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Bradford and Ellington Mines

Past Producer in Mecklenburg 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106092
MRDS ID W028121
Record type Site
Current site name Bradford and Ellington Mines
Alternate or previous names Brafford, Hard Hill, Blair

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.65924, 35.19622 (WGS84)
Elevation 239
Relative position 1.6 KM SE OF WILGROVE; SE CHARLOTTE; MINES LOCATION NOT EXACT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mecklenburg(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mint Hill(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 Mecklenburg

Comments on the location information

  • UPLAND SURFACE IN AREA PARTIALLY DEVELOPED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROBABLY VERY SMALL GOLD MINES IN QUARTZ VEINS AT EACH MINE SITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) Metavolcanic Rock
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1850

Mining district

District name Charlotte District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • PROBABLY EACH MINE HAD A SMALL WORKING ON ITS QUARTZ VEIN. CENTRAL PORTION OF VEIN KNOWN AS BLAIR, THE SOUTHWESTERN PART, THE HARD HILL.

Comments on development

  • THESE ARE TWO OF THE NEARLY 100 PRODUCTIVE GOLD MINES IN THE 1,500 SQ. KM. OF THE CHARLOTTE GOLD DISTRICT; THEY ARE ABOUT 300 M NORTH OF THE SURFACE HILL GOLD MINE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H. B. C., AND HANNA, G. B., 1896 , GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 3 , TEXT 200 P., MINES TEXT P. 144

  • Deposit

    MINES SITES IN MINT HILL TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Deposit

    1896 COMPILE NITZE, N. C. STATE, MINE

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO ADJACENT PARALLEL QUARTZ VEINS WITH A MINE ON EACH; THE QUARTZ VEIN AT THE ELLINGTON MINE IS THE MIDDLE PORTION AND IS KNOWN AS THE BLAIR, ITS SOUTHWEST CONTINUATION AS THE HARD HILL VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1977 D'Agostino, John P. 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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