Mine detail: Unnamed Occurrence

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Location: Chambers County, Alabama, United States, North America
Lat / long: 32.85016, -85.41106
dep_id: 10081300
mrds_id: W033308
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Aluminum
Minor mineral: Clay
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Bauxite, Gibbsite
gangue: Kaolinite, Quartz
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
conc_proc: Oxidation.
Reporter: Beg, Mirza A.
hrock_type: Gneiss
arock_type: Diorite
disc_yr: 1982
discr: Alabama Geological Survey
References:
  • Deposit:: BEG, M.A., 1982, EVALUATION OF CERAMIC AND REFRACTORY GRADE RAW MATERIALS IN ALABAMA: GIBBSITE IN SAPROLITE OF EAST-CENTRAL ALABAMA: ALABAMA: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN FILE REPT. 77 P.
  • Deposit:: BEG, M.A., 1983; EVALUATION OF CERAMIC AND REFRACTORY GRADE RAW MATERIALS IN ALABAMA: GIBBSITE IN SAPROLITES OF EAST-CENTRAL ALABAMA: PHASE II DETAILED EVALUATION: ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN FILE REPT. 70 P.
  • Deposit:: CLARKE, O.M., JR., 1972, GIBBSITE IN WEATHERED GRANITIC ROCKS OF ALABAMA: SOUTHEASTERN GEOLOGY, V.14, PP.203-212.
  • Deposit:: BRYANT, J.P., AND DIXON J.B., 1964, CLAY MINERALOGY AND WEATHERING OF RED YELLOW PODZOLIC SOIL FROM QUARTZ MICA SCHIST IN THE ALABAMA PIEDMONT: CLAYS AND CLAY MINERALS, V. 12, PP 509-521
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