Shelby
Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
City in NC reasonably well known for mica specimens and occasional gemstones.
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A small city, circa 20k population.
Various mining areas outside of the city have produced interesting minerals over time, and the area is well known for mica and muscovite especially, although aquamarine and emerald are both found here in small amounts.
The mica tends to be an olive-green to brown chrome bearing muscovite consisting of intergrown micaceous ‘books’.
Further reading
If you are interested in other classic American locales we may have stock from the following locales.
American locales
Arizona
- Southwest Mine, Hendricks Gulch, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
- Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
- Monterey formation, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
- New Melones Dam, West Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
- Salton Sea, Imperial County, California, USA
- Green River Formation (spanning areas of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.)
- Lake George, Park County, Colorado, USA
- Stoneham, Weld County, Colorado, USA
- Anacondas Yerington open pit, Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
- Hat lease, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
- Virgin Valley, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
- Cedar Hill Quarry, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Pottsville Formation, St. Clair, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Iron Mountain, Pinto Iron Mining District, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
- Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA
For the rest of our American stock, see below.