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Sillimanite from
Rowan 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 Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:416593
Long-form Identifier:1:3:416593:4
GUID (UUID V4):a3709e27-802a-4474-8108-4b52ec66e151
References
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Report (issue)
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,
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,...barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product silver, occurs in veins...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals...occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 23 24 25- U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:
Catalog/List
AGGLOMERATE: Agglomerate .........................Custer County, Colorado " Volcanic ...............Magnet Cove...Amphibolite ...........................Albemarle County, Virgi11ia " (Fayalitc-bcaring) .......Near Mcsaba...: ........San Juan County, Colorado " Porphyry ...................Boulder County, Colorado " S ........Anhydrite, crystalline ....................Lyon County, Ncvada ANORTHOSITE: Anort?, osite, gray ........Arkose-scc Sandstone " " ............... Essex County, New York dark brown ...Rochester, New York green
Report (issue)
IN NORTH CAROLINA INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND NATURAL RESOURCES ...agencies for the general welfare of the dtizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts basic and applied research...Resources, at Post Office Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687, or call (919) 733-2423. Jeffrey...Chief Geologist GOLD NORTH CAROLINA IN . by P. Albert Carpenter III NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INFORMATION...INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, U.S.A. Received July 21,...maximum width of about 300 km in North Carolina and South Carolina and narrows along strike to the northeast...map of crystalline Appalachians in North Carolina and South Carolina. See Fig. 2 for units in Charlotte...1968; OVERST~ET and BELL,1965b; GeologicMap of North Carolina, 1958; BVTLnR,J. 1%, unpubl. maps, 1961--1968;...given in text Crystalline Appalachians in North and South Carolina General Geologists working in the crystalline
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1980 OFFICERS President: J. Robert Butler Department of Geology University...University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Vice-President: Van Price, Jr. Savannah River Laboratory...Department of Earth Sciences University of North Carolina at Wilmington Wilmington, N.C. William S. Henika...Radiometric Dating in the Sauratown Mountains Area, North Carolina (P.D. Fullagar and J. R. Butler). . . . . .... 7 Metamorphic Gradients in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (J. P. Gregory). . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
North Carolina State Library jleigh ( f t NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN RALEIGH...RALEIGH 1958 G. CONRAD Norffe Carolir* St** NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN G. CONRAD...Jefferson F. J. BOLING Siler City H. C. BUCHAN, JR North Wilkesboro SCROOP W. ENLOE, JR Spruce Pine VOIT
Report (issue)
in Southern Mecklenburg County and Vicinity, North Carolina 'and South Carolina By Frederick Albert Wilson...IN SOUTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY AND VICINITY NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA By Frederick Albert Wilson...part of the Charlotte and Carolina slate belts in southern Mecklenburg County and vicinity to help interpret...as metavolcanic rocks* Gravity models of the Carolina slate belt Indicate that it is a synform containing...produced the metamorphic reaction K-feldspar -f sillimanite *» quartz -h muscovite reflected in the mineral
Book (volume)
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
Book (volume)
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
Book (volume)
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
Report (issue)
ore. Poncha Springs, Colo. 14. Tungsten ore, North Carolina 5 World Nonbauxite Aluminum Resources Excluding.......................................... South Carolina-Georgia-Alabama Kaolin Belt....... Argentina....Corporation................................... North American Coal Corporation.........................of: 1. Six major kaolin districts in the South Carolina-Georgia-Alabama kaolin belt.....................Chemical composition ranges of saprolite from Spokane County, Washington———————————————————————————— Characteristics
Report (issue)
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
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...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
Report (volume)
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
Report (volume)
U.S. Geological Survey published Bulletin 191, North American Geologic Formation Names, by F.B. Weeks...chronologically, is as follows: Weeks, F.B., 1902, North American geologic formation names: Bibliography... W.J., and Kopf, R.W., 1957, Geologic names of North America introduced in 1936-1955: U.S. Geological...Hansen, B.E., 1959, Index to the geologic names of North America: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1056-B...Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature, now called the North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature
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
Book (edition)
52 9a0e a oe eee 844: Sillimanite Group—Andalusite, Kyanite, Sillimanite, Dumortierite, Topaz. By...e 0.20 Turkey: Kalah. .. Gumuch. Samos..... USA. Virginia... Chester, Mass..| New York New York...Rabun County, Georgia; at Corundum Hill, Macon County, and at Webster, Jackson County, North Carolina;...Carolina; at Clover, York County, South Carolina; and in Gallatin County, Montana. A few other deposits in...reported in California, Colorado, and Idaho. In North Carolina and Georgia the corundum occurs in irregular
Book (volume)
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...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Journal (issue)
............................... .... . 603 NORTH CAROLINA GOLD RUSH OF 1842. BY JEFF HILL ............. And now in our twenty foot cruiser let us run north with the incoming tide to Croton Point. It is a...an- pleasant. Soon an officer of the Westchester County Police informs us that this portion of Croton Point...Point Park is reserved for groups of Westchester County boys for whom definite camping times have been...the cliff east of the public bathing beach on the north side of the point. There we find an ideal cruiser
Report (issue)
Bulletin 48 County Series No. 1 Outline of the Geology and Mineral Resources of Goochland County, Virginia...comprehensive study and detailed geologic map of Goochland County, as being rather representative of the east-central...Conservation Service. This report is the first in a "County Series" of reports, in which it is planned to discuss...discuss concisely certain feat ures of each county. The chief purpose of this report, and other similar...to give the teachers and other residents of the county reliable up-to-date information, in essentially
Book
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
Report (volume)
W. J., and Kopf, R. w., 1957, Geologic names of North America introduced in 1936-1955: U.S. Geological...643 p. SELECTION OF NAMES FOR THE LEXICON The North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature...classification and terminology throughout the continent of North America, formulates a code of recommended procedures...Formation) 1. Pleistocene (Wisconsinan) and Holocene 2. North Dakota (C) 3. Clayton, Lee, Moran, S. R., and Bickley...implications of late Quaternary upland silt in North Dakota: North Dakota Geol. Survey Misc. Ser., no. 54, p
Report (issue)
A293-A298 of this chapter. Numerous Federal, State, county, 1and local agencies and other organizations and...-_-_------------------North Carolina_-- _- __ --- -- - - --- - -- -- -- South Carolina ________ -_---_----------Georgia...____ _ Montana _____________________________ _ North Dakota _________________________ _ Oklahoma ___...cooperators ____________________________ _ 251 State, county, and local cooperators ______________ _ 251 Other...geochronologic studies in the Bodie district, Mono County, Calif., by M. L. Silberman and F. J. l{leinhampl
Book (edition)
the United States from samples found in South Carolina, but corundum mining did not start until 1871...identification from tl1e Laurens district, South Carolina. Systematic mining for corundum, as distinguished...varieties, was first started at Corundum Hill, North Carolina. The mineral has been found in many localities...Jackson, Macon, and Clay Counties, North Carolina; and Rabun County, Georgia. Between 1900 and 1905 the...Gallatin County, Montana, were also worked to a small extent. The Corundum Hill mine, Macon County, North
 
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