Mine detail: Unnamed Talc Prospect

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

35.28955, -83.66878

Resource(N)

Tertiary:	Talc-Soapstone
Ore:	Talc
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Murphy Marble, White To Bluish-Gray Or-Black, Fine-To Coarse-Grained Marble;Brasstown Schist-Thin Bedded Schist And Micaceous Quartzite
Host type:	Quartzite
Associated rock:	Metadiorite; Precambrian; Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphism
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Northeast-Trending Strike Belts Defining A Major Syncline
Tectonic:	Geosyncline

References

MRDS	K002640
DEP	10026152
Reference	{Deposit:: VAN HORN, E.C., 1948, TALC DEPOSITS OF THE MURPHY MARBLE BELT (NORTH CAROLINA): NORTH CAROLINA DIV. MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 56, 54 P.}{Deposit:: POWER, W.R., AND FORREST, J.T., 1973, STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY IN THE MURPHY MARBLE BELT: AM. JOUR. SCI., V. 273, P. 698-711.}{Deposit:: 1948 OTHER VAN HORN, N.C. DIV. MIN. RES., BULL. 56}{Deposit:: 1973 OTHER POWER AND FORREST, AM. JOUR. SCI., PAPER}
Reporter	Hale, Robin C.