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Nugget Placer

Producer in Cabarrus 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089193
MRDS ID W014592
Record type Site
Current site name Nugget Placer
Alternate or previous names Biggers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.43979, 35.32427 (WGS84)

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.43979, 35.32427
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form ALLUVIAL CHANNEL FILL
    Length 500M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Gravel

Comments on the geologic information

  • PORTIONS OF THE COUNTRY ROCK ARE SHEARED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1885

Mining district

District name Carolina Slate Belt

Comments on the production information

  • ORE GRADE OF GRAVELS AND AMOUNT OF GRAVELS WORKED IS UNKNOWN; PROBABLY SMALL AMOUNT OF GOLD RECOVERED FROM SHORT STRETCH OF NARROW HEADWATER STREAM VALLEY

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY ONLY SPARSE AMOUNTS OF GOLD REMAINS IN REWORKED ALLUVIAL MATERIAL

Comments on the workings information

  • DEPOSIT WAS WORKED BY NUMEROUS PITS.

Comments on development

  • SLUICED ABOUT 1893-1894.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H.B.C., 1896, "GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA", NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 3, PLACER TEXT PG. 94, TEXT 200 PG.

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, III, P. ALBERT, 1976, "METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA", N.C. DEPT. NAT. AND ECON. RES., MIN. RES. SECT., BULL. 84, MAP AT 1:165,000 PG. 27, PLACER TEXT PG. 32, TEXT 166 PG.; STREAM VALLEY SHOWN IN MOUNT PLEASANT TOPO QUAD AT 1:62,500

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J.T., AND PARK, C.F., JR., 1948, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF PAPER 223,156 P.

  • Production

    NITZE, H.B.C., 1896

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HEADWATERS AREA CONTAINS PYRITE AND GALENA IN QUARTZ VEINS.
Deposit COARSE GOLD UP TO NUGGET SIZE WAS RECOVERED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1976 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1991 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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