| Deposit ID | 10026109 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | K002579 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Eliot and Leatherwood Iron Prospect |
| Related records | 10296697 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -83.9499, 35.09455 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | 0.8 MILE WEST OF CEMETERY AT PEACHTREE |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Cherokee(county)
North Carolina(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Peachtree(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Fontana Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Hiwassee(hydrologic unit)
Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee(hydrologic accounting unit)
Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee(hydrologic subregion)
Tennessee(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Nantahala National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
National Forests in North Carolina(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | North Carolina | Cherokee |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Iron | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Limonite | Ore |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite | ||
| Rock unit name | Metadiorite; Precambrian; Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphism | ||
| Rock description | Metadiorite; Precambrian; Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphi | ||
| |||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble |
| Rock unit name | Residuum; Recent.;Andrews Formation-Thin Alt. Layers Of Marble And Biotite Schist;Murphy Marble, White-Bluish Gray-Black Fine-Coarse |
| Rock description | Residuum; Recent.;Andrews Formation-Thin Alt. Layers Of Marble And Biotite Schist;Murphy Marble, White-Bluish Gray-Black Fine-Coarse |
| (1) | -83.9499, 35.09455 |
|---|
| General form | IRREGULAR |
|---|
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Brasstown-Peachtree Belt Of Murphy Marble |
|---|
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Eliot And Leatherwood |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | K002579 |
BAYLEY, W.S., 1925, DEPOSITS OF BROWN IRON ORES (BROWN HEMATITE) IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA GEOL. AND ECON. SURVEY BULL. 31, 76 P.
1925 COMPILE BAYLEY, N.C. GEOL. & ECON. SUR. BULL. 31
1973 OTHER POWER & FORREST, AM. JOUR. SCI., PAPER
BAYLEY, W.S., 1925, N.C. GEOL. & ECON. SUR., BULL. 31
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THE POSITION OF THE DEPOSIT IS NEAR THE CONTACT OF THE MURPHY MARBLE WITH THE ANDREWS FORMATION. SIMILAR OCCURRENCES ARE PRESENT ALONG THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE ISOLATED BELT OF MURPHY MARBLE IN THE BRASSTOWN-PEACHTREE AREA. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-OCT-1974 | Hale, Robin C. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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