Mine detail: Gold Ridge Mine

Location:	Coosa County, Alabama, United States, North America
Lat / long:	32.84044, -86.43609
dep_id:	10106261
mrds_id:	W033364
Commodity type:	metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral:	Gold
Trace mineral:	Copper, Graphite
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small ammount of material produced
Development status:	Past Producer
ore:	Gold
gangue:	Quartz
other_matl:	Chalcopyrite, Graphite
orebody_fm:	LINEAR
Reporter:	Rheams, Karen F.
hrock_unit:	Higgins Ferry Group
hrock_type:	Mica Schist
tectonic:	Northern Alabama Piedmont-Coosa Block
Year first produced:	1855
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:: PARDEE, J.T., AND PARK, C.F., JR., 1948, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 213, 156P. Deposit:: SIMPSON, T.A., AND NEATHERY, T.L., 1980, ALABAMA GOLD: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRC. 104, 169P. Deposit:: SPAINE, S.I., 1969, BASE-AND PRECIOUS-METAL AND RELATED DEPOSITS OF ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRC. 55, 94P. 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: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 3, 97P. Deposit:: COOK, R.B., AND SMITH, W.E., 1982, MINERALOGY OF ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 120, 285P.