Miller Asbestos Mine, Burton, Rabun County, Georgia, USAi

Regional Level Types
Miller Asbestos Mine	Mine
Burton	Village (Historical)
Rabun County	County
Georgia	State
USA	Country

The H. V. M. Miller property is located on lot 7, 1st district 3 miles north west of Burton on a small branch of Dicks Creek.

According to King: "The peridotite formation is about 550 yards long and 200 yards wide. It is made up, as far as can be determined, by outcroppings, entirely of chrysolite changing into chromiferous chrysolite to the northeast. It differs, therefore, from other peridotite formations of Rabun County in the absence of anthophyllite. The country rock is a gneiss, while hornblende gneiss lies close by on the northwest side."

Prospecting for asbestos, which was done here about 1890, was confined to the southwestern part of the intrusion. A number of open cuts were made in hard olivine rocks, at some places largely serpentinized, showing veins of both slip- and mass-fiber asbestos. Some beautiful specimens of foliated talc are found along with the asbestos. So far as the exposure show, only a small part of the intrusion has been altered to talc and asbestos, and they are confined to planes of movement in the rock mass. There is no mass fiber present.

Notwithstanding the good quality of the long-fibered asbestos found at this locality, it is very doubtful whether it can ever be worked profitably on account of the relatively small amount of that mineral present as compared to the mass of the unaltered and partly altered rock.