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Henry Phifer 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071302
MRDS ID W014623
Record type Site
Current site name Henry Phifer Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.68147, 35.09567 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.3 MI NORTHEAST OF STALLINGS AND 1.5 MI NORTHWEST OF INDIAN TRAIL

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 Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.68147, 35.09567
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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 1888

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Comments on the production information

  • ORE VOLUME, ORE GRADE AND GOLD RECOVERY UNKNOWN

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY SOME LOW-GRADE GOLD-BEARING PYRITIC QUARTZ VEIN 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. 98, TEXT 200 PG.

  • 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

    CARPENTER, III, P. A., 1976

  • Reserve-Resource

    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

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