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Parks Mine

Past Producer in Mecklenburg county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Quartz
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  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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079129
MRDS ID W028046
Record type Site
Current site name Parks Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.80287, 35.1965 (WGS84)
Elevation 216
Relative position 2.2 KM SLIGHTLY NORTH OF DUE WEST OF CHARLOTTE COLISEUM; MINE LOCATION NOT EXACT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mecklenburg(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Charlotte East(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 Mecklenburg

Comments on the location information

  • IN URBAN DOWNTOWN CHARLOTTE; ON RIDGE SLOPE 100 M SE OF MERCY HOSPITAL

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Quartz Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SMALL GOLD MINE IN QUARTZ VEIN

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) Metavolcanic Rock
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1850

Mining district

District name Charlotte District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PROBABLY ONLY SMALL AMOUNT OF GOLD PRODUCED

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY SOME LOW - GRADE GOLD - BEARING QUARTZ VEIN REMAINS

Comments on the workings information

  • NO GREAT DEPTH EVER ATTAINED IN ITS WORKINGS

Comments on development

  • ONE OF THE NEARLY 100 PRODUCTIVE GOLD MINES IN THE 1,500 SQ. KM. OF THE CHARLOTTE GOLD DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H. B. C., AND HANNA, G. B., 1896 , GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 3 , TEXT 200 P., MINE TEXT P. 125 , LOCATED ON MAP OF GOLD DEPOSITS AT 1:1,600,000

  • Deposit

    MINE IN CHARLOTTE EAST TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Deposit

    KERR, W. C., AND HANNA, G. B., 1893 , ORES OF NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, V. 2 , CH. 2 , TEXT P. 125 - 359 , MINE TEXT P. 292

  • Deposit

    1893 COMPILE KERR, N.C. STATE, MINES

  • Deposit

    1896 COMPILE NITZE, N.C. STATE, MINES

  • Production

    NITZE, 1896

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE BODY WELL REPUTED

Reporter information

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

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