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Check access before you go. Most sites listed here are old mines, quarries or prospects, and many are on private land or active mining claims. Get the landowner's permission, check the rules of the agency that manages any public land, and never enter mine workings. Locations are approximate.

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4 paw pins, one per site. Hover or tap a pin for the site name. 1 site(s) with USGS coordinates outside the outline are not pinned. County outline: US Census Bureau cartographic boundary file (2023). Locations approximate.

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Unnamed Occurrence

We picked it because its USGS record mentions 1 gem or collectible mineral (Quartz) and 1 of our card minerals overall. That ties with 2 other site(s), so we broke the tie by mine status (past producers first), then USGS record quality, then name. USGS lists it as occurrence for Aluminum. Minerals mentioned: Quartz. Approx. location 32.868, -85.467. USGS record.

Ask first: a USGS record doesn’t mean you can visit. Find out who owns the land and get permission before collecting.

Field cards: what kind of sites?

4
Occurrence

The mineral was noted here, without development.

1
Prospect

Explored or test-dug, with no recorded production.

Status terms come from USGS MRDS records.

Mineral cards

Counts are sites whose USGS record mentions the mineral or commodity. Hardness from Mindat.

Minerals recorded here

Gibbsite 4Bauxite 3Kaolinite 1

Commodities

Aluminum 4Clay 3Sulfur 1Sulfuric Acid 1

Sites

SiteCommodityMinerals recordedStatusApprox. location
Unnamed OccurrenceAluminumBauxite, GibbsiteOccurrence32.868, -85.467
Unnamed OccurrenceAluminumBauxite, GibbsiteOccurrence32.879, -85.449
Unnamed OccurrenceAluminumBauxite, GibbsiteOccurrence32.850, -85.411
Chambers County Gibbsite ProspectAluminumGibbsite, KaoliniteOccurrence32.958, -85.258
Oak Bowery ProspectSulfur, Sulfuric Acid—Prospect32.390, -85.427

Nearby counties

Lee County · Tallapoosa County · Clay County · Randolph County · Coosa County

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How we built this page: we counted named sites in the USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) for this area, left out sand, gravel, crushed stone, clay pits and unnamed sites, grouped them by Census county, and linked every site to its USGS record. We did not visit these sites, and MRDS does not tell you who owns the land or whether collecting is allowed.

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS). USGS ceased systematic updates to MRDS around 2011, so status and details may be out of date. Each site links to its USGS record.

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