GOLD AND PYRITE DEPOSITS OF THE DAHLONEGA DISTRICT, 
GEORGIA. 
By Edwin C. Eckel. 
Field work in the Dahlonega gold district of Georgia was carried 
on by the writer during September, 1902, under the direction of 
Dr. C. W. Hayes. While this field work was merely of reconnais- 
sance character, preliminary to the commencement of folio mapping 
in the area, it developed certain features of considerable importance 
in connection with the gold deposits of the district. A preliminary 
report on this work, with maps, will be issued this } 7 ear as a survey 
bulletin, while a brief statement of the principal results as regards the 
gold deposits has been published in a recent issue of the Engineering 
and Mining Journal. That portion of the present paper which relates 
to the gold deposits is essentially a reprint of that last noted, though it 
contains certain minor changes which affect the wording rather than 
the conclusions. 
LITERATURE OF THE SUBJECT. 
Though numerous references to the Dahlonega district are to be 
found in geological and mining literature, the following six papers 
will suffice to give the reader a good idea of the geology and mining 
industr}^ of the region. In 1895 Dr. George F. Becker published, in 
the Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 
Part III, pp. 251-331, a valuable account of a "Reconnaissance of the 
gold fields of the southern Appalachians. " In the same year Messrs. 
Nitze and Wilkens published, in the Transactions of the American 
Institute of Mining Engineers, Vol. XXV, a paper on ' ' The present con- 
dition of gold mining in the southern Appalachians." These papers 
are still the best summaries of the geological features of the Appala- 
chian gold fields, and of the relations of the ore deposits. Dr. W. S. 
Yeates published in 1896, as Bulletin 4A of the Georgia Geological 
Survey, a "Preliminary report on a part of the gold deposits of 
Georgia." This volume, by Yeates, McCallie, and King, contains 
much interesting detail concerning both the mines and the mining 
history of the region. The principal advances in Dahlonega mining 
practice since that date are well described in the three following 
papers which have appeared in the Engineering and Mining Journal: 
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