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Gold Veins Near Great Falls, Maryland

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Abstract

Introduction

Discovery and development

Geologic setting

Gold-bearing veins and shear zones

Age of mineralization

Outlook for further development

References cited



ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE

1. Map of underground workings
2. Map of the vein system near Great Falls showing location of principal mine

FIGURE

1. Map showing gold mines in Montgomery County, Md., and location of area studied
2. Aerial photograph showing prospect pits and trenches near the Ford mine
3. Graph showing production of gold in Maryland from 1868 to 1951
4. Isometric block diagram of the Maryland mine
5. Photographs of ruins of assay laboratory and mill
6. Equal-area projections of structures in wallrocks and in gold-bearing veins and shear zones
7. Photographs of gold in quartz and in limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite
8. Photographs of gold associated with galena

A discussion of the history of prospecting and mining in the Great Falls area and a description of the gold-bearing quartz veins.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WALTER J. HICKEL, Secretary

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
William T. Pecora, Director

Library of Congres catalog-card No. 73-603796.




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