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English: Mincey Mine

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Title: Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey--Corundum and Its Occurrence and Distribution in the United States (A Revised and Enlarged Edition of Bulletin No.180)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Pratt, Joseph Hyde
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UPPER END OF BIG CUT AT CORUNDUM HILL MINE, MACON COUNTV, N. C.Peridotite on left and gneiss and schist on right. U. S. GEQLQQICAL SgHvfc eiVlLEKN NQ. S«$ PL; ^11
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CORUNDUM TN UNITED STATES. 119 The water of Cullasagee Creek is utilized Ior the washing aiulcleaning machinery of the mill, which is h)cate(l about a mile and ahalf below the mine, at Cullasagee. A line of sluice boxes connectsthe mine Avith the mill, and all the corundum ore that can be readilybroken to pieces is carried down to the mill in these boxes. There are many ()utcr()))s of peridotite on Klli jay Creek, a few milesnorth of Cullasagee, and at many of them corundum has been found.The most work that has been done is at the Mincey mine, which is2 miles northwest of the Corundum Hill mine. At this locality aconsiderable quantity of corundum has been taken out, which wascarried to the mill at Cullasagee and cleaned. 1^1. XII is a view ofthis open cut, which was entirely within the formaticm. Judging bythe quantity of corundum obtained and by that found near the (con-tact of the peridotite with the gneiss, there are good indications of theexistence of corundum in quantity along th

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