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Plagioclase from
Davis Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Davis Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:865634
Long-form Identifier:1:3:865634:6
GUID (UUID V4):d0056631-89a3-4f1b-8c2d-39981e57f071
Nearest other occurrences of Plagioclase
0.2km (0.1 miles) Gudger Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Bunker Hill Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Deer Park Mine, Penland, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Number Twelve Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) No.12 Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Flat Rock Mine (Flat Rock pegmatite), Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Jase Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Pine Mountain (Pine Mountain Mine), Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Emily Knob Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Hawkins Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Carolina Geological Society 2008 Fieldtrip and Annual Meeting, Little Switzerland, North Carolina October...Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________________________________...__ Carolina Geological Society (CGS) 2008 Field trip Spruce Pine Mining District North Carolina Co-leaders...Sponsors Active Minerals International, LLC Imerys North America Ceramics Unimin Corporation Vulcan Materials...Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________________________________
Report (issue)
Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development... Geologic map of part of the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and Tennessee. 2-6. Maps showing location of
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in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds in...crystals have also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New Hampshire, and from Pala, Rincón, and...near Statesville, North Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The...at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the collection of...at the Fisher quar- occurred at the Little Three mine, Ramona, ry, Topsham, Maine, to sixteen inches in
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK October 21 – 23, 1983 GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS IN...IN THE BLUE RIDGE OF NORTHWE3STERN NORTH CAROLINA Edited by Sharon E. Lewis Virginia Division of Mineral...pit”, of the main adit and Stopes of the Cranberry mine Copies of this guidebook may be obtained from:...NRCD Post Office Box 27687 Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1983 OFFICERS...South Carolina 29613 Vice-President: John J. Chapman Department of Earth Science Western Carolina University
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deposits of the Nightingale district, Pershing County, Nev., by W. C. Smith and P. W. Guild (published........ Topaz deposits near the Brewer mine, Chesterfield County, S. C., by Carl Pries, Jr. (published...quicksilver deposits of the Del Puerto area, Stanislaus County, Calif., by H. E. Hawkes, Jr., F. G. Wells, and...Quicksilver deposits near the Little Missouri River, Pike County, Ark., by David Gallagher (published in October...Pershing County, Nev.................................. In pocket Geologic map of the Nightingale mine area
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___ History _ _________________________________ Mine workings and mining methods _ ________ Production...________________________ Upson County ___ _ ________________________ Bell mine. _____________________________...Partridge mine. ________________________ Maze prospeets______ ___________________ Atwater mine __________________________...__________________________ Corley mine _ _ _ _______________________ Corley prospects _ _ ____________________..._ Boyt mine _____________________________ Zorn mine _____________________________ Young mine __ _ __
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South Carolina and North Carolina Guidebook for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Carolina Geological...Muthukrishnan, James L. Bridgeman, and Tom Goforth CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2012 FIELD TRIP Geologic Studies...Ridge, South Carolina and North Carolina October 12-14, 2012 Greenville, South Carolina Guidebook for...for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Carolina Geological Society 73rd Annual Meeting Founded at Furman...Ranson Carolina Geological Society Board of Directors 2012 President Scott Howard South Carolina Geological
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c\ NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF MINERAL...Structure of Part of the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina A PROGRESS REPORT BY JOHN M. PARKER, III GEOLOGICAL...SURVEY AND THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF...Structure of Part of the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina A PROGRESS REPORT By M. PARKER, III Geological...BETWEEN THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
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“up” Cane Branch near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina. His lean and sinewy frame suggested a...five to ten miles over the hills to a prospect or mine, labor until dark, and then walk home, only to repeat...afterward. In fact, hardly any roads existed in Yancey County in those days, only well-worn foot trails. No wonder...began his career driving steel in a local pegmatite mine for ten cents an hour. He soon moved up to a higher-paying...hand-cobbing feldspar for the Bowditch Feldspar mine. This work required separating the spar from the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatites in the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina, USA Samuel E. Swanson*, William B. Veal Department...(10–30 cm) crystals of perthitic K-feldspar and plagioclase occur in the granodiorite. Pegmatites occur within...core, an intermediate zone of graphic granite, plagioclase and muscovite and an outer finer grained zone...Keywords: Spruce Pine, pegmatites, mineralogy, North Carolina Received: 16 October 2009; accepted: 1 April...the Spruce Pine Mining District in western North Carolina have a long history of providing various minerals
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Sc ce i en e T ec tonic s R es earc h nc Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October 19-20...southwestern Brushy Mountains, centralwestern North Carolina Guidebook Editors: Robert D. Hatcher, Jr....Columbia, South Carolina Carolina Geological Conultants, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina Central Savannah...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...South Carolina Kubal and Furr, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
