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Beryl from
Chestnut Flats Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Beryl
Formula:Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Beryl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chestnut Flats Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:339359
Long-form Identifier:1:3:339359:8
GUID (UUID V4):f04e8288-7b3f-46b0-9474-810100b2a020
Nearest other occurrences of Beryl
2.3km (1.4 miles) Flat Rock Mine (Flat Rock pegmatite), Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Buchanan Mine (Buchanan pegmatite), Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Davis Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Jake Buchanan Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) Robert Phillips Mine (Old Susie Phillips Mine), Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) Wiseman Mine (Old Mart Wiseman Mine; Sullins-Wiseman Mine), Greasy Creek Township, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Calhoun Smith Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
6.0km (3.7 miles) Hoppus Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Poteat Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
7.1km (4.4 miles) McHone Mine pegmatite, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
98195, USA; defnep@uw.edu Department of Chemistry, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA 16652, USA; richard...20560, USA; wisem@si.edu Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University...University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Yale University...University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA Correspondence: rsharmon@ncsu.edu; Tel.: +1-919-588-0613 Abstract: Laser-induced...and lepidolite are the major Li-bearing minerals. Beryl is the primary host mineral for Be, pollucite for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen is from the Number 20 mine near Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Author’s specimen and...Figure 5. A 2-cm uraninite cube from the Cardiff mine, Wdberforce, Ontario, Canada;Canadian Museum of...the famous Palermo and Ruggles mines in Grafton County, New Hampshire; dendritic uraninite intergrowths...Bedford, WestChester County, and from a locality at Richville Station, St. Lawrence County, New York. Uraninite...from Avondale, Chester County; from Upland and near Vera Cruz, Lehigh County; and from a site near Fairmount
Report (issue)
Carolina Geological Society 2008 Fieldtrip and Annual Meeting, Little Switzerland, North Carolina October...2008 annual meeting – Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________...__ Carolina Geological Society (CGS) 2008 Field trip Spruce Pine Mining District North Carolina Co-leaders...Sponsors Active Minerals International, LLC Imerys North America Ceramics Unimin Corporation Vulcan Materials...2008 annual meeting – Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2: Meta-torbernite, Chalk Mountain, Mitchell County, North Carolina. RICHARD D. GREEN 1745 13th Street...spodumene, amblygonite, topaz, triphylitelithiophilite, beryl, and much albite. Minerals of all three pegmatite...processes. Figure 5 (above): Cuprosklodowskite, Musonoi mine, Zaire. Photo by Lou Perloff. Figure 6 (right):...Uraninite, Deep Creek, Bayson City, Swain County, North Carolina. Photo by Lou Perloff. 248 ROCKS AND...weathering of the crystal surface. The Daybreak mine in Washington has produced the finest United States
Book (volume)
especially along the southern slopes and ridges of the Pine Ridge Escarpment and along Whiteclay Creek near...vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE PEGMATITES OF THE NORTH SPRUCE PINE DISTRICT, CAROLINA. C. S. MAURICE. ABSTRACT. Several...columbium, uranium, and rare-earths, allanite, beryl, and others. I8o pegmatiteswere investigatedin the...district--the largestproducerof muscoviteand feldspar in North America--may be applied to other districts. and..." As the Spruce Pine pegmatitesconstitutethe main sourceof feldsparand sheetmuscovitein North America...iterature Cited, at end of article. SPRUCE PINE DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA. 51 reds and bluesproducedby
Book (volume)
grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Book (volume)
grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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
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...Pegmatite Deposits 45 Pegmatite Districts 46 Spruce Pine District 46 Woodlawn District 46 Buncombe District
Report (issue)
under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Valley Authority Physical...under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Falley Authority UNITED...Production of sheet and punch mica, 1912-14, in North Carolina, the Southeastern States, and the entire United...data for mica specimens, arranged by lot and by mine or prospect-_-___--_-___-_-.___---___-_____--_ Results..._______________ 13. Test data for mica (not identified by mine), taken from the production line of the Colonial
Book
York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South...quartz crystal; assigned to Issachar). Fourth row: beryl (probably bluish aquamarine or pink morganite; assigned...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...amethyst, carnelian, petrified wood, rock crystal, beryl, tourmaline, topaz, and garnet. Every rock hunter...and abandoned, one is also sure to find extensive mine dumps sloping steeply down from the shaft or tunnel
Catalog/List
of the Mine" collection, assembled as a museum display in the offices of the Shinkolobwe mine, was ordered...Africa CUPROSKLODOWSKITE, META-VANURALITE, Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba, Zaire Very attractive emerald-green.................. $200.00 GUILLEMINITE, Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba , Zaire Yellow to yellow-green crystalline.......... . ....... $100.00 CARROLLITE, Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi , Shaba , Zaire Attractive, 1.2 cm on an.... . . . .. .. $200.00 DEMESMAEKERITE, Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Shaba , Za ire Dull apple-green demesmaekerite
Journal (issue)
Peggy Norton, Secretary 11145 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood, Cl. 11ea7 WIii iam Tirk, Treuurer 3844...TREASURE TROVE'' JUNE 15, 16 & 17, 1973 Stanislaus County Fairgrounds Turlock, Callfornla FIELD TRIPS -...Show. " Stanislaus Treasure Trove." Stanislaus County Falrgrounds, Turlock, Ca. Mother Lode Mlwal Society...Convention and Show. " Garnet Star of Idaho." Nez Pet'ce County Fairgrounds. Lewiston. Idaho. Host, Helle Can,on...pattern and/or color at only '3.00 per lb. Average mine run material at S1.50 per lb. Expect small nodules
 
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