Mine detail: Cardens Bluff Manganese Mine

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Location: Carter County, Tennessee, United States, North America
Lat / long: 36.30676, -82.11428
dep_id: 10025140
mrds_id: K000105
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Manganese, Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Limonite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
ore_ctrl: Ore In Residual Clays Over Shady Dolomite
Reporter: Fagan, James M.
hrock_unit: Shady Dolomite, Early Lithologic Types;Rome Formation, Shl-Siltstone;Quartzite Member-Erwin Formation
hrock_type: Dolomite
Year first produced: 1914
prod_yrs: PRE-1917, 1917-1918
References:
  • Deposit:: KING, P.B., FERGUSON, H.W., CRAIG, L.C., RODGERS, JOHN, 1944, GEOLOGY AND MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF NORTHEASTERN TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 52, 275P
  • Deposit:: 1944 RECON KING, P.B. AND OTHER
  • Production:: KING, P.B., 1944, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL 52.
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