 | | 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...texture with coarse (~ 1 cm) grains of feldspar, quartz and muscovite enclosed in a finer grained matrix...the granodiorites; major amounts of feldspars and quartz, accessory amounts of muscovite, garnet, and epidote...recrystallization, include epidote, muscovite, quartz, and grossular garnet. A few of the pegmatites |  | | Report (volume) | | Geology of the Spruce Pine District ! Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...the North \ Carolina Department of Conservation and Development 1122-A Geology of the Spruce Pine...Pine District Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina By DONALD A. BROBST ! CONTRIBUTIONS TO...with the Mineral Resources Division of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...ILLUSTEATIONS PLATE 1. Geologic map of Spruce Pine pegmatite district, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties, N.C.__________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TRIP TO SPRUCE PINES 4812 Wake By J . E . N O R W O O D Forest R d . , Raleigh, N. C . Spruce Pines...Pines in Mitchell County is the best known area in North Carolina to those connected with mining and min...east ern North Carolina. The type of granite underlying the Spruce Pines region is unique for North Carolina...Carolina and even the U.S.A. In a ten mile radius of Spruce Pines is most of the alaskite granite found in...Counties which join Mitchell County. Alaskite consists chiefly of oligoclase, quartz, microline, and muscovite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 2: Meta-torbernite, Chalk Mountain, Mitchell County, North Carolina. RICHARD D. GREEN 1745 13th.... The gangue is chiefly dolomite, calcite, and quartz, with small amounts of barite and fluorite. Typical...minerals occur in small amounts with uraninite in a quartz-carbonate-fluorite gangue typically mixed with...contain such minerals as microcline plus zircon, quartz, and allanite. This type of pegmatite is commonly...of pegmatites features rareearths and contains quartz, microcline, and bio tite mica. The main feature |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lithium sources such as the Foote mine at Kings Mountain, North Carolina; the giant crystal-bearing pegmatites...the Black Hills, South Dakota; the Harding mine in Taos County, New Mexico; the enormous Bernic Lake pegmatite...tourmaline, in addition to muscovite, feldspars, quartz, and such interesting associated species as cassiterite...Androscoggin County; Georgetown, Sagadoho County; and Andover and Newry, Oxford County, Maine. Purple...for cabachons was found near Lithia in Hampshire County, Massachussetts. Small fragments of pale purple |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on a long awaited trip south of the border, North Carolina. At the start of our journey (5:00 A.M.) it...inquire about directions and permission to the Ellis mine near the Hiddenite school. Being as this property...MINERALS car high-balling it back to the Ellis mine 12 miles away. This time we were greeted by sunny...ourselves with picking up quartz crystals (some with rutile), rose quartz, and an occasional piece of...specimen she had collected at the nearby Hiddenite mine. It was a Y^Yi Jnch piece of emeraldgreen hiddenite |  | | 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...Domestic Mica Buying Policy 111 20. Western North Carolina & the War Years .119 21. The Mineral Kingdom |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE PEGMATITES OF THE SPRUCE PINE DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA. C. S. MAURICE. (Continued from ["ol....texturedintrusivesconsistingmainly of plagioclase and quartz. The compositionof the plagioclaseof some of the...kyanite gneiss within the Carolina gneiss series. They consistmainly of quartz, kyanite, and feldspar,with...distributionof thesebodies •58 SPRUCE PINE DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA. 159 and their composition and...magnetite. Fine-9rainedFoliates.--A few oligoclase-quartz dikes,with muscoviteand very smallamountsof microcline |  | | Report (issue) | | c C.2 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF...BULLETIN NUMBER 66 THE SCRAP MICA RESOURCES of NORTH CAROLINA BY SAM D. BROADHURST AND LEWIS J. HASH PREPARED...TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY RALEIGH 1953 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...BULLETIN NUMBER 66 THE SCRAP MICA RESOURCES of NORTH CAROLINA By SAM D. BROADHURST and LEWIS J. HASH PREPARED...JR. Spruce Pine BUXTON WHITE Elizabeth City LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Raleigh, North Carolina March |  | | Report (issue) | | under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Valley Authority Physical...under a cooperative agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Tennessee Falley Authority UNITED...___._ — —— __-__-_-____ Inclusions of muscovite, quartz, and apatite in muscovite..-._-_.____-__-_-_--...Production of sheet and punch mica, 1912-14, in North Carolina, the Southeastern States, and the entire United...data for mica specimens, arranged by lot and by mine or prospect-_-___--_-___-_-.