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Cassiterite from
Ross Mine, Gaffney Area, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ross Mine, Gaffney Area, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:113365
Long-form Identifier:1:3:113365:3
GUID (UUID V4):7fb54283-7143-4519-9e60-795837989bd2
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
1.7km (1.1 miles) Perry Tin Prospect, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Thicketty Creek Monazite Placer Eastern Tributary, Gaffney Area, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
5.2km (3.2 miles) Upper Cole Creek Monazite Placer, Gaffney Area, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Headwaters Cole Creek Monazite Placer, Gaffney Area, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) Southern Trib Cherokee Creek Monazite Placer, Gaffney Area, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
7.1km (4.4 miles) Northern Triburary Cherokee Creek Monazite Placer, Gaffney Area, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
7.4km (4.6 miles) Headwaters Irene Creek Monazite Placer, Gaffney Area, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
9.3km (5.8 miles) Ross Creek Cassiterite Occurrence (SW Tributary; Ross Creek Cassiterite Occurrence SW Tributary), Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
10.2km (6.3 miles) Thicketty Creek Cassiterite Occurrence, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
10.9km (6.8 miles) Northern Tributary Ross Creek Monazite Placer, Gaffney Area, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Cassiterite Downloaded by [University of Saskatchewan Library]...2012 CiNOVEC, CZECH REPUBLIC This classic cassiterite specimen is from Cinovec, Czech Republic, much...wide and consists of an aggregate of dark brown cassiterite crystals to 3.5 cm attractively placed on a matrix...acquisition of a good suite of cassiterite within the scope of most collectors. Cassiterite has been known for centuries...Julius Caesar. Tin, presumably derived from cassiterite, was used by the Chinese even earlier, with their
Report (volume)
______ ___ _ __________ __ _ 27 O ther pu rt. o f the area __ . __ ____ _ __ _____ _____ _________ _ __ ___...___ . _....... _. _. _____ .... ______ 83 Colossus mine ___ ..... _o ••• _ • • • • • • • • • • • •• •••...Blackmon mine._ ... ___ •.......... _..... __ ....... .............. 92 Kings Mountain mine __ ___ ....94 Ferguson mine .....•............. _........ _. __ ___ . __ .. __ . ___ . _ 96 Brown mine ____ . __ ...·schlegelmilch mine .. _. _____ ____ .... ___ ......... _... __ ... . . . . . . . 101 Thompson mine. _ .. ___
Report (volume)
..... The Three Kids manganese district, Clark County, Nev., by C. B. Hunt, V. E. McKelvey, and J. H.......... Antimony deposits of the Stampede Creek area, Kantishna district, Alaska, by D. E. White (published...The Coso quicksilver district, Inyo County, Calif., by C. P. Ross and R. G. Yates.......................deposits in the Artillery Mountains region,' Mohave County, Ariz., by S. G. Lasky and B. N. Webber..........39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Page Outline map of the Carolina tin-spodumene belt, showing locations of tin deposits
Report (volume)
Cassiterite Occurrences in the Shelby Area, North and South Carolina By John P. D'Agostino and jesse...Agostino, John P. Cassiterite occurrences in the Shelby area, North Carolina-South Carolina. (U.S. Geological...19.3:1569. 1. Cassiterite-North Carolina-Shelby Region. 2. Cassiterite-South Carolina-Cowpens Region...Distribution Branch, U.S. Geological Survey, 604 South Pickett Street, Alexandria, VA 22304 CONTENTS...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ; Mode of cassiterite occurrences---------------------------------
Report (issue)
OF THE KINGS MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA. By ARTHUR KEITH and DOUGLAS B. STERRETT...ores here described are found, is included in the Gaffney, Kings Mountain, Lincolnton, and Gastonia quadrangles...divided between North Carolina and South Carolina, the part in North Carolina being a little larger....based were made by the authors in preparing the Gaffney-Kings Mountain and LincolntonGastonia folios of...Plateau, of which it may be considered a typical area. The country is one of broad, flat or gently rolling
Report (issue)
Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina by W. R. Griffitts, J. W. Whitlow, K...Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina, begun in 1978 that is part of a multidisciplinary...study to determine the mineral potential of the area. Correlative studies are the completion of a geologic... For instance, at some sites in the mountainous area in the northwestern part of the quadrangle, many...crucial in determining the tin potential of our study area and the neighboring areas placers derived from deposits
