Mine detail: Marvacar Mine

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Location: Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.17844, -83.81351
dep_id: 10102344
mrds_id: K002582
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Limonite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
work_type: Surface
alteration: Weathering Of Iron-Bearing Minerals To Form Limonite
ore_ctrl: Bedding, Fractures, And Residuum.
Reporter: Hale, Robin C.
hrock_unit: Clayey And Sandy Residuum;Mineral Bluff Formation, Quartz-Sericite Sc Hist Or Phyllite With Sandy Lenses And Intercalated Quartzites
hrock_type: Quartzite
Structure: Northeast-Trending Strike Belts Define A Major Syncline
tectonic: Geosyncline
Year first produced: 1917
prod_yrs: APRIL 1917 TO SUMMER 1921
References:
  • 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:: 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:: 1973 OTHER POWER AND FORREST, AM. JOU R. SCI., PAPER
  • Production:: BAYLEY, W.S., 1925, N.C. GEOL. AND ECON. SUR. BULL. 31
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