Lot 71, Canton, Cherokee County, Georgia, USAi

Regional Level Types
Lot 71	Property
Canton	Town
Cherokee County	County
Georgia	State
USA	Country

The property of W. T. Worley, formerly owned by S. J. Blackwell, is located 7 miles east of Canton on lot 71, 4th district, and 2nd section. It is situated on a small ridge one-fourth of a mile off the public road.

The asbestos is associated with an intrusion of pyroxenite, probably enstatitite, which has a northeast-southwest trend and is at least a quarter of a mile long and 200 yards wide. Other outcrops of the same material are said to occur along the strike in both directions, but they were not visited. The pyroxenite is present as a local, basic segregation, as is demonstrated by its relationship to the enclosing hornblende gneiss.

On account of its size, when taken together with the hornblende gneiss, of which it is properly a part, the intrusion has not suffered as much metamorphism as have most other areas. There are no large quantities of talc or soapstone present; on the contrary, they are conspicuously absent. A large part of the mass has remained a pyroxenite with little alteration. Some local segregations of magnetite and corundum in pieces 3 to 4 inches in diameter have been found. At some places the pyroxenite is altered largely to amphibole; and along lines where movement has taken place slip-fiber asbestos is to be found. Hyalitic fragments, so characteristic of rocks of other more altered areas, have been found here to a slight extent.

This property was quite extensively prospected some years ago: a tunnel 80 feet long was driven in on the eastern side of the intrusion, in an attempt to follow a vein of slip-fiber asbestos; a shaft 30 feet deep was sunk nearby, but with no success; besides these, a few other small pits have been dug at various places over the intrusion.

The asbestos, although it occurs both as slip and cross fiber along fault planes, and also to a small extent as mass fiber, is developed to but a comparatively small extent.