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Chapel Hill Iron

Past Producer in Orange county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10084214
MRDS ID W101366
Record type Site
Current site name Chapel Hill Iron

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.06919, 35.94037 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position Location From Map; Text

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Orange(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chapel Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chapel Hill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Raleigh(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Haw(hydrologic unit)

Cape Fear(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cape Fear(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Orange

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.06919, 35.94037
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN
    Strike NORTH AND N 60 E
    Dip VERTICAL

Comments on the geologic information

  • IRON-RICH QUARTZ VEIN IN GRAY GRANITE AND SYENITE. VEINS TREND DUE NORTH ANDuN 60 E. VEINS RANGE FROM 2-3 M THICK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1872

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall length 228.6M
    Overall width 3M

Comments on the workings information

  • MAIN VEIN IS 250 LONG AND RANGES FROM 2-3 M THICK WITH STEEP DIP TO THE WEST

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NITZE, 1893, NC GS BULL.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO VEINS.
Deposit First Production Year: 1872-1882

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-83 Whitlow, S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-93 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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