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Forsyth Bank

Past Producer in Madison 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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010171
MRDS ID D003733
Record type Site
Current site name Forsyth Bank

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.22566, 37.5209 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madison(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Higdon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Farmington(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rolla(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Whitewater(hydrologic unit)

Upper Mississippi-Meramec(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Mississippi-Kaskaskia-Meramec(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Missouri Madison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 007E 033N 25 SE OF NW Missouri

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED HALF A MILE WEST OF THE FORD MINE. IT IS SITUATED ON THE SOUTH SLOPE OF A GENTLE HILLSIDE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.22566, 37.5209
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1872

Mining district

District name Southeast Missouri

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner P. J. Forsyth

Comments on the production information

  • CONSIDERABLE LIMONITE WAS PRODUCED IN THE EARLY 1870'S

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.405HA

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW PITS WERE SUNK OVER AN AREA OF ABOUT ONE ACRE.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: ORE WAS HAULED BY WAGON TO MINE LAMOTTE, WHERE IT WAS USED IN THE SMELTING OF LEAD ORES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRANE, G. W., 1912 , THE IRON ORES OF MISSOURI: MISSOURI BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, 2ND SER., V. 10 , P. 267

Reporter information

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

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