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Gillis Mine, Virgilina Mining District, Person County, North Carolina, USA



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Locality type:Mine
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Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gillis Mine, Virgilina Mining District, Person County, North Carolina, USA
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:66404
Long-form Identifier:1:3:66404:8
GUID (UUID V4):dc9c169f-3153-4ea8-a9ce-0cf173ed5936
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
W a l k e r M in k COPPER MINES, PERSON CO UN TY, NORTH CAROLINA BULLETIN OF T H E GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY...COPPER-BEARING ROCKS OF VIRGILINA COPPER DISTRICT, VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA * BY THOMAS LEONARD WATSON........................ 369 Ore deposits of the district................................................. 1501, in a field examination of the Virgilina copper district, and the specimens of the rocks and ores...and he is indebted to Mr W. H. Pannebaker, of Virgilina, for th e photographs illustrating it. L I I —B
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Virgilina District of Virginia and North Carolina FRANCIS BAKER LANEY JorNrr...Introduction Hyco quartz porphyry Aaron slate Virgilina l4 77 greenstone Gosher schist . Hyco quartz porphyry...Microscopic description Chemieal comnosition Analyses of quartz porphyry WeatherinE and soil Goshen Schist . General...Analysis of typical Aaron slate Weatherine and soil Virgilina greenstone fntroductorv statement Distribution... . : : . . . . . . . . . . - - . Analyses of Virgilina greenstone Weathering Intrusive rocks oa 27
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
made to mine the ores, but thus far the only productivepropertieshave been thoseof the Virgilina district...PiedmontRegion. (a) The Virgilina district,whichincludes Halifax county, Virginia; and Person and Granville counties...counties, North Carolina. (b) The depositson or near SouthwestMountain, Albemarle county;thoseof the...EasternBelt near Keysville, Charlotte county; and at Dillwyn, Buckingham county. II. The Blue Ridge Region. I...shalesandstoneseriesof the Triassic areas. In the Virgilina district the oresoccurin quartzfissureveinswhichintersector
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 COPPER RAY MINE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA Downloaded by [University of Regina]...most notably those in the western mining states and the copper district of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula...were found in a number of locations in the Bisbee district, Arizona (Graeme 1981), including crystals up...shaft, arborescent groups from the Copper Queen mine, and even postmining growths on old timbers in the...include the New Cornelia pit, Pima County, and the Ray mine in Pinal County. Masses and sheets of crystalline
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...deposits. Copper occurs with complex sulfide ores in quartz veins in the metamorphic rocks of the 10- Piedmont...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals
Report (issue)
METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA by P. Albert Carpenter, m Reprinted...Previous investigations Mine descriptions Alamance County Copper prospect Foust copper mine Robeson gold prospect...Cabarrus County Allman prospect Buffalo mine Cabarrus? mine Clinemine Crayton mine Furniss mine Eva Furr...Furr mine Isenhour mine ..; : Newellmine Nugget mine Phoenix mine Pioneer Mills mine Propst mine Quaker...City mine Reed mine Rocky River mine Silver shaft Snydermine Troutmanmine Tucker mine Whitney mine Chatham
Report (volume)
type. ________________________________ . Copper quartz-vein type__________________________ Caroliuian..._ 16 Warren mine ____ 16 Milan mine ____________.._____________________ ._ 18 Lyman mine _______ _ _________...____________ '.__ 24 Copperfield or Ely mine ("Vershire mine).______i______ 24 History______________...character of ores____________________ Hartford County deposits__________________________ Simsbury (Newgate)...mine_________________________________ New Haven County deposits________________________ New York ____
Report (volume)
Geology of Some Copper Deposits in North Carolina Virginia, and Alabama By GILBERT H. ESPENSHADE CONTRIBUTIONS...mines, Swain County, North Carolina, the Toncrae mine, Virginia, and the Stone Hill mine, Alabama UNITED...___________ Deposits in Great Smoky ~ountains, North Carolina__________________ GeneralgeologY------...------------------------------Geology of Swain County copper district__________________________ Sedimentary...lgneousrocks_____________________________________________ Quartz veins______________________________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
E. Cedar, Globe, Ariz., sent in a massive smoky quartz specimen coated with tiny, lustrous, brown vanadinite...south Gila County, is in central Arizona. ARKANSAS —• "I am sending you some unusual quartz crystals.... These are from the Jeffrey Stone Quarry in North Little Rock, Ark."—gift from Woodrow Bettis, 4906 Manor...crystals are doubly terminated. North Little Rock, in central Pulaski County, is in central Arkansas. CONNECTICUT—Mrs...which consists of white platy barite, tiny smoky quartz xls, tiny xl masses of brassy yellow chalcopyrite
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]...50. II. Tertiary History of the G-rand Caiion District, with atlas, by Clarence E. Dutton, Capt. U. S
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...some number of them not hitherto or, The Mica mining industry, elsewhere discovered iu America. great...with Mr. W. E. Hidden, of New explorations and mining for these mineral Among these, York, has spent
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...Mica mining industry, for example, has brought to a Pi 7 ? f 3 : GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA. 2...great many very interesting and unique forms of quartz crystals and rutiles, and has added a great number...York, has spent many months in explorations and mining for these mineral rarities, and has himself added
Report (issue)
