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Quartz from
Benfield Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Benfield Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:881450
Long-form Identifier:1:3:881450:0
GUID (UUID V4):a3197021-3e42-49ef-ba8d-9ab324e1cebf
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.5km (0.3 miles) ⓘJohnson Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) ⓘPine Branch Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) ⓘHoppey Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) ⓘFriel Vance Mine (Freel Vance Mine; Jose Camina MIne), Avery County, North Carolina, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) ⓘSlippery Elm Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) ⓘFall Branch Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) ⓘGrapevine Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘPancake Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) ⓘWoody Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) ⓘEmmons Knob Mine, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Club of Class II (Multiple Page) Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, deChips and Facets scribe a field...trip to the petrified wood location in Baldwin County. The Piedmont Prospector cover reminds me of the...Piedmont Mineral Club, Greensboro, went to Foote Mine and found switzerite! . . . The Charlotte Gem and...Institution on "Mineral Curiositys" . . . The Central North Carolina Mineral Club, Durham, is training members in...Quarry was the recent objective of the St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club, Potsdam, for limestones
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tourmaline from fault gouge near Barstow, San Bernardino County, California 1020 Allen, V. T. (Book Review) 152... Belyarrkite ( :creedite) (Ermilova, N{oleva) Benfield, D. A. u.ith Young, R. S. and Strachan, K. G....(Mitchell, Corey) Cobalt in kimb,:rlites(Young, Benfield,Strachan) " Coffinite (WeeLs,Thompson) Columbium...metarnorphism in the Contact Christmas Mouutains, Brewster County, Texas(Clabaugh) the Earth Conversation t'ith (Cloos)(Book...Mount Diamond Technology-Production Jemorakly-Tube, North CauMethods for Diamond and casus,U.S.S.R... 395
Report (issue)
noftonclature* Frui>ar«d in oooperation >dth the liorth Carolina Dep&rtaent of Conservation and Development* C05TSHTS...Metamorphic rocks ................ Mica rocks of the Carolina-type ....... Mioa gneiss .............. Mica schist...schist .............. Petrograpljy of the Carolina-type rocks . Structure and texture ....... Mineral.............. Cranberry gneiss ................ Carolina-type rocks .....*.......* Roan-type rocks ......mica ................ Garnet .................. Quartz .................. Accessory minerals ........
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
199 East Brook Rd., Pittsford, N.Y. 14534. NORTH CAROLINA Ethel Windsor, member of the Pied­ mont Mineral...trip to Mifflin County. Member Bob Cox of the Rock and Min­ eral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills...pyrite and black chert; aragonite from the Old Johes Mine; lepidcrocite at Mud Lake and many others. - - -...[University of Florida] at 14:10 07 August 2017 SOUTH CAROLINA The Spartanburg Gem and Mineral Society held...held two successful field trips: One to the Ray Mine for beryl and aqua­ marine, and the other to Canton
Book
MINES MINERS MINERALS AND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Western North Carolina’s Hidden Mineralogical Treasures...E L L 2005 PARKWAY PUBLISHERS, INC. Boone, North Carolina Copyright ©1999 Lowell Presnell All Rights...Mines, miners, and minerals of western North Carolina : western North Carolina’s hidden mineralogical treasures...(hard cover) 1. Mines and mineral resources—North Carolina—History. I. Title. TN24.N8P74 2005 338.4‚7622‚09756—dc22...Domestic Mica Buying Policy 111 20. Western North Carolina & the War Years .119 21. The Mineral Kingdom
Journal (issue)
Speldhurst KENT TN3 0NP John Burgess The Old School 168 North Cray Road Sidcup KENT DA145EL Trevor Devon Battle...AND VOLCANIC DISASTERS Dr Stephen Edwards: Aon Benfield Hazard Research Centre, UCL . Understanding the...volcanism is now top of the research interest at Benfield, which is sponsored by Aon Insurance. The volcanic...(amphiboles} and framework silicates (feldspars, quartz and micas}. In the molten state the silicate can...2012 .. l Ec:logite 1:1 The-Metamorphics * .Avery rare geezer. who is _otlen unstable' ol lhe surface
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold cluster sizes and co-ordination environment Benfield (1992) presented formulae that relate the co-ordination...present within a cuboctahedral cluster presented by Benfield (1992) (Table 2). The co-ordination of each site...more generally, to the size of the gold clusters (Benfield et al. 2001). Figure 2 shows that the sizes of...of at least five to six shells of gold atoms (Benfield et al. 2001) and that the clusters are at least...cuboctahedral and icosahedral clusters (Benfield 1992; Fritsche and Benfield 1993) and these two cluster types
