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Ballou Home Place Magnetite Prospect

Occurrence in Ashe county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Iron, Iron, Pig Iron
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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. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026400
MRDS ID K004812
Record type Site
Current site name Ballou Home Place Magnetite Prospect
Alternate or previous names Robinson Opening and Pine Tree Tunnel
Related records 10175153

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.40621, 36.51397 (WGS84)
Relative position EAST SIDE OF NC RT. 16 AND 1.2 MILES NW OF HEALING SPRINGS CHURCH AT CRUMPLER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Ashe(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grassy Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wytheville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winston-Salem(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper New(hydrologic unit)

Kanawha(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kanawha(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Ashe

Comments on the location information

  • ACCORDING TO BAYLEY (1923), THE ROBINSON OPENING IS TO THE NORTHEAST NEAR THE TOP OF THE HILL, AND THE PINE TREE TUNNEL IS NEAR THE BASE OF THE HILL.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary
Iron, Pig Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Hornblende Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Cranberry Gneiss: Augen Gneiss And Porphyritic Gneiss (Rankin, Espenshade, And Neuman, 1972)
    Rock description Cranberry Gneiss: Augen Gneiss And Porphyritic Gneiss (Rankin, Espenshade, And Neuman, 1972)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.40621, 36.51397
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast

Ore body information

  • General form LENS, PINCH AND SWELL
    Dip 45 SE
    Width 6.71M

Comments on the geologic information

  • NITZE (IN BAYLEY, 1923) DESCRIBES THE ORE AS HARD, COMPACT, AND FINE - GRAINED, CONSISTING OF MAGNETITE DISSEMINATED THROUGH A GANGUE OF HORNBLENDE, EPIDOTE, AND QUARTZ. THE QUARTZ - PEGMATITE FOOTWALL CONTAINS MINOR PYRITE. COMPACT MAGNETITE IS INTERLAYERED WITH INTERMIXED MAGNETITE AND HORNBLENDE. IN THE ROBINSON OPENING, THE ORE NEAR THE FOOTWALL IS GRANULAR MAGNETITE INTERLAYERED WITH EPIDOTE - HORNBLENDE SCHIST LIKE THAT AT THE CRANBERRY MINE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ballou Magnetite Belt

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Virginia Iron, Coal And Coke Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Mr. U. Ballou

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • BAYLEY (1923) STATES THAT THE RESERVE ESTIMATE IS BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS.

Comments on the workings information

  • THE PINE TREE TUNNEL RUNS NORTHEASTWARD INTO THE HILL FOR ABOUT 100 FEET TO A QUARTZ AND PEGMATITE FOOT WALL OF A 22 - FOOT WIDE ORE ZONE.

Comments on development

  • ACCORDING TO BAYLEY (1923), "...THE WHOLE VEIN EAST OF THE RIVER IN THE BENDS NORTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST OF MR. BALLOU'S HOUSE HAS BEEN DEVELOPED THROUGHOUT NEARLY ITS ENTIRE EXTENT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE RESULTS OF THE WORK DONE BY THE VIRGINIA IRON, COAL & COKE CO. BETWEEN THE TIME OF NITZE'S VISIT AND BAYLEY'S INVESTIGATION ARE NOT AVAILABLE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

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