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Si. Talc. 
Foliated tale, of a white or greenish white color, is found in many of 
the chrysolite beds, west ot the Blue Ridge, at B hooting Creek,* Clay 
county, Franklin,* Macon county, Webster,* Jackson county, Hamp- 
ton’s,* Mining Creek, Yancey county, Bakersville,* Mitchell county, and 
other localities ;* in sheets ot three quarters to one inch m thickness and 
of a somewhat columnar structure, near Pilot Mountain, Surry county ; 
fibrous talc, with silky lustre, and ot a whi>e or green color, also com- 
pact, crystalline white talc, with a splintery structure on Valley river,* 
Cherokee county, and also in Macon* county. Talc slate and coarse soap- 
stone is fo r .uid in many localities throughout the State. 
85 . Pyropjiyllite. 
In white, yellowish, greenish and brownish white, stellate aggregations, 
fibrous and radiated masses at Cotton Stone Mountain,* Montgomery 
county. Pilot Knob,* Randolph county, Hillsboro’,* Orange county, 
■Crowders* and Clubb Mountains, in Gaston county, and on Linville 
Mountain ,* McDowell county. The slaty variety forms large beds of 
yellowish white or greenish color in Chatham* and Moore* counties. 
86. Stilpnomel ane (?) 
A mineral, similar to Stilpnomelane has been found in compact 
greenish black masses at the Cosby Mine, Cabarrus county. 
87 . Glauconite. 
d’he given grains, forming one of the constituents of the many so- 
called marl beds, in the eastern part of the State, are glauconite. 
88. Serpentine. 
The massive are found in many localities. The best appears to come 
from the neighborhood of Patterson, Caldwell county. It has a dark, 
greenish black color, and contains fine veins of the yellowish green 
fibrous and silky chrysotilc, and admits ot a fine polish ; greenish grey 
massive serpentine, also with seams of greenish and greyish white chryso- 
tile is found at the Baker Mine, in Caldwell county, at which place is 
also found the variety picrolite. Dark green serpentine has been 
