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Newell Mine

Producer in Cabarrus county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Copper
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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. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026454
MRDS ID K005095
Record type Site
Current site name Newell Mine
Alternate or previous names Dixie Queen Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.55591, 35.27871 (WGS84)
Relative position 4.6 MI NORTHWEST OF MIDLAND AND 1.4 MI SOUTH OF FLOWS STORE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cabarrus(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Concord SE(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 Cabarrus

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION APPROXIMATE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Magnetite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Chlorite, Sericite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.55591, 35.27871
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 0.9M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Thick Quartz Vein Cutting Metamorphosed Diorite And Chloritic Country Rock.

Comments on the geologic information

  • COUNTRY ROCK IS SHEARED AND BLEACHED FELSIC VOLCANIC ROCK. ORE WAS CHIEFLY CHALCOCITEuTHAT DIMINISHED WITH DEPTH. MASSIVE ORE PROBABLY FROM SUPERGENE ENRICHMENTuOF LEAN ORE. LITTLE GOLD WAS PRODUCED. A "PORPHYRY-STYLE' PROSPECT (NEWELLuPROSPECT) WAS DRILL IMMEDIATELY EAST OF THE MINE AREA (SEE SCHMIDT, 1978).uA WIDE ZONE OF THIN CU-MO VEINS WAS DISCOVERED DURING DRILLING BY CYPRUSuEXPLORATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1895
Year of last production 1943
Production years 1895-1900, 1923, 1943

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 21M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHAFTS (TOMBLIN-70 FT; CHAPPELL-50 FT) ARE ON THE PROPERTY BUT ARE NOW FILLED WITH WATER. FRESH DUMP MATERIAL FROM RECENT PROSPECTING IS AVAILABLE. SHAFTS WERE OPENED ON 2 FT WIDE QUARTZ VEIN

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS WORKED BETWEEN 1895 AND 1900. WORKED AGAIN IN 1923 AND IN RECENT YEARS SOME PROSPECTING HAS BEEN DONE.

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.

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J. T., AND PARK, C. F., JR., 1948, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 213, 156 P.; SCHMIDT, R.G., 1978, THE POTENTIAL FOR COPPER-MOLYBDENUM DEPOSITS IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 907-E, PG.E-25.

  • Production

    C.B. BROWN, FIELD NOTES.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 FOOT-THICK QUARTZ VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1991 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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