Report (issue)
that the effects of porosity water content, and quartz or olivine content can be combined in a single...interpolated values can be calculated. By showing the quartz or olivine data on the plots, an estimate of uncertainty...water values of K, due to lack of data at low y. ~~ Quartz, Olivine, and Clay Content In their study of basalt...affecting rock conductivity is quartz. At 35° C and 50 bars, average K of quartz is about 18 x ID" 3 cal/cm...and 4 times that of dense basalt. The effect of quartz content was ascertained in large part from mineral
Journal (issue)
Blue John; Barite; Mica; Twinned Quartz; Plumpton Calcite; Rose Quartz; Granite; Molybdenite ... ‱ a potato...of France pictorially. Millau is situated 100 km north west of the Mediterranean coast and is consequently...Devon standing in front of the 'Treves' (a zince mine tip) village sign - see opposite page, and pretty...more about volcanic disasters. Bill Mcguire is Benfield Professor of Geophysical Hazards at University...College London and Director of the university's Benfield Hazard Research Centre, Europe's largest, multidisciplinary
Report (issue)
under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Valley Authority Physical...under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Falley Authority UNITED...___._ — —— __-__-_-____ Inclusions of muscovite, quartz, and apatite in muscovite..-._-_.____-__-_-_--...Production of sheet and punch mica, 1912-14, in North Carolina, the Southeastern States, and the entire United...data for mica specimens, arranged by lot and by mine or prospect-_-___--_-___-_-.___---___-_____--_ Results
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Beckley, Oxon, a village four and a half miles north-east of Oxford, are discussed and the extensive...from the Berkshire Oolites; occasional lydites and quartz. Pleurotomaria reticulata Sow., Lima (Plagiostoma)... Sand, evenly-laid, ferruginous, wedged out in north by Bed 2 up to lb. Sandy Limestone, gritty, yellow...into sand locally; is in contact with Bed 2 in the north end of the quarry and there becomes welded to it...Bed 2 where the beds are welded together in the north end of the quarry. SECTIONS IN THE CORALLIAN BEDS
Journal (issue)
Speldhurst KENT TN3 0NP John Burgess The Old School 168 North Cray Road Sidcup KENT DA14 5EL Trevor Devon Battle...Topaz Peridot Scapolite Al2SiOs Spinel Corundum Quartz Beryl Feldspar Gamet Tourmaline The distinction...gem in its own right. Quartz despite its very simple composition, Si0 2, the quartz family is arguably the...and amethyst), crystalline massive (e.g. milky quartz), polycrystalline (e.g. quartzite and aventurine)...illustrated. We look forward to an elaboration of the QUARTZ FAMILY in April 2010. Thank you Peter Pam Pearce
Book
Rose in The Village Carpenter (1937)1 and Eric Benfield in Purbeck Shop (19401 a book of which Dr. Arkell...Scandinavian words are of course common in the North Country, but some are ubiquitous. Examples are flag...diluvium, conglomerate, oolite, pisolite. The terms mine and quarry were both originally rock terms. Seams...and, from at least the 14th to the 17th century, mine meant a mineral or ore. It is usually supposed to...Story of Stone, published in 1940 by Mr. Eric Benfield, who started life in the Purbeck stone-mines and
Book
Rose in The Village Carpenter (1937)1 and Eric Benfield in Purbeck Shop (19401 a book of which Dr. Arkell...Scandinavian words are of course common in the North Country, but some are ubiquitous. Examples are flag...diluvium, conglomerate, oolite, pisolite. The terms mine and quarry were both originally rock terms. Seams...and, from at least the 14th to the 17th century, mine meant a mineral or ore. It is usually supposed to...Story of Stone, published in 1940 by Mr. Eric Benfield, who started life in the Purbeck stone-mines and
Report (issue)
Sands in the transitional-marl siliceous member, north Sulphur Mountain..................................Miocene Santa Barbara basin between Goleta and the North Sulphur Mountain area of the Ojai oil field in the...thick are present in the transitional member on the north side of Sulphur Mountain. At Goleta the Monterey...1982). This is the largest oil field discovered in North America since Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. The "pay zone"...metastable phase, from which the stable phase, quartz, finally forms. Because several of the recent studies
Report (issue)
