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Gold from
Furniss Mine, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Furniss Mine, Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:339175
Long-form Identifier:1:3:339175:4
GUID (UUID V4):0233217a-4613-4a04-bd64-4f3f5df5e750
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
0.9km (0.6 miles) ⓘGibb Mine (Orchard Gold Mine), Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) ⓘNorthern shaft, Tucker Mine (California Mine), Carolina Slate Belt, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) ⓘFaggart Mine, Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) ⓘSouthern shaft, Tucker Mine (California Mine), Carolina Slate Belt, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) ⓘBarrier Mine, Charlotte Belt, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) ⓘAllman prospect, Carolina Slate Belt, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) ⓘQuaker City Mine, Charlotte Belt, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) ⓘBarnhardt Mine and Placer, Carolina Slate Belt, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
4.1km (2.6 miles) ⓘEllsworth and Crosby Mines (Cabarrus), Carolina Slate Belt, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) ⓘBuffalo Mine, Carolina Slate Belt, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
References
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Report (issue)
METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CAROLINA SLATE BELT, NORTH CAROLINA by P. Albert Carpenter, m Reprinted...Intrusive rocks Metallic minerals Chromium Copper Gold , 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 . Iron Lead, zinc and...investigations Mine descriptions Alamance County Copper prospect Foust copper mine Robeson gold prospect Cabarrus...Cabarrus County Allman prospect Buffalo mine Cabarrus? mine Clinemine Crayton mine Furniss mine Eva Furr...Furr mine Isenhour mine ..; : Newellmine Nugget mine Phoenix mine Pioneer Mills mine Propst mine Quaker
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large variety of minerals and gemstones in North Carolina annually attracts thousands of collectors to...the world. Some Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina T H E C O L L E C T I N G L O C A L I T I E...McKenzie's publication Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina: Information Circular 24 (1978). For a more...locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can be ordered from the North Carolina Department...27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can
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...Uses 3 Mining Methods and Recovery 3 Gold in North Carolina 5 History of Mining 5 Production 7...Prospecting 7 10 Gold Deposits of North Carolina 12 Eastern Carolina Belt 12 Portis Mine 14 Other Mines
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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...Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687, or call (919) 733-2423. Jeffrey C. Reid Chief Geologist GOLD NORTH...NORTH CAROLINA IN . by P. Albert Carpenter III NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INFORMATION CIRCULAR 29...29 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
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126? x-> n fi/c. 7ÂŁ Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina 1011 by Gwendolyn W....457-0*4 9.1267 Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina Abstract Gold, silver, copper...barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product silver, occurs in veins...rocks west of the Blue Ridge. 12 complex ores of gold, copper, lead, zinc, and silver in veins and 13...Mountain. Cobalt minerals with ores of 16 iron or gold have been reported in a few areas in the Piedmont
Report (issue)
.'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...GUMMITE IN GARNET RUBY CORUNDUM GOLD TORBERNITE GARNET IN MICA ANATASE RUTILE AJTUNITE AND TORBERNITE...Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North CarOlina Department of Natural Resources and Community...for the general welfare of the citizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts a number of basic and
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returning it UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDl\IONT GEOLOGICAL...Central group ____________________________ _ _ Carolina gneiss ________________________ _ Mica schist...__________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina and South Carolina ______ ____ _ Georgia ______________...Production ________________________________________ _ Gold deposits _____________________________________ _...21 22 22 23 23 23 24 24 27 29 32 32 32 33 33 Gold deposits-Continued Classification-Continued Lode
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Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist i ...FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian Institution (slide...viable mineral collecting sites through­ out North Carolina. Some sites are commercially operated during
