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Crump Mine

Producer in Union county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Copper
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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. 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 10071303
MRDS ID W014624
Record type Site
Current site name Crump Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.58897, 35.07928 (WGS84)
Relative position 4.4 MI EAST OF INDIAN TRAIL AND 7.2 MI NORTHWEST OF MONROE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Union(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bakers(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
Copper Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.58897, 35.07928
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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 1890
Year of first production 1890

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Comments on the production information

  • QUANTITIES OF OBTAINED NATIVE GOLD UNKNOWN

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF LOW-GRADE GOLD-BEARING VEIN QUARTZ AND COUNTRY ROCK REMAIN

Comments on the workings information

  • A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF DUMP REMAINS ON THE PROPERTY, BUT IT IS OVERGROWN WITH VEGETATION.

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

    CARPENTER, III, P.A., 1976, "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. 140, 141, TEXT 166 PG.; MINE SITE IN BAKERS TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • 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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