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brings it to the surface where it was first opened on the 

 outcrop, some 40 or 40 feet N. W. of the shaft, in an 

 open cut. 



The shaft is located about 30 feet below the crest of 

 the ridge. Following the outcrops of the pegmatite N. 

 E., the deposit has a strike of N. 20 E. generally follow- 

 ing but climbing the ridge to and over its crest. 



The mica carried so far as developed, appeared to be al- 

 together in the kaolin and of good quality, flat sheet 

 amber muscovite, running to fair average sizes. Recov- 

 ered amounts were not ascertainable. As the pegmatite 

 lead could be opened at several other places where ob- 

 viously mica bearing, the property can not be said to 

 have been at all prospected or as yet proven as to the indi- 

 cated values carried. 



/. W. Hunter Property. The J. W. Hunter property is 

 located in the S. E. % of the N. E. 14 of Section 18, 

 Township 18 S., Range 9 E. 



Little or no prospecting of any value had been at the 

 time of the examination done on this property, which 

 could only be judged by the outcrops of two pegmatite 

 leads crossing it, one and probably both of which are 

 apparently mica bearing. 



/. W. Brown Property. The J. W. Brown property 

 consists of the N. E. % of the N. W. % of Section 10, 

 Township 19 S., Range 8 E. 



A few small pits only had been opened up on this 

 property, and some good mica taken out, but no competent 

 prospecting done. It is located one mile N. W. of the 

 M. & G., and % mile N. E. of the Eureka mica mines. 



Weathers Old Mica Pit. In the S. W. % of the S. E. 

 % of Section 1., Township 20 S., Range 6 E., is located 

 the "Old Mica Pit," as it is commonly called, on prop- 

 erty belonging to the Weathers estate. 



The history of this old mine can not be reliably ascer- 

 tained ; at what period it was originally opened, by whom, 

 or for what initial purpose. Possibly it may have been 

 one of the numerous cuts and shafts with which Georgia 

 and Alabama were prospected soon after the Civil War, in 

 a generally inexperienced and wild search for copper. The 

 presence of the ferro magnesium formations, and of the 



