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Fluorapatite from
Sinkhole Mine, Bandana, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Luminescent properties:Bright Yellow in Shortwave
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Albite1 photo of Fluorapatite associated with Albite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Fluorapatite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sinkhole Mine, Bandana, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:646675
Long-form Identifier:1:3:646675:6
GUID (UUID V4):359dbf0e-0b64-40de-90af-4cb8737fdaed
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorapatite
3.0km (1.9 miles) Old Charles Mine, Micaville, Celo, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) Presnell Mine (Young's Mine), Micaville, Celo, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles) Buchanan Mine (Buchanan pegmatite), Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
10.6km (6.6 miles) Smith Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) Celo Mine (Mas-Celo), Celo, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
13.5km (8.4 miles) Ray Mica Mine, Hurricane Mountain, Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
18.1km (11.2 miles) Elk Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) Thomas Mine (Balsam Gap kyanite location; Parkway kyanite location), Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
51.6km (32.0 miles) Morganton Quarry (Vulcan Materials Co. Quarry), Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, USA
82.9km (51.5 miles) Martin Marietta Quarry (Hickory Quarry), Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright 0 1996 Eisevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/96 $15.00 + .OO Pn...Tallahassee, FL 32301, USA %JSGS, 345 Middlefield Road, Mail Stop 420, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (Received January...profoundly influenced by lakewater leakage 5075 from sinkhole lakes (Katz et al., 1995a,b; Lee, 1996). The Lake...groundwater that is influenced by leakage from a sinkhole lake. A comparison of 87Sr/86Sr ratios between...Barco has been identified as a cover-collapse sinkhole, typical of many of the lakes in the Central Lake
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bones, ranging from an almost pure fluorapatite to carbonated fluorapatite mineral phases, had less preserved...fossilization; diagenesis; XANES; hydroxylapatite; fluorapatite 3 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 1. Introduction Bone...(University of Bristol, UK) AC CE P from the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands in 2008. The...in 2001 at the Gray Fossil Site, Gray, Tennessee, USA, from organic-rich, lacustrine, mudstone deposits...Judith River Formation fluvial system, Montana, USA; a dinosaur femur RI (TM728899) preserved in overbank
Report (volume)
resources of the Hawthorn formation______________ Mine and tract descriptions_________________________________________...the Hawthorn formation both thin markedly to the north and probably were eroded from the high. The lower...characterized by abundant nodules of carbonate-fluorapatite. The zone is not a stratigraphic unit but includes...Itchepackesassa Creeks, and by Pemberton Creek. Drainage is north and west to the Hillsborough River, thence west...characterized by rounded particles of carbonate-fluorapatite. Matrix: The economic part of the calcium phosphate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Donaldson Cave, Spring Mill State Park, Lawrence County, Indiana. This outlet for a cave stream is at the...connect the source, such as an open crevice or a sinkhole, and the resurgence of the water at a spring....of the Constitution in Wyandotte Cave, Crawford County, Indiana. This column is from 25 to 35 feet high...by sinkholes, caves, and underground drainage. Sinkhole—a circular depression in a karst area; com­ monly...of calcite. Swallow hole—a closed depression or sinkhole into which all or part of a stream disappears
Report (volume)
53 54 56 58 58 63 68 72 72 72 73 IV CONTENTS Mine and tract descriptions________-__________________-_-___________...mine_______________________________________________ Orange Park mine.._____-_-_-____________-_-_--------_-_-__-__ Stratigraphy...geology._________________-___-_---_-_----______Tenoroc mine.________________________________________________...of the Saddle Creek mine. 5. Isometric fence diagram and sections of the Pauway mine. 6. Isopach map of...Isometric fence diagram of part of the Orange Park mine. 1. Index map of west-central peninsular Florida
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
61820 6964, USA b Illinois State Water SurÕey, 2204 Griffith Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, USA Abstract ...shallow karst aquifer in southwestern Illinois’ sinkhole plain were The sources of nitrate ŽNOy 3 investigated...potable water for about half of the residents of the sinkhole plain area. Previous work has shown that groundwater...groundwater from approximately 18% of the wells in the sinkhole plain has NOy 3 concentrations in excess of the...downstream. The shallow karst aquifer of Illinois’ sinkhole plain ŽFig. 1. is an important source of fresh
