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Merrill Prospect

Past Producer in Randolph 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026502
MRDS ID K005177
Record type Site
Current site name Merrill Prospect
Related records 10200007

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.90867, 35.81092 (WGS84)
Relative position 9.0 MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHEBORO AND 5.0 MILES WEST OF RANDLEMAN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Randolph(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Glenola(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chapel Hill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Raleigh(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Yadkin(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 Randolph

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification And Sericitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.90867, 35.81092
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Length 180M
    Width 46M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • PROSPECTING WAS CARRIED OUT IN A SERICITIZED, SILICIFIED MYLONITE CONTAINING PYRITE ALTERED TO LIMONITE. IRON-STAINED, MILKY, VEIN QUARTZ IS PRESENT AND IS BARREN. THE QUARTZ IS SACCHAROIDAL IN PLACES. THE QUARTZ-SERICITE SELVAGE CONTAINS RECTANGULAR CAVITIES IN A FEW PLACES WHICH ARE FILLED WITH LIMONITE AND HEMATITE. PROSPECT WAS EXAMINED IN 1968 AND NO PRIMARY METALLIZATION WAS OBSERVED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 25M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1968, THE WORKINGS CONSISTED OF A CLUSTER OF 8 TO 10 PITS WITH ONE 12 FT. BY 10 FT. SHAFT. THE SHAFT WAS 60 FT. DEEP AND DRY. MOST OF THE DUMP MATERIAL IS WEATHERED TO SOIL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, P. A., III, 1976, METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA MINERAL RESOURCES SEC. BULL. 84, 166 P.; LUTTRELL, G.W, 1976, GOLD, BASE-METAL, AND RELATED DEPOSITS IN NORTH CAROLINA, USGS OPEN-FILE REPORT 76-152

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-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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