 | | Report (issue) | | 0, I y. 50 .r rVv, rv O. ^ NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE...BULLETIN NO. 50 The Vermiculite Deposits of North Carolina BY THOMAS G. MURDOCK AND CHARLES E. HUNTER...THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JASPER L. STUCKEY, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF...AND H. S. RANKIN, TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY RALEIGH 1946 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION...BULLETIN NO. 50 The Vermiculite Deposits of North Carolina BY THOMAS G. MURDOCK AND CHARLES E. HUNTER |  | | Report (volume) | | DIRECTOR THE OCCUIIRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION CORUNDUM IN THE UNITED STATES BY JOSEPI-I HYDE PR.ATT...Modes of occurrence of corundum ...... ................,_................ Corundum in peridotites...._ ...... Corundum in biotite, contact on saxonite .............................. U 1.1 19 Corundum in enstatite.....1. 20 Corundum in serpentine . _.........._....__...........__....-_..--.._.. Corundum in chlorite-schist.... 20 21 Corundum in amphibolite ................................. ........ 21 Corundum (emery) in |  | | Report (volume) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY - CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR CORUNDUM ITS OCCURRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED...__..-.._.__.--...- -18 Physical properties of corundum ......................................... 1.5...composition of corundum ........................................ Determination of percentage of corundum in an........---..-.-..-..-...-,.-..--..-.....Sapphire or gem corundum ........_...'.................--..-.-...of a gem..................................... Sapphire as a gem ......... ................_......... |  | | Report (volume) | | North Carolina State Library Gift of "JYortk (^arolinti ^Ihranj 0 Digitized by the Internet Archive...Library of North Carolina https://archive.org/details/corundumperidoti01prat CORUNDUM AND THE PERIDOTITES...OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT and JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS North Carolina State Library...Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. A. HOLMES, STATE GEOLOGIST VOLUME I CORUNDUM AND THE PERIDOTITES...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT AND JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 1905 |  | | Report (volume) | | Knoxville 1 °X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Knoxville 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°X2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina I by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [et al...Geology- Tennessee. 2. Geology-North Carolina. 3. Geology-South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources-...and mineral resources-North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...Sanitarium and the Oconee River: andalusite, biotite, corundum, muscovite, quartz (Hurst, 1956c). Wood pit—east...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and |  | | Book | | CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________............._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because...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...n d m 1799 i n Cabarrus C o u n t y, N o r t h Carolina, b y a s m a l l b o y w a l k i n g along a m |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite VILLAGE...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I...Hematite DUDLEYVILLE, Tallapoosa Co. Asbestos, with Corundum FORT PAYNE, DeKalb Co. Hematite FREDONIA, Chambers |  | | Report (volume) | | Minneapolis. Mississippi.......Prof. E. N. Lowe, Jackson. Missouri..........Dr. H. A. Buehler, Rolla. Nebraska...State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G...... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota....Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found in...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Book (volume) | | conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain...exposures, such as Aquamarine, Beryl, some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...59, 5 mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE, area gravels along adjoining Co. linerock crystal |  | | Report (volume) | | ......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908. Scott |  | | Report (issue) | | COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing...Green Dk. Blue Olive Yellow Dk. Orange Brown Black Valley & Ridge mapping and structural geology Piedmont................................................ Corundum .......................................................................................... 170 County Index ........................................ |  | | Book (volume) | | .......................................295 North Carolina ........................................................................................302 North Dakota ...............................................................................366 South Carolina ................................................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 |  | | Book (volume) | | .......................................295 North Carolina ........................................................................................302 North Dakota ...............................................................................366 South Carolina ................................................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 |  | | Report (issue) | | VARIEGATED MARBLE SOUTHEAST OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3£ miles a little...near the head of a ravine opening into Buxahatchee Valley. A thickness of about 25 feet of marble is exposed...be followed north into the NW. \ sec. 4, T. 24 N., R. 14 E., as shown in figure 36. North 1 McCalley,... Henry, Report on the valley regions of Alabama, pt. 2, Geol. Survey Alabama, 1897, pp 513,514. 