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Peter C. Mory

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USGS1982

Maps showing mines, quarries, oil and gas activity, and sample localities in and near the Sipsey Wilderness and additions, Lawrence and Winston counties, Alabama

The U.S. Bureau of Mines conducted a field reconnaissance of Sipsey Wilderness in the fall of 1978 and of the roadless areas in the spring and summer of 1979. Mines, quarries, prospects, exposures, and drill sites in and near the study area were examined. Fifty-three samples were collected during the field work; sample localities are shown in figure 3. Analyses and preliminary test results for all limestone, clay and shale, sandstone, and coal samples were reported by Mory and others (1981). Mineral resource potential of the Sipsey Wilderness and additions is reported by Schweinfurth and others (1982). No mining activities are being conducted in the study area at present. Previous mining has been limited to small-scale production of limestone and coal. Two oil and gas test holes have been drilled inside the study area.

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USGS1981

Maps showing mines, quarries, prospects, and exposures in the Otter Creek Wilderness, Randolph and Tucker counties, West Virginia

The Wilderness Act (Public Law 88-577, September 3, 1964) and related acts require the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines to survey certain areas on Federal lands to determine their mineral resource potential. The act also directs that results of such surveys be made available to the public and be submitted to the Administration and the Congress. This report presents a part of the results of a mineral survey of the Otter Creek Wilderness, Randolph and Tucker counties, West Virginia, which was established as a wilderness by Public Law 93-622, January 3, 1975.

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USGS1978

Mineral resources of the Cranberry Wilderness Study Area, Pocahontas and Webster counties, West Virginia

Cranberry Wilderness Study Area comprises 14,702 ha in the Monongahela National Forest, Pocahontas and Webster Counties, east-central West Virginia. The area is in the Yew Mountains of the Appalachian Plateaus and is at the eastern edge of the central Appalachian coal fields. Cranberry Glades, a peatland of botanical interest lies at the southern end of the study area. All surface rights in the area are held by the U. S. Forest Service; nearly 90 percent of the mineral rights are privately-owned or subordinate to the surface rights.

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USGS1978

Mineral resources of the Rock River Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Alger County, Michigan

A mineral resource evaluation of the Rock River Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Alger County, Mich., was completed in 1975 by personnel of the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines. The area consists of approximately 22 km 2 in the Hiawatha National Forest. Rocks exposed in the area include sandstone, shaly sandstone, dolomitic sandstone, sandy dolomite, and a minor amount of conglomerate; these rocks range in age from possibly Precambrian to early Middle Ordovician. A minor amount of unconsolidated glacier-transported debris was deposited during Pleistocene time. No deposits of either metallic or nonmetallic minerals were found. Although resources of stone, sand, and gravel exist in the study area, they are considered to have small economic potential; similar materials are readily available and easily accessible in the surrounding region.

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USGS1976

Mineral resources of the Bradwell Bay Wilderness and the Sopchoppy River study area, Wakulla County, Florida

The Bradweli Bay Wilderness and Sopchoppy River Study Area comprise 23,000 acres (93 km 2 ) in the Apalachicola National Forest in the Florida panhandle. The area is a swamp-covered, almost flat surface of a terrace in which the Sopchoppy River is entrenched. Deposits directly underlying the terrace surface generally consist of as much as 30 feet (9 m) of sand, clay, muck, and peat of Pliocene to Holocene age overlying limestone and marl of Miocene age. The limestone and marl are on the east flank of the gulf trough, and are underlain by a thick sequence of older Tertiary and Cretaceous sedimentary rocks. Older formations of probable Jurassic, Triassic, Paleozoic, and Precambrian ages are known from scattered holes drilled for oil in surrounding areas. The Hawthorn Formation of middle Miocene age, from which phosphate and fuller's earth are chiefly produced in Florida, is not found in the Study Area therefore, the potential for resources of phosphate is low. Phosphate pellets, however, were found in auger holes in sand above the St. Marks and Jackson Bluff Formations of early and late Miocene age, respectively. The pellets are mostly in sands deposited in an estuary during Pliocene or early Pleistocene time; they were derived from older rocks, presumably the Hawthorn Formation. Approximately 136,000 tons (123,000 tonnes) of air-dried peat are available from bay swamps in the Study Area, but the deposits are too shallow and widespread to make mining economically feasible. Large quantities of quartz sand are available in abandoned beach ridges and in deposits of shallow nearshore marine origin, but sieve tests show that the sand is generally too fine for mortar and masonry use, and it is not suitable as moulding or glass sand because it lacks the required size grades and purity. The northern Florida, southern Alabama, and Georgia region produces oil, phosphate, fuller's earth, sand, and peat. The Study Area is about 175 miles (280 km) east-southeast of the Jay oil field in the western panhandle of Florida. Part of the production is from the Smackover Formation of Jurassic age, which is also the target formation for drilling in the vicinity of the Study Area. Four oil test wells have been drilled in the vicinity of the Study Area but all proved to be unsuccessful. Phillips Petroleum Company completed a well in Leon County at a depth of 10,466 feet (3,190 m). Placid Oil Company drilled a well in Wakulla County to 12,116 feet (3,693 m) and two in Liberty County, one to 12,131 feet (3,698 m) and the second to 12,400 feet (3,780 m). These three test wells are alined along a northeast trend immediately northwest of the Bradwell Bay area. The oil and gas potential of the Bradwell Bay-Sopchoppy area is low.

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