Great Lakes Carbon,Morganton Plant

Past Producer in Burke county in North Carolina, United States with commodity Graphite
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10175788
MAS/MILS ID 0370239002
Record type Site
Current site name Great Lakes Carbon,Morganton Plant

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.68483, 35.7484 (WGS84)
Elevation 347

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Burke(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morganton South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hickory(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlotte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Catawba(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Burke

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Graphite Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.68483, 35.7484

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Great Lakes Carbon Corp.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MANUFACTURED GRAPHITE

  • Deposit

    POR IS MORGANTON NC

  • Deposit

    MINERALS YEARBOOK,1977; PAGE 2

  • Deposit

    NOT ON 1980 OR 1981 MSHA LISTS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1983 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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