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Hodges Hill 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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026488
MRDS ID K005160
Record type Site
Current site name Hodges Hill Mine
Alternate or previous names Hodgins Hill Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.80588, 35.97953 (WGS84)
Relative position 6.5 MILES SOUTH OF GREENSBORO AND 7.4 MILES 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 Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Cuprite Ore
Gold Ore
Limonite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Carbonate

Analytical data

Result GOLD FROM SELECTED DUMP MATERIAL RANGED FROM 0.04 TO 2 OPT GOLD.

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 > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.80588, 35.97953
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form FLAT-LYING POD
    Strike NNW
    Dip SHALLOW SW
    Thickness 3.5M
    Length 250M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Flay-Lying Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINING WAS CARRIED OUT IN A 6-INCH TO 12 FT. WIDE QUARTZ VEIN THAT IS ESSENTIALLY HORIZONTAL. THE QUARTZ MONZONITE COUNTRY ROCK CONTAINS DISSEMINATED BORNITE, CHALCOCITE, AND PYRITE. MINERALS PRESENT IN THE MILKY QUARTZ INCLUDE SIDERITE, LIMONITE, MALACHITE, PYRITE AND A SILICIFIED MANGANESE OXIDE. IN PLACES, THE SIDERITE, MANGANESE OXIDE, AND PYRITE HEAL FRACTURES IN THE QUARTZ.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1856
Year of last production 1856

Mining district

District name Guilford County Copper District

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall length 228.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • QUARTZ VEIN WAS WORKED ALONG OUTCROP LENGTH FOR 800 TO 900 FT. IN 1966, TWO SHAFTS WERE PRESENT. ONE WAS 12 FT. BY 12 FT. AND WAS FILLED WITH TRASH. THE OTHER SHAFT WAS 6 FT. BY 6 FT. AND FILLED WITH WATER TO WITHIN 2 FT. OF THE SURFACE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    NITZE AND HANNA, 1896

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, P.A., METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 84, 166 P.. NITZE, H.B.C. AND HANNA, G.B., 1896, GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 3, P. 110

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1976 Mcdaniel, Ronald D. North Carolina Division of Land Resources
Updater 01-JUN-1992 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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