 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEMS AND GEM MINERALS OF NORTH CAROLINA* Josnrn HvoB Pnerr North Carolina is one of the more notable...material. The variety of gem minerals found in North Carolina is probably greater than in any other state...Drauor.rt Twelve diamonds have been found in North Carolina, and there are also extensive deposits of itacolumite...westernPiedmont section of the state, and in Franklin County on the eastern edge of the Piedmont. They have...localities. Three diamonds have been found in Burke County, two of which were from near the "Ford of Brindletown |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SOCIETY OF AMEKICA THE HIDDENITE OCCURRENCE NORTH CAROLINA 305 IN S. C. DavrnsoN, Haraard Uniuersity...of hiddenite was made in 1829 near Stony Point, Alexander County, N. C. Specimensof this emerald green...green gem mineral, peculiar to North Carolina, were sent by Mr. W. E. Hidden to Dr. J. Lawrence Smith of...previouslv. is situated in Alexander County in the Piedmont belt of North Carolina, about fifteen miles northwest...fifteen feet l In U.S.G.S. Bulleti.n74,Mineralsof North Carolina,by F, A. Genththereis a complete list of the |  | | Report (issue) | | Dolomite CaMg(CO3 )2 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point...two series, with ankerite and with kutnohorite. Dolomite group. Occurrence: Formed by diagenesis or hydrothermal...the USA, in New York, from Lockport, Niagara Co., eastward to Walworth, Wayne Co.; at Stony Point, Alexander...Alexander Co., North Carolina; in the Mississippi Valley region, in the Tri-State district, at Joplin,...calcite, rhodochrosite, siderite, smithsonite, and dolomite, with discussion of some aspects of the stereochemistry |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WILLIAM DIVISION JASPER P. OF L. SAUNDERS, MINERAL...RESOURCES GEOLOGIST Circular 16 LOCALITIES NORTH OF CAROLINA BY JAMES F. CONLEY Doc NC DENR LIBRARY...... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MINERAL COLLECTING IN NORTH CAROLINA , . . . . # . WHERE TO COLLECT f ... f ......THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY COUNTIES . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ......... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 7 Emerald, Hiddenite and Associated Minerals |  | | Report (issue) | | 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 | | | Report (issue) | | .'.' .., 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | flat base and a faceted top terminating in a low point, was invented and used for cutting large diamonds...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great |  | | Journal (issue) | | awards, and future and past mineral symposia in the USA. The speaker program for the Tucson Symposium (Feb... Country Inn & Suites by Carlson 705 North Freeway, just north of St. Marys Road and west of I-10, Tucson...for minerals and mineral lovers, for me, Greenlee County was the Holy Grail. A serendipitous visit to a...NM, as the Manager of Things for mindat.org. Alexander G. Schauss A visit to the American Museum of Natural...Tschernichite, Neer Road, Goble, Columbia Co., Oregon, USA, Fov: 3.5 mm , Photo by Rudy Tschernich It is with |  | | Report (chapter) | | Delaware Georgia Massachusetts Maryland Maine North Carolina New Jersey NH NY PA PQ RI SC TN VA VT New...Province of Quebec, Canada Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Virginia Vermont Northern Appalachians...complex Chain Lakes massif Canaan Mountain Dutchess County Elmore Mountain Exeter pluton Green Mountain massif...Charlotte belt Corbin gneiss complex Cherokee, NC Carolina slate belt Ducktown, TN Edgemoor granite Elkhatchee...Wenlock metamorphism in the northern Appalachians, USA. Abbreviations are defined in Table 1. The stippled |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Upward through overlying Cumberland Head and Stony Point formations there is an increasing proportion...calcareous shale. Small-scale current bedding in the Stony Point formation indicates currents from southwest....inclusions (up to 50 feet long) of limestone, dolomite, dolomitic quartz siltstone, sandstone, coarse...breccia 68 Beans Point, west Milton 69 Southern St. Albans Point, including Hathaway Point 69 Islands in...Albans 72 Knight Island, east North Hero 73 Butler Island, east North Hero 73 Thin sections of Hathaway |  | | Report (issue) | | RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell and William F. Giannini...RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell and William F. Giannini...RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell and William F. Giannini...ferroan dolomite and 13. 14. 15. 16. talc l0 PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OI' ALBEMARLE COUNTY. VIRGINIA...references to various minerals found in Albemarle County are found in both published and unpublished geological |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Minerals of Albemarle County, Virginia PART I: NATIVE ELEMENTS, SULFIDES, HALIDES, AND OXIDES By...University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. Albemarle County is near the center of Class I. Native elements...edge of the n ° t been found in Albermarle County, county follows the crest of the Blue Ridge but according..., and Jones (1932), the gathe James River. The county seat is Char- lena which occurs in the old Faber...to various Albe- w e s t e r n Mountain, 3 marie County minerals have appeared in - Graphite. Specimens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | publica tion of the mineral localities in Albe marle County by Mitchell and Bland (1963, 1964a, 1964b). Class...rhombohedral terminations are associated with pyrite and dolomite in a vein south of Charlottesville, at the in...Union. Clear calcite also occurs with ferroan dolomite in quartz veins in the slate quar ry at Esmont...and U. S. Interstate 64. 