H 1£kel ND 1 OCHER DEPOSITS IN CARTERSVILLE DISTRICT, GA. 431 
ground work was not far enough advanced to show the relations of 
the ocher to the quartzite. 
The mines and mill of the Blue Ridge Ocher Company are located 
about 1^ miles east of Oartersville. Considerable underground work 
has been done, the deposit being opened up by slopes running down 
the dip, which is to the eastward. Though the relations between the 
position and shape of the ocher deposit and the bedding planes of the 
quartzite are not quite so clear in this mine as in that of the Cherokee 
Company, it is evident that the ocher body is fairly regular. The 
manager states that a body of ocher 118 by 174 feet in area and aver- 
aging 6 feet in thickness has been effectively exposed by crosscuts. 
The brightest colored ocher is said to occur immediately above the 
quartzite of the foot wall, a relation which exists also in the mine of 
the Cherokee Company. 
An ocher deposit of fair size is exposed in a railroad cut about 1 
mile south of the Etowah River crossing. The Satterfield openings 
are located on the north bank of the Etowah, about 100 yards east of 
the railroad bridge, and the Laramore property is about 3 miles east 
of Carte rsville, on the north bank of the river. At neither of these 
points has sufficient work been done to give a clear idea of the extent 
or relations of the ocher deposits, though ocher is shown in natural 
outcrops or in small cuts at each of them. 
The composition of Carters ville ocher, as compared with that of 
similar products from other localities, is shown in the following table 
of analyses : 
Composition of natural ochers. 
l. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 
(5. 
7. 
8. 
9. 
Fe 2 3 
SiO, . . 
ALA 
CaO ._. 
55.84 
W 20 
70.00 
jl3.00 
I 3.60 
63.30 
20.00 
5.00 
35.00 
47.00 
6.00 
36.67 
J50. 00 
42.45 
30. 58 
52.92 
2.88 
33.00 
r39. 00 
115.00 
56. 59 
30.17 
3.79 
2.65 
MgO 
1.43 
Alk 
0.5 
co 2 _. 
1.73 
H 2 ... 
12.00 
13.00 
11.70 
10.80 
10. 60 
11.85 
14.62 
11.5 
1.62 
1. Oartersville, Ga. Dark brown. Merrill, Rept. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1899, p. 240. 
2. East Whately, Mass. Deepest yellow. C. U. Shepard, analyst, Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 
126, p. 101. 
3. East Whately, Mass. Deepest yellow. C. U. Shepard, analyst, Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 
126, p. 101. 
4. East Whately, Mass. Yellowish brown. C. U. Shepard, analyst, Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 
126, p. 101. 
5. Hancock, Berks County, Pa. Yellow brown. Merrill, Rept. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1899, p. 240. 
6. Northampton County, Pa. Deep red brown. Merrill, Rept. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1899, p. 240. 
7. Brandon, Vt. Dark brown. Merrill, Rept. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1899, p. 240. 
8. Marksville, Va. Mineral Resources U. S. for 1885, p. 528. 
9. Persian Gulf. " Indian red," Mineral Resources U. S. for 1883-84, p. 926. 
