Mine detail: Mahan Pits

Location:	Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States, North America
Lat / long:	33.00988, -85.86107
dep_id:	10081387
mrds_id:	W033410
Commodity type:	metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral:	Gold
Trace mineral:	Sulfides
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	No production occurred
Development status:	Occurrence
ore:	Gold
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, 91P. 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, 105P. Deposit:: PHILLIPS, W.B. 1892, A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON A PART OF THE LOWER GOLD BELT OF ALABAMA IN THE COUNTIES OF CHILTON, COOSA, AND TALLAPOOSA: ALBAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 3, 97P.