| Location: | Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 35.18789, -83.80934 |
| dep_id: | 10026113 |
| mrds_id: | K002584 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Iron |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| ore: | Limonite |
| orebody_fm: | STOCKWORK |
| alteration: | Weathering Of Iron-Bearing Minerals To Form Limonite |
| ore_ctrl: | Bedding, Fractures, And Residuum. |
| Reporter: | Hale, Robin C. |
| hrock_unit: | Clayey And Sandy Residuum; Recent.;Mineral Bluff Formation, Quartz-Sericite Schist Or Phyllite With Sandy Lenses And Intercalated Quartzites |
| hrock_type: | Quartzite |
| 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 |
| Structure: | Northeast-Trending Strike Belts Define A Major Syncline |
| 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:: 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. AND ECON. SUR. BULL. 31
- Deposit:: 1973 OTHER ZPOWER AND FORREST, AM. JOUR. SCI., PAPER
- Production:: BAYLEY, W.S., 1925, N.C. GEOL. AND ECON. SUR. BULL. 31
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