| Location: | Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 35.15511, -83.95434 |
| dep_id: | 10102346 |
| mrds_id: | K002595 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Iron |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Production occurred |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Limonite |
| gangue: | Chert |
| orebody_fm: | IRREGULAR, PINCH AND SWELL |
| work_type: | Surface |
| alteration: | Weathering Of Iron-Bearing Minerals To Form Limonite |
| ore_ctrl: | Bedding, Fractures, And Residuum |
| Reporter: | Hale, Robin C. |
| hrock_unit: | Residuum;Andrews Formation, Thin Alternating Layers Of Marble And Biotite Schist;Murphy Marble, White To Bluish-Gray Or-Black, Medium-To Coarse-Grained Marble |
| hrock_type: | Marble |
| arock_unit: | Metadiorite, Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn ( 1948 , P. 15 ) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphism |
| arock_type: | Diorite |
| Structure: | Northeast-Trending Strike Belts Define A Major Syncline |
| tectonic: | Geosyncline |
| prod_yrs: | CHIEFLY 1917-1921 |
| 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:: ROBERTSON, A.F., 1946, EXPLORATION OF THE CHEROKEE IRON DEPOSITS, CHEROKEE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RPT. INV. R.I. 3974, 31 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:: 1946 DIREXPL ROBERTSON, U.S.B.M. RPT. INV. 3974
- Deposit:: 1973 OTHER POWER AND FORREST, AM. JOUR. SCI., PAPER
- Production:: BAYLEY, W.S., 1925, N.C. GEOL. AND ECON. SUR., BULL. 31
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