| Location: | Alamance County, North Carolina, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 35.86176, -79.3967 |
| dep_id: | 10069802 |
| mrds_id: | W007493 |
| Commodity type: | nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Talc-Soapstone |
| Minor mineral: | Mica |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Medium ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Pyrophyllite, Sericite |
| gangue: | Quartz |
| orebody_fm: | LENTICULAR, PIPELIKE |
| work_type: | Surface |
| model: | 154: Epithermal quartz-alunite Au |
| alteration: | Silicic, Sericitic, Pyrophyllitic |
| conc_proc: | Extensive Hydrothermal Leaching Of Andesitic To Dactic Lithic Tuffs During Paleo Hot Spring Activity |
| ore_ctrl: | North-Trending Fracture System |
| Reporter: | Espenshade, Gilbert H., Klein, T.L. |
| hrock_type: | Tuff |
| arock_type: | Rhyolite |
| tectonic: | Central Carolina Slate Belt |
| Year first produced: | 1940 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: BROADHURST, S. D., AND COUNCILL, R. J., 1953, A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON HIGH ALUMINA MINERALS IN THE VOLCANIC - SLATE SERIES, NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INF. CIRC. 10.
- Deposit:: ESPENSHADE, G. H., APR. 15, 1953, UNPUBLISHED FILE REPORT. SCHMIDT, R.G., 1985, SNOW CAMP PYROPHYLLITE DEPOSIT: IN P.G. FEISS ED. GEOLOGY OF VOLCANIC-HOSTED GOLD AND PYROPHYLLITE DEPOSITS IN THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT: SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS FALL FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK.
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