Lake Lure

Occurrence in Rutherford county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068575
MRDS ID W001702
Record type Site
Current site name Lake Lure

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.18318, 35.43343 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Rutherford(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lake Lure(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hendersonville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Broad(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Rutherford

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ilmenite Unknown
Magnetite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

(1) Biotite Gneiss and Schist

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, LLOYD, 1964, TITANIUM DEPOSITS IN NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. CONSERV. AND DEVELOP., DIV. MINERAL RESOURCES INF. CIRC. 19, 51 P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONCENTRATE CONTAINED 10% ILMENITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1972 Cooper, Margaret U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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