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T. Gurrieri b, George Furniss c a US Geological Survey, Helena, MT 59601, USA USDA-Forest Service, Intermountain...Ogden, UT 84401, USA c Department of Geology, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA b a r t i c...dissolved Cu in three acidic streams in Montana, USA. Primary assumptions underlying the proposed method...potential for use in monitoring remedial efforts at mine sites with ferricrete deposits. A reasonable remediation...Plumlee et al., 1995; Furniss et al., 1999; Yager et al., 2003; Wirt et al., 2007). Furniss (1999) took the
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Montana Technological University, Butte, MT, 59701, USA Faculty of International Resource Sciences, Akita...University, 1300 W. Park Street, Butte, MT, 59701, USA. E-mail address: cgammons@mtech.edu (C.H. Gammons)...in coal and metal mining. Many watersheds in the USA have been severely impacted by historic mining of...documents characterizing ARD at active or abandoned mine sites, there have been relatively few studies of...southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico, USA (McKnight and Bencala, 1990; Kimball et al., 2002;
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2005 Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/05 $30.00 â«č .00 doi:10...with acidic to neutral pH: Fisher Creek, Montana, USA CHRISTOPHER H. GAMMONS,1,* DAVID A. NIMICK,2 STEPHEN...Montana, Butte, Montana 59701, USA 2 U.S. Geological Survey, Helena, Montana, USA 3 U.S. Geological Survey...Survey, Boulder, Colorado, USA (Received April 13, 2004; accepted in revised form November 29, 2004) Abstract—Three...Creek, a small mountain stream draining abandoned mine lands in Montana. Average pH values at the upstream
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University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, USA 2 Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University...at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3580673 Gold Open Access: This article is published under the...Lake, Victoria, Australia Green River Fm, Wyoming, USA Quaternary V: jagged, curved Eocene V: ptygmatic...Mb, India Lockatong Fm, New Jersey/ Philadelphia, USA Liard Fm, British Columbia, Canada Lucaogou Fm, NW... Mississippi Valley, USA Late Cambrian Reno Mb, Lone Rock Fm, Wisconsin, USA Hales Limestone case study
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.........................................21 Furniss mine ................................................................................. 22 Kendenup mine ........................................................................................ 22 Shaws mine .................................................................................. 23 Martagallup mine ................................................................................... 29 Munglinup North VTEM survey ...................................
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aesthetic theory and the emergence of Earth sciences’ (Furniss 2010, p. 305). In his study of James Hutton’s influential...influential book Theory of the Earth, Furniss argues that the author, widely regarded as the founder...geological aesthetics of the period’ (Heringman 2004; Furniss 2010, p. 307). The sublime is an aesthetic quality...however. The former English county of Westmorland (now subsumed into the modern county of Cumbria), whose mountains...twenty miles’ (Defoe 1810, pp. 201–203). To the gold-seeking explorers, one good thing about the falls
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processes of ores for other metals such as copper, gold, lead, uranium, and zinc (Karbowska, 2016; Peter...et al., 1998; Rickwood et al., 2015; Turner & Furniss, 2012; Twiss et al., 2004), and once it enters...particularly limited for marine phytoplankton (Turner & Furniss, 2012). Tl accumulation by primary producers was...Merck Millipore, USA) was used instead of SOW. All centrifuge tubes (Metal-free, VWR, USA) and pipette-tips...et al., 2015; Ritchie & Larkum, 1998; Turner & Furniss, 2012; Twiss et al., 2004). The effects of low
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calcite, 11/2 inches across, Knippa Quarry, Uvalde County, Texas, photo by the author. Tucson 1999 - mouthwash...localities Posey Mine (San Juan Co., Utah, USA) and Planet Mine (La Paz Co., Arizona, USA). That from Posey...Posey Mine is composed of 5-10 mm veins, composed of fibers perpendicular to the veins, in sandstone....experience in mining and selling gems in Oxford County; Vandall King (the expert on Maine minerals); and...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com
