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Pyrophyllite from
Sawyer Mine, Carolina Slate Belt, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrophyllite
Formula:Al2Si4O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrophyllite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sawyer Mine, Carolina Slate Belt, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:925104
Long-form Identifier:1:3:925104:5
GUID (UUID V4):c0562a2d-ca68-4a6a-8cd7-dc9e203591b1
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrophyllite
11.0km (6.8 miles) Jones-Keystone Mine, Carolina Slate Belt, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
19.7km (12.3 miles) Fox-Iron Mountains, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
22.5km (14.0 miles) Gluyas Mine, Carolina Slate Belt, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
25.2km (15.6 miles) Harney Mine, Pilot Mountain, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
25.6km (15.9 miles) Pilot Mountain prospect, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
28.6km (17.8 miles) Staley Mine (Gerhardt Mine), Staley, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
34.9km (21.7 miles) Steeds Prospect, Montgomery County, North Carolina, USA
35.2km (21.9 miles) North State No. 2 Prospect, Montgomery County, North Carolina, USA
35.4km (22.0 miles) Ammons Mine, Montgomery County, North Carolina, USA
36.0km (22.4 miles) Ammons Mine, Moore County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING AND FIELD TRIP NOVEMBER 8-10, 2013 SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA...THE CAROLINA TERRANE IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ONE ARC, TWO ARCS, OLD ARC, NEW ARC THE CAROLINA TERRANE...TERRANE IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS: James Hibbard and Jeff Pollock TRIP LEADERS: James Hibbard,...Ganis Carolina Geological Society Annual Meeting, November 8-10, 2013 Salisbury, North Carolina Carolina...Waddell University of South Carolina Allen Dennis University of South Carolina, Aiken Vice President William
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pilot Mountain and SelectedOther Localities, Carolina Slate Belt T. L. KLEIN AND R. E. CBISS* U.S. GeologicalSurvey...Abstract Severalepigeneticmineral depositsin the Carolina slatebelt are intimately related to meteoric-...leachingaccompaniedby high aluminaminerals(sericite,pyrophyllite, andalusite___ topaz) and anomalous concentrations...Reconnaissance studiesof other alterationzonesin the Carolina slatebelt havesofar disclosedthe involvementof...meteoric-hydrothermalfluidsat the Snow Camp pyrophyllite deposit,at the Hoover Hill and SawyerAu mines
Report (volume)
Kyanite Sillimanite, Dumortierite Topaz, and Pyrophyllite in the United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Kyanite Sillimanite, Dumortierite Topaz, and Pyrophyllite in the United States By AGNES B. GRAMETBAUR...Topaz____-_---______-_-______-_-____-__-_-_--___________ Pyrophyllite._____________________________.________ Explanation...deposits of the kyanite group of minerals and pyrophyllite. __________ In pocket m CONTRIBUTIONS TO...KYANITE SILLIMANITE, DUMORTIERITE, TOPAZ, AND PYROPHYLLITE IN THE UNITED STATES By AGNES B. GRAMETBATTR
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
239–256 The Russell Gold Deposit, Carolina Slate Belt, North Carolina TERRY L. KLEIN,† U.S. Geological...Abstract Gold deposits have been mined in the Carolina slate belt from the early 1800s to recent times, with...mines in South Carolina. The Russell mine, one of the larger producers in North Carolina, is located in...has shown that a rhyolitic dome near the Russell mine was extruded during the deposition of the lower...Brewer, Haile, and Ridgeway deposits of South Carolina. Gold was mined from at least six zones that are
Report (issue)
IN NORTH CAROLINA INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND NATURAL RESOURCES ...agencies for the general welfare of the dtizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts basic and applied research...Resources, at Post Office Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687, or call (919) 733-2423. Jeffrey...Chief Geologist GOLD NORTH CAROLINA IN . by P. Albert Carpenter III NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INFORMATION...INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT
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:
Report (issue)
Central group ____________________________ _ _ Carolina gneiss ________________________ _ Mica schist...SoutherngrouP----------------------~-- 7 --- Talladega slate ______ ~ _________________ _ Hillabee chlorite schist...__________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina and South Carolina ______ ____ _ Georgia ______________...34 35 35 36 39 44 44 45 46 47 47 49 49 50 50 Mine descriptions ___________ --------- -- .. -------...___ _______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______ _____ _____ _ Franklin ____
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain and East Ridge in the Appalachian belt of Virginia, USA (Kyanite Mining Corporation 2005). Further...Appalachian belt are of Archaean (Russia), Proterozoic (Scandinavia) and Palaeozoic (USA) ages. In Norway...granitic plutons of the Transcandinavian Igneous Belt (Ihlen 2000). The rocks typically underwent upper...Skjomen, belonging to the Sørdalen supracrustal belt (Fig. 3a), which is part of the Palaeoproterozoic...Palaeoproterozoic Rombak basement window (Korneliussen and Sawyer 1989). A nearly 70-km-long folded zone of muscovite-rich
Report (issue)
14 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Asbestos ore Lead ore. Balmat Mine, N. Y. Chromite-chromium ore. Wash. Zinc ore, Friedensville...ore. Poncha Springs, Colo. 14. Tungsten ore, North Carolina 5 World Nonbauxite Aluminum Resources Excluding............................ South Carolina-Georgia-Alabama Kaolin Belt....... Argentina..................Corporation................................... North American Coal Corporation.........................major kaolin districts in the South Carolina-Georgia-Alabama kaolin belt................................
