Mine detail: Unnamed Fluorite-Specularite-Gneiss Quarry

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Location: Burke County, North Carolina, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.87148, -81.79372
dep_id: 10089708
mrds_id: W028503
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Stone, Dimension
Trace mineral: Iron, Fluorine-Fluorite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Fluorite, Gneiss, Specularite
orebody_fm: BEDDED
work_type: Surface
ore_ctrl: Steep Hill Slope
Reporter: *gostino, John P.
hrock_type: Gneiss
Structure: Ne Thrust System, Quarry Sited Along A Thrust Fault
tectonic: Within Brevard Fault System
Year first produced: 1950
disc_yr: 1950
References:
  • Deposit:: BRYANT, BRUCE, AND REED, J. C., JR., 1970, GEOLOGY OF THE GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN WINDOW AND VICINITY, NORTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE, US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 615, TEXT 190 P., MINE LOCATED BY SYMBOL ON GEOL. MAP AT 1:62,500.
  • Deposit:: BRYANT, BRUCE, AND REED, J. C., JR., 1966, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN WINDOW AND VICINITY, NORTH CAROLINA, US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 521, TEXT 13 P.
  • Deposit:: QUARRY IN OAK HILL TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000.
  • Deposit:: *GOSTINO, JOHN P., 1977, PERSONAL OBSERVATION.
  • Deposit:: 1970 GEOLMAP BRYANT, GEOLOGIC MAP
  • Deposit:: 1977 GEOLCHEM *GOSTINO, SAMPLING
  • Production:: *GOSTINO, 1977
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