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Unnamed Gold Placer

Past Producer in Burke county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, REE
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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. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089503
MRDS ID W027101
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Gold Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.6865, 35.76482 (WGS84)
Elevation 338
Relative position 1.8 KM NNW OF MORGANTON CEMETERY; ADJACENT TO SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Burke(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morganton North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hickory(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper 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 Burke

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH OF SOUTH MOUNTAINS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
REE Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SMALL STREAM PLACERS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Rock unit name Mica Gneiss Unit
    Rock description Mica Gneiss Unit
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.6865, 35.76482
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form CHANNEL FILL

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Drainageways Are Nearly Along Contact Of Mica Gneiss Unit And Granite Gneiss Complex Unit

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1830
Year of first production 1830

Mining district

District name Morganton Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 1400M
    Overall width 20M

Comments on the workings information

  • ABOUT 1.4 KM TOTAL LENGTH OF NARROW HEADWATER STREAMS CRUDELY PLACERED; WIDTH PROBABLY LESS THAN 20 M, THICKNESS LESS THAN 1 M

Comments on development

  • NARROW, SHORT WESTERN TRIBUTARIES OF HUNTING CREEK NEAR CONFLUENCE WITH CATAWBA RIVER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    WHITLOW, J. W., 1967 , USGS SAMPLE NO. JW - 171

  • Deposit

    WHITLOW, J. W., 1977 , ORAL COMMUNICATIO

  • Deposit

    1977 GEOCHEM WHITLOW, J. W., TRACE ELEMENT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NARROW, SHORT TRIBUTARY STREAMS WITH THIN ALLUVIAL COVER OF SANDS AND GRAVELS

Reporter information

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

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