Mine detail: Bama Or Flaketown Mine

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Location: Chilton, Coosa County, Alabama, United States, North America
Lat / long: 32.75684, -86.46804
dep_id: 10106142
mrds_id: W030487
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Graphite
Trace mineral: Mica
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Graphite, Muscovite, Roscoelite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Surface
conc_proc: Sedimentation And Metamorphism
Reporter: Clarke, Otis M. Jr.
hrock_unit: Wedowee Group Graphitic Units
hrock_type: Mica Schist
arock_type: Pegmatite
Structure: Coosa Block
References:
  • Deposit:: BROWN, J.S., 1925, GRAPHITE DEPOSITS OF ASHLAND, ALABAMA: ECON. GEOL. V20, NO 3, 208-248 P
  • Deposit:: 1923 RECON ALABAMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
  • Deposit:: 1948 DIREXPL U.S. BUREAU 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.
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