 | | Report (issue) | | Hook -VNS4K .C%K'5 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA W. S. YEATES, State Ceologist BULLETIN No....Preliminary Report on the Corundum DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA BY FRANCIS P. KING Assistant Geologist 1894...0OaJU\ e^o-^Lo^QyVhJO. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA W. S. YEATES, State Geologist BULLETIN No...2 A PRELIMINARY REPORT Corundum Deposits or GEORGIA FRANCIS P. KINO Assistant Geologist 1894 Atlanta...Geological of Georgia. (Ex-Officio). His Excellency, W. J. NORTHEN, Governor of Georgia, President |  | | Report (issue) | | FRONT COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK...crystal from Graves Mountain, approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF........................................... 148 Phlogopite ......................................................................................... 170 County Index ........................................ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEORGIA Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX JENNINGS...JENNINGS B. GORDON, JR. P . O . Box 6214 Rome, Georgia 30162 Although perhaps best known for its gold, rutUe...rutUe, and staurolite (the state mineral), Georgia has, in fact, almost two hundred mineral species. ...have been reported and verified from the state of Georgia. The index has been compiled from the literature...be either a report on the economic geology of Georgia or a field guide for lapidaries, it excludes commercial |  | | Report (issue) | | (syenites); spinel, rutile, chondrodite, “hornblende”, phlogopite, calcite (metamorphosed limestones); kyanite...chlorite (schists); pyrope-rich garnet, spinel, phlogopite, omphacitic clinopyroxene, kyanite, rutile, graphite...xenoliths). Distribution: Numerous localities. In the USA, from Chester, Hampden Co., Massachusetts; the Cortland...Hogback Mountain, Jackson Co., and Buck Creek, Clay Co., North Carolina; and from the Laurel Creek mine...mine, Rabun Co., Georgia. At Bancroft and Haliburton, Ontario, Canada. On Naxos and Samos Islands, Greece |  | | Report (issue) | | Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation, Spruce Pine, North Carolina Organization, registering participants...Glover Zemex Industrial Minerals, PO Box 99, Spruce Pine, NC 28777 Duncan Heron Department of Earth and Ocean...27708-0230 Charles Trupe Dept. of Geology/Geography, Georgia Southern University, Box 8149, Statesboro, GA 30460...E. Swanson Department of Geology University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-2501 Scott Southworth U.S. Geological...terranes of western North Carolina and northern Georgia .............................................. |  | | Report (volume) | | ______________________________________________ Georgia .............................................................................................. Georgia -.-.....---.-----..--.......-........-..--.-....... ...--...-..---.....-.--........---.-..-... Georgia ....................................................... II. Outcrop of peridotite at Buck Creek, Clay County, N. C........ III. A, Corundum in chlorite...Carolina; B, Corundum in gneiss, Muskrat Fork, Clay County, N. C... J... IV. A, Bed of ruby-bearing gravel |  | | Report (issue) | | ...........................................69 Georgia .................................................Geologic map of the Chatsworth talc district, Georgia .....74, 75 ultramafic rocks. Talc is very soft...Washington, Montana, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania...chlorite. The Chattsworth district in northernmost Georgia has produced talc from a number of ultramafic pods... Talc in the Murphy belt, North Carolina and Georgia, is found in the Cambrian Murphy Marble. Hydrothermal |  | | Report (issue) | | . . GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA S. W. McCALLIE, State Geologist BuLLETIN No. 29 A REPORT ON THE...THE ASBESTOS, TALC AND SOAPSTONE DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA BY OLIVER B. ~OPKlNS, Ph.D., A&sistant State... THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE Geological Survey of Georgia IN THE YEAR 1914 (Ex-Officio) His ExCELLENCY,... JOHN M. SLATON ........ Governor of Georgia PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD HoN. PHILIP COOK ..................Schools LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA, ATLANTA, June 16, 1914. To His Excellency, JoHN |  | | Report (chapter) | | Blue Ridge ophiolites, Southern Appalachian Orogen, USA LOREN A. RAYMOND 1, S A M U E L JAMES E. SWANSON...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 of Blue Ridge ophiolites of the Southern...Gossan Lead Block, Toe Terrane; GMW, Grandfather Mountain Window; HFF, Hayesville-Fries Fault; MHT, Mars...Mars Hill Terrane; NC, North Carolina; GA, Georgia; SC, South Carolina; TN, Tennessee. Numbered and starred |  | | Report (volume) | | Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards, Tallahassee. Georgia..........Dr. S. W. McCallie, Atlanta. Illinois...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Report (volume) | | Clay County. Macon County. Jackson County. Transylvania County. Swain County. Haywood County. Buncombe...Buncombe County . Madison County. Yancey County. Mitchell County . Watauga County . Wilkes County. Ashe County...County . Alleghany County . Physiography and ecology of the peridotites. 28 28 29 32 34 35 36 38 42 46...associated basic mag¬ nesian rocks. Shooting Creek region, Clay County, North Carolina. Elf dunite. Elf amphibole-peridotite...Elf amphibolite. Elf gabbro. Shooting Creek dunite. Thumping Creek hypersthenite. 