 | | Book | | what was once an island off the coast of ancient North America. The rocks in this book originated on that...where a completely different ancient island, the Carolina Terrane, crashed into the EPRIP island about 400...EBRIP's lower limit. Incidentally, rocks of the Carolina Terrane island are nearly identical to those of...metamorphism. In addition, the EBRIP island and Carolina Terrane island were really island chains that...southwest into Alabama and northeast into North and South Carolina. The rocks covered in this book are also |  | | Report (issue) | | noRm c ult * 4 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE, DIRECTOR...MICA DEPOSITS OF THE FRANKLIN-SYLVA DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA BY J. C. OLSON AND OTHERS PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL...WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH 1946 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT...MICA DEPOSITS OF THE FRANKLIN SYLVA DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA By J. C. OLSON and Others PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL...DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR IN COOPERATION WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT |  | | Report (issue) | | MISCELLANEOUS NONMETALLIC PRODUCTS. MICA DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA. By DOUGLAS B. STERRETT. INTRODUCTION. The...most important producers among these have been North Carolina, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Virginia, Colorado...Alabama, Georgia, and Idaho. For many years North Carolina has led in both quantity and value of output...amount North Carolina is credited with $127,870. The value of the mica production in North Carolina during...Geological Survey and the North Carolina Geological Survey. The greater part of the mine descriptions were obtained |  | | Book (edition) | | specimens. The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals is a huge treasure trove...and probably takes a beating in the field. I leave mine at home. For web-based research, I recommend the...the United States; other agencies, such as state, county, and wildlife agencies, also control minor lands...rhyolite pebble on the outside. Other than the classic shiny black luster, look for evidence of flow, such as...dolomite by acid test Melted Crushed and deformed Shiny and crinkly Quartz—no fizzing Large, deformed crystals |  | | | | surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized by the Internet Archive...or nonmetallic. A metallic mineral is opaque and shiny like metal, e.g. copper, silver, gold. A non-metallic...or earthy: not shiny or brilliant, e.g., red hematite, clay Greasy or oily: not shiny, not bright, e...Precambrian, Shield constitutes the stable core of the North American con- tinent. These ancient rocks vary...Plains of the Midwest, the Arctic Lowlands to the north, and the Hudson Bay Lowlands which infills the |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | or nonmetallic. A metaUic mineral is opaque and shiny like metal, e.g. copper, silver, gold. Anon-metallic...or earthy: not shiny or brilliant, e.g., red bematite, clay Greasy or oily: not shiny, not bright, e...Plains of the Midwest, the Arctic Lowlands to the north, and the Hudson Bay Lowlands which infills the 111iddle...covered by w·ban spravvl. Appalachian Region In North Ai:nerica, the old, worn Appalachian Mountains stretch...copper. Streak: Yellow. Lustre and transparency: Shiny, 111etallic lustre and opaque. Habit: Usually n1assive |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Society. Mr. Benefield's sharp eye noted a shiny speck of pyrite on the specimen. Petrified wood...National Lead Company's mine in the Chamberlain Creek Barite Deposit in Hot Springs County. The deposit lies...barite. In Garland County, Dr. Brophy found miserite (natroxonothlite) at the open pit mine of Union Carbide...masses in white wallastonite. The Jeffrey Quarry in North Little Rock yielded rectorite, an orange semi-liquid...common at this locality. NORTH CAROLINA-From an old mine in Montgomery County Mrs. Mary G. Poole sent |  | | Report (issue) | | The Ore Knob Copper Deposit North Carolina, and Other Massive Sulfide Deposits of the Appalachians GEOLOGICAL...