Mine detail: Sloan Mine

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Location: Chatham County, North Carolina, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.61259, -79.18504
dep_id: 10026487
mrds_id: K005159
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Hydrothermal Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite
gangue: Calcite, Chlorite, Epidote, Limonite, Pyrite, Specularite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Underground
alteration: Chloritized, Carbonated, And Bleached.
ore_ctrl: Quartz Veins In Faults
Reporter: Carpenter Iii, Albert P., Klein, T.L.
hrock_type: Tuff
Structure: Ne-Trending West-Verging Doubly-Plunging Folds And Axis Parallel Faults., Shearing Adjacent To Quartz Vein.
yfp_ba: <
Year first produced: 1888
References:
  • Deposit:: BERRY, E.W., 1943, THE COPPER PROSPECTS OF CHATHAM COUNTY: N.C. DIV. OF MINERAL RESOURCES REPT. OF INV. 43, 8 P.
  • Deposit:: CARPENTER, P.A. III, 1976, METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, N.C.: N.C. MINERAL RESOURCES SECTION BULL. 84, 166 P.
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