5 Calculation of composite models 6 Porefluid 8 Quartz, olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, and clay content...rocks 34 Felsic igneous rocks 35 Carbonate rocks 36 Quartz-bearing rocks 37 Ultramafic rocks 39 Rock glasses...conductivity change with temperature 41 Introduction - 41 Quartz - 41 Feldspar 42 Plagioclase 43 Mafic silicate...glasses Temperature effect on thermal conductivity of quartz Temperature effect on thermal conductivity of plagioclase...1-13 the effects of porosity, water content, and quartz, olivine, pyroxene, and clay content on conductivities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
later metamorphic event under an oxidizing regime (Benfield and Eggleton 1989; Braun et al. 1990; GierĂ© and...ferrohornblende), ~15 vol.% biotite (annite-rich), ~10 vol.% quartz and 5–10 vol.% K-feldspar. Prominent accessory...Modal and geochemical data (Table 1) indicate a quartz-monzodioritic composition in terms of the Streckeisen...= actinolite-tremolite + chamosite + epidote + quartz. Due to the fine grain sizes and the intimate intergrowths...amphibole + ilmenite + O2 = titanite + magnetite + quartz + H2O (Harlov et al. 2006). Monazite, allanite
Journal (issue)
Three May–June 2002 $12 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino.... . . . . 217 by A. R. Kampf The Dee North mine, Elko County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 13.6 cm, from the famous Malmberget mine, GĂ€llivose, Lapland, Sweden. Peter Lyckberg collection;...Jackson to take over the operation of the Rock Candy mine (the subject of a 1981 article by Joe in the Mineralogical
Book
BRITISH GEOLOGICAL J H POWELL AH COOPER AC BENFIELD SURVEY eo ogy o t e country ‱ aroun 1rs Memoir...the Mid-North Sea High, resulted in progradation of deltaic and paralic deposits from the north-west and...82 23 Structural and isopachyte diagrams for the north Yorkshire region showing the position of the Thirsk...Howardian Hills. These uplands include part of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park. Both amateur and...1: 10 560 scale was mostly carried out by Mr AC Benfield, Dr AH Cooper, Mr C G Godwin, Dr J H Powell and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2004 Copyright © 2004 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/04 $30.00 â«č .00 Pergamon...Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, USA 4 UMR CNRS 7047, Université de Paris 6, 75251 Paris...2575 Sand Hill Rd., MS 99, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (Received April 28, 2003; accepted in revised form...(Brazil, Cameroon, Indonesia) or gossans (Canada, USA, France, among many others). Modeling the transport...Laboratory (SSRL, SPEAR2 storage ring, Stanford, USA), at the Au LIII edge (11,919 eV). Wiggler beam line
Report (issue)
of the Late Neogene Pipe Creek Sinkhole (Grant County, Indiana) Y IN D IAN A IA I RS T IN D Bloomington...of the Pipe Creek Sinkhole (Late Neogene, Grant County, Indiana) .......................................Tertiary Teays River southwest of Lake Erie Lowlands, USA: Evidence from petrologic and lead isotopic characteristics...of the Pipe Creek Sinkhole (Late Neogene, Grant County, Indiana) By James O. Farlow, Ronald L. Richards...Creek Jr. Quarry, Irving Materials, Inc., Grant County, Indiana) preserves a diverse paleobiota of late
Report (chapter)
Lateralaccretion surfaces exposed in Greetland Quarry grade quartz and wood fragments. The sharp erosional base of...ripup clasts, wood fragments and granule-grade quartz clasts. The top of Facies 1 is not exposed but...underlying Marsdenian deltaic deposits described by Benfield (1969). However, these contrast strongly with...Lafourche Delta on the Mississippi. References BENFIELD,A. C. 1969. The Huddersfield White Rock Cyclotherm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
might well be expected. Good control is seen to the north, west and south in the easily defined Lower Greensand...conjunction with C. T. A. Gaster [8], particularly to the north of Worthing. A section drawn on this and the evidence...anticline is particularly well controlled to the north by Upper Chalk (beds dipping as much as 38° N. 10°...have been shown elsewhere to contain oil. To the north there is excellent control in the Mount Caburn Syncline...trap any oil that might be migrating towards the north, the area of greatest uplift. (g) Ashdown. Discussed
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archiving of its Micropalaeontology collections. Dorset County Museum was granted ÂŁ1500 towards the cost of conservation...Lecture Theatre: Dr Steve Edwards, from the Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre, will examine the hazards...Imperial War Museum. Meet at 10.30 outside Lambeth North Underground station on the Bakerloo Line. The walk...Meeting AVERTING DISASTER Dr Stephen Edwards Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre, University College... This brings about commercial interest, as the North Sea structures, which contain oil and gas, are very
 
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