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Carolina Tin Spodumene Belt - Kings Mountain, Hallman Beam, Core
North Carolina, USA
Main commodities: Li Sn




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2022.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Kings Mountain Mine

    Selected References
Dennis, A.J., Shervais, J.W. and LaPoint, D.,  2012 - Geology of the Ediacaran - Middle Cambrian rocks of western Carolinia in South Carolina: in Eppes, M.C., and Bartholomew, M.J., (Eds.), 2012 From the Blue Ridge to the Coastal Plain: Field Excursions in the Southeastern United States, The Geological Society of America   Field Guide 29, pp. 303-325, doi:10.1130/2012.0029(09).
Hibbard, J.P., Pollock, J. and Bradley, P.,  2013 - One arc, two arcs, old arc, new arc: an overview of the Carolina terrane in central North Carolina: in Hibbard, J.P. and Pollock, J. (Eds.), 2013  Carolina Geological Society Annual Meeting and Field Trip, November 8-10, 2013, Salisbury North Carolina,    pp. 35-61.
Horton, J.W.,  2008 - Geologic Map of the Kings Mountain and Grover Quadrangles, Cleveland and Gaston Counties, North Carolina, and Cherokee and York Counties, South Carolina: in    U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2981, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000, with 15-p. pamphlet.    19p.
Swanson, S.E.,  2012 - Mineralogy of Spodumene pegmatites and related rocks in the Tin-Spodumene belt of north Carolina and south Carolina, USA: in    The Canadian Mineralogist   v.50, pp. 1589-1608
Thigpen, J. R., Moecher, D. P., Stowell, H. H., Merschat, A., Hatcher, Jr, R. D., Powell, N. E., Spencer, B.M., Mako, C.A., Bollen, E.M. and Kylander-Clark, A.,  2022 - Defining the Timing, Extent, and Conditions of Paleozoic Metamorphism in the Southern Appalachian Blue Ridge Terranes of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Northern Georgia: in    Tectonics   v.41, 28p. doi.org/10.1029/2022TC007406.


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