAROLINA INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND NATURAL RESOURCES ...agencies for the general welfare of the dtizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts basic and applied research...Resources, at Post Office Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687, or call (919) 733-2423. Jeffrey...Chief Geologist GOLD NORTH CAROLINA IN . by P. Albert Carpenter III NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INFORMATION...INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT |  | | Report (edition) | | Information Circular GOLD RESOURCES OF NORTH CAROLINA by P. A. Carpenter, D oc ms C% M:*L Raleigh...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 26711. Jeffrey C. Reid Chief Geologist Cover...2 Uses 3 Mining Methods and Recovery 3 Gold in North Carolina 5 History of Mining 5 Production...Deposits of North Carolina 12 Eastern Carolina Belt 12 Portis Mine 14 Other Mines 14 Carolina Slate |  | | Report (issue) | | Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina 1011 by Gwendolyn W. Luttrell 12 U.S. Geological... Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina Abstract Gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc,...barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product silver, occurs in veins...deposits. Copper occurs with complex sulfide ores in quartz veins in the metamorphic rocks of the 10- Piedmont...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gold mining flourished in the Appalachian states until the discovery of gold in Califor nia in 1849...DIAMONDS of North Carolina WILLIAM J . FURBISH Geology Department Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708...and romantic lure for man since antiquity. North Carolina is no exception; in fact, the state has a rich...gold in 1799 (United States mint returns for North Carolina appeared in 1793) and a diamond find in 1843...the record of gold and dia mond finds and gold mining are relatively well docu mented. Major national |  | | Report (issue) | | 1B01YJ JH1lrL~ 11HHJ J\J-rAJii W1.sr B JY1111.Il • CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Field Trip Guidebook 1981 ... October 24-25, 1981 Gaffney, South Carolina - CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1981 OFFICERS +', . I...Schaeffer Duke'Power P.O •. Box 33189 Charlotte, North Carolina 28242 0 Secretary-Treasurer: • S. Duncan...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) | | Central group ____________________________ _ _ Carolina gneiss ________________________ _ Mica schist...__________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina and South Carolina ______ ____ _ Georgia ______________...__________________________________ _ History of mining ________________ ·__________________ _ Production...__ _________________________ _; _____ _ Barren quartz veins ________________ _ Mineralized zones ___________...34 35 35 36 39 44 44 45 46 47 47 49 49 50 50 Mine descriptions ___________ --------- -- .. ------- |  | | Report (volume) | | '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 |  | | Book (edition) | | Geology of North Carolina. QE 147 .A22 1866-1887 Pt.2 V.2 Chap.1 Digitized by the Internet Archive...org/details/mineralsminerall01 nort n o o / Geology of North Carolina. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It F. A. GENTH...Mica mining industry, for example, has brought to a Pi 7 ? f 3 : GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA. 2...great many very interesting and unique forms of quartz crystals and rutiles, and has added a great number...York, has spent many months in explorations and mining for these mineral rarities, and has himself added |  | | Book (edition) | | LOCALITIES NORTH CAROLINA, BEING CHAPTER I, OP THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. Reprinted...OF E. M. UZZELL RALEIGH, N. C. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CHROLINS. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It has F...data have been embodied. Sev- GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 4 eral causes have been operative in giving...some number of them not hitherto or, The Mica mining industry, elsewhere discovered iu America. great...with Mr. W. E. Hidden, of New explorations and mining for these mineral Among these, York, has spent |  | | Report (issue) | | 5.1 cm high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin Zinn; photo Jeff...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...Lapis International, LLC East Hampton, Connecticut USA Collection 'Alan Table of Contents What Is Gold...Weiner Page 4 North America's First Gold Rush: Gold Fever in the Southeastern USA . . . . . . . .P...Dermot Henry and Bill Birch The Rush for Gold Turns North to Canada and Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Report (issue) | | CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1980 OFFICERS President: J. Robert Butler Department of Geology University...University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Vice-President: Van Price, Jr. Savannah River Laboratory...Department of Earth Sciences University of North Carolina at Wilmington Wilmington, N.C. William S. Henika...Radiometric Dating in the Sauratown Mountains Area, North Carolina (P.D. Fullagar and J. R. Butler). . . . . .... 7 Metamorphic Gradients in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (J. P. Gregory). . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 23:16 02 June 2016 Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho 190 ROCKS & MINERALS...and from a relatively large number of European mining districts. Strikingly perfect, transparent pyromorphite...pyromorphite occurred at the Lubec lead mine, the Gouldsboro mine, and with wulfenite at the upper Colton...Foord 1994). Recently the old lead mine at Loudville, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, once again produced...Dan1 site, Litchfield County, Connecticut. It is reported from the Sparta copper mine south of Ossining, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Geology, University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, U.S.A. Received July 21,...maximum width of about 300 km in North Carolina and South Carolina and narrows along strike to the northeast...Appalachians in North Carolina and South Carolina. See Fig. 2 for units in Charlotte belt. Localities:...1968; OVERST~ET and BELL,1965b; GeologicMap of North Carolina, 1958; BVTLnR,J. 1%, unpubl. maps, 1961--1968;...given in text Crystalline Appalachians in North and South Carolina General Geologists working in the crystalline |  | Robinson, Gilpin R., Lesure, Frank G., Marlowe, J. I., Foley, Nora K., Clark, S.H. (2004) Bedrock geology and mineral resources of the Knoxville 1° x 2° quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Open-File Report 2004-1075. