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Unnamed Stone Quarry Ck-018

Past Producer in Mecklenburg county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Stone
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089806
MRDS ID W031908
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Stone Quarry Ck-018

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.71702, 35.3226 (WGS84)
Elevation 194
Relative position 2.3 KM NE OF UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mecklenburg(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Harrisburg(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 Mecklenburg

Comments on the location information

  • ON LOWER HILL SLOPE IN HILLY TERRAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CONSTRUCTION STONE FOR BUILDING

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.71702, 35.3226
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PLUTON

Comments on the geologic information

  • QUARRY SITE NEAR CONTACT OF GRANITIC ROCK UNIT TO WEST

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Concord Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • LACK OF TOPO EXPRESSION ON THE MAP INDICATE A SMALL WORKING WITH SMALL PRODUCTION

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF SIMILAR ROCK TYPES REMAIN

Comments on the workings information

  • TOPO, 1969, SHOWS NO DISPLACEMENT OF CONTOUR LINES TO INDICATE PAST PRODUCTION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. OF CONSER. AND DEV.,1958, GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA, SCALE 1:500,000

  • Deposit

    1980 COMPILE D'AGOSTINO, QUARRIES MA

  • Production

    TOPO, 1969

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MAY BE OCCASIONALLY ACTIVE TO MEET SPORADIC NEEDS: DIORITE-GABBRO UNIT UNDERLIES VERY LARGE AREA
Deposit MASSIVE TO WEAKLY FOLIATED, GRAY TO DARK-GREENISH GRAY ROCKS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

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