86 GOLD AND TIN DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. 
well as by surface workings, have never been important producers and are not now being 
worked. On Red Hill, 500 or 600 feet northeast of the Bumalo pit, considerable ore was 
once mined from open cuts reaching down to the limit of complete oxidation — about 60 
feet. The body here, a lens which lines up well with the Haile deposit, has a maximum 
thickness of 100 feet. Considerable exploration in the way of diamond drilling and well 
drilling has been carried on here recently to determine if lower portions of this deposit 
would constitute profitable ore, but the writer learns from Mr. Thies that the values encoun- 
tered were not very high and exploitation has ceased. It may be remarked here that 
6- to 10-inch wells drilled by machines of the Keystone type have been found at this mine 
to be decidedly cheaper for holes down to 500 or 600 feet than diamond drills, and that the 
bailed drillings give a much more satisfactory indication of the values passed through 
than do diamond-drill cores. 
About 150 feet northwest of the Haile pit the 185-foot level entered much jointed and 
fractured silicified rock. which carried no visible free gold but averaged $8 per ton on assay. 
This body, about 30 feet in diameter, extended about 40 feet above and 25 feet below the 
level. A raise to this body from the 270-foot level passed through several streaks of $5 
ore. Thirty feet west of the northwest corner of the Haile pit an old level 115 feet below 
the surface encountered $3 ore in amount too small to warrant extraction. On the 200-foot 
Altered volcanic tuff 
Pay ore 
Scale' of feet 
200 
Diabase 
Fig. 10.— Vertical section (approximate) of the Beguelin ore body, Haile. mine. 
level, about 100 feet northeast of the No. 1 shaft, 75 tons of ore exhausted a small body 
occurring near but apparently not related to a quartz vein. 
At a depth of 20 feet the No. 5 shaft reached ore assaying $4.50 per ton. This proved 
to be the top of a chimney-like body 15 feet in diameter, which ceased at a depth of 42 feet. 
A northeast crosscut from the bottom of the 100-foot shaft extends for 130 feet through 
material assaying 50 cents to $2 per ton and then reaches a practically barren hanging wall. 
The values are too low to warrant further development of this body. A well 400 feet deep 
about midway between the Haile and Beguelin pits gave evidence of quartz and silicified 
schist carrying pyrite with traces of gold. 
A recent letter from Mr. E. A. Thies, manager of the mine, reports the discovery of a 
new ore body about 300 feet southwest of the 130-foot diabase dike on the continuation 
of the strike of the Beguelin deposit. Twelve holes have been drilled and indicate that 
the values rapidly decrease below 140 feet. Two hundred feet farther to the southwest 
drill holes indicate the presence of a large decomposed diabase dike cutting across the 
rock structure. 
This new ore body, with the Beguelin and the Chase Hill pits, constitutes a zone almost 
1,500 feet long, parallel to the foliation of the country rock and at a right angle to the main 
diabase dikes. This, it seems to the writer, is another argument against the existence of a 