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20041075 | Report (issue) | | 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...46 Spruce Pine District 46 Woodlawn District 46 Buncombe District 46 Bryson City District 47 Franklin-Sylva |  | | Report (volume) | | 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 |  | | Book | | reference value. In 1980, at the urging of Pete J. Dunn, we initiated a feasibility study for a 10-year...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...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73 |  | | Book | | ^/s^ 5 Mk^ THE •^4^5 ^old I?|inE? of Worth Carolina. Mkl Mkl Mki Mk •?4^# •^4^2 Mk '^4^J -^4^5...N. Y. York. C^ompaijy's propi^rty. McDowell County, N, C. Uwharrie River, Randolph, Davidson and Montgomery...the Stock now being sold is to be Mines and Mining Land^, and for the further So resolved and guaranteed...EL DORADO aOLD 7, 1891 aEMS. and THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. IN JStoiies, iiolA and Many Rare...town in promagnificent country mansion. no gold mine worthy of the name east of the cess of transformation |  | | Journal (issue) | | Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Associate Editors Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N...Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185 by...M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .........................................from the Foote mine, North Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203 An unusual quartz crystal from Zaire...(1 inch) on antlerite crystals from the Southwest mine, Bisbee, Arizona. For more information on this recent |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $3.00 The Rock Dam Gold Prospect A New Quartz Locality, Dickinson Co., Mich~g_an Shawn M. Carlson...located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of the village ofQuinnesec...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...themselves are thoroughly unglamorous, yielding neither quartz crystals nor any noteworthy accessory minerals...prospects, Bayley (1904) states that, "some of these quartz veins contain small quantities of free gold, as |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | adopted at the I960 convention in Ashville, North Carolina. Any club which wishes to buy one of the dies...Pitcher is President and the Secretary is Harry L. Dunn, 2616 Robins Street, Endwell, New York. The Delaware...Delaware. The Central North Carolina Mineral Club, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, is the eighth Tarheel...Secretary, Rt. # 6 , Leesville Road, Raleigh, North Carolina. The Unaka Rock and Mineral Society, Johnson...Society begins a scientific excavation in Colbert County. Several years ago Hal Kleine, of the rock club |  | | Journal (issue) | | November-December 1981 Smithsonian Institution Pete J. Dunn Smithsonian Institution Peter G. Embrey British...Record Inc. Articles The Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Id a h o 339 by N. Radford and J...by R. S. W. Braithwaite Barite from the Niobec mine, Chicoutimi, Quebec .....................355 by...G. Gagnon Minerals of the Yates uranium mine, Pontiac County, Quebec . 359 by D. L. Leavitt Shavano...by P. J. Dunn Sjdgrenite on pyroaurite from Sterling Hill, New Jersey 371 by P. j! Dunn and P. B. |  | | Report (volume) | | further subdivided by geographic areas (State and county) and by subjects, which include general, geology...the White Mountains, Mono County, Calif., and near Hawthorne, Mineral County, Nev. KYANITE Kyanite generally...Baker Mountain, Prince Edward County, and Willis Mountain, Buckingham County, in Virginia, and at Henry...Henry Knob, near Clover, York County, S.C. These are the only deposits now producing kyanite in the United...been produced only in very small amount in North Carolina (Stuckey, 1937, p. 75). The most promising |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pick—Philip Corley, Editor Junior Division of Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society Newlapso—Dr. Philip E. Eisman...Rockland Nuggets—Marvin Klibonoff, Editor Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society, Inc. Unaka Rock & Mineral...field trip took the members to the Old Tungsten Mine and Topaz Prospect, Trumbull, Connecticut for topaz...Loudville Lead Mines, Southampton, and to the Emery Mine at Chester, both located in Massachusetts. Their...given by Mr. Earle Sullivan on "The Old Tungsten Mine" Trumbull, Connecticut. An item in The Geogram of |  | | Report (issue) | | to thick bedded, with interbeds of feldspathic quartz - nica schist or pray phyllite, includes some beds...Persimmon Creek Hneisa, variably" foliated oligoclas«- quartz -epidote-biotite gneiss, interlayered with metagraywacke...interlayered qu-irtsite and schist, qu^xtsite contadns quartz,plagiaclase, muscovite, K spar, am.d biotite as...layered dark gray metagraywacke , and biotite -quartz -plagioclaseschist pCgma Two mica schist interlayered...Gneiss^ porphyroblastic plagioclase-raicrocline-quartz-biotite gneiss of granitic to granodioritic composition |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gold nugget, 7.67 troy ounces, Fairbanks mining region, Alaska, USA. Donated in 1977 by Arthur Sexaur. University...University of Alaska Museum of the North specimen (No. AK 1271-G- 3), Robert Cook photo. The Occurrence...approximately 89 troy ounces, Ganes Creek, Iditarod district, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough, Alaska. This nugget shows...1985 nugget Alaska, Ganes Creek 2004 mass with quartz Alaska, Ganes Creek 1985 Alaska, Ganes Creek...ounces NAC Alaska, Ganes Creek 1905 mass with quartz 51.6 ounces Tisler specimen www.akmining.biz; |
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