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Nesbitt Mine

Past Producer in Union county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098203
MRDS ID K005241
Record type Site
Current site name Nesbitt Mine
Related records 10223678

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.63674, 34.83205 (WGS84)
Relative position 11.0 MI. SOUTHWEST OF MONROE AND 3.2 MI. SOUTHEAST OF JACKSON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Union(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Unity(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lancaster(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spartanburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower 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 Union

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION APPROXIMATE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Andalusite Gangue
Pyrophyllite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Roughly Concentric Silica-Aluminosilicate (Andalusite, Pyrophyllite, Muscovite) Followed Outward By Sericitic (Muscovite) And Then By Propylitic (Chlorite-Epidote-Calcite)

Mineral occurrence model information

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

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Uwharrie Formation
    Rock description Uwharrie Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.63674, 34.83205
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Ne-Plunging Small Open Folds Trending N 65 E; Plunging 5-10ne.

Ore body information

  • General form BROAD ZONE OF DISSEMINATED SULFIDES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Roughly Stratabound

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE COUNTRY ROCK IS PRIMARILY FELSIC LITHIC TUFF WITH SOME ANDESITIC TUFF. PYRITE CUBES ARE DISSEMINATED THROUGH THE ROCKS. A SMALL AMOUNT OF MILKY QUARTZ WAS SCATTERED ABOUT THE WORKINGS. APPROXIMATELY 200 YARDS NORTH OF THE MINE WORKINGS IS A PYROPHYLLITE DEPOSIT.uSEE DESCRIPTIONS OF GEOLOGY BY MCKEE (1985).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1800
Year of last production 1875

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 215M
    Overall depth 32M
    Overall length 1000M
    Overall width 400M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1972, THE MINE CONSISTED OF A SERIES OF PITS TRENDING N 60 DEG E THERE WERE FOUR LARGE PITS, APPROXIMATELY 20 FT. IN DIAMETER AND UP TO 20 FT. DEEP, AND NUMEROUS SMALLER PITS, APPROXIMATELY 6 TO 10 FT. IN DIAMETER AND SIX FT. DEEP. LITTLE DUMP MATERIAL REMAINS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, P. A., 1976, METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 84, 166 P.; MCKEE, L.H., 1985, THE NESBIT GOLD MINE,IN FEISS, P.G.,ED., VOLCANIC-HOSTED GOLD AND HIGH-ALUMINA ROCKS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT: SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGIST FIELD TRIP, FALL 1985. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-CHAPEL HILL

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1976 Mcdaniel, Ronald D. North Carolina Division of Land Resources
Updater 01-JUN-1991 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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