Hazel Creek Mine

Past Producer in Swain county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Copper, Iron, Lead, Silver, Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mineral rights holdings
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10273223
MRDS ID K002644
MAS/MILS ID 0371730050
Record type Site
Current site name Hazel Creek Mine
Alternate or previous names Adams-Westfelt Property, Everett Mine, Adams Mine
Related records 10026155, 10151692

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -83.70879, 35.5082 (WGS84)
Elevation 890
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Swain(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Thunderhead Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Little Tennessee(hydrologic unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Great Smoky Mountains National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Swain

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Amphibolite

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Minerals Only
Type of mineral rights Private Lease

Land status

Ownership category National Park

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MURDOCK, T. G. THE MINING INDUSTRY IN NORTH CAROLINA FROM 1

  • Deposit

    1945. NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT

  • Deposit

    ECONOMIC PAPER NO. 65, 1948, PP. 8-10.

  • Deposit

    ESPENSHADE, G. H. GEOLOGY OF SOME COPPER DEPOSITS IN NORTH

  • Deposit

    CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND ALABAMA. U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1

  • Deposit

    1963, PP. 23-27, 30-34.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-NOV-83 Lyday, Travis Q. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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