| Deposit ID | 10026113 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | K002584 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Rogers Prospect |
| Related records | 10296877 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -83.80934, 35.18789 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | 0.5 MILE DUE SOUTH OF JUNCTION OF US RTES. 19 AND 129 AND THE JUNALUSKA CREEK ROAD. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Cherokee(county)
North Carolina(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Andrews(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Fontana Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Hiwassee(hydrologic unit)
Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee(hydrologic accounting unit)
Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee(hydrologic subregion)
Tennessee(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Nantahala National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
Croatan National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
National Forests in North Carolina(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | North Carolina | Cherokee |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Iron | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Limonite | Ore |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite | ||||
| Rock unit name | Metadiorite; Precambrian; Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphism | ||||
| Rock description | Metadiorite; Precambrian; Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphi | ||||
| |||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite |
| Rock unit name | Clayey And Sandy Residuum; Recent.;Mineral Bluff Formation, Quartz-Sericite Schist Or Phyllite With Sandy Lenses And Intercalated Quartzites |
| Rock description | Clayey And Sandy Residuum; Recent.;Mineral Bluff Formation, Quartz-Sericite Schist Or Phyllite With Sandy Lenses And Intercalated Quartzites |
| (1) | -83.80934, 35.18789 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Northeast-Trending Strike Belts Define A Major Syncline |
| General form | STOCKWORK |
|---|---|
| Width | 6.1M |
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Murphy Marble Belt |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | K002584 |
BAYLEY, W.S., 1925, DEPOSITS OF BROWN IRON ORES (BROWN HEMATITE) IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA GEOL. AND ECON. SURVEY BULL. 31, 76 P.
1925 COMPILE BAYLEY, N.C. GEOL. AND ECON. SUR. BULL. 31
1973 OTHER ZPOWER AND FORREST, AM. JOUR. SCI., PAPER
BAYLEY, W.S., 1925, N.C. GEOL. AND ECON. SUR. BULL. 31
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | RESIDUAL LIMONITE IN THE OVERBURDEN IS MINIMAL |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-OCT-1974 | Hale, Robin C. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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