Dan Hopkins Diggings

Past Producer in Cabarrus county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079145
MRDS ID W028069
Record type Site
Current site name Dan Hopkins Diggings
Alternate or previous names Hopkins No.2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.44729, 35.46843 (WGS84)
Elevation 216
Relative position 7.9 KM SLIGHTLY WEST OF DUE NORTH OF MOUNT PLEASANT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cabarrus(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Pleasant(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

Comments on the location information

  • DIGITIZED FROM STROMQUIST AND HENDERSON, 1985

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROBABLY SMALL WORKINGS FOR NATIVE GOLD IN QUARTZ VEINS

Materials information

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

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericite, 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 Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Mount Pleasant Pluton
    Rock description Mount Pleasant Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.44729, 35.46843

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description West Of Gold Hill Fault
Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Zones

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz-Carbonate Veins In Second-Order Fault Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Gold Hill Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PROSPECTS; PROBABLY SMALL WORKINGS YIELDED MINOR AMOUNTS OF NATIVE GOLD

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • LOW - GRADE GOLD ORE PRESENT IN GENERAL AREA

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 182.88M

Comments on the workings information

  • SERIES OF PROSPECT PITS ALONG VALLEY SLOPE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SUNDELIUS, H. W., AND STROMQUIST, A. A., 1978 IN PRESS GEOL. MAP OF THE MOUNT PLEASANT QUAD, CABARRUS AND STANLEY COUNTIES, N.C., USGS, DRAFT COPY, 1:62,500

  • Deposit

    MINE IN MOUNT PLEASANT TOPO QUAD AT 1:62,500

  • Deposit

    1978 GEOMAP SUNDELIUS, GEOLOG

  • Production

    SUNDELIUS, 1978

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WEST OF GOLD HIL FAULT SYSTEM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1978 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1991 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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