Book
Chromite Clays 41 190 Pumice & scoria 52 Pyrophyllite 205 217 220 62 Corundum &emery Rare-earth...Feldspar 106 Fluorspar Garnet Graphite 110 Slate Sodium sulfate 122 = 130 Iodine 138 Sulfur...come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many rocks and...eclipsing the mineral magnesite in some areas; the trona mine rather than the Solvay plant is now the main source...for example, are almost entirely derived from the USA and Tur- key, a situation too narrowly based comfort
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
relics, etc. Please send details to Bob Menser, 2819 North Warner, Tacoma 7, Wash. Your satisfaction is fully...open day entrance 12 years 25North 7 St., Rogers City, Michigan. weighing several...LOUIS, 14, MO. OPALS, BRILLIANT COLORS-Direct from mine, 15 for $5.00. 10 ringsize cabochons (opal, amethyst...polished tumbled agate, jasper, etc., postpaid in USA for only $5.00. George W. Owens, 150 III. Dr., Jacksonville...COLLECTION-Miniatures of di optase. Tiger Mine; vanadinite, Old Yuma Mine; enargite crystals, Butte, Mont. $2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Federation Convention Show (Browne) 429 Himoloyo mine reopened 489 Canada, Collecting in New Brunswick...manganese 515 Diamonds, Crater of (Owens) 3 Diamond Mine owner dies, one of world's richest men 123 Duncan...113, 222, 414, 515 Elsing, Morris J 212 Emerald Mine "Old Plantation" (Sterrett) 302 WNC emerald mines...fossils (Matthews) 220 Fossil Collecting in North Carolina (Casanova) 340 Penn. fossil plant locality...Fulgurites in the making (Reed) 406 Gemstonet in North Carolina (Bruce) 308 Giannini, William F 413 Goodwin
Report (issue)
alumino-silicate minerals, such as kaolin or pyrophyllite, to which has been added a suitable amount of...note that the hardness of the Brewer topaz, South Carolina, is only 7, and its specific gravity 3-509. When...diaspore with which it is associated, and the South Carolina topaz is said to bear strong casual resemblance...translucent; diaspore, creamy-white and lustreless; pyrophyllite, pure white, opaque and enamel-like; and rutile...include the andalusite-staurolite association of north-east Scotland (the Buchan type of Read3) and instances
Book (volume)
.......................................346 North Carolina ........................................................................................356 North Dakota ...............................................................................427 South Carolina ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ...............................
