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Byssolite from
Alexander County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Amphibole Supergroup var: Byssolite
Formula:AX2Z5((Si,Al,Ti)8O22)(OH,F,Cl,O)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Byssolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:358497
Long-form Identifier:1:3:358497:2
GUID (UUID V4):5fa1f3e2-e31c-4ee1-8cad-1a09cb8b7682
References
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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...CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all tributary branches
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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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
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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...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...n t h e e a r l y 1840's i n b o t h N o r t h Carolina and Georgia. C r y s t a l s were recovered f
Journal (issue)
Uses. By Peter Zodac.................. 35 Herkimer County Quartz Crystals. By D. H. Newland..................... ·-······· 44 The Real Beauty of Herkimer County Quartz Crystals. By W. J. Hollister..............which are said to be used for cooling the hands. In North America, the two most famous localities for rock...found in Japan. ROCKS and MINERALS 36 HERKIMER COUNTY QUARTZ CRYSTALS By D. H. NEWLAND, State Geologist...Geologist Albany, N. Y. Many places in Herkimer County, N. Y., supply or have supplied in the past great quantities
Report (volume)
Tremolite (hexagonite, calamite, chromtremolite) Byssolite Inosilicates Continued Amphiboles Continued Actinolite...are represented either by a regional name (as a county) that does not cover too wide an area, or by the...Sussex and Passaic Counties, N. J., and Orange County, N. Y.; Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland, Northumberland...luminescence of strength indicated Weak Renfrew County, Ontario. Bovey Tracey, England. Blagodat, India...Prefecture, Japan. Greenwood, Maine_. St. Lawrence County, N. Y. Odegaard, Norway. _. Kola Peninsula, Russia
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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
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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
Journal (issue)
VOLCANOES ÎN YUMA , Some CRYSTALLIZED Micas of North CAROLINA , AN INTERESTING CALIFORNIA CAVERN , NEWS AND...Olear cleavages ) Consloopyrite on pear Herkimer County Quartz cotrichte Topaz spar . Brown Tourmaline...( modified ) Rabeme Blue Bartte Chabazite , North Carolina Quartzës . Colemanie , Brookite . Stilbite...FOOTE , WARREN M . FOOTE , Manager . 1224 - 26 - 28 NORTH FORTY - FIRST ST . PHILADELPHIA , PA , NO TEXT...these mud volcanoes in the plain, twelve miles north of the base of the mountains. These are active only
brugnatellite 53 anglesite 58, 58 anhydrite 55 byssolite 100 cabrerite 70, 73 ankerite 44, 45 diopside... The most famous deposits of silver are in the North Mexico, American continent, the western United...suppliers are, in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California)...and massive pyrite is found at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York. This very widespread mineral is to be...calcite and chalcopyrite at Rossie, St Lawrence County, New York. It is found in many other localities
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brookite 34 brucite 36, 37 brugnatellite 53 byssolite 100 cabrerite 70, 73 cainite 62 calamine 40, 87...The most famous deposits of silver are in the North Mexico, Plates of gold on quartzite. California...suppliers are, in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California)...massive pyrite is found at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York. This very widespread mineral is to be...calcite and chalcopyrite at Rossie, St Lawrence County, New York. It is found in many other localities
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98 brookite 34 brucite 36, 37 brugnatellite 53 byssolite 100 cabrerite 70, 73 cainite62 calamine 40, 87... The most famous deposits of silver are in the North American continent, in various regions of Mexico...and massive pyrite is found at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York. This very widespread mineral is to be...calcite and chalcopyrite at Rossie, St Lawrence County, New York. It is found in many other localities...States; it is however, :>und at Hollister, Benito County, California. The ompact variety is·found at Gerrei
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Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Creek area, Last Chance Mining District, Plumas County, California. Axis, volume 1, number 1, pages 1–30...beauty of the city. He dined with the Emperor Alexander I and was feted by the Russian nobility. After...purchases were from the sale of the collection of Sir Alexander Crichton FRS, MD, FRCS, FLS, FGS (1763–1856)....polymathic Crichton was physician to Emperor Alexander of Russia from 1803 to 1814, and was well respected
Book (volume)
beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts,
Book (edition)
GEMSTONES $CS of NORTH AMERICA . In Two Volumes $30.00 GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes ...REINHOLD BOOK / '- ✓ ( ..., ■ GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes Volume II T ourmaline...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...lnternatiunal, Inc. F RO. Tl!>PI£CE GEMSTONES of NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes Volume II John Sinkankas...publication of the first volume of Gemstones of North America in 1959 so much has transpired that the
