 | | 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) | | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT HARGROVE BOWLES, JR., DIRECTOR DIVISION...GEOLOGIST Circular 17 BERYL OCCURRENCES IN NORTH CAROLINA BY WILLIAM F WILSON Ooc RALEIGH 1962 CONTENTS...USESo 8 o . . . BERYLLIUM MINERALS IN NORTH CAROLINA 9 Varieties * o ••••••••.• Mode of Occurrencec...RESOURCES IN NORTH CAROLINA . H OCCURRENCES OF BERYL IN NORTH CAROLINA. 13 Alexander County ...•••••...••.• Ashe County,* ... 0 o * * • o o Burke County* • * • . • . • • • * • • Catawba County* • « . » * |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | n and numerous friends and dedicated admirers. James Luther Thomas was born to Robert E. Lee and Mattie...“up” Cane Branch near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina. His lean and sinewy frame suggested...five to ten miles over the hills to a prospect or mine, labor until dark, and then walk home, only to repeat...afterward. In fact, hardly any roads existed in Yancey County in those days, only well-worn foot trails. No...began his career driving steel in a local pegmatite mine for ten cents an hour. He soon moved up to a higher-paying |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WILLIAM DIVISION JASPER P. OF L. SAUNDERS, MINERAL...GEOLOGIST Circular 16 LOCALITIES NORTH OF CAROLINA BY JAMES F. CONLEY Doc NC DENR LIBRARY a...... 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development... Geologic map of part of the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and Tennessee. 2-6. Maps showing location of |  | | Report (issue) | | c C.2 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF...BULLETIN NUMBER 66 THE SCRAP MICA RESOURCES of NORTH CAROLINA BY SAM D. BROADHURST AND LEWIS J. HASH PREPARED...TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY RALEIGH 1953 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...BULLETIN NUMBER 66 THE SCRAP MICA RESOURCES of NORTH CAROLINA By SAM D. BROADHURST and LEWIS J. HASH PREPARED...Raleigh, North Carolina March 25, 1953 To His Excellency, HONORABLE WM. B. UMSTEAD Governor of North Carolina |  | | Report (chapter) | | Southern Appalachian Orogen, USA LOREN A. RAYMOND 1, S A M U E L JAMES E. SWANSON F. A L L A N 2,... Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA (e-mail: raymondla@appstate.edu) 2Department o f...Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA Abstract: Resolution of the petrotectonic history...MHT, Mars Hill Terrane; NC, North Carolina; GA, Georgia; SC, South Carolina; TN, Tennessee. Numbered and...Woody; 5, Webster-Addle; 6, Corundum Hill; 7, Buck Creek; 8, Hoots. e, locations of additional meta-ultramafic |  | | 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 | | | 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 (volume) | | Wilderness Study Area and Extension, Buncombe County, North Carolina By F. G. LESURE and A. E. GROSZ, U.S. GEOLOGICAL...1982 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR JAMES G. WATT, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Dallas L....Wilderness Study Area and Extension, Bunc1m County, North Carolina. (Geological Survey bulletin ; 1515) Bibliography:...I 19.3:1515 1. Mines and mineral resources-North Carolina-Buncombe Co. I. Grosz, Andrew E., jof author...Mountain Wilderness Study Area and Extension, North Carolina, that is being considered for wilderness designation |  | | Report (issue) | | the Falls leucogneiss and adjacent rocks in the Crabtree and Raleigh terranes. It is a characteristic regional...Alleghanian right-lateral shear along the Nutbush Creek fault zone. See the article by Druhan and others...lineated orthogneiss and the Nutbush Creek fault zone. CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK...WESTERN FLANK OF THE RALEIGH METAMORPHIC BELT, NORTH CAROLINA Edited by: Edward F. Stoddard Department of...and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8208 David E. Blake |  | | Report (volume) | | deposits of the Nightingale district, Pershing County, Nev., by W. C. Smith and P. W. Guild (published........ Topaz deposits near the Brewer mine, Chesterfield County, S. C., by Carl Pries, Jr. (published...quicksilver deposits of the Del Puerto area, Stanislaus County, Calif., by H. E. Hawkes, Jr., F. G. Wells, and..................... Manganese deposits of Cedar Creek Valley, Frederick and Shenandoah Counties, Va.,...Quicksilver deposits near the Little Missouri River, Pike County, Ark., by David Gallagher (published in October |  | | 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...Wisconsin at Plum Creek, Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee |  | | Report (volume) | | North Carolina State Library Gift of "JYortk (^arolinti ^Ihranj 0 Digitized by the Internet Archive...in 2019 with funding from State Library of North Carolina https://archive.org/details/corundumperidoti01prat...OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT and JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS North Carolina State Library...Library Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. A. HOLMES, STATE GEOLOGIST VOLUME I CORUNDUM AND...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT AND JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 1905 |  | | 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...data for mica specimens, arranged by lot and by mine or prospect-_-___--_-___-_-.___---___-_____--_ Results..._______________ 13. Test data for mica (not identified by mine), taken from the production line of the Colonial |  | | Report (issue) | | Slate __ . Halifax County Other localities North Carolina Hagers Mountain, Person County.