1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

U. Ballou Magnetite Prospect

Occurrence in Ashe county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Iron
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  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 10026401
MRDS ID K004813
Record type Site
Current site name U. Ballou Magnetite Prospect
Alternate or previous names Moore Bank

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.41065, 36.5123 (WGS84)
Relative position ON TOP OF HILL INSIDE MEANDER LOOP ON NW SIDE OF THE RIVER, AND 1 MILE NW OF CRUMPLER.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Ashe(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grassy Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wytheville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winston-Salem(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper New(hydrologic unit)

Kanawha(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kanawha(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Ashe

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Hornblende Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Cranberry Gneiss: Augen Gneiss And Porphyritic Gneiss (Rankin, Espenshade, And Neuman, 1972)
    Rock description Cranberry Gneiss: Augen Gneiss And Porphyritic Gneiss (Rankin, Espenshade, And Neuman, 1972)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.41065, 36.5123
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast

Ore body information

  • General form LENS, PINCH AND SWELL
    Thickness 1.22M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ACCORDING TO BAYLEY (1923), THE ORE IS A MIXTURE OF MAGNETITE, EPIDOTE, AND QUARTZ, CUT IN MANY PLACES BY VEINS OF ALMOST PURE EPIDOTE. ROCK NEAR THE VEIN IS A FOLIATED EPIDOTE - HORNBLENDE GNEISS, COMPRISED OF A FINE - GRAINED AGGREGATE OF HORNBLENDE AND EPIDOTE INTERLAYERED WITH COARSER GRAINED EPIDOTE - HORNBLENDE GNEISS AND LAYERS OF COARSE HORNBLENDE. THE THIN LAYERS OF MAGNETITE ARE GENERALLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE EPIDOTE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ballou Magnetite Belt

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mr. U. Ballou

Comments on the workings information

  • ACCORDING TO BAYLEY (1923), THE VEIN WAS EXPOSED BY PITS AND A TUNNEL (OR ADIT); "OTHER TUNNELS AND PITS MARK THE VEIN ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER."

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site