W.D. Mitchell Properties No. 1

Occurrence in Clay county in Alabama, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic
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. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081325
MRDS ID W033334
Record type Site
Current site name W.D. Mitchell Properties No. 1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.66663, 33.24321 (WGS84)
Elevation 250
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 0.5 MILE SOUTH OF CRAGFORD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clay(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mellow Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

La Grange(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Atlanta(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 Clay

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 NW 1/4 SECTION 36, T20S, R9E

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

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 Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.66663, 33.24321

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • IDENTIFICATION OF GEOLOGIC UNITS BASED ON GIVEN SITE LOCATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: ORE YIELDED $5 PER TON IN GOLD FROM ROASTING AND PAN AMALGAMATION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ADAMS, G.I., 1930, GOLD DEPOSITS OF ALABAMA AND OCCURRENCES OF COPPER, PYRITE ARSENIC AND TIN: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 40, 91P.

  • Deposit

    NEATHERY, T.L. 1968, SULFIDE MINERALIZATION IN THE CRAGFORD DISTRICT, CLAY AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, ALABAMA; ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRC, 50, 52P.

  • Deposit

    SPAINE, S.I., 1969, BASE-AND PRECIOUS-METAL AND RELATED DEPOSITS OF ALABAMA; ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRC, 55, 94P.

  • Deposit

    BREWER,W.M., 1896, A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE UPPER GOLD BELT OF ALABAMA IN THE COUNTIES OF CLEBURNE, RANDOLPH, CLAY, TALLADEGA, ELMORE, COOSA AND TALLAPOOSA; ALABAMA GEOL, SURVEY BULL. 5, 105P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT CONTAINS MUCH SULFIDE ORE WITH SOME ARSENOPYRITE; ORE IS IN SHALLOW KIDNEY-SHAPED QUARTZ DEPOSITS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1984 Rheams, Karen F. Alabama Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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