Journal (issue)
1 inch in diameter) blackened by actinolite (byssolite) and chlorite inclusions. The rain was also responsible...“doorway” to be opened to the left (west) of this byssolite region. Across the top of this doorway, about...as an advisor, and ended up experiencing one of North America’s greatest pegmatite tourmaline discoveries...“Some of the finest mineral specimens ever found in North America have come from a small mine in desolate...museum quality.” (Szenics, 1967) Spruce Peak, King County, Washington, 1977 Beautiful pyrite and quartz specimens
Report (volume)
DIRECTOR & BULLETIN 545 ^ BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY FOR 1912 WITH SUBJECT INDEX BY..._________________. 170 150676 i . BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOIOGY FOR 1912, WITH SUBJECT INDEX. By...NICKL.ES. INTRODUCTION. r The bibliography of North American geology, including paleontology, petrology...publications bearing on the geology of the Continent of North America and adjoining islands, also Panama and the...the material for the press. The bibliography of North American geology is comprised in the following bulletins
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NORTInHIwo AME A Volumes John Sinkankas _ GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes ® Volume I Gemstones, of...of all the mineral treasures to be found in North America, are perhaps the most fascinating—and the...worthy of the name. Some, like the emeralds of North Carolina, the colorful and fabulous tourmalines and...above all, easily read and understood, GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA, Volumes I and II, will be welcomed as a...abroad are becoming so scarce and expensive that North America has developed into a major exporter rather
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New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Published in the USA by Chapman and Hall 29 West 35th Street, New York...by which atoms or ions are linked together. byssolite fibres fibres of a mineral belonging to the actinolitetremolite...show very well-developed crystal forms as in the byssolite fibres in demantoid garnet. Many minerals which...such as oil (e.g. in some fluorite from Illinois, USA). Among the large number of gases are methane, ethane...demantoid shows the diagnostic inclusions of byssolite fibres which grow from a chromite crystal. Grossular
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and also ancient The second locality is farther north The Diamond 27 between the Mahanadi and Godavari...Greek miners were employed there in the reign of Alexander the Great; emeralds presented to Cleopatra, ...notable locality at Stony Point Alexander County, North Carolina, but the supply at this place seems...occurring associated with the emerald beryl in North Carolina. "Emerald-copper" is dioptase, the beautiful...bed and the turgid streams of mid- land that North America, from almost anywhere is the habitat of
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CUTTING-A Lapidary's Manual, 2nd Ed. GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA GEMSTONES AND MINERALSHow and Where to Find...YORK LONDON D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY, INC. 120 Alexander St., Princeton, New Jersey (Principal Office)...at the outstanding shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...for whom the emerald-green spodumen e from North Carolina, hicldenite) is named; George Frederick Kunz...crystals, 5" by 4", Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from one face
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TING—A GEMSTONES PROSPECTING OF Lapidary’s NORTH FOR Manual, 2nd ed. AMERICA GEMSTONES AND...the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections... for whom the emerald-green spodumene from North Carolina, hiddenite, is named; George Frederick Kunz...crystals, 5” by 4”, lron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from one face...the San Pedro Mine, Hiriart Hill, Pala, San Diego County, California, showing the many steps and offsets
Journal (issue)
NUMBER 3 $15 KRISTALLE Wayne & Dona Leicht 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)...François Lietard, Minéraux de Collection Ross Lillie, North Star Minerals Guanghua Liu, AAA Minerals International...com) 13100 Spring St. Baldwin Park, California, USA 91706 Some personal observations, ruminations, reflections...1960s, in a single Quonset hut building at the Pima County Fairgrounds south of the city. The show has evolved...University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721–0077 USA marcus@mineralzone.com Robert T. Downs Department
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the outstanding sho,vs of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...crystals, 5" by 4", Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYST AL GROWTH 73 light from one...replacing glauberite crystal; Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona; size 2" by 2". Top center: calcite replacing...twins of aragonite, 3" by 2¼"; Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado. Top right: Kaolinite after orthoclase...replacing marine shell; New Port Richey, Pinellas County, Florida. Bottom left: talc replacing enstatite
 
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