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72. Lepidolite. 
This mineral is mentioned by Emmons as occurring in the granites ol 
Gaston, Lincoln and Catawba counties. There is a pink colored, some- 
what scaly mineral found associated with orthoclase, etc., at Ray’s Mine,* 
on Hurricane Mountain, Yancey county, which may be lepidolite. It 
has not yet been analyzed. 
73. Labkadokite. 
It has been found in grey granular cleavable masses, but only at a few 
localities. iNear the road, six miles north of Burnsville,* it is associated 
with mica, garnet, ete., as one ot the constituents ot a stratified rock ; it 
occurs in diorite, near the Tuckasegee ford,* half a mile from the Catawba 
river, on the road to Charlotte, also at Shiloh church,* in Person county. 
The latter locality furnishes specimens, which show slightly the play of 
blneish colors. 
74. Aebiti;. 
Small white granular cleavable, also compact masses hare been tound 
at the Steel Mine, Montgomery county, associated with prochlorite, blende, 
galenite, gold, etc. Some of the granite rocks, three miles west of Leas- 
burg,* Caswell county, contain small grains ot a triclinic feldspar, which 
may be albite. It is a rare mineral in iNortli Carolina. 
75. Okthoclase. 
This is the most widely distributed minerals in the State, forming an 
essential constituent ot all the granite, gneiss, etc. It is found in beau- 
tiful crystals in a band of porphyritic granite, near Salisbury,* Rowan 
county, the High Shoals, White’s Mill,* in Gaston county, and on Hitch- 
cock creek,* and elsewhere in Richmond county, also in the “Chesterlite’k 
form at Silver Hill, associated with pyromorphite and quartz. Large 
lamellar masses of a white, greyish or reddish color, occur at Ray’s Mine,* 
Yancey county, at Flat Rock,* Blalock’s,* and near Bakersville,* in 
Mitchell county, also in Caldwell* county, at Hampton’s,* Mining Creek, 
near Burnsville, Sugartowm* Turnpike, ten miles from Franklin and the 
Whiteside* Mountains, and on French Broad river, in Madison county. 
The peculiar compact variety of orthoclase, which is spotted with 
hydrated sesquioxide ot manganese, the so-called “ leopardite,” is found 
t\ear Charlotte. Mecklenburg* county, and also in Gaston county. 
