Commodities
TertiaryIron, Silica, Chromium, Sulfur, Phosphorus-Phosphates
Commodity typeB
Materials
Other materialsAnthophyllite, Biotite, Chlorite, Chromite, Chrysotile, Corundum, Enstatite, Garnet, Garnierite, Magnetite, Olivine, Serpentine, Soapstone, Talc, Vermiculite
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Discovery year1870
Identification
Deposit ID10175213
Alternate namesT Mine, Ivy River-Democrat Chromite Depos, Its, Democrat Chromite Placer Deposit
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates35.7848, -82.49126
References
CHARLES E HUNTER ET AL 1942 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OFCONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN 42 CHROMITE DEPOSITS OFCAROLINA PP 1-2, 4-7, 24-26, 33-35 & PL 2, 16-17, 19JASPER L STUCKEY 1965 NORTH CAROLINA ITS GEOLOGY AND MINERALRESOURCES NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & DEVELOPP 275-277USBUMINES WAR MINERALS MEMORANDUM 1943 EASTERN REGIONAL FILENORTH CAROLINA CHROME P 5J VOLNEY LEWIS 1922 USGS BULLETIN 725 DEPOSITS OF CHROME ORENORTH CAROLINA PP 130-132USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 580 1968 MINERAL RESOURCES OF THEAPPALACHIAN REGION PP 372-374HERMAN J BRYSON 1937 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATIDEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PAPER 64 THE MINING INDUSTRY IN NORTHCAROLINA FROM 1929 TO 1936 PP 29-31THOMAS G MURDOCK 1946 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATAND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PAPER 65 THE MINING INDUSTRY IN NORCAROLINA FROM 1937 TO 1945 P 7JASPER L STUCKEY & STEPHEN G CONRAD 1958 NORTH CAROLINADEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN 71 EXPLANATEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA PP 19-20