Government Land No. 5

Occurrence in Shannon 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094342
MRDS ID D005014
Record type Site
Current site name Government Land No. 5

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.6715, 37.08368 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wayne(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mill Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Piedmont(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rolla(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Black(hydrologic unit)

Upper White(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper White(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Missouri Shannon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 028N 004W 24,25 SE OF NE (25); SE OF NE (24) Missouri

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chert Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.6715, 37.08368

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PIPE
    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

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NASON, FRANK L., 1892, A REPORT ON THE IRON ORES OF MISSOURI: MISSOURI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1ST SER., V. 2, P. 262

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit STALACTITIC LIMONITE ORE IS FOUND IN THESE LOCALITIES ON AND NEAR THE SUMMITS OF HILLS WHICH ARE THICKLY COVERED WITH CHERT FRAGMENTS; LITTLE ORE IS ON THE SURFACE, YET, AT EACH LOCALITY, A LITTLE DIGGING HAS BEEN DONE EXPOSING SMALL AND LARGE MASSES OF PIPE ORE; IT IS GOOD ORE, SOME PARTS OF IT ARE PSEUDOMORPH AFTER PYRITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1980 Kent, Gordon U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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