Mine detail: East Fork Mine

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Location: Sevier County, Tennessee, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.8282, -83.38428
dep_id: 10178797
mas_id: 471550001
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Trace mineral: Cobalt, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates
Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Past Producer
other_matl: Calcite, Dolomite, Magnesite, Psilomelane, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Sulfur, Wad
Reporter: Sapakoff
Year first produced: 1792
References:
  • Deposit:: CONFIDENTIAL UNPUBLISHED WAR MIN. REPT., 1945, MANGANESE, SE
  • Deposit:: COUNTY, TENNESSEE
  • Deposit:: O NEILL, J.F., ET.AL., RECONNAISANCE OF E. TENN. MANGANESE D
  • Deposit:: UNPUBLISHED BU MINES RI, CONFIDENTIAL WAR MINERALS REPORT FILES, JOHNSON CO.
  • Deposit:: PIERCE, W.G., USGS BULL 940-J, 1943, P 273
  • Deposit:: REICHERT, STANLEY O., TENN. DEPT- OF CONSERVATION, DIV. OF G
  • Deposit:: BULL 50, 1942, PP 150-155
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