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Stafford Mine

Past Producer in Randolph 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026525
MRDS ID K005207
Record type Site
Current site name Stafford Mine
Related records 10273802

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.00422, 35.5176 (WGS84)
Relative position 17.2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHEBORO AND 13.0 MILES WEST - SOUTHWEST 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

Handy(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salisbury(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Randolph

Comments on the location information

  • DIGITIZED ON 62,500 SCALE MAP FROM LOCATIONS GIVEN BY CARPENTER, 1976.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Chlorite, Silicification, Carbonates

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Tillery Formation
    Rock description Tillery Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Zone

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Diffuse Alteration Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE MINE WAS OPENED IN BEDDED ARGILLITE AND PHYLLITE CONTAINING SACCHAROIDAL QUARTZ STRINGERS. MASSIVE, FIBROUS AND RADIATING NATROLITE HAS BEEN DEPOSITED IN FRACTURES IN THE PHYLLITIZED ARGILLITE. THE METALLIZATION CONSISTS PRIMARILY OF PYRRHOTITE WITH MINOR PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE DISSEMINATED PRIMARILY IN THE QUARTZ BUT ALSO IN THE PHYLLITE AND ARGILLITE SELVAGE. THE PYRRHOTITE HAS IS MOSTLY OXIDIZED TO LIMONITE. THE PHYLLITE IS COMPOSED MOSTLY OF SERICITE WITH SOME QUARTZ AND MINOR CHLORITE BLEBS.

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

Comments on the workings information

  • THE MINE CONSISTS OF A 10 FT. BY 10 FT. SHAFT WHICH HAS BEEN FILLED TO WITHIN 15 FT. OF THE SURFACE. SEVERAL PROSPECT PITS AND A TRENCH ARE LOCATED WITHIN 0.25 MI. OF THE SHAFT.

Comments on development

  • NO REPORTED PRODUCTION.

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-1991 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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