Stanly County North Carolina

MINES:

Barringer Mine - site of the first gold discovery in county, produced lode gold.

Crawford Mine - was a placer gold mine.

Crowell Mine - produced free gold in pyrite.

Haithcock Mine - produced lode gold.

Hearne Mines - produced lode gold.

Ingram Mine - was a placer gold mine.

Parker Mine - located at the town of New London in northern Stanly County, was one of the first mines to be worked in North Carolina and was very productive in the years before the Civil War. Most of the gold was mined from colluvial placers, although veins were worked in later years. In the 1890's, considerable underground exploration was done with favorable results, but apparently there was no sustained production. In 1935, there was brief activity at the Parker mine when a rich pocket in a quartz vein yielded several hundred ounces of gold. This mine was long noted for its spectacularly large nuggets and had total production through 1935 estimated above 10,000 ozs. of lode gold.

Orowell Mine - produce lode gold.

SUGGESTED PROSPECTING AREAS:

Mountain Creek - West, in regional stream gravels along Mountain Creek and its tributaries (overlapping into Cabarrus Co.) you can find placer gold, with diamonds.

Rocky River

Reported By: Brian Helms

Rocky river that flows through Stanly, Cabarrus, and Union counties and all of it's tributaries contain some amount of gold in stream gravel. In many cases the gold is in clay with stream gravel in it. Some streams are mostly bedrock and are easy pickings. Best places on the river are in lower Cabarrus through Stanly county. Several 1 ounce nuggets have been found throughtout the area. I have heard stories of bigger but not from a reliable source.