Crowders Mountain PoInt of Interest
  Yellow Ridge Mine

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Name: Yellow Ridge Mine
Type: Man-made mine
GPS Coordinates: North end (approx):
Latitude:  N 35° 13.322'
Longitude:  W 081° 19.039'
Elevation:  957 ft

South end (approx):
Latitude:  N 35° 13.212'
Longitude:  W 081° 19.076'
Elevation:    974 ft
Orientation: Open Pit Mines
PoInt Reached From: NorthWest side of Yellow Ridge
Description: Linear area of open pit mines
Many small and large pits
Dimensions:
Interior Features: Some pits quite deep
Exterior Features:


From: Iron Ores of North Carolina

The Yellow Ridge Mine lies 2 miles southwest of the Fulenwider and 2.5 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 0.25 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.  The deposit, as opened on the southern end of the ridge, consists of two parts, separated by a layer of talcose schist containing no ore; the western side of the bed is said to be 20 feet thick, and contains a large amount of pyrite; the eastern side is 10 feet thick and is free from pyrite.  (See Fig. 26, page 108.)

A hundred yards further south the ore narrows to 6 feet, and the portion of the bed that is contaminated with sulpher has disappeared.

The following analyses demonstrate the quality of this ore:


Fig. 26



YR Mine


It is likely that this mine is the following:
(data gathered from mindat.org)

Yellow Ridge Ore Bank Mine, Kings Mountain District, Gaston Co., North Carolina, USA

Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): 35° 13' 1'' North : 81° 19' 21'' West
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal Degrees): 35.2169444444 : -81.3225
Latitude & Longitude (Degrees plus Decimal Minutes): 35° 13.0166666667': -81° 19.35'

REF:Analytical Data:: NITZE, 1893 , KERR, 1893
Deposit:: NITZE, H. B. C., 1893 , IRON ORES OF NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA GEOL. SURVEY BULL. NO. 1 , TEXT 239 P., MINE TEXT P. 107 , 108
Deposit:: KERR, W. C., AND HANNA, G. B., 1893 , ORES OF NORTH CAROL
BAYLEY, W.S., TENN DIV OF GEOL BULL 29, 1923, PP. 181-182
Commodities (Major) - Iron; (Trace) - Sulfur
Deposit Type: Stratabound
Development Status: Past Producer
Host Rock Unit: Granite Stringer
Structure: Northnortheast, Ore Zone Partly Along Nne Trending Fault
Host Rock: Gneiss

Mineral List

Magnetite
 Pyrite


YROBM


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