 | | 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... Geologic map of part of the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and Tennessee. 2-6. Maps showing location of |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT HARGROVE BOWLES, JR., DIRECTOR DIVISION...GEOLOGIST Circular 17 BERYL OCCURRENCES IN NORTH CAROLINA BY WILLIAM F WILSON Ooc RALEIGH 1962 CONTENTS...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 ...•••••...••.• Ashe County,* ... 0 o * * • o o Burke County* • * • . • . • • • * • • Catawba County* • « . » * |  | | Report (issue) | | pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ ...between pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight mine ______ _______________...of granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 9....and other units in the Big Bess pegmatite, Gaston County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ |  | | Journal (issue) | | world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...(c) = currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite...limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite, siderite Faber lead mine-near Faber cerussite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, argentiferous...topaz, tourmaline, triplite Trueheart pegmatite mine (f)-near Amelia beryl (var. aquamarine), microcline |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey |  | | 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 |  | | 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 (issue) | | call for appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE from...Geology Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Perhaps the collection, begun by...ville, North Carolina, and his collec tion was particularly rich in the min erals of North Carolina. This...specimens in his collection from Alexander County, North Carolina, and those superb quartz crystal groups...ago, was at the Blue Ridge Parkway Museum of North Carolina Minerals over near Spruce Pine. In his short |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...(c) = currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarry—Alberene amphiboie asbestos...pseudomorphs after pyrite, pyrite, siderite Faber lead mine—near Faber cerussite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, argentiferous |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds in...crystals have also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New Hampshire, and from Pala, Rincón, and...near Statesville, North Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The...at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the collection of...at the Fisher quar- occurred at the Little Three mine, Ramona, ry, Topsham, Maine, to sixteen inches in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | beenrecordedonly from three localitiesin El Paso County, Colorado.$ The original specimenwas discoveredby...at times, narrow bands of albite and some micro-perthite rimmed with mica intersect the knots and replacethe...N{ontgomery Co., Pennsylvania,Carbarrus Co., N. Carolina (Palacheet al,. 1951,p. 800); Black Pine Tungsten...19); the Empire-Nevada N{ine, Yerrington, Nevada (Berry, 1950,p. 367). Other localitiesat which this mineral...Calavada Mine, Nevada where Goudey (1945,p. 6a0) has describeddihydrite, and the Silver Bell Mine, Lincoln |  | | Report (volume) | | The Crystalline Rocks of South Carolina By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces of South Carolina UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...and Precambrian(?) age_______________________ Carolina slate belt_________________________________________...Granite_________________________________ Muscovite-perthite pegmatite_______________________ Rocks of Mesozoic...Age of specific rock units-Continued Muscovite-perthite pegmatite_______________________________ Upper |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Natural Resources, Rolla, MO 65401, USA Received 28 July 2000; accepted 8 August 2001 Abstract...Introduction Early Mesoproterozoic crustal development in North America involved the production of relatively large...extensional settings (Eby, 1992). The petrogenesis of the North American Mesoproterozoic granite – rhyolite provinces...Sides et al., 1981). They are characterised by perthite phenocrysts and Fe-rich mafic minerals including...simplified geological map of Arcadia region after Berry (1976) showing sampling localities. 272 J.F. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | um, New Mexico. 893 and Berry, L. G. The space Allophanes from Lawrence County, group of conichalcite...Mount MarcY 330 81oss,F.D...... quadfalrgler Essex CountY' Blggild, O. B. The Mineralogy of N.Y. (Jafre)...sulpho-salts: XVII. (Graham' 4Il (Christ). 536 Thompson, BerrY). Borate minerals, studies of' (II): (Fleischer'...E. S.' Jr.' and Waring, C. L. Zoned zir1118 330 Berry, L. G. with Graham' A' R. ard Thompson, R. M, Studies...Conichalcite, space gror.lp of. (Qu557 rashi, Barnes,Berry). . 398,735 Coombs,D. S.. . Corey, A. S. Note on |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to t; th" lutg"tt known crystalsfor each of and Berry Mason by used Lindgren (1933,p.754).Its sizewas...(E1 9 2 3 , p . 3 6 2 ) . 5 PerticaE Italy. 