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Brawley Mine

Past Producer in Mecklenburg 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 10079214
MRDS ID W028160
Record type Site
Current site name Brawley Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.94037, 35.23594 (WGS84)
Elevation 229
Relative position 1.7 KM SE OF WEST MECKLENBURG HIGH SCHOOL; WESTERN CHARLOTTE; 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 West(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

  • DEPRESSION IN UPLAND SELECTED AS MINE SITE; NON-RESIDENTIAL AREA; BETWEEN TWO SUPER HIGHWAYS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • VERY SMALL GOLD MINE IN QUARTZ FLOAT RESIDUUM

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.94037, 35.23594
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Charlotte District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • A SMALL QUANITY OF GOLD PRODUCED

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY A NETWORK OF LOW-GRADE GOLD-BEARING QUARTZ SEAMS REMAIN IN BEDROCK

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE AREA OF RICH AURIFEROUS QUARTZ FLOAT MINED; BEDROCK PROSPECTED WITHOUT SUCCESS; BROAD, SHALLOW PIT IN DRAINAGEWAY PICKED AS MINE SITE

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. 132 , LOCATED ON MAP OF GOLD DEPOSITS AT 1:1,600,000

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1896 COMPILE NITZE, N. C. STATE, MINE

  • Production

    NITZE, 1896

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NETWORK OF QUARTZ SEAMS IN BEDROCK CONSIDERED AS SOURCE; DEPOSIT IS A QUANTITY OF FLOAT QUARTZ

Reporter information

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

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