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Clay City Clay Pits

Producer in Baldwin county in Alabama, United States with commodities Brick Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction
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  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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079335
MRDS ID W028571
Record type Site
Current site name Clay City Clay Pits
Alternate or previous names Fair Hope Clay Product Pits
Related records 10258030

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -87.80558, 30.48356 (WGS84)
Elevation 9
Relative position 12 KM SE OF FAIR HOPE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baldwin(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Magnolia Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pensacola(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pensacola(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mobile Bay(hydrologic unit)

Mobile Bay-Tombigbee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Mobile-Tombigbee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Alabama Baldwin

Comments on the location information

  • ON INTERFLUVIAL CREST SOUTH OF HIWAY AND RAILROAD AND ADJACENT TO ROAD JUNCTURE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Brick Clay Primary
Sand and Gravel, Construction Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Kaolinite Ore
Montmorillonite Ore
Quartz Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Rock unit name Undiff
    Rock description Undiff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -87.80558, 30.48356
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Thickness 3M
    Length 4000M
    Width 3000M
    Depth to top 2M
    Depth to bottom 5M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clay City

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Bart Genings

Comments on the production information

  • OCCURRENCE ONLY; MINOR AMOUNT OF CRYSTALS ON SURFACE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • INFORMATION LACKING; PROBABLY MINOR POTENTIAL

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 365.76M
    Overall width 50M

Comments on development

  • CORUNDUM FOUND USUALLY ON SURFACE, OCCURRING AS GRAYISH MASSES AS MUCH AS SEVERAL INCHES IN DIAMETER AND IN SMALL, ROUGH CRYSTALS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SZABO, M.W., AND CLARKE, O.M. JR., 1969, MINERAL RESOURCES OF BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP 83.

  • Deposit

    CLARKE, O.M., JR., 1970, CLAYS OF SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 20-E, P. 29-31.

  • Deposit

    1968 GEOMAP AG

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CORUNDUM USUALLY ASSOCIATED WITH FRACTURE FILLINGS IN SMALL AMPHIBOLITE BODIES ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit OCCURRENCE ONLY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1980 Clarke, Otis M. Jr. U.S. Geological Survey

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