 | | Report (issue) | | IN NORTH CAROLINA INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND NATURAL RESOURCES ...agencies for the general welfare of the dtizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts basic and applied research...Resources, at Post Office Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687, or call (919) 733-2423. Jeffrey...Chief Geologist GOLD NORTH CAROLINA IN . by P. Albert Carpenter III NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INFORMATION...INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT |  | | Report (edition) | | Information Circular GOLD RESOURCES OF NORTH CAROLINA by P. A. Carpenter, D oc ms C% M:*L Raleigh...for the general welfare of the citizens of North Carolina. The section conducts a number of basic and...Geological Survey Section, P.O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 26711. Jeffrey C. Reid Chief Geologist Cover...3 Mining Methods and Recovery 3 Gold in North Carolina 5 History of Mining 5 Production 7 General...Deposits of North Carolina 12 Eastern Carolina Belt 12 Portis Mine 14 Other Mines 14 Carolina Slate |  | | Report (issue) | | Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina 1011 by Gwendolyn W. Luttrell 12 U.S. Geological... Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina Abstract Gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc,...barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product silver, occurs in veins...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals...occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 23 24 25- U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | /294 www.elsevier.com/locate/precamres Griffin gabbro sills (2.11 Ga), Hurwitz Basin, Nunavut, Canada:...University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY 13676, USA b Received 31 July 2001; accepted 28 June 2002 ...discontinuously across an area 400 by 125 km in the Hearne domain of the western Churchill Province in northern...recorded by other Paleoproterozoic mafic rocks in the Hearne domain. This, together with the absence feeder...located beyond the present southern margin of the Hearne domain, was active during /2.1 Ga rifting that |  | Carpenter, R. L., Duke, N. A., Sandeman, H. A., Stern, R. (2005) RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE TIMING OF GOLD MINERALIZATION ALONG THE MELIADINETREND, NUNAVUT, CANADA: EVIDENCE FOR PALEOPROTEROZOIC GOLD HOSTED IN AN ARCHEANGREENSTONE BELT. Economic Geology, 100 (3) 567-576 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.100.3.567 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | along the western shore of Hudson Bay, within the Hearne domain of the western Churchill structural province...province (Fig. 1; Tella et al., 1996). The Hearne domain consists of Neoarchean (ca. 2700ā2660 Ma.) supracrustal...100o f cra ton o b) Geology of the Hearne Domain Baker Lake Hearne Supracrustal Belts Baker Lake Group...to ec T d r bi ow n S Northwestern - Central Hearne Sub-domain boundary Regional fault or shear zone...zone n Zo Area of Fig. 2 Northwest Hearne Sub-domain Sub-domai n RIB ? Rankin Inlet Yathkyed Lake |  | Peterson, Tony D., Scott, Jeffrey M.J., LeCheminant, Anthony N., Jefferson, Charles W., Pehrsson, Sally J. (2015) The Kivalliq Igneous Suite: Anorogenic bimodal magmatism at 1.75Ga in the western Churchill Province, Canada. Precambrian Research, 262. 101-119 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2015.02.019 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 73 Ga) includes the Nueltin Granite intrusions; gabbro and anorthosite intrusions; three swarms of maļ¬c...with volcanic rocks and dykes concentrated at the north end and coarse plutonic rocks to the south. The...Lake dyke swarm originates among three prominent gabbro/anorthosite intrusions inside the corridor, and...2005) developed a large number of rapakivi granite/gabbro-anorthosite suites comprising a diachronous, posttectonic...1987); (4) KāAr ages in Archaean rocks of the NE Hearne Province (Loveridge et al., 1988); (5) and (6) |  | COUSENS, B, ASPLER, L, CHIARENZELLI, J (2004) Dual sources of ensimatic magmas, Hearne domain, Western Churchill Province, Nunavut, Canada: Neorchean ?infant arc? processes?. Precambrian Research, 134 (1) 169-188 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2004.06.001 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (2004) 