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Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part in cooperation with the Defense Minerals Exploration Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part in cooperation with the Defense Minerals Exploration Administration This report is based on work done by J. C. Oh on, Jf^. R. Griffiths, E. Jf^. Heinrich, R. H. Jahns, J. M. Parker III, D. H. Amos, S. A. Bergman, A. R. Taylor, K. H. Teague, and others UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1968 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY William T. Pecora, Director Library of Congress catalog-card No. OS 67-295 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 CONTENTS Page Abstract_ ________________________________________ Geology Continued Introduction. ______________________________________ Structure_______ _______ ._____. 14 Investigations_-_____ ________ ___________________ Folds.. ._-- _ __- _____ . 14 Geography __ _ _______ Faults ____ ___ ___ ... 14 Geology ______________________________ Blue Ridge thrust sheet. ______ 15 Lower Precambrian basement complex.___________ Metamorphism. _ _ _ _ _____________ 15 Mica and hornblende gneiss and schist-_______ Economic aspects of pegmatite minerals . 16 Layered granitic gneiss______________________ 16 Granite and nonlayered granitic gneiss._______ Sheet mica___-___-_-_---__ 16 Upper Precambrian rocks______________________ Scrap mica___ ----____----- 19 Bakersville Gabbro_________________________ Feldspar _ ___________________ 19 Ocoee Series_____________________________ Kaolin _____________ __ _______ 19 Paleozoic sedimentary rocks____________________ Quartz_ _______________ _____ 20 Chilhowee Group.__________________________ Beryl ___ _ 20 Rocks of the Murphy marble belt-__________ Niobium-tantalum minerals. ____ 20 Cambrian and Ordovician rocks._____________ Uranium and rare-earth minerals. 20 Paleozoic(?) intrusive rocks______________________ Pegmatite districts _ ______________ 21 21 Ultramafic rocks__________________________ Jefferson-Boone district. _______ Wilkes district __ _ _______----- 21 Granitic rocks and pegmatite_______________ Spruce Pine district- ___________ 21 Whiteside Granite-_____________________ Buncombe district__-_-__--_--_ 24 Muscovite granodiorite of Spruce Pine Woodlawn district_____________ 24 district-_____ ________________________ 11 Franklin-Sylva district- ________ 25 Pegmatite. __________________________ 12 References cited. __________________ 122 ILLUSTRATIONS iPlates In pocket] PLATE 1. Geologic map of part of the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and Tennessee. 2-6. Maps showing location of mica mines and prospects in 2. Jefferson-Boone and Wilkes districts. 3. Spruce Pine district. 4. Woodlawn and Buncombe districts. 5. Outer part of Franklin-Sylva district. 6. Central part of Franklin-Sylva district. Page FIGURE 1. Map showing location of pegmatite districts in the southeastern United States. 2 TABLES Page TABLE 1. Age determinations on various minerals from the Blue Ridge of North Carolinia and 9 Tennessee._____________________________________________________________ 22 2. Recorded production of sheet-and-punch mica from the Spruce Pine district, North Carolina. 3. Recorded production of sheet-and-punch mica from the Franklin-Sylva district, North Carolina....___________________________________________________________ 25 4. Summary description of mica mines and prospects in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina__ 26 m MICA DEPOSITS OF THE BLUE RIDGE IN NORTH CAROLINA By FRANK G. LESTJRB ABSTRACT within a single deposit. About 50 percent of the deposits contain some stained mica, about 15 percent contain mica with mineral Pegmatites in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina are important intergrowths, and about 30 percent contain mica that has been sources of sheet and scrap mica, feldspar, kaolin, and quartz. deformed after crystallization. Small amounts of beryl, columbite-tantalite, monazite, samar- Descriptive data are available on 1,350 mines and prospects. skite, and uranium minerals also have been produced. The About 100 mines have an individual production greater than mica-bearing pegmatites occur in mica and hornblende gneiss 10,000 pounds of sheet mica, but more than half of the deposits and schist throughout the Blue Ridge province but are concen­ have produced less than 500 pounds each. Total production of trated in the Spruce Pine and Franklin-Sylva districts. sheet mica for the region is unknown. Production in recent The Blue Ridge is geologically complex; the rocks are mainly years has been 25-50 