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Dry Creek Mine

Past Producer in Moore county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Talc-Soapstone, Mica
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055234
MRDS ID RE00519
Record type Site
Current site name Dry Creek Mine
Alternate or previous names Tucker Pit and Williams Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.65283, 35.39482 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Moore(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Spies(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Southern Pines(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 Moore

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary
Mica Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrophyllite Ore
Sericite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Pyrophyllitic, Sericitic, Silicic

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 154
USGS model code 25e
Deposit model name Epithermal quartz-alunite Au
Mark3 model number 38

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.65283, 35.39482
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Small-Scale Ne-Trending Reverse Faults In The Ore Zone

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES AND PODS
    Strike N 30 E
    Dip 70 NW
    Length 200M
    Width 30M

Comments on the geologic information

  • LENSES AND PODS OF PYROPHYLLITE ARE USUALLY LESS THAN 5 M IN THICKNESS. AuSILICA-RICH ZONE OCCURS ON THE SOUTHEASTERN WALL OF THE PIT THAT INCLUDESuFINE-GRAINED QUARTZ AND MASSIVE QUARTZ VEINS. INTENSE SHEARING FOLLOWEDuDEVELOPMENT OF THE FOLIATION, PRODUCING FOLDS AND KINKING IN THE QUARTZuVEINS. QUARTZ SERICITE SCHIST IS INTERLAYERED WITH THE PYROPHYLLITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Robbins Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Standard Minerals Co

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 182.88M
    Overall width 100M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO MINES SEPARATED BY 100 M ALONG STRIKE. THE TUCKER MINE CONSISTS OF TWO PITS; ONE 80 M LONG, 10 M WIDE, AND 15 M DEEP AND THE OTHER 25 M LONG, 10 M WIDE, AND 5 M DEEP. THE WILLIAMS MINE IS A LARGE OVAL PIT WITH THE N-S LONG DIMENSION OF 40 M, 30 M WIDTH, AND 25 M DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STUCKEY, J.L., 1967, PYROPHYLLITE DEPOSITS IN NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN 80, 38 P

  • Deposit

    POWER, J. AND KLEIN, T.L., USGS SITE VISI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TUCKER AND WILLIAMS ARE THE NAMES OF THE INDIVIDUAL PITS IN THE DRY CREEKuDEPOSIT.
Deposit TWO PYROPHYLLITE BODIES IN THE TUCKER PIT (NE-MOST) LESS THAN 5uM WIDE. IN THE WILLIAMS PIT TWO 5 M ZONES ARE SEPARATED BY 20 M OF QUARTZ-SERICITE SCHIST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1992 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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