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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
INDUSTRIAL HIGH SCHOOL, COLUMBUS
Mineral Resources
Georgia is rich in mineral resources beyond computation. Its
geological multi formation accounts for an unusual diversity of
minerals, which for commercial purposes cover a range not ex
ceeded by any geographical division of the same area in the
world. The northern central section of the coastal plain, which
extends from the coast to what is termed the Fall Line running
from Augusta through Milledgeville and Macon to Columbus, has
clay and fine kaolin deposits enough to maintain the combined
potteries of the world. The Piedmont Plateau which averages
1200 feet in elevation above the sea, and extends from the Fall
Line as a belt of a hundred miles or more wide, to the foot hills
of the Appalachian Mountains, is rich in granite slate, clays and
mica, with gold and other minerals in workable quantities. The
northern mountain section, much of which is nearly inaccessable
and only partly explored, is known to contain varying quantities
of marble, granite, gold, mica, copper, iron, coal, bauxite, man
ganese, ocher, asbestos, corundum and talc. Upwards of twenty-
three different kinds of minerals are now mined in Georgia in
commercial quantities. Mining operations have thus far barely
scratched the surface of this great wealth, although the mineral
products of the State in 1913 were valued at $6,525,792. They
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There are not five Hun
dred forms in the State
that have not clay of
good quality to make
brick and tile. Out of
this the intelligent
farmer can make build
ing material and tile
for draining his land.
Opportunities are every
where to lie found in
Georgia, for new indus
tries to use the raw ma
terials of the mines and
quarries.
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T.he lavishness with
which nature has be
stowed her gifts upon
Georgia is nowhere
more apparent than in
the extraordinary va
riety and range of what
may lie termed the sec
ondary mineral re
sources of this fortunate
state.