Sericite Pits

Past Producer in Alamance county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Mica, Sulfur-Pyrite
Sections on this page
  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. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10099355
MRDS ID RE00549
Record type Site
Current site name Sericite Pits

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.38504, 35.90981 (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
Mica Primary
Sulfur-Pyrite Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitic, Silicic

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) -79.38504, 35.90981

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    R.G. SCHMIDT, USGS, UNPUBLISHED DAT

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.