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Huffman Bean Mine

Producer in Gaston county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Lithium
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080596
MRDS ID W031899
Record type Site
Current site name Huffman Bean Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.31926, 35.3376 (WGS84)
Elevation 310
Relative position ABOUT 6 KM SE OF TOWN OF CHERRYVILLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gaston(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bessemer City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gastonia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork 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 Gaston

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lithium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Spodumene Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.31926, 35.3376
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • COUNTRY ROCKS BEARING MASSIVE PEGMATITES ADJACENT TO CHERRYVILLE QUARTZ MONZONITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1970

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 12M
    Overall length 320.04M
    Overall width 250M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    D'AGOSTINO, JOHN P., PERSONAL OBSERVATION

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1982 D'Agostino, John P. (Rowe, William D.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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