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⇱ Chromite from Squirrel Creek, Rich Mountain Deposit, Meat Camp, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA


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Chromite from
Squirrel Creek, Rich Mountain Deposit, Meat Camp, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA

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Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Chromite
Formula:Fe2+Cr23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chromite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Squirrel Creek, Rich Mountain Deposit, Meat Camp, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:437146
Long-form Identifier:1:3:437146:5
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
100 COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA C. HENRY KING, FRANKUNVILLE, N.C. ALAMANCE—The North State pyrophyllite...pyrophyllite mine is located near Snow Camp. Locally the mineral is known as Fire Stone. Although massive, occasional...black clay, sand and peat of the Cretaceous. (Black Creek Formation.) ALEXANDER—Emeralds were first discovered...Ore Knob copper mine in the eastern part of the county has produced chalcocite, bornite, pyrite, pyrrhotite...Archaeological possibilities. ROCKS AND MINERALS BUNCOMBE—Chromite was formerly mined at Holcombe Branch; nickel
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Report (volume)
North Carolina State Library Gift of "JYortk (^arolinti ^Ihranj 0 Digitized by the Internet Archive...in 2019 with funding from State Library of North Carolina https://archive.org/details/corundumperidoti01prat...OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT and JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS North Carolina State Library...Library Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. A. HOLMES, STATE GEOLOGIST VOLUME I CORUNDUM AND...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT AND JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 1905
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Report (issue)
________.___ .Platinum Creek and Fox Gulch___--_-___._.____________ Squirrel Creek_____--------__-_-----_...air line from the mouth; B, Gravel terrace along north side of Smalls River, about 6). miles in an air...mouth__ 4. A, Southwest side of Susie Mountain; B, Red Mountain, viewed from the east__---_--_-__--__-----____----_-_5...Smalls River; B, Camp of the Goodnews Bay Mining Co., near the mouth of Squirrel Creek....___._.__._..-...mouth of Last Chance Creek, showing cliff of outwash deposits on left and Red Mountain in background-__-__
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Report (issue)
________________________ Platinum Creek and Fox Gulch-______-__-_-________----_____._. Squirrel Creek__.___________-_-__...__-_._---.-_.._---.--.-...._..-------._... Clara Creek..__..._--....-_________..._-______.. General characteristics...and 59°03' north latitude. This area is bounded on the west by Kuskokwim Bay, on the north by Goodnews...transporting equipment from camp to camp, the Goodnews Bay Mining Co. and the Clara Creek Mining Co. furnished...years in the part of the Goodnews Bay district north of Goodnews Bay; but in recent years platinum placers
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Report (issue)
tenors of platinum metals in minerals of an offset deposit, Sudbury district_______________ - _______ _ 16...palladium in the principal ore minerals of an offset deposit, Sudbury district-----------------------------...state was the only source of the platinum metals. Rich platinum placers were discovered in the Ural Mountains...lenticular masses of chromite, or are sparsely and widely distributed in association with chromite, within the...gold placers of the Ural Mountains in 1822, but rich platinum placers were discovered in 1824, which
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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...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...all r i g h t . . . n o t i n a n y m a j o r deposit a s t h e y dreamed, b u t p i c k e d u p o n
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Report (issue)
Geology of the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity, North Carolina and Tennessee By BRUCE BRYANT...nomenclature _______ _______ 9 9 Grandfather Mountain window ----------------------- 59 General geology...______ ____________________ _____ 10 10 Wilson Creek Gneiss ------------------------Megascopic features...g Rock Gneiss __ ______________________ Brown Mountain Granite __________________ --Grandfather Ddountain...--------------------------- 45 Slices north of the Grandfather Mountain window -----------------------------Slices
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_ Redoubt district ___-_ _ Valdez Creek district __ _ Willow Creek district Yentna district _____________...Cook Inlet-Susitna River region ______ 6. Cache Creek area _______________ 7. Copper River region _-____________...Upper Chistochina River area _______ 9. Dan Creek-Young Creek area ________ 10. Kenai Peninsula region ____________...River area _____ 26. Noxapaga River area 27. Iron Creek area ________________ 28. Nome area _ _ Generalized...___________________ 32. Cape Mountain-Potato Mountain area 33. Ear Mountain area ______________ 34. Map
