Commodities
PrimaryIron, Manganese
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
Orebody formLINEAR, IRREGULAR
Ore controlBedding, Fractures, And Residuum
Materials
Ore mineralsGoethite, Limonite
Geology
Host rockMarble · Residuum; Recent.;Andrews Formation-Thin Alt. Layers Of Marble And Biotite Schist;Murphy Marble, White-Bluish Gray-Black Fine-Coarse
Associated rockDiorite · Metadiorite; Precambrian; Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphism
Tectonic settingGeosyncline
AlterationWeathering Of Iron-Bearing Minerals To Form Limonite
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10026108
MRDS IDK002578
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates35.07511, -83.9324
References
BAYLEY, W.S., 1925, DEPOSITS OF BROWN IRON ORES (BROWN HEMATITE) IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA GEOL. AND ECON. SURVEY BULL. 31, 76 P.ROBERTSON, A.F., 1946, EXPLORATION OF THE CHEROKEE IRON DEPOSITS, CHEROKEE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RPT. INV. R.I. 3974, P. 31POWER, W.R., AND FORREST, J.T., 1973, STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY IN THE MURPHY MARBLE BELT: AM. JOUR. SCI., V. 273, P. 698-711.1946 DIREXPL ROBERTSON, U.S.B.M. RPT. INV. 3974COMPILE BAYLEY, N.C. GEOL. AND ECON. SUR. BULL. 31ROBERTSON, A.F., 1946, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RPT., R.I. 3974.