Mine detail: Beech Grove Zinc Occurrence

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Location: Grainger County, Tennessee, United States, North America
Lat / long: 36.36609, -83.47089
dep_id: 10025767
mrds_id: K001709
Commodity type: metallic
Trace mineral: Zinc
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: fracture filling; gash vein
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Sphalerite
ore_ctrl: Fractures
Reporter: Hale, Robin C., Tennessee Division Of Geology
hrock_unit: Maryville Limestone (Conasauga Group)
hrock_type: Limestone
Structure: Northeast-Trending Strike Belt
References:
  • Deposit:: MAHER, S.W., 1958, THE ZINC INDUSTRY OF TENNESSEE: TENN. DIV. GEOL., INF. CIR. NO. 6, 28 P
  • Deposit:: 1958 COMPILE MAHER, S.W.; TENN. DIV. GEOL.; UNPUBLISHED REPORT
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