Norrell mine, Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia, USAi

Regional Level Types
Norrell mine	Mine
Dahlonega	Town
Lumpkin County	County
Georgia	State
USA	Country

Across lots 736 and 805, 12th district, lies an auriferous micaschist belt, containing 32 small veins, varying in thickness from that of an ordinary lead pencil to fourteen inches. This belt is about 150 feet wide, and is said to be gold-bearing, from one side to the other, the decomposed schists, as well as the quartz veins, being more or less auriferous.

This belt was worked on lot 736, many years ago, by its owner, a man, whose name was John Norrell; since this time, it has been known as The Norrell Mine. The principal topographic features of lot 736, consist of two oblong hills side by side with the longer axis, north and south. One of these occupies the east side, and the other, the central part of the lot. The remaining part is occupied by a third parallel hill, the most of which lies on lot 735, which adjoins this lot on the west. On the top of the east hill, the eastern foot of which rests on lot 805, is a reservoir of 500,000 gallons capacity. From this fact, the hill is known as The Reservoir Hill.

The quartz, from the veins in these belts, varies from a friable, saccharoidal, to a hard, vitreous quartz. Very fair specimens of free gold have been found on the lot, one or two of which, I have seen. I was informed by Mr. Morrison, that about 1870, Mr. B. Roper found, at the bottom of Reservoir Hill, on lot 805, a "pocket" of rich gold ore, which yielded $14,000.

Lot 736 is three quarters of a mile southeast of Auraria, and about the same distance from the Chestatee river, which flows northeast of this lot. The auriferous schists of this property are in the trend of the Turkey Hill, Calhoun and Chestatee mines, which lie on the east side of the Chestatee river. Only a little further away, than the Chestatee, flows the Etowah river, west of this lot.