Mccarter

Occurrence in Ashe county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068544
MRDS ID W001622
Record type Site
Current site name Mccarter
Related records 10126865

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.49982, 36.55008 (WGS84)

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
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.49982, 36.55008

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AN EASTERN OPENING SHOWED 3 FT. OF ORE IN HORNBLENDE, PARTIALLY ALTERED TO ASBESTOS, AND THE WESTERN ONE, NOT MORE THAN ONE FT. WIDE. AVERAGE OF 3 REPORTED ANALYSES WAS 6.9% TIO2. IN AVERAGE OF 2 ANALYSES, TIO2 CONTENT WAS 5.79% AND THE IRON, 43.76%.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1972 Cooper, Margaret U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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