| | 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 | | | 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) | 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...Chilhowee Group.__________________________ Rocks of the Murphy marble belt-__________ Cambrian and Ordovician | | | Report (issue) | .'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...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...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist FRONT | | | Report (issue) | 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...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist i ...FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian Institution (slide...viable mineral collecting sites through out North Carolina. Some sites are commercially operated during | | Robinson, Gilpin R., Lesure, Frank G., Marlowe, J. I., Foley, Nora K., Clark, S.H. (2004) Bedrock geology and mineral resources of the Knoxville 1° x 2° quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Open-File Report 2004-1075. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20041075 | 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...the West Flank Blue Ridge 17 Ocoee Supergroup 17 Murphy Belt 18 Valley and Ridge and Paleozoic Portion | | | 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 | | | Report (issue) | .. ........................................... Murphy belt group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... ... . ...... .. .... 35 25. Map showing Dog River Formation type locality . . ......................chartoflithologic units in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 31 9. Modal analyses of felsic igneous rocks north of the Brevard fault zone . . . . . . . . . . .... Plutons of category 3 are known to occur only south of the Brevard fault zone. Two major regional progressive | | | Report (issue) | Borfh- Ca'^nn8 Stat* CmrSPE Baietgii c.a NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...GEOLOGIST BULLETIN NUMBER 56 TALC DEPOSITS OF THE MURPHY MARBLE BELT BY EARL C. VAN HORN PREPARED AND...UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JASPER L. STUCKEY, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY RALEIGH 1948 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...Geologist North Carolina state Library Raleigh BULLETIN NO. 56 * TALC DEPOSITS OF THE MURPHY MARBLE BELT | | | Report (issue) | Il • CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Field Trip Guidebook 1981 October 24-25, 1981 Gaffney, South Carolina...Carolina - CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1981 OFFICERS +', . I. President: Richard G. Chalcraft Gulf...Schaeffer Duke'Power P.O •. Box 33189 Charlotte, North Carolina 28242 0 Secretary-Treasurer: • S. Duncan...Department of Geology, Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27706 Chairman of the Membership Committee:...Department of Geology Catawba College Salisbury, No~th Carolina 28144 Field Trip Leaders: J. Wright Horton, | | | Report (issue) | North Carolina State Library jleigh ( f t NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN RALEIGH...RALEIGH 1958 G. CONRAD Norffe Carolir* St** NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN G. CONRAD...Jefferson F. J. BOLING Siler City H. C. BUCHAN, JR North Wilkesboro SCROOP W. ENLOE, JR Spruce Pine VOIT | | | Report (edition) | Information Circular GOLD RESOURCES OF NORTH CAROLINA by P. A. Carpenter, D oc ms C% M:*L Raleigh...for the general welfare of the citizens of North Carolina. The section conducts a number of basic and...Geological Survey Section, P.O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 26711. Jeffrey C. Reid Chief Geologist Cover...3 Mining Methods and Recovery 3 Gold in North Carolina 5 History of Mining 5 Production 7 General...Deposits of North Carolina 12 Eastern Carolina Belt 12 Portis Mine 14 Other Mines 14 Carolina Slate | | | Report (issue) | CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1975 Officers President: Robert D. Hatcher, Jr Department of Chemistry...Clemson, South Carolina Vice President: Carlton J. Leith Department of Geosciences North Carolina State...State University Raleigh, North Carolina Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron, Jr. Department of Geology...Geology Duke University Durham, North Carolina Chairman of Membership Committee: Robert E. Lemm Department...Charleston, South Carolina Field Trip Leaders: Stephen A. Kish Department of Geology University of North Carolina | | Ayuso, R. A., Wooden, J. L., Foley, N. K., Seal, R. R., Sinha, A. K. (2005) U-Pb Zircon Ages and Pb Isotope Geochemistry of Gold Deposits in the Carolina Slate Belt of South Carolina. Economic Geology, 100 (2) 225-252 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.100.2.225 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Geochemistry of Gold Deposits in the Carolina Slate Belt of South Carolina R. A. AYUSO,† U.S. Geological Survey...Formation host the largest known gold mines of the Carolina slate belt. U-Pb (SHRIMP) zircon ages have been...Brewer pit and felsic ash-flow tuff from the quartz sericite alteration zone), from the disseminated and semimassive...ash-flow tuff from the stratigraphic host of the North pit gold deposit). Generally, the zircons are fine...molybdenite) and silicate minerals (K-feldspar, and sericite) in the gold deposits help to constrain the sources | | | Report (issue) | CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1971 Officers President: Norman K. Olson, State Geologist Division of...Columbia, South Carolina Vice President: Walter H. Wheeler Department of Geology University of North Carolina...Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron, Jr. Department of Geology Duke...Duke University Durham, North Carolina Chairman of Membership Committee: David S. Snipes Department...Chemistry and Geology Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina Field Trip Leader: W. Robert Power Department | | | Report (issue) | Gold Deposits of the Carolina Slate Belt, Southeastern United States: Age and Origin of the Major Gold..., and Ayuso, R.A., 2012, Gold deposits of the Carolina Slate Belt, southeastern United States—Age and...18. Historic open pit of the Haile Gold Mine, South Carolina ........................................... 4 The regional distribution of rocks in the Carolina and Avalonian tectonic zones.................................. 6 Terrane distributions in the Carolina zone ........................................ | | | Report (issue) | Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina By Robert M. Kernon Open-file report 1968...Relations of rocks of Great Smoky age to those of the Murphy marble belt- 5 6 18 18 19 19 19 20 21 21 22 23...23 23 25 25 w 26 26 27 27 Page Rocks of the Murphy marble belt-- - Nantahala Slate as restricted by...metasandstone, and schist Pseudodiorite - Amphibolite - - - Murphy Marble Definition and distribution Stratigraphic...Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina. Map of Ducktown, Isabella, and Persimmon Creek | | | Report (issue) | Residual boulders of massive kyanite, Pickens County. ·~· LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Department of Mines...-- _ SILLIMANITE IN TOWNS COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND CLAY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA--------------------------Location...-----------------------------------------------Murphy Mar b I e ----------------------------~-------... Residual boulders of massive kyanite, Pickens County. Figure 1. Sillimanite crystals in biotite. gneiss...Hart County ________________ 14 Figure 2. Oglethorpe formation, on Burnt Mountain, Pickens County, containing | | | Report (issue) | FONTANA DAM AND TUSKEEGEE QUADRANGLES, SWAIN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA by Scott Southworth U.S. Geological Survey...Geological Survey editorial standards (or with the North American Stratigraphic Code). Any use of trade,...FONTANA DAM AND TUSKEEGEE QUADRANGLES, SWAIN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA by Scott Southworth INTRODUCTION AND GEOLOGIC...approximately nine days were spent mapping the north shore of Fontana Lake in November, 1993, when more...Valley Authority (TVA) map is on file with the North Carolina Geological Survey in Asheville (L.S. Wiener | | | Report (issue) | 71 South Carolina .......................................................................77 North Carolina...Montana, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts... Talc in the Murphy belt, North Carolina and Georgia, is found in the Cambrian Murphy Marble. Hydrothermal...deposits in Massachusetts are mostly located in a north-trending belt of Cambrian and Ordovician metasedimentary...Talc deposits in Vermont are mostly located in a north-trending belt of Cambrian and Ordovician metasedimentary | | | Report (issue) | investigation. It has already proven of value in Fannin County and will, it is anticipated, prove equally useful...complicated geologic history and mineral deposits of north-central Georgia. Very respectfully yours, GARLAND...mainly in Fannin County, Georgia, but includes part of Cherokee County, North Carolina, and part of the...slate, Tusquitee quartzite, Brasstown formation, Murphy marble, Andrews formation, Nottely quartzite, and...feldspathic quartzite, metasubgraywacke, marble, and sericite schist. In the Great Smoky group and in the younger | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Windsor County.................... 253 254 Talc and Verde Antique Quarry, Stockbridge,Windsor County Williams...Williams Mine, RochesterTownship, Orange County........ ... Verde Antique Quarry, North Hollow, Rochester...Prospect at Hammondsville, Reading Township, Windsor County .................................................Township, Washington County.................................... Waterbury Mine of the Eastern Magnesia...most importantin the United States,occurin two north-southbeltsin central and eastern Vermont as lensesin | | | Report (issue) | ................................. .. 6 Quartz Sericite Schist .. ......... .. ... ... .. .. ... .. ....Celeste 7 1/2 minute quadrangle are a part of the Carolina tectono-stratigraphic terrane. They may be divided...folding that may be related to the accretion of the Carolina terrane to Laurentia. This was followed by a period...known in Wilkes County despite the fact that at the time it was bordered to the north and west by the...area, such as the Latimer mine to the east and the Stoney Ridge mine to the south. In a report on the feldspar | | | Report (volume) | States Continued North Carolina______________________________________________ Murphy district.-__--__...Geologic map of the Chatsworth district, Murray County, Ga., showing the location of the principal talc... New York. 6. Geologic map of the Murphy district, North Carolina, showing the location of the principal...Nevada-_________---_-___-4. Allamoore district, Hudspeth County, Tex___________ 16 19 36 46 CONTENTS TABLES...analyses of talcs from the Chatsworth district, Murray County, Ga_ _________________________________ 30 11. Varieties | | | Book (volume) | the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust long spurs...the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...Valentine in Cherry Co., extending along the Niobrara River eastward into Brown Co. The Sandhills Museum in...area around the confluence of the Loup River with the Platte River in Platte Co. is well known for its agates |
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