ALABAMA MICA DEPOSITS 53 



ried in irregular lenses and seams of coarse pegmatite, 

 which have no definite formation, being interbedded with 

 crystalline quartz in large bodies and with both a white 

 and yellowish feldspar, partially kaolinized near the sur- 

 face, and but little altered or decomposed near the bot- 

 tom of the cuts. 



An irregular shaped area, about 200 feet wide from 

 east to west, by 150 feet from north to south, running 

 from the westerly arm of the creek to the summit of the 

 hill, has been worked over by irregular pits and excava- 

 tions, following up the various mica bodies found to be 

 located along and occupying the fissures between the en- 

 closing quartz and masses of mainly undecomposed feld- 

 spar, none of these workings having been carried to a 

 depth of over 10 feet. 



Within this area, and to a depth of from 5 to 10 feet, 

 approximately 175 tons of A form mica, mainly in blocks 

 of considerable size, is stated to have been recovered 

 and sold as scrap during 1920. 



Prices realized for it crude, with the attendant long 

 truck haul to Dadeville, the shipping point, did not at 

 the time justify deeper or more comprehensive methods 

 of recovery, and the operation was in consequence for the 

 time being abandoned. 



Exhibit samples, serial Nos. 105-106, were drawn 

 to represent the character of this deposit. 



Berry Mine. The Berry mine is located at Easton, in 

 the N. W. % of the S. E. %, of Section 12., Township 22 

 N., Range 23 E., being i/ 2 mile N. W. of Mica Hill, im- 

 mediately south of the Montgomery Highway, and with- 

 in a few yards of it. 



The mine is also the property of the Coosa County Mica 

 Company, but has not been recently operated. 



Under previous ownership, and when at that time ex- 

 amined it had been opened up by means of several shafts 

 driven to water level, from which a considerable amount 

 of clear sheet mica of satisfactory grade was being taken 

 out and sold. 



The characteristics of the pegmatite body entered were 

 a predominance of kaolin in which the mica was alto- 

 gether carried. 



