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Sapphire from
Shovel Creek Mine, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Corundum var: Sapphire
Formula:Al2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sapphire data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shovel Creek Mine, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:951438
Long-form Identifier:1:3:951438:6
GUID (UUID V4):6f4229fc-10cf-4779-9790-ad91c3525d88
Nearest other occurrences of Sapphire
23.6km (14.7 miles) Pressley Sapphire Mine, Canton, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA
37.0km (23.0 miles) Gregory Ruby Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
37.3km (23.2 miles) Cherokee Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
37.6km (23.4 miles) Shuler Ruby Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
38.2km (23.8 miles) Holbrook Ruby Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
38.3km (23.8 miles) Dale and Demkos Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
38.6km (24.0 miles) Caler Creek Ruby Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
39.2km (24.4 miles) Jacobs Ruby Mine, Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
39.3km (24.4 miles) Yukon Ruby Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
40.0km (24.9 miles) Mincey Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
loc. 88 Solomon (4.1, 12.45) 64°42'N, 164°27'W Creek heads in schist and greenstone terrane; flows across...-163°13'W Tributary of Fish R. 2.9 mi downstream from creek labeled Aggie Cr. on most maps. Placer mining in...55-16.65) 64°56'N, 164°27'W Headwater part of creek in limestone-schist terrane; lower part in area...into which most of water is lost; schist west of creek. Gold in gravel from mouth to headwater gulches...Crosses contact between limestone and schist. Most of creek gravels had been worked at least once by 1906; no
Report (issue)
Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic code. Any use of trade, product...Resource Data File SO002 Site name(s): Carson Creek Site type: Prospect ARDFno.: SO002 Latitude: 64...Darby Peninsula, about 3 miles northeast of Carson Creek (Smith and Eakin, 1911). It is apparently near a...developed and the prospect is a short distance north of massive, light gray limestone (marble). Till...0.3 miles north of a coastal light and 1.5 miles northwest of the mouth of McKinley Creek. It is locality
Report (volume)
....-.........".........-..... 143 Big Hurrah mine............................................. Miscellaneous... Solomon River to Shovel Creek............................. Solomon River, Shovel to Quartz creeks ....creeks............... Solomon River above Big Hurrah Creek..................... Stream gravels...............Sound................................... American Creek and tributaries............................... Coastal-plain...limestone on Shovel Creek, north of .Kag.sonCree.k; B, Broad valley of Shovel Creek near .West Creek.......
Report (volume)
_ Redoubt district ___-_ _ Valdez Creek district __ _ Willow Creek district Yentna district _____________...Cook Inlet-Susitna River region ______ 6. Cache Creek area _______________ 7. Copper River region _-____________...Upper Chistochina River area _______ 9. Dan Creek-Young Creek area ________ 10. Kenai Peninsula region ____________...River area _____ 26. Noxapaga River area 27. Iron Creek area ________________ 28. Nome area _ _ Generalized...showing location of placer deposits: 35. Porcupine Creek area ___ 36. Juneau area _____ __ 94 96 97 29
Report (volume)
1922 The FLOTATION PROCESS MINERALS SEPARATION NORTH CORPORATION AMERICAN owns or controls over seventy...applications to be made direct to MINERALS SEPARATION NORTH CORPORATION AMERICAN Head Office, Engineering...California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE • MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments...Compressor NEW YORK Crushing Rolls Air Compressors Mine Pumps Ball Mills Blast Furnaces Oil Engines Screens...considered to be working the public and not the mine. Many suspicious promotions are however not positively
Journal (volume)
Abbontiakoon Mines, Ltd., company report Abosso mine. West Africa Acacia Mining Co., Colorado 270, ...prevention . . . Queen Co.'s mine, Arizona Accident Gold Mining Co., Subil mine, French Gulch, Rules, Copper...Accidents, coal-mine in United States Compensation for Workingmen's compensation Acid mine water Acidity...Co., Colorado Mine, Victor, Colorado, electric mine-signal system.. 49 Olancho county, Honduras. Akin...output Wagon-roads and trails Willow Creek district Willow Creek district, lode mining 906 819 160 330
Journal (volume)
SATURDAY. JANUARY PubUsbers. TJie Dramlammon Mine. acquirement of several adjoining properties of...eDgraving protect the mine. panic. It have been made to spread reports of a to the mine and its man- efforts...peoted change in grade of ore. di- only the Newport mine, but rector in answer to inquiries re- now they...Coos Jubilee and other rich shoots might be cut in county, in which Marsh&eld is situated, has a the eOOfoot...expected that there will be a the now famous Treadwell mine of Douglas reduction in working expenses, an indication
Report (issue)
States __ -------------------------------Other North American countries__________________ Canada____...------Bismarck Archipelago and eastern New Guinea_ Borneo (North Borneo, Brunei, Sarawak, and Kalimantan) _______________...New York ________________________________ _ North Carolina ____________________________ _ ___________...VVyoming _________________________________ _ Other North American countries _________________ _ Canada _...Bismarck Archipelago and eastern New Guinea __ Borneo (North Borneo, Brunei, Sarawak, and Kalimantan) ______
Journal (volume)
Nichols... Ore Mining Methods... Recollections of Mine Fires... The Square Fathom... Slime Agitation.....Percentages of Recovery Disraeli and Mining Dolcoath -Mine Report 369 325 212 290 153 228 *359 115 266 269...Principles of Chemical Geology Ely, Nevada, Steam Shovel Work at (c.l.) Emmons, W. H... Influence of Manganese...Freeman's Guiana, Goldfields of French HainaultGold Mine Report Hamilton, E. M.,Lead Acetate in Cyanide Practice...Hardinge, H. Crushing by Stages Haulage, Evolution of Mine E. B. Wilson (c.l.) Hawxhurst, R CoUahuasi Copper
Journal (volume)
Brett, H. T Cam & Motor Metallurgy 397 Britannia Mine, Flotation at .... British Columbian Production...226 75 43 White 167 •231 416 •59 Report Ancient Mine- Workings 95, Report Gilmoai E.Brown Cassiterite...British... Broken Hill Labour Troubles. Broken Hill, North Broken Hill Proprietarv ... Broken Hill South.....ndarj Ed H. Instruments for M i. rO 169 p.l.) Mine Surveying kt1 (e.l.) i .'.' 17 1 . . -J-J*"... 10 808 \ and i i in.- imi (Nigeria) Tin Mine 122 i' i .Report 164 Propria tarj Rep >rl limit
 
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