46 GOLD AND TIN DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. 
list, beginning at the southwest: Capt. S. S. Ross, B. O. Jenkins, R. Patterson, Eph. 
Jackson, John Kester, V. Hambright, George Patterson, Dr. J. G. Horde, J. M. Smith, W. O. 
Ware, E. C. Faires, I. B. Falls, Mrs. Lizzie Falls, the streets and lots of Kings Mountain, 
Carpenter and Rudisill, J. J. Ormond, Arrowwood Brothers, R. A. White, M. V. Ilovis, 
Ramseur Mill tract, John E. Jones, Mr. Weaver, Charles Byers, A. J. Rayfield, Sylvanus 
Beam, William Broom, William Carpenter, Sam Gardner, Katherine \ ickers, Philip and 
Christy Jenkins, Norah Rayfield, John Carpenter, Eli Mosteller, Henry Carpenter, Monroe 
Reep, and Eph. Carpenter. A break in the general continuity of known localities occurs 
between the Ross property near GafTney and the B.O.Jenkins place, about 1^ miles north- 
east of Grover, a distance of about 12 miles, although, as reported, a fragment of cassit- 
erite has been found in pegmatite on the place of William Martin, about 3| miles northwest of 
Blacksburg, near the State line. Another break about 3 miles long occurs just south of 
Little Catawba River in the northern part of Gaston County. Pegmatite is found all along 
these intervals, however, and further search may reveal the presence of cassiterite. 
DESCRIPTION OF MINES AND PROSPECTS. 
Recent operations of anything more than a preliminary character have been carried on at 
only three places. These are the Jones, Faires, and Ross mines. Considerable prospecting 
in the way of trenches and pits has been done by Messrs. Carpenter and Rudisill in the 
northern part of the belt.a 
JONES MINE. 
The property known as the Jones mine, which was a part of the John E. Jones planta- 
tion, is situated about 7 miles north-northeast of Kings Mountain and about 3 miles north- 
west of Bessemer City, stations on the Southern Railway. The mine is owned and oper- 
ated by the Carolina Tin Company, of Charlottesville, Va. Some work was done at this 
place before the recent activity in tin mining, and several shallow workings have been 
encountered, which probably date back to 1892 or 1893. In 1903 development was begun 
by the Carolinas Tin and Development Company, which held the property under option. 
Early in 1904 it was sold to the present owners, who have done the greater part of the work. 
About a carload of concentrates has been obtained from the ore thus far mined and milled, 
and one small trial shipment has been made. 
The surface developments include a shaft house, boiler, and hoist. A mill for the extrac- 
tion of the cassiterite from the ore has also been erected. The workings consist of a verti- 
cal shaft 175 feet deep, with levels at depths of 50, KM), and 1.50 feet, aggregating, perhaps, 
500 feet of underground development. The 50-foot level connects with the bottom of a 
shaft a short distance to the east of the main shaft. A few hundred feet to the south are 
a shallow pit and short drift. 
The country rock of this mine is the typical amphibolite of the region and has a loliation 
which strikes about N. 30° E. and dips about 50° to 60° NW. Cutting this amphibolite 
is a dike of granite or aplite 2 or 3 feet wide and irregular, like the inferfoliated bodies of 
pegmatite. Two dikes of pegmatite are also intruded into the amphibolite. One, parallel 
to the foliation, lies near and southeast of the granite dike. The other, which has been 
traced on the surface for 1,000 feet, cuts across the structure of the country, striking N. 
78° W. and dipping very steeply to the south. It is not yet definitely known whether 
these two dikes unite or whether one cuts the other, but there is reason to believe that they 
are of the same age and do unite. While the evidence is not wholly satisfactory, the cross 
dike of pegmatite appears to cut the granite dike. This aplite or granite produces nieta- 
morphism at its contact like that described in detail on pages 24 and 25. The pegmatite 
also alters the adjoining amphibolite. Close to the aplite a narrow veinlet of quartz, which 
carries a small amount of gold, impregnates the surrounding rocks with tourmaline, garnet, 
a The writer has recently been informed that active work, attended with gratifying results, is 1 icing 
carried on in this northern part of the district; and that considerable development work is being 
done by a new company just north of the village of Kings Mountain. 
