Berry Wm. Land No. 1

Occurrence in Wayne county in Missouri, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090808
MRDS ID D005068
Record type Site
Current site name Berry Wm. Land No. 1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -91.62653, 37.09201 (WGS84)
Elevation 177

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shannon(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pine Crest(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Spring Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rolla(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Current(hydrologic unit)

Upper White(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper White(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Missouri Wayne

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 028N 006E 15 Missouri

Comments on the location information

  • SITUATED NEAR THE BASE ON THE NORTH EASTERN SLOPE OF A LARGE FLAT TOPPED HILL

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Chert Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -91.62653, 37.09201

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BOULDERS
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Southeast Missouri District

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: 5 MI FROM W., G. & N. RY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRANE, G.N., 1912 THE IRON ORES OF MISSOURI, MISSOURI BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, 2D SER., V.10, P.371

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A TEST WELL WAS SUNK AND AT A DEPTH OF 22 FEET, 4 FEET OF HARD RED IRON ORE WAS FOUND. IT WAS THOUGHT THAT THE WELL JUST TOUCHED OFF THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE DEPOSIT OF IRON. THIS INFORMATION WAS FURNISHED BY MR. BERRY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Schneider, Norma J U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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