 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEMS AND GEM MINERALS OF NORTH CAROLINA* Josnrn HvoB Pnerr North Carolina is one of the more notable...the commercial mining of these, such as gold, corundum, mica, and monazite. There have been, however...material. The variety of gem minerals found in North Carolina is probably greater than in any other state...following: Diamond Spodumene Hiddenite Kunzite Corundum Ruby Sapphire Oriental Emerald Oriental Amethyst...Drauor.rt Twelve diamonds have been found in North Carolina, and there are also extensive deposits of itacolumite |  | | Book (edition) | | Geology of North Carolina. QE 147 .A22 1866-1887 Pt.2 V.2 Chap.1 Digitized by the Internet Archive...org/details/mineralsminerall01 nort n o o / Geology of North Carolina. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It F. A. GENTH...brought to a Pi 7 ? f 3 : GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA. 2 many new and rare species. The Mica veins...uranium, cerium, lanthanum and tions yttrium. The corundum mines, in the chrysolite ledges of the gion...within a few days , so that the list of North Carolina mineral species has been very considerably |  | | Book (edition) | | LOCALITIES NORTH CAROLINA, BEING CHAPTER I, OP THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. Reprinted...OF E. M. UZZELL RALEIGH, N. C. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CHROLINS. CHAPTER I. MINERALOGY. BY It has F...data have been embodied. Sev- GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 4 eral causes have been operative in giving...titanium, uranium, cerium, lanthanum and yttrium. The corundum mines, iu the chrysolite ledges of the mountain...matter of commercial interest. GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 6 Dr. C. L. Hunter has also kindly furnished |  | | Report (volume) | | 'THE GEOLOGICAL vt- ,(231 > ' " ^THE MINERALS CAROLINA''" i '- OF, - :l|^fe^H - GOTEENMENT LIBRARY... W. Powell, director | | The | minerals of North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Geiitk | [Vignette]...J. W. Powell, director | | The | mineralsof North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Genth | [Vignette]...W. Powell, director | | The | :aainerals of North Carolina | by | FrederickAugustusGenth j [Vignette]...separately. Price $2.50. XVI. The Paleozoic Fishes of North America, by John Strong Newberry. 1889. 4°. 340 |  | | 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...Emerald 33 9. Mica Mining 37 10. Feldspar 55 11. Corundum 61 12. Copper Mining 69 13. Graphite, Chromite |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WILLIAM DIVISION JASPER P. OF L. SAUNDERS, MINERAL...RESOURCES GEOLOGIST Circular 16 LOCALITIES NORTH OF CAROLINA BY JAMES F. CONLEY Doc NC DENR LIBRARY...... 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) | | Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE IN GARNET RUBY CORUNDUM GOLD...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | C . Spruce Pines in Mitchell County is the best known area in North Carolina to those connected with...east ern North Carolina. The type of granite underlying the Spruce Pines region is unique for North Carolina...occur in Avery and Yancy Counties which join Mitchell County. Alaskite consists chiefly of oligoclase, quartz...gneiss. This is a formation common to much of North Carolina and is more abundant than any other formation...into the Toe River Valley, which is central Mitchell County, some ancient people had sunk many shafts. |  | | Book (edition) | | Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4. Fluorite 9. ...actually 42.4 times harder than talc hard as corundum. field rests, the following information is...right) CHRYSOBERYL EPIDOTE PERIDOT SPHALERITE CORUNDUM FELDSPAR ^ PHENACITE SPODUMENE DANBURITE...elements such as diamond (carbon), oxides such as corundum (aluminum oxide), carbonates such as malachite...with tiny golden flakes of mica, and quartzites. Corundum, — — spinel and garnet are associated with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gemstones of North Carolina By GEORGE A. BRUCE, International Import Company 604 Peachtree Street, N...Atlanta 8, Georgia "The Land of the Sky" that is North Carolina is also the Land of Gemstones. This beautiful...some twenty-five years following, the mica and corundum interests gave further rise to their discovery...of gems in North Carolina was Mr. C. W. Jenks. This was in 1871 when he opened the corundum mine on Corundum...Franklin, Macon County. The next was the Buck Creek, or Cullakeenee Mine, in Clay County. This was followed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | large variety of minerals and gemstones in North Carolina annually attracts thousands of collectors to...the world. Some Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina T H E C O L L E C T I N G L O C A L I T I E...McKenzie's publication Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina: Information Circular 24 (1978). For a more...locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can be ordered from the North Carolina Department...27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can |  | | Catalog/List | | cerium orthosilicate) Massive; Virginia, or N. Carolina ................. . 34 Orthite, high grade; Norway...157 Smaragdite Green xline, with pink corundum, North Carolina . . . 