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Redding Mine

Past Producer in Randolph county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  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 10026511
MRDS ID K005190
Record type Site
Current site name Redding Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.7381, 35.73287 (WGS84)
Relative position 4.7 MILES NORTHEAST OF ASHEBORO AND 4.7 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

Ramseur(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Ilmenite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicic

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 104
USGS model code 25a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Au-Ag
Mark3 model number 45

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.7381, 35.73287
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stringer Zone Followin Prominant Vertical Joint System

Comments on the geologic information

  • QUARTZ VEINS VARY FROM ONE-HALF INCH TO 6 INCH THICK IN A WIDE ZONE. QUARTZ VEINS ARE CLEAR AND CONTAIN CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, AND GOLD. THE COUNTRY ROCK IS A PORPHYRITIC RHYOLITE CONTAINING ORTHOCLASE AND QUARTZ PHENOCRYSTS IN A DENSE, SILICIC, BLACK APHANITIC GROUNDMASS. MINOR HEMATITE, POSSIBLY AFTER MAGNETITE IS PRESENT. ILMENITE (?) IS IN QUARTZ STRINGERS. MILKY QUARTZ VEINS ARE ESSENTIALLY BARREN WITH MINOR HEALED FRACTURES. THERE IS MINOR DISSEMINATED PYRITE IN THE RHYOLITE AND IN SHEARED RHYOLITE. THERE IS ALSO A FINE-GRAINED BIOTITE GRANITE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS MINE. THE BIOTITE IS ALTERING TO CHLORITE.u TWO JOINT SYSTEMS; ONE N 25 E DIPPING 55 W WITH THE OTHER CONTROLLING GOLD-BEARING VEINS STRIKING N 44 W AND DIPPING 85 NE.u PRODUCTIVE VEINS ARE EARLY AS SEEN BY DISPLACEMENT ALONG JOINTS WHICH AREu PROBABLY RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF METAMORPHIC CLEAVAGE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1906

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 384.05M
    Overall width 30M

Comments on the workings information

  • DIMENSIONS ARE GIVEN FOR THE ALLUVIAL PLACER WORKINGS. TWO SHAFTS (12 M AND 18 M DEEP.

Comments on development

  • THE MINE APPARENTLY HAD SOME PRODUCTION PRIOR TO 1906 WITH A SHAFT BEING REOPENED TO A DEPTH OF 55 FT. WITH A 10 FT LONG DRIFT. OTHER SHALLOW PITS WERE OPENED ALONG THE STREAM DRAINAGE WITH MINOR CUTS INTO THE HILLSIDES. IN 1934, THE DEPOSIT WAS TESTED WITH A G-B PORTABLE WASHING MACHINE.

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.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SIMILAR TO THE SAM CHRISTIAN MINE, LICK MOUNTAIN DEPOSIT, RUSHuAND DOWD MINES IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE UWHARRIE FORMATION.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1976 Mcdaniel, Ronald D. North Carolina Division of Land Resources
Updater 01-JUN-1993 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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