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Biotite from
Oconee County, Georgia, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Oconee County, Georgia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:859222
Long-form Identifier:1:3:859222:4
GUID (UUID V4):0b65d42f-2e92-4bb3-a7fb-bc4d52763f21
Localities for Biotite in this Region
Dickens Mine, North High Shoals, Oconee County, Georgia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
CONTENTS GUIDE TO THE GEOLOGY OF PICKENS AND OCONEE COUNTIES, SOUTH CAROLINA — CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...Pages 1-7 GUIDE TO THE GEOLOGY OF PICKENS AND OCONEE COUNTIES, SOUTH CAROLINA C. J. Cazeau Department...past three years by Brown in Pickens County and Cazeau in Oconee County. The overall geologic setting for...of these major rock units. Biotite Gneiss Unit bgn consists of biotite gneiss as the characteristic...distinctive foliation developed due to the parallelis of biotite flakes. It consists chiefly of white plagioclase
Report (issue)
Deposits in the drainage basin of the Oconee River, Georgia---------- 27 Alluvium--------------------------...Deposits in the drainage basin of the Flint River, Georgia----------- ^7 Alluvium----------------------...the drainage basin of the Chattahoochee River, Georgia---- 64 Appraisal------------ Alluvium------...River area, N. C.-Va.--------------------- 2. Oconee River area, Ga.------- 3. Flint River area, Ga...Drilling data, Yadkin River drainage basin, Surry County, N.C.--- 2. -- 5. __ .._ . 9 ------- ----
Report (volume)
Metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks___________ Biotite schist______________________________________ Q..._____________________________________ -. _ ____ Biotite gneiss and migmatite__ __ _____________ __ __ ___...Henderson Gneiss_________________________________ Biotite granite gneiss_______________________________ Intrusive...sedimentary and volcanic rocks___________ Biotite schist and biotite gneiss______________________ Hornblende...Gneiss__________________________________________ Biotite granite gneiss_______________________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carolina and Georgia. Rocks of the Poor Mountain sequence occur in northeastern Georgia and probably...stratigraphic sequence that persists from Haber- sham County, Georgia, into North Carolina. Graphite-rich layers...these rocks. the Brevard cataclastic zone in Oconee County, South Carolina (Fig. 2; Hatcher, 1969b). The...northeastern Georgia. Cazeau (1967, p. 11) in his reconnaissance study oi Oconee County, South Carolina...across Habersham County, Georgia, on aerial photographs. It can be traced across Oconee County, South Carolina
Report (issue)
sericite schist with garnet and locally prominent biotite porphy rob lasts;pCgsm, aluminous schist pCge...gabbro, ultra mafic rocks and locally biotite gneiss pCpcp Biotite schist and gneiss,variably textured...quartzite, chlorite --Tuscovite quartzite and coarse biotite chlorite schist and ne^agraywackej Ccc,Coleman...met-, sands tone, inter layered with muscovite biotite schist, and meta conglonerate; Cp, Persimmon Creek...variably" foliated oligoclas«- quartz -epidote-biotite gneiss, interlayered with metagraywacke qv Quartzite
Report (issue)
They are: amphibolite, feldspathic quartzite, biotite gneiss and granite gneiss. These lithologies grade...comprising this nappe are: muscovite biotite schist, biotite gneiss and biotite schist. Minor hornblende gneiss...feldspathic, it often grades coarsening eastward, into biotite gneiss or granite gneiss. ton schist. The author...amphibolite and amphibole gneiss (Amgn), biotite gneiss (Bgn), biotite schist (Bs), granite gneiss (Ggn, BGgn...BGgn and WGgn), muscovite biotite schist (MBs), and quartzite (Q). These lithologic types are widespread
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and contain, in addition to quartz and mica (biotite with frequently some muscovite), much microcline...quartz schist, quartz-sericite schist, quartz-biotite schist, sericite schist, and crystalline limestone...northwestern part of the state in Cherokee, Laurens, Oconee, and Union counties, where variation is from ordinary...intrusions in the region. At Hornsboro, in Chesterfield County, there is a small area of Juratrias sandstones...extreme northwest portion of the state in Pickens County. Both massive (even-granular and porphyritic) and
Report (issue)
in the Clemson Experimental Forest, Pickens and Oconee Counties, South Carolina Richard Warner, Scott...39 Petrology of the Salem ultramafic body, Oconee County, South Carolina James L. Bridgeman and William...sediment transport in Twelve-Mile Creek, Pickens County, South Carolina Benjamin Douglass, William Chamlee...Transylvania Counties, North Carolina, Greenville County, South Carolina: A preliminary report Bart L. Cattanach...museum. 5 Henry was the publisher of the Tri- County News in Spruce Pine, NC. Apparently, Congressman