Report (issue)
Il • CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Field Trip Guidebook 1981 October 24-25, 1981 Gaffney, South Carolina...Carolina - CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1981 OFFICERS +', . I. President: Richard G. Chalcraft Gulf...Schaeffer Duke'Power P.O •. Box 33189 Charlotte, North Carolina 28242 0 Secretary-Treasurer: • S. Duncan Heron...Department of Geology, Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27706 Chairman of the Membership Committee: ...Department of Geology Catawba College Salisbury, No~th Carolina 28144 Field Trip Leaders: J. Wright Horton,
Report (issue)
Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina 1011 by Gwendolyn W. Luttrell 12 U.S. Geological...Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina Abstract Gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, pyrite...barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product silver, occurs in veins...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals...occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 23 24 25- U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:
Report (issue)
of SenegaL ___________________ ----Republic of South Mrica ___________________ _ Cape of Good Hope Province...omali Republic ________ - ____ -_---------- -- South-VVestAfrica _________________________ _ Swaziland...-----------------Queensland and New South Wales _______ _ South Australia ____ -------------------Tasmania...------------------New Zealand ______ -----------------------South Island_----------------- ________ _ North Island_____...________ _ Southeastern Alaska ___ ------------South-central Alaska _______________ _ East-central Alaska
Report (issue)
occurrences of the Goldville District of Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Seven of the volume's papers deal with...32 The Royal Vindicator Gold Deposit, Haralson County, Georgia: A Metamorphosed Epithermal Hot-Springs...the Lilesville Sand and Gravel Deposits, North Carolina (James R. Craig and John E. Callahan) ..........Mason Mountain Sperrylite Occurrence, Macon County, North Carolina (Robert B. Cook and James R. Bumell) ....The Central Piedmont Metallogenic Province, South Carolina (Steven K. Mittwede) .....................
Report (volume)
........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards...Mr. D. H. Newland, State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota...Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota... .Prof. E. C. Perisho...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Report (issue)
structure PAPER 248-A of pegmatite bodies in the area, their mineralogical characteristics, and the economic...________ ____________ _______ _ Geography of the area ________ __ _________ __________ ~ _ Location and...vegetation _________________________ _ Geology of the area ________ ·_______________ ___ ______ _ Rock formations...-Spodumen~'-~~---.:. ___ -"~-----.------------ ---- -Cassiterite __ __ ____ __ ____ -"- _ '- _ '- ___ ----- -...pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________
Report (volume)
....................................... North Carolina. ........................................................ South Carolina......................................:.................... South Dakota.......Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature...edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon, C...Catalogue of the mineral localities of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, ser. 4, Bull. 2, 1908
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(including Scotland), and in the Gondwanaland belt of South America, Africa, India, and Australia. In addition...large number of districts in the Rocky Mountain area, and the inner gorge of the Grand Canyon of Arizona...North America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI), Ytterby (Sweden)...and India; and the beryl pegmatites of BraziI and South Africa. PelBozorc PncuerrrBs Pegmatites of Paleozoic...associatedwith the ore deposits of the New England area of New South Wales are related to Carboniferous and PermoCarboniferous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits of the area. ARIZONA—Nice specimens of turquoise come from the Indian Mine, Chloride, Mohave...specimens at the famous Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. I have just received a report from the...city of San Mateo has dredged out a yacht harbor (south of the ledge) and filled in the beach parking space...nice jasper. "The green chalcedony is from Marin County, north of San Francisco. It was picked up on a...ledge (Coyote Point). The chalcedony from Marin County is a beautiful dark green specimen. COLORADO—W
