70 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 



With one exception, none of these prospect pits has 

 been carried deep enough to develop anything but sur- 

 face mica, which was recovered to greater or less extent 

 in nearly all of them, some of it of A-form, other and 

 deeper pits carrying flat mica of better grade. 



In the one shaft carried to a depth of 32 feet, mica 

 shows on all four sides and all the way down, some of the 

 crystals being of large size. On the W. side of this shaft, 

 a quartz horse was driven through for a distance of 20 

 feet. 



Near the S. W. corner of the property, just E. of the 

 W. property line, and within a few yards of the "Old In- 

 dian Pits," located on the adjoining property, an old sur- 

 face cut had been cribbed and converted on the E. end in- 

 to a shaft, which was then lowered some 15 ft. and subse- 

 quently abandoned as unsafe without proper timber sets. 

 The mica recovered from this shaft was largely small 

 but of fair quality. Exhibit sample serial No. 116 is 

 from the Schefner Mine. 



Indian Mica Mine. Location, the N. W. % f the N. 

 W. % of Section 1, Township 18 S., Range 10 E. 



The property has recently been purchased by the Ala- 

 bama Mica and Manufacturing Company of Baltimore, 

 Md., and its immediate development by this owning com- 

 pany is announced, together with other properties in the 

 immediate vicinity also formerly owned or recently ac- 

 quired. 



There has been no recent prospecting done. The old 

 mine workings, some of which are by tradition ascribed 

 to the Cherokee Indians, consist of two circular 50 foot 

 shafts connected by tunnels with a large and deep cut 

 bearing evidence of extreme age. 



Judging by old books dug out of the dumps, the mica 

 recovered in the cut and in the shafts and tunnels, was 

 not of A-form but flat sheet of good quality and fair 

 sizes, which is said by old residents to have been its char- 

 acter. The output, seemingly, should have been consider- 

 able and the grade satisfactory to justify the extensive 

 developments made under the crude methods employed. 



Crystal Clear Mine. The location of this mine is in 

 the S. E. 14 of the N. W. % of Section 1, Township 18 S., 



