Mine detail: Carbon Mountain

Previously called 'Carbon Mountain and Pearless Mines'

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Location

Lat / long: 33.34043, -85.81802

Resource(B)

Primary: Graphite
Tertiary: Mica, Vanadium
Gangue: Pyrite
Orebody form: TABULAR

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1917

Geology

Host type:Mica Schist
Associated type:Pegmatite
Tectonic:Coosa Block

References

MRDSW029531
DEP10079565
Reference{Deposit:: PROUTY, W.F., 1923, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF CLAY COUNTY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE GRAPHITE INDUSTRY: ALABAMA GEOL. SURVEY SPEC REPT. 12, 190 P.}{Deposit:: BROWN, J.S. 1925. GRAPHITE DEPOSITS OF ASHLAND. ALABAMA: ECON. GEOL. V. 20 NO. 3. P. 208-248.}{Deposit:: 1923 RECON AGS}{Deposit:: 1948 DIREXPL U.S. BUR OF MINES}{Deposit:: PALLISTER, H.D.,AND THOENEN, J.R.,1948, FLAKE GRAPHITE AND VANADIUM INVESTIGATION IN CLAY, COOSA, AND CHILTON COUNTIES, ALABAMA: U.S. BUR OF MINES REPT, INV 4366, 84 P.}
ReporterClarke, Otis M. Jr.