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Muscovite from
Welch Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Welch Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:874387
Long-form Identifier:1:3:874387:9
GUID (UUID V4):9055d020-abca-4af0-afb7-80496713ea7f
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Clyde Downes Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Hall Mine (Hall-Burra Mine), Macon County, North Carolina, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) S. C. Leatherman Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
2.8km (1.8 miles) Annie Laurie Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Iotla-Bradley Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Patton Prospect, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) Moody Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
5.4km (3.3 miles) Sheep Knob Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
5.4km (3.3 miles) Jacobs Ruby Mine, Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) Iotla-Bowers Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
noRm c ult * 4 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE, DIRECTOR...MICA DEPOSITS OF THE FRANKLIN-SYLVA DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA BY J. C. OLSON AND OTHERS PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL...WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH 1946 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT...MICA DEPOSITS OF THE FRANKLIN SYLVA DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA By J. C. OLSON and Others PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL...DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR IN COOPERATION WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Report (issue)
MISCELLANEOUS NONMETALLIC PRODUCTS. MICA DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA. By DOUGLAS B. STERRETT. INTRODUCTION. The...most important producers among these have been North Carolina, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Virginia, Colorado...Alabama, Georgia, and Idaho. For many years North Carolina has led in both quantity and value of output...amount North Carolina is credited with $127,870. The value of the mica production in North Carolina during...Geological Survey and the North Carolina Geological Survey. The greater part of the mine descriptions were obtained
Report (volume)
General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________
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)
Borfh- Ca'^nn8 Stat* CmrSPE Baietgii c.a NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...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...RESOURCES JASPER L. STUCKEY, State Geologist North Carolina state Library Raleigh BULLETIN NO. 56 * ...UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JASPER L. STUCKEY, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
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)
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...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals...occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 23 24 25- U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ROCKS IN THE TIN–SPODUMENE BELT OF NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, USA Samuel E. SWANSON§ Department of...30605, USA Abstract The Tin–Spodumene Belt (TSB) along the border of North and South Carolina, southeastern...southeastern USA, is composed of hundreds of en échelon dikes intruded into amphibolite-facies mica schist...coarse-grained spodumene, plagioclase, K-feldspar, quartz, muscovite, and accessory amounts of beryl, manganoan fluorapatite...oxide, giving the mineral a light green color. Muscovite contains 1–2 wt% FeO and a trace of sodium (0
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2501, USA 2 IMERYS, Sandersville, GA 31082, USA Abstract—The Eocene Huber Formation...Formation, exposed in the CFI Hall mine south of Irwinton, in Wilkinson County, Georgia, displays colored zones...mineralogical properties of kaolin deposits of Georgia, USA, are influenced by numerous pre-depositional and...redox processes. BACKGROUND The Georgia–South Carolina kaolin belt contains large reserves of sedimentary-hosted...kaolin in the CFI Hall mine operated by IMERYS south of Irwinton, in Wilkinson County, Georgia. The formation
Report (issue)
Physical Characteristics of Commercial Sheet Muscovite in the Southeastern United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Valley Authority Physical... Physical Characteristics of Commercial Sheet Muscovite in the Southeastern United States By RICHARD H. JAHNS...under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Falley Authority UNITED...6 7 8 11 12 12 15 16 16 17 17 22 24 26 Sheet muscovite in the Southeastern States.____________ Distribution
Report (volume)
State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G...... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Book (volume)
grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Book (volume)
grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Report (issue)
