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Gold from
Alleghany County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Comments:Reported from area placers.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alleghany County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:555773
Long-form Identifier:1:3:555773:8
GUID (UUID V4):45ae7030-2cd6-46b5-aa44-9db3f7156bb9
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...Gaston, Lincoln From Mr. •also also G. B. boring gold region. for notes of the mica mining And to Prof...within a few days , so that the list of North Carolina mineral species has been very considerably
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...matter of commercial interest. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 6 Dr. C. L. Hunter has also kindly furnished...a localities in From Mr. G. of the neighboring gold region. als at is of mineral B. Hanna, of the
Report (volume)
'THE GEOLOGICAL vt- ,(231 > ' " ^THE MINERALS CAROLINA''" i '- OF, - :l|^fe^H - GOTEENMENT LIBRARY... W. Powell, director | | The | minerals of North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Geiitk | [Vignette]...J. W. Powell, director | | The | mineralsof North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Genth | [Vignette]...W. Powell, director | | The | :aainerals of North Carolina | by | FrederickAugustusGenth j [Vignette]...separately. Price $2.50. XVI. The Paleozoic Fishes of North America, by John Strong Newberry. 1889. 4°. 340
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
December 2014 North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh W hen the North Carolina Museum of Natural...the state capitol. Appropriately enough, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences celebrated its 125th...125th birthday with Treasures Unearthed: North Carolina’s Spectacular Gems and Minerals, a one-year exhibit...with a private collector who specialized in North Carolina minerals to create the 4,000-square-foot exhibit...showcased nearly three hundred specimens of North Carolina gems and minerals. At the close of this successful
Report (volume)
to be 36° 30' north latitude. The line in reality, however, is from 2 to 6 minutes north of that parallel...south of the Potomac and forming what is now the county of Alexandria, Va., as a portion of the District...this State is exceeded only by Kentucky and North Carolina, and the excess of the product of the latter...village in Carroll County. Aaron; creek, small right-hand branch of Dan River in Halifax County. Abbie; post...in Carroll County. Abbott; post village in Craig County. Abbs; valley in Tazewell County. Abbyville;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
photographers March-April: Rutile on quartz, North Carolina; Louis Perloff photographer May-June: Barite...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...Columbia, Yukon Territory, 9; rutile, Hastings County, 284 Canfield, F . A . , 232 Canfieldite, 233 Caryopilite
Report (issue)
C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...arc varieties, variant names, etc. Native Elements Gold Silver Copper Platinum Nickel-Iron (Kamacite) (Tacnitc)...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com­ mon rock-making materials
Report (volume)
Deposits of Southwestern Virginia and Western North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1072-D Quartz...Deposits of Southwestern Virginia and Western North Carolina By JOHN B. MERTIE, JR. CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC...deposits of southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina. Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1958...area_______---____--_--_-________________-__--____ Patrick County.______________________________________________...farm........___________________________ Pulaski County. _________________________________________ McNeil
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)
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)
about 10 miles. The area is principally in Roane County. Ore has been mined in many places along the west...and that it does not carry workable ore in its north end opposite Spring. Conditions observed in many...about 9 miles, lying partly in Roane County and partly in Rhea County. -Much of this strip is in the bottom...bordered by a fault for about 5 miles. Near the county line on the outcrop the rocks dip 20° to 30° SE...through air ways into the adits. At. the extreme north end of the basin, where the syncline " spoons "
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...(c) = currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite...crystals, muscovite crystals, tourmaline AMHERST COUNTY Crystals of goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite;...1 inch across; found near Briar Fork, Albemarle County (photograph by T. M. Gathright, 11; W. F. Giannini
Book (edition)
exten sive deposits, such as coal and iron fields, gold belts, etc., are mentioned in general terms. 688...ALABAMA—Mined. Mineralogical name. Coal, var. bitu minous. Gold. Common name. Remarks. Coal, bituminous coal...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width
Report (issue)