Report (issue)
Thomaston-Barnesville District, Georgia Part 10. Outlying Deposits in Georgia GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Thomaston-Barnesville District, Georgia Part 10. Outlying Deposits in Georgia By E. WM. HEINRICH, MONTIS R...Descriptions of deposits. ________________________ Upson County ___ _ ________________________ Bell mine. ____...Continued Descriptions of deposits— Continued Upson County—Continued Blount No. 1 mine __ _____________ ——..._______________________ Part 10. Outlying deposits in Georgia-.- __ ___________ Abstract _______ _ ____ __ —
Report (issue)
DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA CUT ON FLAT SHOALS ROAD NEAR SCHOOL HOUSE, LOT 110, 15th DJST., DeKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA...SCHIS'.r. FRONTISPIECE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA S. W. McCALLIE, State Geologist BULLETIN No....REPORT ON THE FELDSPAR AND MICA DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA BY !3. L. GALPIN, Ph. D., Assistant State Geologist... THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE Geological Survey of Georgia IN THE YEAR 1915 (Ex-Officio) HIS ExCELLENCY,... JOHN M. SLATON ......... Governor of Georgia PRESIDENT OF 'I'HE BOARD HoN. PHILIP COOK ...........
Report (issue)
tributaries to the Little River, Anderson 5- County and Abbeville County, S, £.' *....*.. .V -3 2* Descriptions...tributaries to the Rocky River, > *" Anderson County, S. C. .............. 3 , 3» -^Descriptions...sampled along Big Beaverdam 10- Creek, Anderson County, S. C. .......... 3 !(.. Descriptions of sediments...sampled along Big 11 Generostee Creek, .Anderson County, S. C. 12 ..... 3 5- -Descriptions of sediments...tributaries to the Savannah River, 15 Anderson County, S. C. . ............. a . 6. Descriptions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mining in upper California—at Trinidad, Humboldt County. Trinidad is a little town on the Pacific coast...saving it—it was real heavy." Garnet Sands from Georgia A letter, dated June 25, 1952, comes from S. P...State. No. 1 is from Dukes Creek, L.L. 89, White County. These sands are fairly coarse and locally called...River in the Nacoochee Valley, L.L. 75 & 76, White County. This location receives the sands from Dukes Creek...Haven is a city and county seat thyst), lots of black biotite and fleshof New Haven County; it is 4 miles
Report (issue)
additions, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia By D.F. Siems, A.L. Meier, R.W. Luce, and Henry...are located in Oconee County, S. C., Jackson and Macon Counties, N. C., and Rabun County, Ga. Latitude...and vicinity in Oconee County, S. C., Jackson and Macon Counties, N. C., and Rabun County, Ga. The samples...No. Rock name 300 301 302 quartz biotite gneiss quartz biotite gneiss Toxaway Gneiss (granite composition)...(granite composition) biotite muscovite gneiss garnet biotite schist quartz biotite gneiss garnet aluminous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bodies in the Blue Ridge of the Carolinas and Georgia (Fig. 1). It is a structural dome defined by upward...the rocks of part of the Blue Ridge of northeast Georgia and defined the Tallulah Falls Formation, which...alternating light quartzofeldspathic and dark biotite-rich bands. The dominant feldspar in most of this...subordinate amounts. The dominant mafic constitutent is biotite, although hornblende may occur as isolated grains...defined (Hatcher, 1971) for exposures in Rabun County, Georgia. There, it consists of four members: a lower
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEORGIA Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX JENNINGS...JENNINGS B. GORDON, JR. P . O . Box 6214 Rome, Georgia 30162 Although perhaps best known for its gold, rutUe...rutUe, and staurolite (the state mineral), Georgia has, in fact, almost two hundred mineral species. ...have been reported and verified from the state of Georgia. The index has been compiled from the literature...be either a report on the economic geology of Georgia or a field guide for lapidaries, it excludes commercial
Report (issue)
...........................................69 Georgia .................................................Geologic map of the Chatsworth talc district, Georgia .....74, 75 ultramafic rocks. Talc is very soft...Washington, Montana, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania...chlorite. The Chattsworth district in northernmost Georgia has produced talc from a number of ultramafic pods... Talc in the Murphy belt, North Carolina and Georgia, is found in the Cambrian Murphy Marble. Hydrothermal
Report (issue)