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Igneous Activity in the Suwannee Terrane, Southeastern USA: Petrogenesis and Gondwanan Affinities A.L. Heatherington...Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32621, USA (Manuscript received December 1,2002; accepted January...Suwannee terrane is exotic with respect to native North America, is Gondwanan or peri-Gondwanan in origin...circum-Atlantic terranes such as Avalon, Cadomia, and the Carolina terrane (Cfamer, 1973; Odom and Brown, 1976; Pojeta...Mueller, 1999a). The Suwannee terrane was sutured to North America approximately 300 Ma, during the Alleghanian
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NORTH DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION GEORGE DIVISION JASPER CAROLINA L. R. OF ROSS, RESOURCES...♦ THE EASTERN PIEDMONT PEGMATITE OF NORTH DISTRICT CAROLINA BY WARREN G. STEEL RALEIGH 1952 THE... THE EASTERN PIEDMONT PEGMATITE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA By Warren Ge Steel INTRODUCTION The Eastern...pegmatite district of North Carolina consists of several areas located in the north central part of the...corner of Caswell County. The Inez- Wake Forest area extends from Inez in Warren County, southwestward
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namely: in Maryland, Connecticut, New Mexico, and North Carolina. The Geological Survey, United States Department...severallocalities in each of California, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Washington' The determined...south end, on the east side of Saline Valley, Inyo County'2 A thin section of a specimen,kindly furnished...375(1941). Connecticut At Haddam, in Middlesex County, on the top of Walkley llill' across the Connecticut...Murdoch, Joseph, and Webb, R. W., Bustamite from Inyo County, California : Atn. M ineral., 21, 69-70 (1936)
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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
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NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT HARGROVE BOWLES, JR., DIRECTOR DIVISION...GEOLOGIST Circular 17 BERYL OCCURRENCES IN NORTH CAROLINA BY WILLIAM F WILSON Ooc RALEIGH 1962 CONTENTS...USESo 8 o . . . BERYLLIUM MINERALS IN NORTH CAROLINA 9 Varieties * o ••••••••.• Mode of Occurrencec...RESOURCES IN NORTH CAROLINA . H OCCURRENCES OF BERYL IN NORTH CAROLINA. 13 Alexander County ...•••••...••.• Ashe County,* ... 0 o * * • o o Burke County* • * • . • . • • • * • • Catawba County* • « . » *
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obtained from various sources. Seven from Dr. G. L. DAVIS of the Geophysical Laboratory are listed in Table...Table 1 with P numbers as well as our numbers. DAVIS and HESS (1949) have discussed the Ra their paper should...will he subdivided ance with the classification of DAVIS and HESS (1!149) as follows: (1) Ultramujic rocks...Sudbrook Park, Md. S.E. Aleska S.E. Alsske Baltimore County, Md. S.E. Alaska Duluth, Minn. Arkanu8a Rhode Ieland...Nizni Taguil, Russia Dun Mt., N.Z. Kraeny Urals Mine, Russia ;3” 54 24 WebRterite Saxonite Peridotite
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...express my deep gratitude. To Professor R. S. Mitchell of the Uni­ versity of Virginia and to the several...(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
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jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland , North Carolina, and other Eastern States. Bibliography is...exposed basins of the Newark Supergroup in Eastern North America 3 TABLES 1. Alphabetical listing of keyword...Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina, and South Carolina, although references covering areas...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State
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pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ ...between pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight mine ______ _______________...of granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 9....and other units in the Big Bess pegmatite, Gaston County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
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...... 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County......................... Chesterfield County (south of James River)................ Henrico County (north of James River).......................................... Fairfax County area ............................................Edward counties..................... Charlotte County.................................................. Lunenburg County ............................................... Prince William. County............
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Winegrapes in Polk, Henderson and Buncombe Counties, NC Carolina Geological Society – Guidebook for the 83rd Annual...Hendersonville, North Carolina Field Trip Leaders: Joseph Forrest, Rick Wooten, Bart Cattanach Carolina Geological...site at 3400 feet on the Blue Ridge escarpment. Carolina Geological Society 2022 Board of Directors President...Engineering Secretary Cheryl Waters-Tormey - Western Carolina University Treasurer Jeff Chaumba - UNC Pembroke...Soil Geomorphology in North Carolina Brad Johnson 105 Western North Carolina Soils, Geology and Wine
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site symmetry of sulfate minerals 132 Aerugite (Davis, Hey, Kingsbury). 2108 Agarwal, M. K. with Patel...traskite, verplanckite and muirite from Fresno County, California Stinson, NI. C. and Matthews, R. A... Seven new barium miuerals from eastern Fresno County, Californier (abs.) 1.2+ 2r0+ 278 273 Stinson... Seven new barium minerals from eastern Fresno County, California AJlan, D. with Brown, V. (Book 314...seven new, Barium (Hubbard) from eastern Fresno County, 2040 (Alfors, Aplite-pegmatites, composite, of
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of previously little· known basic rocks in Towns County. It includes a review of the minerals known to...FIGURES Page 1. The ultramafic belt of eastern North America . . 2 2. 7 Contour diagram of isojoints...amphibolite . 39 23. Photograph of a diallage-plagioclase vein in dunite 40 24. Photomicrograph of a...map of the Lake Chatuge area, Towns County, Ga., and Clay County, N.C.. . . .in pocket viii :;:. LIST...the sill and the country rock, previously termed Carolina Gneiss, are parallel suggesting contemporaneous
 
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