 | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | 'THE GEOLOGICAL vt- ,(231 > ' " ^THE MINERALS CAROLINA''" i '- OF, - :l|^fe^H - GOTEENMENT LIBRARY... W. Powell, director | | The | minerals of North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Geiitk | [Vignette]...J. W. Powell, director | | The | mineralsof North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Genth | [Vignette]...W. Powell, director | | The | :aainerals of North Carolina | by | FrederickAugustusGenth j [Vignette]...separately. Price $2.50. XVI. The Paleozoic Fishes of North America, by John Strong Newberry. 1889. 4°. 340 |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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...pegmatite of the Eight Mile Park area of Fremont county, Colorado; while pink chalcedony has been found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on a farmer's cart led Tyson to the rich Harford County (Md.) deposits. He then prospected the area along...with lighter kaemmererite. Bare Hills, Baltimore County, Md. Author's collection. 170 ROCKS AND MINERALS...pyroxentite or peridotite minerals, such as olivine or enstatite. In weathered ores, the gangue is usually talc...found in the U . S. at Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina. Green color: Beryl. Beryl with a green...Mitchell, Cleveland, Yancey, and Alexander Counties, North Carolina.(Fig. 3) Corundum. No, you aren't |  | | Book | | to receive Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA, weighs in at 254 carats. new unit-cells. It is...made. LEFT KennecoU opencast copper mine in Utah, USA. Copper is widely used in the electrical engineering...the colour variation Australia, Brazil, North Carolina). TOP H I o H r Ruby crystals in a quartz...covery in the Urals in 1830 on the day Prince Alexander with heavenly inspiration, rence of iron within...authenticity and do not necessarily de¬ from Utah, USA. tract from the value of the crystal. TOP RIGHT |  | | Journal (issue) | | significant moss agate finds in China and the USA. The USA has the most famous agatised woqd in the Petrified...(Mexico); California, Colorado, Michigan and New Mexico (USA). (Italy) and Berlin (Germany): it is to these cities...to artificial light. Below left: A portrait of Alexander II, the Tsar of Russia, from whom alexandrite...largest crystals have been found in North Creek, New York State, USA. Star garnets - that is, specimens...in many locations, but the best come from Idaho, USA. Inferior deposits have been unearthed in Austria |  | | Book (edition) | | London 2001 Distribution ISBN 0 565 09155 7 North America including Canada, South America, All rights...Avenue South publisher. New York, NY 16016 - 8810 USA The right of the authors to be identified as the...Scapolite 58 Real and .fake, 22 Diopside and Enstatite 59 Jewellery 29 Sphene (titanite) 59 The...needle-like crystals of rutile, hornblende and Arizona, USA. asbestos occur in many gems, often developed parallel...ultraviolet light. It bears a portrait of Tsar Alexander II and was presented to Roderick Murchison by |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................... GEM HUNTING IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. By B. M . Brehm ............................Albite along with fine green Amazonite. North and South Carolina rewarded him with a long list of fine...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA By B. M. BREHM 990 Dar:ia N.E.• Warren, O. My first trip to North Carolina in 1941...discouraging. To prove my point go with me to North Carolina again this year, 1942, in the month of June:...Tuesday morning we traveled to northern Iredell County, in the neighborhood of Harmony, to see some nice |  | | Book | | mother-of-pearl, and shell are that were et on seashore the north coast of Europe, igget is fossil resin from trees... azurite, malachite, ORTHOCLASE spodumene (hiddenite and kunzite), serpentine, diopside, meerschaum...these are not included in the formula. CZAR ALEXANDER Il Date of discovery Some gems have names related...supposedly discovered on the birthday of Russia’s Czar Alexander Il and so is named after him. which they are...recovered from stream gravels at Rock Creek in Montana, USA, by hand-sieving gravels concentrated in the placer |  | | 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...= c o m m o n names a f e w l i k e these, — hiddenite, turquoise rhodolite, w i l l i a m s i t e ,...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...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 (edition) | | powder for eye shadow? 