Swinney Land

Occurrence in Dent county in Missouri, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010162
MRDS ID D003721
Record type Site
Current site name Swinney Land

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -91.2693, 37.41813 (WGS84)
Relative position 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUNKER.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Dent(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Loggers Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Spring Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rolla(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Current(hydrologic unit)

Upper White(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper White(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Mark Twain National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Missouri Dent

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 003W 032N 33 SE OF SE Missouri

Comments on the location information

  • SITUATED ON THE CREST OF A RIDGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -91.2693, 37.41813

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BOULDERS
    Length 109.36M
    Width 30.48M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Southeast Missouri

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner I. N. Swinney ( 1912 )

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ORE IS SECONDARY LIMONITE AND CONTAINS NO SAND OR CHERT. IT IS, IN PART, POROUS, THE CAVITIES FILLED WITH RED CLAY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRANE, G. W., 1912 , THE IRON ORES OF MISSOURI: MISSOURI BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, 2D SER., V. 10 , P. 234

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO DEVELOPMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Sherwood, Liz U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.