Mine detail: Ayers Prospect

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

33.49682, -85.50162

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Ore:	Gold
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	LINEAR

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Poe Bridge Mountain Group
Host type:	Metasedimentary Rock,Mica Schist
Tectonic:	Northern Alabama Piedmont-Coosa Block
Alteration processes:	Country Rock Decomposed To Saprolite

References

MRDS	W033337
DEP	10081328
Reference	{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:: SPAINE, S.I., 1969, BASE-AND PRECIOUS-METAL AND RELATED DEPOSITS OF ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRC. 55, 94 P.}
Reporter	Rheams, Karen F.