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Clear Creek Placer

Producer in Burke county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, REE
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Production statistics
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071268
MRDS ID W014564
Record type Site
Current site name Clear Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.75705, 35.64843 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Burke(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Glen Alpine(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hickory(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Catawba(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Burke

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
REE Critical Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.75705, 35.64843
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form CHANNEL FILL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1828
Year of first production 1828

Mining district

District name South Mountain District

Production statistics

  • Year 1857
    Period 1828-1857
    Material AU
    Description Cp_Grade: ^Panned About 1,300 M Of Clear Creek, 1,400 M Of Tributary Shoal Creek, And 3,300 M Of Tributary Sutterwhite Creek For A Total Length Of 6,000 M, About 20 M Wide And 1 M Deep For Total Workings Of 120,000 Cubic Meters At $0.80 Per Cubic Meter Gold Recovery At $20.00 Per Ounce

Comments on the production information

  • PROBABLY ABOUT 120,000 CUBIC METERS OF ALLUVIAL MATERIAL CRUDELY WORKED; ABOUT 80 CENTS PER CUBIC METER REPORTED RECOVERED AT $20.00 PER OUNCE FOR APPROXIMATE TOTAL OF $96,000

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H. B. C., 1896, "GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA", NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 3, MAP AT 1:62,500, PG. 152, TEXT 200 PG.; STREAM ON TOPO QUAD GLEN ALPINE AT 1:24,00

  • Production

    JAMES CHAPMAN; AGE ABOUT 60 IN 1975; OWNER AND OPERATOR OF ONE SMALL, LOW-GREADE GOLD MINE IS LOCAL AUTHORITY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1976 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1992 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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