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Sloan Mine

Occurrence in Chatham 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026487
MRDS ID K005159
Record type Site
Current site name Sloan Mine
Related records 10256786

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.18504, 35.61259 (WGS84)
Relative position 8.0 MILES EAST OF GOLDSTON AND 7.4 MILES SOUTH OF PITTSBORO.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chatham(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Colon(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 Chatham

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Chloritized, Carbonated, And Bleached.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.18504, 35.61259
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Trending West-Verging Doubly-Plunging Folds And Axis Parallel Faults.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Shearing Adjacent To Quartz Vein.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins In Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1888

Mining district

District name Chatham County Copper Belt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 12.19M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1966 THE SHAFT WAS 12 FT. SQUARE AT THE SURFACE AND FILLED WITH WATER TO WITHIN 5 FT. OF THE SURFACE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BERRY, E.W., 1943, THE COPPER PROSPECTS OF CHATHAM COUNTY: N.C. DIV. OF MINERAL RESOURCES REPT. OF INV. 43, 8 P.

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, P.A. III, 1976, METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, N.C.: N.C. MINERAL RESOURCES SECTION BULL. 84, 166 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MILKY QUARTZ VEIN CHALCOPYRITE-BEARING QUARTZ VEIN.
Deposit ONE OF FIVE COPPER-RICH VEIN DEPOSITS IN CHATHAM COUNTY. PROBABLY SIMILAR TO THE NEARBY CLEGG MINE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Carpenter Iii, Albert P. North Carolina Division of Land Resources
Updater 01-JUN-1991 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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