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2008 annual meeting – Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North <strong>Carolina</strong><br />
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Forward<br />
The 2008 field trip and annual meeting of the <strong>Carolina</strong> <strong>Geological</strong> <strong>Society</strong> (CGS) w<strong>as</strong><br />
held in Little Switzerland, North <strong>Carolina</strong> on October 31-November 2, 2008. The<br />
meeting w<strong>as</strong> convened by Alex Glover of the Attapulgite Division, Active Minerals,<br />
LLC, and staff of the North <strong>Carolina</strong> <strong>Geological</strong> Survey, in collaboration with CGS and<br />
sponsoring entities.<br />
This meeting program contains the field trip road log, and technical papers given<br />
<strong>as</strong> part of the annual field trip. The annual meeting field trip provided glimpses of North<br />
<strong>Carolina</strong>’s varied mineral industries including crushed stone and industrial minerals. The<br />
annual meeting field trip traversed are<strong>as</strong> from Little Switzerland on the Blue Ridge<br />
Parkway to the Spruce Pine Mining District and finally Mount Mitchell State Park.<br />
It is our hope that this field trip guidebook provides useful information about this<br />
meeting.<br />
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