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Fixico Mine

Past Producer in Coosa county in Alabama, United States with commodities Graphite, Mica, Vanadium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079763
MRDS ID W030490
Record type Site
Current site name Fixico Mine
Related records 10160352

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -86.39109, 32.90072 (WGS84)
Elevation 174

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Coosa(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mitchell Dam NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clanton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montgomery(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Coosa(hydrologic unit)

Coosa-Tallapoosa(hydrologic accounting unit)

Alabama(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Alabama Coosa

Comments on the location information

  • S 1/2 SEC 8 T22N--R17E

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Graphite Critical Primary
Mica Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Graphite Ore
Muscovite Ore
Roscoelite Ore

Analytical data

Result TWO SAMPLES YIELDED 119.04 LB/TON AND 50.92 LB/TON GRAPHITE ALONG WITH 0.31% AND 0.08% VANADIUM

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Mica Schist
    Rock unit name Wedowee Group Graphitic Units
    Rock description Wedowee Group Graphitic Units

Nearby scientific data

(1) -86.39109, 32.90072
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Coosa Block

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 45 DEG E
    Dip 45 DEGREES SE
    Thickness 65M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1898

Mining district

District name Coosa-Chilton

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Dean, C. A.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 45.72M
    Overall width 25M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ADDITIONAL PITS, EACH 30M LONG AND 10M WIDE, ARE ALSO LOCATED ON THIS PROPERTY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    PALLISTER, H.D., AND THOENEN, J.R., 1948, FLAKE-GRAPHITE AND VANADIUM INVESTIGATION IN CLAY, COOSA, AND CHILTON COUNTIES, ALABAMA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPT INV 4336, 84 P.

  • Deposit

    1923 RECON ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    1948 DIREXPL U.S. BUREAU OF MINES

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POTENTIAL GRAPHITE RESOURCES IN UNWEATHERED AREA-LARGE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Clarke, Otis M. Jr. U.S. Geological Survey

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