Clay-Coosa-Chilton graphite district

Location: Alabama, United States (33.280, -85.840 approx.)

Commodities: graphite

Recorded production

• Clay-Coosa-Chilton graphite district: produced 21,371 metric tons of graphite, 1913–1943. Production data are aggregated from intermittent periods where not all data are available (Wilson and others (2015), Page 6-4 — Wilson, S.E., Redwood, S., Zurowski, G., Hamilton, W., Holloway, A., Mackey, P., Jones, L., Peters, O., 2015, Alabama Graphite Corp., Coosa Graphite Project, Alabama, USA, preliminary economic assessment, NI 43-101 technical report, prepared for, Alabama Graphite Corp. [Filing date November 27, 2015]: AGP Mining Consultants Inc., 267 p., accessed June 12, 2020, at http://www.sedar.com.)

Exploration and site history

• Active — First production in 1899, then intermittent production through 1953, 1899–1953 (Wilson and others (2015))
• Discovery — Discovery was before the Civil War (1861–1865) when graphitic schists were first recognized by M. Tuomey, 1861 (Wilson and others (2015))

Record imported from USGS USMIN ver. 4.0 (June 2019). Developments after that date appear on facility records, not here; see the methodology.