Pine Hill Mine

Occurrence in Guilford county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026489
MRDS ID K005161
Record type Site
Current site name Pine Hill Mine
Related records 10151146, 10055255

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.70533, 35.97092 (WGS84)
Relative position 8.3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREENSBORO AND 5.4 MILES NORTHWEST OF JULIAN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Guilford(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Climax(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chapel Hill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Raleigh(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Haw(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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Psilomelane Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) Metamorphosed Granitic Rock

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Charlotte Belt

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Vein

Comments on the geologic information

  • ALTERED HORNBLENDE (?)-QUARTZ VEIN. HORNBLENDE WAS ALTERED TO ACTINOLITE. THE RESIDUAL IRON GIVES A GOSSAN-LIKE APPEARANCE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Charlotte Belt

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1966 THE MINE CONSISTED OF A SERIES OF SHALLOW PITS TRENDING N 45 DEG W. SEVERAL TRENCHES WERE PRESENT, THE LARGEST BEING 20 FT X 20 FT.

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LITTLE INFORMATION

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1976 Mcdaniel, Ronald D. North Carolina Division of Land Resources

Beyond USGS

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