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Stroud Prospect

Occurrence in Orange county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  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 10095909
MRDS ID RE00553
Record type Site
Current site name Stroud Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.2117, 35.8912 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Orange(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Cross(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 Orange

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicic, Chloritic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Felsic Metavolcanic Rock
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Vein

Comments on the geologic information

  • SULFIDE MINERALS ARE DISSEMINATED IN FRACTURES IN QUARTZ VEIN AND IN THE HOST DIORITE. SUPERGENE SULFIDE CHALCOCITE AND COPPER CARBONATE MINERALS AZURITE AND MALACHITE ARE PRESENT. VOLCANIC ROCKS ARE SOMEWHAT SHEARED. SEVERAL PHASES OF DIORITE ARE PRESENT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 27M

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT SHAFT IS FILLED. SOME DRIFTING FROM THE SHAFT WAS PROBABLY ATTEMPTED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALLEN, E.P. AND WILSON, W.F., 1968, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT, DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 81

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DISSEMINATED AND FRACTURE CONTROLLED SULFIDES IN SINGLE QUARTZuVEIN.

Reporter information

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

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