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Black Mine

Producer in Union county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Sulfur-Pyrite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071294
MRDS ID W014614
Record type Site
Current site name Black Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.66119, 35.07539 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Union(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Matthews(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Charlotte(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 Union

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Sulfur-Pyrite Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Sericite Gangue
Siderite Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Phyllite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.66119, 35.07539
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Vein

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1896
Year of first production 1896

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Comments on the production information

  • ORE VOLUME AND RECOVERY OF GOLD, SILVER, COPPER AND LEAD UNKNOWN

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY SOME AMOUNT OF LOW-GRADE GOLD ORE AND SULFIDE ORE REMAINS

Comments on the workings information

  • THE MINE WAS DEVELOPED TO A DEPTH OF 175 FT BY MEANSOF A SHAFT A DRIFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H.B.C., 1896, "GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA", NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 3, MINE TEXT PG. 99, TEXT 200 PG.

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, III, P. ALBERT, "METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA", N.C. NAT. AND ECON. RES., MIN. RES. SECT., BULL. 84, MAP AT 1:185,000 PG. 139, MINE TEXT PG. 138, TEXT 166 PG.; SYMBOL LOCATES MINE SITE IN MATTHEWS TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J.T., AND PARK, C.F. JR., 1948, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 213, 156 P.

  • Production

    NITZE, H.B.C., 1896

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1976 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 01-NOV-1976 Mcdaniel, Ronald D. North Carolina Division of Land Resources

Beyond USGS

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