Brevard Deposit

Past Producer in Transylvania county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Mineral rights holdings
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10273809
MAS/MILS ID 0371750001
Record type Site
Current site name Brevard Deposit
Alternate or previous names Secondary Oxides

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -82.62656, 35.35121 (WGS84)
Elevation 762

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Henderson(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pisgah Forest(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hendersonville(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)

Federal lands

Pisgah National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Croatan National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

National Forests in North Carolina(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Transylvania

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -82.62656, 35.35121

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1901

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. N. Lobdell Property
    Home office North Carolina
    Year 1974
  • Type Operator
    Owner Kenneth Castro
    Home office North Carolina
    Year 1974

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WHITE, NORTH CAROLINA MINERAL INVESTIGATIONS-TWO, P. 10

  • Deposit

    CONF. FILES, TRANNSYLVANIA CO., NORTH CAROLINA.

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.