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T.T. Erwin Mine

Past Producer in Rutherford county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, REE, Platinum
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10038134
MRDS ID M045420
Record type Site
Current site name T.T. Erwin Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.91873, 35.4976 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position NORTHERN PART OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY NEAR MC DOWELL COUNTY LINE, Est Imated In Northern Part Of Rutherford County

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Rutherford(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rutherfordton North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gastonia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Broad(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Rutherford

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED. LOCATION IS AN ARBITRARY POINT IN NORTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY NEAR UNION MILLS ON BIG CAMP CREEK. FORMER UPDATE GAVE UTM COORDINATES AS 3929920N, 4150094E, WHICH PROBABLY ALSO WAS AN ESTIMATE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
REE Critical Primary
Platinum Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FIRST REPORTED OCCURRENCE OF PLATINUM IN UNITED STATES; HOWEVER, PRESENCE OF PT AT THIS SITE HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED. KEMP (1902) INDICATES ANALYSIS MAY HAVE BEEN INCORRECT AND THAT PT WAS NOT PRESENT AT THE SITE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Monazite Ore

Analytical data

Result PT NUGGET WEIGHED 2.541 GRAINS, SPECIFIC GRAVITY = 18

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.91873, 35.4976
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form STREAM SEDIMENT DEPOSITS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Hydraulics

Comments on the geologic information

  • 1 001 003 021 (THIS MAY BE A DEPOSIT NUMBER OF WHITLOW. NO EXPLANATION WAS GIVEN IN UPDATE)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1847
Discoverer C.U. Shepard

Mining district

District name Rutherford County

Comments on development

  • PT DETERMINED BY ANALYSIS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SHEPARD, C.U., 1847, NATIVE PLATINUM IN NORTH CAROLINA: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 2D SER., V. 4, P. 280-281.

  • Deposit

    KEMP, J.F., 1902, THE GEOLOGIC RELATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION OF PLATINUM AND ASSOCIATED METALS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BULLETIN 193, P. 59.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-75 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-83 Whitlow, S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-90 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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