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Microcline from
Jones Mine, Zirconia (Tuxedo Station), Zirconia Pegmatite Mining District, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Zircon6 photos of Microcline associated with Zircon at this locality.
Quartz3 photos of Microcline associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Jones Mine, Zirconia (Tuxedo Station), Zirconia Pegmatite Mining District, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:361966
Long-form Identifier:1:3:361966:7
GUID (UUID V4):dafced1d-dc9b-46e5-a307-952ec88e54ab
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
1.8km (1.1 miles) Freeman Mine, Tuxedo, Zirconia Pegmatite Mining District, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Zirconia Mine, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA
14.9km (9.3 miles) Hendersonville Quarry, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA
24.2km (15.1 miles) Fletcher Limestone Company Quarry, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) Paris Mountain Granite Company Quarry, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA
52.9km (32.8 miles) Liberty Quarry (Beverly Quarry), Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
56.2km (34.9 miles) Big Ridge Mine, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA
62.5km (38.8 miles) Goldsmith Mine, Democrat, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
64.5km (40.1 miles) Meadows Mine, Enoree Vermiculite Mining District, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA
66.4km (41.3 miles) Mason No. 2 Mine, Enoree Vermiculite Mining District, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA
References
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.'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North CarOlina Department of Natural Resources and Community...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 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist FRONT
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Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist i ...FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian Institution (slide...viable mineral collecting sites through­ out North Carolina. Some sites are commercially operated during
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09:35 10 October 2014 Helen Hunt Falls, El Paso County, Colorado O wing to its diverse paragenesis and...zircon crystals from Helen Hunt Falls, El Paso County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...quartz specimen from Helen Hunt Falls, El Paso County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, John Smolski photo...syenite in the Litchfield-Gardiner area, Kennebec County (King and Foord 1994). Zircon crystals to 2.5 cm...Mineville, Essex County, and crystallized specimens have been collected at Deer Hill, Orange County, and at Fine
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TRANSYLVANIA AND HENDERSON COUNTIES, NORTH CAROLINA, AND GREENVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA Carolina Geological...Meeting October 4-6, 2019 Travelers Rest, South Carolina Leaders: John M. Garihan, Scott Brame, and Cameron...coordinators: Tyler Clark and William A. Ranson Carolina Geological Society 2019 Board of Directors President...Merschat - USGS Vice-President Robby Morrow - South Carolina Geological Survey Secretary Treasurer Timothy...State Forest, NC with exposures of Henderson Gneiss. Carolina Geological Society Field Trip October
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large variety of minerals and gemstones in North Carolina annually attracts thousands of collectors to...the world. Some Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina T H E C O L L E C T I N G L O C A L I T I E...McKenzie's publication Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina: Information Circular 24 (1978). For a more...locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can be ordered from the North Carolina Department...27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can
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South Carolina and North Carolina Guidebook for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Carolina Geological...Muthukrishnan, James L. Bridgeman, and Tom Goforth CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2012 FIELD TRIP Geologic Studies...Ridge, South Carolina and North Carolina October 12-14, 2012 Greenville, South Carolina Guidebook for...for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Carolina Geological Society 73rd Annual Meeting Founded at Furman...Ranson Carolina Geological Society Board of Directors 2012 President Scott Howard South Carolina Geological
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The Crystalline Rocks of South Carolina By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces of South Carolina UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...and Precambrian(?) age_______________________ Carolina slate belt_________________________________________...Quartzite_________________________________________ Quartz-microcline gneiss____________________________ Intrusive...gneiss and migmatite__ __ _____________ __ __ ___ Henderson Gneiss_________________________________ Biotite
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SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY Volume 43 S.C. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES 2001 Geology of the Inner Piedmont...northwestern South Carolina SPECIAL ISSUE Devoted to the 2001 Field Trip of the Carolina Geological Society...as part of water supply for Greenville, South Carolina. Reservoir capacity is 9,522,000,000 gallons.... Photograph by Jack Garihan ii CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2001 Officers President Kevin Stewart Vice-President...iii DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY VOLUME 43 2001 JOHN M. GARIHAN, WILLIAM
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it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...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.
