102 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 



One car load of scrap was recently taken out and sold, 

 the run-of-mine sheet mica, being knife trimmed and 

 roughly squared to stock sizes. 



During the last period of continuous operation a daily 

 average output of about 1,000 Ibs. is stated to have been 

 realized, with a working force of 7 men, by the simple 

 use of pick and shovel, hand drilling, and primitive meth- 

 ods generally. Exhibit sample, serial No. 129 is from 

 this mine. 



Pond Mine. The Pond mine is located about 2 miles 

 due W. of Rockford (the county seat) in the N. W. 1/4 

 of the S. E. 14 of Section 15, Township 22 N., Range 18 

 E. 



It is a recent development, having been opened in 1920 

 by the owner Mr. H. W. Pond of Rockford, the work 

 being mainly done by and under the direction of Mr. W. 

 F. Fletcher. 



The property lies on the crest of a rolling and irregu- 

 larly eroded ridge, at an approximate elevation of 700 

 feet, tidal datum. 



Although only one of them has been as yet attempted 

 to be prospected, some three or more parallel leads of 

 pegmatite are by well defined and in places bold out- 

 crops, indicated as crossing the property, having a strike 

 of N.30E., and dipping at a steep angle of some 60-70 

 S. E., the approximate width of the belt made up of the 

 separate formations being 300 to 400 feet. 



Mine development has been by means of two shafts, 

 the main shaft, about 50 feet in depth, and the upper or 

 westerly shaft, 10 ft. deep, connected by a stope on the 

 slope angle of the pegmatite. 



At the foot of the incline stope and bottom of the main 

 shaft horizontal entries or rooms, running N. E. 10 feet 

 and S. W. 30 feet constitute the working mine. From 

 the entries and stopes about 12 tons of mica in all were 

 stated to have been taken out and partially disposed of to 

 the trade. 



At the time of the examination, in March 1921, about 

 2 tons remained in the mica house of punch and scrap, 

 with some 500 to 800 Ibs. of run-of-mine sheet thumb 

 trimmed. 



