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Tourmaline from
Roadcut, Habersham County, Georgia, USA


Locality type:Road Cutting
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Roadcut, Habersham County, Georgia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:316736
Long-form Identifier:1:3:316736:6
GUID (UUID V4):39b2e664-cca9-40ab-b748-c798ad89201d
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
4.0km (2.5 miles) Cove Branch, Batesville, Habersham County, Georgia, USA
7.4km (4.6 miles) Batesville, Habersham County, Georgia, USA
39.7km (24.6 miles) Avalon, Stephens County, Georgia, USA
41.5km (25.8 miles) Yahoola Creek, Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia, USA
41.6km (25.9 miles) Yahoola Mine, Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia, USA
45.3km (28.2 miles) Laurel Creek complex, Rabun County, Georgia, USA
46.3km (28.7 miles) Gumlog Mountain, Union County, Georgia, USA
50.9km (31.6 miles) Battle Branch Mine, Auraria, Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia, USA
51.4km (31.9 miles) Slagle Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
53.7km (33.4 miles) Lyle Cut Mine (Evans Mine), Macon County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
residuum------------ 139 Ratio of zircon to tourmaline---------- 141 Subaerial stability of zircon-----...Eggleston and Newport 7 1/2-minute quadrangles, Giles County, Virginia-------------------------- In pocket...Eggleston and Newport 7 1/2-minute quadrangles, Giles County, Virginia--------------------------- Figure 1...enters the stream southwest of the Giles-Craig County line----------------------------------- 19. 97...------ 22. 108 Map of an area in Montgomery County between Brush Mountain and the New River showing
Book (volume)
Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes it the...highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the Lookout...mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily divides into five major physiographic provinces...The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries of Gold... some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively prospected for gold since colonial
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...muscovite, phenakite, rutile, spessartine, topaz, tourmaline, triplite Trueheart pegmatite mine (f)-near Amelia...microcline crystals, muscovite crystals, tourmaline AMHERST COUNTY Crystals of goethite pseudomorphs after
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���������������� 181 54. LaSalle Falls Black Tourmaline����������������������������������������������������������...�������������� 185 55. Pine River Red Tourmaline ������������������������������������������������������������...permitted. Many entries in this book are in city parks, county parks, state forests, state parks, federal lands...to go to a crusher. If you take your wagon to a roadcut, you are collecting too many rocks. This can also...not question why you are so intently studying a roadcut. Dehydration and hunger can make you and your companions
Report (volume)
Adjacent Roadless Areas, Rabun and Towns Counties, Georgia, and ·· Clay and Macon Counties, North Carolina...Adjacent Roadless Areas, Rabun and Towns Counties, Georgia, and Clay and Macon Counties, North Carolina By...adjacent roadless areas, Rabun and Towns Counties, Georgia, and Clay and Macon Counties, North Carolina I...Nantahala Wilderness (Ga. and N.C.). 2. Geology-Georgia-Southern Nantahala Roadless Area. 3. GeologyGeorgia-Buzzard...resources-Georgia-Southern Nantahala Roadless Area. 6. Mines and mineral resources-Georgia-Buzzard Knob
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WARWICKITE OCCURRENCE 3 7 DIAMOND LAKE ROADCUT 3 8 GRACE LAKE ROADCUT 3 8 DESMONT MINE 3 9 ESSONVILLE... epidote, garnet, pyroxene 26 BOWER'S POINT ROADCUT Herschel augite, calcite, scapolite, titanite...apatite, cleavelandite, molybdenite, magnetite, tourmaline 18 DAVIS HILL Dungannon biotite, nepheline...apatite, biotite, calcite, galena, muscovite, tourmaline, uraninite 23 DESMONT MINE Monmouth clinopyroxene... stillwellite, titanite, tourmaline, uranothorite 39 DIAMOND LAKE ROADCUT Herschel feldspar, hornblende
Book (edition)
backroads and often come across a quarry or a roadcut, stop and investigate it, and bring back some colourful...present additional problems. The famous Hi ghway 62 roadcut north of Bancroft is now closed to collectors because...to get at mineral samples, they undermined the roadcut and it became a safety hazard. If you choose to...Road, tum right and drive 22.2 km to the roadcut. The roadcut is located on top of a small hill, just...actinolite crystals; albite, biotite, white calcite The roadcut contains a small lens of calcium-silicate meta-sediments
Report (issue)
COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF............................................. 170 County Index ...........................................Page Table 1. Classification and composition of Georgia minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Report (issue)
Page 103. Photograph of Linville Falls fault in roadcut along North Carolina Highway 194 about one-half...College and county seat of Watauga County), Blowing Rock, Linville, and Newland (county seat of A very...very County). The main sources of income are tourism and farming. Tobacco (mountain burley), cabbage, beans...add to the undergrowth. Morganton and Lenoir, the county seats of Burke and Caldwell Counties, r~espectively...are locally altered to sericite. Clastic green tourmaline and zircon are widespr·ead. Sphene, ilmenite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
comprehensive listing, including detailed spot locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can...The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can be obtained from the North Carolina...Carolina 27611 B. J . M C K E N Z I E Alamance County Pyrophyllite, cacoxenite, diaspore, sericite, pyrite...hill, 0.2 mile from the road. Alexander County Alexander County is a renowned mineral collecting area in...following are mineral collecting sites in Alexander County: 1) Emerald, rutilated quartz, smoky quartz, and
Journal (issue)
mines were being worked on three creeks in l inn County. Sma ll go l d miners in Oregon in 1935 so ld bu...[Production and income of all placer miners, by counties] County No. mi ners No. creeks working worked Baker ...side is the Foster Reservoir vi ewpoi nt. In the roadcut on the right-hand side of the road at the traffic...Reservoir, note the paleoriver terraces in the roadcut to the left, indicating that theSantiam River was...contain gold and have been mined in the past. In the roadcut on your left, below the schoolhouse, you can see
Report (volume)
monazite-bearing samples from the Coastal Plain of Georgia-----------------------Photographs: 4. The Perry... Aiken County, S.C.-----------------5. Suction dredge of the National Lead Co., Duval County, Fla. 6...spirals at the plant of the National Lead Co., Duval County, Fla.-------------------7. Concentrating plant...of the E. I. duPont de Nemours and Co. in Clay County, Fla. ----------------------8. Suction dredge of...Nemours and Co., at the southern plant, in Clay County, Fla. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9. Aerial view of
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many years the mines and fields of St. Lawrence County have furnished museums and many lucky mineral col­...been depleted through the the years, St. Lawrence County continues to supply many beautiful specimens to...types and mineralized zones of the St, Lawrence County area, A detailed discussion of the geology is beyond...and metamorphic rocks are found throughout the county, the latter prevails. Since more than three-fourths...(metamorphosed gabbro) is present locally across the county. Gabbro is a dark igneous rock composed chiefly
Journal (issue)
the beginnings of an extraordinary series of tourmaline pockets were encountered at the Dunton gem pit...experiencing one of North America’s greatest pegmatite tourmaline discoveries. Excerpts from his journal tell the...Mineralogical Record, Eureka Supplement THE THRILL Tourmaline crystals, cut gems and a slab (6.2 cm) from the...see a vast display of tourmaline. We extracted a bushel basket of large tourmaline crystals, not many of...careful blasting opened a pocket of the finest tourmaline we had seen to date. The crystals were interlocked
Report (issue)
from the roadlog of Thompson (1972). In the Orange County copper district, the stops and descriptions in...expose small (<10 cm-thick) discordant quartz-tourmaline veins. These veins clearly crosscut the Acadian...molybdenite and pyrite in the altered gneiss, and tourmaline along the veingneiss contact. STOP 1-1B Farther...Mineralogically the veins contain widespread tourmaline, with locally common pyrite and molybdenite,...irregular mineralized zone containing abundant black tourmaline, some of which forms disseminations and foliation-controlled
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mg) Abstract: Discreditation of the monoclinic tourmaline mineral species luinaite-(OH), ideally (Na,)(Fe...Claim), ied samples we North Bend, King County, Washington, DC, USA. Biaxial (−) crystals representative...tural distortion distortion from typical trigonal tourmaline structure (the topology of the structure is retained)...Skogby, H.; result, following the IMA-CNMNC and tourmaline nomenclature rules, the triclinic luinaite-(OH)...Ferdinando Bosi 1,*, Henrik Skogby sample from the USA can be considered as the triclinic dimorph oxy-dravite
