1024 MINERAL RESOURCES, 1912.
Watkins,
of the Southern Railway Co., Washington, D. C; Thomas B. Wilder, of
Louisburg, N. C; G. W. Alston, of Inez, N. C; J. T. Cashion, of
Statesville, N. C; A. W. Donald, of Charlotte Court House, Va., and
Lacey Rush, of Brookneal, Va., for information concerning amethyst; J.
E. Turner, of Hiddenite, N. C; Lovat Fraser, of New York, N. Y.; George
L. English, of Shelby, X. C, and A. C. Land, of Taylorsville, N. C, for
information concerning beryl, emerald, and hiddenite; A. H.
Rutherfoord, of Amelia, Va., and A. Whitmore, of Cripple Creek,
Colo., for information concerning amazon stone and associated minerals;
International Gem Co., of New York City; J. F. Heeney and Deb Roop, of
Reno, Nev., for information concerning opal; A. M. Walker, of New York,
N. Y., and Richard Stingle, of Phiiipsburg, Mont., for information
concerning sapphire; L. P. Gratacap, of the Natural History Museum, New
York, N. Y., and Frank Salmons, of Pala, Cal., for tourmaline and
kunzite; Lee McGehee, of Mason, Tex.; Samuel Await, of Katemcy, Tex.,
and D. E. Amarine, of Parker, Tex., for information concerning topaz;
Don Maguire, of Ogden, Utah, for information concerning varisiite; and
George P. Merrill and J. E. Pogue, of the United States National
Museum, Washington, D. C, for information concerning petrified wood.
AMETHYST.
DISTRIBUTION.
Amethyst
is widely distributed over the Piedmont and mountain regions of the
Southeastern States. Some of the deposits have been
p
rospected or mined,
and at others no work has been done. Several localities in North
Carolina and Georgia were described in this report for 1910 and 1911.
Many other localities in North Carolina and Virginia were visited
during 1912 and will be described. A few of these seemed promising. At
many of the localities the prospects were not seen under favorable
circumstances, for little recent work had been done and the best
specimens had at most places been already picked up. Pale-purple
crystals are all that have been left around many of the prospects. The
crystals found on the immediate surface are generally paler colored
than those which have not been exposed to the sun and weather, so that
surface specimens should not be used as a definite criterion of the
color to be expected in those under ground.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The
deposits in North Carolina described below are all in the Piedmont
Plateau and are associated with the crystalline rocks of that region.
Very little work has been done at any of the localities, and
prospecting at some of them might result in the discovery of good gems.
Fine gem amethyst has already been obtained from some of the localities.
Warren County.—Amethyst
occurs at a number of places in Warren County, at some of which fine
gem material has been found. An especially promising prospect is
located on the Cherry Hill plantation of George W. Alston, at Inez,
about 11 miles southeast of War-renton. There is another promising
prospect on the old John Buxton Williams plantation, about 2 miles
south of Inez. This place
