Chapel Hill Mine

Past Producer in Orange county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10175847
MAS/MILS ID 0371350009
Record type Site
Current site name Chapel Hill Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -79.07035, 35.92949 (WGS84)
Elevation 209

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Orange(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chapel Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chapel Hill(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Raleigh(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Haw(hydrologic unit)

Cape Fear(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cape Fear(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Orange

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -79.07035, 35.92949

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CARPENTER, III, P ALBERT, 1976, NC DEPT OF NAT AND ECON

  • Deposit

    BULL 84, P. 99.

  • Deposit

    ALLEN, ELDEN P. & WILSON, WILLIAM F., 1968, NC DEPT OF CONS

  • Deposit

    & DEVEL BULL 81, P. 47.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-NOV-1983 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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