10 Industrial Minerals of the Spruce Pine (NC) District and the Southeast

Sunday, 1 April 2012
1:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Windsor Ballroom, Salon 1

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  THE SPRUCE PINE MINING DISTRICT
  Alex Glover, Active Minerals International, Macon, GA
  202246 (Symposia Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  PEGMATITE, GRANODIORITE, GRANITE, WHITE ROCK; AT SPRUCE PINE ITS ALL GOOD!
  Samuel E. Swanson, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
  201593 (Symposia Sessions)
• 2:10 PM
  GEOLOGIC SETTING AND TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE SPRUCE PINE, NC MINERAL DISTRICT
  Kevin G. Stewart, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
  202330 (Symposia Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  USE OF QUARRY FINES TO MAKE A CONSTRUCTION AGGREGATE
  S.C. Gaillard, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC and Robert Mensah-Biney, North Carolina State Univ, Asheville, NC and J. William Miller, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC
  202013 (Symposia Sessions)
• 3:10 PM
  OVERVIEW OF THE ASHE METAMORPHIC SUITE AND ITS MINERAL RESOURCES
  J. William Miller, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC and Bart Cattanach, North Carolina Geological Survey, Swannanoa, NC
  202011 (Symposia Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  OCCURRENCE AND USES OF OLIVINE
  Mark Adams, Unimin Corporation, Spruce Pine, NC
  202403 (Symposia Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  CRYSTAL MORPHOLOGY OF QUARTZ, CALCITE, PYRITE AND RUTILE: POTENTIAL TOOL FOR EMERALD EXPLORATION IN THE HIDDENITE AREA (NORTH CAROLINA)
  Michael A. Wise, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  202516 (Symposia Sessions)