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Hunting Creek Tributary Placer

Past 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. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078647
MRDS ID W027100
Record type Site
Current site name Hunting Creek Tributary Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.66455, 35.76316 (WGS84)
Elevation 323
Relative position 1.6 KM NE OF MORGANTON CEMETERY; ADJACENT TO SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Burke(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morganton North(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

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH OF SOUTH MOUNTAINS; WESTERN TRIBUTARIES OF HUNTING CREEK PLACERED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
REE Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SMALL STREAM PLACERS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.66455, 35.76316
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form CHANNEL FILL

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Drainageways Are Nearly Along Contact Of Mica Gneiss Unit And Granite Gneiss Complex Unit

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1830
Year of first production 1830

Mining district

District name Morganton Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF NATIVE GOLD PRODUCED FROM SPORADIC PLACERING

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 1200M
    Overall width 20M

Comments on the workings information

  • ABOUT 1.2 KM TOTAL LENGTH OF NARROW DRAINAGEWAYS CRUDELY PLACERED; WIDTH PROBABLY LESS THAN 20 M, THICKNESS LESS THAN 1 M

Comments on development

  • NARROW, SHORT TRIBUTARY STREAM OF CATAWBA RIVER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    WHITLOW, J. W., 1966 , USGS SAMPLE NO. 66 JW 195

  • Deposit

    WHITLOW, JESSE W., 1977 ORAL COMMUNICATIO

  • Deposit

    1977 GEOCHEM WHITLOW, J. W., TRACE ELEMENT

  • Production

    WHITLOW, 1977

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SHORT, NARROW DRAINAGEWAYS WITH THIN ALLUVIAL COVER OF SANDS AND GRAVELS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1977 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

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