No Name Given

Occurrence in Blount county in Alabama, United States with commodities Nickel, Cobalt
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067535
MRDS ID W000318
Record type Site
Current site name No Name Given

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -86.33331, 34.06681 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Blount(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Altoona(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Guntersville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Gadsden(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Locust(hydrologic unit)

Black Warrior-Tombigbee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Mobile-Tombigbee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Alabama Blount

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Tertiary
Cobalt Critical Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) Bangor Limestone

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Walnut Grove District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRITTENDEN, M. D. AND PAVLIDES, L., 1962, U.S.G.S. MAP MR-23.

  • Deposit

    BURCHARD, E. F. AND ANDREWS, T. G., 1947, ALABAMA GEOL. SUR. SP. REPT. 19.

  • Reserve-Resource

    UNPUBLISHED CO-NI REPORTS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Coury, Anny B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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