Mine detail: Brushy Mountain Barite Prospect

Previously called 'Bee Branch Barite Prospect'

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Location: Cocke County, Tennessee, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.89926, -82.94431
dep_id: 10025883
mrds_id: K001857
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Trace mineral: Barium-Barite
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Barite
Reporter: Hale, Robin C.
hrock_unit: Longarm Quartzite, Snowbird Group Quartzite, Arkose;Longarm Quartzite, Snowbird Group, Quartzite Or Arkose
hrock_type: Arkose
Structure: Brushy Mountain Thrust Fault-Klippe
References:
  • Deposit:: FERGUSON, H.W., AND JEWELL, W.B., 1951, GEOLOGY AND BARITE DEPOSITS OF THE DEL RIO DISTRICT, COCKE COUNTY, TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 57, 235 P.
  • Deposit:: MAHER, S.W., 1970, BARITE RESOURCES OF TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY, REPT. INV. 28, 40 P.
  • Deposit:: 1951 COMPILE FERGUSON & JEWELL, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL.
  • Deposit:: 1970 COMPILE MAHER, S.W., TENN. DIV. GEOL., RPT. INV.
  • Production:: FERGUSON AND JEWELL, 1951, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL. 57
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