Ford Biotite Granite Quarry

Unknown in York county in South Carolina, United States with commodity Stone
Sections on this page
  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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079096
MRDS ID W027993
Record type Site
Current site name Ford Biotite Granite Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.24232, 35.16121 (WGS84)
Elevation 241
Relative position 0.1 KM NW OF BOWLING GREEN; QUARRY LOCATION NOT EXACT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gaston(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gastonia South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gastonia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Catawba(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States South Carolina York

Comments on the location information

  • EAST OF KINGS MOUNTAIN RANGE; WESTERN PART OF CHARLOTTE BELT; LAT-LONG VALUES FROM USGS NATIONAL ATLAS ARE FOR A LOCATION IN THE GIVEN COUNTY AND POSITION NORTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN SOUTH CAROLINA
  • East of Kings Mountain Range; Western Part of Charlotte Belt

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ABANDONED QUARRY FOR CONSTRUCTION STONE FOR LOCAL USES
  • Biotite Granite

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Granite Ore
Mica Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Iron Oxides-Hydrated Gangue
Zircon Gangue
Apatite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.24232, 35.16121

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form MASSIVE
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1900

Mining district

District name Clover Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • INFORMATION LACKING; PROBABLY VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF CONSTRUCTION STONE FOR LOCAL USE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ENORMOUS VOLUME OF IGNEOUS ROCK REMAINS

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL ABANDONED ROCK QUARRY

Comments on development

  • JACKSON BIOTITE GRANITE QUARRY 2.5 KM TO SE HAS ANALYSIS, MAY BE SIMILAR TO FORD QUARRY BIOTITE GRANITE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SLOAN, E., 1908 , MINERAL LOCALITIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA: SOUTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, SERIES IV, BULL. NO. 2 , TEXT 503 P., LOCATION MAP 1:1,000,000

  • Deposit

    QUARRY IN GASTONIA SOUTH TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Deposit

    1908 RECON SLOAN, STATE S.C., MINERAL LOCALITIE

  • Production

    SLOAN, 1908

  • Deposit

    Sloan, E., 1908 , Mineral Localities Of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, Series Iv, Bull. No. 2 , Text 503 P., Location Map 1:1,000,000Sloan, E., 1908 , Mineral Localities Of South Carolina: South Carolina Geol. Survey, Series Iv, Bull. No. 2 , Text 503 P., Location Map 1:1,000,000

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MASSIVE IGNEOUS BODY
Deposit GEOLOGIC AGE MAY BE MISSISSIPPIAN; PROBABLY LIGHT GRAY COLOR, TEXTURE MEDIUM COARSE, EVEN-GRANULAR TO PORPHYRITIC; MINERALS ORTHOCLASE, MICROCLINE, OLIGOCLASE, QUARTZ, BIOTITE, SOMETIMES MUSCOVITE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1978 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey Quarry In Gastonia South Topo Quad At 1:24,000
Editor 01-DEC-2002 Nicholson, S.W. U.S. Geological Survey Added Continent, Country, And State Fields; Formatted Fields Where Necessary

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.