 | | Journal (issue) | | awards, and future and past mineral symposia in the USA. The speaker program for the Tucson Symposium (Feb... Country Inn & Suites by Carlson 705 North Freeway, just north of St. Marys Road and west of I-10, Tucson...for minerals and mineral lovers, for me, Greenlee County was the Holy Grail. A serendipitous visit to a... President of 1879 Minerals LLC and Owner of 79 Mine. Jolyon Ralph Jolyon Ralph is a mineral collector...NM, as the Manager of Things for mindat.org. Alexander G. Schauss A visit to the American Museum of Natural |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT HARGROVE BOWLES, JR., DIRECTOR DIVISION... STATE GEOLOGIST Circular 17 BERYL OCCURRENCES IN NORTH CAROLINA BY WILLIAM F WILSON Ooc RALEIGH...MODE OF OCCURRENCE, . . . • . • • . . . . . . 3 BERYL - COMPOSITION AND APPEARANCE* 4 . DOMESTIC BERYLLIUM...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 ...••••• |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Figure 1. The North American Emerald mine (2006), where many fine emeralds have...Off—Again: Mining for Emeralds in Hiddenite Alexander County, North Carolina I t has been many decades since...since the fabulous 21-cm-long North Carolina emerald crystal figured in the monumental work Gems and Precious...Precious Stones of North America (Kunz 1892) was stolen, along with three smaller similar crystals, from...Hiddenite, North Carolina, the place from which an increasingly impressive number of beryl variety emerald |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alpine-type fissure veins from Hiddenite, North Carolina, USA Michael A. Wise Received: 10 August 2007...western North Carolina, USA consists mostly of quartz, but locally contains Cr-bearing beryl (emerald)...immediate vicinity of the town of Hiddenite, North Carolina (latitude 35.90N, longitude 81.09W) are quartz...veins which host gem- and specimen-grade Crbearing beryl and Cr-bearing spodumene, better known in Editorial...Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, USA e-mail: wisem@si.edu the gem trade as emerald and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | my knowledge of the minerals of Florida and North Carolina. This column was prepared and ready for you...far more attractive than the ones from the Alexander county location. I have mined the Hiddenite xls for...for many years at the old Hiddenite, the Ellis, and Rist mines and have never seen any xls from there...of this old mine in doubt for future collecting. The operators of the Crabtree Emerald Mine have apparently...localities. On the bright side, the Old Wiseman Mine at Spruce Pine, closed to collectors for many years |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SPODUMENE-BEARING QUARTZ VEINS OF THE RIST EMERALD MINE, HIDDENITE, NORTH CAROLINA MICHAEL A. WISE§ Department of Mineral...the emerald occurrence at the Rist mine, Hiddenite, North Carolina, in order to provide a foundation for...spodumene mineralization and granitic pegmatites. Beryl and chromian spodumene occur entirely within quartz...spodumene, hydrothermal quartz vein, Rist mine, Hiddenite, North Carolina. SOMMAIRE Nous avons ré-étudié la...minéraux associés au gisement d’émeraude situé à la mine Rist, à Hiddenite, en Caroline du Nord, afin d’établir |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 926 (949) 494 -7 6 9 5 . . ....Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Famous mineral localities: The Rist and Ellis Tracts, Hiddenite, North C arolina 129 by D. L. Brown & W...FLUORITE crystal group, 8.1 cm, from the Shangbao mine, H unan, China. Collector's Edge Minerals specimen;...color, and give a historical background for each mine or mining venture. These catalogs, still available |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minnesota, 130 Alabama, Indian Mountain, 152 Alexander, E . C : Jr., Minnesota Caves, 118; Where to Go...12 Anthony, W., 12 Arizona: Mammoth, St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Arizona, 5; Minerals Named for Persons Associated...Bementite, New Jersey, 210 Benstonite, Illinois, 69 Beryl, Utah, 163 Betancourt, P. P . , Franklinite from...Denver Museum of Natural History, 58; Clear Creek County, 241 Coming Events: 38, 81, 177, 227, 273 Connecticut...Hoover, 148 Dick, A . B . , 257 Dickite, 257 Dixie mine, Virginia, 21 Downeyite, 73 Downey, W. F . , 73 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | received from the Reeves Sound Laboratories and North American Philips Company to help defray the heavy...of the series were lormed at Hobart Butte, Lane County, Oregon, probably in Miocene time by hydrothermal...JEROMEI|ISEER At the High Climb pegmatite (six miles north of Custer, S. Dak.), veinJike masses of quartz-cleavelandite...summarized. A kodachrome of a giant beryl crystal at the Ingersoll Mine near Keystone will also be presented...CONCRETIONS FROM PITTSBI'RGH COAI SEAM' MONONGALIA COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA WII-DERD. FOSTERAND IIORENCE L. |  | | Journal (issue) | | Winter Branch Chairmen: Midlands - G.M. Green, North West - I. Knight, Scottish - B. Jackson, South West...the eastern flank of the Sudete Mountains of the north-east Bohemian Massif. They occur on the southeastern...outlying ridge that stretches north-westwards from Jordanow Slaski. To the north-east, the site overlooks... 1914). 