Barnhardt Mine and Placer

Past Producer in Cabarrus county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Copper
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. 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 10079160
MRDS ID W028092
Record type Site
Current site name Barnhardt Mine and Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.46563, 35.37204 (WGS84)
Elevation 204
Relative position 3.5 KM SW 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

Locust(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
Lead Primary
Copper Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROBABLY SMALL WORKINGS IN SULFIDE QUARTZ VEIN AND STREAM PLACER FOR NATIVE GOLD

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result GOLD QUARTZ ORE VALUED AT $9.00 PER TON WITH GOLD AT $20.67 PER OUNCE
Result PLACER YIELDED VERY COARSE GOLD UP TO 5 AND 6 PENNYWEIGHT PIECES

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.46563, 35.37204

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR AND ALLUVIAL MATERIAL
    Thickness 1.7M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Slate Belt

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PROBABLY ONLY SMALL AMOUNT OF GOLD PRODUCED FROM MINE AND PLACER

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY SOME LOW - GRADE ORE PRESENT IN SULFIDE - BEARING VEIN QUARTZ AND SOME GOLD VALUES PRESENT IN STREAM ALLUVIUM

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS IN QUARTZ VEIN; AND PLACERING IN ADJACENT STREAM

Comments on development

  • MINE WEST OF GOLD HILL FAULT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    NITZE, 1896

  • 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. 123

  • Deposit

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

  • 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

    1896 COMPILE NITZE, STATE N.C., MINES

  • Deposit

    1978 GEOMAP SUNDELIUS, MINE LOCATIONS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLACER WORKED FOR MANY YEARS
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN LIES IN DIORITE OR DIABASE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1976 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.