| | Report (issue) | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WILLIAM DIVISION JASPER P. OF L. SAUNDERS, MINERAL...RESOURCES GEOLOGIST Circular 16 LOCALITIES NORTH OF CAROLINA BY JAMES F. CONLEY Doc NC DENR LIBRARY...... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MINERAL COLLECTING IN NORTH CAROLINA , . . . . # . WHERE TO COLLECT f ... f ......THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY COUNTIES . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ......... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 7 Emerald, Hiddenite and Associated Minerals | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | large variety of minerals and gemstones in North Carolina annually attracts thousands of collectors to...the world. Some Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina T H E C O L L E C T I N G L O C A L I T I E...McKenzie's publication Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina: Information Circular 24 (1978). For a more...locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can be ordered from the North Carolina Department...27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can | | | Report (volume) | 'THE GEOLOGICAL vt- ,(231 > ' " ^THE MINERALS CAROLINA''" i '- OF, - :l|^fe^H - GOTEENMENT LIBRARY... W. Powell, director | | The | minerals of North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Geiitk | [Vignette]...J. W. Powell, director | | The | mineralsof North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Genth | [Vignette]...W. Powell, director | | The | :aainerals of North Carolina | by | FrederickAugustusGenth j [Vignette]...separately. Price $2.50. XVI. The Paleozoic Fishes of North America, by John Strong Newberry. 1889. 4°. 340 | | | Book (edition) | Geology of North Carolina. QE 147 .A22 1866-1887 Pt.2 V.2 Chap.1 Digitized by the Internet Archive...org/details/mineralsminerall01 nort n o o / Geology of North Carolina. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It F. A. GENTH...brought to a Pi 7 ? f 3 : GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA. 2 many new and rare species. The Mica veins...Prof. port. of A largapart of the valuable Catawba and Burke we owe to list of localities in the...within a few days , so that the list of North Carolina mineral species has been very considerably | | | Book (edition) | LOCALITIES NORTH CAROLINA, BEING CHAPTER I, OP THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. Reprinted...OF E. M. UZZELL RALEIGH, N. C. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CHROLINS. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It has F...data have been embodied. Sev- GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 4 eral causes have been operative in giving...all A number large part of the valuable of Catawba and Burke, of list we owe Alexander and elsewhere...matter of commercial interest. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 6 Dr. C. L. Hunter has also kindly furnished | | | Report (issue) | Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist i ...FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian Institution (slide...viable mineral collecting sites through out North Carolina. Some sites are commercially operated during | | | Report (issue) | .'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North CarOlina Department of Natural Resources and Community...for the general welfare of the citizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts a number of basic and...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist FRONT | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | siderite; of these, by far the most common is goethite after siderite. Many of the specimens examined...in the reference collection have a coating of goethite on their surface. Other minerals known to pseudomorph...chlorite minerals, but these are less common than the goethite pseudomorphs and are often of the encrustation...with quartz, from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The composite crystals of siderite...specimen, Eva R. Barajas photo. Starting with North America and the United States, I was surprised to | | | Report (volume) | Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle, | | | 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...townagate, 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 | | | 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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason | | | 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...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason | | | Journal (issue) | natrolite. From the Dallas Gem mine in San Benito County, California. (Jeff Scovil photo/Brett Keller collection)...found near the San Benito River and in San Benito County Other California deposits have reported occurrences...quality of the crystals found at the San Benito County mine. The California Federation of Mineralogical...blue gem benitoite is unique to the San Benito County deposit, neptunite is more common, and is found...to match it to a named variety, such as Apache County, Arizona, petrified wood or Cherokee John thunder | | | Journal (issue) | VII, pp. 334-338 (quartz after interstices from North 1926, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., LXXVIII,'pp....defined by its matrix. Carolina). Chalcedony after interstices from Chester County, Pa., has been described...described for MgO after brucite,l hematite after goethite,2 the calcination products of parisite and synchisite...Silesia, 8678 Cervantite after Antimony: I, C 2 Kern County, California, 17240, 18383 (stibioconite ?) Cervantite...Also known from Paterson, New Jersey,3 Chester County, Pennsylvania,4 and Cornwall, England. Chalcedony | | | Report (issue) | pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ _______________________...pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...bulge in the hanging wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight...granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 9. Same granite...and other units in the Big Bess pegmatite, Gaston County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ | | | Report (issue) | arawak and North Borneo _________________ _ Sarawak _____________________________ _ North BorneO----...