| Lat / long: | 36.51702, -81.21732 |
| Primary: | Lead |
| Secondary: | Silver, Copper |
| Tertiary: | Gold, Molybdenum, Zinc, Barium-Barite |
| Ore: | Barite, Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Silver, Sphalerite |
| Gangue: | Calcite, Feldspar, Hornblende, Quartz |
| Orebody form: | TABULAR |
| Discovery year: | 1832 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| First production started: | 1832 |
| Host rock: | Ashe Formation; Sulfidic Biotite-Muscovite Gneiss With Mica Gneiss And Subordinate Amphibolite And Hornblende Gneiss. Some Schists Are Graphitic. Equivalent To Parts Of The Roan And Carolina Gneisses Of Keith (1903) |
| Host type: | Schist,Calc-Silicate Schist,Gneiss |
| Associated rock: | Ashe Formation; Amphibolite, Garnet Amphibolite, And Hornblende Gneiss; Includes Mostly Mafic Rocks Of Volcanic Origin And Some Ultramafic Rocks Consisting Of Serpentenite Or Soapstone |
| Associated type: | Amphibolite |
| Structure: | Strike Belts Trend Northeast |
| Tectonic: | Blue Ridge |
| MRDS | K003526 |
| DEP | 10026281 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: KERR, W.C., AND HANNA, G.B., 1887, ORES OF NORTH CAROLINA, IN GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CH. 2, VOL. 2, P. 204, 230-231.}{Deposit:: RANKIN, D.W., ESPENSHADE, G.H., AND NEUMAN, R.B., 1972, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE WEST HALE OF THE WINSTON-SALEM QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND TENNESSEE: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISC. GEOL. INV. MAP I-709-A, 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: ROSS, C.S., 1935, ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE DUCKTOWN TYPE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 179, 165 P.}{Deposit:: TENNESEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, (N.D.), PEACHBOTTOM COPPER MINE REPORT: KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, MINERAL RESOURCES SECTION, GEOLOGIC BRANCH.}{Deposit:: 1887 COMPILE KERR AND HANNA, P. 204, 230-231}{Deposit:: 1935 OTHER ROSS, C.S., P. 85-87.} |
| Reporter | Hale, Robin C., Klein, T.L. |