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CORUNDUM, ITS OCCURKENCE AND DISTRIBUTION. 
any deposits in commercial quantity, with the exception of the Bad 
Creek mine. It is not improbable that in some instances the deposits 
developed by Mr. Chandler are interior veins and that the bordei 
vein was not encountered. In other cases it is very probable that th< 
corundum exists in but very small quantity in the rock, and is no 
sufficient to make profitable mining. 
MADISON COUNTY. 
It is interesting to note here that the first corundum found ir 
North Carolina was picked up in this county in 1847, about 8 mile! 
below Marshall and just above the mouth of Little Pine Creek. I 
was a large mass of dark-blue, cleavable corundum, and was founc 
on the surface. The next year a smaller piece was similarly fomid. A 
strip of peridotite crosses the river near this point, but, as far as ii 
known, no corundum has been found with it. 
Fi«. 20. — Corundum crystal from near Marshall, Madison County, N. C. 
Conmdum has been found in hirge gray crystals on the surface c 
a large outcrop of aniphil^olite, which is 8 miles above Marshall an 
half a mile north of the mouth of Big Ivy River. Mr. G. C. Hayni 
of Marshall, tha owner of the property, has in his possession a crystj 
from this place that Aveighs IT pounds. (See fig. 20.) 
Carter mine. — This mine is in the southeastern corner of the co\mt;i 
very close to the Buncombe County line. It is located on Holcoml i 
Branch, a tributary of Little Ivy River, and near the northern end 
a strip of peridotite, which extends from Morgan Hill, in Buncoml 
County, a distance of more than 2 miles, and wdiich has an avera< 
Avidth of about one-fourth of a mile. The corundum that has be( 
mined was found in what is probably an interior vein, and wj 
inclosed by chlorite and vermiculite. It Avas obtained in masses < 
Avhite, pink, and blue colors, Avhich Avere intimately associated Avil 
greenish-black spinel and feldspar. While there has been son 
