 | | Book | | MINES MINERS MINERALS AND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Western North Carolina’s Hidden Mineralogical Treasures...E L L 2005 PARKWAY PUBLISHERS, INC. Boone, North Carolina Copyright ©1999 Lowell Presnell All Rights...Mines, miners, and minerals of western North Carolina : western North Carolina’s hidden mineralogical treasures...(hard cover) 1. Mines and mineral resources—North Carolina—History. I. Title. TN24.N8P74 2005 338.4‚7622‚09756—dc22...Domestic Mica Buying Policy 111 20. Western North Carolina & the War Years .119 21. The Mineral Kingdom |  | | Report (issue) | | _____ Age and correlation.____________________ Horse Mountain Volcanics.__________________ Distribution__..._________ Structural features younger than the Horse Mountain Volcanics-_-_------_-----_-____Santa Teresa-Turnbull...and prospects of the Athletic Mining Co__ Arizona mine _ ________________________ Fairview prospect _ ...ead Center mine. _____________________ Iron Cap mine. ________________________ No. 1 mine __ _________________________..._________________________ Panama mine. _________________________ Other mines and prospects. __________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | Sc ce i en e T ec tonic s R es earc h nc Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October 19-20...Mountains-Blue Ridge Foothills and the southwestern Brushy Mountains, centralwestern North Carolina Guidebook...Columbia, South Carolina Carolina Geological Conultants, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina Central Savannah...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...South Carolina Kubal and Furr, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation, Spruce Pine, North Carolina |  | | Report (issue) | | the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity, North Carolina and Tennessee By BRUCE BRYANT and JOHN C. REED..._____________________ _ 1 2 2 6 7 7 7 Page Blue Ridge thrust sheet-Continued Structure and metamorphism...metamorphism ____________________ 11 11 11 11 Blue Ridge thrust sheet ----------------------------Rock un~s...Chilhowee Group --------------------------- 45 Slices north of the Grandfather Mountain window ------------...tectonic map of the Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge belts in parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, and southern |  | | Journal (issue) | | Rivers, on the north by hills in and near the city of Bend, on the northeast by Horse Ridge and Pine Mountain...the Big Obsidian flow Paulina lake obsidian dome~ North pumice COne Central pumice cane South pumice cone...which disappear beneath the Newberry shield at Horse Ridge, are the most widespread. Rhyolitic and rhyodacitic...100 miles. Along its southern margin, the large north-south faults that define Steens Mountain, Abert...northeast margin of the Newberry shield through Horse Ridge, Pine Mountain, and the southern end of the Bear |  | | Report (issue) | | Lava Butte 1963 (20) Kelsey Butte 1967 (10) Horse Ridge 1967 (20) Anns Butte 1963 (20) Lava Cast Forest...K-Ar ages, determined on whole rocks and on plagioclase, do not correspond to known geologic relations...PAULINA LAKE (upper Holocene) Extends west and north of Big Obsidian flow to Paulina Lake. Typically...pumiceous ash, lapilli, and blocks that occur at the north margin of the unit along the shoreline of Paulina...QHp2 pumice deposits that surround the vent at north end of interlake obsidian flow. Probable age is |  | | Report (volume) | | edge of upper Horse Ridge _______________ 8. Closeup of Chimney Rock from Horse Ridge __ 9. Migmatite...15. The beveling effect of peneplanation on Horse Ridge __________________________ Page F2 3 4 5 6...Continental Divide, the terrain drops toward the east and north onto an intricately incised series of peneplained...Wind River Range. The north-central part of the study area is occupied by a north-trending granitic mass...breccia zone in Precambrian gneiss a few miles north of the primitive area reportedly yielded a few tons |  | | Report (issue) | | the western metamorphic belt Quartzite of Pilot Ridge Phyllite and chert of Hites Cove Phyllite of Briceburg...Quartz Alkali feldspar Alkali-feldspar megacrysts Plagioclase Biotite and hornblende Accessory minerals Texture...Donut ore body of the Pine Creek mine Pine Creek mine Strawberry mine Skarns in the Mount Morrison roof...Grove (Kink) 129 Granodiorite of Pick and Shovel mine area (Kps) and granite