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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
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French S. Hiscox A. Hodgkinson D. Inkersole B. Jones E. Bruton M. Carr L. Cole P. Daly N. Deeks A.E...Chisholm, M.A., F.G. A. H. J. Milledge, D.Sc. G. H. Jones, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.G.A. M. Font-Altaba, D.Sc. M. Virkkunen...et al. was said to have originated in the Wessel mine near Hotazel by Karuman, N. Cape Province, S. Africa...gem areas have dried up as there is very little mining activity and practically nothing coming through...519 Fig. 4. Young and old female members of the mining family washing the gravel. Fig. 5. A group of
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....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................. North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely
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photographers March-April: Rutile on quartz, North Carolina; Louis Perloff photographer May-June: Barite...July-August: Turquoise crystals on quartz, Lynch Station, Virginia; John C. Medici photographer September-October:...Bald Knob Manganese Deposit, Allegheny County, North Carolina, W. B . Sim­ mons, Jr., 130 Barite, 114...227 Breccia, 245 Brown, H . S., Geology of North Carolina, 58 Brush, G . J . , 190 Brushite, 190 Bustamite...Callahan, J . , Pegmatites and Alaskites of North Carolina, 64 Campbell, T. J . , Mineral Localities
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HOUSE, LOT 110, 15th DJST., DeKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA, SHOWING PEGMATITE DIKE IN MICA SCHIS'.r. FRONTISPIECE...and a second detailing the nature of the rock pegmatite and the uses, values, and the like, of its most...the re-port's preparation. s. L. :Department of Mining and Geology, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. GALPIN.............................................. . Carolina gneiss .........................................LIS'J' OF ILLUSTRATIONS CHAPTER I. iii iv PEGMATITE . . . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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.................................... 34 Keyser-Jones tract.............................................sandstone on Beaver Creek, near lead prospect; B, Pegmatite and granite intruding schist.............. 76........... 10 2. Cross section and plan of Olive mine............................ 30 3. Distribution...illustrating condition which would exist if the north fault passed vertically but at an angle to the strike...strike of the fold.. Magnetite prospects on Keyser-Jones tract, southwest of Castell... Distribution of magnetite
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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...Granite and Pegmatite Pegmatite Deposits 45 Pegmatite Districts 46 Spruce Pine District 46 Woodlawn District
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............. The Three Kids manganese district, Clark County, Nev., by C. B. Hunt, V. E. McKelvey, and...deposits of the Stampede Creek area, Kantishna district, Alaska, by D. E. White (published in June 1943).............<...... The Coso quicksilver district, Inyo County, Calif., by C. P. Ross and R. G. Yates....deposits in the Artillery Mountains region,' Mohave County, Ariz., by S. G. Lasky and B. N. Webber..........39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Page Outline map of the Carolina tin-spodumene belt, showing locations of tin deposits
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Jobbins, B.Sc., F.G.A. A. E. Farn, F.G.A. G. H. Jones, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.G.A. M. Font-Altaba, D.Sc. J. M... THE TOURMALINES OF THE PALA VALLEY, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. By M. J. O'DONOGHUE, M.A.,...one of the owners of several mines in the Pala District. He very kindly invited me to see something of...of tourmaline. Pala is in north-west San Diego County, about 45 miles north of San Diego and 80 miles...Mountain, all over 1500 feet. Pegmatites in the Pala district occupy an area of about 13 square miles; on Queen
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Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...granodiorite of Spruce Pine district-_____ ________________________ Pegmatite. __________________________
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arawak and North Borneo _________________ _ Sarawak _____________________________ _ North BorneO----...________ _ North Island_____ ------------- ________ _ Antarctica ________________________________ _ North Am...124 126 127 130 Monazite localities-Continued North America-Continued United States of America-Continued...Perce Counties __________ _ Idaho CountY-----------------Valley CountY-----------------Adams, Payette,...and Gem Counties ________________________ _ Boise County ___ --------------Ada, Owyhee, Elmore, and Custer
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............................................ Pegmatite ...................................................... 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County.............................................. 65 Benson and Baldwin station .............................. 65 Texas area.....statement....................................... 66 Jones Falls quarries ..................................... Chesterfield County (south of James River)................ Henrico County (north of James River).
 
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