Bama Or Flaketown Mine

Past Producer in Chilton county in Alabama, United States with commodities Graphite, Mica
Sections on this page
  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. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106142
MRDS ID W030487
Record type Site
Current site name Bama Or Flaketown Mine
Related records 10111822

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -86.46804, 32.75684 (WGS84)
Elevation 115

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chilton(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mitchell Dam(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clanton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montgomery(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Coosa(hydrologic unit)

Coosa-Tallapoosa(hydrologic accounting unit)

Alabama(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Alabama Chilton
United States Alabama Coosa

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 SEC 33 T21N--R16E

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Graphite Critical Primary
Mica Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Graphite Ore
Muscovite Ore
Roscoelite Ore

Analytical data

Result THREE SAMPLES: 73.96, 157.16, 85.84 LB/TON GRAPHITE 0.40%, 0.12%, 0.15% VANADIVM

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Mica Schist
    Rock unit name Wedowee Group Graphitic Units
    Rock description Wedowee Group Graphitic Units

Nearby scientific data

(1) -86.46804, 32.75684

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Coosa Block

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 25 DEG W
    Dip 45 DEG SW

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Alabama Machinery And Supply Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 182.88M
    Overall width 30M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN ADDITION TO THE ONE LARGE PIT, THERE ARE TWO SMALL PITS 65M LONG.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROWN, J.S., 1925, GRAPHITE DEPOSITS OF ASHLAND, ALABAMA: ECON. GEOL. V20, NO 3, 208-248 P

  • Deposit

    1923 RECON ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    1948 DIREXPL U.S. BUREAU OF MINES

  • Deposit

    PALLISTER, H.D. AND THOENEN, J.R., 1948, FLAKE-GRAPHITE AND VANADIUM INVESTIGATION IN CLAY, COOSA, AND CHILTON COUNTIES, ALABAMA: U.S. BUR. OF MINES REPT INV 4366, 84 P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Clarke, Otis M. Jr. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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