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Marble Pit Mine

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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081344
MRDS ID W033354
Record type Site
Current site name Marble Pit Mine
Related records 10111640

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.53328, 33.56543 (WGS84)
Elevation 268
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 1.2 MILES 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

  • NW 1/4 NW 1/4 SECTION 7, T17S, R11E

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 Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Mica Schist
    Rock unit name Poe Bridge Mountain Group
    Rock description Poe Bridge Mountain Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.53328, 33.56543
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
  • 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

Mining district

District name Arbacoochee District

Comments on the workings information

  • DUG PITS AND PLACER MINING

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: 65 OUNCES OF GOLD RECOVERED IN ONE-HALF DAY'S WORK AND 400 POUNDS OF GOLD-BEARING QUARTZ RECOVERED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD-BEARING QUARTZ VEINS SUPPLIED GRAVEL TO PLACERS

Reporter information

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

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