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Biotite from
Fairfield County, South Carolina, 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 Fairfield County, South Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:901845
Long-form Identifier:1:3:901845:7
GUID (UUID V4):ed075895-52e1-438b-b5e7-8b86cc743b72
Localities for Biotite in this Region
Anderson Quarry (Winnsboro Granite Corporation Quarry), Fairfield County, South Carolina, USA
Blair Quarry (Lone Star Industries Inc.; Cement and Construction Materials Group), Fairfield County, South Carolina, USA
Leiper-Davis Quarry, Fairfield County, South Carolina, USA
Rion Quarry (Ri/M Quarry), Rion, Fairfield County, South Carolina, USA
Strother Quarry, Fairfield County, South Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PETROLOGY OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA GRANITES' THOMAS LEONARD WATSON Brooks Museum, University of Virginia...OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE CRYSTALLINE AREA The South Carolina area of crystalline rocks extends northwestward...Director of the U. S. Geological Survey. 2 South Carolina Geological Survey, 1908, Series IV, Bull. No...No. 2, p. 505. 730 PETROLOGY OF SOUTH CAROLINA GRANITES 73I position and texture the gneisses... and contain, in addition to quartz and mica (biotite with frequently some muscovite), much microcline
Report (issue)
1. Approximate two-day field trip locations of Carolina Geological Society relative to the generalized... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Guidebook for 1973 Annual Meeting...PLUTONS OF THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PIEDMONT OF SOUTH CAROLINA H. D. Wagoner Chiasma Consultants, Inc. 60...29401 David E. Howell2 Division of Geology South Carolina State Development Board P. O. Box 927 Columbia...reserves of this commodity available in the South Carolina Piedmont, Purposes Reconnaissance mapping
Report (volume)
The Crystalline Rocks of South Carolina By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces of South Carolina UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,...and Precambrian(?) age_______________________ Carolina slate belt_________________________________________...Metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks___________ Biotite schist______________________________________ Q..._____________________________________ -. _ ____ Biotite gneiss and migmatite__ __ _____________ __ __ ___
Report (issue)
Inside back cover Monazite placers of North and South Carolina .............................................mined in the Piedmont province of North and South Carolina from 1887 to 1911, and again intermittently...of Fredericksburg, Va., south-southwestward for 200 miles into North Carolina. Monazite-bearing rocks...placers that were formerly mined in North and South Carolina. These placers were sampled, and the monazite...country rock, and certain granitic gneisses of the Carolina gneiss. Some of the associated pegmatites also
Report (issue)
SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY Volume 40 The Carolina Terrane in Northeastern South Carolina: History of an...Eocambrian Rocks (Ridgeway Gold Mine, South Carolina), Carolina Terrane Mervin J. Bartholomew, Amy E....Neoproterozoic Intra-Arc Basin in the Carolina Terrane, South Carolina Kenneth A. Gillon, T. Langdon Mitchell...to the Geology of the Ridgeway-Camden Area, South Carolina Piedmont Donald T. Secor, Jr., Chris A. Barker...guidebook has been reformatted from the original SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGY publication. Cover Photo: Overview
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Branchville, Fairfield County, Connecticut A CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITY E D W A R D J. MARCIN 244 Eadon... almandine amblygonite apatite autunite beryl biotite bismite bismuth calcite chabazite cleavelandite...scopic, such as those from Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Most lithiophilite at Branchville is generally...a new and remark­ able mineral locality in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Amer. Jour, of Sci., 3rd. ser...16:33-46. . 1879. On the mineral locality in Fairfield County, Connecticut, with description of two additional
Report (issue)
occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of North Carolina ..... 67 Table 12 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of South Carolina ..... 85 Table 15 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of North Carolina................................77 Figure 17. Uranium...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of South Carolina. ............*......*...........86 Figure 20...uranium: northwestern Michigan, northwestern North Carolina; a belt extending from eastern Pennsylvania, across
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY http://carolinageologicalsociety.org/ 2015 Board of Directors Officers...Tectonic history of the eastern Piedmont in South Carolina Donald T. Secor, Jr, C. Scott Howard, and Robert................... 1 The Haile Gold Mine, South Carolina, USA James M. Berry, Reid M. Mobley, Kenneth A..................................... 51 iii Carolina Geological Society Field Trip October 24-25, 2015...Piedmont in South Carolina Donald T. Secor, Jr C. Scott Howard Robert H. Morrow, IV South Carolina Department
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
southern Appalachian Piedmontareasof North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Detailed petrographicdescriptionsof...Mecklenburg,North Carolina pluton (Hermes,1968,1970),and the Buffalo, South Carolina pluton (Medlin et...contactbetweenthe Charlotteand Carolina slate belts in southeasternFairfield County, South Carolina, and is situated...clinopyroxene, proportions, with lesseramounts of biotite, hornblende,and opaqueminerals.Rock typesbasedon...percent) with plagioclase,augite,bronzite,and biotite; (2) anorthositicgabbro, containing )60 percent
Report (volume)
........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards...Mr. D. H. Newland, State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota...Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota... .Prof. E. C. Perisho...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;
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 .........................................
