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Hickory Stone Quarry

Producer in Catawba county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Stone
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089808
MRDS ID W031913
Record type Site
Current site name Hickory Stone Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.29871, 35.71454 (WGS84)
Elevation 299
Relative position 4.0 KM ESE OF DOWNTOWN HICKORY POST OFFICE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Catawba(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hickory(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hickory(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Catawba(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Catawba

Comments on the location information

  • ON LOWER SLOPE OF GENTLE HILL IN RURAL AREA

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • HARDER AND TOUGHER ROCK LAYERS PROBABLY CRUSHED FOR CONSTRUCTION STONE FOR LOCAL USE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.29871, 35.71454
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hickory Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • THE MAP SHOWS A MAJOR TOPOGRAPHIC EXPRESSION FOR THE QUARRY INDICATING A LARGE PRODUCTION

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF SIMILAR ROCK TYPES REMAIN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 11.25HA
    Overall depth 18M
    Overall length 411.48M
    Overall width 250M

Comments on the workings information

  • TOPO MAP, 1970, SHOWS TWO ADJACENT WORKING PITS: QUARRY EXCAVATED INTO HILL SLOPE WITH WORKING FACE 10 TO 20 M HIGH

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. OF CONSER. AND DEVEL., 1958, GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA, SCALE, 1:500,000

  • Deposit

    1980 COMPILE D'AGOSTINO, QUARRIES MA

  • Production

    TOPO, 1970

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THICK ROCK UNIT UNDERLIES BROAD AREA
Deposit MICA GNEISS UNIT INCLUDES MICA SCHIST AND A WIDE VARIETY OF OTHER GNEISSES AND SCHISTS, CRYSTALLINE LIMESTONE OR MARBLE, AND PEGMATITE: SOME GNEISS MAY BE METAMORPHOSED GRANITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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