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Calcite from
Gahagan Mine, Hot Springs Barite Mining District, Madison County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gahagan Mine, Hot Springs Barite Mining District, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:340969
Long-form Identifier:1:3:340969:5
GUID (UUID V4):632777c6-da6a-462d-8dbb-df74f3b84748
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
4.0km (2.5 miles) ⓘBetts Sandy Bottom Property (Betts Mine; and Gillespie Mine; Rollins Chemical Company Mine; Includes The Nettie Mine; Martha Mine), Hot Springs Barite Mining District, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
11.7km (7.3 miles) ⓘUpper Shut-In Creek prospect, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
14.6km (9.1 miles) ⓘMine Ridge Prospects, Hot Springs Barite Mining District, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
18.3km (11.4 miles) ⓘWilliams Mine (Mims Barite Mine; Krebs Barite Mine), Del Rio Mining District, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
50.5km (31.4 miles) ⓘPoll Hill Mine, Celo, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
50.7km (31.5 miles) ⓘFanny Gouge Mine, Micaville, Celo, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
52.8km (32.8 miles) ⓘFelknor mine, White Pine Mining District, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA
56.5km (35.1 miles) ⓘFletcher Limestone Company Quarry, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA
56.6km (35.2 miles) ⓘGray Fossil site, Gray, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
58.0km (36.0 miles) ⓘBig Ridge Mine, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA
References
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Report (volume)
Annotated Bibliography and Index Map of Barite Deposits in United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...1019-C Annotated Bibliography and Index Map of Barite Deposits in United States By BASIL G. DEAN and...147 147 152 ILLUSTKATION PLATE 1. Index map of barite deposits in the United States________ In pocket...RESOURCES ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX MAP OF BARITE DEPOSITS IN THE UNITED STATES By BASIL G. DEAN...DEAN and DONALD A. BEOBST INTRODUCTION Barite is now ranked as an important non-metallic mineral commodity
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)
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,...molybdenum, tungsten, barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals...Cabarrus Barite occurs in quartz veins and associated with sulfide minerals in Orange, Madison, Cleveland
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striated horizontally. 6 "Drusy" Quartz, Missouri, USA Denise Bicknell Collection THE BACKBENDER'S GAZETTE...Herkimer and Montgomery Counties area of New York, USA. Austria, Switzerland, and Germany have produced...are common from alpine San Bernardino County, California, USA Denise Bicknell collection localities....known in Maine, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. Another famous North American locality...locality is along the north shore of Lake Superior near Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada where the amethyst crystals
Report (issue)
SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY Volume 40 The Carolina Terrane in Northeastern South Carolina: History of an...of Eocambrian Rocks (Ridgeway Gold Mine, South Carolina), Carolina Terrane Mervin J. Bartholomew, Amy...Neoproterozoic Intra-Arc Basin in the Carolina Terrane, South Carolina Kenneth A. Gillon, T. Langdon Mitchell...the Geology of the Ridgeway-Camden Area, South Carolina Piedmont Donald T. Secor, Jr., Chris A. Barker...SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY publication. Cover Photo: Overview of the North Pit at Ridgeway Gold Mine (Kennecott-Ridgeway
Journal (volume)
A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. Jenkins, Chief Geologist McK. Laizure, District W. Burling...Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas...Chas. V. Averill, District Mining Engineer San Francisco Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles Los Angeles...Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) San Francisco San Francisco TABLE OF CONTENTS Page DISTRICT REPORTS...REPORTS OF MINING ENGINEERS—— 7 Redding Field District 7 Sacramento Field District 7 San Francisco
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out a notice about the parking situation on the north side of our building. We do not own that area nor...sphalerite, quartz, or calcite from the American Tunnel at Gladstone a few miles north of Silverton. The American...relatively new portal into what was the old Sunnyside mine higher in the mountains under Lake Emma that use...now-ghost town of Eureka. During my visits, the mine was producing some gold along with the zinc, lead...other shops at Ouray or Silverton. Ouray, on the north side of the Mountains, has had several mineral shops