Report (issue)
Piedmont in Central South Carolina, by D. T. Secor and H. D. Wagener--- Carolina Geological Society Field...Field Trip October 18-20, 1968 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Guidebook for 1968 Annual Meeting Pages...IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA D. T. Secor, Jr. Department of Geology University of South Carolina Columbia...Department of Chemistry The Citadel Charleston, South Carolina. soil mantle and are flowing across fresh...encountered in the Carolina Slate Belt and adjacent Charlotte Belt in central South Carolina. It is hoped that
Catalog/List
aluminum silicate CLEA VE LANDITE Connecticut Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite...cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon Nearly pure white xlline lamellar mass . MOONSTONE...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Formation (Rodgers and others, 1959), and on the south by Cenozoic and younger sedimentary rocks and sediments...quartz-microcline-microperthite rock with small amounts of biotite and muscovite. It is foliated and structurally...from neosomes in a migmatite in member C (gray biotite-hornblende gneiss with quartzfeldspar layers and...incremental heating studies on similar rocks in Dutchess County, New York, now indicate that the metamorphism actually...1973), North Carolina (Dennison and others, 1967; Odom and Fullagar, 1973), South Carolina, and Georgia
Report (issue)
Bedrock geology of the Niantic quadrangle, New London County,^Connecticut: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad. Map...Bedrock geologic map of the Ansonia quadrangle, Fairfield and New Haven Counties, Conn.5 U.S. Geol. Survey...Bedrock geology of the Norwalk North and Norwalk South quadrangles: Connecticut Geol. and Nat. History...Bedrock geologic map of the Milford quadrangle, Fairfield and New Haven Counties, Connecticut: U.S. Geol...Surficial geologic map of the Norwalk South quadrangle, Fairfield County, Conn.: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Quad
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Stockwork Tectonics in the Appalachian Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia By V. S. GRIFFIN,Clemson *) With...Piedmont of South Carolina are discussed and related to a detailed study in northwestern South Carolina and to...reconnaissance study of the Piedmont along the South Carolina - - Georgia border. A regional tectonic stoekwork...and Geology, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29681. 868 V. S. GRIFFIN- - Stockwork Tectonics...-1409. Partial support has been extended by the South Carolina Division of Geology since 1965. H.S. JoHNSON
Report (volume)
....................................... North Carolina. ........................................................ South Carolina......................................:.................... South Dakota.......Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature...edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon, C...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908
Report (issue)
RESERVOIR, SOUTH CAROLINA Donald T. Secor, Jr. Department of Geology University of South Carolina Columbia...Columbia, South Carolina 29208 USGS CONTRACT NO. 14-08-0001-19124 Supported by the EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS REDUCTION...INDUCED SEISMICITY AT MONTICELLO RESERVOIR, SOUTH CAROLINA BY Donald T. Secor, Jr., Principal Investigator...Investigator Department of Geology University of South Carolina September 30, 1980 Sponsored by the U.S....the geology of the Lake Monti cello region, South Carolina. This work was undertaken in order to determine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
brownish-green amphibolite composed of hornblende, biotite, and plagioclase with accessory sphene and ilmenite...(0.2-0.3 mm.) gneiss composed of plagioclase, biotite, and quartz. fn the northwestern corner of the... The dike is a gray, medium-grained gneissoid biotite-muscovite granite, containing accessory apatite...accessorygreen apatite, green tourmaline, hornblende, and biotite. CaIcite is a minor constituent. In some places...oligoclaseis the only essential mineral. Hornblende and biotite occur in the upper part of the zone and are visible
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The hornblende* melt : biotite reaction in the Libertv Hill pluton, South Carolina J. Ar,nxaNDER SPEER*...coarse-grainededenite + biotite granitoid faciesgrading to a biotite, pargasite + biotite, or muscovite * biotite granitoid...marginal facies.The replacementof amphibole by biotite, mineral compositions, and "liquid" variation diagrams...amphibole to liquid : biotite with an intervening liquid + amphibole : biotite reaction resulting from...along the amphibole-biotite liquidus boundary from the even, liquid: amphibole * biotite, to the odd, liquid
Report (volume)
Highway 49 (Skyway Road) near town of Abel, Cleburne County. Absaroka Supergroup/Volcanic Supergroup U ABRK03...volcanic field, Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyo. Academy Church Shale Member (Springer Formation)...W1/2NW1/4NE1/4SE1/4 sec. 1, T. 3 s., R. 2 E., Carter County. Adams Formation ADMS01 1. Holocene 2. Alaska (SE)...Quadrangle, lat 45° N., long 70°50'-55' W., Oxford County. Adamstown Member (Frederick Limestone) U ADMS06...section W of Lime Kiln in Frederick Valley, Frederick County. Named for town of Adamstown. Adobe Town Member
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphic grade in the Paleozoic rocks to the north and south of the Hudson Highlands (Reading Prong) increases...1972). In contrast, in the Peekskill area to the south of the Highlands, Ratcliffe has shown that although...roadcut on Interstate 684, about half a kilometre south of the Croton Falls exit. The dominant (Si) foliation...foliation consists of strongly aligned biotite and sillimanite and parallel quartzo-feldspathic segregations...deform the F3 folds, and a faint S4 of parallel biotite and sillimanite has developed in the quartz—K-feldspar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
areas along Route 8; however, collecting extended south through Watertown and north through Thomaston, revealing...revealing calcite, quartz, pyrite, and zeolites. Fairfield C o u n t y Agstone C o . limestone q u a r r...West R e d d i n g , Simbaug T u r n p i k e , south of railroad station: calcite, clinozoisite, grossular...c k e l a n d a r s e n i c mines, near Route 8 south of Seymour: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz. S t r...field of view 10.2 cm across, 1-84, Newtown, Fairfield County; collected 1960. Weber specimen, Marcelle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some...the littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...crystals. Dark muscovite is sometimes mistaken for biotite and phlogopite. The streak is white (Anthony et...Muscovite is the second most common mica after biotite. Muscovite has many uses, one of the earliest of...kaolinite (Fleet 2003). Detrital muscovite and biotite have been mistaken for gold, a fact I found hard
 
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