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Gold Bowl Mine

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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055236
MRDS ID RE00521
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Bowl Mine
Alternate or previous names Pugh

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.71116, 35.71453 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Randolph(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ramseur(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chapel Hill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Raleigh(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Deep(hydrologic unit)

Cape Fear(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cape Fear(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Randolph

Comments on the location information

  • VERY APPROXIMATE LOCATION FROM UNPUBLISHED MAPS OF C.B. BROWN, 1934.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

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

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitic, Silicic

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 154
USGS model code 25e
Deposit model name Epithermal quartz-alunite Au
Mark3 model number 38

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Virgilina Group
    Rock description Virgilina Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.71116, 35.71453
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shear Zone

Ore body information

  • Strike N 30 E
    Dip 81 SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Stringers

Comments on the geologic information

  • THIN, SUGARY, QUARTZ STRINGERS IN WIDE SERICITIC ALTERATION ZONE IN FELSIC VOLCANIC UNIT. HIGHLYuDEFORMED. MINE LOCATION WITHIN THE ZONE IS NOT CERTAIN. SEVERAL THICK N-SuTRENDING UNMINERALIZED QUARTZ VEINS NEARBY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO 5 M DRIFTS ARE DRIVEN S 25 W AND S 65 E FROM A 18 M DEEP SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    C.B. BROWN, USGS FIELD NOTES, 1934

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIN QUARTZ STRINGERS IN SERICITE SCHIST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1992 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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