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Bailey Place Iron Mine

Past Producer in Lincoln 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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078853
MRDS ID W027534
Record type Site
Current site name Bailey Place Iron Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.4076, 35.4426 (WGS84)
Elevation 300
Relative position 3.6 KM SE OF FLAY; MINE LOCATION NOT EXACT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cherryville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gastonia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Catawba(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Lincoln

Comments on the location information

  • WEST OF LINCOLNTON

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SMALL LIMONITE OCCURRENCE; LIMONITE DARK BROWN AND LUSTROUS; CIVIL WAR WORKINGS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore

Analytical data

Result ONE ORE ANALYSIS SHOWS IN PERCENT FE 54.17 , SI 7.14 , S 0.097 , P 0.381

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.4076, 35.4426
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR AND BLANKET

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1860
Year of first production 1860

Mining district

District name Western Lincoln County

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PROBABLY VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF IRON ORE HAULED TO DICKSON'S FORGE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SMALL AREAS WITH LIMONITE ORE FLOAT REMAIN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 3M
    Overall length 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • LONG TRENCH TRENDING EAST; WIDTH UNKNOWN; ADJACENT TO AREA 120 M BY 180 M WITH MUCH FINE SHOT-SIZE LIMONITE ORE; ORE USUALLY HAND-PICKED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: 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. 116 , 117

  • Deposit

    MINE IN CHERRYVILLE TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    NITZE, 1893

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SURFACE FLOAT ORE; LIMONITE COMPACT AND HOMOGENEOUS AND IN PLACES SHALY AND IMPREGNATED WITH QUARTZ
Deposit GENTLY FOLDED STRATIFICATION, IN PLACES NEARLY HORIZONTAL

Reporter information

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