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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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E P Rainey Property + 1 more nearby (Prospect)Betheden Deposit (Prospect)T P Sullivan Property (Prospect)Mrs. Jim Haggard Prospect + 2 more nearby (Occurrence)H L Hurt Property (Occurrence)Fair Lumber Co. Prospect + 3 more nearby (Occurrence)J J Moody Property + 1 more nearby (Occurrence)T S Foster Property (Prospect)Fair Lumbe Co. Prospect (Occurrence)Unnamed Prospect (Prospect)
Past ProducerProducerProspectOccurrenceStatus unknown
10 paw pins; nearby sites are grouped into one pin. Hover or tap a pin for the site name. 3 site(s) with USGS coordinates outside the outline are not pinned. County outline: US Census Bureau cartographic boundary file (2023). Locations approximate.

Woof’s favorite find

Bauxite and Kaolin - Noxubee, Kemper, Winston Counties

We picked it because its USGS record mentions 1 gem or collectible mineral (Quartz) and 1 of our card minerals overall. No other named site here scores as high on both counts. USGS lists it as occurrence for Aluminum, Kaolin. Minerals mentioned: Quartz. Approx. location 33.117, -88.800. 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?

10
Occurrence

The mineral was noted here, without development.

10
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

Bauxite 1Gibbsite 1Kaolinite 1

Commodities

Aluminum 17Kaolin 7Lignite 1Anthracite 1

Sites

SiteCommodityMinerals recordedStatusApprox. location
Bauxite and Kaolin - Noxubee, Kemper, Winston CountiesAluminum, KaolinBauxite, Gibbsite, KaoliniteOccurrence33.117, -88.800
Fair Lumber Co. ProspectAluminum—Occurrence33.052, -88.869
R G Brown, Jr. PropertyAluminum—Prospect33.044, -88.869
Mrs. Jim Haggard ProspectKaolin—Occurrence33.091, -88.876
Fair Lumber Co. ProspectAluminum, Kaolin—Occurrence33.061, -88.104
H L Hurt PropertyAluminum—Occurrence33.081, -88.873
T S Foster PropertyAluminum—Prospect33.015, -88.873
Fair Lumbe Co. ProspectAluminum—Occurrence33.079, -88.853
E P Rainey PropertyKaolin, Lignite, Aluminum—Prospect33.225, -89.033
Betheden DepositAluminum—Prospect33.222, -88.936
Mrs H A Haggard DepositAluminum—Occurrence33.089, -88.873
State ProspectKaolin—Occurrence33.051, -88.859
Fair Lumber Co. ProspectAluminum—Prospect33.044, -88.873
J J Moody PropertyAluminum, Anthracite—Occurrence33.026, -88.867
W N Haggard DepositAluminum, Kaolin—Occurrence33.088, -88.864
Mrs. N E White Estate ProspectKaolin—Prospect33.225, -89.025
T P Sullivan PropertyAluminum—Prospect33.093, -88.882
Fair Lumber Co. ProspectAluminum—Prospect33.051, -88.105
John W. Sullivan PropertyAluminum—Prospect33.031, -88.866
Unnamed ProspectAluminum—Prospect32.993, -88.844

Nearby counties

Noxubee County · Oktibbeha County · Kemper County · Lowndes County · Choctaw 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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