Neighbors John Land

Occurrence in Wayne county in Missouri, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010946
MRDS ID D005040
Record type Site
Current site name Neighbors John Land

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -91.6682, 37.0209 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Howell(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pine Crest(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Spring Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rolla(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Current(hydrologic unit)

Upper White(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper White(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Missouri Wayne

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 027N 007E 06 SE Missouri

Comments on the location information

  • SITUATED ON A DIVIDE, SLOPING SOUTHWARD, BETWEEN TWO RIDGES; S.E. 1/4, SEC. 6.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Chert Gangue
Sand Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Nearby scientific data

(1) -91.6682, 37.0209

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BOULDERS AND LEDGE
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Southeast Missouri District

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Overall length 70M
    Overall width 27.43M

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: 6 OR 8 MI FROM THE ST. L., C.G. & FT. S. RY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRANE, G.W., 1912 THE IRON ORES OF MISSOURI, MISSOURI BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, 2D SER., V. 10, P. 379

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ORE IS IN THE FORM OF LARGE BOULDERS AND FRAGMENTS AND AT THE SOUTHERN OR LOWER END OF THE DEPOSIT THERE APPEARS A REEF-LIKE MASS OR LEDGE OF ORE. THE DEPOSIT COVERS AN AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 70 YARDS IN LENGTH AND 30 YARDS IN WIDTH. ORE IS SILICEOUS CONTAINING WHITE CHERT AND SAND GRAINS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Schneider, Norma J U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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