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2008 annual meeting – Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina
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Contents
Corporate Sponsor list……………...…………………………………………...…… 1
Acknowledgements and thanks…………………………………………………...…. 2
Forward……………………………………………………………………………….. 3
Contents……………………………………..…………………………………………. 4
The Spruce Pine Mining District – A brief review of the history, geology and
modern uses of the minerals mined in the Spruce Pine Mining District, Mitchell
Avery and Yancey Counties, North Carolina – Reprinted from Reid, Jeffrey C., editor,
Proceedings of the 42nd Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals: Information Circular 34, North
Carolina Geological Survey.
Alex Glover
The Sink Hole at Bandana: A Blue Ridge mica mine reveals Its prehistoric past
– Reprinted from Reid, Jeffrey C., editor, Proceedings of the 42nd Forum on the Geology of Industrial
Minerals: Information Circular 34, North Carolina Geological Survey.
Peter R. Margolin
Petrogenesis of a small Spruce Pine pegmatite: A model for petrogenesis of
Spruce Pine granitoids
Samuel E. Swanson ……..……………………………………………………… 6
A note on uranium minerals from the Spruce Pine area, North Carolina
Richard Warner, Stephen Poterala and Chris Fleisher…………………... …….. 29
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Road log …………………………………………………………………………….. 53
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