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Gluyas 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. 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. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026522
MRDS ID K005203
Record type Site
Current site name Gluyas Mine
Related records 10297698

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.91672, 35.58704 (WGS84)
Relative position 9.7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHEBORO AND 8.3 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

  • ALONG THE BOUNDARY OF THE BIRKHEAD MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS AREA

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
Pyrophyllite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Chlorite, Magnetite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Ne-Trending Fault Zone

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Length 30M
    Width 1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins

Comments on the geologic information

  • COUNTRY ROCK HAS BEEN SILICIFIED AND CHLORITIZED. BARREN VEIN QUARTZ IS PRESENT, AND SMALL AMOUNTS OF MAGNETITE ALTERING TO HEMATITE. SMALL AMOUNT OF FINE-GRAINED EPIDOTE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE COUNTRY ROCK. CHLORITE FILLS FRACTURES IN THE QUARTZ AND IS ALTERING TO HEMATITE AND LIMONITE.

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 Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 27.43M
    Overall width 10M

Comments on the workings information

  • THE WORKINGS CONSIST OF SIX PITS AND TRENCHES WITH SMALL DUMPS. ONE ADIT WAS DRIVEN FROM CREEK LEVEL.

Comments on development

  • PRODUCTION WAS PROBABLY MINOR.

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-OCT-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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