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APPENDIX. 
vite. The few crystals, which have been found, were not perfect enough 
for measniement, but their appearance and association have ven little 
doubt that they are columbite. General < btigman reports this mineral as 
being found in the soil <i£ several localities. 
99. Yttkotantalite. 
According to General Clingman, grains of this mineral have been? 
found in several localities. 
100. Samarskite. 
Grains of it have been observed in several counties, as stated by Gen.. 
'Clingman. 
101. Rutiierfordite. 
In crystals and grains, associated with rutile, brookite, zircon, mona- 
:zitc, etc,, in the gold mines ot Rutherford and Burke counties. 
■3, Phosphates, Arsenates , Etc. 
102. Xenotime. 
In minute crystals, in the sands, from gold washings in McDowell, 
Burke and Rutherford counties. 
103. Apatite. 
This is a rather rare mineral in this State. I have ooeerved it im 
imperfect crystals of a greyish and reddish green color in orfihoclase, etc.,, 
at Ray’s Mine,* Hurricane Mountain, Yancey county, and in> small granu- 
lar patches of a greenish color, in granite, found three miles south of the 
Blue Ridge,* sixteen to seventeen miles from Jefferson, on the road to 
Wilkesboro’. 
101. Pyromorphite. 
This is one of the most beautiful minerals found in North Carolina, 
and formerly has been quite abundant at the Silver Hill Mine, which 
furnished very handsome specimens of hexagonal prisms and crystalline 