2. Mine, Urbino, SULPIiIDES € SULPHOSALTS (i)SULTHIDES...70 x 8.89 x 6.35 cm from Maybee Quarry, Monroe County, Michigan, U.S.A. and which is in the Cranbrook...crystal by volume and mass. Galena, Great Laxcy Mine, Isle of Man, U.K.{composite cubo' octahedra up...sulphosaltcrystalsare: (i) Tetrahedrite (Cu'rSboS")from a mine at Irazein, AriCge,France.A tetrahedralcrystal with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the May-June issue under the editorship of L. G. Berry of Kingston, Ontario. In this number the guest editor...ROBINSONITE,A NEW LEAD ANTIMONY SIILFIDE L, G. BERRy,JOSEPE rr. BArr.EY J. tr'ArrEy,ANDEDGAR Queen'sUniversity...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...CIIAYES Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, D. C. Perthite is on the whole uncommon in the micaceous calcalkaline |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Georgia, including some frorn Linwood, Bartow County, Georgia, were examined by *-ray and optical methods...reported by H. S. McQueen near Swiss and Stolpe, County, California. - P"blt.h"d Interior. by p"rmission...'u11llJ'i,T"1"l,lll?ii,".'" New Braden observations Mine, on euchroite chile, combined from with Libethen... SODIUM BICARBONATE (NAIICOLITE) FROM GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO* JEWEr-LJ. CIASS U S. Geological Survey...in the Green River formation (Eocene), Garfield County, Colorado. The nahcolite was found in cavities |  | | 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...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..._______________ 13. Test data for mica (not identified by mine), taken from the production line of the Colonial |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AKHTER (S. M.), see QAISER(M. A.), 735. Alaer6n mine, Copiap6, Chile, arsenolamprite, 732. Ala di Stura...montebrasite, 4r4. Amblygonite mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County, Virginia, albite, I56;...Bala Durga Gourishankar mine, Tummalatalupur, Nellore, India, microcline perthite, 135 BALDANZA(B.), LEvI-DONATI(G...Crystallization of anorthite, 78o. Bhavani Sankar mine, Tummalatalupur, Nellore, lndia, muscovite, I4O...Btn~WORTH(D. W.), Sintering of ceramics, 833. Bultfontein mine, South Africa, omphacite, 6I; peridotite xenoliths |  | | Report (issue) | | Androscoggin County ______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County ___...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect...prospects-Continued Maine-Continued Oxford County-Continued George Elliot mica mine ________________ _ Gogan mica...Johnson mica mine ________________ _ Little Singepole feldspar quarries _________ _ Lobikis mica mine _____________________...Mountain feldspar quarry ______ _ Peaked Hill mica mine _________________ _ Perham feldspar quarry ________________ |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Belt without disturbance (Pavlides et al. 1968; Berry 1968; Boucot 1968). The morphology of the uplifted...the coarse-grained detritus was derived from the north of the Siegas area, the interformational constituents...plutonic rocks, 4 = potassium feldspar (including perthite), 5 = mafic volcanic rocks, 6 = total quartz,...feldspar. These feldspars include orthoclase, perthite, sodic plagioclase, and myrmekite, and suggest...of the arkosic facies are mainly orthoclase and perthite similar to the feldspars of the felsic plutonic |  | | Report (issue) | | OF THE LITTLE HUNTOON VALLEY QUADRANGLE, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA By J. H. Stewart, F. J. Kleinhampl, R...coarsegrained volcanic sand matrix TUFF OF EASTSIDE MINE Very pale orange to pale yellowish brown; 15 percent...Myrraekite is uncommon. Microcline and microcline perthite are subhedral and as long as 1 cm. Quartz is as...twin lamellae are noticeably bent. Orthoclase(?)-perthite forms subhedral phenocrysts as long as 15 mm....Best estimate is zone of _0_. quadrimucronatus of Berry, generally considered late Caradocian. REFERENCES |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Missouri State Universit),, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701. USA (Received January 10, 1990; revised and accepted...mid-Proterozoic anorogenic rocks extending across North America from Labrador to southern California (Emslie...the Taum Sauk Caldera (Anderson et al., 1969: Berry and Bickford, 1972; Sides et al.. 1981 ). the Butler...sources in his review of Proterozoic plutonism in North America. The data base was significantly enhanced...as an anorogenic suite, prevail throughout the North American mid-Proterozoic belt (Anderson, 1983). |  | Robinson, Gilpin R., Lesure, Frank G., Marlowe, J. I., Foley, Nora K., Clark, S.H. (2004) Bedrock geology and mineral resources of the Knoxville 1° x 2° quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Open-File Report 2004-1075. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20041075 | Report (issue) | | 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 / by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [etaf...Geology—Tennessee. 2. Geology—North Carolina. 3. Geology—South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources—Tennessee...and mineral resources—North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II...Knoxville l°x2° quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina 2. 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