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Asbestos from
Brockton Mine, Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Asbestos' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Asbestos data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brockton Mine, Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:340777
Long-form Identifier:1:3:340777:6
GUID (UUID V4):56620a3d-0376-41a7-84d7-d3525e3326ba
Nearest other occurrences of Asbestos
0.4km (0.3 miles) Rattlesnake Mine (Rattlesnake Asbestos Prospect), Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Asbestos Mine, Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Socrates Corundum Mine (Socrates Asbestos prospect), Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County, North Carolina, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Bad Creek Mine, Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) Bad Creek Prospect, Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
9.6km (6.0 miles) Harris prospect, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Jennings No. 2 Asbestos Mine (Whitewater Corundum Mine), Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
11.4km (7.1 miles) Round Mountain Mine, Sapphire Valley, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
12.0km (7.5 miles) Holden Asbestos Mine, Glenville-Norton, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
12.0km (7.5 miles) Alders Asbestos Mine, Glenville-Norton, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
North Carolina State Library Gift of "JYortk (^arolinti ^Ihranj 0 Digitized by the Internet Archive...in 2019 with funding from State Library of North Carolina https://archive.org/details/corundumperidoti01prat...OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT and JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS North Carolina State Library...Library Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. A. HOLMES, STATE GEOLOGIST VOLUME I CORUNDUM AND...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT AND JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 1905
Report (issue)
0, I y. 50 .r rVv, rv O. ^ NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE...BULLETIN NO. 50 The Vermiculite Deposits of North Carolina BY THOMAS G. MURDOCK AND CHARLES E. HUNTER...THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JASPER L. STUCKEY, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF...AND H. S. RANKIN, TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY RALEIGH 1946 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION...BULLETIN NO. 50 The Vermiculite Deposits of North Carolina BY THOMAS G. MURDOCK AND CHARLES E. HUNTER
Report (volume)
............................................. Sapphire or corundum gems ....... ..-.............................................................. North Carolina sapphires^......... ..........._.................... North Carolina..... .... ........................... ................. Macon County .............,.._, Sheffield mine .......... .......... .1...................... Clay County.. ........................................ Buck Creek or Cullakeenee mine.......................... Blue Ridge corundum tracts
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 (volume)
varieties.......---..-.-..-..-...-,.-..--..-.....Sapphire or gem corundum ........_...'...................of a gem..................................... Sapphire as a gem ......... ................_............the United States ......-.- -.....-...-...... Sapphire or gem corundum .--.-.----..--........--..............-...-...---------------...-.-.-.--.. North Carolina ______________________________________________........_.. Sapphire .............-................................_........... North Carolina ___..__._
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and...Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 Barrow County Arnold mine—1.6 km northeast of Statham, near the head­
Report (issue)
MODES OF OCCURRENCE, AND IMPORTANT DEPOSITS OF ASBESTOS IN THE UNITED STATES. By J. S. DILLER. INTRODUCTION...countries in the manufacture of asbestos goods, but in the mining of asbestos it has not until recently attained...even 5 per cent of it is well worthy of mention. Asbestos is reported to have been mined in the United States...United States six asbestos localities of more or less interest either to the asbestos industry or to science...localities in Vermont, Wyoming, and Arizona the asbestos is chrysotile, and at those in Georgia, Idaho
Report (volume)
Minneapolis. Mississippi.......Prof. E. N. Lowe, Jackson. Missouri..........Dr. H. A. Buehler, Rolla. Nebraska...State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G...... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota....Aluminum. See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville;...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Book (volume)
conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...59, 5 mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE, area gravels along adjoining Co. linerock crystal...crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside the Co. line in a Hornblendegneiss
Book (volume)
.......................................295 North Carolina ........................................................................................302 North Dakota ...............................................................................366 South Carolina ................................................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
Book (volume)
.......................................295 North Carolina ........................................................................................302 North Dakota ...............................................................................366 South Carolina ................................................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
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite VILLAGE...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I...Shelby Co. Hematite DUDLEYVILLE, Tallapoosa Co. Asbestos, with Corundum FORT PAYNE, DeKalb Co. Hematite
