Stansill Mine, Cherokee County, Georgia, USAi

Regional Level Types
Stansill Mine	Mine
Cherokee County	County
Georgia	State
USA	Country

This property is located, three miles east of Allatoona, on lot 848, 20th district, between the Georgiana and the Glade mines. It consists of two recent shafts, one ten and the other thirty-five feet, in depth. Each exposes an auriferous vein. In the latter, the vein attains a thickness of about ten feet, while that, in the former, has a width of less than ten inches. Both shafts are located on the bank of a small branch, scarcely a hundred yards apart. It seems quite probable from the strike and the general appearance of the ore-body that they are continuous; that is, outcroppings of the same vein. This, however, cannot be definitely demonstrated, until further prospecting has been done. The vein material, which is exposed, in the thirty-five foot shaft, is made up mainly of iron-stained quartz, with more or less pyrite and chalcopyrite. Some of the quartz is frequently porous, from the weathering of the pyrites; and, when broken, it shows numerous cavities, filled with iron oxide. There also occurs, another variety of quartz, which is of a dark color, compact, and difficult to crush. Moreover, there is to be seen, scattered irregularly through the ore-body, more or less pyritic hornblende-schist. Samples of the ore, taken from the deeper shaft, assay from $2.00 to $6.oo per ton; while small hand specimens, taken from the other shaft, have been reported to run as high as $5 8.00 per ton.

In strike and dip, the vein corresponds with the hornblende-schist, the country-rock.