What minerals are produced in North Carolina?
North Carolina has important deposits of many minerals and annually leads the nation in the production of feldspar, lithium minerals, scrap mica, olivine and pyrophyllite. The state ranks first in phosphate rock production and ranks in the top five in clay and crushed granite production. North Carolina does not produce significant quantities of metallic minerals. There is no coal, or oil and gas production, nor coal-bed methane production. Click here for additional information about minerals produced in North Carolina and the locations in that state where these minerals are produced. Some of these files require Adobe Acrobat. The following section provides recent mineral production information.
