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Mcallister Prospect

Past Producer in Randolph county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  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. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026513
MRDS ID K005193
Record type Site
Current site name Mcallister Prospect
Alternate or previous names Davis Hill Mine, Davis Mountain, Dorr's Hill, Conroy
Related records 10248770

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.867, 35.69592 (WGS84)
Relative position 3.1 MILES WEST - SOUTHWEST OF ASHEBORO AND 4.4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BALFOUR.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Randolph(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Asheboro(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chapel Hill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Raleigh(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Yadkin(hydrologic unit)

Upper Pee Dee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Pee Dee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Randolph

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Wide Sericitic Zone With Narrow Highly Silicified Pods

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Uwharrie Formation
    Rock description Uwharrie Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.867, 35.69592
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Trending Axial Planar Cleavage
Type of structure Local
Structure description Zones Of Shearing And West-Over-East Overturned Folds

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS IN A ALTERED ZONE
    Strike N 15 E
    Dip 70 NW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • PROSPECTING WAS CARRIED OUT IN A SHEAR ZONE AND QUARTZ STRINGERS IN ANDESITE LITHIC TUFF WHICH TRENDS N 15 E AND DIPS 70 NW. PORTIONS OF THE PHYLLITE HAVE BEEN BLEACHED AND SILICIFIED. A FEW RELIC CRYSTAL AND LITHIC FRAGMENTS OCCUR IN THE SHEARED ROCK. PRATT (1907) REPORTS THAT "A 60 FOOT ZONE OF HARD OXIDIZED SLATES WITH MANY LENSES (18 INCHES BY 10 FEET OR LESS) OF COARSER SCHIST CONTAINING LIMONITE CUBES," WAS PROSPECTED.u BEDROCK, SAPROLITE, AND ALLUVIUM WERE WORKED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1860

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall length 55.78M
    Overall width 6M

Comments on the workings information

  • THE PROPERTY WAS FIRST PROSPECTED BY MEANS OF A PIT 20 FT. IN DIAMETER AND 30 FT. DEEP. IN 1968, THREE PITS AND A TRENCH 200 FT. LONG TRENDING N 35 W AT ONE POINT AND N 10 E AT ANOTHER WERE PRESENT. THE NORTH END OF THE WORKINGS CONSISTS OF CAVED ADITS AND DRIFTS.

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.

  • Deposit

    PRATT, J. H., 1907, THE MINING INDUSTRY IN NORTH CAROLINA DURING 1906: NORTH CAROLINA GEOL. AND ECON. SURVEY ECON. PAPER 14.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BEDROCK WORKINGS ARE ONLY PROSPECT. PLACER MINING OF ALLUVIUMuAND SAPROLITE WERE MAIN SOURCE OF METAL.

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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