Stony Creek Placer

Past Producer in Rutherford county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, REE
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079357
MRDS ID W028607
Record type Site
Current site name Stony Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.98178, 35.51954 (WGS84)
Elevation 305
Relative position 0.6 KM NW OF THERMAL CITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Rutherford(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Glenwood(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hickory(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Broad(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Rutherford

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
REE Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Monazite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.98178, 35.51954

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Thickness 1M
    Length 4600M
    Width 100M
    Depth to bottom 1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Alluvium

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1940
Year of first production 1940

Mining district

District name South Mountain Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 23HA
    Overall length 2300M
    Overall width 100M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STREAM PLACER ON GLENWOOD TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000 WITH PLACERED AREA LABELED AS STRIP MINE.

  • Deposit

    D'AGOSTINO, J. P., 1980, DATA FOR CRIB.

  • Deposit

    1980 COMPILE D'AGOSTINO, MINES MA

  • Production

    D'AGOSTINO, 1980

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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