Crowders Mountain PoInts of Interest
Mines & Wells Index
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These are the mining/digging areas that I have actually visited; there
may be some more...
Mine Shafts / Tunnels:
**Big Iron Mine**
**Wavy Mine**
**Wavy Mine Test Pit** -
a shallow open pit test mine not far above tunnel entrance
Open Pit Mines:
All Healing Springs Barite Mine
Crowders Mountain Kyanite
Prospect
Lawton Barite Mine
Logan Gold Mine
Yellow Ridge Iron Mine
Wells:
**Linwood Well**
Mindat.Org Info for Crowder's
Mountain & surroundings Mindat.org = the
mineral and locality
database
very detailed source of mineral and mine info at Crowder's Mountain
Iron ores of North Carolina: a
preliminary report By Henry Benjamin Charles Nitze
see book pgs 107 - 110 for info on mines at Crowder's Mountain
excerpts:
pg. 107
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THE YELLOW RIDGE MINE lies 2 miles southwest of the Fulenwider and
2-1/2 miles east of King's Mountain station. The ore is
preeminently a gray ore and is notably magnetic. This bed was
worked to a depth of 120 feet, and the ore was smelted in the Crowder's
creek and other forges. The dip is westerly, diverging but little
from the vertical. There are 2 groups of pits and trenches on the
ridge, about 1/4 mile apart. At the northern workings the bed is
said to be from 6 to 10 feet thick at a depth of about 30 feet. ...
pg. 108
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(4). We now come to the most
westerly of the four belts, that of Crowder's and King's Mountains.
Crowder's mountain lies about 3 miles slighlte northeast from
the town of King's Mountain. On the northern end of this
mountain, 350 feet above the level of Crowder's creek, is an
outcropping of magnetic iron ore. The bed is exposed by a cut
into the hillside and shows the following section :
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...
pg. 109
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The inferiority of this ore is apparent; it is too high in
silica to be of any commercial value.
The outcrop is traced with difficulty for a short distance up
the slope of the mountain, when it soon disappears under a heavy
coverings of sandstone and porphyritic minette of yellowish red color
(a rock composed of a felsitic micaceous matrix containing small
crystals of orthoclase).
About 125 yards southeast from this openings, near the backbone
and toward the summit of the ridge, a rather profuse showing of float
ore, brown hematite, in places manganiferous, makes its appearance over
a small area. An old prospect tunnel may be seen here, driven 50
feet in the decomposed sandstone rock, but without discovering the ore
body. A short distance above the mouth of the tunnel the ore has
been cut by a test pit, showing up 3 feet in thickness between
sandstone walls. The strike is N. 20deg E., and the dip nearly
vertical, inclined if any towards the southeast.
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