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Bat Shaft

Producer in Rowan county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc
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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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071280
MRDS ID W014583
Record type Site
Current site name Bat Shaft

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.35035, 35.50899 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Rowan(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salisbury(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rocky(hydrologic unit)

Upper Pee Dee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Pee Dee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Rowan

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silica, Sericite

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) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.35035, 35.50899
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Gold Hill Fault Zone

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR OR
    Strike N 25-35 E
    Dip 80
    Plunge direction NW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Unknown

Comments on the geologic information

  • SILICIFIED ZONE IN PHYLLITIC LAMINATED MUDSTONE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold Hill District

Comments on the production information

  • ORE VOLUME, ORE GRADE AND GOLD RECOVERY UNKNOWN

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE SHAFT OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, III, P. A., 1976, "METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA", N.C. DEPT. NAT. AND ECON. RES., MIN. RES. SECT., BULL. 84, MAP AT 1:31,000 PG. 126, MINE TEXT PG. 125, 127, TEXT 166 PG.; MINE SITE IN GOLD HILL TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Production

    CARPENTER, III, P. A., 1976

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CHARACTER OF DEPOSIT IS NOT KNOWN. MAY BE CONTINUATION OFuRANDOLPH VEIN OR THE VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE AT THE UNIONuCOPPER MINE, BASED ON SIMILARITIES IN MINERALOGY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1976 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1991 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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