1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Lowe Mine

Past Producer in Tallapoosa county in Alabama, United States with commodities Gold, Iron, Manganese
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081386
MRDS ID W033409
Record type Site
Current site name Lowe Mine
Related records 10160588

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.77357, 33.08766 (WGS84)
Elevation 280
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 1.5 MILES NORTHEAST OF GOLDVILLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tallapoosa(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

New Site(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 Tallapoosa

Comments on the location information

  • NW 1/4 NE 1/4 SECTION 9, T24N, R23E

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Iron Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Ilmenite Ore
Marcasite Ore
Pyrite Ore
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) -85.77357, 33.08766
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Thickness 4.57M
  • General form PINCH AND SWELL

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 1932
Year of last production 1933

Mining district

District name Goldville District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Mr. Pasley
    First year 1932
    Last year 1933

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M
    Overall depth 12.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE-THOUSAND FEET OF UNDERGROUND WORKINGS AND A 42 FT. DEEP SHAFT

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: ORE AVERAGED 0.1 OUNCE OF GOLD PER TON

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J.T., AND PARK, C.F., JR., 1948, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 213, 156P.

  • Deposit

    SIMPSON, T.A., AND NEATHERY, T.L., 1980, ALABAMA GOLD: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRC. 104, 169P.

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO GROUPS OF GOLD-BEARING QUARTZ BODIES 10 TO 15 FT. THICK

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site