DISTKIP.UTT0X OF GOLD MIXES IX THE SOUTH APPALACHIAN REGIOX. 87
The Sutherland ore-body closely resembles the Middlebrook. It has been but slightly developed to a depth of about 30 feet. An oldfashioned wooden stamp mill with iron shoes stands on the property.
The Kemp Mountain district is situated in T. 17, K. 10 E. and T. 17, R. 11 E. The two most important properties are the Eckels and the Golden Eagle. The Eckels mine was opened in 1893 by an opencut 8 feet deep and 50 feet long, exposing ore, thin seams of quartz in decomposed graphitic schist, the entire distance. A shaft was sunk from the floor of the open cut to a depth of 65 feet. The dip is vertical down to 36 feet, when it changes to 60° south. A cross-cut at the bottom of the shaft showed that the ore-body had narrowed down to 18 feet. In 1894 the shaft was deepened to 100 feet and the same conditions found to hold. Xo sytematic work of treating the ore has been done.
The Goldex Eagle (formerly known as the Price) mine has been opened by a shaft 75 feet deep on the dip of the ore-body about 50° southeast. The vein-matter, quartz-stringers in hyclromica-sehist, is 10 feet thick at the bottom of the shaft and is highly sulphuretted, containing also arsenical pyrites. Some rich ore has been found here.
The Dyxe-Ceeek Company has recently made a number of openings in the vicinity of Kemp Mountain and south of Arbacoochee.
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The only mine of prominence is the Pinetucky. It might be classed as belonging to the Arbacoochee district, and is located about 2 miles south of Micaville and 11 miles from Heflin, near the northern boundary of the county.
The occurrence of gold-bearing quartz here was discovered by a Mr. Knight in the early days of gold digging. Kumerous shallow workings, perhaps the most extensive at any one point in the South, extend in a continuous line for over a mile along the outcrop of the vein, and give evidence of the large amount of work done here in time past, as well as of the continuity of the vein. These old workings have been carried to a maximum depth of 70 feet, and a large amount of drifting has been done on the course of the vein, which is nearly north and south, the dip being about 20° east. The vein is a fissure of hard, bluish quartz in walls of garnetiferous hornblende-schist. It varies in thickness from the fraction of an inch to 12 inches. The values are concentrated in chimneys or shoots, and vary from a trace to $150 a ton. It is claimed that the ore will carry an average of t$40 per ton. About one-half of the gold is free-milling, the other half being contained in the sulphurets (pyrites). The percentage of pyrite in the
