Mine detail: Eliot and Leatherwood Iron Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

35.09455, -83.9499

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron
Ore:	Limonite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Residuum; Recent.;Andrews Formation-Thin Alt. Layers Of Marble And Biotite Schist;Murphy Marble, White-Bluish Gray-Black Fine-Coarse
Host type:	Marble
Associated rock:	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
Associated type:	Diorite
Tectonic:	Geosyncline
Alteration processes:	Weathering Of Iron-Bearing Minerals To Form Limonite

References

MRDS	K002579
DEP	10026109
Reference	{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:: 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:: 1925 COMPILE BAYLEY, N.C. GEOL. & ECON. SUR. BULL. 31}{Deposit:: 1973 OTHER POWER & FORREST, AM. JOUR. SCI., PAPER}{Production:: BAYLEY, W.S., 1925, N.C. GEOL. & ECON. SUR., BULL. 31}
Reporter	Hale, Robin C.