Mine detail: Manganese Outcrop Occurrence

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Location: Gaston County, North Carolina, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.18011, -81.2276
dep_id: 10078906
mrds_id: W027607
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Manganese, Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Stratabound
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
gangue: Magnetite, Quartz, Spessartite
orebody_fm: BEDDED
conc_proc: Weathering Of Spessartite - Rich Lenses In Schist
ore_ctrl: Manganiferous Schist Member
Reporter: *gostino, John P.
hrock_type: Schist
Structure: Northeast Limb Of Ne Plunging Fold
tectonic: Ne Trending Folds And Faults
disc_yr: 1944
discr: White, W. A.
References:
  • Deposit:: WHITE, WILLIAM A., 1944 , MANGANESE DEPOSITS IN NORTH CAROLINA (ADVANCE REPORT): NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT, DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, M.I. NO. 2 , TEXT 14 P., MAP AT 1:120,000
  • Deposit:: OCCURRENCE IN GASTONIA SOUTH TOPO QUAD AT 1:24,000
  • Deposit:: 1944 RECON WHITE, N.C. STATE, GEOLOG
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