Report (volume)
......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908. Scott
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...Green Dk. Blue Olive Yellow Dk. Orange Brown Black Valley & Ridge mapping and structural geology Piedmont............................................. 170 County Index ...........................................from Washington and Bleck ley counties to Irwin county. Some minerals described herein have never been
Book
wonderful fossil insect imprint recently discovered in North Attleboro. How I wish I had GPS and a digital camera...They crop out of the ground from Roxbury south to Brockton and from Braintree west to Needham and Wellesley...futile effort to reopen the former Chipman silver mine in Newbury. A brief exploratory foray into the Berkshires...companies led to a survey of the former Davis copper mine in Rowe, but that effort was abandoned, according...They crop out of the ground from Roxbury south to Brockton and from Braintree west to Needham and Wellesley
Book
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...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
experience of a firm of shoe manufac­ turers of Brockton, Mass. Companies confronted by similar transportation...the parent factory at Brock­ ton. A third is in North Adams, Mass., 160 miles to the northwest. Each fac­...""""-""SAo,. We are miners and shippers of Crude Asbestos in any all grades at our world famous We MINES...cloths, and make all _ of Asbestos products. For anything you want in Asbestos, turn to K EASBEY & M..., U. S. A. 0WHrI of tile wortd', I ....d A,bem, Mine, for a greater commercial radio service. Eleven
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
""""-""SAo,. We are miners and shippers of Crude Asbestos in any all grades at our world famous We MINES...weave yams, fibres, spin Asbestos products. For anything you want in Asbestos, turn to K EASBEY & M..., U. S. A. 0WHrI of tile wortd', I ....d A,bem, Mine, for a greater commercial radio service. Eleven...to remain the largest radio station for for the North Adams plant are sent by very long. Already, work...pattern to a distance of more the 160-mile trip to North Adams in 10 than one mile from the center. The wires
Report (volume)
Annotated Bibliography of North American Geology, 1950 By MARJORIE HOOKER GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...in 1 2 5 7 17 291 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1950 BY MARJORIE HOOKER INTRODUCTION...lists publications concerning the geology of the North American continent, including adjacent islands,...in foreign journals are cited if they deal with North American localities or are of a general character...foreign areas. Articles by foreign' authors on North America are included regardless of place of publication;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
E. Lewis of the Diamond Bar Ranch, Los Angeles County, is producing beef and pork on a The gasoline... under a small head-from 0 to AGENTS WANTED the mine being 4,250 feet, and the mate- 4 feet, a booster...rJgbts of SOUle 1118 loss is small. In the Tamarack mine, modifying the alinement in conformity, a chine...the con­ W e are miners and shippers of Crude Asbestos in any that the cost of blasting, excavating,...lI pades at our world famous � met was and ment ASBESTOS MINES in Canada. We also carry BELL drains by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
.••.•.. 155,227 Leveler, corn planter, etc., Jackson & Irwin..... 155,311 Locomotive crank pinB. turning...3,879.-M. G. Crane, Newton, Middlesex 'J'he county, Mass., U. S . ImprovementB in automatic signal...155.249 3,810.-D. Whittemore. Boston. Suffolk county, MaBB .• Plow. gang. J. & G. Arm'trong .........25, 18i4. 3,872.-J. Behel. Rockford. Wluneb.go county. Ill,. U. S. Improvements on whifHetree hooks...called 3,873.-Wllllam Fost. GlenwllliamB. Halton county. Onto Improvements In a machine for tilling land
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
.••.•.. 155,227 Leveler, corn planter, etc., Jackson & Irwin..... 155,311 Locomotive crank pinB. turning...3,879.-M. G. Crane, Newton, Middlesex 'J'he county, Mass., U. S . ImprovementB in automatic signal...155.249 3,810.-D. Whittemore. Boston. Suffolk county, MaBB .• Plow. gang. J. & G. Arm'trong .........25, 18i4. 3,872.-J. Behel. Rockford. Wluneb.go county. Ill,. U. S. Improvements on whifHetree hooks...called 3,873.-Wllllam Fost. GlenwllliamB. Halton county. Onto Improvements In a machine for tilling land
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OPOGRAPHICALLY Staten Island belongs to New Jersey. On the north and west it is embraced within the arms of the neighboring...of Crude Asbestos in any quantity. We produce all grades at our world famous BELL ASBESTOS MINES in Canada...clothS, and make all sorts of Asbestos products. For anything you want in Asbestos, turn to KEASBEY & MATTISON...Established 1872. Owners of the world's largest Asbestos Mines S"IWW':S,lIlilQ;J5L.iiaiil1 W l l1lUllt...well-equipped a in made are centers of America. They Brockton, Mass., by the highest paid, skiDed shoemakers
Journal (issue)
Norton. First Vice-President 11945 Magnolia Blvd,. North Hollywood. CA 91607 Lee Hollinshead. Second Vice-President...Auditoriun1 29 July-I Aug.-Franklin, NC- \lacon County Fairgrounds 29 July-2 Aug.- Bancroft, Ontario,...modification. Stan has continued on page 18 become a ruby mine of importance. Because of its location close to...The Kazanjians are also well known for the four sapphire heads of presidents Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson...may be directed to the Kazanjian Foundation, 332 North Rodeo, Beverly Hills, California 90210. SEETHE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
YORK, U. 8. A. \ Model d ORANGE, MASS. CRUDE ASBESTOS FROM MINES R. H. MARTIN, OFFICE, ST.PAUL BUILDING...HAVE BEEN the MOTOR CYCLE MANUFACTURING CO., Brockton, Mass., U . S . A � ��: i> � ��l PRICE, ••...peel'. Fun circular on reasona bl e. PREPARED ASBESTOS FIBRE Scal�s All THE NEW MARSH MOTOR CYCLE
 
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