169ā188 Dual sources of ensimatic magmas, Hearne domain, Western Churchill Province, Nunavut, Canada:...University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY 13676, USA Received 19 June 2003; accepted 4 June 2004 Abstract...Abstract In the Henik segment of the Central Hearne supracrustal belt, Neoarchean supracrustal rocks accumulated...sources supports a generalized model for the Central Hearne supracrustal belt that draws analogies from Eocene...plutonic rocks are extensively exposed in the Rae and Hearne domains of the Western Churchill Province in northern |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | various collisional sutures occurs towards the north. The Kunlun and older terranes of NE Tibet are separated...600ā750 km of N-S shortening since 50 Ma across and north of the Tibetan Plateau (Van Hinsbergen et al., 2011)... 1) and (3) the Jurassic Mongol-Okhotsk orogen north of the region H. Halls / Precambrian Research...orogenic belt, the Churchill Province divided into the Hearne and Rae cratons, and the Trans Hudson orogen. Unless...descriptions of the Thelon-Taltson orogen, and Rae and Hearne cratons are largely abstracted from Hoffman (1989) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Continental arc magmatism along the southeast Hearne Craton margin in Saskatchewan, Canada: Comparison...1917ā1913 Ma gabbroāmonzodioriteāmonzonite suite along the southeast margin of the Hearne Craton in northern...Lueaza River granitoid suite, a component of the Hearne Craton and are themselves intruded by 1859 Ma pegmatitic...pegmatitic diorite, 1856 Ma layered gabbro-anorthosite, and 1853 Ma quartz-diorite belonging to the Wathaman...continental arc setting. The southeastern margin of the Hearne Craton was therefore a long-lived active continental |  | | Report (issue) | | Central group ____________________________ _ _ Carolina gneiss ________________________ _ Mica schist...__________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina and South Carolina ______ ____ _ Georgia ______________...34 35 35 36 39 44 44 45 46 47 47 49 49 50 50 Mine descriptions ___________ --------- -- .. -------...___ _______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______ _____ _____ _ Franklin ____...properties _________ .. _____________ _ Halifax County ______ - _____ - __________ ~- _'- __ _ Virgilina |  | Crocker, C.H., Collerson, K.D., Lewry, J.F., Bickford, M.E. (1993) SmīøNd, UīøPb, and RbīøSr geochronology and lithostructural relationships in the southwestern Rae province: constraints on crustal assembly in the western Canadian shield. Precambrian Research, 61 (1) 27-50 doi:10.1016/0301-9268(93)90056-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Californm, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA bDepartment of Geology, University of Regina, Regina...Laboratory, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1070, USA (Received May 7, 1991; accepted after revision July...preserved in small lensoid pods of anorthosite, gabbro, and pyroxenite. A pyroxenite yields a Sm-Nd TOMage...Pine Street, 10th floor, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA. Fax no.: 415 434 1365. ~Present address: Department...northwest, by the Thelon Tectonic Zone, from the Hearne province to the east, by the Snowbird Tectonic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | relatively rigid since the Precambrian. Laurentia, the North American craton, is one of the oldest and largest...Greenland, the covered platform and basins of the North American interior, and, in this paper, the reactivated...and Greenland is restored prior to rifting from North America. Uppercase names are Archean provinces;...interior (Committee for the Magnetic Anomaly Map of North America 1 987), providing grounds for extrapolating...previous authors is subdivided into the Archean Hearne and Rae provinces to the northwest and the Early |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126, USA Received 28 November 1994; revised version accepted...19 July 1995 Abstract Extensive areas of the Hearne and Rae provinces are underlain by Archean metavolcanic...others as rift and passive margin deposits. In the Hearne Province to the southeast, the Ennadai-Rankin greenstone...overall pattern of supracmstal deposition in the Hearne Province consisting of a large mafic volcanic plain...western