 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | petrogenesis of pegmatites in the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina, USA Samuel E. Swanson*, William B...Granitic rocks (mainly granodiorites) of the Spruce Pine Plutonic Suite occur as small plutons and numerous...textures in the Spruce Pine Plutonic Suite is related to the depth of crystallization. Spruce Pine granitoids...plumose muscovite clusters are common in the Spruce Pine pegmatites. Water content of magmas at such high...granitic to pegmatitic texture so common at Spruce Pine (and in other deep-seated systems) was probably |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | “up” Cane Branch near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina. His lean and sinewy frame suggested a...five to ten miles over the hills to a prospect or mine, labor until dark, and then walk home, only to repeat...afterward. In fact, hardly any roads existed in Yancey County in those days, only well-worn foot trails. No wonder...began his career driving steel in a local pegmatite mine for ten cents an hour. He soon moved up to a higher-paying...hand-cobbing feldspar for the Bowditch Feldspar mine. This work required separating the spar from the |  | | Report (issue) | | Carolina Geological Society 2008 Fieldtrip and Annual Meeting, Little Switzerland, North Carolina October...2008 annual meeting – Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________...__ Carolina Geological Society (CGS) 2008 Field trip Spruce Pine Mining District North Carolina Co-leaders...Sponsors Active Minerals International, LLC Imerys North America Ceramics Unimin Corporation Vulcan Materials...2008 annual meeting – Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | .'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Where & How to Djg, Pan and Mine Your Own Gen1s & Minerals Where & I-low to 1-Iunt for Treasure From...vacation stops at a roadside "dig your own" gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a p ach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...Utah Alaska Idaho Iowa Minnesota Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oregon SouthDakota Washington Wyoming vowr-...Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Virginja West Virginia Southwest |  | | Catalog/List | | PEBBLE PEDDLER 100 NORTH LAKE PARK BOTTINEAU, NORTH DAKOTA 56318 (701)263-4948 E-Mail: ppeddler@metigoshe...don't know about where you folks live, but here in North Dakota along the Canadian border, cabin fever is...last. TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near clear...inch specimens, $25.00 each. CAMPYLITE: Dry Gill Mine, Cumberland, England; A unique and rare species...at $15.00 each. BROOKITE: Magnet Cove, Garland County, Arkansas; Dipyramidal thumbnail crystals mounted |  | | Book (edition) | | feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose...plains have been buried deep under debris brought north by glaciers or washed down down from have been...should always ask permission it may be un- or a mine dvmip. Cleanliness around a camp site and removal...Diamonds have been found in the United way from North Carolina to California and from Wisconsin. Some are...are found in the rock in which spare North America. States, all the Georgia to they were created by volcanic |  | | 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...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...the mining of emeralds at Stony Point, Alexander County. These gem "pioneers" pointed the way and their |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...out each year into the mountains and deserts of North America to collect a great variety of materials...glaciers that once covered the northern part of North America. As you can see from the directory of digging...dikes in Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Dakota, liquid in the solidifying dike...Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina. In the West, the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada |  | | Report (issue) | | Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Granite-_____________________ Muscovite granodiorite of Spruce Pine district-_____ ________________________ Pegmatite |  | | 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...b e a u t i f u l forests o f hardwoods, pines, spruce, and flowering shrubs. Since t h e earliest p e...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 |  | | 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, 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...spodumène chromifère, veines de quartz hydrothermales, mine Rist, Hiddenite, Caroline du Nord. § E-mail address: |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...to list more than fifteen hundred localities in North America where gems can be found. This is the only...amateurs alike had not gone out to every corner of North America, discovered the rich gem resources of the...Colorado; and Professor Jack Hanahan of Belmont, North Carolina, with locations in their respective states...venture every year into the mountains and deserts of North America, they enjoy not only the pleasure of seeking |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences, East Carolina University, 101 Graham Building, Greenville, North, Carolina 27858, USA 2 Department... Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA incompatible character of Zn in evolving pegmatite-aplite...spodumene), and topaz, as well as other minerals, in North America for over at least 100 years (e.g., Fisher...similar to those in the well known Little Three mine of the Ramona mining district in the same Province...detailed petrographic studies and cut at East Carolina University (ECU). Oriented polished-thin sections |  | | Catalog/List | | THE PEBBLE PEDDLER 100 North Lake Park Bottineau, North Dakota 58318 (701)263-4948 NEW LOW PRICES ON...new house two miles form the Canadian border in North Dakota, we couldn’t find our house key, and the...advantage of them while you can. AURICHALCITE; 79 Mine, Gila Co., Arizona: This is a zinc/copper carbonate...acicular crystal sprays and is very uncommon. The 79 mine is listed in every book I have as being one of the...Mtn STSvEM, AZURITE; Morenci Mine, Morenci, Arizona: The Morenci Mine is world renown for its turquoise |  | | Report (issue) | | the Falls leucogneiss and adjacent rocks in the Crabtree and Raleigh terranes. It is a characteristic regional...orthogneiss and the Nutbush Creek fault zone. CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK November...WESTERN FLANK OF THE RALEIGH METAMORPHIC BELT, NORTH CAROLINA Edited by: Edward F. Stoddard Department of...and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8208 David E. Blake...Sciences University of North Carolina at Wilmington Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-3297 Copies of this |  | | Catalog/List | | PEBBLE PEDDLER 100 NORTH LAKE PARK BOTTINEAU, NORTH DAKOTA 58318 (701) 263-4948 E-Mail: ppeddler@meligoshe...COLLECT/ON: RED CLOUD WULFENITE: Red Cloud Mine, La Paz County, Arizona: The best wulfenite locallty in...WULFEN/TE & ASSOC/A [IONS: Finch Mine (AKA Barking Spider), Pinal County, Arizona: Very nlce combinations...00 each ROWLEY WULFENITE & ASSOCIA T/ONS: Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mlns., Maricopa Co., Arizona: Clear...and $25.00 each GLOVE WULFENITE: Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Very nice cryslalline speclmens |  | | Report (chapter) | | kimberlite exploration in glaciated terrain (e.g. Mitchell 1986; Sheahan & Chater 1993; Averill & McClenaghan...Slave Province hosts the producing Ekati diamond mine and also the Diavik prospect, which is scheduled...including kimberlites on Somerset Island (e.g. Mitchell 1975; Kjarsgaard 1996a), the Rankin Inlet area...and the most recently discovered kimberlites on north Baffin Island (Northern Miner 1999a). Two major...70 km north, contains two additional pipes. The recently discovered Buffalo Hills field of north-central |  | | 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 | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...100 detail maps 1500+ hunting locations: sites in North America A directory to coUpcfing O E Pi rin...it a veritable not just a picof informa- is mine tion, telling everything the collector needs to...directory listing over fifteen hundred localities in North America where gem specimens may be found. Interspersed...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID |  | | Book | | 87 88 * North Carolina Precious Stone-Emerald Rock-Granite 109 110 90 90 91 91 a2 * North Dakota Fossil-Jeredo...Fossil-Eurypterus remipes 102 103 104 * South Carolina Gem Stone-Amethyst Stone-Blue Granite 106 107...trees are all past evidence of ancient life in North America. Turquoise, flint, quartz, pearl, nephrite...made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Sciences, East Carolina University, 101 Graham Building, Greenville, NC 27858, USA MIGUEL A. GALLISKI...the Department of Geological Sciences at East Carolina University (ECU) to determine the mineralogy and...Standards used for these analyses included Astimex almandine garnet (Si, Mg, Fe), bustamite (Ca, Mn), sanidine...have been divided into districts and include, from north to south, the Centenario, Cerro Blanco, El Quemado...beryl-rich granitic pegmatites and pegmatites in the north and northwest are lithium-rich pegmatites (Galliski |  | | Catalog/List | | ... I·· THE PEBBLE PEDDLER 100 North Lake Park Bottineau, North Dakota 58318 (701) 263-4948 Internet...survived our first winter along the Canadian border in North Dakota. H you arc into extreme weather events, this...summer season, and hopefully our next winter here in North Dakota won't be filled with quite so many "NEW"... BLADED HEMJMORPHITE; Dauntless Mine, Robinson Distric!, White Pine Co., �evada: J:?irec! fr01� the co�lector...depending upon size and quality. OLIVENITE; Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing Co., Nevada: Originally described from |
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