Mine detail: Southern Iron Mining Company Mine

Previously called 'Lena Walker Iron Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

35.18067, -83.87768

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron
Ore:	Limonite
Gangue:	Chert
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR AND BLANKET

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	PRE-WWI; 1919-1921.
First production started:	1925

Geology

Host rock:	Clayey And Sandy Alluvium And Residuum;Mineral Bluff Formation, Quartz-Sericite Schist Or Phyllite With Sandy Lenses And Intercalated Quartzites
Host type:	Quartzite
Associated rock:	Metadiorite, Dark-Green, Loccally 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 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	K002587
DEP	10026116
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:: ROBERTSON, A.F., 1946, EXPLORATION OF THE CHEROKEE IRON DEPOSITS, CHEROKEE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RPT. INV. R.I. 3974, 31 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:: 1946 DIREXPL ROBERTSON , USBM RPT. INV. RI 3974}{Deposit:: 1973 OTHER POWER AND FORREST, AM. JOUR. SCI., PAPER}{Production:: BAYLEY, W.S., 1925, N.C. GEOL. AND ECON. SUR. BULL. 31}
Reporter	Hale, Robin C.