Mid State Clay Mine

Producer in Montgomery county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Brick Clay
Sections on this page
  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. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080605
MRDS ID W031916
Record type Site
Current site name Mid State Clay Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.02645, 35.2101 (WGS84)
Elevation 107
Relative position 1.4 MILE WEST OF MOUNT GILEAD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Montgomery(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Gilead West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Pee Dee(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 Montgomery

Comments on the location information

  • ON HILL TOP ADJACENT TO BRICK KILNS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Brick Clay Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Till

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.02645, 35.2101

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Southeast Albemarle

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Mid State Tile Co.

Comments on the production information

  • CLAY SITE STILL ACTIVE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • LARGE AMOUNTS OF SIMILAR MATERIAL REMAINS

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 2HA
    Overall length 182.88M
    Overall width 100M

Comments on the workings information

  • CLAY PITS CONFIGURATION SHOWN ON 1956 TOPO SHEET

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCDANIEL, RON, AND MCKENZIE, BEN, 1976, DIRECTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA MINERAL PRODUCERS, NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. OF NAT. AND ECON. RES., DIV. OF EARTH RES., MIN. RES. SECT., 64 P., MAP AT 1:1,000,000 LOCATES CLAYPIT, TEXT P. 41

  • Deposit

    1976 COMPILE N.C. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, ACTIVE MINES

  • Deposit

    1981 COMPILE J.D'AGOSTINO, QUARRIES MAP

  • Production

    MCDANIEL AND MCKENZIE, 1976

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1981 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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