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Walnut Cove Creek Mine

Past Producer in Transylvania county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Asbestos
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026090
MRDS ID K002554
Record type Site
Current site name Walnut Cove Creek Mine
Related records 10248736

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.92265, 35.1715 (WGS84)
Relative position ON WEST SIDE OF WALNUT COVE CREEK 2.6 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAKE TOXAWAY CHURCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Transylvania(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lake Toxaway(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hendersonville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper French Broad(hydrologic unit)

French Broad-Holston(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Pisgah National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Croatan National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

National Forests in North Carolina(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Transylvania

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Asbestos Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.92265, 35.1715
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Dip NW
    Length 76.2M
    Width 15.24M

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS A NARROW, LENSE SHAPED MASS OF HIGHLY ALTERED AND DEEPLY WEATHERED PERIDOTITE. CONTACT ZONE IS WELL EXPOSED ALONG WEST SIDE. NARROW CONTORTED AND SCHISTOSE ZONE OF TALC, CHLORITE AND VERMICULITE SEPERATES THE ALTERED PERIDOTITE FROM COUNTRY ROCK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lake Toxaway Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Powhatan Mining Co.
    Home office Baltimore, Md.

Comments on the workings information

  • UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF ORE REMOVED FROM THE PERIPHERAL ZONE. MINE HAS BEEN BACKFILLED AND NO ORE CAN BE SEEN IN PLACE.

Comments on development

  • MINE ABANDONED ABOUT 1953

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CONRAD, S.G., AND OTHERS, 1963, ANTHOPHYLLITE ASBESTOS IN NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA DIV. MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 77, 61P

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1974 Fagan, James M. U.S. Geological Survey

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