Contributions to Economic Geology 1902 Author:Samuel Franklin Emmons Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOLD AND PYRITE DEPOSITS OF THE DAHLONEGA DISTRICT, GEORGIA. By Edwin C. Eckel. Field work in the Dahlonega gold district of Georgia was carried on by t... more »he writer during September, 1902, under the direction of Dr. O. W. Hayes. While this field work was merely of reconnaissance character, preliminary to the commencement of folio mapping in the area, it developed certain features of considerable importance in connection with the gold deposits of the district. A preliminary report on this work, with maps, will be issued this year as a survey bulletin, while a brief statement of the principal results as regards the gold deposits has been published in a recent issue of the Engineering and Mining Journal. That portion of the present paper which relates to the gold deposits is essentially a reprint of that last noted, though it contains certain minor changes which affect the wording rather than the conclusions. LITERATURE OF THE SUBJECT. Though numerous references to the Dahlouega district are to be found in geological and mining literature, the following six papers will suffice to give the reader a good idea of the geology and mining industry of the region. In 1895 Dr. George F. Becker published, in the Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, Part IH, pp. 251-331, a valuable account of a " Reconnaissance of the gold fields of the southern Appalachians." In the same year Messrs. Nitze and Wilkens published, in the Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Vol. XXV, a paper on " The present condition of gold mining in the southern Appalachians." These papers are still the best summaries of the geological features of the Appalachian gold fields, and of the relations of the ore deposits. Dr. W. S. Yeates published in 1896, as Bulletin ...« less