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GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE WEST SPRINGS AREA
Figure 2. Geology of the West Springs area from Dennis and Wright (1995); Light grey – mafic metavolcanic rocks; outlined areas
within light grey – quartz sericite schist or silicification; no pattern – felsic metavolcanic rocks; dark grey – metapyroxenite-hornblendite;
double bar random pattern – metagabbros; rippled gneiss pattern – Mean Crossroads metadiorite-diorite gneiss; random
dot pattern – foliated biotite porphyry granodiorite; aligned crosses – undeformed, unmetamorphosed diorite; single bar random
pattern – Bald Rock granite.
GEOLOGIC SETTING
Dennis (1989) mapped the Glenn Springs 7.5 minute
quadrangle on which most of the mines occur (Figure 2).
The gold occurs in quartz veins or in very schistose pyritic
quartz sericite schists within a package of mafic volcanic
rocks and associated intrusives. Iron formations and quartzrich
exhalative rocks are found along strike of some of these
sericitic rocks, such as at Wofford Mountain (Figure 1). Den-
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