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Excerpt from Report of the State Geologist on the Iron Ores of Marshall and Benton Counties: Made to the Geological Commission May 1, 1912 In addition to the prescribed lines of work just reported upon, I beg to report that the Survey has recently been ih vestigating the Iron ore deposits of the Potts Camp region that point to a discovery, which in my opinion, is of no lit tle economic importance to the State. It has long been known that scattered deposits of brown oxide ore, or limo nite, occur in various par-ts of the State, especially in the northern counties. Nearly three years ago I collected sam ples of these ores from several points, notably, Grenada, Duck Hill, Pine Valley in Yalobusha County, Lafayette County 8 miles southeast of Oxford, Ackerman in Choctaw County, and from Enterprise] in Clarke County, all of which were exhib ited at the Capitol in Jackson, where they are now to be seen in the State collection. We had hoped to have these analyzed at the time, but shortage of our funds prevented, and they have not yet been analyzed. At two points, Acker man and southeast of Oxford in Lafayette County, I have noted the fact that large masses of the oxidized ore on being broken open showed the interior to be light gray in color, in dicating the presence of irtn carbonate. The presence of car bonate was surprising becz use having heretofore escaped n'o tice, but as the quantity of the material was not apparently great at either place, little I ttention was paid to the discovery and no analyses were made. In both cases the carbon-ate ore was associated with lignitic clays and lignites. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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