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Oliver Mine

Past Producer in Gaston county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Copper
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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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089677
MRDS ID W028065
Record type Site
Current site name Oliver Mine
Related records 10127217

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.00759, 35.31066 (WGS84)
Elevation 189
Relative position 1.7 KM NE OF MOUNT HOLLY; MINE LOCATION NOT EXACT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gaston(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Holly(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gastonia(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 Gaston

Comments on the location information

  • EAST OF KINGS MOUNTAINS RANGE; WITHIN OR ADJACENT TO URBAN AREA

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SMALL GOLD - LEAD MINE CONTAINING OTHER SULFIDES PROBABLY IN QUARTZ VEINS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.00759, 35.31066
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Length 100M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1777

Mining district

District name Gastonia Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 23M
    Overall length 82.3M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKED PRIOR TO REVOLUTIONARY WAR; SHAFT DEPTH PROBABLY EXCEEDS 23 M DEPTH

Comments on development

  • SULFIDES APPEARED AT DEPTH OF 23 M, NOTABLY GALENA WHICH WAS RICH IN GOLD

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

  • Deposit

    MINE IN MOUNT HOLLY TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Deposit

    1896 COMPILE NITZE, STATE N.C., MINE

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NEAR CONTACT OF DIORITE AND GRANITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1977 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1992 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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