Rock Run District

Past Producer in Cherokee county in Alabama, United States with commodities Manganese, Iron, Cobalt
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Controls for ore emplacement
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001798
MRDS ID W029514
Record type District
Current site name Rock Run District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.47495, 33.98344 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cherokee(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Borden Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Anniston(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Atlanta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Coosa(hydrologic unit)

Coosa-Tallapoosa(hydrologic accounting unit)

Alabama(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Alabama Cherokee
United States Alabama Cleburne

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Iron Primary
Cobalt Critical Secondary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.47495, 33.98344

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lithology

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name ROCK RUN DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PIERCE, W.G., 1944, COBALT BEARING MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF ALABAMA, GEORGIA AND TENNESSEE: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 940.

  • Deposit

    MCCALLEY, HENRY, 1897, THE VALLEY REGIONS OF ALABAMA PART II THE COOSA VALLEY REGION: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, SPEC. REPT 9, 862 P.

  • Deposit

    WYNDHAM, C.E., 1953, INVESTIGATION OF ALABAMA MANGANESE DEPOSITS, CALHOUN, CHEROKEE, AND CLEBURNE COUNTIES, ALABAMA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 4976, 38 P.

Beyond USGS

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