Twidwell Bank

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 10010936
MRDS ID D005028
Record type Site
Current site name Twidwell Bank

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -91.56764, 37.15701 (WGS84)
Elevation 168
Relative position LOCATED 4 MILES N. OF GREENVILLE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shannon(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Summersville NE(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 029N 006E 30 NE OF SW OF NW OF SE Missouri

Comments on the location information

  • SITUATED UPON THE WEST SLOPE OF A HIGH HILL

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Chert Gangue
Clay Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -91.56764, 37.15701

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BOULDERS
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 1.52M

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
    Area 0.809HA
    Overall depth 2.44M
    Overall length 21.34M
    Overall width 4.57M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENTS CONSIST OF A SINGLE CUT 70 FT LONG, 15 FT WIDE, 8 FT DEEP. A 5 FOOT PIT SUNK IN THE BOTTOM OF THE CUT SHOWED ORE TO THAT DEPTH.

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. 385

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BROWN ORE OUTCROPS OVER AN AREA OF ABOUT TWO ACRES. ALL PARTS OF THE FACE OF THE CUT SHOW AN ABUNDANCE OF BOULDER ORE EMBEDDED IN CHERTY CLAY.

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.