Location: | Yancey County, North Carolina, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 35.86009, -82.17791 |
dep_id: | 10025946 |
mrds_id: | K001931 |
Commodity type: | nonmetallic |
Major mineral: | Mica |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Production occurred |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Muscovite |
gangue: | Allanite, Epidote, Garnet, Sericite, Vermiculite |
orebody_fm: | LENSES |
alteration: | Unweathered |
Reporter: | Fagan, James M. |
hrock_type: | Gneiss |
arock_type: | Granite |
Structure: | Pegmatite Is Concordant With The Foliation Of The Enclosing Country Rock |
Year first produced: | 1914 |
prod_yrs: | 1914-1917, 1937-1940, 1942, 1944 |
References: |
- Deposit:: LESURE, F.G., 1968, MICA DEPOSITS OF THE BLUE RIDGE IN NORTH CAROLINA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 577, P.12
- Deposit:: 1968 COMPILE LESURE, F.G., REPOR
- Production:: LESURE, F.G., 1968, USGS PROF. PAPER 577
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