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Dutchmans Creek Placer

Past Producer in Montgomery 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. 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 10079150
MRDS ID W028077
Record type Site
Current site name Dutchmans Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.01422, 35.36788 (WGS84)
Elevation 104
Relative position 8.5 KM ESE OF BADIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Montgomery(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morrow Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Pee Dee(hydrologic unit)

Upper Pee Dee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Pee Dee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Croatan National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Uwharrie 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 Montgomery

Comments on the location information

  • DIGITIZED FROM STROMQUIST AND HENDERSON, 1985

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SMALL GOLD PLACER WORKINGS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.01422, 35.36788
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form CHANNEL FILL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1850
Year of first production 1850

Mining district

District name Albemarle Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PROBABLY SMALL AMOUNT OF NATIVE GOLD PRODUCED

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY SOME GOLD REMAINS IN STREAM ALLUVIUM

Comments on the workings information

  • PLACER OPERATIONS ALONG DUTCHMANS CREEK, WHICH IS ABOUT 6 KM LONG; A SMALL STREAM TRIBUTARY OF THE UWHARRIE RIVER

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., PLACER TEXT P. 80

  • Deposit

    PLACER IN ALBEMARLE TOPO QUAD AT 1:62,500

  • Deposit

    1896 COMPILE NITZE, STATE N.C., MINE

  • Production

    NITZE, 1896

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLACER OPERATIONS ALONG VALLEY BOTTOM OF DUTCHMANS CREEK; ADJACENT STREAMS ALSO WORKED

Reporter information

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

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

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