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Foust Mine

Producer in Alamance county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver
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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 10026450
MRDS ID K005087
Record type Site
Current site name Foust Mine
Related records 10296981

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.38198, 35.94037 (WGS84)
Relative position 11.1 MI SOUTH - SOUTHEAST OF BURLINGTON. 4 MI WEST - SOUTHWEST OF SAXAPAHAW. EAST SIDE OF BASS MOUNTAIN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alamance(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Snow Camp(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chapel Hill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Raleigh(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Haw(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 Alamance

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Aurichalcite Ore
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Silver Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Rocks Adjacent To Quartz Vein Are Chloritized

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.38198, 35.94037
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE IS DISSEMINATED IN MASSIVE TO SHEARED VEIN QUARTZ

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1888

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 24M

Comments on the workings information

  • AROUND 1893 SHAFT WAS 78 FT DEEP. IN 1966 SHAFT WAS FILLED TO WITHIN 5 FT OF THE SURFACE

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Mcdaniel, Ronald D. North Carolina Division of Land Resources
Updater 01-JUN-1991 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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