Central group ____________________________ _ _ Carolina gneiss ________________________ _ Mica schist...__________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina and South Carolina ______ ____ _ Georgia ______________...__________________________________ _ History of mining ________________ ·__________________ _ Production...__ _________________________ _; _____ _ Barren quartz veins ________________ _ Mineralized zones ___________...34 35 35 36 39 44 44 45 46 47 47 49 49 50 50 Mine descriptions ___________ --------- -- .. -------
Report (issue)
DIVISION OF C O l SERVATIO 1 DEPAHT1\I ENT OF MINE , l\I L ' 11 ' G Al ' D GE OLOGY A. . F IlCHON ... LETTEH OF TRANSl\IITT AL Depa r tm en t of Mines. Mining and Geology December 31, 1965 His Ex cellency Governor...Geo rg ia Bur k e County _ Chattahoochee Count)' Richm ond Count y . J efferso n County _ . ... Wa shi...ng ton County _~.__.._._ .. Houston Cou nty . ~l a con County Ma rion County Screve n County T r eutlen... Non Ba semen t deep tests in Geo rgia Appling County __ ._ ._.._ _ ._ _.__.. ...._..__.. _.._.__ 20
Report (issue)
Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, product...Early Jurassic in the Pine Grove Hills-Wassuk Range-Gillis Range, (3) Middle Jurassic in the Yerington area...Nut Mountains, Pine Grove Hills, and southwestern Gillis Range. Sources of chemical data used in this study...Triassic metavolcanic rocks, and (2) a composite quartz monzonite to diorite pluton south of Yerington...the Wassuk Range Diorite and an interior, quartz-rich quartz monzonite to granodiorite phase (Proffett
Report (volume)
Volcanic Rocks in the Gabbs Valley and Gillis Ranges, Mineral County, Nevada n K o :i, o <; I c: A i. s u...Volcanic Rocks in the Gabbs Valley and Gillis Ranges, Mineral County, Nevada By E. B. EKREN, F. M. BYERS...volcanic rocks in the Gabbs Valley and Gillis Ranges, Mineral County, Nevada. (Geological Survey Bulletin...Spring Group Mickey Pass Tuff -- - .. . - Guild Mine Member . Weed Heights Member Singatse Tuff---...principal volcanic units in the Gabbs Valley and Gillis Ranges 2. Map showing type and reference localities
Report (issue)
Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, product...Mesozoic rocks is either not exposed or, as in the North Fork of the American River, Upper Triassic limestone...rocks as much as 0.5 m in diameter. Rocks in the Gillis Range and Garfield Hills consist of a variety of...sequences of volcanogenic and sedimentary rocks in the Gillis Range and Garfield Hills consist of strata mapped...recovered from limestone within the sequence in the Gillis Range (Table 1). In addition, the lower member
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $2.00 LuminescentPhantom Quartz From Hudson,St. Croix County,Wisconsin William S. Cordua Dept...November-December, 1997 near Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin has revealed some unexpectedly interesting...reached from Interstate 94. One takes Exit 2, marked County F and Carmichael Road, then turns south on Cannichael...Although Continued on page 4 ..;.. Fig. 1 Phantom in quartz, new roadcut near Hudson, Wisconsin, the central...83816-2043 Montgomery at the "Little Green Monster" Mine Fairfield, Utah 1937 A 96 page treatise based upon
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)
PAPER 229 and prospects examz"ned in each district, some z"llustrated by maps .and structure sections..._________________________________ _ History of mining __________________________________ _ Geologic features...Mineralogy of mica and beryL ______________________ .:. Mining, preparation, and uses of mica and beryL _____...Production and reserves ________________________ _ Adams County ________________________________ _ Clarkprospe...Clarkprospects-----------------------~----- Mica Queen mine __________________________ _ Location and access ____________________
Report (issue)
Yerington area and mapped in the Gabbs Valley and Gillis Ranges. Four new formations are recognized and...correlated with a similar tuff in the northern Gillis Range; thin and discontinuous erosional remnants...rhyodacite tuff correlated with similar rocks in the Gillis and Gabbs Valley Ranges; and the Santiage Canyon...to the Hartford Hill Rhyolite Tuff. Tuffs in the Gillis and Gabbs Valley Ranges are laterally equivalent...for exposures of rhyolite in the Silver City mining district. He did not designate a type section but reported
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...Silicates Quartz (Rock Crystal) (Amethyst) (Green quartz) (Cairngorm) (Blue quartz) (Rose quartz) (Star...(Star quartz) (Chalcedony) (Agate) (Prase) ' (Onyx) (Jasper) (Opal) Tridymitc Qf-Christobalitc Phcnakirc Olivine...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning
Report (issue)
the Coastal Plain Region of South Carolina and Parts of North Carolina and Georgia by David L. Daniels...surveying in the Coastal Plain regions of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Recently Virginia and...line dividing these two areas for eastern South Carolina is shown in figure 2, based upon well data and...Aeromagnetic map of the Coastal Plain of eastern South Carolina showing areas designated '-- ^g W^...(as little as 15 miles (24 km)), and wide in North Carolina (apparently to the shelf edge). The line
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals from the Copps mine Figure 1. Entrance to an adit on the Copps mine property. The white material...material is snow. Shawn Carlson photo (2015). Gogebic County, Michigan SHAWN M. CARLSON CULLEN LAUGHLIN-YURS...South Bend, Indiana 46556 tolds@nd.edu T he Copps mine is located in sections 14, 15, and 22, T47N, R43W...Michigan’s westernmost county of Gogebic, and approximately 9.8 kilometers north (N17°E) of Marenisco,... the nearest community (fig. 3). The “mine” (more aptly described as an exploration) was developed in
Report (issue)
Early studies of mining districts include those of Knopf (1918) in the Yerington district, Clark (1922)...(1922) in the Santa Fe district, and Knopf (1922) in the Candelaria district. The first detailed geologic studies...east of the Sierra 1 Alkali Flat MINERAL COUNTY NYE 1 COUNTY " ' "''\1~,\e~ Gabbs ' "' TUOLUMNE...rocks, and Page (1959) described the Candelaria district in detail. Regional maps and reports published...of the geology and mineral deposits of Mineral County, Nev. (Ross, 1961), a geol~ic map of the California
 
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