Butterfield Mine

Producer in Union county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10110451
MRDS ID W014625
Record type Site
Current site name Butterfield Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.60091, 35.07983 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Union(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bakers(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
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • ORE VOLUME, ORE GRADE AND GOLD RECOVERY UNKNOWN

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY SOME LOW-GRADE GOLD QUARTZ ORE STILL REMAINS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H.B.C., 1896, "GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA", NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 3, MINE TEXT PG. 98, TEXT 200 PG.; MINE SITE IN BAKERS TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Production

    NITZE, H.B.C., 1896

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1976 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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