Shropshire Deposit 1, Chattooga County, Georgia, USAi

Regional Level Types
Shropshire Deposit 1	Prospect
Chattooga County	County
Georgia	State
USA	Country

The Shropshire deposit 1 is approximately 1,100 feet southwest of the Taylor mine and is at the end of Washington Street at the west edge of Summerville (fig. 6). It was formerly known as the Goddard property and is the more southern of the two ore bodies discussed by Watson (1904, p. 114) under the name of Taylor bank. No bauxite has been mined unless a wagon load or two was obtained from the test pits.

The deposit is in a shallow ravine near the base of the same slope as the Taylor deposit and is at the same altitude (769 ft) as the base of the pit at the Taylor mine. The structural and stratigraphic position is the same for both deposits.

The original surface indication is not known, but most likely pisolitic material cropped out or was found as float on the surface. Two or three shallow depressions are all that remain of half a dozen or more prospect pits which constituted the only development. Boulders of hard, cream to red, pisolitic bauxite containing medium-sized pisolites lie on the ground in the vicinity of the shallow pits. Watson (1904, p. 114) reported some pebble ore near the top of several of the pits but stated that the predominant type was hard pisolitic bauxite which in places was highly ferruginous. The bauxite is associated with a pink and white mottled clay. A specimen of the pisolitic bauxite analyzed at the U.S. Bureau of Mines laboratory at Tuscaloosa, Ala., contained 57.67 percent A12O3, 6.35 percent Fe2O3 , 2.68 percent TiO2 , and 2.22 percent insoluble.

The size and shape of the deposit are not known, but the best possibilities of extension are believed to be northeastward and southwestward along the regional strike of bedrock. The overburden is probably only 3 to 5 feet thick over the entire deposit and consists of gray to red sandy clay containing fragments of chert.