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Buford Mountain

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010163
MRDS ID D003723
Record type Site
Current site name Buford Mountain

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.67178, 37.70589 (WGS84)
Relative position TWO MILES WEST OF IRON MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Graniteville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Farmington(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rolla(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper St. Francis(hydrologic unit)

St. Francis(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Mississippi-St. Francis(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Missouri Iron

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 003E 035N 26 Missouri

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Analytical data

Result AVERAGE SAMPLE OF ORE: 47.81 % IRON, 8.54 % INSOLUBLE MATTER, 12.32 % MANGANESE, 0.017 SULPHUR, 0.044 % PHOSPHORUS.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.67178, 37.70589
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BOULDERS, TABULAR
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Southeast Missouri

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION MAY HAVE BEEN AS EARLY AS 1872 WHEN THERE WAS ACTIVE PROSPECTING TAKING PLACE.

Comments on the workings information

  • FLOAT ORE WAS SHIPPED

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: THE ORE, WITH HIGH IRON CONTENT AND LOW SILICA AND ALUMINA CONTENTS, IS OF BESSEMER QUALITY. HOWEVER, THE VEINS ARE TOO THIN AND SURFACE PROSPECTING HAS FAILED TO DISCOVER VEINS OF COMMERCIAL QUANTITY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: CRANE, G. W., 1912 , MISSOURI BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, 2ND SER., V. 10 , P. 262 .

  • Deposit

    WINSLOW, A., HAWORTH, E., AND NASON, F., 1894 , A REPORT ON THE IRON MOUNTAIN SHEET INCLUDING PORTIONS OF IRON, ST. FRANCOIS AND MADISON COUNTIES: MISSOURI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1ST SER., V. 9 , SHEET REPORT NO. 3 , P. 54 , 61 .

  • Deposit

    CRANE, G. W., 1912 , THE IRON ORES OF MISSOURI: MISSOURI BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, 2ND SER., V 10 , P. 262 .

  • Deposit

    NASON, FRANK L., 1892 , A REPORT ON THE IRON ORES OF MISSOURI: MISSOURI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1ST SER., V. 2 , P. 320 , 307 , 49 .

  • Production

    NASON, FRANK L., 1892 , MISSOURI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1ST SER., V. 2 , P. 320 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE BEARS DISTINCT TRACES OF STRATIFICATION (CRANE, G.W., 1912). "FLOAT" ORE EMBEDDED IN SURFACE CLAY IS THE MATERIAL BEING PRODUCED.
Deposit NO WORK TO DEVELOP THE SMALL AND UNIMPORTANT VEINS OF IRON IN THE PORPHYRY HAS BEEN DONE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1978 Sherwood, Liz U.S. Geological Survey

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