Mine detail: Pilot Knob

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Location: Iron County, Missouri, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.61923, -90.63344
dep_id: 10072191
mrds_id: W016790
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Unknown
Development status: Prospect
ore: Magnetite
gangue: Apatite, Barite, Chalcopyrite, Feldspar, Fluorite, Quartz, Tourmaline
orebody_fm: ROUGHLY PEAR-SHAPED
work_type: Underground
alteration: Sericitization, Silification, Hematitized
conc_proc: Differentiation
Reporter: Weeks, Robert
hrock_type: Rhyolite
arock_type: Rhyolite
Structure: St. Francois Mountains, Footwall Porphyry Dips About 17 Degrees Sw Without Any Marked Undulations. The Beds Above The Contact Are Conformable.
tectonic: St. Francois Mountains
Year first produced: 1848
disc_yr: 1835
References:
  • Deposit:: CRANE, G.W., 1912 , THE IRON ORES OF MISSOURI: MISSOURI BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, 2D SER., V. 10 , P. 121 - 131 .
  • Deposit:: HAYES, W.C. AND GUILD, PHILIP W., 1967 , METALLIC MINERAL RESOURCES IN: MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF MISSOURI, V. 43 , 2D SERIES, P. 82 - 83 .
  • Deposit:: STEIDTMANN, E., 1933 , THE IRON DEPOSITS OF PILOT KNOB, MISSOURI: 16TH INT. GEOL. CONG. GUIDEBOOK 2 , P. 68 - 73 .
  • Deposit:: WINSLOW, A., HAWORTH, E., NASON, F., 1894 , A REPORT ON THE IRON MOUNTAIN SHEET INCLUDING PORTIONS OF IRON, ST. FRANCOIS AND MADISON COUNTIES: MISSOURI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, V. 9 , SHEET REPT. NO. 3 , P. 61 - 66 .
  • Production:: US BUREAU OF MINES, 1978
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