Davis Mine, Cherokee County, Georgia, USAi

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

The Davis mine is situated on lot 22, 15th district, two miles south of Canton, near the Marietta & North Georgia R. R. 1 Three parallel gold bearing quartz veins occur here outcropping about four hundred feet apart. The one, furthest to the west, has four shafts sunk on it, varying in depth, from thirty to fifty feet. At the bottom of two of these, drifts have been extended along the vein for fifty feet or more, and the ore has been removed. The thickness of the ore-body is quite variable, in the different shafts; but, at no place, does it exceed two feet. The vein, consisting mainly of quartz, somewhat laminated, and frequently showing free gold, dips with the country-rock, at a high angle, to the southeast.

The east vein has one shaft, eighty feet deep, sunk, during the summer of 1893. Its upper portion resembles very closely, the vein, lying further to the west; but, near the bottom, where it is said to attain a thickness of four feet, it contains much pyrite. A test of the ore, made on a Crawford mill, erected near the shaft, was unsatisfactory. Whether this result was due to the low grade of the ore, or to the imperfect working of the mill, we are uncertain. Should further prospecting reveal valuable deposits of ore, here, a small branch, near by, could be utilized, in furnishing water to supply the batteries of a stamp-mill.