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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