3. DOLOMITE. Small saddle-shaped crystals of dolomite are associated with calcite...coatings of aragonite occur on slate at the Stony 270 Point iron-copper mine. Similar arago nite is found |  | | Book (edition) | | LOCALITIES NORTH CAROLINA, BEING CHAPTER I, OP THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. Reprinted...OF E. M. UZZELL RALEIGH, N. C. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CHROLINS. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It has F...data have been embodied. Sev- GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 4 eral causes have been operative in giving...valuable of Catawba and Burke, of list we owe Alexander and elsewhere. quartzes, he has (juartz crystals...mineral localities and minerals in Iredell and Alexander, and much of counties And the interest and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DEPOSIT IN ALEXANDER COUNTY' NORTH CAROLINA €nanr,Bs Par.lcnr, S. C. DavrpsoN, ANDE. A. GoneNSoN, Haruard...Township, Alexander 280 JOURNAL MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMEMCA 28r Co. The name Stony Point later appears...this name is still used. The mine is about a mile north of the station which is 15 miles northwest from...associatedminerals are found in many other localities in Alexander County in the near vicinity of the hiddenite mine... Hrpporqrrr "CAVrrrES." From the mineralogical point of view the greatest interest in this deposit surrounds |  | | Book (edition) | | Geology of North Carolina. QE 147 .A22 1866-1887 Pt.2 V.2 Chap.1 Digitized by the Internet Archive...org/details/mineralsminerall01 nort n o o / Geology of North Carolina. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It F. A. GENTH...brought to a Pi 7 ? f 3 : GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA. 2 many new and rare species. The Mica veins...years a great ties and minerals in Iredell and Alexander, and and value T of the mineral lists for those...especial interest tion of the supposed diopside of Alexander, new variety of spodumene, and is is his |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................... GEM HUNTING IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. By B. M . Brehm .................................................... CHICAGO UNDERLAID BY DOLOMITE ........................................ CLUBS...Albite along with fine green Amazonite. North and South Carolina rewarded him with a long list of fine...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA By B. M. BREHM 990 Dar:ia N.E.• Warren, O. My first trip to North Carolina in 1941...and most discouraging. To prove my point go with me to North Carolina again this year, 1942, in the month |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology of the Du Noir Area Fremont County Wyomin By WILLIAM R. KEEFER SHORTER CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL...Ordovician system. ______________________ Bighorn dolomite. ___________ _________ Devonian system. ________________________..._____ 164 Gallatin limestone and Bighorn dolomite on north side of Warm Spring Canyon.___________________________..._________ 187 View of lower Eocene rocks along north side of Wind River southeast of Dubois____________________________..._______________________________________ 196 Mudflow at north end of Table Mountain_____---__------_--------- |  | | Report (volume) | | ................................ ....... 23 Dolomite -...---..---_...---.'-...._..--........ ........From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400 at 14.5°, corrected...vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific gravity, 6.644 at 20°. Probably...impurities. From the Missouri mine, Halls Valley, Park County, Colo. Analyses, by Hillebrand, of three different |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA PART I I : CARBONATES, SULFATES, AND PHOSPHATES By R. S. MITCHELL...crosvery similar white ferroan dolomite ses the eastern edge of the county. White rhombohedrons, are embedded...form of a large precipice overhanging the the Stony Point iron-copper mine. Taze- James River near its...from the Esmont James near Warminster in Nelson County. However, marble does occur in Alquarry are siderite... Calette. Calcite occurs in the Catoc- bemarle County near Howardsville (Furtin greenstone, and associated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some, such as dolomite, are made up...the littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...visually. Muscovite crystals are monoclinic with point group 2/m. They are tabular to columnar, are striated...from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This is typical of the specimens...Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Barbara Muntyan specimen, Jeff Scovil |  | | Journal (issue) | | world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite, apatite, ferroan dolomite, erythrite...pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry-Esmont dolomite. limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite, siderite...crystals, muscovite crystals, tourmaline AMHERST COUNTY Crystals of goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite; |  | | Book (edition) | | plains have been buried deep under debris brought north by glaciers or washed down down from have been...Diamonds have been found in the United way from North Carolina to California and from Wisconsin. Some are...are found in the rock in which spare North America. States, all the Georgia to they were created by volcanic...Locations place Table North Carolina and Georgia Diamond Locations E: NORTH CAROLINA weight plac« date...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 |  | | 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 |
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