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 558 The Ore Knob Copper Deposit North Carolina, and Other Massive Sulfide Deposits of the...-___---___--___-_-_-__--__-_.-_____________ Eustis mine, Quebec. ___________________________ Moulton Hill...eastern Maine._________ Milan mine, New Hampshire_____________________ Orange County copper district, Vermont___________...Vermont___________ Sulphur Mine, Virginia._________________________ Arminius mine, Virginia_________________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE FOR NORTH CAROLINA EON ERA PERIOD EPOCH GEOLOGIC...GEOLOGIC EVENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA Recent Deposition of sediments in Coastal Plain. Erosion of Piedmont...Pliocene o Phosphate deposited in eastern North Carolina (Beaufort and Pamlico Counties). Miocene ...E u o E n Formation of the Atlantic Ocean as North America and Africa drifted apart. Weathering and...Piedmont and Mountains. 240 Final collision of North America and Africa.Thrust faulting in west; deformation |  | | Book | | far from a simple task because the "'Gewstones of North America. 8 artist must know minerals in order...tangled mass of fine, blackishgreen needles with shiny red grains between them. The freshly fractured surface...mass will be resolved into tiny grains, and minute shiny surfaces become visible. You will be told that these...times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...cordierite, sillimanite, augite, hornblende, talc, muscovite, blotite, chlorite, serpentine, clay minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | was sent in by Mr. McDonald. ARIZONA—"The Bagdad Mine, Yavapai Co., Arizona, has lately produced some...is now in the hands of various collectors. Bagdad Mine has produced, from time to time, many unusual copper...polished gold ore comes from Burton's Tropico Gold Mine in Rosamond (Kern Co.), Calif., where the largest...largest Southern California gold mill is located. The mine is no longer in operation but it is open to the...on Delaware Bay, is in the N / E part of Sussex County, Del. W e had an opportunity to examine some pebbles |  | | Book | | are known to be in a mine, the hazards they face even before emerging from the mine are horrendous. More...Institute is also from California, from the Red Ledge Mine. 12 For silver it seems impossible to surpass...those discovered in the 1860’s at the — Herodsfoot Mine in Cumberland, England. Resem- bling brilliant...gem-like crystals is best known from the Dolores Mine, Chan-arcillo, Chile. In the British Museum there... Common as it may be, some mines yield superb, shiny black specimens for collectors. These vary from |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kladno on the dumps of a long time closed uranium mine at Slavkovicc, western Moravia, Czech Republic....Company labelled as lavendulan from Santa Catalina Mine. Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Province, Chile. The...News, March, 1997 issue from the El Guanaco gold mine near Taltal, Antofagasta Province, Chile. Wolscndorlite...rather than 187. ft is approximately 0.4 miles north of the junction of Hwy 84 and 285 and about 7.5...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny@mineralnews.com |  | | Book | | cross-section 11 INTRODUCTION Pseudohexagonal muscovite crystals apparently made up of stacked thin sheets...conglomerates. The southern shore of Lake Superior (USA) is the best location to find copper , allegedly...Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode (Nevada, USA) and Cobalt (Canada). Ag Colour: silver-white ...Wittwatersrand (South Africa), California and Alaska (USA), Australia, South America and Siberia. G Au Colour:...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity: | | | Book | | cross-section 11 INTRODUCTION Pseudohexagonal muscovite crystals apparently made up of stacked thin sheets...conglomerates. The southern shore of Lake Superior (USA) is the best location to find copper, allegedly the...Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode (Nevada, USA) and Cobalt (Canada). Ag Colour: silver-white ...Wittwatersrand (South Africa), California and Alaska (USA), Australia, South America and Siberia. G Au Colour:...