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Waltons-Neighbors and Caleb Branch Placers

Producer in McDowell 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. Production statistics
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071277
MRDS ID W014578
Record type Site
Current site name Waltons-Neighbors and Caleb Branch Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.90401, 35.66538 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

McDowell(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Marion East(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 McDowell

Comments on the location information

  • DIGITIZED FROM STROMQUIST AND HENDERSON, 1985

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) -81.90401, 35.66538
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • NO WELL DEVELOPED VEIN SYSTEM. LOCATED IN WIDE STRINGER ZONE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Production statistics

  • Year 1857
    Period 1828-1857
    Material AU
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^About 2,250 M Of Walton - Neighbor Branch And 1,500 M Of Caleb Branch Probably To A Width Of 20 M And Depth Of 1 M With A Volume Of 75,000 Cubic Meters Of Material Worked For Gold With Recovery About $0.80 Per Cubic Meter At $20.67 Per Ounce

Comments on the production information

  • ORE VOLUME, ORE GRADE AND GOLD RECOVERY UNKNOWN BUT IS COMBINED WITH BARNHARDT MINE BY PARDEE AND PARK TO GIVE 36,500 OZ. MOST OF THE PRODUCTION PROBABLY CAME FROM THE BARHHARDT..
  • PROBABLY ABOUT 75,000 CUBIC METERS OF ALLUVIAL MATERIAL CRUDELY WORKED; ABOUT 80 CENTS PER CUBIC METER REPORTED RECOVERED AT $20.00 PER OUNCE FOR APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF $60,000

Comments on the workings information

  • 29 SHAFTS AND PITS; 0NE 227 M DEEP, OTHERS TO 43M.

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.; STREAMS ON TOPO QUAD MARION EAST 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

Reporter information

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

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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