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Quartz from
Dagenhart Mine, Alexander 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 Dagenhart Mine, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:995026
Long-form Identifier:1:3:995026:9
GUID (UUID V4):64e09029-f4aa-48cc-b737-55aa95198904
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
4.3km (2.7 miles) Gwaltney Prospects, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) Buffalo Vein Mine (Sharpes Emerald prospect; Squirrel Nut Mine), Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) Adams Hiddenite and Emerald Mine (Alexander prospect; Abernathy prospect; Hiddenite Mine; Warren Mine; Turner Mine), Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Ellis Mine, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Payne Prospect, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
6.5km (4.0 miles) Pyler-Benfield Hiddenite-Emerald Pit, Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) O. F. Patterson Mine, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Emerald Valley Mine, Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) North American Emerald Mine, Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ANNUAL I N D E X - V o l u m e 5 2 Period Iron Mine, North Garden, Virginia. Sept., p. 360 Dietrich, R....K . The Geological Wealth Block, Mark. Old Park Mine, Trumbull, of Richmond, Virginia. June, p. 246 Connecticut...mounters Corner—First Impressions Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia vs. Observations. April, p. 126;... p. 543. p. 74; World News on Mineral Occur­ Dagenhart, Thomas. The History and rences. April, p. 124;... p. 314 Linde, Martha. South Dakota's Big Chief Mine. Mar., p. 72 Loughlin, John. Australian Opals. April
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Virginia 20192, USA U.S. Geological Survey, 973 Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA c Dartmouth...Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA Accepted 1 June 2004 Abstract Weathering of metal-sulfide...eastern United States. The salts, which are present on mine wastes, tailings piles, and outcrops, include minerals...exposed in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. Dissolution experiments on composite...sites). Geochemical modeling of surface waters, mine-waste leachates, and salt leachates using PHREEQC
Report (issue)
RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell and William F. Giannini...RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell and William F. Giannini...RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell and William F. Giannini...talc l0 PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OI' ALBEMARLE COUNTY. VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell* and William F....references to various minerals found in Albemarle County are found in both published and unpublished geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cleavages, hessite grains, chalcopy­ rite grains, and quartz matrix. Altaite looks exactly like galena: very...wulfenite is coming out of the well known San Francisco mine in Magdalena, Sonora. This note from Callahan's...within the wide range published for this material. Quartz crystals occur at the "exhausted" road cut in Mexico...uncovered numerous 5-20 cm long and 1 -7 cm thick quartz crystals. The crystals are doubly terminated and...formerly sought ankerite was also found. No additional quartz or ankerite was available after July, 1976. New
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Univeristy of Chicago. Virginia-Thomas Dagenhart of Charlottes­ ville, Virginia, has contributed...massive to acicular min­ eral is pumpellyite." Mr. Dagenhart goes on to describe the unakite which consists...consists of coarse grained sodic plagioclase, smoky quartz, epidote, pink orthoclase, and hornblende. When pumpellyite...known to col­ lectors, the Arminius Mine and the Boyd Smith mine, have also been sludged and closed."...take special care of these Another note from Mr. Dagenhart will selected plants. be of sad news to some collectors
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Revolutionary War Period Iron Mine, North Garden, Virginia by THOMAS V. DAGENHART, J R . and G A R Y L . MADDOX...iron mine lies on the northeastern flank of Cook Mountain about one quarter mile west of North Garden...ore and overburden heaped about the mouth of the mine cut and the area is overgrown by a mature mixed...mineralogically interesting. Privately owned, the mine site is not open for general collecting. The magnetic...lenses in the Lovingston formation, which is a quartz monzonite gneiss of Precambrian age. The Lovingston
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
environmental risk. INTRODUCTION Fe1- x S + Acid mine drainage (AMD) environments provide of a rich tapestry...sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen. The important acid mine drainage minerals can be divided into three types:...events can dramatically affect aquatic ecosystems. Dagenhart (1980) showed a clear relationship between stream...for iron sulfate mineral transformations in acid mine drainage environments. These reactions are dehydration...stream chemistry for rain events in June, 1978 (Dagenhart 1980). The bold vertical lines represent rain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun­ tain... The gravel pit (actually a quarry) is 3 miles north of Mount Ida off U.S. 270 near the east end of the...flank. The wavellite is typical of other Montgomery County Locations which differs from the more common Dug...Dug Hill material from near Avant in Garland County. Here it occurs in various shades of light green with...sandstone, and may be associated with white milky quartz veins and bands. Much of the shale is too soft
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
waste rock associated with acid drainage at the Penn Mine, California, by ground-based visible to short-wave...94720-4767, USA b U.S. Geological Survey, Placer Hall 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6129, USA c U.S....80225, USA Accepted 1 June 2004 Abstract Prior to remediation at the abandoned Cu–Zn Penn Mine in the...massive sulfide belt of the Sierra Nevada, CA, acid mine drainage (AMD) was created, in part, by the subaerial...reflectance spectra of characterized rock samples from the mine helped in gauging the spectral response to particle
Report (issue)
