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Champion Mines

Past Producer in Blount county in Alabama, United States with commodities Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089750
MRDS ID W030756
Record type Site
Current site name Champion Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -86.44165, 33.94181 (WGS84)
Elevation 305
Relative position EAST EDGE ONEONTA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Blount(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oneonta(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Birmingham North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Birmingham(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

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
012S;013S 002E 32;33;4;5 Alabama

Comments on the location information

  • OLD PITS ON BOTH SIDES U. S. 231

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Chert Gangue

Analytical data

Result 43 TO 52% FE
Result 5 TO 18% SIO2
Result 0.18 TO 0.3% P - LESS THAN 1% MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Copper Ridge Dolomite;Chepultepec Dolomite
    Rock description Copper Ridge Dolomite;Chepultepec Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -86.44165, 33.94181
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Length 3000M
    Width 500M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Karst

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1885
Year of last production 1945

Mining district

District name Champion

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Sloss-Sheffield

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 3000M
    Overall width 500M

Comments on development

  • MINED BY J.W. WORTHINGTON CO IN 1880'S AND 1890'S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GIBBSON, A.M., 1893, GEOLOGIC STRUCTURE OF MURPHREES VALLEY AND ITS MINERALS AND OTHER MATERIALS OF ECONOMIC VALUE: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, SPEC. REPT 4, P 89-105.

  • Deposit

    CHAPMAN, H.H., 1953, THE IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRIES OF THE SOUTH: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS. UNIVERSITY, ALABAMA, P 42-44.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE MINED OUT - NO RESERVES ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV; 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Clarke, Otis M. Jr. Alabama Geological Survey

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