Stewart Mine

Producer in Union county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108954
MRDS ID K005234
Record type Site
Current site name Stewart Mine
Alternate or previous names Stewart Gold - Sulfide Mine
Related records 10127178

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.6023, 35.13261 (WGS84)
Relative position 5.4 MI. NORTHEAST OF INDIAN TRAIL AND 6.5 MI. NORTHWEST OF UNIONVILLE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Union(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Midland(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rocky(hydrologic unit)

Upper Pee Dee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Pee Dee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Union

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.6023, 35.13261

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

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.

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J. T., AND PARK, C. F., JR., 1948, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF PAPER 213, 156 P.

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H.B.C., 1896, GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO.3, 200 P.

  • Production

    CARPENTER, 1976

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1976 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1976 Mc Daniel, Ronald D. North Carolina Division of Land Resources

Beyond USGS

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