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Jones-Keystone Mine

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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071260
MRDS ID W014549
Record type Site
Current site name Jones-Keystone Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.02061, 35.73842 (WGS84)
Relative position 11.7 MI WEST OF ASHEBORO AND 13.3 MI SOUTHWEST OF RANDLEMAN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Randolph(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Denton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salisbury(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Yadkin(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 Randolph

Comments on the location information

  • DIGITIZED FROM STROMQUIST AND HENDERSON, 1985

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericite, Silica

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.02061, 35.73842
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Highly Sheared

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE SERICITE-SILICIFIED ZONES WERE SAID TO BE ABOUT 50 FT WIDE AND IRON-RICH ZONES EXPOSED WERE 30 FT WIDE. GOLD WASSUPPOSEDLY DISSEMINATED THROUGHOUT THE ROCK AND A GREAT DEAL OF IT WAS LOST DURING PROCESSING BECAUSE OF THE FINENESS OF THE GOLD.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1852

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Comments on the production information

  • 30-40,000 TONS OF ROCK MINED. 0.04 OPT SAMPLES FROM PARDEE AND PARK, 1948

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SOILS AND BEDROCK OF ENTIRE BROAD REGION CONSIDERED BY NITZE AS LOW-GRADE GOLD BEARING AREA

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Length 39.62M
    Overall width 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 PITS NE-TRENDING

Comments on development

  • THE MINE WAS INACTIVE IN 1852 AND WAS APPARENTLY OPERATED UNTIL THE CIVIL WAR. THE MINE WAS REOPENED AND WAS WORKED INTERMITTENTLY UNTIL 1903. A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF DEVELOPMENT WORK WAS UNDERTAKEN IN THE 1930 S BUT THERE IS NO RECORD OF PRODUCTION. IN 1968, MANY LARGE PITS AND SHAFTS REMAINED ALONG WITH THREE CHILEAN MILLS AND ONE OR MORE CYANIDE VATS. A K1 PAL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, III, P. ALBERT, 1976, "METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA", N. C. DEPT. NAT. AND ECON. RES., MIN. RES. SEC., BULL. 84, MAP AT 1:225,000 PG. 109, MINE TEXT PG. 113, 115, TEXT 166 PG.; NITZE, H. B. C., 1896, "GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA", NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 3, MINE TEXT PG. 57 TO 59, TEXT 200 PG.; MINE SITE LOCATED BY SYMBOL ON DENTON TOPO QUAD AT 1:62,500

  • Deposit

    ARDEE, J.T., AND PARK, C.F., JR., 1948, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 213, 156 P.

  • Production

    LUTTREL, 1978

  • Reserve-Resource

    NITZE, H. B. C., 1896

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1976 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 01-SEP-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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