Mine detail: Trotter Zinc Prospect

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Location: Sevier County, Tennessee, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.95676, -83.53683
dep_id: 10025746
mrds_id: K001681
Commodity type: metallic
Trace mineral: Zinc, Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Limonite, Pyrite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite
ore_ctrl: Solution-Collapse Breccia Zone, Bedding-Plane Fractures
Reporter: Hale, Robin C.
hrock_unit: Mascot Dolomite, Dark-Gray, Finely Crystalline Dol
hrock_type: Dolomite
tectonic: Geosyncline
disc_yr: 1890
discr: Mr. Heal
References:
  • Deposit:: MAHER, S.W., 1964, IRON, ZINC, AND BARITE DEPOSITS BETWEEN MORRISTOWN AND ETOWAH, TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE ACAD. SCI. JOUR., V. 39, NO. 3, P. 103-106; REPRINTED AS TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY INF. CIRC. 12.
  • Deposit:: CARPENTER, R.H., FAGAN, J.M., AND WEDOW, HELMUTH, 1971, EVIDENCE ON THE AGE OF BARITE, ZINC, AND IRON MINERALIZATION IN THE LOWER PALEOZOIC ROCKS OF EAST TENNESSEE: ECON. GEOL., V. 66, NO. 5, P. 792-798.
  • Deposit:: MARIE, J.R., 1963, STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF THE MILLICAN CREEK AREA, SEVIER COUNTY, TENNESSEE: KNOXVILLE, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, MS THESIS, 37 P.
  • Deposit:: TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, 1942, INFORMAL FIELD REPORTS DATED JANUARY 28, 1942: TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY.
  • Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1962, INFORMAL FIELD REPORTS, MARCH 14, 1962.
  • Deposit:: 1964 COMPILE MAHER, S.W., TENN. DIV. GEOL., REPORT
  • Deposit:: 1971 RECON CARPENTER, FAGAN, & WEDOW; TVA & USGS, REPORT.
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