Mine detail: Unnamed Talc Prospect

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

35.32455, -83.62878

Resource(N)

Tertiary:

Talc-Soapstone

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
Host type:	Marble
Associated rock:	Metadiorite, Dark Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite & Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorpnosed D10rites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Consequently
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Northeast-Trending Strike Belts Defining A Major Syncline
Tectonic:	Geosyncline

References

MRDS	K002647
DEP	10026158
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.