White Land

Past Producer 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. 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 10010933
MRDS ID D005025
Record type Site
Current site name White Land

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -91.57736, 37.15563 (WGS84)
Relative position LOCATED 4 1/2 MILES N.E. OF GREENVILLE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shannon(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Summersville NE(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Missouri Wayne

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 029N 006E 29 NW OF SE Missouri

Comments on the location information

  • SITE TAKEN TO BE NEAR CENTER OF NW 1/4, SE 1/4, SEC 29.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Chert Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -91.57736, 37.15563

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BOULDERS
    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 District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner W. E. White,
    Home office Greenville, Mo.

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL BOULDERS WERE TAKEN

Comments on the workings information

  • THE ONLY DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF A FOUR FOOT PIT FROM WHICH SEVERAL BOULDERS OF HARD, CHERTY, PRIMARY LIMONITE WAS TAKEN.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: ONE MI WEST OF THE WILLIAMSVILLE, GREENVILLE AND ST. LOUIS RY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRANE, G.W., 1912 THE IRON ORES OF MISSOURI, MISSOURI BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, 2D SER., V. 10, P. 386

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE OUTCROP CONSISTS OF AN AREA OF ABOUT 100 FEET IN DIAMETER.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Schneider, Norma J U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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