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Scarlett Mine

Past Producer in Randolph county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead
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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. 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 10026508
MRDS ID K005184
Record type Site
Current site name Scarlett Mine
Alternate or previous names Scarlet Mine
Related records 10200077

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.81227, 35.74259 (WGS84)
Relative position 2.4 MILES NORTH OF ASHEBORO AND 8.9 MILES WEST OF RAMSEUR.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Randolph(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Asheboro(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 Randolph

Comments on the location information

  • AT THE HINSHAW AIRPORT (INDICATED ON ASHBORO 15 AND 7.5 MINUTE TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Covellite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization, Chloritization, Mg-Alteration (Mg-Amphibole?), Silicification

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS FOR SMELTER RUN ORE 6.5-16 % CU
Result 0.7-17 OPT AG
Result TRACE TO 2 OPT AU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Uwharrie Formation
    Rock description Uwharrie Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Rock unit name Uwharrie Formation
    Rock description Uwharrie Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.81227, 35.74259
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Bedding Stikes N 45 E And Dips 20-25 Deg West. Three Discrete Parallel Veins Trend Due North And Dip 85 Deg West.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 0 E
    Dip 90
    Thickness 0.75M
    Length 90M
    Width 37M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THREE 6 IN. TO 30 IN. WIDE VEINS ON THE PROPERTY STRIKE NEARLY NORTH AND DIP APPROXIMATELY VERTICALLY. THE VEINS WIDEN WITH DEPTH, BUT THEN APPARENTLY NARROW TO STRINGERS. THE COUNTRY ROCK IS A RHYOLITE CONTAINING FINELY DISSEMINATED BIOTITE AND A COARSE BASALTIC VOLCANICLASTIC ROCK. A SECOND ROCK TYPE IS A QUARTZ-SERICITE-CHLORITE MYLONITE WHICH CONTAINS MINOR DISSEMINATED PYRITE, SPHALERITE AND CHALCOPYRITE. THESE MINERALS ALSO FILL FRACTURES IN THE MYLONITE. THERE APPEARS TO BE TWO COLORS OF SPHALERITE IN THE MYLONITE, GOLDEN TAN-BROWN AND BLACK-BROWN. ALSO SOME PYRITE IS NOTED EMBAYING THE BLACK-BROWN SPHALERITE. QUARTZ CONTAINS MINOR PYRITE IN FRACTURES IS ALSO PRESENT. SERICITE AND CHLORITE ARE DEFORMED IN THE MYLONITE ALONG WITH ACTINOLITE. MINOR EPIDOTE IS IN FRACTURES OF THE MYLONITE. THE MAIN ORE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN A MASSIVE SULFIDE BODY COMPOSED PRIMARILY OF SPHALERITE, CHALCOPYRITE, GALENA, AND PYRITE WITH MINOR CHALCOCITE AND COVELLITE. SECONDARY MINERALS ARE
  • MALACHITE, ZINC OXIDE, AND LIMONITE. GOLD AS WELL AS COPPER AND ZINC, WAS MINED BUT MOST OF THE DUMP WAS HAULED AWAY BY THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT FOR ROAD METAL. A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF MASSIVE SULFIDE REMAINS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1882
Year of first production 1882
Year of last production 1915
Production years 1899-1915

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Comments on the production information

  • LARGEST AMOUNT OF PRODUCTION WAS FROM 1913 TO 1918, FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO RECORDS.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 213M
    Overall depth 36.5M
    Overall length 83.21M
    Overall width 46M

Comments on the workings information

  • THE MINE CONSISTS OF THREE SHAFTS VARYING FROM 60 FT TO 120 FT. INDEPTH WITH AS MUCH AS 700 FT. OF DRIFTS.

Comments on development

  • THE SCARLETT MINE WAS ORIGINALLY OPENED AS A GOLD MINE ABOUT 1882. THE ORIGINAL WORKING CONSISTED OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 60 FT. SHAFT AND ALMOST 200 FT OF DRIFTING. A SECOND SHAFT WAS LATER SUNK TO THE 120 FT. LEVEL WITH DEVELOPMENT FOR 500 FT. ALONG THE VEINS. A THIRD SHAFT, 120 FT. DEEP, WAS ALSO SUNK. THE MINE CLOSED AFTER A FEW YEARS BUT WAS REOPENED AND WORKED FOR COPPER BETWEEN 1899 AND 1915. THE ORE WAS REPORTEDLY SHIPPED TO DUCKTOWN, TENNESSEE; CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA AND NORFOLK, VIRGINIA. MOST OF THE WORK BETWEEN 1910 AND 1918 WAS DONE BY THE TENVANOCA COPPER COMPANY. SAMPLING WAS CARRIED OUT ON THE PROPERTY IN 1930 AND 1940 BY THE U.S. SMELTING, REFINING AND MINING COMPANY ANDIN 1948 THE MINE WAS UNWATERED BY J. I. MOORE. IN MARCH AND APRIL OF 1948, THE U. S. BUREAU OF MINES PUT DOWN THREE DIAMOND - DRILL HOLES ON THE PROPERTY (KLINE AND DOSH, 1949). THE DRILLING DISCLOSED THAT THE VEIN DID NOT EXTEND OVER 300 FT. ALONG STRIKE AND WAS LIMITED IN DEPTH TO THE CONTACT WITH
  • GRANITE MYLONITE. IN 1969, THE SHAFTS WERE FILLED. THE MAIN SHAFT HAS BEEN CONVERTED TO AN AUXILLARY WATER SUPPLY WITH A PUMPHOUSE COVERING THE SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    BROWN, C.B. UNPUBLISHED FIELD NOTES

  • 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.; KLINE, M.H. AND DOSH, H.G., 1949, INVESTIGATIONS OF THE SCARLETT COPPER MINE, RANDOLPH, COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA: US BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 4492.

  • Deposit

    KLINE, M.H., AND DOSH, H.G., 1949, INVESTIGATION OF THE SCARLETT COPPER MINE, RANDOLPH COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 4492, 6 P.

  • Deposit

    1948 DIREXPL U.S. BUREAU OF MINES.

  • Production

    PARDEE AND PARK, 1948.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THREE PARALLEL VEINS 12-75 CM THICK. DRILLING INDICATESuPINCHING AT DEPTH.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1976 Mcdaniel, Ronald D. North Carolina Division of Land Resources
Updater 01-JUN-1991 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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