No Really - A Castle in North Carolina
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Following the discovery of gold in North Carolina, an enterprising Cornish engineer named Charles McCulloch came to the gold fields of Jamestown, North Carolina to build a gold refinery. He brought with him the architecture of England and the latest technological development, the steam engine. McCulloch Gold Mill was built in 1832 and operated many years as an integral part of the history of Gold Mining in the State and in the Nation.
From Raleigh/Greensboro:
Take 1-85 South to Exit 118 (Business 85 South), take Kivett Drive exit and turn left onto Kivett. Castle Main Entrance located less than a mile on left.
Castle McCulloch
3925 Kivett Drive
Jamestown, NC 27282
Phone:(336) 887-5413
Fax:(336) 887-5429
Business Hours 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Monday through Friday
Email:
info@CastleMcCulloch.com
Holiday, Historic and wedding Photos courtesy of either BG Photography and or Castle McCulloch
Digging for Large Garnet Crystals in North Carolina The Crystal Collector
OPEN TO PUBLIC LOCATION!!!
Google search for Sandy Bottom Creek Trail Rides right outside of Asheville, North Carolina. They run the location and can give you directions and things for going to dig.
Gem Mining in Little Switzerland Blue Ridge Mountains • NYC Land & Sea Cruise Vlog Day 17 [ep38]
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Gem Mountain NC. USA
A great place to enjoy prospecting for gemstones in a family friendly environment. Gem Mountain Hwy 226, Spruce Pine, NC.
Mitchell County- NC Gem & Mineral Festival
Welcomes visitors from around the world to shop for gems, minerals, & more.
SOUTH CAROLINA GOLD & GEM GEOLOGY: The Piedmont Region
Take a closer look at the Piedmont Region of South Carolina where you can find gold, crystals and other minerals. Learn about the history that shaped the region.
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Here is a different video that takes you into some of our research we do when going to new areas or regions to look for gold or precious minerals. This is a little different than our normal videos but provides valuable information on the Piedmont Region of South Carolina to help you in your search!!!
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Sources:
Hatcher, R D., and J R. Butler. The Carolina slate belt and major gold mines . Map. North Carolina Geological Survey, 1979, pp. 117+.
Foley, N.K., and Ayuso, R.A., 2012, Gold deposits of the Carolina Slate Belt, southeastern United States—Age and origin of the major gold producers: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1179, 26 p.
Foster, Caroline. Peidmont. South Carolina Encyclopedia, University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies, 20 June 2012, scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/piedmont/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2018.
Hilton Jr., B. Hidden treasures: Rocks and minerals of the South Carolina Piedmont. 42nd ed., vol. 2, South Carolina Wildlife, 1995, pp. 34-36, hiltonpond.org/articlemineralsscmain.html. Accessed 20 Nov. 2018.
Young, Justin. A Brief Survey of Historic Gold Mining in the Carolina Slate Belt. Mining McKissick, McKissick Museum, 6 May 2013, miningmckissick.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/a-brief-survey-of-historic-gold-mining-in-the-carolina-slate-belt/ Accessed 25 Nov. 2018.
Foley, N.K., and Ayuso, R.A., 2012, Gold deposits of the Carolina Slate Belt, southeastern United States—Age and origin of the major gold producers: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1179, 26 p.
King, Ph.D., RPG, Hobart M. Volcanic Ash. Geology.com , Geology.com, geology.com/articles/volcanic-ash.shtml. Accessed 26 Nov. 2018.
Frontispiece portrait from A History of The McCormick Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, by Le Roy J. Halsey. Chicago: Published by the Seminary, 1893. Digital scan from a copy preserved at the PCA Historical Center
Jarvis, Robin. Only In Your State, Only In Your State, 27 Aug. 2017, onlyinyourstate.com/south-carolina/dorn-gold-mine-south-carolina/. Accessed 26 Nov. 2018.
Aldrich, Kate. How Are Amethyst Geodes Formed? Sciencing, 13 March 2018.