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity: |  | | Catalog/List | | ALLANITE. Aluminum, Ca, Fe silicate vith Ce. North Carolina. RADIOACTIVE.Black, massive pitchy luster,... Sl.00 lb. AMPHIBOLE(Cont'd) SMARGDITE,Horth Carolina. Green xln, lxl, 20Ø; lx2, 50~; 2x2, ~l.00, ~1...Hydrous zinc, rnanganese oxide. Tunisia. Thin, shiny black inetallic veins or masses in limonite, lean...KLAFOSSITB. Copper iron oxide. Arizona (Biabee). Shiny blaok plat7 oryaW1, microacopic in aiz• aaaociated...Copper arsenic sulfide, Montana (Butte). Bright, shiny groups of terminated crystals, lxl, Sl.50, 12.00; |  | | Book | | or any stream it is made from tiny grains with shiny where the water has exposed sand and surfaces...places, including the Tethys Seaway. South-western North America was flooded by the Sundance Sea. Cretaceous...Present day Over the last 50 million years, the North Atlantic has opened up to separate Europe and America...pushing the tiny compasses, lining up with the North halves of the ocean bed apart. This Pole at the...down into the mantle and because the magnetic North Pole had destroyed along deep trenches at the |  | | Book (edition) | | base; low specific gravity and hardness, e.g., muscovite. 6) Tectosilicates, the tetrahedra of which are...a mineral was discovered (benitoite, San Benito County, California), or dedicated to a scholar (dolomite...that a collector in the field should visit are mine dumps and quarry rubble heaps, where there will...from the Keweenaw measuring Peninsula (Lake USA) where masses weighing up to 400 metric tons and...Arizona (USA) and in the manganese skarns of Langban (Sweden) and Franklin, New Jersey (USA). Dendrites |  | | Catalog/List | | colours than A. £5. 3. ALSTONITE, Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. 4x3.5x3.2cm. Ex D. Hoyle coll...xtls. A fine example. £6. 7. ANATASE, Virtuos Lady mine, Devon. l.4xl.5xlcm. A MM with a micro xtl of sparkly...top. £4. IO. APATITE, llarding's Vein. · Carrock mine, Caldbeck fells, Cumbria. 5x4x2.5cm . One fairly...clear xtls. Very pretty. £4. 16. AZURITE, Tynagh mine, Co. Galway, Ireland. Ex S.J.A.C. Brown coll. Old...present. Good specimen. £ 12. 17. BARITE, Crowgarth mine, Cumbria. 5.5x5x3cm. A mass of pale blue and peach |  | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | .PEBBLE PEDDLER 100 NORTH LAKE PARK BOTTINEAU, NORTH DAKOTA 58318 (701) 263-4948 E-Mail: ppeddler@metigoshe...problem is entirely weather related! You see, here in North Dakota along the Canadian Border, winter tends to...WULFENITE & ASSOC/A TIONS: Finch Mine (AKA Barking Spider), Pinal County, Arizona: Very nice combinations...$15.00 each ROWLEYWULFENITE &ASSOCIATIONS: Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mtns., Maricopa Co., Arizona: Clear...and $ 30.00 each GLOVE WULFENITE: Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Very nice crystalline specimens |  | | Book (edition) | | Serpentine, Apophyllite, Chlorite, Margarite, Muscovite 273 535 Biotite, Phlogopite, Lepidolite, Actinolite... and go easy on the ore piles you may find at a mine or quarry. Even a few pounds of some minerals, like...chusetts) “p. 21 Massa- E. 24 “eye” (Westchester County, New York) 5. Marble: dolomitic (Bronx, New York)...(Grass Valley, California) 3. Copper (Keweenaw County, AND SULPHIDES 2. Silver (Kongsberg, Norway)...as the sandy olivine formation at Webster, North Carolina, is a dunite, and a rock of pure pyroxene is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pliitfor111/hnsin (like the present-day east coast of the North American PliIte and Atlantic Ocean). The adjacent...Batholith Figure 5. Topaz from Crystal Park, El Paso County. Crystal is 3.1 cm tall. George and Betty Fisher...from Helen Hunt Falls, Cheyenne Canyon, El Paso County. Top crystal is 1.1 cm on edge. Dan and Dianne...quartz from the Saint Peters Dome area, El Paso County. Crystal is 2.2 cm tall. Dan Kile and Dianne Kile...emplacements, one potassic, another sodic, El Paso County-East of Pikes Peak Several pegmatite mineral localities |  | | 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 |
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