| Deposit ID | 10175213 |
|---|---|
| MAS/MILS ID | 0370210003 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Democrat Chromite Prospect |
| Alternate or previous names | Democrat Chromite Placer Deposit, T Mine, Ivy River-Democrat Chromite Depos, Its |
| Point of reference | Ore Body |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -82.49126, 35.7848 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 640 |
| Location accuracy | 500(meters) |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Buncombe(county)
North Carolina(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Barnardsville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Asheville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Upper French Broad(hydrologic unit)
French Broad-Holston(hydrologic accounting unit)
Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)
Tennessee(hydrologic region)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | North Carolina | Buncombe |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Chromium Critical | Tertiary |
| Iron | Tertiary |
| Phosphorus-Phosphates | Tertiary |
| Silica | Tertiary |
| Sulfur | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Anthophyllite | Unknown |
| Biotite | Unknown |
| Chlorite | Unknown |
| Chromite | Unknown |
| Chrysotile | Unknown |
| Corundum | Unknown |
| Enstatite | Unknown |
| Garnet | Unknown |
| Garnierite | Unknown |
| Magnetite | Unknown |
| Olivine | Unknown |
| Serpentine | Unknown |
| Soapstone | Unknown |
| Talc | Unknown |
| Vermiculite | Unknown |
| Ore Body (1) | -82.49126, 35.7848 |
|---|
| Thickness | 2M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length | 238M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Width | 70M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Area | 2HA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depth to top | 0M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Operation type | Surface |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Both |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1870 |
| Type of mineral rights | Fee Ownership |
|---|---|
| Type of mineral rights | Private Lease |
| Type of mineral rights | Minerals Only |
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Southern Minerals Co. Of Ashville |
| Home office | North Carolina |
| Year | 1975 |
| Type of workings | Surface | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area | 1.7HA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0370210003 |
CHARLES E HUNTER ET AL 1942 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF
CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN 42 CHROMITE DEPOSITS OF
CAROLINA PP 1-2, 4-7, 24-26, 33-35 & PL 2, 16-17, 19
JASPER L STUCKEY 1965 NORTH CAROLINA ITS GEOLOGY AND MINERAL
RESOURCES NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & DEVELO
PP 275-277
USBUMINES WAR MINERALS MEMORANDUM 1943 EASTERN REGIONAL FILE
NORTH CAROLINA CHROME P 5
J VOLNEY LEWIS 1922 USGS BULLETIN 725 DEPOSITS OF CHROME ORE
NORTH CAROLINA PP 130-132
USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 580 1968 MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE
APPALACHIAN REGION PP 372-374
HERMAN J BRYSON 1937 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATI
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PAPER 64 THE MINING INDUSTRY IN NORTH
CAROLINA FROM 1929 TO 1936 PP 29-31
THOMAS G MURDOCK 1946 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVAT
AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PAPER 65 THE MINING INDUSTRY IN NOR
CAROLINA FROM 1937 TO 1945 P 7
JASPER L STUCKEY & STEPHEN G CONRAD 1958 NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN 71 EXPLANA
TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA PP 19-20
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | YEAR ENTERED 1975 THE CHROMITE IS CHEMICAL IN GRADE WITH FOLLOWING ANALYSIS: 5 CR2O3, 28.50% FE2O3, 0.80% SIO2, TRACE S, 0.07% P. CR:FE IS FE CONTENT OF CHROMITE IS 19.95% CALCULATED FROM FE203 CHROMITE IS APPROXIMATELY 5% OF ORE RECORD 020 ENTRY IS LAST KNOWN OPERATOR 1941 1942 RECORD 050 DEPOSIT WAS MINED ON A LIMITED BASIS DURING 1918 RECORD 060 DUNITE IS SLIGHTLY STEATITIZED & SERPENTINIZED RECORD 080 CHROMITE OCCURS MAINLY AS A PLACER RESIDUAL DEPOS MIXED WITH CLAYS SAND & GRAVELS BUT ALSO OCCURS AS SMALL LEN OF MASSIVE & VEIN CHROMITE AND CHROMITE DISSEMINATED IN DUNI |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 27-FEB-84 | Lyday, Travis Q. | U.S. Bureau of Mines |
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