Barbour County Brown Iron Ore Deposits

Past Producer in Barbour county in Alabama, United States with commodities Iron, 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. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001818
MRDS ID W030652
Record type District
Current site name Barbour County Brown Iron Ore Deposits

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.69996, 31.77239 (WGS84)
Relative position THE BROWN IRON ORE DEPOSITS OCCUR MAINLY IN THE SW PORTION OF THE COUNTY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pike(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Josie(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Troy(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dothan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pea(hydrologic unit)

Choctawhatchee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Choctawhatchee-Escambia(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Alabama Barbour

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.69996, 31.77239

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Year of first production 1944

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HASTINGS, E.L., 1963, BROWN IRON ORE DEPOSITS IN BARBOUR COUNTY, ALABAMA, AN INTERM REPORT: ALABAMA GEOL SURVEY INF SER 30, 51 P.

  • Deposit

    SKRZYNEICKI, A.F., 1976, MINERAL DATA ACQUISITION, ALABAMA IRON ORES, GRANT NUMBER G0144133: ALABAMA GEOL SUR OPEN FILE, 43 P.

  • Deposit

    CLARKE, O.M. JR. AND OTHERS, 1965, MINERAL RESOURCES MAP OF BARBOUR COUNTY ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOL SURVEY MAP 32.

Beyond USGS

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