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)
chrysocolla, cordierite, dioptase, dumortierite, pyrophyllite, the quartz varieties the garnet varieties...intrusive into rocks of the Damara Sequence. Pyrophyllite formed within the thermal aureole of the Brandberg...7.2. Grossularite -Andradite 8. Milarite 9. Pyrophyllite 10. Quartz 10.1. Coarsely crystalline varieties...scale production of dioptase, chrysocolla and pyrophyllite is also of importance. Most of the Namibian...green amazonite was mined on a small scale to the north of Rossing Siding, Swakopmund District (Martin,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BALAS RUBIES Va in., perfect crystals. Your list for mine. H. Rzemieniewski, 440 E. 145th St., New York 54...D MINERALS OPALS, BRILLIANT COLORS-Direct from mine, 15 for $5.00. 10 ringsize cabochons (opal, amethyst...Port Jervis, N.Y. TEN SPECIMENS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA MINERALS—$1.00. Materials donated by members...Mountain Lapidary Guild, Box 12, Waynesville, North Carolina. RED AGATE—Also some green and black moss....xl groups, plattnerite, byssolite, zincite, pyrophyllite, samarskite. Laguna agate, polished; quartz
Book (edition)
Fran« H. Rippte and Wiirrw R. Foster ....... 893 Slate, By GHARLES EL BERRE, Ja nyse vein) eeeeee 927 Natural...e 0.20 Turkey: Kalah. .. Gumuch. Samos..... USA. Virginia... Chester, Mass..| New York New York...Rabun County, Georgia; at Corundum Hill, Macon County, and at Webster, Jackson County, North Carolina;...Carolina; at Clover, York County, South Carolina; and in Gallatin County, Montana. A few other deposits in...in the southeastern belt have produced small tonnages and un- worked occurrences have been reported in
Report (Issue volume)
State mineral production and mineral production by county were prepared in the Division of Statistics and...York Geological Survey. North Carolina: Division of Land Resources, North Carolina Department of Environment...Environment, Health, and Natural Resources. . North Dakota: North Dakota Geological Survey. Oklahoma: Oklahoma...Department of Environmental Management. South Carolina: South Carolina Geological Survey. South Dakota: South... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • 359 North Carolina, by Steve W. Sikich, P. Albert Carpenter, Ill
Report (edition)
after those established in the Bibliography of North American geology, published by the U. S. Geological...Each article was read, annotated, and indexed by county, subject, and stratigraphic interval where applicable...where the area involved was larger than that of a county, subdivisions of the state, based upon physiographic...published by the Academy from various places. NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. CONSERV. AND DEVEL. DIV. MINERAL RESOURCES...of the Division of Mineral Resources of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Talucah near Vahlermoso Springs, in Morgan County, north Alabama. A large portion of this cave had been...Morning Star zinc mine near the little village of Rush, Marion Co., Ark. CALIFORNIA—From a mine in Darwin, Inyo...letter from him he writes: "The Darwin, Calif., mine is lead and zinc, with occasional high grade silver...Colorado School of Mines, I heard of an active uranium mine or quarry a couple of miles from town. Following...the owner drove up and told me I could visit the mine. On the way, I stopped to collect specimens of malachite
Report (edition)
after those established in the Bibliography of North American geology, published by the U. S. Geological...Each article was read , annotated , and indexed by county , subject, and stratigraphic interval where applicable...where the area involved was larger than that of a county , subdivisions of the state, based upon physiographic...FANNIN UNION TOWNS HABE R BLUE GILMER WHITE SHAN NORTH RIDGE LUMPKIN WALKER CHATTOOSA GORDON PICKERS S...published by the Academy from various places. NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. CONSERV. AND DEVEL . DIV . MINERAL
Book (edition)
Sand-lime Brick.470 Scricitc.474 Serpentine.475 Slate.. Soapstone.4g4 Sodium Compounds.439 spinel.. Stone...forms a very small industry at Brandon in Suffolk County. Grindstones and Pulpstones. The production of...350 5,323 Minnesota, 140,290 103,180 113,138 North C arolina, Beach pebbles, artifuiully rounile...manufactiirod from quartzite and granite in Minnesota, North (’arolina, Wisc«)nsin, and Soutli Dakota. Millstones...small way. limited output fi oin Minnesota and North ('arolina \s licu e gi anitc^ is Chaser stones
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Ham p:;hire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Peru1Sylvania...Clapp's Museum Publications; not indexed here) North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Mineral Resources 253 Education Building Raleigh, North Carolina r:). 7 /.i..-0 J, / V _,,Ohio Division of... South Carolina Division of Geology State Development Board Box 927 Columbia, South Carolina :,J.. ...3 Preliminary report on a µirt of the lower gold belt of Cement resources of Alabama, Alabama, in the
 
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