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Report (issue)
osmium, rhodium, and ruthenium), and the mineral chromite. Different criteria were used for defining occurrences...either by name or description. For chromite the mineral chromite must have been identified. For cobalt...ages of formation. Symbols are: Co, cobalt; Cr, chromite; Hg, mercury; Mn, manganese; Nb, niobium; Ni,...others, 1981 (OF 81-767A), p, A16 [Cr, Ni] Misheguk Mountain: Cobb and others, 1981 (OF 81-767A), p. A17 [Cr]... Siniktanneyak Mountain: Cobb and others, 1981 (OF 81-767A), p. A16 [Cr] Katak Creek: Cobb and others
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listed on pages A253A258. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies listed on pages A205-A210...VV est Virginia ------------------------South Carolina -----------------------Georgia --------------...--------------------32 Montana ----------------------------33 North Dakota ------------------------33 VVyoming ----...-------Wyoming --------------------------------North and South Dakota __________________ _ Southern Rocky...agencies ------------------------------ 205 State, county, and municipal agencies __________ _ 205 U.S. Geological
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--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --...-----------------------------Pima County -------------------------------Pinal County -------------------------------Santa...-------Santa Cruz County --------------------------'ravapai County -----------------------------'ruma
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Report (issue)
A293-A298 of this chapter. Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and.................... . North Carolina ............................ . South Carolina ......................Ohio .................................... . Rocky Mountain region ........................ . Arizona ....... . Montana ....................•...•......... North Dakota ............................. . Oklahoma...investigations-continued Water resources-Continued Rocky Mountain region-continued South Dakota •..•...•......•
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Report (issue)
Generalized section of the Permian beds on the north side of . Cross Creek______________________________...sedimentary members of the Permian rocks on Baultoff Creek, about 4 miles southeast of the pass to East Fo...White Mountain from the air, looking west __________ _ 176 6. Geologic map of the White Mountain area______...from U. S. mineral monument No.' 1591; B, View north across Swede Gulch from U. S. mineral monument No...workings in northern part of Independence mine, Willow Creek district ________ _______ __________ 208 14. Diagrammatic
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Report (issue)
99201 2U.S. Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ 85705, USA 1990 5/14/91 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary................... 14 Singenggoe skarn deposit, Kotanopan, North Sumatra.................... 21 Bengkalis......................................78 Mineral deposit models...........................................APPENDIX H: X-Ray energy spectrum for PGM and chromite from S. Rambas, S. Pirik and S. Danau Djingah...electron images of Pt-Fe alloy with inclusion of chromite, S. Pedohon, East Kalimantan. Figure 12. Secondary
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Field Trip Notes
Coulterville to Chinese Camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Chinese Camp to Altaville . . . . .... . . 83 Auburn to North San Juan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 North San Juan to Downieville...Mariposa on the South and ending at Sattley on the north. It passes through nine counties, each of which...Mariposa and to terminate at Georgetown in Placer County. It forms a more or less continuous belt of quartz...its trend changes form northwest to nearly due north. The Melones fault structure (Clark, 1964, 1970)
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Report (issue)
Capps (published in January 1938). Ill (D) The Eska Creek coal deposits, Matanuska Valley, by Ralph Tuck (published...162 11. Topographic and geologic map of the Eska Creek coal deposits, Matanuska Valley----------------------------------...-- In pocket 12. Geologic sections of the Eska Creek coal deposits, Matanuska Valley__________________... Logs of churn-drill holes in vicinity of Eska Creek.________ In pocket FIGURE 1. Trends of mineral production...period--________-_69 4. Sketch map of Golconda Creek and vicinity.-.______________ 100 5. Index map showing
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sissippi ____________________________ _ ~orth Carolina ------------------------South Car&ina -------...Geotechnical and geohydrological studies in Fairfax County, Virginia _________ _ Connecticut Valley Urban...l cooperators ----------~-------------­ State, county, and local cooperators ---------Other cooperators...ore deposition. Reactions between hematite, iron-rich chlorite, pyrite, quartz, and water controlled reduction-oxidation...ore was deposited from solutions that were clearly rich in sulfate rather than sulfide. At times, the chemical
