Mine detail: Fontana Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

35.47816, -83.7699

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Zinc
Tertiary:	Silver, Gold, Lead
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Magnetite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Barite, Biotite, Chlorite, Muscovite, Plagioclase, Quartz, Talc
Orebody form:	LENTICULAR, POD-LIKE
Discovery year:	1913

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Stratabound Exhalative
Production size:	Medium
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	1926-1944
First production started:	1926

Geology

Host rock:	Anakeesta Formation , Chlorite-Mica Schist And Phyllite;Thunderhead Sandstone-Feldspathic Sst, Quartzite
Host type:	Schist,Sandstone
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Northeast-Trending Strike Belts; Deposit Is Within A Northeast-Trending Sheared Zone Within The Phyllite., Plunge Of Ore Body Is Essentially Parallel To Plunge Of Tiny Foliation Crinkles Of The Sheared Phyllite Host Rock.
Tectonic:	Folded Blue Ridge Province
Alteration processes:	Limonite After Iron Sulfides; Supergene Copper Minerals.

References

MRDS	K001693
DEP	10102275
Reference	{Deposit:: LANEY, F.B., 1907, COPPER DEPOSITS OF SWAIN COUNTY, IN PRATT, J.H., THE MINING INDUSTRY IN NORTH CAROLINA DURING 1906: NORTH CAROLINA GEOL. AND ECON. SURVEY, ECON. PAPER 14, P. 72-79.}{Deposit:: ROSS, C.F., 1935, ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE DUCKTOWN TYPE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 179, P. 92-94.}{Deposit:: ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1963, GEOLOGY OF SOME COPPER DEPOSITS IN NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND ALABAMA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1142-I, P. I1 - I50.}{Deposit:: EMMONS, W.H., 1942, A REPORT ON THE FONTANA MINE: TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY INTERNAL REPORT, 57 P., MAPS.}{Deposit:: 1907 COMPILE LANEY, F.B., N.C. ECON. PAPER 14}{Deposit:: 1935 COMPILE ROSS, C.F., USGS PP 179}{Deposit:: 1963 GEOLMAP ESPENSHADE, G.H., USGS BULL. 1142-I}{Production:: ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1963, USGS BULL. 1142}
Reporter	Hale, Robin C., Klein, T.L.