6. What is the "gold of the North," the earliest used gem material of all? 7. What...Cerussite Chrysoberyl Danburite Dumortierite Enstatite Fibrolite Hambergite Hemimorphite Hypersthene...Witherite Zoisite Euclase Garnierite Gaylussite Hiddenite Howllte (?) Jadeite Kunzite lazulite Malachite...Smaragdite 6½ 22 Sillimanite Cassiterite Epidote Hiddenite Kunzite Amazonite Aventurine feldspar Benitoite...lase Psilomelane Sodalite Brazilianite Chromite Enstatite Leucite Moldavite Natrolite Willemite Scapolite |  | | Book | | sample came from a deposit in Bruno Canyon, Owyhee County, Idaho. Traces piece of wood can weigh more...little good-quality ruby has been found in North Carolina, and sapphire of high quality and many colors...California, and Connecticut for aquamarine and North Carolina for emerald. Morganite of pale pink to deep...glass substitute), Herkimer diamond (from Herkimer County, New York), and Cape May diamond (from Cape May... 48 extremely rare stone, named after Czar Alexander of Russia, because it was discovered on his birthday |  | | Book (edition) | | Production 89 Diamond Occurrences _-~ 88 a. a Hiddenite 144 Thulite 176 Anyolite 176 : 178 Hematite...Amblygonite Cerussite 216 208 Chrysocolla 216 Enstatite 208 Serpentine 218 Lazulite 208 Stichtite 218...Yellow sapphire Serpentine Kunzite (spodumene) Hiddenite (spodumene) Citrine (quartz) Rock crystal (quartz)...monoclinic Descloizite Diaspore Dumortierite Enstatite Eosphorite Euchroite Euxenite Ferrosilite Forsterite...Gaylussite Gypsum Hancockite Hedenbergite Herderite Hiddenite Hodgkinsonite Hornblende Howlite Huibnerite Huréaulite |  | | Book (volume) | | NORTInHIwo AME A Volumes John Sinkankas _ GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA In Two Volumes ® Volume I Gemstones, of...of all the mineral treasures to be found in North America, are perhaps the most fascinating—and the...worthy of the name. Some, like the emeralds of North Carolina, the colorful and fabulous tourmalines and...above all, easily read and understood, GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA, Volumes I and II, will be welcomed as a...abroad are becoming so scarce and expensive that North America has developed into a major exporter rather |  | | Book (volume) | | vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all tributary branches |  | | Journal (issue) | | synthetic Alexandrite Hiddenite Demantoid Euclase Chrome diopside Chrome enstatite Chrome vesuvianite Jadeite...is chromium. T h e same is true in the case of hiddenite and pyrope. T h e most conclusive proof that chromium...probably responsible for the yellow green colour of hiddenite. Esther W . Glaffy4 doubts whether the addition...an influence on the colour of chromiumtinted hiddenite. Controversies of this kind are quite frequent...chromium. I n Table 1 chrome diopside and chrome enstatite are mentioned, which do not contain aluminium |  | | Book (edition) | | 106 Zircon 108 Tourmaline 110 Spodumene 114 Hiddenite 114 Kunzite 114 Quartz 116 Opal 150 Precious...Andalusite 178 Amblygonite 192 Euclase 178 Enstatite 192 Hambergite 180 Lazuli te 192 Cordierite...Reddish-yellow corundum Serpentine Dioptaz Kunzite Hiddenite Citrine or yellowish fired amethyst Korean jade...Diaspor Dumortierite Lapis Lazuli Zincite Enstatite Djevalite Magnetite Melanite Boracite Eosphorite...Gypsum Chrysocolla Ekanite Moldavite Obsidian Hiddenite Opal Gaylussite Properties of Gemstones |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | heliodor spinel peridot aohroite bar ite datolite hiddenite petal ite spodumene actinolite benitolte demantoid...emerald let tremolite amethyst calif or nite enstatite sapphire vesuvianite kornerupine analcite cassiterite...Middleville, Utica, Clinton, and Salisbury, N . Y. North Carolina — C. C. Van Dyke, Route 4, Boone, N . C. 28607 |  | | Book | | the USA and the Tanzania, Venezuela, Zaire and until 1970 and is rarely used as a largest north American...colour of ruby - the name is the USA (Montana and North Carolina). soon became the first gems to be...faces. There is poor and a bubble of gas). the USA and elsewhere. Early synthetic cleavage parallel...colour filter that is far brighter Tanzania, the USA!and Zambia. than that from natural emerald. Emerald...filter (instead of green). Pale blue Tanzania, the USA and Zimbabwe of the prismatic crystals to get maximum |  | | Report (volume) | | Fibrolite Spodumene Kunzite Hiddenite Pyroxenes Diopside Jadeite Diallage Enstatite Bronzite Amphiboles Tremolite...are represented either by a regional name (as a county) that does not cover too wide an area, or by the...Sussex and Passaic Counties, N. J., and Orange County, N. Y.; Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland, Northumberland...chromiumactivated minerals. The infrared luminescence of hiddenite also resembles that of the chromium ion in emerald...luminescence of strength indicated Weak Renfrew County, Ontario. Bovey Tracey, England. Blagodat, India |  | | Book | | discovery was made in 1831 on the day when Tsar Alexander Il of Russia attained his majority and as the...which takes its name from the Labrador coast in North America. As labradorite shows a play of colours...Marco Polo, are situated in Afghanistan on the north side of the Hindu Kush Mountains. In Russia, too...(colour caused by chromium oxide) has been termed hiddenite after the American, W. E. Hidden. All varieties...California in the U.S.A. Spodumene, ktinzite and hiddenite have a particularly pronounced tendency to split |  | | 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 |
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