Major Hill Prospect

Occurrence in Alamance county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Talc-Soapstone
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095908
MRDS ID RE00530
Record type Site
Current site name Major Hill Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.38393, 35.88537 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alamance(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Snow Camp(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chapel Hill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Raleigh(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Haw(hydrologic unit)

Cape Fear(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cape Fear(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Alamance

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrophyllite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 154
USGS model code 25e
Deposit model name Epithermal quartz-alunite Au
Mark3 model number 38

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.38393, 35.88537

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BROAD LENTICULAR ZONES
    Length 150M
    Width 70M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on development

  • SOME EXPLORATION IN 1966.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STUCKEY, J.L., 1967, PYROPHYLLITE DEPOSITS IN NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT, DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 80

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THREE ISOLATED AREAS OF HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION. 200 X 500 FT;u250 X 500 FEET; AND 100 X 500 FEET WITHIN A SQUARE MILE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1992 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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