Mine detail: Unnamed Iron Prospect

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Location: Sevier County, Tennessee, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.91176, -83.69156
dep_id: 10025897
mrds_id: K001872
Commodity type: metallic
Trace mineral: Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Limonite, Pyrite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
conc_proc: Weathering And Residual Accumulation
ore_ctrl: Residuum
Reporter: Hale, Robin C.
hrock_type: Clay, Mud
Structure: Northeast-Trending Strike Belt
References:
  • Deposit:: MAHER, S.W., 1964, IRON, ZINC, AND BARITE DEPOSITS BETWEEN MORRISTOWN AND ETOWAH, TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE ACAD. SCI. JOUR., V. 39, NO. 3, P. 103-106; REPR. AS TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY INF. CIRC. 12.
  • Deposit:: KEITH, A., 1895, KNOXVILLE QUADRANGLE: USGS ATLAS, FOLIO NO. 16.
  • Deposit:: 1895 GEOLMAP KEITH, A., FOLIO NO. 16
  • Deposit:: 1964 COMPILE MAHER, S.W., TENN. DIV. GEOL. INF. CIR. 12
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