Brown Hill Mine

Past Producer in Union county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10151791
MRDS ID K005251
MAS/MILS ID 0371790005
Record type Site
Current site name Brown Hill Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -80.6595, 35.05511 (WGS84)
Elevation 204

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Union(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Matthews(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 Union

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -80.6595, 35.05511

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Harkness Mine

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER,III, P ALBERT, 1976, NC DEPT OF NAT & ECON RESOURC

  • Deposit

    BULL 84, P. 140.

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J T & PARK, JR., C F, 1948, USGS PROF PAPER 213, P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-NOV-1983 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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