Mine detail: J.W. Cooper Prospect

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Location:	Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States, North America
Lat / long:	35.07511, -83.9324
dep_id:	10026108
mrds_id:	K002578
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Iron, Manganese
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	No production occurred
Development status:	Occurrence
ore:	Goethite, Limonite
orebody_fm:	LINEAR, IRREGULAR
alteration:	Weathering Of Iron-Bearing Minerals To Form Limonite
conc_proc:	Weathering Of Iron-Bearing Minerals To Form Limonite
ore_ctrl:	Bedding, Fractures, And Residuum
Reporter:	Hale, Robin C.
hrock_unit:	Residuum; Recent.;Andrews Formation-Thin Alt. Layers Of Marble And Biotite Schist;Murphy Marble, White-Bluish Gray-Black Fine-Coarse
hrock_type:	Marble
arock_unit:	Metadiorite; Precambrian; Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphism
arock_type:	Diorite
tectonic:	Geosyncline
References:	Deposit:: BAYLEY, W.S., 1925, DEPOSITS OF BROWN IRON ORES (BROWN HEMATITE) IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA GEOL. AND ECON. SURVEY BULL. 31, 76 P. Deposit:: ROBERTSON, A.F., 1946, EXPLORATION OF THE CHEROKEE IRON DEPOSITS, CHEROKEE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RPT. INV. R.I. 3974, P. 31 Deposit:: POWER, W.R., AND FORREST, J.T., 1973, STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY IN THE MURPHY MARBLE BELT: AM. JOUR. SCI., V. 273, P. 698-711. Deposit:: 1946 DIREXPL ROBERTSON, U.S.B.M. RPT. INV. 3974 Deposit:: COMPILE BAYLEY, N.C. GEOL. AND ECON. SUR. BULL. 31 Production:: ROBERTSON, A.F., 1946, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RPT., R.I. 3974.