Location: | Macon County, North Carolina, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 35.26928, -83.36405 |
dep_id: | 10098389 |
mrds_id: | M045643 |
Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
Major mineral: | Garnet |
Minor mineral: | Gold |
Trace mineral: | Platinum, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Arsenic |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Deposit type: | Stream Placer |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Corundum, Gold, Rhodolite, Sperrylite |
gangue: | Bronzite, Cordierite, Monazite, Rutile, Zircon |
orebody_fm: | STREAM SEDIMENT DEPOSITS |
model: | 119: Placer Au-PGE |
conc_proc: | Entrapment By Irregularities In Stream Bed Or Deposition In Low-Energy Part Of Stream |
Reporter: | Blair, Will N., Peterson, Jocelyn A. |
hrock_unit: | Coweeta Group;Tallulah Falls Formation |
hrock_type: | Gravel |
tectonic: | Appalachian Blue Ridge Province |
disc_yr: | 1894 |
discr: | W.E. Hidden |
References: |
- Deposit:: KEMP, J.F., 1902, THE GEOLOGIC RELATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION OF PLATINUM AND ASSOCIATED METALS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 193, P. 59.
- Deposit:: HIDDEN, W.E., 1898, SPERRYLITE IN NORTH CAROLINA: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 4TH SERIES, V. 6, P. 381-383.
- Deposit:: COOK, R.B., AND BURNELL, J.R., 1990, A GEOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE MASON MOUNTAIN SPERRYLITE OCCURRENCE, MACON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, IN COOK, R.B., ED., PROCEEDINGS OF THE SYMPOSIUM ON THE ECONOMIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHEAST: METALLIC ORE DEPOSITS: GEORGIA GEOLOGIC SURVEY BULLETIN 117, P. 163-176.
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