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Tucker Mine, Southern Shaft

Producer in Cabarrus county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Barium-Barite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089194
MRDS ID W014597
Record type Site
Current site name Tucker Mine, Southern Shaft
Alternate or previous names California Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.50869, 35.33732 (WGS84)
Relative position 6.8 MI SOUTHEAST OF CONCORD AND 6.0 MI SOUTHWEST OF MT. PLEASANT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cabarrus(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Concord SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rocky(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 Cabarrus

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Carbonatization

Analytical data

Result 0.75 OPT ASSAY ($15/TON WITH GOLD AT $20/OZ)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Mudstone Member Of The Cid Formation
    Rock description Mudstone Member Of The Cid Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.50869, 35.33732
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description N 45 E And N 80 Trending Vertical Fractures

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR INTERSECTING VEINS
    Strike N 45 AND N 80 E
    Dip 90
    Length 400M
    Width 0.02M
    Depth to bottom 53M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz-Carbonate Veins

Comments on the geologic information

  • QUARTZ VEINS ENCLOSED BY MAFIC TUFF. TWO TRENDS N45 AND N80E VERTICALLYuDIPPING.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1884
Year of last production 1884

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • IN 1882 MILL STOPPED USING PLATTNER PROCESS CHLORINATION AND BEGAN USINGuMEARS PROCESS. OLD MILL SITE ON THE FLOOD PLAIN OF HAMBY BRANCH. IN 1970uPARTS OF A CHILEAN MILL AND SOME MACHINERY WERE PRESENT.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 58M
    Overall length 35.66M

Comments on the workings information

  • 175 FOOT SHAFT WAS DEVELOPED PRIOR TO 1884. LEVELS TOTALLED 117 FT; ANOTHER VEIN WAS DEVELOPED BY A LINE OF PITS AND SHAFTS 500 FT LONG.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    PARDEE AND PARK, 1948

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H.B.C., 1896, "GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA", NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 3, MINE TEXT PG. 123, TEXT 200 PG.

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, III, P. ALBERT, "METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA", N.C. DEPT. NAT. AND ECON. RES., MIN. RES. SECT., BULL. 84, MAP AT 1:165,000 PG. 27, MINE TEXT PG. 38, TEXT 166 PG.; MINE SITE IN CONCORD SE TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BOTH VEIN TRENDS MAY BE ORE-BEARING

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1976 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1991 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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