| Location: | Jackson County, North Carolina, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 35.29344, -83.11238 |
| dep_id: | 10095001 |
| mrds_id: | K003537 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper |
| Minor mineral: | Zinc |
| Trace mineral: | Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Pig Iron |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| ore: | Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Limonite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite |
| gangue: | Quartz |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| model: | 184: Massive sulfide, kuroko |
| alteration: | Limonite Gossan After Weathering Of Sulfides |
| Reporter: | Hale, Robin C., Klein, T.L. |
| hrock_unit: | Muscovite Schist And Gneiss: Mica-Quartz-Plagioclase Schist Generally Interlayered With Gneissic Micaceous Metasandstone; Schist Locally Graphitic And Sulfidic, Commonly Garnetiferous And/Or Sillimanite Bearing (Hadley And Nelson, 1971) |
| hrock_type: | Gneiss |
| arock_unit: | Pegmatites |
| arock_type: | Pegmatite |
| Structure: | Northeast |
| tectonic: | Blue Ridge |
| References: |
- Deposit:: HADLEY, J.B., AND NELSON, A.E., 1971, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE KNOXVILLE QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE, AND SOUTH CAROLINA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISC. GEOL. INV. MAP I-654, 1:250,000
- Deposit:: ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1944, COPPER DEPOSITS IN JACKSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: USGS OPEN-FILE REPORT, 10 P. HENDRY, L., 1932, GEOLOGY OF THE GUNSTOCKER COPPER MINE, COWARTS, JACKSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: CULLOWHEE, OPEN-FILE REPORT, 2 P
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