66 66 66 67 68 69 H |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Georgia..................................................Florida-______Dr. E. H. Sellards, Tallahassee. Georgia,_____Dr. S. W. McCallie, Atlanta. Idaho______.Mr...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.; |  | | Book (volume) | | Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes it the...highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the Lookout...mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily divides into five major physiographic provinces...The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries of Gold... some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively prospected for gold since colonial |  | | Report (issue) | | ---------Formations of the McGee Mountain block ____ _ Hilton Creek marble ________________ ~ __ _ Siliceous..._____________________ _ Formations of the Bloody Mountain block ____ _ B:t:ight Dot formation __________________...Lake Dorothy hornfels _________________ _ Bloody Mountain formation _____________ _ Fossils and age ____________________...Valley Peak granodiorite ___________ --_____ Rock Creek mass_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _..._____________________ ------- _ Relationship b~tween the Rock Creek and Lee Lake masses ____________________ ~ _ _ _ |  | | Book | | _ _ .... ____________________ ..... CHAPTER 11 Georgia 1 CHAPTER 12 Alabama 0 0 . . . . . . . . _...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...y ' s f i r s t g o l d r u s h a t Dahlonega, Georgia. S o m u c h gold w a s f o u n d b y eager prospectors...t a r t o f t h e C i v i l W a r . O t h e r Georgia counties a n d n e i g h b o r i n g s t a t e...f gold! Gold c a n s t i l l be f o u n d i n Georgia a n d i n t h e r i v e r s a n d streams o f i |  | | Journal (issue) | | ....... 3 NOTES ON GYPSUM CRYSTALS IN MORTON COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA. By Robe,-, H. Mitchell and Wilson...SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCALITIES. 3. Rincon, Sao Diego County. By f ark Schwartz ............... ..............U. S. A. The official Joun1al cf the Rocks and Mine,alt Aaoc~ation 2 ROCKS AND MINERALS e I I I I...for example a crystal of phlogopite from Clark's H ill, St. Lawrence County, New York (page 633, figure...crystal of clinochlore from W est-town, Chester County, Pennsylvania (page 646). It is also interesting |  | | Report (issue) | | by E. N . Alley of an old prospect in the Rainy Creek district where vanadiferous ores were known to exist...is almost complete and the mineral, an altered phlogopite, is regarded as a true vermiculite. Interstratified...originate either by the weathering of biotite or phlogopite, by direct hydrothermal means, or by a combination...Russia and in Madagascar. Vaalite, a hydrated phlogopite, is common near the surface of many South African...kimberlite pipes but gives way in depth to ordinary phlogopite, a11d this lends support to the surface-weathering |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................122 Georgia .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................122 Georgia .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Report (volume) | | Bulletin 61. COVELLITE. From the East Greyrock mine, Butte, Mont. Collected by G. W. Tower. Analysis...[BULL. 220. POLYDYMITE. A massive ore from the mine of the Canadian Copper Company, Sudbury, district...Another nickel-iron sulphide, from the Worthington mine, SauTt branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 25...STROMEYERITE. From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis...in Bulletin 55. Butte, Mont. 13 From the Gagnon mine, Cu ........_. ___... . :_ _ . Ag.-.....-..... |  | | Report (issue) | | Ocoee Series ________________ --- _---Grandfather Mountain Formation and Mount Rogers Volcanic Group ___...Radar image of the Great Valley and Chilhowee Mountain, Tenn_ 8. Radar image showing typical Valley and...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 |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation, |  | | Report (volume) | | of the Tuscaloosa formation, near Havana, Hale County, Ala ............................................the Liguitic.................. XVIII. Oak Hill, Pine Barren series of the Lignitic.....................Olympia, Bath County, Ky.............................. Apatite in the Bonanza pit, Union mine, Portland,... Ottawa County, Quebec, Canada.................................... ............ 3. Section on south side...Templeton, Ottawa County, Quebec, Canada .................. ......... 4. Dike at the Union mine, Portland West |  | | Book (volume) | | 5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...Illinois. Detailed information on the State of Georgia was supplied by Dr. A. S. Furcron, Chief Geologist...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...operator of the Little Three Mine at Ramona, and Ralph R. Potter of the Himalaya Mine at Mesa Grande provided |  | | Report (issue) | | America-Continued United States of America-Continued Georgia ______________________________ _ Crystalline rocks...Perce Counties __________ _ Idaho CountY-----------------Valley CountY-----------------Adams, Payette,...and Gem Counties ________________________ _ Boise County ___ --------------Ada, Owyhee, Elmore, and Custer..._____________ _ Spruce Pine district ____________ Madison County and Haywood County _____________________...monazite belt in the Piedmont province __ Stokes County and Surry County_ Wilkes, Alexander, Catawba, Caldwell |
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