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Sechrist Prospect

Past Producer in Davidson county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic, Lead
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102380
MRDS ID K005061
Record type Site
Current site name Sechrist Prospect
Alternate or previous names Secrest
Related records 10151407

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.18979, 35.72398 (WGS84)
Relative position 7.8 MI SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON AND 7.8 MI NORTHWEST OF DENTON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Davidson(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grist Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salisbury(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Yadkin(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 Davidson

Comments on the location information

  • DIGITIZED FROM STROMQUIST AND HENDERSON, 1985

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Cid Formation
    Rock description Cid Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.18979, 35.72398
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Gold Hill Fault Zone
Type of structure Local
Structure description Phyllonite Striking N 30 E Vertical Dip

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Vein

Comments on the geologic information

  • NEAR CONTACT OF FELSIC VOLCANIC ROCKS AND ARGILLITES. QUARTZ VEINLETS CONTAIN DISSEMINATED PYRITE, GALENA, AND ARSENOPYRITE. PYRITE AND ARSENOPYRITE ARE ALSO CONCENTRATED ALONG SHEARS IN THE SILICIFIED COUNTRY ROCK. MINERALIZATION IS SIMILAR TO THAT PRESENT AT THE JONES-KEYSTONE MINE IN RANDOLPH COUNTY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1910

Mining district

District name Cid District

Comments on development

  • A SHAFT WAS OPENED BUT WAS ABANDONED WHEN LITTLE ORE WAS RECOVERED. IN 1969 THE SHAFT HAD BEEN FILLED IN AND A FEW PITS AND A TRENCH WERE ALL THAT REMAINED. ; ECON.COM: DIFFICULTY ENCOUNTERED IN SEPARATING ORES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, P. A., III, 1976, METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA MINERAL RESOURCES SEC. BULL. 84, 166 P.

  • Deposit

    POGUE, J. E., CID MINING DISTRICT OF DAVIDSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA GEOL. AND ECON. SURVEY BULL. 22, 140 P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Mcdaniel, Ronald D. North Carolina Division of Land Resources
Updater 01-JUN-1991 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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