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Unnamed Stone Quarry Fk-045

Producer in Gaston county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Stone
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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. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079365
MRDS ID W028618
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Stone Quarry Fk-045

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.2351, 35.30538 (WGS84)
Elevation 229
Relative position 5.5 KM SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF DUE WEST OF DALLAS CITY HALL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gaston(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gastonia North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gastonia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Catawba(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Gaston

Comments on the location information

  • ON LOWER SLOPE OF GENTLE HILL IN RURAL AREA

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • HARDER AND TOUGHER ROCK LAYERS PROBABLY BROKEN OR CRUSHED FOR CONSTRUCTION STONE FOR LOCAL USE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.2351, 35.30538
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED

Comments on the geologic information

  • MICA GNEISS UNIT WITHIN WESTERN EDGE OF CHARLOTTE PLUTONIC BELT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gastonia Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • THE MAP SHOWS NO MAJOR CHANGES IN TOPOGRAPHY INDICATING ONLY A SMALL PRODUCTION FROM THE QUARRY

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF SIMILAR ROCK TYPES REMAIN

Comments on the workings information

  • TOPOGRAPHIC MAP, 1977, SHOWS SMALL POND ADJACENT NORTH OF QUARRY SYMBOL; MAYBE OLDER ABANDONED SMALL WORKING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    QUARRY LOCATED BY SYMBOL ON GASTONIA NORTH TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000.

  • Deposit

    NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. OF CONSER. AND DEVEL., 1958, GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA, SCALE 1:500,000.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1980 COMPILE D'AGOSTINO, QUARRIES MA

  • Production

    TOPO, 1970

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROBABLY OCCASIONALLY ACTIVE TO MEET LOCAL NEEDS
Deposit MICA GNEISS UNIT INCLUDES MICA SCHIST AND A WIDE VARIETY OF OTHER GNEISSES AND SCHISTS, CRYSTALLINE LIMESTONE OR MARBLE, AND PEGMATITE; SOME GNEISS MAYBE METAMORPHOSED GRANITE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

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