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Jackrabbit Mtn on Lake Chatuge Clay County, NC |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2024) |
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Jackrabbit Mtn on Lake Chatuge Clay County, NC |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2024) |
| 1 - Asbestos Mine While rock hounding along the shore of Lake Chatuge, I came across an old mine as I was heading back to my truck. It turns out that it was an old asbestos mine, another product of the ultramafic sill that runs through the Chatuge area. Little (i.e. apparently nothing) is known about the mine's production. |
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| Entering the old mine area |
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| Old asbestos mine |
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| Asbestos mine cut |
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| Boulder in wall of mine cut |
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| Asbestos |
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| Looking down into a mine cut |
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| Lichen growing on the wall of the mine cut |
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| Lake shore below the mine |
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| Lake Chatuge shore (with lake at winter draw-down level) |
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| 2 - Limonite after Pyrite pseudomorphs Found along the Chatuge shore at a different location at Jackrabbit. Pyrite crystals, often cubic-shaped, are altered by hydrothermal activity, with Limonite replacing the Pyrite. The Limonite "pseudomorphs" retain the shape of the original Pyrite crystals. |
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| Limonite after Pyrite pseudomorphs I have better examples that I have found in earlier years. |
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| Limonite after Pyrite pseudomorphs I need to take a photo of some of my earlier finds. |