ALABAMA MICA DEPOSITS 95 



run-of-mine examined, was necessardly hardly represen- 

 tative, and consisted mainly of small sizes, -no more large 

 mica having been found so near the surface. 



In respect to grade, the recovered stock was largely 

 flat sheet amber muscovite containing no spots or in- 

 clusions, but to some extent folded and surface cracked 

 in the largest crystals, such imperfections becoming no- 

 ticeably less at the depth reached. 



Exhibit sample, serial No. 126 represents this run-of- 

 mine stock. 



Southern Mica Company. Examination was made of 

 four mica properties belonging to the Southern Mica 

 Company of Birmingham, Ala., to which attention was 

 called by Mr. Harry Watkins of that Company. 



No actual mica mining so far as could be ascertained 

 has ever been done on any of the properties, but all of 

 them have been more or less prospected by the present 

 owners. The four properties are known as the Dye, 

 Smith, Hunter and Brown tracts. 



W. D. Dye Property. The W. D. Dye property is lo- 

 cated in the S. 1/2 of the S. W. % of Section 2, Township 

 19 S., Range 8 E. 



Very little prospecting has been done as yet on an 

 easily traceable micaized pegmatite dyke, clearly defined 

 by outcrops along the south edge of and in part crossing, 

 the bone of a narrow, sharply defined and high ridge, at 

 an elevation of about 1,300 feet. 



This pegmatite lead or dyke has a strike of N.30E., 

 dipping S. E. at the characteristically steep angle of this 

 immediate section, approximately 80 degrees. The asso- 

 ciated formations are all very similar to those observed 

 at the M. & G. mica mine which is located 11/2 miles to 

 the S. E. 



J. W. Smith Property. Location, the S. W. *4 of the 

 N. E. 1/4 of Section 24, Township 18 S., Range 8 E. 



On this lot a shaft has been sunk 27 feet in depth, 

 which cuts across a pegmatite body carrying mica, 20 

 feet below the surface. As cut by the shaft, the micaized 

 pegmatite is approximately 3 feet wide, and appears to 

 carry mica of good quality bedded in kaolin. The dip of 

 (which is approximately 30 degrees S. E.) 