92 Tremolite Fibrous, coarse, greenish-gray...metasilicate) "Asbutos", fibrous with talc; North Carolina . . . . . . . . . 17 ANTHRACITE-See Mineral.... . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Xline, white; South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....orthosilicatc} Cleavages, black; Canada and North Carolina . . . .. . ..33 BISMUTITE (A basic bismuth |  | | Report (volume) | | Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each mineral indicate...rated as 10, is many times harder than corundum, rated as 9. Corundum is placed next to diamond only because...all other green stones (Smith, 1949, p. 175). Corundum was referred to as "oriental" because the first...pale-green beryl to blue, violet corundum to rose pink, and yellow corundum to colorless. Dyeing is another...as synthetic alexandrite is actually synthetic corundum. A stone of simple chemical composition generally |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | namely: in Maryland, Connecticut, New Mexico, and North Carolina. The Geological Survey, United States Department...severallocalities in each of California, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Washington' The determined...south end, on the east side of Saline Valley, Inyo County'2 A thin section of a specimen,kindly furnished...375(1941). Connecticut At Haddam, in Middlesex County, on the top of Walkley llill' across the Connecticut...Murdoch, Joseph, and Webb, R. W., Bustamite from Inyo County, California : Atn. M ineral., 21, 69-70 (1936) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | staurolite, amphiboles, the other aluminosilicates, and corundum. It is often replaced by micas, and psuedomorphs...Cumberland County, Maine. Blue-bladed crystals to 2.5 cm long occur at Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts...at Ratlum Mountain, Hartford County, and at Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Kyanite associated...associated with blue corundum is found at Newtown and Roxbury, and Schairer (1931) Figure 1. An attractive...beautiful groups of blue kyanite blades occur in quartz north of Judd’s Bridge and in the hills east of Barkhamsted |  | | 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...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...n t h e e a r l y 1840's i n b o t h N o r t h Carolina and Georgia. C r y s t a l s were recovered f |  | | 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...UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JASPER L. STUCKEY, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY RALEIGH 1946 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...BULLETIN NO. 50 The Vermiculite Deposits of North Carolina BY THOMAS G. MURDOCK AND CHARLES E. HUNTER |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Libraries] at 23:32 09 August 2017 FIFTH MINERAL MITCHELL COUNTY GEM FESTIVAL— SPRUCE PINE, N.C. July 31, August...and Gem Festival have been announced by the Mitchell County Chamber of Commerce, the sponsoring organization...is scheduled by the Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission for recognizing North Carolina's 300th anniversary...is centrally located within the shadows of Mt. Mitchell with its 6,684 foot summit, the highest spot in...clase, sunstone, actinolite, ruby and sapphire corundum, apatite, allanite, black tourmaline, albite, |  | | Report (issue) | | GENERAL FEATURES OF THE MAGNETITE ORES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EASTERN TENNESSEE.1 By W. S. BAYLEY. INTRODUCTION...DISTRIBUTION. The iron ores of western North Carolina and Carter County, Tenn., comprise brown hematite (limonite...of North Carolina have increased in importance. Brown ore and magnetite produced in western North Carolina...353 60,593 43,483 44,482 o From reports of North Carolina Geol. and Econ. Survey and Mineral Resources...total recorded .production of magnetite from North Carolina is about 1,331,600 tons and of brown hematite |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | 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;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | closes over Buncoll;be County, and at the Clarissa ( Buchanan) mine, Mitchell County. quickly or slowly-the... . Albite occurs at the Presley mine, Haywo,?� County, It is beyond the scope of these ar�I...large scale; th� sImple at the WisellJan mine, Mitchell County, and rogersIte [Continued from SUPPLElIlENT...whether it is practicable or !lot MICA MINING IN NORTH CAROLINA. tle pearly beads upon samarskite." on a large...death, in 1885, F lat Rock and Clarissa mines, Mitchell County. _ A piece of gUllllllite weighing 6 pouud |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2 . A new amphibole-pyroxene rock from Mariposa County ; 3. A quartzalunite, with an analysis of the alunite...Tuolumne County. flineralogical Notes on Anthophyllite, Enstatite, and Beryl (Emerald) from North Carolina...are from t h e great dunite dikes of western North Carolina, and two analyses of each are given. T h e...e emerald is from a vein of pegmatite in Mitchell County, and was not analyzed. The Jerome Kansas ileteorite...On the Origin of the Corundum Associated with the Peridotites in North Carolina. BY J . H. PKATT. 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