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Madagascar and in the Ambohitra igneous province in the north, which includes the Nosy Be archipelago. These large...Granulite facies K-feldspar– sapphire–Fapatite–calcite– phlogopite Red to purplish blue to gray sapphire...in the Isalo sedimentary basin: The Ilakaka mining district is located in the Isalo massif, between the...Ilakaka (Figs. 1 and 3). Other districts are found north of Ilakaka and near Bezaha, 120 km southwest of...no detailed geological information about the two mining areas and the ruby host rock is unknown. The Miarinarivo
Report (issue)
Quaternary and Upper Tertiary alluvium in the Phoenix North 30' X 60' quadrangle, Arizona: K.A. Dem.sey (from...Mystic mine, Maricopa County, Arizona: Dale G. Armstrong Clemontine mine area, Maricopa County, Arizona:...gold mine: Spencer and others (from Arizona Geology) Road log from Wickenburg to the Vulture mine: Joe...mineralization at the Yarnell deposit, Yavapai County, Arizona -- A field guide: M.A. Miller and J.D...between Wickenburg and 1-17 north of Phoenix . To reach Stop 1, take 1-17 north from Phoenix and exit onto
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to 5-km-wide structural corridor east of a major north-northwest–striking lineament and in spatial association...of the 330 to 327 Ma Pataz batholith; (2) at the mine scale, strong lithological controls of the vein...80 percent of the quartz veins are emplaced in north- to northwest-striking, eastdipping, brittle-ductile...electrum, and native gold, followed by barren calcite-dolomite-quartz veinlets; and (5) hydrothermal...mineralized fractures in the Pataz district. The predominant north- to northwest-striking, east- to northeast-dipping
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
paper Geochemical model of y18O of pedogenic calcite versus latitude and its application to Cretaceous...88003, USA b Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA Received...data base on the y18O composition of modern soil calcite, predicted isotopic values are calculated as a...Cretaceous palaeosol calcite as a function of palaeolatitude of the Western Interior of North America plot in...variables that affect oxygen isotopes in pedogenic calcite, as well as better Cretaceous terrestrial palaeoclimate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
overgrowth, with Mn-rich zones, possibly formed by hot fluids related to cooling melt sheet in the crater...several generations of coelestite, barite, K-feldpar, and sparry calcite. XRF core scanning analysis detected... 1113 © Meteoritical Society, 2004. Printed in USA. 1114 J. Smit et al. Fig. 1. Map showing the...the clasts were not welded together while still hot and plastic but were already cooled in seawater and...bar = 30 ”m. dl = dolomite; Qz = quartz; cal = calcite. The darker (Mgrich) cores are idiomorphically
Conference Proceedings
GSA~¼U¼ Denver, ANNUAL MEETING Colorado, & USA EXPOSITION PROGRAM '1 '1 '1 '1 Expert technical...Park, Colorado, 25-28 September ‱ Denver, Colorado USA 3 INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIFFRACTION DATA...by Kea Giles. 25-28 September ‱ Denver, Colorado USA 5 TOOLS INFLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY (011(0 01 0. MATHIAS...access to the Yellowstone hot spot and volcanic activities and many historic mining districts of the Rocky...visitors from Cuba who will join their European and North American colleagues for a symposium on the complex
Book
Adelaide University conventional and solution mining has not, to my knowledge, for allowing the use...Thematic Mapper storage receptacles via solution mining (Chapter 12). Chapter Mosaics site (https://zulu...Sabkha Yotvata, Israel.181 Basin and Range playas, USA.182 Salars of South America.187 Ephemeral stream...300 Lacustrine evaporites.301 Eocene Lake Gosuite, USA.304 Oligo-Miocene lake, Calatayud Basin, Spain.306...seals.716 Ordovician Red River Fm., Williston Basin, USA and Canada.716 Platform carbonates with saltern seals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the early date of ~31 Ma proposed by Lawver and Gahagan [7]. An initial opening via the Powell Basin (fully...much younger than the final 28.5 Ma of Lawver and Gahagan [7] for that event. In summary, the two alternative...of the Southern Ocean at ~25 Ma from Lawver and Gahagan [7], who suggest an open Drake Passage (DP) at...[43]b; [57]c,b [43]b; [57]c,b [58] Indian Ocean 737 north Kerguelen Plateau 738 south Kerguelen Plateau 744... Miocene Oligocene a 28 117 2 SW Tasman Sea 719 North H.A. Pfuhl, I.N. McCave / Earth and Planetary Science
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University, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, OR 97520, USA Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University... 1001 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Received 20 October 2006; received in revised form...Hyattville, HL—Hudson–Lander, LN—Linden, MS—Maverick Springs, MY—Mayworth, MB—Medicine Bow, N—Nowood, RC—Red...foreland basin in the Early Cretaceous of western North America. Refer to Fig. 1 for the location of the...breccias and conglomerates (Fig. 4A). At Maverick Springs, intraformational conglomerate is incised 5 to
Report (issue)
