Mine detail: Orebank Iron Prospects

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Location: Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States, North America
Lat / long: 36.55869, -82.46207
dep_id: 10025683
mrds_id: K001603
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Trace mineral: Iron, Barium-Barite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Barite, Limonite
work_type: Surface
Reporter: Fagan, James M.
Structure: Prospect On Hanging Wall Of The Clifts Fault
References:
  • Deposit:: MONEYMAKER, B.C., 1961, OCCURRENCE OF IRON ORE MINERALS IN THE UPPER KNOX DOLOMITE IN SULLIVAN COUNTY, TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE ACAD. SCI. JOUR. V. 36, NO. 1, P.23-37.
  • Deposit:: MAHER, S.W., 1964, THE BROWN IRON ORES OF EAST TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY REPT. INV. 19, 63 P.
  • Deposit:: 1961 RECON T.V.A., REPORT
  • Deposit:: 1964 COMPILE TENN. DIV. GEOLOGY, REPORT
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