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Norwood Hill Deposit

Occurrence in Cass county in Texas, United States with commodity 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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10063158
MRDS ID TC36799
Record type Site
Current site name Norwood Hill Deposit
Related records 10226951

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -94.578, 33.02376 (WGS84)
Elevation 137
Relative position 3.5 MI NE OF HUGHES SPRING.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cass(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sardis(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Texarkana(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Texarkana(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Caddo Lake(hydrologic unit)

Big Cypress-Sulphur(hydrologic accounting unit)

Red-Sulphur(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Cass

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • UP TO 20% OF SANDSTONE IS ORE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Clay Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Weches Member, Mount Selman Formation
    Rock description Weches Mbr, Mount Selman Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -94.578, 33.02376
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 2253.02M
    Width 1609.3M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS B 902, P. 113-114

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LEDGES OF SPONGY TO CELLULAR GOETHITE-HEMATITE 4 TO 8 IN THICK COVER AN AREA OF 260 AC.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1993 Long, Keith R. U.S. Geological Survey

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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