Mine detail: Columbia Marble Company Talc Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

35.18705, -83.9099

Resource(B)

Tertiary:	Talc-Soapstone, Sulfur-Pyrite, Copper, Zinc, Marble, Dimension, Lead
Ore:	Marble, Talc
Gangue:	Tremolite
Orebody form:	LENS
Discovery year:	1937

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Marble
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	K002634
DEP	10091882
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}{Deposit:: TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, 1944, TALC RECONNAISSANCE IN THE VICINITY OF MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA: OPEN-FILE REPORT 7 P.}
Reporter	Hale, Robin C.