Infographics. Arid McKinstrie, Arid, 4 Oct. 2013, mckinstrie.co.uk/2013/10/04/illustrations/. Accessed 27 Nov. 2018
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Hiddenite,N.C - Finding Gemstones
My family's day trip to Hiddenite, N.C. Hope you enjoy the scenery and the great music.
For more information about Emerald Hollow Mine in Hiddenite,NC:
Music inthis video is original music. It was written, performed and recorded by my husband. Used with his full permission.
His CD: waitingcd.com
Learn to Hunt for Gems
Demonstration on how to find gems in sand and soil. Order the products seen in video at TreasuresInABag.com
Precious stones/gems from Dollywood
Precious stone payload from Lucky 7 in Dollywood.
*Ruby City Gem Museum Franklin North Carolina*
Sifting for gems
Sifting for gems at Luray Caverns
Gary Mining for Gems
Our attempt to find gems in a North Carolina creek with gear from Walmart. Did not prove productive.
Ten New Diamonds from North Carolina
Exciting geological find doubles the number of natural diamonds on record in North Carolina:
The Museum's Senior Curator of Geology, Dr. Chris Tacker, announces the find and talks about their history and scientific significance.
For more details, see Dr. Tacker's blog post:
Personal Collections 3 : A RockHoundLounge Video Series
The 3rd RockHoundLounge Personal Collections series is here with Dennis Herman.
Dennis W. Herman - Biography
Dennis, a retired herpetologist/naturalist/biologist and a native of Burke County, developed a deep appreciation and love of nature, especially animals, at the age of 4. Inspired and encouraged by his 4th Grade teacher to collect rocks and minerals, Dennis became a rockhound in 1958, often searching plowed fields near his house (and during visits to friends and relatives) for crystals and Native American artifacts. It wasn’t until after his family moved to Mitchell Co. in 1961 that he was able to pursue his love of nature, with non-school time spent searching for and collecting rocks, minerals, and small critters, especially amphibians and reptiles.
Mineral collecting opportunities were readily available while living a few miles west of Spruce Pine from 1961-1971. Several mica and feldspar mines were very close to the house, and many hours were spent checking the mine dumps for specimens. These mines contained almandine garnets (single xls, clusters, and included in muscovite), feldspar xls, muscovite xls, and various rare earth and uranium minerals (columbite, samarskite, uraninite, clarkeite, zircon var. cryolite, autunite, torbernite, and uranophane). One prospect yielded yellow to greenish yellow beryl xls, my favorite mineral species. Other Mitchell Co. mines, i.e. Crabtree Emerald Mine, Chalk Mountain Mine, Hoppus Mine, Biggerstaff Branch Mine, and Chestnut Flat Mine provide specimens for my collection. Mineral collecting waned during much of my high school and college years to concentrate on my studies and other budding interests.
After receiving a BS in Biology from Western Carolina University, Dennis moved to Atlanta, GA in 1972 where he worked at the Atlanta Zoo for 24 years as a keeper and Assistant Curator of Herpetology. Mineral collecting took a back seat during his zoo employment, but he did continue to collect specimens during zoo trips for reptiles and amphibians. Fossils became his focus during the zoo years; with forays to Edisto Island Beach (South Carolina), the Durham coal mines and trilobite sites in northwest Georgia, and the Cretaceous areas of west Texas.
Dennis began working for the state of North Carolina in 1996 as the Coordinator of Living Collections for the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences where he assisted in leading museum's public field trips for rocks and minerals to various localities, such as Hamme Tungsten Mine, Mitchell Co. mines, and Glendon pyrophyllite mine, and others. In 2004 he left the museum to work for the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) as an environmental program consultant with the Biological Survey Group.
In early 2006, Dennis realized the need to design a database for his collection. The database includes detailed mineral and locality data, as well as photographs. Each specimen is assigned a number, and attached to the specimen. Specimen cards were designed to include the specimen #, mineral species, locality, and provenance, if known. A photograph of the specimen is located on the reverse side of the card. Due to physical problems, Dennis no longer actively searches for or digs for specimens, but an occasional walk through a plowed field or old mine dump is still enjoyable. Much of the collection contains specimens purchased or traded for now, with only about 25% personally collected.
