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Bunker Bank

Occurrence in Dent county in Missouri, United States with commodity Iron
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  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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010160
MRDS ID D003719
Record type Site
Current site name Bunker Bank

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -91.21874, 37.45424 (WGS84)
Relative position HALF A MILE WEST OF BUNKER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Dent(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bunker(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)

Federal lands

Mark Twain National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Missouri Dent

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 003W 032N 24 NE Missouri

Comments on the location information

  • SITUATED IN A RAVINE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -91.21874, 37.45424
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • CUT EXPOSES ROUGHLY BEDDED LIMONITE OVERLAIN BY LOOSELY CEMENTED SANDSTONE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Southeast Missouri

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 14.63M
    Overall width 4.57M

Comments on the workings information

  • A CUT DRIVEN INTO THE HILLSIDE.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: LIMONITE ORE IS VERY SILICEOUS, CHERTY ORE CANNOT BE HANDLED COMERCIALLY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRANE, G. W., 1912 , THE IRON ORES OF MISSOURI: MISSOURI BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, 2D SER., V. 10 , P. 233

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ORE IS IN PART COMPARATIVELY FREE FROM CHERT AND SAND, AND IN PART VERY SILICIOUS, DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF DRUSES OF QUARTZ AND ANGULAR FRAGMENTS OF CHERT. THE LATTER TYPE ALSO FREQUENTLY CONTAINS MASSES OF NEEDLE-LIKE PIPE ORE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1984 Sherwood, Liz U.S. Geological Survey

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