Horse Farm Occurrence

Occurrence in Orange county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Talc-Soapstone, Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055240
MRDS ID RE00525
Record type Site
Current site name Horse Farm Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.16947, 35.98398 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Orange(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Cross(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 Orange

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrophyllite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicic, Pyrophyllite, Sericite

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 154
USGS model code 25e
Deposit model name Epithermal quartz-alunite Au
Mark3 model number 38

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.16947, 35.98398

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KLEIN, T.L., SITE VISIT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ANOMALOUS GOLD IN A PYROPHYLLITE ALTERATION ZONE OF UNKNOWNuDIMENSIONS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1992 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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