Journal (issue)
Center Inc., 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA, stating the ISSN 0943-0105, the volume, and the...333 Meadowlands Parkway Secaucus, NJ 07094, USA North America. Recommended annual subscrip- tion rate:...Secaucus, Tel. (201) Fax (201) All other NJ 07094, USA 348-4033, Telex 0023-125 994, 348-4505 countries...International, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA Production PRODUserv Springer GmbH & Co. Produktions-Gesellschaft...Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010, USA are our Mailing Springer-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
clays. The minerals identified include carbonate-fluorapatite (francolite), crandallite, goyazite, wavellite...a half-century ago in flint clay from Franklin County, Missouri (Grawe 1943). A related uranium phosphate...in the extreme northeastern corner of Callaway County (Keller 1952b). The barium aluminum phosphate,...gorceixite, was reported in flint clay from Osage County (Tourtelot and Brenner-Tourtelot 1977, 1978). Phosphate...represents the 1st recognition of carbonate-fluorapatite (francolite), crandallite, goyazite, wavellite
Report (volume)
of Abnormal Radioactivity South of Ocala Marion County, Florida GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This report...of Abnormal Radioactivity South of Ocala Marion County, Florida £y GILBERT H. ESPENSHADE CONTRIBUTIONS...OF ABNORMAL RADIOACTIVITY SOUTH OF OCALA, MARION COUNTY, FLORIDA By GILBERT H. ESPENSHADE ABSTRACT Areas...of abnormal radioactivity south of Ocala, Marion County, Fla., discovered in 1953 by aerial survey, were...of abnormal radioactivity south of Ocala, Marion County, Fla., was investigated as part of the Geological
Book
“sky” because of its color. It was found in Blair County by a traveler from Germany named Schütz, who was...mineral was found in the Saucon Valley of Lehigh County in eastern Pennsylvania and was named sauconite...magnesium carbonate mineral near Lansford in Carbon County, also in eastern Pennsylvania. Like sauconite,...PENNSYLVANIA covery not far from Lansford, in a coal mine at Nesquehoning. This mineral is a magnesium bicarbonate...pile in Forestville, SchuylPhotomicrograph of kill County. It was named for its discovDowneyite crystals
Report (volume)
ANGELES, California-Federal Bldg., Rm. 7638, 300 North Los Angeles St. • MENLO PARK, California-Bldg. 3...hole in the southern extension (in southern Hardee County) penetrated 5 ft (feet) of the Bone Valley Formation...and the Peace River Formations is carbonate fluorapatite (francolite), but there are distinct differences...deposits was iron rich, and the dolomites of the mine pits have been altered and iron removed. Clay minerals...Polk) Boundary of structural feature -~----- Mine SA, Suwannee River SC, Saddle Creek HP, Hooker's
Report (volume)
geology ________________________________________ _ North Manatee River tract ____________________________________...tract_________________________ 9. Section C-C', North Manatee River tract _______ ..:__________ Page...by:abundant rounded particles of carbonate :fluorapatite, and includes both the lower unit of the Bone...Little Manatee Rivers and their tributaries, to the north by the South Prong of the Alafia River, and to the...characterized by rounded particles of carbonate fluorapatite. A6 CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONON.UC GEOLOGY Concentrate:
Report (issue)
---8. Electron micrograph of fuller's earth from mine C, bed 6 _____ -- _--- ______ -- ______________...all of Grady County and most of Decatur and Thomas Counties, Ga., and all of Gadsden County and part of...of Leon County, Fla. Small parts of several other Georgia and Florida counties are also within the arbitrary...included assistance in observing an exposure in a strip mine near Ochlocknee, Ga.; Mr. Robert P. Smith of the...locating exposures of fuller's earth in Gadsden County that no longer crop out. Apparently the exposures
Report (issue)
for foreign countries, if a given name refers to a mine or deposit, a nearby location or administrative...names may be used to refer to a single deposit or mine. For large deposits or mineralized areas, a 3 single...is meant to identify the area, deposit, district, mine, or occurrence to which the geologic, economic,...a note on the deposits in Georgia and South Carolina, USA, in Notholt, A.J.G., Sheldon, R.P., and Davidson...B., 1989b, The phosphate deposits of Tennessee, USA, in Notholt, A.J.G., Sheldon, R.P., and Davidson
Report (issue)
