Jennings-Republic Area

Past Producer in Clay county in Alabama, United States with commodities Graphite, Vanadium, Mica
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. Ownership information
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001799
MRDS ID W029523
Record type District
Current site name Jennings-Republic Area
Alternate or previous names Jennings Mine, Republic Mine, Conklin Mine
Related records 10111621, 10233497

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.83496, 33.30485 (WGS84)
Relative position REPUBLIC-SE/NW SECTION 8 (T20S-R8E) JENNINGS NE SECTION 8 AND NW SECTION 9 (T20S--R8E)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clay(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lineville West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

La Grange(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Atlanta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Tallapoosa(hydrologic unit)

Coosa-Tallapoosa(hydrologic accounting unit)

Alabama(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Alabama Clay

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Graphite Critical Primary
Vanadium Critical Secondary
Mica Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.83496, 33.30485

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Year of first production 1914

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner W.A. COLLIER
  • Type Owner
    Owner C. MC CORMICK

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PROUTY, W.F., 1923, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF CLAY COUNTY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE GRAPHITE INDUSTRY: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPEC. REPT. 12, 190 P.

  • Deposit

    BROWN, J.S., 1925, GRAPHITE DEPOSITS OF ASHLAND. ALABAMA: ECON. GEOL. V. 20, NO. 3 P. 208-248

  • Deposit

    PALLISTER, H.D., AND THOEHEN, J.R., 1948, FLAKE GRAPHITE AND VANADIUM INVESTIGATION IN CLAY, COOSA AND CHILTON COUNTIES, ALABAMA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 4366, 84 P.

Beyond USGS

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