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s...Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford,...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...DELAWARE, area Co. exposures of blue clay, as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s...Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford,...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...DELAWARE, area Co. exposures of blue clay, as clusters and nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN
Journal (issue)
45 California 48 Canada Cape Colony Carolina, North and South 51 Ceylon 54 Chili 55 50 52 China...123 123 New Guinea New Hampshire New Jersey New South Wales New Zealand 124 124 124 124 132 132 Nigeria...Domingo Scotland Siam Siberia South America South Australia South Dakota Spain Swaziland ; 145 146...Mines, Wales. Ann. Rep. Dir. U. New S. Geol. South Surv Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Canada Ann. Rep. Geol...Sacramento. Annual Report Department of Mines, New South Wales, Sydney. Annual Report of the Director of
Report (issue)
Central group ____________________________ _ _ Carolina gneiss ________________________ _ Mica schist...__________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina and South Carolina ______ ____ _ Georgia ______________...34 35 35 36 39 44 44 45 46 47 47 49 49 50 50 Mine descriptions ___________ --------- -- .. -------...___ _______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______ _____ _____ _ Franklin ____...properties _________ .. _____________ _ Halifax County ______ - _____ - __________ ~- _'- __ _ Virgilina
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan...from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced most of the rare minerals, ceased...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991)...30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Cass Chambers Cherokee Clay Coke Coryell Culberson Dallas Denton Donley...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Location map of major topaz deposits. 1. San Diego County, California pegmatites; 2. western U.S. topaz rhyolite...rhyolite belt (includes some pegmatites); 3. Mason County, Texas; 4. topaz rhyolite belt of Mexico; 5. Appalachian...belt; 19. Transbaikal area (includes pegmatites and greisens); 20. Japan area; 21. eastern Australia...Figure 3 (above). Topaz, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. NMNH specimen 147660....131821. figure 9 (left). Topaz, 10.5 em long, Dassu mine, BaItNan, Pakistan. NMNH specimen 165994. figure
Report (issue)
belt________________ Marble in Brevard fault zone_________ Gaffney marble belt_________________ Sylacauga marble belt_______________...Appalachia__________________ North Carolina_____________________ South Carolina_____________________ Georgia____________________________...__________ Pennsylvanfa_______________________ South Carolina_____________________ Tennessee__________________________...Deposits in North Carolina__________ Deposits in South Carolina and Virginia____________________________ Resource...quarry face in limestone, 160 feet high, 4 miles south of Franklin, W. Va__ ______________ __ _____ _____
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[University of Connecticut] at 20:42 14 January 2015 South Dakota is perhaps best known for its pegmatites...Hills are responsible for the accessibility of South Dakota’s itbundant and diverse mineral locations...the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in the...continue to be made. The most complete mineralogy of South Dakota and the Black Hills is found in Roberts and...the most complete location guides to mines in the area are those provided by the U.S. Bureau of Mines (1954
Report (issue)
FRONTISPIECE: Historic pump at the Wodgina tantalum–tin mine. Brought from Port Hedland by camel train about.......... 63 Bernic Lake tantalum–lithium–caesium mine ............................................................................................. 84 South America ..........................................11 Tantalum resources of eastern Australia New South Wales ............................................................................... 108 Wodgina mine ...............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
which have been exploited for feldspar, mica, cassiterite or other commercial minerals are either tabular...Keith, Arthur, Gafiney-Kings Mt- Folio, South and North Carolina: U. ,5. Geol. Suraey, Geol. Folio 222...Frommurze? examined 1,710 pegmatites in the Erongo area of Southwest Africa and found that 79 per cent of...noted pegmatites over 250 feet wide. One has an area of 3| squaremiles, and the longest pegmatite dike...tin-bearing pegmatites of the pp' 111Erongo area, South-West Aftica Trans. Geol. Soc.S' AJrica,32 (for
 
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