Newton County, Missouri, USAi

Regional Level Types
Newton County	County
Missouri	State
USA	Country

The Newton county sub-district of the Southwestern district lies immediately south of the Jasper county sub-district, and, with the exception of the Spring City mines, includes all the mines in Newton county south of township 27, and also those about Wentworth and Pioneer, just beyond the eastern line of the county. As in Jasper county, the rocks containing the ore deposits are exclusively Lower Carboniferous, with the same exceptions of certain limited patches of Coal Measure shales and sandstones which are often associated with the ores. The ore deposits are also, in a general way, similar to those of the Jasper county area. They differ, however, in that the individual bodies are not so large, and in that the ground is not generally so intensely brecciated and decomposed as is the case in Jasper county. Further, the oxidized ores are more abundant here, and the proportion of galena and blende is normally smaller. This is especially the case in the Granby mines, where the carbonates and silicate constitute a large proportion of the output. The intensely siliceous ore body found at Wentworth, is nowhere duplicated in Jasper county; nor is, perhaps, so chemically pure a blende found there as is the yellow blende of that camp.

Within the limits above defined we recognize the following clusters of mines, which we term camps: The Granby, the Neosho or Moseley, the Dayton, the Seneca, the Wentworth and the Pioneer camps. Of these, the Granby camp is by far the most important. In addition, there are a few outlying diggings which can hardly be considered camps, or merit extended notice.