Magnet Cove Area

Past Producer in Hot Spring county in Arkansas, United States with commodity Iron
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. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10284178
MAS/MILS ID 0050590033
Record type Site
Current site name Magnet Cove Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -92.85207, 34.45232 (WGS84)
Elevation 107

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hot Spring(county)

Arkansas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Malvern North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Malvern(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Little Rock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Ouachita(hydrologic unit)

Upper Ouachita(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Red-Ouachita(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arkansas Hot Spring

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -92.85207, 34.45232

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • A Magnetic survey run by the Bureau of Mines over the Magnet Cove Region in December of 1942 mapped in detail several areas of very intense magnetic anomalies in a W.M.R., 1944.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF:WAR MINERALS REPORT JUNE 1944

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusIntermittent since 05/20/2026
MSHA mine ID0302102
Mine name (MSHA)Magnet Cove
Current operatorThat Camping Couple
Current controller (parent)Frank Stallings
Mine typeSurface (Metal / non-metal)

Inferred by coordinate + name similarity (1171 m, 0.81 match). Confirm against MSHA if precision matters — non-USGS-curated cross-references may occasionally point at a neighbouring mine.

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External references