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Superior Stone Company Quarry

Producer in Iredell county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Granite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089805
MRDS ID W031904
Record type Site
Current site name Superior Stone Company Quarry
Alternate or previous names Statesville Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.92148, 35.80426 (WGS84)
Elevation 268
Relative position 1.7 KM NE OF RTE 40 AND 90 CLOVERLEAF

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iredell(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Statesville West(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 Iredell

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL PIEDMONT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Granite Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ROAD METAL AND CRUSHED ROCK

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gneiss Ore

Analytical data

Result 4 GEOCHEMICAL SAMPLES ANALYZED BY THE SEMIQUANTIATIVE SPECTROGRAPHIC METHOD FOR 34 ELEMENTS.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.92148, 35.80426
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeastward Strike Of Structural Trends.

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1965
Discoverer N.C. State Roads Comission
Year of first production 1965

Mining district

District name Statesville Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Martin Marietta Aggregates Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Superior Stone Co.

Comments on the production information

  • SERVES LOCAL AREA WITH CRUSHED STONE. OPERATING SINCE 1965.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • REQUESTED DATA MAY BE AVAILABLE FROM THE COMPANY

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 6.125HA
    Overall length 320.04M
    Overall width 175M

Comments on the workings information

  • ABOVE AREA IS FOR 1969. QUARRY LIKELY WILL BE WORKED FOR MANY YEARS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WHITLOW, JESSE W., FIELD INVESTIGATION

  • Deposit

    1967 GEOCHEM J. WHITLOW, ELEMENT CONTEN

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MAJOR REGIONAL ROCK UNIT
Deposit ANALYTIZAL RESULTS DO NOT SHOW ANY ANOMALOUS ELEMENTS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1977 Whitlow, Jesse W. U.S. Geological Survey

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