continental hinterland to the ensimatic Hearne Province. The Rae and Heame provinces may record |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | islandās exposed Precambrian bedrock, outboard of the Hearne craton but on strike with its geophysically deļ¬ned...consistent with the model of a ca. 1900 Ma RaeāHearne collision, with M1 āD1 on Southampton Island reļ¬ecting...curves show geophysically deļ¬ned eastern edge of Hearne and possible extension of Sugluk block into Hudson...Hudson Bay (see text). Blue triangles along HearneāCb boundary are localities with GrtāKyāSt metasedimentary...accreted arc terranes on the southern ļ¬ank of the Hearne craton (e.g. Ansdell et al., 2005; Corrigan et |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Accepted Manuscript The composite North American Craton, Superior Province: deep crustal structure and...cite this article as: M.V. Mints, The composite North American Craton, Superior Province: deep crustal...apply to the journal pertain. 1 The composite North American Craton, Superior Province: deep crustal...and, in general, Archean crust of the composite North America Craton, relying on experience with deep...onset of the Neoarchean, Archean provinces of the North American Craton were parts of the single stable |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Slave Rae? Rae Tungus Norbotten Rae Slave Hearne Rae Nova? NAC LAURENTIA Archean inheritance...Archean in core of New Quebec Orogen SinoKorean NORTH CHINA TARIM Ukrainian Shield Tarim Wyoming ...resulting from the breakup of Pangea Ice caps Pilbara NORTH AUSTRALIA WEST AUSTRALIA Zimbabwe Kaapvaal Yilgarn...separated out. In Part C, Central Hearne and Rae (+NW Hearne) correlate with Hearne and Rae of Fig. 1 (see discussion...1900 2200 Superior Central Hearne Wyoming Slave Rae (+NWHearne) North Atlantic proto Amazonia proto |  | HANMER, S, TELLA, S, RYAN, J, SANDEMAN, H, BERMAN, R (2006) Late Neoarchean thick-skinned thrusting and Paleoproterozoic reworking in the MacQuoid supracrustal belt and Cross Bay plutonic complex, western Churchill Province, Nunavut, Canada. Precambrian Research, 144 (1) 126-139 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2005.10.005 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | plutonic complex. They form part of the northwestern Hearne subdomain that occupies an intermediate position...continental Rae domain to the north and west, and the oceanic central Hearne subdomain to the south and...world (Fig. 1). Internally divided into Rae and Hearne domains by the Snowbird tectonic zone (Hoffman...broad, oceanic suprasubduction environment in the Hearne domain (Sandeman et al., 2001, 2004a, 2004b; Hanmer...originally suggested that the supracrustal rocks of the Hearne domain could be divided into an older greenstone |  | Sanborn-Barrie, M., Camacho, A., Berman, R. G. (2019) High-pressure, ultrahigh-temperature 1.9Ā Ga metamorphism of the Kramanituar Complex, Snowbird Tectonic Zone, Rae Craton, Canada. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174 (2) doi:10.1007/s00410-019-1547-9 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | by granuliteāfacies intrusive rocks, including gabbroānoriteāanorthosite suites, with lesser supracrustal...divide the Churchill Province into the Rae and Hearne domains (Hoffman 1988). Interpretations of the...ATH ca. 1.85-1.72 Ga intracratonic Hudson Bay HEARNE UD INTE-RH N SON ie IDES ld DOMINANTLY ARCHEAN...dominantly metaplutonic rocks (Rae, Chesterfield, Hearne) 94Ā°W 94Ā°50'W cover rocks Archean supracrustal...quartz diorite orthogneiss with <40% granitoid gabbro anorthosite metavolcanic rocks metasedimentary |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | basement-cover infolding and thick-skinned thrusting in Hearne domain, Nunavut, Canada: intracratonic response...Uni6ersity of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam 13676, NY, USA c Geological Sur6ey of Canada, 601 Booth Street,...assembly of Laurentia ( 2.0ā 1.7 Ga), the Rae and Hearne domains of the western Churchill Province experienced...historically referred to as the āāHudsonian orogenyāā. In Hearne domain, diverse thick-skinned intraplate structures...cover, and broken foreland thrusts. In central Hearne domain, an intracratonic basin succession of continental |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (THO) is situated between the Archean