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Bailey Fork Placer

Producer in Burke county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, REE
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Production statistics
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071269
MRDS ID W014565
Record type Site
Current site name Bailey Fork Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.71372, 35.67566 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Burke(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morganton South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hickory(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Catawba(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Burke

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
REE Critical Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.71372, 35.67566
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1828
Year of first production 1828

Mining district

District name South Mountain

Production statistics

  • Year 1857
    Period 1828-1857
    Material AU
    Description Cp_Grade: ^Four Short Reaches Of Stream Panned, One For 600 M, 300 M, 450 M, 250 M For Total Length Of 1,610 M With Width About 20 M And Depth About 1 M For Total Workings Of 32,200 Cubic Meters At $0.80 Per Cubic Meter Gold Recovery At $20.00 Per Ounce

Comments on the production information

  • PROBABLY ABOUT 32,200 CUBIC METERS OF ALLUVIAL MATERIAL CRUDELY WORKED: ABOUT 80 CENTS PER CUBIC METER REPORTED RECOVERED AT $20.00 PER OUNCE FOR APPROXIMATE TOTAL OF ABOUT $25,760

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ONLY SMALL PART OF BAILEY FORK WORKED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H. B. C., 1896, "GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA", NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 3, MAP AT 1:62,500, PG. 152, TEXT 200 PG.; STREAM ON TOPO QUAD MORGANTON SOUTH AT 1:24,00

  • Production

    JAMES CHAPMAN; AGE ABOUT 60 IN 1975; OWNER AND OPERATOR OF ONE SMALL, LOW-GRADE GOLD MINE IS LOCAL AUTHORITY

  • Reserve-Resource

    NITZE, H. B. C., 1896

Reporter information

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

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