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Rush Mine

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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026521
MRDS ID K005202
Record type Site
Current site name Rush Mine
Related records 10223918

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.89756, 35.60899 (WGS84)
Relative position 8.1 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHEBORO AND 7.3 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEAGROVE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Randolph(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eleazer(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)

Federal lands

Croatan National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Uwharrie National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

National Forests in North Carolina(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Birkhead Mountains Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Randolph

Comments on the location information

  • NATIONAL WILDERNESS AREA; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = ELEAZER 1:24000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO RECORD OF PRODUCTION

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicic, Sericitic

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 104
USGS model code 25a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Au-Ag
Mark3 model number 45

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Uwharrie Formation
    Rock description Uwharrie Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.89756, 35.60899
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Ne-Trending Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Small Quartz Veinlets In Rhyolite Vitrophyre

Comments on the geologic information

  • PROSPECTING WAS CARRIED OUT IN A BLUE-GRAY PORPHYRITIC RHYOLITE CONTAINING FINELY DISSEMINATED BIOTITE AND PYRITE. SILICIFIED MYLONITE SELVAGE CONTAINING MINOR BIOTITE AND SERICITE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RHYOLITE. THE MYLONITE IS IRON STAINED IN PLACES. THE RHYOLITE IS BRECCIATED, PARTICULARLY ALONG THE STREAM, AND IN PLACES THE FRACTURES HAVE BEEN HEALED BY QUARTZ.u MINERALIZATION IS ROUGHLY STRATA BOUND IN THE MASSIVE, CENTRAL?, PORTION OFu A THICK RHYOLITE FLOW.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Land status

Ownership category Federal
Area name Birkhead Moutains Wilderness Area

Comments on the workings information

  • THE WORKINGS CONSIST OF A FEW PITS AND TRENCHES ON EACH SIDE OF A SMALL STREAM WITH CONSIDERABLE WORKINGS ALONG THE STREAM. ADDITIONAL LARGE PROSPECT PITS ON RIDGE ABOVE THE SMALL STREAM.

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 COLLUVIAL PLACER PROBABLY PROVIDED MOST OF THE PRODUCTION

Reporter information

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

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