Mine detail: Whiting Prospect

Previously called 'Fax Creek Prospect'

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Location: Graham County, North Carolina, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.43677, -83.85212
dep_id: 10025754
mrds_id: K001689
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Stratabound Exhalative
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
model: 91: Massive sulfide, Besshi (Japanese deposits)
conc_proc: Precipitation From Hydrothermal Fluids Associated With Submarine Hot Springs
ore_ctrl: Specific Strata
Reporter: Hale, Robin C., Klein, T.L.
hrock_unit: Great Smoky Group, Massive Sandstone
hrock_type: Sandstone
Structure: Folded Blue Ridge Province
tectonic: Blue Ridge Province
disc_yr: 1939
discr: D.B. Burns
References:
  • Deposit:: ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1963, GEOLOGY OF SOME COPPER DEPOSITS IN NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND ALABAMA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1142-I, P. I1 - I50
  • Deposit:: 1963 COMPILE ESPENSHADE, G.H., USGS BULL. 1142-
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