.......................................... North Carolina..................................................................................... South Carolina.................................................Adams Gap and Shinbone Creek Roadless Areas, Clay County, Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey OpenFile Report...and Adams Gap RARE II Further Planning Area, Clay County, Alabama: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report...Adams Gap and Shinbone Creek Roadless Areas, Clay County, Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...long; Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...(c) = currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarry—Alberene amphiboie asbestos...chalcopyrite, cuprite, goethite, malachite, siderite Alleghany County Peters Mountain—(roadcut outcrops) near Jordan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Franklin County; at Coventry and Irasburgh, Orleans County; and at Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont... at Keene, and southeast of Hinsdale, Cheshire County, and elsewhere in New Hampshire and is reported...from Haddam, Middletown, and Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. In Rhode Island, rhodonite has been...in manganese prospects at Cumberland, Providence County. Downloaded by [Universite Laval] at 20:02 10...An unusual rhodonite on galena specimen from the North mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; field
Report (issue)
THE LOS BURROS DISTRICT, MONTEREY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. By JAMES M. HILL. INTRODUCTION. The following...district, in the southwestern part of Monterey County, Calif., are based on observations made during...rugged Coast Range, near the south line of Monterey County, in Tps. 23 and 24 S., R. 25 E. Mount Diablo meridian...slate, were noted. LOS BURROS DISTRICT, MONTEREY COUNTY, CALIF. 325 Only one small lens of radiolarian...Buclimo mine and on the upper part of the ridge north of Willow Creek canyon. So far as known, serpentine
Journal (issue)
VIRGINIA MINERALS RICHMOND METEORITE, CHESTERFIELD COUNTY . I The first recorded meteorite in Virginia fell...of a letter written from Bremo Bluff, Fluvanna County, August 4, 1828 to the editor of the American Journal...instance of this sort that occurred in Chesterfield County, Virginia about 7 miles southwest of Richmond,...vol. 6, p. 411. BOTETOURT METEORITE, BOTETOURT COUNTY Shepard (1866) gave the following account of this...the Widmanstatten figures." was found in Augusta County. A little later Hotchkiss ' gave Mallet a third
Report (issue)
RANDATHER QUNTAN of£4 vA, ATE BELT CAROLINA aes \ eer =~CAROLINA ‘ Li, aie! BARTLETT'S/27 FERRY FAULT...GRANDFATHER TENNESSEE ~~ MOUNTAIN KIOKEE BELT SOUTH CAROLINA ug 5; “A BARTLETT'S/.2 FERRY FAULT ? ALABAMA...model, admittedly speculative, for gold mineralization in the Carolina slate belt; it complements the paper...Anomaly at the Peachbottom Deposit, Alleghany County, North Carolina (John E. Callahan, J. Hatten Metal...Geologic South Sulfide (Thornton The Aspects Carolina Faulkner Western E. Carroll) the Southwest
Journal (issue)
REFERENCE INDEX ALBEMARLE COUNTY Southern: Pegau, A. A., 2. ALLEGHANY COUNTY Clifton Forge-White Sulphur...AMELIA COUNTY Morefield mine: Pegau, A. A., 3. AMHERST COUNTY Cormack, W. B. ARLINGTON COUNTY Great Falls...Stow, M. H. AUGUSTA COUNTY Afton-Staunton, north: Appalachian Geol. Soc., 1. North-central area: Johnson...area, storm-damaged areas: Webb, H. W., 1. BATH COUNTY Warm S ~ r i n e sand Nimrod Hall area: West Virginia...Virginia Geol. and - --- - BEDFORD COUNTY Lynchburg area: Brown, W. R., 1. BLUE RIDGE Fancy Gap-Galax
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
principal economic resources of this region are gold, silver, iron ore, copper, limestone, and coal....The occurrence of coal in Devonian rocks on the north side of the Jefferson canyon is of geologic The...prepared to illustrate the detailed structure of the gold-mining regions in the vicinity of Nevada City and...remains which probably can be profitably worked. The gold-quartz veins are numerous and belong to several...Nevada City district the quartz veins have a general north-south direction and an easterly dip of about 45'
Book
[ [ 23 I 1992 [ 65-128 65-136 65-128 1-96 GOLD-II] 1-112 MMEE•] 25 I 1994 1-80 ARIZONA-I] ...ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400 257-336 [ 257-320 [ [ GOLD-I ] 321--412 ARIZONA-V] 265-352 257-320 353-400...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...Alabama (by H. Barwood & B. Hajek) 9:388391 Notable gold occurrences of Georgia and Alabama (by R. B. Cook
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pale smoky crystals, from the Center, Cherokee County, Ala., locality and that they are very good. This...Madison County. "Beryl: as light golden crystals, fractured but gemmy, from near Hissop, Coosa County." Arizona—A...Las Vegas, Nev., publicity director of the Clark County Gem Collectors, carried the following paragraph...locality is the south shore of Lake Mead, Mohave County, Ariz. Another letter from Mr. Drury contained...(petrified wood) are found 3 miles west of Piggott, Clay County, Ark. California—A new California mineral is perovskite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is from Leiper’s quarry at Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Peters 1984). When the spessartine...to 7 cm across occur near Middletown, Middlesex County, and massive spessartine and relatively small crystals...localities in Figure 2. A classic Avondale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, spessartine specimen with a major...HUK [OL *PU JPUUH[P4PULYHS:VJPL[` Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Detailed work by Lindsley and Peters...from pegmatites of the Amelia district, Amelia County, Virginia (Sinkankas 1959, 1997). Here, complex
Report (issue)
.'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...GUMMITE IN GARNET RUBY CORUNDUM GOLD TORBERNITE GARNET IN MICA ANATASE RUTILE AJTUNITE AND TORBERNITE...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
 
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