Gold Mining in North Carolina

State map includes inset showing counties within the "Gold Region" of North Carolina in the year 1846.

Shows counties, cities and towns, soil types, gold and copper deposits, and natural features. Red dots indicate location of gold deposits.

Companion map to the online publication "Metallic mineral deposits of the Carolina slate belt."

This map is an enlarged black and white print of a portion of 1887 Geological Map of N.C. by Joseph Austin Holmes. Symbols are used to indicate the locations of iron, gold, silver, and silver and lead deposits. The region along the Uwharrie River with gold deposits is highlighted on the map.

The area shown by this map is located in the vicinity of the McBane Mill near the intersection of Greenhill Road and North Carolina Highway 87.

Manuscript map also shows landowners with acreages, and gold mines.

Annotated blue print of manuscript map. Oriented with north toward right.

"A map of Barringer Mine in the early 1900s. It shows the vertical air shaft and branching mining tunnels of one section (at its deepest, the mine reaches nearly 400 ft.). Image courtesy of Joe Carter." Barringer Gold Mine, named after Matthias Barringer, was located in Montgomery County (later Stanly County). In 1825, it was site of the first gold vein discovered in the Southern Piedmont.

This is a Full-Text PDF of the 1948 print edition which covers Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. It also includes digital scans of 43 "in pocket" plate illustrations as PDFs. The Geological Survey "in pocket" plates relating to North Carolina gold mines are listed below.

Shows a plan of the mines in the Gold Hill area, showing shafts, veins, and roads. Inset map shows "Ground Plan of the Honeycutt Workings. From Geological report of the midland counties of North Carolina by Ebenezer Emmons. See "Publications Online" for full report.

This map (Plate 3) portrays the Gold Hill district in Rowan and Cabarrus counties and shows the locations of mines. Original color print map sized 2.6 x 1.7 feet.
See "Publications Online" to view Bulletin 21.

"Interactive map of the Gold Hill Mining District with major mines indicated with annotation. The Gold Hill Historic Park occupies land that was part of the Gold Hill Mine. Base map from Pratt (1908)." This site uses maps from The Gold Hill Mining District of North Carolina, Bulletin 21, by Francis Baker Laney.

The geologic map of the Kings Mountain and Grover 7.5-min quadrangles covers an area in the Piedmont physiographic province along the North Carolina-South Carolina border.

By Philip J. Bradley. North Carolina Geological Survey, Raleigh, N.C.