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tion. The apatite is generally of the greenish variety, is well 

 crystallized, and is usually imbedded in the feldspar. It does 

 not occur in sufficient quantity to be of much value, although 

 the fine crystals can of course be sold to mineral dealers, and 

 occasionally an extra fine crystal may be used as a gem stone. 

 Some large, and a few really handsome, beryls have been found, 

 notably at the Ray mine, in Yancey county. An hexagonal 

 crystal, now in the possession of the writer, but unfortunately 

 broken, is 8J inches long, and was originally 3 -J inches in diam- 

 eter. It is, however, quite opaque. 



At the Giassy Creek mine, Mitchell county, crystals 2 feet 

 long and 7 inches in diameter have been found. f 



The recent discovery of germanium in euxenite* lends some 

 interest to the reported discovery of this mineral in mica veins. 

 Dr. Genth, however, says that the mineral reported as euxenite 

 does not contain Ti0 2 , and is hence not a true euxenite, and as 

 germanium, besides occurring in argyrodite, is supposed to ac- 

 company titanium, it is hardly likely to be present in the so- 

 called euxenite. Allanite is found in slender, black crystals, 

 6-12 inches long, at the Balsam Gap mine. Buncombe county, 

 and at the Clarissa (Buchanan) mine, Mitchell county. 



Albite occurs at the Preslv mine, Haywood county, as an 

 alteration product of the decomposition of the corundum. t Co- 

 lumbite occurs imbedded in samarskite at the Wiseman mine, 

 Mitchell county, and rogersite at the same mine "in white ma- 

 millary crusts and little pearly beads upon samarskite." 



Monazite occurs in feldspar at the Ray mine, autunite and 

 phosphuranylite on quartz and feldspar at the Flat Rook and 

 Clarissa mines, Mitchell county. 



A piece of gummite weighing 6 pounds 6 ounces, but partly 

 altered to uraninite, has been found in Mitchell county accordiug 

 to W. E. Hidden. 



^Minerals and mineral localities of North Carolina. 1881. F. A. Genth 

 and W. C. Kerr. 



fSee abstract of ( ierhard K Hiss's {taper before Munich (hem 8oc, Dec. 16, 

 1887, in Engineering and Mining Journal, Vol. XLV, No. 7, p. 125. 



