Mine detail: Blowing Spring Talc Occurrence

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Location: Swain County, North Carolina, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.32178, -83.63156
dep_id: 10026157
mrds_id: K002646
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Trace mineral: Talc-Soapstone
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Talc
Reporter: Hale, Robin C.
hrock_type: Marble
arock_unit: 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
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: Northeast-Trending Strike Belts Defining A Major Syncline
tectonic: Geosyncline
disc_yr: 1938
References:
  • 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
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