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Long Branch Placer

Producer in McDowell 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. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10110446
MRDS ID W014570
Record type Site
Current site name Long Branch Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.88567, 35.63843 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

McDowell(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Marion East(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 McDowell

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
REE Critical Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) Amphibolite and Biotite Gneiss
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1828
Discoverer Gold Prospector
Year of first production 1828

Comments on the production information

  • PROBABLY ABOUT 70,000 CUBIC METERS OF ALLUVIAL MATERIAL CRUDELY WORKED; ABOUT 80 CENTS PER CUBIC METER REPORTED RECOVERED AT $20.00 PER OUNCE FOR APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF $56,000

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ONLY UPPER COURSE OF LONG BRANCH AND NEARLY ENTIRE LENGTH OF TRIBUTARY ARE INDICATED AS WORKED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H. B. C., 1896, "GOLD DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA", NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 3, MAP AT 1:62,500, PG. 152, TEXT 200 PG.; STREAM ON TOPO QUAD MARION EAS

  • Production

    JAMES CHAPMAN; AGE ABOUT 60 IN 1975; OWNER AND OPERATOR OF ONE SMALL, LOW-GRADE GOLD MINE IS LOCAL AUTHORITY

  • Reserve-Resource

    NITZE, H. B. C., 1896

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1976 D'Agostino, John P. 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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