451 451 464 Figure 3: View looking north of the quarry workings. Photo by Douglas Nichol...deep and the nephrite jade workings occupy the north-western corner of the principal quarry (Figure 4) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GRANITIZED ROCKS IN TIIE YELLOWJACKET DISTRICT, LEMEI COUNTY, IDAIIO co,,,"u ri,'"ilT3i,}, ffi;" ,Tewyork The...MEETING DEPOSITS ON QUARTZ IilLL, CENTRAI GILPIN COUNTY, COLORADO 329 CTTY DISTRICT, F. C. ARMSTRONG...disseminated types of ores such as occur at the Sunshine Mine, Idaho, the correction may be as large as 2O/s oI...in several nepheline olivine basalt flows at the north end of the Caballo Mountains, New Mexico. These...OF'THE ROAN AND CAROLINA GNEISSES IN TIIE SPRUCE PINE PEGMATITE DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA DONAID A. BROBST |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GRANITIZED ROCKS IN TIIE YELLOWJACKET DISTRICT, LEMEI COUNTY, IDAIIO co,,,"u ri,'"ilT3i,}, ffi;" ,Tewyork The...MEETING DEPOSITS ON QUARTZ IilLL, CENTRAI GILPIN COUNTY, COLORADO 329 CTTY DISTRICT, F. C. ARMSTRONG...disseminated types of ores such as occur at the Sunshine Mine, Idaho, the correction may be as large as 2O/s oI...in several nepheline olivine basalt flows at the north end of the Caballo Mountains, New Mexico. These...OF'THE ROAN AND CAROLINA GNEISSES IN TIIE SPRUCE PINE PEGMATITE DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA DONAID A. BROBST |  | | Book (volume) | | grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | Book (volume) | | grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Crystalis ninecm in length. the Mons Cupri Copper Mine, southwest of Whim Creek. After confirming its identity...Herbertsmithite has been found in the Kali Kafi mine, Anarak, Iran, in tiny (<0.1 mm) bright green grains...(Braitwaite et al., 2004). At the nearby Chah Khouni mine, Anarak, Iran, tiny (~0.1 mm) dark green hexagonal...the Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation, Illinois, USA. For ten years afterwards, Fansteel purchased an...its" ... only source of ore during the 30's was a mine in the desolate Pi Ibara District of western Australia |  | | Book (edition) | | GEMSTONES $CS of NORTH AMERICA . In Two Volumes $30.00 GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes ...REINHOLD BOOK / '- ✓ ( ..., ■ GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes Volume II T ourmaline...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...lnternatiunal, Inc. F RO. Tl!>PI£CE GEMSTONES of NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes Volume II John Sinkankas...publication of the first volume of Gemstones of North America in 1959 so much has transpired that the |  | | 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...: (*) Asterisk denotes fluorescence. ALABAMA ALEXANDER CITY, Tallapoosa Co., (near) ClIALCOPYRITE ATTALLA...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | piecesin oxidizedore bodiesat the Red Bird mercury mine, PershingCo.,Nevada. PETROLOGY OF THE GIIFFEY-MICANITE...southeast part of Park County and in the north-central part of Fremont County, Colorado, is underlain...containing the accessory assemblage: beryl (including golden beryl), garnet, apatite, columbite, schorl...pegmatite minerals, feldspar, sheet and scrap mica, beryl, and columbite, other minerals of economic significance...itsoptical axis is horizontal withwhat was its "north-south" vibration direction inclined downward to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hydrotitanite from Arkansas and xanthitane from North Carolina were also analyzed.. These analyses served...llr"i'""* Eudialyte and eucolite occur in otero county, New Mexico, in small irregular dikes associated...shear zones in the Precambrian granitic terrane north of Lake Athabaska are more radioactive than others... ORBICULAR TINGUAITE DTKES NEAR BRYANT, SAIINE COUNTY, ARI(ANSAS FREDA. EIIDEBRAND University of Chicago...truncation by flow lines, and enclosure of flow lines. BERYL AT MT. MICA, MAINE Ilarvard CORNELII'SS. HIIRLBUT |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hydrotitanite from Arkansas and xanthitane from North Carolina were also analyzed.. These analyses served...llr"i'""* Eudialyte and eucolite occur in otero county, New Mexico, in small irregular dikes associated...shear zones in the Precambrian granitic terrane north of Lake Athabaska are more radioactive than others... ORBICULAR TINGUAITE DTKES NEAR BRYANT, SAIINE COUNTY, ARI(ANSAS FREDA. EIIDEBRAND University of Chicago...truncation by flow lines, and enclosure of flow lines. BERYL AT MT. MICA, MAINE Ilarvard CORNELII'SS. HIIRLBUT |  | | Journal (issue) | | ... 3 NOTES ON GYPSUM CRYSTALS IN MORTON COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA. By Robe,-, H. Mitchell and Wilson M...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...of phlogopite from Clark's H ill, St. Lawrence County, New York (page 633, figure 2) ; and a crystal...crystal of clinochlore from W est-town, Chester County, Pennsylvania (page 646). It is also interesting to note |  | | Journal (issue) | | years ago. This is due to the yearly crushing of mine dumps for logging road construction, road repairs...industrial projects. Posting of privately owned mine sites also had increased due to liability concerns...field trip is held to the Wolverine #2 mine, Kearsarge, Houghton County, Michigan. The collecting guides for...2022. Kyanite from Balsam Gap, Buncombe County, North Carolina Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral.com...great quantities of material from Virginia and North Carolina, states where he could collect later in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of...of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; jmdday@ucsd.edu Correspondence: ralonso@fas.harvard...elements; plate tectonics; sediments; s-type granite Alexander R. Cruden, Sytle M. Antao, Huifang Xu, Nigel J...variety of beryl (Be3 Al2 Si6 O18 ) and have been prized gems since antiquity [1]. Beryl is a cyclosilicate...recognized emerald deposits globally, occurring across North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia |
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Ellis Mine, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA