Mine detail: Dry Fork Barite Prospect

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Location: Cocke County, Tennessee, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.88481, -82.95154
dep_id: 10025884
mrds_id: K001858
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Trace mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Barite, Hematite
gangue: Quartz
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
ore_ctrl: Bedding Plane Fault Or Fracture Cleavage Slips In Hanging Wall Of Brushy Mountain Fault
Reporter: Hale, Robin C.
hrock_unit: Longarm Quartzite, Quartzitic Arkose
hrock_type: Arkose
Structure: Brushy Mountain Thrust Fault
disc_yr: 1916
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 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
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