Mine detail: Moccasin Gap Barite Mine

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Location: Cocke County, Tennessee, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.93953, -82.98904
dep_id: 10025885
mrds_id: K001859
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Barium-Barite
Trace mineral: Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Barite, Limonite, Pyrite
gangue: Ankerite
orebody_fm: PINCH AND SWELL
work_type: Surface/Underground
conc_proc: Solution Weathering And Residual Accumulation
ore_ctrl: Bedding Plane Fault And Related Shear Zone, According To Ferguson And Jewell (1951)
Reporter: Hale, Robin C.
hrock_unit: Cochran Conglom., Chilhowee Group Cgl & Quartzite
hrock_type: Quartzite,Conglomerate
tectonic: Folded Blue Ridge
yfp_ba: <
Year first produced: 1926
prod_yrs: PRE-1926, 1932-1933, 1937
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, TENNESSEE DIV. GEOL. BULL. 57
  • Reserve-Resource:: FERGUSON & JEWELL, 1951, TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 57
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