Bradford Ridge-Weaver Mine

Past Producer in Randolph county in Alabama, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic, Copper
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. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089735
MRDS ID W028998
Record type Site
Current site name Bradford Ridge-Weaver Mine
Related records 10209277, 10184727

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.6444, 33.25209 (WGS84)
Elevation 244
Relative position 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CRAGFORD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Randolph(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lineville East(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 Randolph

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Chalcopyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Phyllite
    Rock unit name Wedowee Group
    Rock description Wedowee Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Mica Schist

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Strike NE
    Dip SE
    Length 60M
    Width 6.5M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cragford

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BREWER, W.M., 1896, UPPER GOLD BELT OF ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 5, 202 P.

  • Deposit

    ADAMS, G.I., 1930, GOLD DEPOSITS OF ALABAMA: ALA. GEOL SURVEY BULL 40.

  • Deposit

    TULL, J.F., STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALABAMA PIEDMONT NW OF BREVADD ZONE: AM. J. SCI. V. 278. P 442-460

  • Deposit

    NEATHERLY, T.L., 1968, SULFIDE MINERALIZATION IN THE CRAGFORD DISTRICT, CLAY AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 50, 52 P.

  • Deposit

    1930 RECON AGS

  • Deposit

    1968 RECON AGS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1980 Clarke, Otis M. Jr. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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