Mineral resource potential map of the Shining Rock Wilderness, Haywood County, North Carolina
Miscellaneous Field Studies Map
1290-C
By: F. G. Lesure and M.L. Dunn
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Abstract
The Shining Rock Wilderness is in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Haywood County, N. C., and is underlain by complexly folded, high-grade metamorphic rocks. These rocks contain a few small, subeconomic deposits of sheet muscovite mica that have a small potential for scrap mica. Quartz as a source of silica (SiO2) and gneiss and schist suitable for common building stone and crushed rock are the only identified economic mineral resources. Other minerals and rocks, including kaolin, soapstone, copper, corundum, and dunite, have been prospected or mined nearby, but either they do not occur or have no current economic potential in the wilderness. A possibility exists for the presence of natural gas at depths greater than 5,000 ft (1,500 m).
Study Area
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Mineral resource potential map of the Shining Rock Wilderness, Haywood County, North Carolina |
| Series title | Miscellaneous Field Studies Map |
| Series number | 1290 |
| Chapter | C |
| DOI | 10.3133/mf1290C |
| Year Published | 1982 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Description | Report: 8 p.; 1 Plate: 31.97 x 29.27 inches |
| Country | United States |
| State | North Carolina |
| County | Haywood County |
| Other Geospatial | Shining Rock Wilderness |
| Scale | 48000 |