Quartz Slate
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Description:
A sample of layered gray and white minerals, probably quartz, in slate. The dark gray appears schistose, and there are tiny particles of pyrite. Collected from Simon Quarry, 0.6 miles south 58? west of Gaffney Public School, c. 1900.
- Site: SC; Cherokee Co.
- Site Number: NH44
- Rock type: Metamorphic
- Collection: Geology Collection
- Object Name: Metamorphic Rock
- Object Id: GR591
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