North Carolina and its resources (1896) (14598382637)

Identifier: northcarolinaits00stew (find matches)
Title: North Carolina and its resources
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Stewart, M. I. (Moses I.) prt Stewart, J. C. (John C.) prt North Carolina. Board of Agriculture
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Publisher: Winston : M.I. & J.C. Stewart, public printers and binders
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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ve outcrop of specular red hematite on the head waters of Spring,Beans, Pigeon Roost and Hollow Poplar creeks, very near the Tenn-essee line. The ore is fine grained and compact; near the outcrop itis silicious, but becomes purer and almost free from gangue matter indepth. Its width is stated to be ten feet. The outcrop has beentraced over a distance of seven miles. An analysis shows 52 percent, of iron, and 0.09 per cent, of phosphorus. The Cranberry Magnetite belt contains by far the most importantdeposits of ore in this entire region, and has been most extensivelydeveloped. The eastern extremity is at Cranberry in thenorthern part of Mitchell county; thence it extends north 34°west for two and a-half miles to the Tennessee line; crossingthe same it passes through the southern portion of Cartercounty, Tenn., deflecting gradually v/estward and then south-westward, to the head waters of Tiger creek, recrossing into NorthCarolina, and continuing in a southwesterly direction to the Toe
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Iron. 97 river, a total distance of some twenty-two miles. The most impor-tant development in this belt, if not indeed in the State, is at theCranberry mine, at the terminus of he East Tennessee and WesternNorth Carolina railroad. The ore deposit is an immense lens ofmagnetite, associated with hornblende, pyroxene, epidote, quartz,feldspar, calcite, &c. The present workings of the Cranberry minecover about eight acres on the slope of Cranberry ridge, and consistsof tw^o tunnel openings and four main open cuts in successive levelsOi benches. Altogether the ore body has been opened up andexplored in these main workings about eight huri Ired and seventy-five feet in length, by three hundred feet in breadth, by one hundredand sixty-five feet in average depth, representing approximately1,600,000 cubic yards. At a low estimate, this volume wouldcontain 4,800,000 tons of ore material. The ore varies in characterfrom very fine grained, dense, massive to soft coarse granular magne-tite. An