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Quaker City Mine

Producer in Cabarrus 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071287
MRDS ID W014594
Record type Site
Current site name Quaker City Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.46452, 35.37066 (WGS84)
Relative position 2.5 MI SOUTHWEST OF MOUNT PLEASANT AND 7.0 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

Locust(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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Ankerite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Carbonate, Chlorite

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 Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.46452, 35.37066
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins

Comments on the geologic information

  • QUARTZ VEIN 0.7 TO 1.7 M THICK ENCLOSED BY DIORITE. NATIVE GOLD IN SMALLuVUGS. PITS TREND N 25 DEG W, PARALLELING LOW RIDGE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Charlotte Belt

Comments on the production information

  • ORE GRADE, ORE VOLUME AND GOLD RECOVERY UNKNOWN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 24.38M

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE SHAFTS, THE DEEPEST OF WHICH WAS ABOUT 80 FT, WERE OPENED ON THE PROPERTY. IN 1969, THE LARGEST OPENING WAS 30 FT IN DIAMETER AT THE SURFACE AND WAS CHOKED TO WITHIN 30 FT OF THE SURFACE.

Comments on development

  • INACTIVE SINCE ABOUT 1886

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. SECT., BULL. 84, MAP AT 1:165,000, PG. 27, MINE TEXT PG. 34, TEXT 166 PG.

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H.B.C., 1896, "GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA", NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 3, MINE TEXT PG. 123, TEXT 200 PG.; MINE SITE IN MOUNT PLEASANT TOPO QUAD AT 1:62,500

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    CARPENTER, III, P. A., 1976

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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