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Beard Mine

Past Producer in Guilford county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026444
MRDS ID K005074
Record type Site
Current site name Beard Mine
Related records 10272558

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.84477, 35.98592 (WGS84)
Relative position 6.9 MI SOUTHWEST OF GREENSBORO AND 4.2 MI EAST OF JAMESTOWN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Guilford(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pleasant Garden(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chapel Hill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Raleigh(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Deep(hydrologic unit)

Cape Fear(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cape Fear(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Guilford

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Sericite Gangue
Siderite Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Carbonate, Silicic, Chloritic

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.84477, 35.98592
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Vein

Comments on the geologic information

  • SCHISTOSE SERICITIC ZONES IN GRANITE THAT LOCALLY CONTAINS DIORITIC INCLUSIONS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1856

Mining district

District name Guilford County Copper

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE FILLED SHAFTS PARTIALLY FLOODED WITH WATER, NUMEROUS PITS AND A LARGE DUMP REMAIN ON THE SITE. WORK ABANDONDED WHEN WATER LEVEL WAS REACHED.

Comments on development

  • LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS MINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, P. A., III, 1976, METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA MINERAL RESOURCES SEC. BULL. 84, 166 P

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Mcdaniel, Ronald D. North Carolina Division of Land Resources
Updater 01-JUN-1993 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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