Early Bank

Occurrence in Wayne 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010214
MRDS ID D003788
Record type Site
Current site name Early Bank

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.6615, 37.1259 (WGS84)
Relative position 3 1/2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PIEDMONT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wayne(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Piedmont(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Piedmont(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)

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 Wayne

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 028N 004E 06 SE Missouri

Comments on the location information

  • SITUATED UPON THE MIDDLE SLOPE OF A STEEP, CHERT COVERED HILL

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chert Gangue
Clay Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.6615, 37.1259

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PIPE

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE ORE IS CHIEFLY OF THE PIPE VARIETY, AND CONTAINS NO CHERT OR SAND.

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 James Early ( 1912 )

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENTS CONSIST OF THREE SHALLOW PITS.

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. 352

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE EXTENT OF THE DEPOSIT HAS NOT BEEN DETERMINED.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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