 | | Report (issue) | | GEORGIA STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY GARLAND PEYTON, Director...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Bulletin Number 53 TALC DEPOSITS OF MURRAY COUNTY, GEORGIA By A. S. FURCRON Assistant State...Geologist Tennessee Valley Authority MINERALOGY OF TALC DEPOSITS By JAMES L. CAL VER Associate Geologist... Southwestern end of the Cohutta Mountains in Georgia, looking east from a point at the western edge...Fort Mountain on left ; Cohutta Mountain on right . Talc ia mined from a aeries of deposita which occur along |  | | Report (volume) | | unit________________________________ Metamorphic rocks of the Chicken area______________________ Igneous rocks______...Photograph of abandoned placer mining property on Uhler Creek..-,___________________-___-____--__--__ 29 PLATE...tributaries, including Walker Fork, Jack Wade Creek, and Chicken Creek. L. M. Prindle did considerable geologic...Stonehouse Creek; George Robinson at Jack Wade; the late Fred Purdy and his wife, Anne, at Chicken; Mr. and...and Mrs. Jack Wilkey on Canyon Creek. Mrs. John Fisher, formerly at Chicken, loaned material from her fossil |  | | Report (issue) | | FRONT COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF.............................................. 142 Talc ............................................................................................ 170 County Index ........................................ |  | | Report (volume) | | Taylor Highway__._____ Sand dunes along Porcupine Creek.______--___--_-______Lake deposits._-__-_____-_...Chicken__-_-_._________________ Gold dredge at Chicken.__.______________ T __-. in 2 7 8 10 11 12 12..._ Ultramafic rock along the canyon of American Creek _______ Eagle and the Yukon River._____________...more dark minerals such as hornblende or biotite. Talc. A light-colored (green to white) soft mineral with...Fortymile Kiver in 1896 and shortly thereafter at Chicken, at Jack Wade, at many other places throughout |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | State mineral production and mineral production by county were prepared in the Division of Statistics and...Geological Survey. Georgia: Georgia Geologic Survey, Environmental Protection Division, Georgia Department of.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Georgia, by Steve W. Sikich and Bruce J. 0 'Connor . ....which 329), which placed the collection of min- Mine Safety and Health Administration), eral statistics...SECTION 1. Mine or group c011ered by this report. Name State____________ SECTION 2. County _ __ _ _ |  | | Report (issue) | | metals-Continued Strontium, by Dennis P. Cox_________________ Talc, soapstone, pyrophyllite, and sericite schist, by..._______________________ -___ Geologic features of talc and soapstone____ Deposits associated with mafic...pinnacles beneath soil cover, Bluegrass, Highland County, Va_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...transverse joints cutting shale at Poverty, Highland County, V a_ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...__ 24. Strip-mine areas and coal-bed fires in the Appalachian Region__ 25. Strip coal mine, Coalton, W |  | | Report (issue) | | Statement Baker County 13 ____ 13 _ _______________ Baker Area Cable Cove District Connor Creek Area Cornucopia...Cornucopia Area Cracker Creek District__ Eagle Creek A rea Greenhorn Area (Baker County part) Homestead Area...Lower Burnt River Area_ Mormon Basin Area Rock Creek Area Sparta Area Sumpter Area Upper Burnt River...____ _ ___ _ __ ______________ _ ___ _ Union County ___ ___ _______ ________ _ __ _ _ _ _ ________...mined for years in the vicinity of Coos bay, Coos county, and lignites and sub-bituminous coals are known |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Report (issue) | | Florida______________________________________________ 72 Georgia --------------------------------------------- 73..."Metallo" derives from the Greek "metalleion"-a mine, after "metallan"-to search for; hence, metallogenic...dark brown Mn AI Kyanite group Pyrophyllite Talc 11 black s FeS Rare earths Diamond Graphite...) Silver Sodium (salts) Strontium (salts) Sulfur Talc Thorium Tin Titanium (Ti0 2 ) Tungsten Uranium Vanadium... ash-asbestos dia-diamond grf-graphite kyn-kyanite tlc-talc Letter symbols in parentheses indicate minor (byproduct) |  | | Report (issue) | | area of 12,000 square kilometers in the Piceance Creek and Uinta Basins in northwestern Colorado and northeastern...in the northern part of the Piceance Creek basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous...the Green River Formation in northern Sweetwater County, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper...Sweetwater and Carbon Counties, Wyoming, and Moffat County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Oil and Gas Investigations...of the Parachute Creek Member, Green River Formation in the northern Piceance Creek basin, Colorado: |  | | Report (issue) | | area of 12,000 square kilometers in the Piceance Creek and Uinta Basins in northwestern Colorado and northeastern...in the northern part of the Piceance Creek Basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Misc....the Green River Formation in northern Sweetwater County, Wyoming: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 140-D,...Sweetwater and Carbon Counties, Wyoming, and Moffat County, Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Oil and Gas Inv. Prelim...of the Parachute Creek Member, Green River Formation in the northern Piceance Creek basin, Colorado: |  | | Report (issue) | | ......................................25 Tibbs Creek-Black Mountain area....................................................................33 Jarvis Creek Glacier terrane...................................Flagstaff, Arizona 86011; M.C. Gardner, the Shaw Creek fault, ARCO Resources Technology, Piano, Texas 75075;...which includes the Lake George, Macomb, and Jarvis Creek Glacier terranes (or subterranes) of the Mount Hayes...north of the Tanana River, and the Macomb, Jarvis Creek Glacier, Hayes Glacier, and Windy terranes, which |  | | Report (issue) | | Florida___________________________ USFL _________ 55 Georgia-------------------------- USGA_________ 55 Idaho...279 327 NAME FIRST CREEK MOUNTAIN PINE RIDGE QUEBRADA CEIBO GRANDE DUNGARVAN CREEK DUVERNAY FORGETMENOT...STARLIGHT RANGE SWIFT CREEK WATERWAYS ADAMS PLATEAU AREA ADANAC-AOERA (RUBY CREEK AREA) AFTON AND IRON...ARM MOLY AREA (B.C., ROUNDY CREEK, BELL) ALSEK RIVER (WINDY) ANKWILL CREEK (RAINBOW) ANTICLIMAX-ROCK ISLAND...ISLAND AREA ANYOX (HIDDEN CREEK AND BONANZA MJNE) APEX ARGONAUT MINE ASHLOO MINE ASITKA PEAK (ASITKA) ASPEN |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is... Mounce diamond crystal 5. Gibson's Ruby mine, Cowee Creek, North Carolina 6. Corundum Hill, North Carolina...Eldorado Bar, Montana 8. W. D. Baltzley 9. Ellis mine pocket, Hiddenite, North Carolina 10. View of American...Pedro mine, Pala, California 15. Morganite crystal from Pala, California 16. Hazel W. pegmatite mine, Pala |  | | Report (issue) | | --------------Cleburne County ----------~----------------- Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --...-----------------------------Pima County -------------------------------Pinal County -------------------------------Santa...-------Santa Cruz County --------------------------'ravapai County -----------------------------'ruma |  | | Report (issue) | | square kilometers ( 5,000 sq mi) in the Piceance Creek and Uinta Basins in northwestern Colorado and northwestern...in the northern part of the Piceance Creek Basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorrdo: U.S. Geol. Survey Misc....Bonanza-Dragon oil-shale area, Uintah County, Utah, and Rio Blanco County, Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Oil...organicrich sequence of Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, and Uinta Basin, Utah: U.S. Geol... Wellington, and Sunnyside quadrangles, Carbon County, Utah: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 793, 165 p. [p. |  | | Report (volume) | | placers, geomorphology, and paleo-drainage of Eureka Creek and Tofty areas, Alaska 107 Warren Yeend BffiLIOGRAPHIES...areas shown in figure 1. A, Chicken area. B, West Fork area. C, Bluff Creek area. Samples and localities...vertical seams was mined and used locally in the Chicken area (Mertie, 1937). Leaves of Metasequoia glyptostroboides...in sandstone dredged from the lower part of Chicken Creek. Alnus evidens may indicate a late Oligocene...preserved palynomorphs from two localities in the Chicken area (fig. 2A and table 2, nos. 15 and 16) near |  | | Report (issue) | | government and private sectors, discussions with mine operators, and the firsthand knowledge of the authors...professional col leagues and by current and former mine operators. The "central Alaska region" as considered...CATEGORY A MINE is defined as a mineral deposit with recorded production, however smal1: M mine with known...known or probable activity since I960; m mine with no known activity since I960. A PROSPECT is defined...Htf NO. AND NAKE(S) (if known) 1 Slate Creek 1 Trout Creek HAP COORDINATES LOCATION 8,20 T.25N..R |  | | Report (volume) | | McConnell and G. K Tucker .. __ .... Ground soapstone, talc, and pyrophyllite, by Bertrand L. ,Johnson and K..._ . . . . ., . Pyrop~llite, gound soapstone, and talc, by Bertrand L. ,Johnson and . G. arner. _________...the generous support of thousands of individual mine operators, distributors, and consurnors, as wdl...its fotulity rate, mainly because of a series of mine disast;ars. 'Wherens only 1 major explosion occurI'e(l...iron values in United States total; (2) tlw uso of mine figures for gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc |  | | Report (volume) | | Okla. Georgia Acad. Sci. Bull. - Bulletin of the Georgia Academy of Science. Atlanta, Ga. Georgia Geol...Geol. Survey Bull.- Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin. Atlanta, Ga. Georgia Geol. Survey Inf. Circ. Atlanta...Atlanta, Ga. Georgia Geological Survey Information Circular. GeoScience News- GeoScience News. Neumann-Wall...London, England. Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology County Rept. County Report. Moscow, Idaho. Academic Press. ...Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. in Science. Los Angeles, Calif. Los Angeles County Museum Contributions |  | | Report (volume) | | 250-12,460 ft, sec. 14, T. 45 S., R. 27 E., Lee County, Fla. Named for the nearby Able Canal. The Able...H-20, northwest of Wattsville, northern Accomack County, Va. Reference sections: facies E and F, sand pits...Wattsville, Persimmon Point, and Accomack, Accomack County, Va. The informal Accomack beds of Mixon and others...and west of the Ames Ridge shoreline in Accomack County, Va., and are well developed from Wallops Station... 16 p. Type locality: Outcrops along Accotink Creek west of the Capital Beltway, Interstate Highway |  | | Report (issue) | | Wissahickon formation _________________ _ Peters Creek quartzite __________________ _ Central group __...orth Carolina and South Carolina ______ ____ _ Georgia ___________________________________ _ Alabama ...34 35 35 36 39 44 44 45 46 47 47 49 49 50 50 Mine descriptions ___________ --------- -- .. -------...___ _______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______ _____ _____ _ Franklin ____...properties _________ .. _____________ _ Halifax County ______ - _____ - __________ ~- _'- __ _ Virgilina |  | Nokleberg, W.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Berg, H.C., Brew, D.A., Grybeck, Donald, Robinson, M.S., Smith, T.E., Yeend, W.E. (1988) Metallogeny and major mineral deposits of Alaska. Open-File Report Vol. 1988 (88-73) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr8873 | Report (issue) | | Hawley Resource Group, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska Murray W. Hitzman, Chevron Resources Company, San Francisco...Francisco, California Brian K. Jones, Bear Creek Mining, Kennecott Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska lan M...Range and Wrangell Mountains ........ 35 Willow Creek District, Talkeetna Mountains ....................map and simplified cross section of the Red Dog Creek Zn-Pb-Ag deposit, Delong Mountains, northwestern...map of the Cosmos Hills showing the Bornite (Ruby Creek) area, Ambler district, southern Brooks Range. Figure |  | | Report (issue) | | quadrangle. One area is in the headwaters of Bear Creek in the west-central part of the quadrangle; the...other areas are in the vicinity of Angel Creek and Monument Creek in the southwestern part of the quadrangle...gas potential. Oil and gas potential of the Otter Creek and Cheat Mountain Wilderness Areas, West Virginia...Paleozoic sedimentary rocks underlying the Otter Creek Wilderness Area and Cheat Mountain Further Planning...Mineral-resource potential of the North Harpers Creek and Lost Cove RARE II areas Geochemical and mineralogical |  | | Report (volume) | | quadrangle. One area is in the headwaters of Bear Creek in the west-central part of the quadrangle; the...other areas are in the vicinity of Angel Creek and Monument Creek in the southwestern part of the quadrangle...gas potential. Oil and gas potential of the Otter Creek and Cheat Mountain Wilderness Areas, West Virginia...Paleozoic sedimentary rocks underlying the Otter Creek Wilderness Area and Cheat Mountain Further Planning...Mineral-resource potential of the North Harpers Creek and Lost Cove RARE II areas Geochemical and mineralogical |
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