________ _ North Island_____ ------------- ________ _ Antarctica ________________________________ _ North Am...124 126 127 130 Monazite localities-Continued North America-Continued United States of America-Continued...Perce Counties __________ _ Idaho CountY-----------------Valley CountY-----------------Adams, Payette,...and Gem Counties ________________________ _ Boise County ___ --------------Ada, Owyhee, Elmore, and Custer | | | Book | CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________............._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because...n d m 1799 i n Cabarrus C o u n t y, N o r t h Carolina, b y a s m a l l b o y w a l k i n g along a m...e y, Union, Wilkes, H a l i f a x , Davidson, Catawba, Henderson, Ashe, P o l k , Wa t a u g a , M o | | | 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...Production of sheet and punch mica, 1912-14, in North Carolina, the Southeastern States, and the entire United...United States Geological Survey, the State of North Carolina, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, involved...in the States of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. This report includes | | | Book | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite specimens | | | Report (volume) | Ark. Geol. Survey County Min. Rept.; Ann. Rept. -Arkansas Geological Survey, County Mining Report; Annual...Water Res. County Rept. -Maryland Department of Geology, Mines, and Water Resources, County Report. Md...Md. Geol. Survey County Rept. -Maryland Geological Survey, County Report. Meddel. om Gr¢nland- Meddelelser...Div. Min. Res. Bull.; Inf. Circ.; Econ. Paper-North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Raleigh. N. C. Geol. Survey Bull.; Bienn. Rept. -North Carolina Geological Survey Bulletin; Biennial Report | | | Report (issue) | ------------------------------- 72 Virginia and North Carolina ---------------- 73 West Virginia --------...Mississippi --------------------------------- 79 North Carolina ----------------------------- 79 Puerto Rico...Rico -------------------------------- 80 S<>uth Carolina ----------------------------- 81 Tennessee --...-- 84 Montana ----------------------------------North Dakota -----------------------------South Dakota...cooperators ----------------------------State, county, and local cooperators -------------Other cooperators | | | Book | Dr. and Wadi modem Peter 6 Sikait looking north, showing lesser temples to the right. photograph...information. Of the from a supposed in source north and northeast of 35 The clings a lack same...these mines, labeled found around the Nile River north of Thebes. No emeralds exist the emerald mine ...of the Botocundo beryl Mexico. as and in North Carolina, on beryl 3.5 inches (89 mm) described by...being which emerald by beryl by North American of emerald and north are Peru that in Peruvian emerald | | | Report (issue) | A293-A298 of this chapter. Numerous Federal, State, county, 1and local agencies and other organizations and...-_-_------------------North Carolina_-- _- __ --- -- - - --- - -- -- -- South Carolina ________ -_---_----------Georgia...____ _ Montana _____________________________ _ North Dakota _________________________ _ Oklahoma ___...cooperators ____________________________ _ 251 State, county, and local cooperators ______________ _ 251 Other...geochronologic studies in the Bodie district, Mono County, Calif., by M. L. Silberman and F. J. l{leinhampl | | | Report (issue) | 122 124 124 124 New Jersey Pennsylvania South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama Southeast Coastal Plain...Mississippi _______________ North Carolina __________________ South Carolina __________________ Tennessee..._______________________ Montana ____ New Mexico _ North Dakota Oklahoma _ South Dakota Texas ______ Utah...along the eastern edge of the overthrust belt just north of lat 48°N. The anomaly is coincident with an area...57 peat deposits that she similar trends to the north. These trends may indicate measured and sampled | | | Report (volume) | 122 124 124 124 New Jersey Pennsylvania South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama Southeast Coastal Plain...Mississippi _______________ North Carolina __________________ South Carolina __________________ Tennessee..._______________________ Montana ____ New Mexico _ North Dakota Oklahoma _ South Dakota Texas ______ Utah...along the eastern edge of the overthrust belt just north of lat 48°N. The anomaly is coincident with an area...57 peat deposits that she similar trends to the north. These trends may indicate measured and sampled |
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