of Ordinance Creek (Ko) 129...Sheepthief Creek lower Bear Creek, Mushroom Rock, and north of Snow Corral Meadow (Kdd) 129 Possible additional |  | | Report (volume) | | compilations published to date: 1. Weeks, Fred B., 1902, North American geologic formation names: U.S. Geol. Survey...Kopf, R. W., and others, 1957, Geologic names of North America introduced in 1936-1955: U.S. Geol. Survey...Hansen, B. E., 1959, Index to the Geologic names of North America: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 1056-B. 7. Keroher...bluff on north side Missouri Highway 74, Ph miles east of Dutchtown, Cape Girardeau County, Mo. Type...Girardeau. Named for Abernathy School, 2 miles north of type section. Abington Interstade, Silt Wisconsin |  | | Report (issue) | | and numbered by county; each map number identifies a sample location within a county on the index map...longitude. Although the latter have an assigned county number, they are not plotted on the index map and...Quartz diorite Tonal Ite Trondhjemite Biotite Plagioclase (0.468) (0.872) (0.950) (7.73) 7.73 7.73 ...(0.696) 0.698 0.695 Whole rock Plagioclase 0.189 Clackamas County Hornblende 3.08 1.30 2.50 2...278 157.972 7.531 Benton County Plagioclase f Plagioclase ^ Plagioclase { Hornblende Muscovite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the field, as for example, north and east of Mormon Bar in Mariposa county, where the meta-augite-andesite-tuffs...uffs have undergone a thorough recrysIn Plumas county, southeast of Sierra City, the tallization. rocks...NEVADA 147 metamorphosed by granodiorite; also north of Genesee Valley' there is a quartz-gabbro which...specimen analyzed originated the name, analyzed the plagioclase of the tonalite of Adamello, and found the feldspar...Br6gger. Granodiorite when typical is composed of plagioclase (oligoclase-andesine, but usually andesine) > |  | | Report (volume) | | ...... 36 Weather pans formed on the summit of North Dome ....................... 37 Resistant potassium...in the Mariposa Grove and in the Calaveras Grove north of Yosemite. The history of further exploration...including snow-patched Sawtooth Ridge and Matterhorn Peak on Skyline at north edge of the park. Photograph...moved down Yosemite Creek, forms the precipitous north face of Mount Hoffmann itsel£ To the east, May Lake-named...Mt Clark Buena Vista Crest Buena VIsta Peak Horse Ridge Mt Starr Clouds Rest King 8 8 Early man |  | | Report (issue) | | ...................................... Getchell mine area (Potosi district) ................ Gilbert................................... North Carolina and South Carolina ............................ Pennsylvania................................................. North Tintic district .......................................................................... Howell mine area .................................................................. 41. Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and southwest Virginia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Finland, Pre-Cambrian SD 1 SD SD SD 1 3 4 ) Plagioclase porphyrite, I Sokeslampi j Sveco-Fennian, ...greenstone, Belingwe dist. Hornblende-schist, nr. Mayfair mine, Insiza dist. Epidiorite, Yhamva, Nazoe dist. Hornblende...lava, Gwelo dist. Basaltic greenstone, Liverpool mine, I;mtali dist. 1 2 3 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1s C...Hornblende, biotite, and gneisses garnet, 251 plagioclase schists, : 6.7 6-6 7.1 7.4 6.7 7.3 6.7 5.3...Leesburg, Loudon, Co., Va. 01. diabase, Charlotte, S. Carolina Diabase, First ~Vatch~g, Paterson, yew Jersey |  | | Report (issue) | | l. 2. Table l. 2. 3. 4. 29 Index map of north - central Oregon with extent of John Day Formation...--------Map of large ridge, northwest lobe --------------------------Pho to , par t of north west lo be, Little...generally ordered so as to describe the areas from north to Typically , the roadlog comes after the descriptive...only flood basalt province of Phanerozoic age i n North America. Wide-ranging regional studies of the basalt...statements are made here. coarse grained and plagioclase phyric (Hooper, 1974) . Five cheaica types have |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MO. Granite, Milford, N.H. Composite of western North American granites 0.46 1.2 0.048 0.30 0.30...Eureka, h’evada YAM Anhydrit,o, Leopoldshall, 11 Ridge basalt, Saxony A HO-74* A ISO-74* Equatorial... Carrel YCM 9* Pyrite, as for YCi\I 6 Pa. Mine, Central * Used to monitor emission spectrographic...Leesburg, Loudon Co., 1-a. 01. Diabase, Charlotte, K. Carolina D&base, First Watchung, Pa.tterson, S.