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

Hominy Grove Olivine Deposit

Occurrence in Haywood county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Olivine
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. Alteration
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094992
MRDS ID K001723
Record type Site
Current site name Hominy Grove Olivine Deposit
Related records 10223686

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.8057, 35.55982 (WGS84)
Relative position 2.25 MILES NORTHEAST OF CANTON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Haywood(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Canton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Asheville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper French Broad(hydrologic unit)

French Broad-Holston(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Haywood

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Olivine Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Olivine Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Serpentinization

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.8057, 35.55982
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 609.6M
    Width 60.96M

Comments on the geologic information

  • DUNITE CONSISTS OF DARK GRAY AND GREEN COMPACT INTERLOCKING GRAINS OF OLIVINE. SERPENTINIZATION IS SLIGHT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Canton-Democrat Area

Comments on the workings information

  • LONG AXIS OF DEPOSIT TRENDS EAST-WEST. MOST OF DEPOSIT IS COVERED WITH THICK OVERBURDEN, PART OF WHICH IS CLAY AND GRAVEL TERRACE DEPOSIT. EAST PART IS BEST EXPOSED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUNTER, C.E., 1941, FORSTERITE OLIVINE DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA: NORTH CAROLINA DIV. MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 41. 117 P.

  • Deposit

    LARRABEE, D.M. AND SWEENEY, J.W., 1968, OLIVINE IN MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE APPALACHIAN REGION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 580, P. 326-327.

  • Deposit

    1941 GEOLMAP TENN. VALLEY AUTHORITY, REPOR

  • Production

    HUNTER, C.E., 1941, N.C. DIV. MIN. RES. BULL. 41

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1974 Fagan, James M. 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