Young

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. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10093334
MRDS ID W001623
Record type Site
Current site name Young

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
Rutile Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.49982, 36.55008

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 7.62M

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 MAGNETITE OUTCROP. AVERAGE OF TWO REPORTED ANALYSES WAS 6.87% TIO2 AND 51.81% IRON. FRAGMENTS OF ORE WERE COMPOSED OF MAGNETITE, MICA, AND AUGITE OR HORNBLENDE.

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.