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Day Book Olivine Deposit

Producer in Yancey county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Olivine, Talc-Soapstone, Chromium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  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. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025782
MRDS ID K001727
Record type Site
Current site name Day Book Olivine Deposit
Related records 10199889

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.28374, 35.96565 (WGS84)
Relative position 3 MILES NORTH OF BURNSVILLE ON MINE FORK OF JACKS CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yancey(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Burnsville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Asheville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Nolichucky(hydrologic unit)

French Broad-Holston(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Yancey

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Olivine Primary
Talc-Soapstone Tertiary
Chromium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore
Olivine Ore
Talc Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Serpentinization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.28374, 35.96565
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 609.6M
    Width 182.88M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE PERIDOTITE CONSIST OF PARTLY ALTERED AND RELATIVELY UNALTERED DUNITE AND SAXONITE. UNALTERED MATERIAL OCCURS IN ALENS SHAPED ZONE NEAR THE CENTER. THE DUNITE IS COMPOSED OF FINE GRAINED OLIVINE AND SMALL CRYSTALS OF CHROMITE. THE DEGREE OF SERPENTINIZATION IS SMALL. THE SAXONITE IS COMPOSED OF FINE GRAINED OLIVINE, BRONZITE CRYSTALS AND CHROMITE. SOME OF THE BRONZITE HAS BEEN ALTERED TO TALC. CHLORITIZATION IS EVIDENT NEAR LARGER JOINTS AND FAULTS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Production years PRE 1941-1973

Mining district

District name Toecane Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner International Minerals And Chemical Corp. (Imc)
    Home office P.O. Box 71, Carlsbad, N.M. 88220

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ESTIMATE DOES NOT CONSIDER MINING ACTIVITY SINCE 1941.

Comments on the workings information

  • CHROMITE OCCURS IN DUNITE AT EXTREME SOUTHWEST AND NORTHEAST ENDS. HAS BEEN PROSPECTED AT SOUTHERN END BY PITS-AT NORTHERN END BY SHAFT 100 FT. DEEP. QUARRY IS DEVELOPED IN WEST CENTRAL PART OF PERIDOTITE TO PRODUCE OLIVINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUNTER, C.E., 1941, FORSTERITE OLIVINE DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA: NORTH CAROLINA DIV. MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 41 117 P.

  • Deposit

    LARRABEE, D.M. AND SWEENEY, J.W., 1968, OLIVINE IN MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE APPALACHIAN REGION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 580, P. 326-327.

  • Deposit

    BROBST, D.A., 1962, GEOLOGY OF THE SPRUCE PINE DISTRICT AVERY, MITCHELL, AND YANCEY COUNTIES NORTH CAROLINA: USGS BULL. 1122-A 26 P.

  • Deposit

    1941 GEOLMAP TENN. VALLEY AUTHORITY, REPORT

  • Deposit

    1962 GEOLMAP BROBST, MAP-REPORT

  • Production

    HUNTER, C.E., 1941, N.C. DIV. MIN. RES. BULL. 41

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1974 Fagan, James M. U.S. Geological Survey

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