Virginia^ North Carolina^ South Carolina^ and Georgia^ and methods used to appraise them UNITED STATES...Carolina-Virginia. ____________________ Oconee River area, Georgia._____________ Flint River area and Chattahoochee...Chattahoochee River area, Georgia.._______________________ Monazite in crystalline rocks.________________...left from placer mining on Knob Creek, Cleveland County, N.C______________________________ 5. Mineral composition...colluvium exposed in gully on Lattimore farm, Cleveland County, N.C______________________________ 10. Position
Report (issue)
142 Arthur J. Merschat STOP 15 Metagraywacke/biotite gneiss on U.S. 64 just west of Southern Star gas...Piedmont from the Alto allochthon in northeastern Georgia and northwestern South Carolina (Hopson and Hatcher...the Inner Piedmont in the Carolinas and northern Georgia, compiled and modified from numerous published...their work in northern Greenville County and adjacent Pickens County, South Carolina, Garihan (2001),...remainder of Oconee County, South Carolina, Rabun, and most of Habersham Counties, Georgia (with the assistance
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 14:35 04 June 2016 New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group...representative of a garnet from Deshong’s quarry, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, that can barely be considered almandine...andalusite, sillimanite, chlorite, muscovite, biotite, and the plagioclase, amphibole, and pyroxene families...found at several mines near Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, particularly the Standpipe Hill quarry...collected at Mount Apatite near Auburn, Androscoggin County; and the Bumpus quarry, ROCKS & MINERALS 244-253
Report (issue)
from the Savannah River at the South Carolina-Georgia border to the great bend in the Catawba River in...Morganton, N.C. (Keith and Sterrett, 1907); and of Hart County, Ga., across the Savannah River from Anderson,...the town of Abbeville and the AbbevilleAnderson County line. At the northwest edge of the Inner Piedmont...Marion, N.C., to a point on the South Carolina-Georgia border, about 23 miles upstream along the Tugaloo...Tugaloo Biver from the Anderson-Oconee County line. Thus, the Brevard belt is northwest of the report area
Report (issue)
EASTERN BLUE RIDGE OF THE CAROLINAS AND NEARBY GEORGIA by Robert D. Hatcher, Jr. Depariment of Chemistry...1 2. Geologic map of part of the Carolinas and Georgia Blue Ridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. Typical...Typical Toxaway Gneiss. The dark bands are rich in biotite. ................... 5 4. Possible stratigraphic...Carolina, part of North Carolina and northeast Georgia. Formation symbols are the same as on Fig. 2.....EASTERN BLUE RIDGE OF THE CAROLINAS AND NEARBY GEORGIA Robert D. Hatcher, Jr Department of Chemistry and
Report (issue)
rank metamorphic rocks 1 Carolina gneiss 1 Biotite gneiss unit of the Carolina gneiss 3 Toluca quartz...constitute a unit of high-rank metamorphic rocks. The biotite gneiss unit of the Carolina gneiss, however, was...into three units: a biotite schist unit, and sillimanite schist unit, and a biotite gneiss unit. Farther...Mountains. At many places from Lincoln County, N.C., to Spartanburg County, S.C., there is no evidence of metamorphic...and bedding. One of these biotitic rocks, the biotite gneiss unit of the Carolina gneiss is discusses
Report (issue)
COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF............................................ 148 Biotite ........................................................................................... 170 County Index ........................................
Report (issue)
the Carolinas and NE Georgia, but into a synform in Alabama and western Georgia. Extensive use of kinematic...evidence from several localities in the Carolinas and Georgia that the lower sequence in the Inner Piedmont is...called the same assemblage the Dadeville belt in Georgia and Alabama, and Crickmay indicated that the rocks...subdivided the Inner Piedmont in Alabama and western Georgia into an upper series they called the Opelika complex...traced throughout the western Inner Piedmont of Georgia and Alabama (Waresville formation, Jacksons Gap
Report (volume)
...... 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County.......................- Medium gray biotite granite of the Richmond-Petersburg area.. Dark blue-gray biotite granite of the...Fredericksburg area........ Dark gray hornblende-biotite granite of the Falls Church area.. Yellow-green......... Chesterfield County (south of James River)................ Henrico County (north of James River)......................................... Fairfax County area .........................................
 
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