Mine detail: Dry Fork Barite Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

35.88481, -82.95154

Resource(B)

Tertiary:	Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Iron
Ore:	Barite, Hematite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1916

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Longarm Quartzite, Quartzitic Arkose
Host type:	Arkose
Structure:	Brushy Mountain Thrust Fault

References

MRDS	K001858
DEP	10025884
Reference	{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 OTHER FERGUSON & JEWELL, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL. 57}{Deposit:: 1970 COMPILE MAHER, S.W. TENN. DIV. GEOL., RPT. INV. 28}{Production:: FERGUSON AND JEWELL, 1951, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL. 57}
Reporter	Hale, Robin C.