Carter County has numerous small deposits of brown iron ore ( limonite ), and some effort has been made in the past to mine them, but the efforts have generally not been cost effective.
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The gallery built in 1910 11 runs through two natural caverns, the first being opened up as a new section, the Yellow Climb ( " Gelben Stieg " ), a former space largely filled with brown iron ore that had probably been excavated in the 16th century.