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Report (volume)
manganese ore, chromite, and tungsten ore Rcnred rwt g:n,1_1rn, although the trend for chromite and tungsten...neg:otiatedpurchase contracts for antimony, asbestos, chromite, copper~ graphite, manganese ore, mica., tungsten............................•........... pounds Chromite........•.•......••................•...•...•.....ri~o::::::::::::::::::::::::::: North Carolina •..•..•.•.. _______ -·-·-_ North Dakota .••.. -·-·-····--···-····... Rhode Island._ ....................... South Carolina ........................ . !~''"::::::::::::::::::::
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Journal (issue)
prospector” who expati¬ ates on the wonders of the Cherry Creek district, near Jerome, Ariz. Though “turned down...Catanduanes Island, in Albay; Tarlac; Nueva Vizcaya; the Mountain Province; Camarines Sur; Busuanga Island, near...claims. 28 of which are at Punta Negra, about 3 km. north of Burgos, and the remaining 20 claims at Siec,...lieing about 1,000 ft. He opened trenches in the deposit at Punta Xegra, but no produc¬ tion was recorded...and possible ore likely. At Siec the residual deposit covers an area of approximately thirteen fullsized
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Report (issue)
...........................................N5 Deposit Types............................................category of use, from 2000 to 2012 for the world, North America, and China.......................................................N13 Photograph of copper-rich massive sulfide ore exposed in a stope in the Oktyabr’sk...pyroxenite, which contains the platinum-group-element-rich Merensky Reef..................................N16...Massif, which is located in eastern Siberia, Russia, north of the city of Khabarovsk......................
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Report (issue)
listed on pages A263-A268. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies and other organizations..._______________________ Maryland. __ _________________ _ _____ North Carolina_--__-___________________ South Carolin...----Rocky Mountain region. ____-_______-------Montana __ __________________________ North Dakota.. --_---_-_--_--..._________________________________ Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. Eastern plateaus....___ Ohio._____________________________________ North Dakota._--___--_-__---__--__________ Kansas.___
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PGE deposits all over the world, especially for Pd-rich mineralization, in countries like the Republic of...to less well-developed PGE mineralization in the North Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP). Of course, in...Australia Ottawa, Ontario Sydney, Australia Durham, North Carolina Cape Town, Republic of South Africa Lyndon...temperatures, what is reasonable for transport and which deposit types have or may have been subject to these processes...focus of new exploration in this well-established Ni camp. Farrow and Lightfoot discuss the geology, mineralogy
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Report (issue)
Index . . . . VII 655 III BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1966 INTRODUCTION The current...current annual volume of the "Bibliography of North American Geology" lists publications that appeared during...during 1966 c~ncerning the geology of the North American continent, Greenland, the West Indies and adjacent·...in foreign journals are cited if they deal with North American localities or are of a general nature,...they deal only with foreign areas. Articles on North America by foreign authors are included regardless
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Report (issue)
approximate southern boundary of the Brooks Range on the north to the northern flank of the Alaska Range on the...on the map. In some instances more than one deposit is grouped under the same number because of scale...The coordinates indicate the location of each deposit on the map by the use of letters for each degree...DEVELOPMENT CATEGORY A MINE is defined as a mineral deposit with recorded production, however smal1: M mine...activity since I960. A PROSPECT is defined as a deposit that has been staked and been subject to exploratory
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listed on pages A259-A264. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies listed on pages A211-A215...--__ Rocky Mountain area_______________________ Montana.__________________-___-__--North Dakota-----...__ Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.________________________________ Georgia__...____ Montana-_________________________________ North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska._. Wyoming. _... -.-..._-----_-_--__ .______.___._..___ State, county, and municipal-____________________ Other cooperators--___
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