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...goethite, malachite, siderite Alleghany County Peters Mountain—(roadcut outcrops) near Jordan mines barite
Journal (issue)
in many international publications. Rubellite Tourmaline on Albite from the Itatiaia mine, Minas Gerais...Raven Hills Court, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919 USA; tel: (303) 598-1233 66 The Mineralogical Record...crystals abound at the locally famous High­ way 62 roadcut just north of Bancroft, and in numerous other col­...vein-dike near Long Lake in Olden Township, Frontenac County. Tabular pseudo-orthorhombic euhedra up to 10 cm...crystal (1.6 x 2 cm) from Olden Township, Frontenac County, Ontario. George and Susan Robinson specimen. menite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
agate comes from the top of a mountain in Fulton County, about 5 miles southwest of Elizabeth, Ark. W e...the road."—on label. Elizabeth is in S/W Fulton County in northern Arkansas. CALIFORNIA—Art Tatum. Rock...call it black jasper. Some rockhounds from Kern County here have complete displays with the coal-black...inch in diameter. Bakersfield is in western Kern County in S.W. California. COLORADO—"I got this specimen...Beidell is in approximately the center of Saguache County, in southern Colorado. CONNECTICUT—"Thanks to R&M
Report (issue)
quarry Renfrew–Madawaska area Renfrew County Road 4 (Bruce Avenue) roadcut Highway 60 quarry Jamieson marble...Carswell quarry Bryson marble blocks Bryson roadcut 1 Bryson roadcut 2 New Calumet mine Calumet uranium occurrence...19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Tourmaline crystals, Quadeville East mine Gutz corundum...Most of the collecting localities are in Renfrew County, Ontario. A wide variety of minerals are found...quartz, graphic granite, and corundum from Renfrew County; feldspar (peristerite, amazonite), jaspilite,
Report (issue)
CIRCULAR 350 OCCURRENCES OF URANIUM IN CARBON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA aP'r- t'-TY OF -U. S. This report...CIRCULAR 350 OCCURRENCES OF URANIUM IN CARBON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By Harry Klemic and R. C. Baker ...occurrences in Carbon County, Pa. ii OCCURRENCES OF URANIUM IN CARBON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By Harry...Figure 1. Map of uranium occurrences in Carbon County, Pa............................... 2. Sketch of...Junction, Carbon County, Pa. TABLES Page Table 1. Uranium minerals found in Carbon County, Pa..........
Report (issue)
estuarine tidal rhythmites Interstate 64, Rowan-Carter County line, northeastern Kentucky L/.S. DEPARTMENT...the No. 2 coal bed between Stops 2 and 3, Jackson County, Ohio by David F. Dominic 17 Stop 3: Section...gamma-ray logs of Carboniferous strata in Gallia County, Ohio 9 1 .3. Subsurface cross section of Carboniferous...Carboniferous rocks in Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio - - ----- . 1o 2.1 . Index map of field trip...fossils from the AA marine unit 37 7.1 . Diagram of roadcut at Stop 7 on east side of U.S. Highway 52 just
Report (issue)
I I GEORGIA STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY GARLAND PEYTON...HART COUNTY, GEORGIA by Willard Huntington Grant ATLANTA 1958 ABSTRACT GEOLOGY OF HART COUNTY, GEORGIA...GEORGIA Hart County is in northeastern Georgia, where the Seneca and Tugaloo Rivers join to form Savannah...Survey Bulletin No. 67, "The Geology of Hart County, Georgia," by Willard H. Grant. This investigation was...Hopkins University. The project was sponsored by the Georgia Geological Survey. Previous investigations by this
Report (issue)
GEORGIA STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY A. S. FURCRON, Director...Governor of Georgia and Commissioner Ex-Officio State Division of Conservation Atlanta, Georgia Dear Governor...report contains a number of articles prepared by Georgia geologists and by some geologists working outside...Structure of an Area in the Vicinity of Adairsville, Georgia, by K. Spalvins -·-------·--------------·-----...of the Murphy Marble Belt in Parts of Northern Georgia, by William M. Fairley ------------------------------------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains. At...the N. W . part of Dade County, Fla., due west of Miami and near the Monroe County line. Among the samples...samples, GEORGIA—The following item is taken from Georgia Mineral News Letter (Published by the Georgia Geological...Atlanta, G a . ) . "Tourmaline is a very common mineral in the crystalline rocks of Georgia where it is found...into the Georgia Geological Survey recently by Dean H. Baxter, Marble Hill Hotel, Rockmart, Georgia. These
 
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