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Hearne Mine

Past Producer in Stanly 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. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089680
MRDS ID W028075
Record type Site
Current site name Hearne Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.22951, 35.32899 (WGS84)
Elevation 168
Relative position 3.7 KM SW OF ALBEMARLE; EXACT MINE LOCATION NOT KNOWN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Stanly(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Albemarle(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 Stanly

Comments on the location information

  • WEST OF SOUTHERN EXTENT OF UWHARRIE MOUNTAINS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROBABLY SMALL WORKING ON SMALL GOLD - BEARING QUARTZ VEIN

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Chlorite, Calcite, Epidote

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.22951, 35.32899
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Trending Broad Folds
Type of structure Local
Structure description Axial Planar Shears?

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 2M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shears Axial-Planar To Regional Anticline

Comments on the geologic information

  • SHEARED HIGHLY ALTERED METAGABBRO INTRUSIVE. (SEE HAITHCOCK MINE)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1850
Year of first production 1850

Mining district

District name Albemarle Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SEE HAITHCOCK MINE

Comments on development

  • HEARNE MINE ON SAME SYSTEM AS HAITHCOCK AND LOWDER MINES

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. 82

  • Deposit

    MINE IN ALBEMARLE TOPO QUAD AT 1:62,500

  • Deposit

    1896 COMPILE NITZE, STATE, N.C., MINE

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN 0.6 TO 2 M THICK

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1976 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1992 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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