Mine detail: Little Mountain Barite-Zinc Prospect

Previously called 'Fairgarden Prospect'

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Location: Sevier County, Tennessee, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.88093, -83.40016
dep_id: 10025765
mrds_id: K001705
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Trace mineral: Barium-Barite, Iron, Zinc
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Barite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
gangue: Chert, Dolomite
work_type: Surface
ore_ctrl: Breccia Zone, Fractures
Reporter: Hale, Robin C.
hrock_unit: Upper Part Of Knox Group, Fine-Grained, Black Dol
hrock_type: Dolomite
disc_yr: 1922
discr: W.E. Spence
References:
  • Deposit:: SECRIST, M.H., 1924, ZINC DEPOSITS OF EAST TENNESSEE: TENN. DIV. GEOL., BULL. 31, 165 P.
  • Deposit:: MAHER, S.W., 1958, THE ZINC INDUSTRY OF TENNESSEE: TENN. DIV. GEOL., INF. CIR. NO. 6, 28 P.
  • Deposit:: MAHER, S.W., 1970, BARITE RESOURCES OF TENNESSEE: TENN. DIV. GEOL., REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS NO. 28, 40 P.
  • Deposit:: 1924 GEOLMAP SECRIST, M.H., TENN. DIV. GEOL., REPORT
  • Deposit:: 1958 COMPILE MAHER, S.W., TENN. DIV. GEOL., REPORT
  • Deposit:: 1970 COMPILE MAHER, S.W., TENN. DIV. GEOL., REPORT
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