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Maxwell Prospect

Occurrence in Davie county in North Carolina, 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. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078852
MRDS ID W027532
Record type Site
Current site name Maxwell Prospect
Alternate or previous names Old Maxwell Place

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.56341, 35.8387 (WGS84)
Elevation 224
Relative position 1.6 KM SLIGHTLY SOUTH OF WEST OF EPHESUS; PROSPECT LOCATION NOT EXACT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Davie(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cooleemee(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salisbury(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Yadkin(hydrologic unit)

Upper Pee Dee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Pee Dee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Davie

Comments on the location information

  • ON A RIDGE CREST IN THE EASTERN PIEDMONT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NARROW, LINEAR MAGNETITE OCCURRENCE WITH HIGH TITANIUM CONTENT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result ONE ORE ANALYSIS SHOWS IN PERCENT FE 60.0 , SI 0.78 , S 0.033 , P 0.008 , TI ACID 10.32

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.56341, 35.8387
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1882

Mining district

District name Mocksville Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PROSPECT ONLY

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO PROMISING PROSPECTS FOR COMMERCIAL ORE BODIES

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT ONLY; THREE SHALLOW PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    NITZE, 1893

  • Deposit

    NITZE, H. B. C., 1893 , IRON ORES OF NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. NO. 1 , TEXT 239 P., MINE TEXT P. 84 , 85

  • Deposit

    PROSPECT IN COOLEEMEE TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Deposit

    1893 RECON NITZE, N.C. STATE, MINE DESCRIPTION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MEDIUM-GRAINED MAGNETITE VERY FREE FROM GANGE; MASSIVE ORE BED REPORTED, TRACED BY ORE FLOAT 2.0 KM TO SW
Deposit COUNTRY ROCK HORNBLENDE AND SYENITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1977 D'Agostino, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

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