--------------------------------------------Divisions in South Carolina. ____________________________ _ Drainage ----...Florida .. _____ _ Highlands County -~---------------------­ Indian River County -------------------· 1 3...Putnam County ---------------------------Seminole County -------------------------Volusia County -----...Brevard County --------·------------------Highlands County -----------------------Hillsborough County----...anatee County -------------------------Martin County -----------------------------Polk County ------
Journal (issue)
on limestone along r~:t~JQ.\{t;_t:l'!'P_erland County, 5 miles southwest of Carlisle. Photo courtesy~'of... Greene County, with 12 major underground mines planned, may become the "numero uno" county for coal...A wooded area southeast of Colebrook in Lebanon County contains a unique geologic feature. An unusual...DINOSAUR ROCK - Located in the woods north of Lawn in Lebanon County is this unusual example of the weatheri...bytownite cacoxenite calcite cancrinite carbonate-fluorapatite carnotite *cassiterite celestine cerussite chabazite
Report (volume)
Chattanooga 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee and North Carolina-A Preliminary Assessment U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Chattanooga 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee and North Carolina-A Preliminary Assessment By SANDRA H.B. CLARK...Chattanooga 1°X2 quadrangle, Tennessee and North Carolina : A preliminary assessment/by Sandra H.B. Clark...mineral resources -North Carolina. 3. Geology-Tennessee. 4. Geology-North Carolina. I. Clark, Sandra H...1oX 2° quadrangle, In pocket Tennessee and North Carolina 2. Mineral deposits and occurrences in the
Report (issue)
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...Knoxville l°x2° quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina 2. Paleozoic metamorphic facies map
Report (issue)
ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY OF VIGO COUNTY, INDIANAAN AID TO PLANNING Special Report 31 State of Indiana Department...Senior Records Clerk Environmental Geology of Vigo County, IndianaAn Aid to Planning By EDWIN J. HARTKE,...by Publications Section, Geological Survey, 611 North Walnut Grove, Bloomington, IN 4 7405 Price $3.50... . . . Reserves Mining methods Reclamation Acid mine drainage Sand and gravel . . . Valley-train deposits... Illustrations Plate 1 2 Figure 1 Page Map of Vigo County showing distribution and thickness of sand and
Report (volume)
resources of the Hawthorn formation_________________ Mine and tract descriptions_________________________________________...Fence diagram and geologic sections of the Eleanor mine. Fence diagram of parts of Tps. 30 and 31 S., R...the Bone Valley and Hawthorn formations, Boyette mine _______________________________ _ Sketch of thin...the Bone Valley and Hawthorn f orinations, Eleanor mine _______________________________ _ Contour map of..._________________ _ Lithologic section, Boyette mine _________________________ _ Cross section, Keysville
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...with both enclosed in square brackets, e.g. fluorapatite Ca[Fl(PO 4)3] or euchroite 0.1 2[OHIAsO 4]•3H...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...localities of magmatic origin (in the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA * Corresponding author. E-mail: patrick.lajeunesse@ggr...central uplift has numerous glassy droplets of fluorapatite composition, assumed to be impact melts, and...Society, 2013. and of possible impact origin in the North Sea (Stewart and Allen 2002) and Baltic Sea (Suuroja...Province (SLPP), which extend approximately 2 km north of the structure and outcrop on the northeast coast...lie offshore, except for a small outcrop on the north side of Manowin Island, 5 km to the NE of the structure
Report (issue)
geol·ogy Occurrence of refractory clay in Randolph County, W.Va., by K. J. Englund and H. J. Goett______________________...apatite-bearing ultramafic chlorite rock, Harford County, Md., by D. L. Southwick_______ Quartz diorite-quartz...Formation (Paleocene) in southeastern Hardeman County, Tenn., by S. M. Herrick and D. R. Rima-------...Formation in the Alvord ~ountain area, San Bernardino County, Calif., by G. E. Lewis-----------------------..._ C149 Structural controls on streamflow in the North Fork River and Bryant Creek basins, Missouri, by
Report (volume)
CONTENTS Page Mine and tract descriptions_________________________________________ South Pierce mine ______...stratigraphically and by mesh fractions, South Pierce mine. 8. Isopach map of the aluminum phosphate zone....zone. 10. Isometric fence diagram of the Watson mine. Page FIGURE 1. Index map of west-central peninsular...showing: 7. Uranium distribution in screen fractions of mine-face section, SE~SW~ sec. 32, T. 31 S., R. 24 E_...2 0 6 and uranium, washer debris areas, Jane Jay mine _____ ;____________ 8()1 13. Comparison of phosphate
Report (volume)
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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