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Sillimanite from
Polk County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Sillimanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sillimanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Polk County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:416550
Long-form Identifier:1:3:416550:7
GUID (UUID V4):04e5d927-e74a-4c0c-b9ea-4d06e75b0b79
Localities for Sillimanite in this Region
Unnamed Marble occurrence [1], Polk County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Cultivation of Winegrapes in Polk, Henderson and Buncombe Counties, NC Carolina Geological Society – Guidebook...Hendersonville, North Carolina Field Trip Leaders: Joseph Forrest, Rick Wooten, Bart Cattanach Carolina Geological...Critical Role in the Cultivation of Winegrapes in Polk, Henderson and Buncombe Counties, NC Guidebook...site at 3400 feet on the Blue Ridge escarpment. Carolina Geological Society 2022 Board of Directors President...Engineering Secretary Cheryl Waters-Tormey - Western Carolina University Treasurer Jeff Chaumba - UNC Pembroke
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Report (issue)
the Broad River in the western Piedmont of South Carolina. by Theobald, P. K. U. S. Geological Survey. Reports...River in the western Piedmont of South Carolina and North Carolina by Paul K. Theobald, Jr. PRELIMINARY...between Savannah and Catawba Rivers, South Carolina and North Carolina. 2. Map • n • • • • • ********...River-Catawba River district, South Carolina and North Carolina . (Numbers follow in sequence frau...sampled along Tnicketty Creels, Cherokee County and Spartanburg County, S.C. 3 27. Descriptions of sediments
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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................ ; ....................... 105 Sillimanite ......................................................................................... 170 County Index ...........................................from Washington and Bleck ley counties to Irwin county. Some minerals described herein have never been
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and sections of parts of Hillsborough, Pasco, and Polk Counties, Florida 2. Map of west-central Florida...core holes in Hillsborough County. _______ Section through core holes in Polk and Pasco Counties ._-__...log of Davison Chemical Corp. churn-drilled well, Polk County____^________-_____-__-_ 8. Ranges of petrographic...characters of formations in Davison Chemical Corp. well, Polk County_________-__________ 9. -Ternary diagram of...16. Sections through core holes in Hillsborough County. _____ Page 3 11 14 15 ; > 16 ! » 17 18 ^
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depositional and postdepositional histories of the North 22 Carolina and Florida phosphorite deposits 5-23. Diagrams...major phosphogenic province that extended from North Carolina into the Florida Peninsula. Although phosphate...Pliocene deposits are known only from North Carolina, southern South Carolina and northern Georgia, southern...was initially confined to high-grade deposits in Polk and Hillsborough Counties. This mining district...even further south into DeSoto County. Two mines have been developed in north Florida. The phosphatic sediments
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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 0.8...[University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 Barrow County Arnold mine—1.6 km northeast of Statham, near the
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Geology with a focus on the Columbus Promontory Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip November...Geology with a focus on the Columbus Promontory Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip November...Leaders: Timothy L. Davis and Gregory M. Yanagihara CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1992-1 993 OFFICERS Stephen...Lewis Paul G.Nystrom Van Price, Jr. Contributors Carolina Geological Society 1993 Field Trip Guidebook G...Present address: North Carolina Geological Survey P. 0. Box 27687 Raleigh, North Carolina 2761 1-7687 Paul
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500-mile-long state situated mainly between 35° and 36.6° North latitude and bounded on the west by the Mississippi...left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 14:35 04 June 2016 New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group...representative of a garnet from Deshong’s quarry, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, that can barely be considered almandine...minerals include staurolite, kyanite, andalusite, sillimanite, chlorite, muscovite, biotite, and the plagioclase...found at several mines near Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, particularly the Standpipe Hill quarry...collected at Mount Apatite near Auburn, Androscoggin County; and the Bumpus quarry, ROCKS & MINERALS 244-253
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the Charlotte 1° X 2° Quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina The Conterminous United States...the Charlotte 1° X 2 ° Quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina By J. E. Gair, Richard Goldsmith,...Mines and mineral resources-North Carolina-Charlotte Region. South Carolina. I. Gair, Jacob Eugene, 1922-...the Charlotte 1 °X2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina Schematic diagram for estimating mineral-resource...the Charlotte 1 o x 2° Quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina By J. E. Gair, Richard Goldsmith,
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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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.'.' .., 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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chartoflithologic units in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... 31 9. Modal analyses of felsic igneous rocks north of the Brevard fault zone . . . . . . . . . . ....limestone, bauxite, and shale deposits of Floyd and Polk Counties; barite, ocher, iron and manganese deposits...Austell, Sand Hill, Kennesaw and Dallas gneisses north of the Brevard zone. The oldest rocks present in...rocks that have many similarities to lithologies north 1 To produce a geologic map of an area as large
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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....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
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Hartselle sandstone, which crops out in Jefferson County in the northeastern suburbs of Birmingham, has...brown iron ore mines, near Woodstock station, Bibb County, is a bed of sand that is also used in steel foundries...Montgomery Counties [Ark.]: Ark .. Geol. Survey County Mineral Rept. 3, p. 66-74, 87-90. Novaculite is...silica deposits in Fremont County also yield ganister. Analysis of El Paso County sand is given. Averill...Nortonville, Contra Costa County. Dune sands at Moss Beach, Monterey County, yield high-quality white
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......... 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
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Each article was read, annotated, and indexed by county, subject, and geological age where applicable....geographic area of the subject was. greater than a county, subdivisions of the state, based upon physiographic...a , Emory G e o r fl I a iii University, NORTH\_jFLOYD Figure 1. Subdivisions of Georgia used...Published by the North Carolina Academy of Science from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. FLORIDA GEOL. SURVEY...Arbor, Michigan. SO UTH CAROLINA ACAD. SCI. BULL. Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Scien ce. Published
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bibliography is modeled after the Bibliography of North American Geology which is published annually and...References were read, annotated, and indexed·. by county, subject, and geological age. In many entries a...a portion of the state larger than a county is discussed, so that larger subdivisions of the state are... are outlined in Fig. 1. Each index entry to a county or one of the larger subdivisions is also referred...Published by the Society from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. EMORY UNIV. QUARTERLY. Emory University Quarterly
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Ham p:;hire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Peru1Sylvania...Clapp's Museum Publications; not indexed here) North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Mineral Resources 253 Education Building Raleigh, North Carolina r:). 7 /.i..-0 J, / V _,,Ohio Division of... South Carolina Division of Geology State Development Board Box 927 Columbia, South Carolina :,J.. ...4 Report on the geology of (See also B. 28) 13 north-eastern Alabama and adjacent portions of Georgia
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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...Tennessee: Unicoi, Greene, Cocke, Sevier, Blount, Monroe, Polk N o r t h C a r o l i n a : B u r k e , M c D o
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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
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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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