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tain, and a reddish variety in Polk county ; it is associated with cyanite in 
Wilkes county. The granular variety, “Emery,” has been found at 
Crowder’s Mountain, and lately in the titanifereus iron ore belt, near 
Friendship, in Guilford county. 
41. Hematite. 
Eed oxide of iron or hematite is one of the most important iron ores of 
North Carolina. The compact ore, sometimes more or less mixed with 
the specular variety, forms large beds in Chatham county, at Evans’ and 
Kelley’s ore beds, Ore ITill,* etc. ; also, in Moore county,* twelve miles 
bast of Carthage, and in Orange county, at Chapel Hill,* extending north- 
east towards Red Mountain. Foliated and micaceous hematite occurs at 
Buckhorn,* Ore Hill,* seven miles west of Rockville, in Chatham 
county, Snow creek, Stokes* county, near Gudger’s, nine miles below 
Marshall, on the French Broad river. A very fine variety of slaty hem- 
atite with crystals of magnetite is found at Cooke’s Gap, Watauga county. 
Other localities are : Smith’s river,* two miles east of Morehead’s factory, 
in Rockingham county; a granular variety one mile east of Gaston;* at 
House’s mill, Cabarrus county; at Hickory,* Catawba county,* in Lin- 
coln,* Gaston* and Mecklenburg counties, etc. The ochreous variety 
has been observed in Buncombe county,* four to five miles west of Ashe- 
ville, at Valley Town* and on Peachtree creek, Cherokee county. 
42. Menaccanite. 
Many of the titaniferous iron ores are mixtures of true magnetite and 
menaccanite, others belong to this species and others again are really 
magnetites, in which a portion of the iron is replaced by titanium. Our 
present knowledge of these ores is too limited to put all the varieties, 
occurring in the State, with certainty at the place where they belong. 
Those from the following localities, appear to belong under this head : 
Big Laurel, in Madison county, on Ivy, Yancey county, Crab Orchard, 
Cane Creek,* and Flat Rock, in Mitchell county, Old Harris Mine, twelve 
miles southeast of Charlotte, south end of Crowder’s Mountain, Yadkin 
river, near Patterson, in Caldwell county,* and the neighborhood of 
Raleigh. Rente is frequent in the gold sands of Rutherford, Burke, and 
McDowell counties, etc. 
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