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Clear Creek Lode and Placer

Past Producer in Cleburne 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. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081332
MRDS ID W033341
Record type Site
Current site name Clear Creek Lode and Placer
Related records 10184944

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.52495, 33.55848 (WGS84)
Elevation 305
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF ARBACOOCHEE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cleburne(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ross Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Anniston(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Atlanta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Tallapoosa(hydrologic unit)

Coosa-Tallapoosa(hydrologic accounting unit)

Alabama(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Alabama Cleburne

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION 7, T17S, R11E-BETWEEN GOLD HILL AND KEMP MOUNTAIN, AND WHERE CLEAR CREEK JOINS MUD CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Rock unit name Poe Bridge Mountain Group;Alluvium
    Rock description Poe Bridge Mountain Group;Alluvium

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.52495, 33.55848
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Thickness 0.15M
    Length 1609.3M
  • General form LINEAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • IDENTIFICATION OF GEOLOGIC UNITS BASED ON REPORTED SITE LOCATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1845
Year of last production 1907

Mining district

District name Arbacoochee District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Gold Ridge Mining Co.

Comments on the workings information

  • 1905-SMALL BUCKET DREDGE OPERATED; 1907-SLUICE BOXES AND RUFFLES OPERATED.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: PAST YIELDS=$50,000 TO $60,000 FROM PLACER MINING (MCCASKEY, 1908)-IN 1845, 11.75 LBS. GOLD COLLECTED FROM PLACER MINING IN ONE DAY

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, 91 P.

  • Deposit

    MCCASKEY, H.D., 1908, NOTES ON SOME GOLD DEPOSITS OF ALABAMA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 340, P. 36-52.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BREWER, W.M., 1895, THE ARBACOOCHEE GOLD DISTRICT, ALABAMA: ENG. MINING JOUR., V. 60, P. 148.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LENGTH, WIDTH AND STRIKE REPORTED FOR GOLD-BEARING QUARTZ VEINS WHICH SUPPLY PLACER DEPOSIT

Reporter information

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

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