Mine detail: W.D. Mitchell Properties No. 1

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Location

Lat / long: 33.24321, -85.66663

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Arsenic
Gangue: Quartz
Orebody form: IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:Wedowee Group
Host type:Schist
Tectonic:Northern Alabama Piedmont-Tallapoosa Block

References

MRDSW033334
DEP10081325
Reference{Deposit:: ADAMS, G.I., 1930, GOLD DEPOSITS OF ALABAMA AND OCCURRENCES OF COPPER, PYRITE ARSENIC AND TIN: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 40, 91P.}{Deposit:: NEATHERY, T.L. 1968, SULFIDE MINERALIZATION IN THE CRAGFORD DISTRICT, CLAY AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, ALABAMA; ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRC, 50, 52P.}{Deposit:: SPAINE, S.I., 1969, BASE-AND PRECIOUS-METAL AND RELATED DEPOSITS OF ALABAMA; ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRC, 55, 94P.}{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 GEOL, SURVEY BULL. 5, 105P.}
ReporterRheams, Karen F.