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Silers Bald Prospect

Occurrence in Swain county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Copper, Lead
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025755
MRDS ID K001690
Record type Site
Current site name Silers Bald Prospect
Alternate or previous names Calhoun Prospect
Related records 10297822

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -83.56656, 35.55954 (WGS84)
Relative position VICINITY OF SILERS BALD AND NEAR ITS CREST, ON HEADWATERS OF JONAS CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Swain(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silers Bald(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Little Tennessee(hydrologic unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Great Smoky Mountains National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Swain

Comments on the location information

  • WORKINGS ON JONAS CREEK AT APPROXIMATE COORDINATES X = 643,400; Y = 691,200

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 91
USGS model code 24b
Deposit model name Massive sulfide, Besshi (Japanese deposits)
Mark3 model number 30

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast-Trending Strike Belts.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • THIN QUARTZ VEIN RELATED MINERALIZATION IN FELDSPATHIC SANDSTONE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1905
Discoverer G.I. Calhoun And Others

Mining district

District name Swain County Copper District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner G. I. Calhoun And Others
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Forest Service

Comments on development

  • PROSPECTING ACTIVITY CONSISTED OF A SHALLOW PIT "IN A SANDSTONE OUTCROP" AND A SHALLOW OPENCUT AND TWO TUNNELS "TO PROSPECT A SIMILAR MINERALIZED ZONE" ON JONAS CREEK TO THE NORTHEAST. ; ECON.COM: REMOTE LOCALITIES WITHIN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK WHERE PROSPECTING IS NOT PERMITTED, UNDER EXISTING LAWS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1963, GEOLOGY OF SOME COPPER DEPOSITS IN NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND ALABAMA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1142-I, P. I1 - I50

  • Deposit

    1963 COMPILE ESPENSHADE, G.H., USGS BULL. 1142-

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS AT BOTH LOCALITIES ARE DESCRIBED (ESPENSHADE, 1963) AS "DISSEMINATIONS AND STRINGERS OF CHALCOPYRITE AND GALENA OCCUR WITH NARROW QUARTZ VEINS IN SHEARED FELDSPATHIC SANDSTONE."

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1973 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1992 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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