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East Hill Mine

Past Producer in Union county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071300
MRDS ID W014620
Record type Site
Current site name East Hill Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.68647, 35.04289 (WGS84)
Relative position 2.3 MI SOUTHWEST OF INDIAN TRAIL AND 9 MI NORTHWEST OF MONROE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Union(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Matthews(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower 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 Union

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitic, Silicic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.68647, 35.04289
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Gold Hill Fault Zone

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES IN A WIDE ZONE
    Strike N 18 E
    Dip 80 NW
    Thickness 1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Silicified, Sericitized Zones In Argillite

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE VEIN QUARTZ IS GENERALLY MILKY AND IRON STAINED AND CONTAINS VUGS AND FRACTURES FILLED WITH LIMONITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H.B.C., 1896, "GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA", NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 3, MINE TEXT PG. 100 TO 103, TEXT 200 PG.

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, III, P.A., 1976, "METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA", N.C. NAT. AND ECON. RES., MIN. RES. SECT., BULL. 84, MAP AT 1:185,000 PG. 139, MINE TEXT PG. 141, TEXT 166 PG.; SYMBOL LOCATES MINE SITE IN MATTHEWS TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • 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.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MANY LARGE BARREN MILKY QUARTZ VEINS WITH IN ZONE OFuDISSEMINATED PYRITE IN SERICITE SCHIST. VEINS PARALLELuFOLIATION IN PHYLLITE. GOLD OCCURS IN NARROW SEAMS (< 5CM).uPART OF LEWIS HILL GROUP THAT ARE DISCONTINUOUS LENSES IN 5 BYu0.8 KM ZONE.
Deposit LEWIS GROUP OF DEPOSITS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1976 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 01-NOV-1976 Mcdaniel, Ronald D. North Carolina Division of Land Resources
Updater 01-JUN-1992 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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