percent of the total weight and 45-85 polymetamorphic orthogneisses and paragneisses and schists percent of the value of United States production. About half that are part of a large thrust sheet that has moved at least 30 of the scrap mica and half or more of the feldspar produced in miles to the northwest in the northern part of the area. This the country have come from the Blue Ridge area. thrust sheet is bounded on the east by the Brevard fault zone Reserves of sheet mica cannot be calculated but probably and on the west by the Unaka Mountain belt which consists of as much mica remains in the ground as has been mined. A few metamorphosed and nonmetamorphosed late Precambrain and new deposits have been found in the last 20 years, but most of Cambrian sedimentary rocks in various complex folds and thrust- the recent production has been from old mines. Reserves of faulted blocks. scrap mica, feldspar, and clay are extensive. During an early Precambrian metamorphic period a thick sequence of sedimentary and volcanic rocks was altered to gneiss INTRODUCTION and schist. Parts of the sequence were migmatized to layered granitic gneiss and intruded by masses of granite and grano- diorite. In the early or middle Paleozoic a second period of Since 18-68 the pegmatites of the Blue Kidge in North regional metamorphism resulted in the widespread intrusion Carolina have been among the principal sources of sheet of pegmatite associated in some areas with large masses of finer muscovite in the United States. Production of feldspar, grained granodiorite. The pegmatites are in areas where the kaolin, quartz, and scrap mica has also been large; metamorphic intensity in the second period of metamorphism minor amounts of beryl, columbite-tantalite, monazite, reached at least the kyanite-muscovite subfacies of the almandine amphibolite facies. Some deformation of the pegmatites occurred samarskite, uranium minerals, vermiculite, zircon, and after crystallization, and later faulting in the pegmatites is other minerals have been produced as byproducts. probably related to a late Paleozoic deformation that culminated The production of sheet muscovite has not been con­ in widespread thrust faulting. tinuous since mining began; the principal periods of The pegmatites have a simple mineralogy and structure and production include 1867-85, 1896-1913, 1916-20, 1922- range in composition from granite to granodiorite. The principal minerals are oligoclase, perthitic microcline, quartz, and 30, 1935-46, and 1952-62. muscovite. Biotite and garnet are the main accessory minerals, Since 1961 the Blue Kidge province has produced but a wide variety of other minerals has been found in minor annually one-quarter to one-half of the sheet mica amounts. mined in the United States. This production represents Two-thirds of the pegmatite bodies are tabular, a quarter of 45-85 percent of the total value of sheet-mica produc­ them are lenticular, and the remainder are of irregular shape. About half the bodies are discordant with the foliation of the tion. Most of this mica has come from two districts in enclosing country rock. Simple zoning has been reported in North Carolina: the Spruce Pine district in Avery, about 40 percent of the deposits but may have been overlooked Mitchell, and Yancey Counties and the Franklin- in some others. The most common type of zoned pegmatite has Sylva district in Haywood, Jackson, and Macon a plagioclase-quartz-muscovite wall zone and a quartz or quartz- Counties. The other districts in the Blue Kidge (fig. 1) perthite core. A few deposits have perthite intermediate zones or cores. More than half the deposits are deeply weathered, and have produced only small amounts of mica during recent for many of these the geology is incompletely known. years and have never been important producers. Sheet mica generally is scattered throughout unzoned de­ The pegmatite districts of the Piedmont province posits or is concentrated in wall zones. In some deposits, mica is (fig. 1), which have also been important sources of concentrated in shoots within a zone. The size and quality of the mica vary widely between districts, within districts, and even muscovite, are described by Jahns and others (1952-53). 1 MICA DEPOSITS OF THE BLUE, RIDGE1 ESF NORTH CAROON1A Districts described Other districts in this report Boundary between /"'WASHINGTON physiographic provinces DISTRICTS IN THE BLUE RIDGE 1. Jefferson-Boone 1. Cashiers 2. Wilkes 8. Bryson City 3. Spruce Pine 9. Zirconia 4. Woodlawn 10. Rabun 5. Buncombe 11. North Georgia, 6. Franklin-Sylva Winston-Salem Q , N E S S E 0 R T H
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