Dennis retired from state government in June 2014, and lives with his wife, Amy, in Morganton. His time is spent eating good BBQ, maintaining his collection of N.C. gems and minerals, hiking in the N.C. mountains, searching mountain fens for bog turtles and rare plants, and working crossword puzzles.
Interesting minerals, and gems from the USA.
This is a video of some of my rocks, if you want to know where to get them, it is at Cole Hardware.
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Science Sunday! -- Smithsonian -- Gem Digger!
The video took longer to render than I though seeming as the original clip(s) was almost 30 min long but I edited it to make it more interesting instead of me hammering a piece of sandstone for 30 min. Hope you enjoy :)
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Gem Mountain: Flume Mining and History
All the action takes place at the gemstone flume. Enjoy the exciting atmosphere of discovery as you find colorful, beautiful, and valuable gemstones! Our flumes are covered so you can mine rain or shine! In the cooler months the flume line is enclosed and heated for your added comfort.
Gem Mountain is located on Highway 226 between Spruce Pine and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
We are open March 1st through December 31st, Closed Sundays. Memorial Day through Labor day 9-7, all other days 9-5.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact us at 1-888-817-5829 or use our online request form.
Quartz Crystals
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I was at the Ulster Museum today!
I was meant to go on Tuesday past there because of plans!
Quartz is the second-most-abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust, after feldspar. It is made up of a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon--oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall formula SiO2. There are many different varieties of quartz, several of which are semi-precious gemstones. Throughout the world, varieties of quartz have been since antiquity the most commonly used minerals in the making of jewelry and hardstone carvings.
Quartz belongs to the trigonal crystal system. The ideal crystal shape is a six-sided prism terminating with six-sided pyramids at each end. In nature quartz crystals are often twinned, distorted, or so intergrown with adjacent crystals of quartz or other minerals as to only show part of this shape, or to lack obvious crystal faces altogether and appear massive. Well-formed crystals typically form in a 'bed' that has unconstrained growth into a void, but because the crystals must be attached at the other end to a matrix, only one termination pyramid is present. There are exceptions as doubly terminated crystals do occur. An occurrence in Herkimer County, New York is noted for these Herkimer diamonds with terminations at both ends. A quartz geode is such a situation where the void is approximately spherical in shape, lined with a bed of crystals pointing inward.
α-quartz crystallizes in the trigonal crystal system, space group P3121 or P3221. β-quartz belongs to the hexagonal system, space group P6221 or P6421. These space groups are truly chiral (they each belong to the 11 enantiomorphous pairs). Both α-quartz and β-quartz are examples of chiral crystal structures composed of a chiral building blocks (SiO4 tetrahedra in the present case).
The transformation between α- and β-quartz only involves a comparatively minor rotation of the tetrahedra with respect to one another, without change in the way they are linked, this process is called the quartz inversion.
Quartz is an essential constituent of granite and other felsic igneous rocks. It is very common in sedimentary rocks such as sandstone and shale and is also present in variable amounts as an accessory mineral in most carbonate rocks. It is also a common constituent of schist, gneiss, quartzite and other metamorphic rocks. Because of its resistance to weathering it is very common in stream sediments and in residual soils. Quartz, therefore, occupies the lowest potential to weather in the Goldich dissolution series.
Quartz occurs in hydrothermal veins as gangue along with ore minerals. Large crystals of quartz are found in pegmatites. Well-formed crystals may reach several meters in length and weigh as much as 1,400 pounds (640 kg).
Naturally occurring quartz crystals of extremely high purity, necessary for the crucibles and other equipment used for growing silicon wafers in the semiconductor industry, are expensive and rare. A major mining location for high purity quartz is the Spruce Pine Gem Mine in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, United States.