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Blue Hill and Gregory Hill Mines

Past Producer in Tallapoosa county in Alabama, 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. 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. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079460
MRDS ID W029009
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Hill and Gregory Hill Mines
Related records 10281609

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.86357, 32.75767 (WGS84)
Elevation 168

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tallapoosa(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dadeville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Opelika(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phenix City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Tallapoosa(hydrologic unit)

Coosa-Tallapoosa(hydrologic accounting unit)

Alabama(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Alabama Tallapoosa

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION 33 (T.21N--R22E)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result BULK SAMPLE COLLECTED BY USBM CONTAINED 0.08 OZ/TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Wedowee Group
    Rock description Wedowee Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Strike N 20 DEG E
    Dip 35 DEG SE
    Thickness 0.6M
    Width 13M

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZED ZONE WEST OF QUARTZITE SEAM KNOWN AS DEVILS BACKBONE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Devils Backbone

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Frye-Rhea Development Co.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: ORE VALUE $4 PER TON WITH GOLD AT $35 PER OUNCE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ADAMS, G.I., 1930, GOLD DEPOSITS OF ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 40, 91 P.

  • Deposit

    ADAMS, G.I., BUTTS, CHARLES, STEPHENSON, L.W., AND COOK, C.W., 1926, GEOLOGY OF ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, SPECIAL REPORT 14, 312 P.

  • Deposit

    1930 COMPILE AGS

  • Deposit

    1970 RECON AGS

  • Deposit

    O'NEIL, J.F., VALLELY, J.L., 1970, GOLD VALUES OF SAMPLES FROM THE DEVILS BACKBONE AREA, TALLAPOOSA COUNTY, ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIR. 67. 19 P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD ASSOCIATED WITH QUARTZ STRINGERS AND LENSES IN MICA SCHIST; WIDTH OF MINERALIZATION INDEFINATE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1980 Clarke, Otis M. Jr. U.S. Geological Survey

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