- _.______ Corbett...Corbett deposit, Johnston County Burnsville-Swannanoa area, Buncombe, Yancey, and Mitchell Counties ________...________ ____ Rutherford County Other localities North Carolina-South Carolina Kings Mountain district, Cleveland...Cleveland, Gaston, and Lincoln Counties, N.C., and York County, S.C. ._ __-__ ____ --- ---General geology Rock...CONTENTS Page Kyanite deposits Continued North Carolina-South Carolina Continued Kings Mountain district, etc |  | | Report (issue) | | Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, product...Uchee terrane 15 NA36: Juliette terrane 16 NA37a: Carolina terrane 16 NA37b: Spring Hope terrane 18 NA37c:...Charleston terrane 20 NA38: Falls Lake terrane 21 NA39: Crabtree terrane 21 NA40: Goochland terrane 22 NA41: Wilmington...and Dallmeyer, 1989). Terrane concepts in eastern North America have evolved since the circum-Atlantic terrane...The terrane also contains metabasalt of the Sams Creek Formation, which has not yet been chemically characterized |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE FOR NORTH CAROLINA EON ERA PERIOD EPOCH GEOLOGIC...GEOLOGIC EVENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA Recent Deposition of sediments in Coastal Plain. Erosion of Piedmont...Pliocene o Phosphate deposited in eastern North Carolina (Beaufort and Pamlico Counties). Miocene ...E u o E n Formation of the Atlantic Ocean as North America and Africa drifted apart. Weathering and...Piedmont and Mountains. 240 Final collision of North America and Africa.Thrust faulting in west; deformation |  | | Report (issue) | | Carolina Geological Society Field Trip November 4-5, 2006 The Geology of the Chapel Hill, Hillsborough...5-Minute Quadrangles, Carolina Terrane, Orange and Durham Counties, North Carolina Carolina Geological Society...Editors: Philip J. Bradley and Timothy W. Clark North Carolina Geological Survey Field Trip Leaders: Philip...W. Clark -i- Carolina Geological Society Field Trip November 4-5, 2006 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY...828-651-8605 (H) Email: rick.wooten@ncmail.net - ii - Carolina Geological Society Field Trip November 4-5, 2006 |  | | Report (issue) | | Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of North Carolina ..... 67 Table 12 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of South Carolina ..... 85 Table 15 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of north-central New York........................65 Figure...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of North Carolina................................77 Figure 17...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of South Carolina. ............*......*...........86 Figure 20. |  | | Report (issue) | | CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK SEPTEMBER 29-30, 1990 GEOLOGY OF GRENVILLE-AGE BASEMENT...CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE, NORTH CAROLINA BY CARL E. MERSCHAT AND LEONARD S. WIENER NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...OBTAINED FROM NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY P.O. BOX 27687 RALEIGH, N.C. 27611-7687 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...Lee Mitchell South Carolina Water Resources Commission Greenville, South Carolina Vice-President: John...Geology Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron, Jr |  | | Report (volume) | | ......-...-...---------------...-.-.-.--.. North Carolina ______________________________________________................................._........... North Carolina ___..__._....._..._______..__._.____..._.____...........^....................... 116 116 North Carolina .............................................--.......-........-..--.-........--..-. South Carolina -...-.......:..........-.....-----....---.--........ .... ................................ North Carolina ...._.......-._..---...-....-_.._-......_- |  | | Report (issue) | | International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA About Emeralds Emeralds· of the World Beryl and...of San Jose, California North Carolina: James Hill of Hiddenite, North Carolina Treatments: Ron Ringsrud...Asia: Pakistan, Afghanistan and India .......6 0 Old Mine Emeralds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...................84 Karl Schmetzer USA: Hiddenite, North Carolina ...........64 Michael Wise What is |  | | Report (issue) | | uscovite schist from west of phenix, Charlotte County; B, Biotite-muscovite schist from northwest of...Bremo Blufi, on James River 8 A, Diaphthoritic garnetiferous mica schist from Crane Creek; south of Hixburg...Hixburg, Appomattox County; B, Columbia granite near Cub Creek, east of Red House, Charlotte County______...Kyanite quartzite from Baker Mountain, prince Edward County*__ I Massive kyanite in kyanite-bearing pegmatite...from Falling River north of Brookneal; B, Mylonitized granite from Falling River north of Brookneal, Campbell |  | | Report (issue) | | (404) 656-3214 April 2, 1973 His Excellency, James E. Carter Governor of Georgia Atlanta, Georgia Dear...of previously little· known basic rocks in Towns County. It includes a review of the minerals known to...FIGURES Page 1. The ultramafic belt of eastern North America . . 2 2. 7 Contour diagram of isojoints...amphibolite . 39 23. Photograph of a diallage-plagioclase vein in dunite 40 24. Photomicrograph of a...map of the Lake Chatuge area, Towns County, Ga., and Clay County, N.C.. . . .in pocket viii :;:. LIST |
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