Kings Mountain Mine

Kings Mountain Mine is a past producer of gold, molybdenum, tellurium, lead in Cleveland County, North Carolina, in USGS's medium output class. USGS records production from 1830 to 1895. It is one of 7 historic gold producers USGS lists in Cleveland County, and number 1 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Past producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold, Molybdenum, Tellurium, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Arsenic, Antimony, Copper, Bismuth
Workings
Underground
Production years
1830 to 1895
Discovered
1829
County
Cleveland County
State
North Carolina
Land status (BLM data)
Land status not determined in the BLM dataset
USGS record
10078171

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, positions can be approximate, and "producer" does not mean a mine is operating today. "Output class" is a code whose meaning changed over the years, so compare sites inside this data and do not read it as tonnage.

Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date. Check ownership before you go near any mine site.