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Snyder Mine

Past Producer in Cabarrus county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Manganese
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  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 10071248
MRDS ID W014529
Record type Site
Current site name Snyder Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.50536, 35.36288 (WGS84)
Relative position 4.6 MI SOUTHWEST OF MT. PLEASANT AND 5.3 MI SOUTHEAST OF CONCORD

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue
Epidote Unknown
Magnetite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Chlorite, Carbonate, Epidote

Analytical data

Result GOLD ASSAYS RANGE FROM 0.35 TO 1.4 OPT.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.50536, 35.36288
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shear Zones

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Vein In Small Shear Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • DIORITE IS SHEARED INTO CHLORITE-BIOTITE SCHIST ALONG NARROW SHEAR ZONES.uCALCITE VEINLETS CUT RHODOCHROSITE AND CONTAIN CHALCOPYRITE AND BORNITE.uSULFIDE AND OXIDE MINERALS ARE FOUND IN THE QUARTZ VEIN AND IN THEuSURROUNDING SCHIST. DEPOSIT NEAR GRANITE-DIORITE CONTACT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Charlotte Belt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 42M

Comments on the workings information

  • PROPERTY HAS TWO SHAFTS. DEEPEST SHAFT WAS SUNK IN 1935.

Comments on development

  • DUMP WAS PROCESSED IN THE 1936

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    BRYSON, 1936, P. 86; 1937, P. 17., GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA N.C. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 38.

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, III, P. ALBERT, 1976, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA," N. C. DEPT. NAT. AND ECON. RES., MIN. RES. SEC., BULL. 84, MAP AT 1:165,000 PG. 27, MINE TEXT PG. 37, 38, TEXT 166 PG.; MINE SITE IN CONCORD SE TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Deposit

    BRYSON, H.J., 1936, GOLD DEPOSITS IN NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. OF CONS. AND DEVEL. BULL. 38, 157 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SAME TRACT AS FAGGART MINE

Reporter information

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

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