___---___-_____--_ Results |  | | Book (edition) | | and often gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level for the ist to States contain...gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | has found a similar occurrence at the Wallbridge Mine in Ma doc. He says he read about the Metavoltine...were some 3 x 1 cm black plates in granular smokey quartz matrix. Mr. Leavitt notes he tested them with a...could be allanite. The locality, Calumet Uranium Mine in Bryson, was not listed in Canadian Deposits of...in soil but in San Antonio Canyon in Los Angeles County, pink euhedral corundum is found up to 5 mm locked...associated. The specimens were from San Benito County. Illinois Mr. Leavitt also submitted a specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | black light over some old abandoned mine dumps in Cabarrus County, North Caro lina, revealed quite a bit...blue-white fluorescence. Schee lite at the Phoenix Mine is hard to rec ognize in the field in daylight...fluorescent micro mineral in Chalk Mountain feldspar mine near Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The my collection is...dike uranium strike. They had collected a on Chalk Mountain. Fluorescent lights handful of this radio-active...radio-active mineral, but flickering over this mountain of "char were not willing to part with any of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at Shinkolobwe,it is more likely from the Musonoi mine in the same district. The specimen is 12.5 cm wide...Hampshire; and at the Bedford quarries, Westchester County, New York. “Torbernite” has been reported from...Lawson and Chalk Mountain mines in the Spruce Pine district, Mitchell County, North Carolina. Here, individual...surfaces in granitic rock and in small vugs in smoky quartz. Torbemite and metatorbernite are widespread in...from the Markey No. 3 mine, White Canyon district, Utah, as well as the Skyline mine in the Monument Valley |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SPRUCE PINE, AUGUST 1965 A BEGINNER'S LOOK AT THE BIG NORTH CAROLINA EVENT By HOXIE JONES, JR. 819 Carolina...though I only spent part of two days at the Spruce Pine Festival, I can truthfully say it was about the...rockhunting pal who went along. Charles and I left for Spruce Pine about 7 a.m., August 5, 1965, in his blue pick-up...some Z's." We arrived at the high school in Spruce Pine about 10 or 11 a.m., bought tickets and went...After supper, we headed back to Spruce Pine for the trip to Chalk Mountain. W e were at the end of the dusty |  | | Journal (issue) | | Anne Robert T. Curran, Jr. Richard Hauck Roger Mitchell Barbara L. Narendra <01999 All rights reserved...HISTORIC MINERAL FEATURE The Harn.me Brothers Tungsten Mine by Joseph A. Dague 27 PORTRAIT GALLERY The Legendary...White 40 ON THE COVER: Pyromorphite, Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. A l2X8 cm mass of oil-green...overall mineralogical experi my friend Roger Mitchell (see MATRIX, Y6N4). Roger is an ence took place...Jef beautifully crystallized brucite from the Wood Mine lo feris was not a skilled writer. Light editing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District...District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite...leadhillite, mimetite, pyromorphite, quartz, scheelite, vanadinite, wulfenite Corral Canyon District Various...rutile, titanite Figure 4. Quartz, 14.2 cm across, Newbeny Mountains,Clark County. Steve Scott specimen,...Lovelock mine, Churchill County. Figure 2 (bottom). Wulfenite, 1.1 mm high, Chalk Mountain, Churchill |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 23:49 05 October 2014 Daybreak Mine, Spokane County, Washington T he naming of minerals that...its outstanding classic occurrence at the Daybreak mine near Elk, Washington. Autunite is characterized...most “autunite” specimens that have been found on mine dumps or have resided in collections for decades...some localities, including that from the Daybreak mine described below, dehydrates in such a way that what...of autunite aggregates from the Daybreak mine, Spokane County, Washington; John Lucking specimen, Jeff |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | n Franklin, North Caro lina, the Crabtree emerald mine i n Spruce Pine, North Carolina, and finally...finally the dia mond mine at Murfreesboro, Arkansas. T h i s is really quite a feat for an amateur geologist...explored, tons of petrified wood in A r i zona, quartz crystals in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and gold, silver...casually mentioned it wasn't too far to the dia mond mine i n Arkansas, maybe not even fifty miles and how...cold or his smoking. M y pickings at the diamond mine were mighty slim; in fact, when it comes down to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SPRUCE PINE MINERAL AND GEM FESTIVAL AUGUST 5 - 8, 1964 By WARNER LORD Warpas Road, Madison, Conn. -...of filled with pleasant memories of the most North Carolina and environs are not, for enjoyable four days...land, New York, New Jersey or PennsylSpruce Pine, North Carolina with Howard vania. Pate of Fluorescent House...go to Connecticut. Without Howard, the trip Spruce Pine was that it would be a golden would have been...area of offer. I also thought about the fabuSpruce Pine. lous minerals one hears about from this Free camping |  | | Report (issue) | | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph... Davis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References ...Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with Conichalcite Gold, Round Mountain Mine...Mine Quartz, Lovelock area Acanthite Grossular, Nightingale district Quartz epimorph after Calcite Agardite | | | Report (issue) | | 3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph... Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG ...Hen1in1orphite Azurile Barite, N1eikJe Mine Barite, '\forthun1berland Mine Bante, Rosebud t1ine Barile v;ith...inclusions Bolt½'OOdite Calcite, Meikle Mine Calcite, Getchell Mine Callaghanite Cassiterite and Hema tile |  | | Report (volume) | | General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________ |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73 |
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