237 ...(Hallowell); light gray (Barre "light"); very light gray (North Jay and Dummerston "white"); white, mottled with |  | | Book | | York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South...the most ancient of all Egyptian burials, in the Valley of the Royal Tombs at Abydos west of the ancient...archaeologically from the time of Jacob; assigned to Judah) , sapphire ( more probably lapis lazuli, assigned to Dan)...undetermined ancient gemstone sometimes labeled also sapphire, although this is unlikely because it was orange...and amethyst (probably a purple sapphire as distinct from Dan's "sapphire" rather than the present purple |  | | Book | | wonderful fossil insect imprint recently discovered in North Attleboro. How I wish I had GPS and a digital camera...They crop out of the ground from Roxbury south to Brockton and from Braintree west to Needham and Wellesley...futile effort to reopen the former Chipman silver mine in Newbury. A brief exploratory foray into the Berkshires...companies led to a survey of the former Davis copper mine in Rowe, but that effort was abandoned, according...They crop out of the ground from Roxbury south to Brockton and from Braintree west to Needham and Wellesley |  | | Report (volume) | | Annotated Bibliography of North American Geology, 1950 By MARJORIE HOOKER GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...in 1 2 5 7 17 291 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1950 BY MARJORIE HOOKER INTRODUCTION...lists publications concerning the geology of the North American continent, including adjacent islands,...in foreign journals are cited if they deal with North American localities or are of a general character...foreign areas. Articles by foreign' authors on North America are included regardless of place of publication; |  | | Journal (issue) | | pink fluorite from Illinois, USA| Colourless forsterite from Vietnam|Sapphire from Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar|...Laurent E. Cartier 430 Large 12-Rayed Black Star Sapphire from Sri Lanka with Asterism Caused by Ilmenite...Joseph Ambalu, Amba Gem Corp., New York, New York, USA. 450 Letters 451 Gem-A Notices 452 Learning Opportunities...Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Maggie Campbell Pedersen...Emmett, Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA; Emmanuel Fritsch, University of Nantes, France; |  | | Journal (issue) | | from Madagascar, and synthetic ruby overgrowth on corundum|Publications by Silver Institute and World Gold...Russia|Shattuckite briolette|Saguaro Stone from Arizona, USA|Red tourmaline from Nigeria|Tremolite from Tanzania|Diamond... ruby|Diffusioninduced colour and asterism in sapphire|Gems Emporium in Myanmar p. 585 Articles ...Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Alan T. Collins, King’s College London; John L....Emmett, Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA; Emmanuel Fritsch, University of Nantes, France; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Norton. First Vice-President 11945 Magnolia Blvd,. North Hollywood. CA 91607 Lee Hollinshead. Second Vice-President...Auditoriun1 29 July-I Aug.-Franklin, NC- \lacon County Fairgrounds 29 July-2 Aug.- Bancroft, Ontario,...modification. Stan has continued on page 18 become a ruby mine of importance. Because of its location close to...The Kazanjians are also well known for the four sapphire heads of presidents Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson...may be directed to the Kazanjian Foundation, 332 North Rodeo, Beverly Hills, California 90210. SEETHE |  | | Journal (issue) | | Norton. First Vice-President 11945 Magnolia Blvd .• North Hollywood. CA 91607 Lee Holllnshead, Second Vice-President...................40 Minerals of the Bonanza King Mine by Mary Frances Strong .......................................................... $3.95 per lb. Sapphire. Australia. blue and black mixed. some star lncluded...- ALL ORDERS MUST INCLUDE A $2.00 fff If in the USA - all others including Canada must Include full amount...interested in this beautiful purStates; Virginia, North Carolina, Monple gem, there will be amethyst displays |  | | Journal (issue) | | Norton, First Vice-President 11945 Magnotta Blvd .. North Hollywood. CA 91607 Lee Hollinshead. Second Vice-President...Washington by Peter Thorne .............. 46 Western North Caronna Rockhoundlng Tips by Vernon D. Stenzel ...wood or layers of leather to which a paste of corundum (emery) and river silt were applied. The spinach...handshakes, and a few hurried instru~tions, they headed north on Horse Creek Road, and I fell in at the end of...(formerly Stratified Forest) Primitive Area, to the north. It gets its name, Double Cabin, from a delapidated |  | | Journal (issue) | | Norton, Fl rat Vice-President 11945 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91607 LH Hollinshead, Second Vice-President.........44 Another New Mlneral from the Big Chief Mine by Martha Llnde .........................66 8 111.................................. $3.05 per lb. Sapphire, Australia, blue and black mixed, some star included...- ALL ORDIRI IIUIT INCLUDI A 12.00 1M If In the USA - all others Including Canada must Include lull amount...-California's Mineral Heritage CAMERON, Rita Cameos CASTRO VALLEY GEM & MINERAL SOCIE1YCentrlfugal Casting - Lost |  | | Journal (issue) | | December 2014 Display until 12/23/14 PRINTED IN USA RG_turquoise_cover_1214.indd 2 ROCKPICK LEGEND...Ultra Tec.idml 2 10/21/14 1:30 PM 3 Kingsley North Full page.idml 3 11/1/14 10:28 AM ON THE COVER...GEORGIA: 20th Annual Show; Mammoth Rock Shows LLC; North Atlanta Trade Center; 1700 Jeurgens Ct.; Fri. 10-6...MidTennessee Gem & Mineral Society; Williamson County AgExpoPark; 4215 Long Ln.; Sat. 9-6, Sun. 10-5;...ARIZONA: 58th Annual Show; Gila County Gem & Mineral Society; Gila County Fairgrounds; 3 miles northeast |
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