Pascoe mine, Ball Ground, Ball Ground Mining District, Cherokee County, Georgia, USAi

Regional Level Types
Pascoe mine	Mine
Ball Ground	Town
Ball Ground Mining District	Mining District
Cherokee County	County
Georgia	State
USA	Country

The Pascoe mine was originally opened by Jabez Holcombe. Mr. Pascoe commenced operations here in 1840, and worked steadily during four years. After a suspension of operations for three years, the working was renewed, and continued until the death of the proprietor, in 1852. The total produce of the mine up to this period has been estimated at fifty thousand dollars.

The veins worked or developed are six in number, having the following names, beginning with the most north -westerly and proceeding to the sonth -east, viz.: I. the McDonald; II. the North Slate; III. the Franklin or Big vein; IV. the Abernethy; V. the Creek; VI. the South Cluster.

The following statement may serve to render apparent the extent of the explorations. A tunnel 60 feet in depth has been driven 124 feet south-west from shaft No. 3 on the McDonald vein, leaving 100 feet before reaching the boundary line that divides the Pascoe and the Franklin mines. Stoping ground, 35 feet in depth (sufficient for five tunnels) is left untouched above this excavation. In the opposite direction, the vein passes under the river, and has fully a quarter of a mile of extension before leaving the company's territory.

The main adit on the Franklin vein has been carried 300 feet to the south-west from the old shaft, No. 2. Sixty feet of backs (five to six feet wide) are here left standing for a length of 200 feet before reaching the Franklin boundary. At the south-western terminus of the present working, the vein has bulged out to a thickness of 40 feet; or rather, it has split into two veins, inclosing what seems to be a large lenticular mass of orey rock, 15 feet in thickness, having the regular vein 12 feet thick on either side. How far this enlargement is prolonged downward is of course unknown.

A cross-cut, at a depth of 60 feet, has been made between the McDonald and the Franklin veins. The drifting has been carried pretty nearly to the river, on the Franklin veins. A cross-cut at 60 feet has also been made from the new shaft, 140 feet south-east, across the Abernethy vein (30 feet from the surface), and extending a little distance beyond this point. It is intended ultimately to drive this tunnel across the entire series of the veins and strata, with a view to a complete exploration of the company's property.

The ore of the north slate is regarded as medium in quality, but is less rich than that of the Franklin and McDonald, to which veins nearly all the labor has thus far been directed. The Franklin vein, in its greatest depth and contiguous to the river, is said to have been very rich in auriferous pyrites, where nearly solid masses of this rich ore were noticed several feet in thickness. Concerning the Abernethy, the Creek and South Cluster veins, little is yet known, though the last mentioned is of recent discovery, and is regarded as very promising for gold.