CORUNDUM TN UNITED STATES. 119 
The water of Cullasagee Creek is utilized I'or the washing aiul 
cleaning machinery of the mill, which is h)cate(l about a mile and a 
half below the mine, at Cullasagee. A line of sluice boxes connects 
the mine Avith the mill, and all the corundum ore that can be readily 
broken to pieces is carried down to the mill in these boxes. 
There are many ()utcr()])s of peridotite on Klli jay Creek, a few miles 
north of Cullasagee, and at many of them corundum has been found. 
The most work that has been done is at the Mincey mine, which is 
2 miles northwest of the Corundum Hill mine. At this locality a 
considerable quantity of corundum has been taken out, which was 
carried to the mill at Cullasagee and cleaned. 1^1. XII is a view of 
this open cut, which was entirely within the formaticm. Judging by 
the quantity of corundum obtained and by that found near the (con- 
tact of the peridotite with the gneiss, there are good indications of the 
existence of corundum in quantity along the contact. The corundum 
that r/as obtained at this mine was hauled by wagons to the Corun- 
dum Hill mine, where it was cleaned. This property is owned by 
the Internatiomil Corundum and Emery Company, of New ^ ork, 
N. Y. 
Between the Corundum Hill and Mincey mines there is a bold 
outcrop of peridotite on the Gray propert}^, covering about the same 
surface as that at Corundum Hill. Although there has been no min- 
ing here, the little prospecting that has been done has shown corun- 
dmn to be very thickly scattered along the loAver borders of the 
formation, and many small pits that have been sunk within the for- 
mation have encountered corundum. This, in my opinion, is one of 
the most promising prospects for corundum in Macon County. 
A great many of the peridotite formations along Ellijay Creek 
have been worked a little at different times, and these are mentioned 
in the lists of corundum localities (p. 147). 
She-fjisld mine. — This mine is in Cowee Township, about 7 miles 
northeast of Franklin, the county seat, just north of Cowee Creek. 
The corundum occurs here in amphibole-schist, and is described on 
pages 57-59. On account of the depth to which decomposition has 
extended, the solid rock was observed only in the lower portions of 
the 87-foot shaft, so that nothing definite is known of this corundum- 
bearing amphibole-schist. The corundum, Avhich is pink in color and 
which occurs in oval-shaped nodules up to an inch in diameter, has 
been pretty thoroughly mined down to the hard rock. The corundum 
is of good quality, and some preliminary tests have shown that it is 
well adapted to the manufacture of the vitrified wheel. On account 
of the low percentage of corundum in the rock, it is not at the present 
time a profitable corundum ore. 
