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Buck Creek corundum, Clay County

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: corundum, ruby fragments, olivine rock.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Dunite body in the Nantahalas that shed ruby corundum into Buck Creek

Documented corundum locality in Carolina mineral literature.

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