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

Foster Monazite Mine

Past Producer in Cleveland county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Thorium, REE
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089804
MRDS ID W031876
Record type Site
Current site name Foster Monazite Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.49344, 35.4851 (WGS84)
Elevation 293
Relative position 6.2 KM SLIGHTLY EAST OF NORTH OF FALLSTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cleveland(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cherryville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gastonia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Broad(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Cleveland

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH OF SHELBY

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Thorium Primary
REE Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MONAZITE OCCURRENCE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Monazite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.49344, 35.4851
ListMap

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Near Contact Of Toluca Quartz Monzonite And Mica Gneiss Unit

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1920
Year of first production 1920

Mining district

District name Eastern Cleveland County

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL AMOUNT OF MONAZITE PRODUCED

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • INFORMATION LACKING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: MERTIE, 1946, USGS SAMPLE NO. 45 MT 135

  • Deposit

    MERTIE, J.D., 1946, UNPUBLISHED INFORMATION

  • Deposit

    MINE IN CHERRYVILLE TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Deposit

    1946 RECON MERTIE, TRACE ELEMENT

  • Production

    MERTIE, 1946

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1977 D'Agostino, John P 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