Superior and Hearne cratons, with the latter variably reworked by the...caught between arcs previously accreted to the Hearne craton margin and the Superior craton margin. The...the Reindeer Zone, Trans-Hudson Orogeny, Canada Mine Tonnes Cu (%) Zn (%) Pb (%) Ag (g/t) Au (g/t)...Past-producing mine Advanced exploration Deposit Advanced exploration Past-producing mine Advanced exploration...exploration Past-producing mine Advanced exploration 1909 1967 1966 1958 1957 1930 1968 1961 Prospecting |  | Rainbird, R.H., Davis, W.J., Pehrsson, S.J., Wodicka, N., Rayner, N., Skulski, T. (2010) Early Paleoproterozoic supracrustal assemblages of the Rae domain, Nunavut, Canada: Intracratonic basin development during supercontinent break-up and assembly. Precambrian Research, 181 (1) 167-186 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2010.06.005 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sedimentary basins overlying the Archean Rae and Hearne domains. The Rae domain supracrustal succession...geochronology of the Hurwitz Group, which overlies the Hearne domain, is broadly similar to the supracrustal...source in the Rae. Our data suggest that the Rae and Hearne domains were assembled together by max. 1.91 Ga...connection between the Churchill Province (Rae and Hearne domains), Superior Province and the Wyoming craton...of basal Paleoproterozoic strata from across the north-central Rae domain and interpret their common stratigraphic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Although the area was early explored by Samuel Hearne (Hearne, 1796), it was not examined geologically until...the east bank of the north branch of the Seal River at Great Island. It strikes north, parallel to the river...sericite schist, basalt, gneissic granite, pegmatite, gabbro, and quartzite in a matrix of goethite. Within...interglacial age is probable. REFERENCES CITED Hearne, Samuel, 1796, A journey from Prince of Wales' |  | Ashton, K.E., Hartlaub, R.P., Bethune, K.M., Heaman, L.M., Rayner, N., Niebergall, G.R. (2013) New depositional age constraints for the Murmac Bay group of the southern Rae craton, Canada. Precambrian Research, 232. 70-88 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2012.05.008 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the western Canadian Shield, comprising Rae and Hearne cratons delineated by the Snowbird tectonic zone...responsible for amalgamation of the Sask, Superior and Hearne cratons 0301-9268/$ ā see front matter. Crown...sedimentation. Recent work, however, suggests that the Hearne and Rae cratons are each composed of smaller amalgamated...craton ca. 2.6 Ga (Davis et al., 2006), whereas the Hearne craton may have been added ca. 1.9 Ga (Berman et...sedimentological record relative to that determined farther north. For example, new age constraints for the unmetamorphosed |  | Kellett, Dawn A., Pehrsson, Sally, Skipton, Diane R., Regis, Daniele, Camacho, Alfredo, Schneider, David A., Berman, Rob (2020) Thermochronological history of the Northern Canadian Shield. Precambrian Research, 342. 105703 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105703 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | elements of the Canadian Shield, the Slave, Rae, Hearne, and Superior cratons (Fig. 1) variously formed...upper plate Churchill Province (amalgamated Rae and Hearne cratons) has experienced extensive deformation...al., in press). Southeast of the Rae craton, the Hearne craton comprises Neoarchean granitoids, gneisses...sequences (Eglington et al., 2013). Dividing Rae and Hearne is the Snowbird tectonic zone (STZ), a structure...Snowbird orogen (Berman et al., 2007). Together, the Hearne and Rae cratons form the majority of Churchill |  | | Report (chapter) | | ca) Abstract: The Trans-Hudson Orogen (THO) of North America is one of the earliest orogens in Earthās...Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic micro-continents (Hearne, Meta Incognita/Core Zone, Sugluk) and eventually...2003; Hou et al. 2008). Before the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean, the THO formed part of a nearly...Churchill Province encompassing nearly all of the Hearne Craton, as well as a large portion of the Rae Craton...continental collage north of the Manikewan Ocean consisting of the Slave, Rae and Hearne cratons, with the |
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