YANCEY COUNTY


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MAS-CELO KYANITE MINE


Overgrown adit in summer

Inside Looking Out

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Open Cut


Kyanite in quartz and mica matrix


RAY (WRAY) MINE


Ray Mine Spoil Pile

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Ray Mine Creek


Ray Mine McRockhounds


Golden beryl and aquamarine crystals


Fluorite (purple),
amazonite (blue) and quartz

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  I made the following cabochons from material collected from this mine (cab pictures do not enlarge):

Note: Go the the McRocks field trip reports page
to see many more rock and mineral pictures and
narratives about collecting at the Ray Mine.

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