-J. Basalt...N.Y. Anorthosite, Euba Mills, N.Y. Anorthosite, North Hudson, N.Y. (B) Midwestern and Canadian Pre-Cambrian |  | | Journal (volume) | | B. Kiimmel The Petrographical Province of Essex County, Mass. II. Henry - S. Washington ----------------... --- The Distribution of Loess II. of Essex County, Mass. III. Henry 105 Fossils. B. Granitic...---------------------- - 163 188 Summaries of Current North American Pre-Cambrian Literature. C. K. Leith Reviews...E. Teller The Petrographical Province of Essex County, S. Mass. Reviews : 247 261 272 Henry IV... 375 389 401 ------.___ Summaries of Current North American Pre-Cambrian Literature. Reviews : C |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Islands INDIA archaean basalts TD 1 Dolerite, North Arcot dist., Madras TD 2 Olivine metadolerite, Palamau...DD 2 DD 6 DD 7 DD 8 DD 9 DD 10 DD 11 DD 16 VI. NORTH Rhodesia Rhodesia Rhodesia Rhodesia Rhodesia S...Rimrock flow, W. of Prineville, Oregon QD 27 Horse Ridge, SE of Bend, Oregon QD 28 Diktytaxitic flow,...193 134 1.44 0884 North America Columbia River Tholeiites Olivine Basalts...Distribution of chromium, nickel and cobalt in the plagioclase, cliuopyroxene, and orthopyroxene separates from |  | | Report (issue) | | 94 60 Weston anticline_ _ Moyer fault _ 94 Sheep Ridge or London anticline _ 61 Goodell or South Nine fault...103 66 and Mike faults _ Iron Hill _ 103 66 Tucson mine _ Area between Iron and Adelaide faults_ _ _ Yak_...bounded by Weston, Colorado Prince, 105 Wolf tone mine _ 74 Silent Friend, and Winnie-Luema faults_ Probable...Resurrection Area between Ball Mountain and Weston 106 mine _ 76 faults _ _ 76 107 London fault _ Chapter 6...normal faults.. Chapter 7. Production, history, and mine develop77 109 Weston fault _ ment, by Charles W |  | | Report (volume) | | 5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute..., estimated. Mus., Museum. Extr., Extract. N., North. fangl., fanglomerate. Nat., National, Naturalist...Central southern Virginia arid central northern North Carolina (Virgilina district). F. B. Laney, 1917 (Va...Abbeville-York zone. Pre-Cambrian : Northwestern South Carolina. E. Sloan, 1905 (S. C. Geol. Surv. geognostic...thence S. of Little Mtn, thence N. of Culbreath Mine, thence N. of Meeting St. (2 mi.), and thence direct |  | | Book (edition) | | regarding the divisions of Precambrian time in North America and elsewhere in the world The terms given...Development ¢ Effects of Glacial Erosion « Waterfalls 29; North Cascades National Park Geographic Setting 405 Geologic...Geologic History 412 Development of the North Cascades * North Cascade Rocks and Structures ¢ Glacial...Richard Baker, University of Iowa; Robert F. Biek, North Dakota Geological Survey; Robert R. Churchill, Middlebury...Park, Utah 10 Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota 4 Capitol Reef National Park, Utah 11 |  | | Report (volume) | | bibliographic work on the current geologic literature of North America. All the names pertaining to California...the present accepted age classification. Areas north of the latitude of San Francisco are classed as...series. Named for exposures in Amargosa Desert, Nye County, southwestern Nevada. Anzar phase (of Santa Lucia...(provisionally) : Southern California (San Benito County). P. F. Kerr and H. G. Schenck, 1925 (Geol. Soc...formation. Named for Arlington Heights, Plumas County, which is composed of the formation and where the |  | Bateman, P.C., Dodge, F.C., Bruggman, P.E. (1984) Major oxide analyses, CIPW norms, modes, and bulk specific gravities of plutonic rocks from the Mariposa 1 degree by 2 degrees sheet, central Sierra Nevada, California. Open-File Report Vol. 1984 (84-162) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr84162 | Report (issue) | | ....................................10 Granite north of Snow Corral Meadow..................................................11 Granodiorite of Whisky Ridge............................................... 11.....................11 Intrusive Suite of Kaiser Ridge...............................................12..............................20 Granite of Woods Ridge.................................................................29 ii 6709c GranodiorHe of Horse Ridge............................................. |
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