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50 . Molybdite. 
Found associated with molybdenite as a yellow earthy powder, near 
Pioneer Mills, Cabarrus county. 
57 . Quartz. 
As a constituent of most of the rocks of North Carolina and the 
gangue of almost every vein, it occurs nearly everywhere throughout the 
State. Several of its varieties are quite interesting. Good spiecimens of 
Rock crystal have been found in Rutherford county," also near Hickory,"' 
in Caldwell county, near Morganton, in Burke county, Alexander county,* 
Mountain Mine,* in Cleaveland county, at Hampton’s,* Mining creek, 
Yancey county, Stokesburg.* in Stokes county, Rich Mountain, head of 
Cove creek, in Guilford and Wilkes counties; Radiated quarts occurs at 
Dilahay’s Gold Mine,* in Person county; very fine crystals and clusters 
of crystals of Amethyst of good violet and pink, but mostly of a dark 
smoky coloj, at Bandleman's, Lincoln county, also at the lead mine, in 
Alexander county,* at Hickory,* in Catawba, and in Rutherford, Chat- 
ham* and Wake* counties ;* amethyst, with inclosed rutile, at the head 
of Honey creek, in Wilkes county. I have found Rose qvarts near Con- 
cord, in Cabarrus county ; Smoky quartz is found three miles from Tay- 
lorsville,* in Alexander county, and at the mouth of Beaver Dam creek; 
Milky quartz , at the forks of the Laurel, Madison county, and at War 
Hill,* Surry county ; Opalescent quartz , at Dan river, in Stokes county; 
Quartz pseudomorphous. after calcite, both crystallized and fibrous, is 
found two or three miles northwest of Rather ford ton, in Rutherford county, 
the fragment often containing water inclosed. Similar pseudomorphs 
occur in Alexander county.* Chalcedony has been found at Franklin,* 
in Macon county, in Jackson county, near Webster,* at Hampton’s,* 
Mining creek, in Yancey county, and at Martin’s lime quarries,* in Stokes 
county. Hornstone is found at the same locality;* also, near Asheville, 
in Buncombe county, and in Madison county. Itacolumite or flexible 
sandstone forms a stratum in the quartzite at Linville,* Burke county, 
Sauratown Mountains,* in Stokes county, and Bending Rock Mountain,* 
in Wilkes county. Fossil wood is abundant near Germanton,* in Stokes 
county, near Cheek’s creek,* in Montgomery county, and in the marl beds 
near Goldsboro’,* and in Johnston* county, etc. 
