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Sneathen and Company Land No. 3

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010942
MRDS ID D005035
Record type Site
Current site name Sneathen and Company Land No. 3

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -91.62097, 37.08785 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shannon(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jam Up Cave(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 028N 006E 15,22 S2 (15) Missouri

Comments on the location information

  • SITUATED ON THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF A FLAT TOP HILL; NEAR THE LINE BETWEEN SEC. 15 AND 22.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Chert Gangue
Sand Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -91.62097, 37.08785
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BOULDERS AND LEDGE
    Length 109.36M
    Width 45.72M
    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 District

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: 5 MI FROM THE W.G. & N. 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. 382

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MASSIVE LIMONITE IS FOUND HERE COVERING AN AREA ABOUT 100 YARDS LONG AND 50 YARDS WIDE. MANY HUGE BOULDERS, SMALL FRAGMENTS, AND AN APPARENT LEDGE ARE FOUND WITHIN THIS AREA. THE ORE IS SOMEWHAT SILICEOUS.

Reporter information

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

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