Mine detail: Grizzel Prospect

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Location: Clay County, Alabama, United States, North America
Lat / long: 33.27376, -85.66524
dep_id: 10081316
mrds_id: W033325
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Gold
Trace mineral: Garnet
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Gold
gangue: Mica, Quartz
other_matl: Garnet
orebody_fm: LINEAR
Reporter: Rheams, Karen F.
hrock_unit: Wedowee Group
hrock_type: Schist
tectonic: Northern Alabama Piedmont-Tallapoosa Block
References:
  • Deposit:: ADAMS, G.I., 1930, GOLD DEPOSITS OF ALABAMA AND OCCURRENCES OF COPPER, PYRITE, ARSENIC AND TIN: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 40, 91 P.
  • Deposit:: COOK, R.B., AND SMITH, W.E., 1982, MINERALOGY OF ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 120, 285 P.
  • Deposit:: SPAINE, S.I., 1969, BASE-AND PRECIOUS-METAL AND RELATED DEPOSITS OF ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRC. 55, 94 P.
  • Deposit:: BREWER, W.M., 1896, A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE UPPER GOLD BELT OF ALABAMA IN THE COUNTIES OF CLEBURNE, RANDOLPH, CLAY, TALLADEGA, ELMORE, COOSA, AND TALLAPOOSA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 5, 105 P.
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