Vaughn Bank

Occurrence in Crawford county in Missouri, United States with commodity Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Ownership information
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094276
MRDS ID D003687
Record type Site
Current site name Vaughn Bank

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -91.41931, 37.8445 (WGS84)
Relative position TWO MILES SOUTHEAST OF WESCO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crawford(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cook Station(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rolla(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rolla(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Meramec(hydrologic unit)

Upper Mississippi-Meramec(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Mississippi-Kaskaskia-Meramec(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Missouri Crawford

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 005W 036N 13 NE Missouri

Comments on the location information

  • SITUATED ON A LOW HILL BETWEEN TWO SMALL STREAMS, ON THE EXTREME WESTERN EDGE OF A COMPLEXLY FOLDED AREA ( CRANE, 1912 )

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -91.41931, 37.8445

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Southeast Missouri

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner F. E. Vaughn

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 1.52M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SMALL CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRANE, G. W., 1912 , THE IRON ORES OF MISSOURI: MISSOURI BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, 2D SER., V. 10 , P. 220

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THERE IS LITTLE OR NO OUTCROP AT THIS PLACE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Sherwood, Liz U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references