(OH)0.05 F0.04 ]Σ=1.00 . (2) Fairfax, Virginia, USA; H2 O calculated for stoichiometry, corresponding...meteorites. Association: Actinolite, diopside, calcite, quartz, talc (Bob’s Lake, Canada); amphibole, chlorite... titanite, datolite (Bull Run quarry, Virginia, USA); olivine, orthopyroxene, phlogopite, ferroalluaudite...Distribution: Analyzed material noted from: in the USA, the Fairfax quarry, Centreville, Fairfax Co., and...Mineral., 10, 252–259. (5) Mitchell, R.S. and T.V. Dagenhart, Jr. (1981) Chlorapatite from northern Virginia:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydrocerussite; brown glaze on crust, hydrocerussite and quartz. C. White crust, mixture of cerussite and hydrocerussite...mineral (Fig. I B , I D ) . The glazes also contain quartz as well as adhering clays and other foreign impuri­...by man to the surface and and left to weather on mine dumps? Man also plays a direct roll in the formation...to express his appre­ ciation to Mr. Thomas V. Dagenhart, Jr., a student at the University of Virginia...the mineral hobbyist today. The case of the Wise Mine in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, closed in 1975,
Journal (issue)
with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives...Native copper crystal group, 13.6 cm, from an unknown mine in the Michigan Copper Country. Richard A. Kosnar...Chaput’s The Cliff; America's First Great Copper Mine (1971). For an earlier treatment, readers may enjoy...a drawing done in 1819. 7 Figure 3. The Cliff mine in the 1850’s. to tell his macabre tale at home...development (Kellogg, 1925). The French lost their North American empire to Great Britain in 1763, and interest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by man to the surface and and left to weather on mine dumps? Man also plays a direct roll in the formation...to express his appre­ ciation to Mr. Thomas V. Dagenhart, Jr., a student at the University of Virginia...the mineral hobbyist today. The case of the Wise Mine in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, closed in 1975,...instances in recent years. John Marshall discussed the mine closing in an article in the June, 1976 issue of...on the circum­ stances around the closing of the mine in this article. Much of this material was first
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chemistry monitoring of a large mine tailings impoundment dam at the Macraes mine provided a site for a 5-year...experimental observations and other mine sites because the Macraes mine chlorite is intimately intergrown...rights reserved. Keywords: Environmental geology; Mine drainage; Chlorite; Calcite; Pyrite; Chemical weathering...commonly used by the mining industry to estimate ANC of mine wastes. Lawrence and Scheske Ž1997. suggest that...chlorite, above.. ANC is an important parameter in mine waste disposal planning, where it is compared with
Book
....243 APPENDIX II: MINERAL SPECIES LISTED BY COUNTY ...............................248 ABOUT THE AUTHORS...of shallow nested spoons whose long axis trends north-south (Figure 2). At the center of the basin, just...gabbro, syenite (rare), rhyolite, felsite (including quartz porphyry), andesite, basalt (including diabase)...-------------------------Fern Creek Formation Puritan Quartz Monzonite ---------------------------- z<( w...contain as essential minerals various combinations of quartz, potassium and plagioclase feldspars, olivine,
Report (issue)
___ _ Feldspars _____ ___________ ____ ____ -' _ Quartz ___________________________ _ Micas _________ ---...66 70 73 73 74 74 __________________ -- 76 Quartz ____ ~--~~----- ~ -------'------------------Beryllium...pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ ...between pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight mine ______ _______________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been identified in Triassic diabases (Mitchell & Dagenhart, 1981) and at the contact between Archaean schists...schists and a pegmatite at the Emerald mine, Rajagarh, India (Babu, 1972). Here we report new mineralogical...implies oxygen fugacities below Fayalite-Magnetite-Quartz. In other grains elemental X-ray mapping indicated...On the occurrence of chlorapatite at the Emerald Mine, Rajagarh village, Ajmer. Mineral. Mag., 38, 972–974...Mineral. Petrol., 125, 225–236. Mitchell, R.S. & Dagenhart, T.V. (1981): Chlorapatite from Northern Virginia:
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...townagate, 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
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
Report (issue)
Orange County, VT 50 Kilometers Characterization of Mine Waste at the Elizabeth Copper Mine, Orange...Orange County, Vermont by Jane M. Hammarstrom 1 , Alien L. Meier2, John C. Jackson 1 , Ryan Barden 1 , Peggie...DEPOSITS ........................ 2 THE ELIZABETH MINE ............................................................................................... 3 Mine history and previous studies ................................................................... North pit area (Tailings pile 3) ....................
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...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...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
Journal (issue)
Cook Hyalite from the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina .............................................Brazilian localities, Virgem da Lapa and the Golconda mine, have produced remarkable crystals of hydroxyl-herderite...Company spodumene mine, near Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and from the Dunton Gem mine, Newry, Maine,...Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil (3)* 71-90% Golconda mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil (6) 53% Waldstein, Fichtelgibirge...Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria, Germany (1) Blue Chihuahua mine, San Diego County, 57-59% California (2) 67-80% Poland, Maine
Book
York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South...Size Categories Dana's Classification of Minerals Quartz Family Gemstones The Various Names and Forms of...ancient gems), calcite, fluorspar, jadeite, pyrite, quartz family minerals ( agate, carnelian, chalcedony...C. from mines in Kenya. This amorphous form of quartz, with its brilliant flickering of rainbow colors...Reube~), topaz (probably citrine or yellow "topaz" quartz, assigned to Simeon), and carbuncle ( any bright
 
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