1913] Geological Histoky of Western K. C. 43 



Carolina. The mineral that stands out most strikingly is the 

 rhodolite, a gem mineral which was discovered in Macon County 

 about 1894 and was given its name from the resemblance of its 

 color to that of certain rhododendron. 



Mitchellite, a variety of chromite, was discovered near Web- 

 ster, Jackson County, 1895, and was named in honor of the late 

 Prof. Elisha Mitchell of Xorth Carolina. 



Wellsite, one of the minerals of the zeolite group, was dis- 

 covered in 1892 at the Buck Creek mine. Clay County, and was 

 named in honor of Prof. H. L. Wells, of Yale University. 



The following, belonging to the vermiculite group of min- 

 erals, have been found associated with corundum, and were de- 

 scribed by Doctor Genth; they were all discovered about the 

 same time in 1872 or '73: culsageeite, a variety of jefferisite, 

 found at the Corundum Hill mine and named for a jDostoffice 

 near that j)lace; kerrite, found at Corundum Hill mine, and 

 named in honor of Mr. W. C. Kerr, former State Geologist of 

 Xorth Carolina; maconite, found at the Corundum Hill mine 

 and named after Macon County; lucasite, found at the Corun- 

 dum Hill mine and named after Dr. H. S. Lucas, who owned the 

 Corundum Hill mine ; and willcoxite, found at the Buck Creek 

 (Cullakenee) mine. Clay County, and named after Jos- 

 eph Wilcox of Philadelphia. Auerlite, found at the Freeman 

 mine. Green River, Henderson County, about 1888, it is a thor- 

 ium mineral, and was named for Dr. Carl Auer von Welsbach ; 

 hatchettolite, a tantlum-uranium mineral, was found at the 

 Wiseman Mica mine, Mitchell County, about 1877, and was 

 named after the English chemist, Charles Hatchett; phosphur- 

 anylite, a uranium mineral, found at the Flat Rock mine, 

 Mitchell County, about 1879, and named from the chemical 

 composition of the mineral ; and rogersite, a niobium mineral, 

 found at the Wiseman Mica mine, Mitchell County, about 1877, 

 named after Prof. W. B. Rogers. 



References: — IvT.C . Geol. Survey, Vol. II, Pt. 1, Ores of 

 I^orth Carolina, 1887. ^. C. Geol. and Economic Survey, Bull. 

 1, Iron Ores of Korth Carolina, 1893 ; Vol. I, (Corundum and 

 the Periodotites of N"orth Carolina, 1905 ; Economic Papers 6, 



