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the time of the examination by sinking a new working 

 shaft. 



About 50 feet N. of the road, a new working shaft had 

 been sunk 20 feet in depth, from the bottom of which 

 an entry had been run out S. E. on a slope of 'about 10 

 in a body of grayish colored kaolin, much intermixed 

 with small angular fragments of quartz and unaltered 

 feldspar. From this stope, about 4,000 pounds of mica 

 had been recently taken out by present operators, a por- 

 tion of which stock was examined. The recovered mica 

 is a muscovite of dark rum color, flat, free from specks 

 or inclusions, running in sizes from punch to about 3x4 

 inches. 



Exhibit sample, serial No. 108, represents the average 

 mica last recovered. 



Small surface prospect pits are observable at various 

 points for several miles along and near the Montgomery 

 Highway, following the N. E. strike of the pegmatite oc- 

 currences opened at Mica Hill, from which openings small 

 quantities of mica have been at various times recovered 

 by farmers owning the properties, and generally disposed 

 of to the Coosa County Mica Co. 



Saunders Pit. In Section 3, Township 22 N., Range 

 24 E, I 1 /* miles S. of Buttston, on the Saunders property, 

 a small prospect pit has been opened up some 200 yards 

 W. of the road, in which a greenish muscovite mica was 

 discovered, a small amount of which had been taken out. 



Exhibit sample, serial No. 109, is from this pit. 



Thomas Mine. Southwest from Mica Hill, although 

 the continuance of the micaized pegmatites is occasionally 

 indicated' by surface outcrops, there has been very little 

 exploiting done and no mines or prospects were ascer- 

 tained to have been opened up, except one located on the 

 C. W. Thomas property, about 6 miles S. W. from Dade- 

 ville. The Thomas mine was not examined, but is stated 

 to have been worked intermittently during 1920 and the 

 output sold to the Coosa County Mining Co. Examina- 

 tion of the stock so disposed of and on hand shows it to 

 be a muscovite of very light rum color, practically color- 

 less in the thin sheet, containing no inclusions, and run- 

 ning in sizes up to 4x6 inches. 



