1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Pearcey Creek Gold Placer

Past Producer in Burke county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Tin, Silver, Molybdenum, Beryllium, REE
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078672
MRDS ID W027135
Record type Site
Current site name Pearcey Creek Gold Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.74983, 35.87565 (WGS84)
Elevation 329
Relative position 5.0 KM DUE SOUTH OF PEAK OF BROWN MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Burke(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Collettsville(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)

Federal lands

Pisgah National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Croatan National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

National Forests in North Carolina(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Burke

Comments on the location information

  • IN EASTERN PART OF BLUE RIDGE; STREAM IN PISGAH NATIONAL FOREST

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Tertiary
Tantalum Critical Tertiary
Tin Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Beryllium Critical Tertiary
REE Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOLD, NIOBIUM, TANTALUM, THORIUM, AND TIN ARE MANY TIMES ABOVE NORMAL BACKGROUND VALUES IN THE PEARCEY CREEK SEDIMENTS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Monazite Ore
Zircon Ore

Analytical data

Result 2 GEOCHEMICALS ANALYZED BY THE SEMIQUANTITATIVE SPECTROGRAPHIC METHOD FOR 34 ELEMENTS

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Rock unit name Brown Mountain Granite;Mica Schist And Gneiss
    Rock description Brown Mountain Granite;Mica Schist And Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.74983, 35.87565
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Brevard Fault Zone Strikes Northeastward
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults

Ore body information

  • General form ALLUVIAL SANDS AND GRAVELS
    Length 800M
    Width 100M
    Depth to bottom 1.7M

Comments on the geologic information

  • COLUMBITE AND TANTALITE MINERALS GOLD AND MONAZITE VISIBLE IN CONCENTRATE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1850

Mining district

District name Blue Ridge District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • ONE PERSON PANNED THE SAND AND GRAVEL IN THE STREAM CHANNEL FOR GOLD IN 1968 , NO ATTEMPT MADE TO RECOVER THE BLACK SAND PRESENT

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO ATTEMPT MADE TTO CALCULATE POTENTIAL RESOURCES WHICH MAY BE AS MUCH AS 500,000 DOLLARS IN 0.8 KM ( 0.5 MI ) IN 1976 . THIS IS BASED ON GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSES OF SAMPLES COLLECTED IN 1966 AND 1968
  • RESERVES AND POTENTIAL RESOURCES POSSIBLY AS MUCH AS 500,000 DOLLARS IN 0.8 KM ( 0.5 MI ) IN 1976

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 8000000HA

Comments on the workings information

  • ONLY STREAM CHANNEL MINED ACCORDING TO MIKE HOLCOMB

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOLCOMB, MIKE, 1966 , ORAL COMMUNICATION

  • Deposit

    PLACER IN CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Deposit

    1966 GEOCHEM J. WHITLOW, ELEMENT CONTENT

  • Deposit

    1968 GEOCHEM J. WHITLOW, ELEMENT CONTENT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1800'S
Deposit SMALL HEADWATER STREAM
Deposit POSSIBLY HALF MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF MINERALS IN VALLEY OF THIS STREAM IN 1968

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1977 Whitlow, Jesse W. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site