CI NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF MINERAL...Feldspar Deposits of The Bryson City District, forth Carolina BY EUGENE N. CAMERON PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH 1951 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT...Feldspar Deposits of the Bryson City District, North Carolina By N. CAMERON EUGENE PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL...DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR In cooperation with the NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Report (issue)
FEATURES OF THE BROWN HEMATITE ORES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.1 By W. S. BAYIJSY. INTRODUCTION. Within the...continuous production of brown hematite in North Carolina has attracted attention to the State as a possible...tons of brown ore has been reported to the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey as produced...Cherokee County, in the southwest corner of the State. Formerly a little came from Madison County, near...near Asheville, and from Gaston County, near Bessemer City, but the mines in these counties were abandoned
Report (issue)
RANDATHER QUNTAN of£4 vA, ATE BELT CAROLINA aes \ eer =~CAROLINA ‘ Li, aie! BARTLETT'S/27 FERRY FAULT...GRANDFATHER TENNESSEE ~~ MOUNTAIN KIOKEE BELT SOUTH CAROLINA ug 5; “A BARTLETT'S/.2 FERRY FAULT ? ALABAMA...admittedly speculative, for gold mineralization in the Carolina slate belt; it complements the paper by Neathery...Anomaly at the Peachbottom Deposit, Alleghany County, North Carolina (John E. Callahan, J. Hatten Metal Howard...Geologic South Sulfide (Thornton The Aspects Carolina Faulkner Western E. Carroll) the Southwest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...(road cut, village bypass), epidote, garnet, muscovite. Gilford area: anorthite, augite, corundum, clinozoisite...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...(microcrystals), molybdenite, monazite-(Ce), muscovite (crystals), opal (variety hyalite), phenakite
Book
(1925) to de- scribe artificially dehydrated muscovite or hiotite. Rinne, F. 1925) Anhydrobiotit-Anhydromuscovit...T. Batchelor, a former manager of the Mt. Lyell Mine, Tasmania. The nnineral resembles pyrophyllite,...for a clay mineral first found as gouge clay in a mine mineral was first called leverrierite by Earson...(1907) A sketch of the Chisos Country, Brewster County, Texas, Univ. , . , Texas Bull. 93. BERGSEIFE...mineral that has about half the potassium of muscovite. However, thermal analyses by Grim and Rowland
Report (issue)
Preliminary Investigation of the Geology of Clarke County, Georgia, by Eldon J. Parizek ______________________________...____ 23 Figure 3. Areal Lithologic Map, Clarke County, Georgia ---······-----------------------------------------------...Figure 7. Inclusion embedded in Granite in Clarke County, Georgia. The hammer lies parallel to Bedding Planes...Figure 8. Inclusion Pattern in Granite, Clarke County, Georgia ------------------------------------------...Geology of the Ellijay Quadrangle, Ge0rgia-North Carolina-Tennessee, by A. S. Furcron ______ 32 Figure
Report (issue)
__________________________ Beryl Mountain mine.-__-________--_ Chickering mine.____________________ Raymond region...districts________-_______--_-. Millard Chandler mine.____--__. Parker Mountain mine._________ Reconnaissance of other...No. 1 mine, Groton, Grafton County, N.H. Geologic map and sections of the Beryl Mountain mine, Acworth...Sullivan County, N.H. Geologic map and section of the Chickering mine, Walpole, Cheshire County, N.H. Geologic...of the Corson mine, Nottingham, Rockingham County, N.H. Geologic map of the McGall mine, Raymond, Rockingham
Book (volume)
vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all tributary branches
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Blvd., Hicksville, N . Y . In Raymond, Rockingham County, New Hampshire there are four pegmatite mines that...The names of these mines are the Chandler, Smith, Welch, and Blake. For location of these mines see the...published with this article. The Chandler mine is the most accessible mine and is located about 100 yards from...crystals of muscovite mica interspersed throughout the albite. The dumps at the Chandler mine stretch almost...around the open cut. The Smith mine is across the road from the Chandler mine. Permission must be obtained
Report (issue)
BibYiography of North American Geology. Each article was read, annotated, and indexed by county, subject, and...geographic area of the subject was greater than a county, subdivisions of the state, based upon physiographic...Science Letters. Published commercially by the North Holland Publishing Company from Amsterdam, Holland...Published by the North Carolina Academy of Science from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. EXPLORER. The Explorer...Journal of Hydrology. Published commercially by the North Holland Publishing Company from Amsterdam, Holland
Report (volume)
......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908. Scott
Report (issue)
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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