Mine detail: Rogers Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

35.18789, -83.80934

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron
Ore:	Limonite
Orebody form:	STOCKWORK

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Clayey And Sandy Residuum; Recent.;Mineral Bluff Formation, Quartz-Sericite Schist Or Phyllite With Sandy Lenses And Intercalated Quartzites
Host type:	Quartzite
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
Structure:	Northeast-Trending Strike Belts Define A Major Syncline
Tectonic:	Geosyncline
Alteration processes:	Weathering Of Iron-Bearing Minerals To Form Limonite

References

MRDS	K002584
DEP	10026113
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. 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}
Reporter	Hale, Robin C.