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Arrowood Mine

Past Producer in Buncombe county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Kaolin, Feldspar, Mica
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  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 10026464
MRDS ID K005105
Record type Site
Current site name Arrowood Mine
Alternate or previous names Corner Spar Mine
Related records 10200227

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.50097, 35.77899 (WGS84)
Relative position 4,250 FEET NE OF THE MORGAN HILL CHURCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Buncombe(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mars Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Asheville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper French Broad(hydrologic unit)

French Broad-Holston(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Buncombe

Comments on the location information

  • INDICATED BY A MINE OR QUARRY SYMBOL ON THE QUAD. PLACED IN BUNCOMBE DISTRICT BY LESURE (1968)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Kaolin Primary
Feldspar Primary
Mica Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • HALLOYSITE WOULD BE THE ONLY COMMODITY WITH ANY POTENTIAL.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Feldspar Ore
Halloysite Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result X-RAY DIFFRACTION BY USBM 80% HALLOYSITE, 20% META-HALLOYSITE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND MOISTURE INVESTIGATIONS IN HUNTER AND HASH, 1949.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Rock unit name Pegmatite;Dunite
    Rock description Pegmatite;Dunite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Dunite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.50097, 35.77899
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Occurs Along Contact Of Two Large Groups Of Precambrian Rocks

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 40 W
    Dip 5ONE
    Length 118.87M
    Width 27.43M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Pegmatite

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE PEGMATITE INTRUDES THE DEMOCRAT DUNITE BODY WHICH IS INTRUSIVE INTO THE PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1934
Discoverer John Rice
Year of first production 1934

Mining district

District name Buncombe District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Spruce Pine Mining Co. (Paul Henline)
  • Type Owner
    Owner Spruce Pine Mining Co.

Comments on the production information

  • 15 CARLOADS OF HALLOYSITE WERE PRODUCED IN 1947

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.158HA
    Overall length 60.96M
    Overall width 27.43M

Comments on the workings information

  • PRESENTLY NO VISIBLE EVIDENCE EXISTS FOR THE UNDERGROUND MINING DUE EITHER TO RENEWED AND MORE EXTENSIVE MINING OR SLUMPING AND FILLING OF DRIFTS.

Comments on development

  • THIS DEPOSIT HAS BEEN WORKED AT DIFFERENT TIMES FOR AT LEAST 3 DIFFERENT COMMODITIES - FELDSPAR, HALLOYSITE, MUSCOVITE MICA.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUNTER, C. E. AND HASH, L. J., 1949, HALLOYSITE DEPOSITS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: N. C. DEPT. OF CONSERV. AND DEVEL., BULL. 58, 32 P.

  • Deposit

    MERSCHAT, C. E., IN PROGRESS 1976, GEOLOGIC MAP AND MINERAL RESOURCES SUMMARY OF THE MARS HILL QUADRANGLE; NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. NAT. AND ECON. RESOURCES, MINERAL RESOURCES SEC. GM 191-SE AND MRS 191-SE

  • Deposit

    MERSCHAT, C. E., IN PROGRESS 1976, MINERAL RESOURCES SUMMARY OF THE MARS HILL QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. OF NAT. AND ECON. RESOURCES, MINERAL RESOURCES SECTION. MRS 191-SE.

  • Deposit

    1949 COMPILE HUNTER & HASH N.C. DEPT. CONS. & DEVEL.

  • Deposit

    1968 COMPILE LESURE F.G. PROF. PAPER 577

  • Production

    HUNTER & HASH, 1949, HALLOYSITE DEPOSITS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: N. C. BULL. 58; LESURE, F.G., 1968, U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER 577

  • Reserve-Resource

    HUNTER & HASH, 1949, HALLOYSITE DEPOSITS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA; N. C. BULL. 58

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AGE OF MINERALIZATION VARIES WITH THE MINERAL COMMODITIES. FELDSPAR AND MICA HAVING AN ORDOVICIAN AGE, WHILE THE HALLOYSITE HAS FORMED DURING LATER WEATHERING EITHER DURING CRETACEOUS OR CENOZOIC.
Deposit First Production Year: FELDSPAR (1934) HALLOYSITE (1947)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Merschat, Carl E. U.S. Geological Survey

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