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Fox Hill Mine

Producer in Union county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071301
MRDS ID W014622
Record type Site
Current site name Fox Hill Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.66897, 35.10733 (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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.66897, 35.10733
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • HR.AGE.MV: INFERRED GOLD HILL FAULT SYSTEM NEAR CONTACT OF PREC OR LOWER PALEO MAFIC VOLCANICS UNIT AND BEDDED ARGILLITE UNIT OF VOLCANIC SLATE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • ORE VOLUME, ORE GRADE AND GOLD RECOVERY UNKNOWN

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY SMALL AMOUNT OF LOW-GRADE GOLD QUARTZ ORE REMAINS

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.; MINE LOCATION PROBABLY IN MATTHEWS TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • 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

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