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New World District, Montana TODD W. JOHNSON† 550 North McCarran Blvd., no. 254, Sparks, Nevada 89431 AND...within the New World district near Cooke City, Park County, in south-central Montana. The Homestake intrusive...and retains the distinct acicular habit. Native gold and electrum typically occur as micronsized inclusions...abundance of chlorite, carbonate, magnetite, and gold increase in the upper part of the hydrothermal system...(Fig. 1), located approximately 8 km north of Cooke City in Park County. All of the delineated resources
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ming, Kuang Hongwei, Meng Xianghua, and George Furniss Potential hazards of eruptions around the Tianchi...Karner, and C.K. Shearer Invisible” gold revealed: Direct imaging of gold nanoparticles in a Carlin-type deposit—Christopher...products and framboidal pyrite oxidation in acid mine drainage prediction techniques—P.A. Weber, W.A....Piper 1425 Structural controls on hypozonal orogenic gold mineralization in the La Ronge Domain, Trans-Hudson...Sudbury impact structure at the Thayer Lindsley mine, Ontario—J. Bailey, B. Lafrance, A.M. McDonald,
Journal (issue)
Cooper 01242 582253, Membership Secretary: Pete Furniss Field Trip Organiser: Alan Foulds Programme Secretary:...2012 Friday 9 March 2012 Re-opening of Greenlaws Mine, Daddry Shield, Weardale Ross Whittaker AGM & Annual...lava. He had a job with a mining company in the north of South Africa prospecting for tin in the granites...towns resulting from the exploitation of copper and gold where faults have brought up and mixed fluids and...(Carboniferous). ‱ Highley Miners' Memorial; Highley coal mine (Wyre Forest coalfield) operated until 1969. ‱ Alveley
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of Membership Secretary, left vacant when Pete Furniss stood down at the end of March. Thank you Tom!...August NO MEETING Friday 8th September Herodsfoot Mine, Richard Tailing and Bournonite - a 19 th Century...readily crushed from tourmaline hewn from Grylls Bunny mine at Botallack, and blacks with slight purple sheens...minerals have been mined since the 1860's, including gold, magnetite, garnet, silver and manganese. 800 tons...SECRETARY'S REPORT (by the editor) Please note that Pete Furniss has now stood down as Membership Secretary after
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at the State Pit Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston...Mountain located about 2 miles north of Mount Ida in Montgomery County. Arkansas has been mentioned in...1983). Most of these specimens have come from the County Continued on page 4 Fig. 1 Planerite with colorless...Mulingisha. or Mulungwishi, which he says is not a mine but a village nearby where minerals are traded (much...barite comes from Shangulowe, an open pit copper mine abandoned in 1943 and mined on and off since by
Report (chapter)
properties. INTRODUCTION TO ACID SULFATE ENVIRONMENTS Mine drainage The best known examples of acid sulfate...may be as many as 500,000 inactive or abandoned mine sites in the United States alone (Lyon et al. 1993)...been seriously damaged by mine effluents. Contamination of natural waters by mine drainage has killed enormous...be unfit for recreational activities. Most acid mine waters have pH values in the range of 2 to 4 (Nordstrom... Bigham & Nordstrom Plumlee et al. 1999). Acid mine drainage occurs when acid production exceeds the
Report (issue)
species in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA: Landscape Ecology, v. 6, no. 4, p. 269–278. Ground-layer...the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area, Kern County, California. Aboveground live annual plant biomass...off-road vehicles on vegetation: Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference...vehicles on vertebrates in the California desert USA: Wildlife Research Report no. 8, U.S. Fish and Wildlife...biota of the Algodones Dunes, Imperial County, California, USA: Journal of Applied Ecology, v. 20, no
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(2000). Leach et al. (1998a) note that the Sunshine mine jasperoid vein (ZS95) is cut by Ag-rich veins, constraining...associated with the Coeur d’Alene fluids farther north and distal to the batholith (Leach et al., 1988)...Supergroup (e.g., Strauss and Schieber, 1989; Furniss, 1990; Frank et al., 1997), these are uncommon... 2005). Although carbonatites occur in Ravalli County, Montana, approximately 160 km to the south of...Snowbird. Furthermore, the carbonatites in Ravalli County are characterized by high Nb and Ba contents, have
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. ........ ...... .... ................ Korth Carolina ..... ...... .......................... ........inches in diameter; the increased output of Fergus County, .Montana, sapphire mines, and the yielding of...lower levels are 110w to be opened. The De Beers Mine has been car­ ried down to and beyond 1,400 feet...F. .-Williams, m·a n. ager of the great De Beers mine, made to that corporation, tells us that the cost...from .. I ( 10 ‱i )IINERAL RESOURCES. whicb mine any stone bas come. The conditions of tbeir formation
 
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