Geochemistry of the Otuk Formation in the Red Dog District, Northwestern Alaska Professional Paper 1795–B...Geochemistry of the Otuk Formation in the Red Dog District, Northwestern Alaska By Julie A. Dumoulin, Robert...geochemistry of the Otuk Formation in the Red Dog District, northwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional......................................19 Red Dog District.................................................Endicott Mountains Allochthon in area of the Red Dog Mine........................3 Diagram showing stratigraphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
02139, USA b Department of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA Received...into subduction zones delivers the sedimentary calcite to loci of metamorphic CO2 regeneration through...in failed rift and back-arc settings, e.g. the North Sea and Indonesia, which are dominated by CO2 ,...fact that neither the sedimentation of biogenic calcite nor its subduction and metamorphism are uniform...carbonate deposition The upper ocean is saturated with calcite and in low and middle latitudes aragonite [19]
Book (volume)
is dispersed, and (2) energy is always abating. Hot objects cool, but cool objects do not heat up spontaneously;...that establish the limits of life. It can be too hot or too cold; there is a comfortable warmth in between...Oldershaw, St. Albans, UK Quantifying Gemstone Mining ß 2005, Elsevier Ltd. All Rights Reserved. While...always been difficult to quantify. Much gemstone mining is carried out in remote places, with secrecy and...purchase a licence to mine; in other areas there is little regulation, and mining may be controlled by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3651 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, USA Louisiana State University, Department of Geology...LA 70803, USA University of Massachusetts, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA 01003, USA a r t i...(Shevenell et al., 2004) when a major deep seaway north of Australia was closed, major events altered global...South Tasman Rise and East Antarctica (Lawver and Gahagan, 2003). These late Eocene tectonic events altered...rotation of less than −5◩ of longitude (Lawver and Gahagan, 2003). Orbital parameters are the same in each
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, East Carolina University, Greemille, N.C. 27858. USA Received 3 March 1996; revised...southern edge of Africa into the South and finally the North Atlantic. In the case of Tethys seawater we have...the early Miocene (25-17 Ma ago) in the South and North Atlantic, as well as in the Tethys. During this...composition of Atlantic seawater during the late Miocene North Atlantic Bottom Water formation and its subsequent...with data of phosphate peloids from the North Atlantic (Carolina phosphogenie province). The phosphate
Report (issue)
orthogneiss and the Nutbush Creek fault zone. CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK November...WESTERN FLANK OF THE RALEIGH METAMORPHIC BELT, NORTH CAROLINA Edited by: Edward F. Stoddard Department of...and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8208 David E. Blake...Sciences University of North Carolina at Wilmington Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-3297 Copies of this...obtained from: North Carolina Geological Survey P.O. Box 27687 Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 (919)
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Laboratories, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA d Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M...A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA e Estación Regional del Noroeste (ERNO), Instituto de Geologı́a...complexes. Abbreviations: A, Arequipa massif; CA, Carolina and Goochland terranes; CM, Coats Land/Maudheim/Grunehogna...On the other hand, the birth of Iapetus between North and South America is thought to have occurred at...appears to have been located in or close to the North-South America suture and so provides crucial data
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Paleozoic Sedimentary Rocks in the Red Dog Zn-Pb-Ag District and Vicinity, Western Brooks Range, Alaska: Provenance...surrounding the large Zn-Pb-Ag deposits of the Red Dog district. Data for major elements, trace elements, and...only in the Kuna Formation, which in the Red Dog district comprises siliceous black shale and black chert...fundamental role in Zn-Pb mineralization of the Red Dog district. In our model, deposition and early lithification...e-mail, jfslack@usgs.gov *Present address: 12015 North Fairwood Drive, Spokane, Washington 99218. **Present
Report (chapter)
phosphogenesis and phosphorite concretion formation in the North Sea Tertiary Peter S. Balson Geological Society...phosphogenesis and phosphorite concretion formation in the North Sea Tertiary P E T E R S. B A L S O N British Geological...in marine sediments of the southern part of the North Sea Tertiary Basin reflects episodicity corresponding...the Atlantic Ocean and the relatively enclosed North Sea Basin. Similarly, during the Middle Miocene...influence. Elsewhere in the world, remote from the North Sea, phosphate-rich sediments also formed during
 
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