Mine detail: Boyd Mine

Previously called 'Culchote Vein'

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Location: Polk County, Tennessee, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.02591, -84.37912
dep_id: 10251400
mrds_id: K001183
mas_id: 471390004
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Copper, Zinc, Iron
Minor mineral: Sulfur, Sulfur-Pyrite
Trace mineral: Gold, Lead, Silver
Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
gangue: Diopside, Hedenbergite, Staurolite
other_matl: Actinolite, Calcite, Galena, Gold, Quartz, Silver, Tremolite
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Lyday, Travis Q., Fagan, James M., Geraci, Philip J., Illo, Diane R.
arock_type: Amphibolite
Year first produced: 1941
disc_yr: 1854
References:
  • Deposit:: 1972 COMPILE TENN. DIV. GEOLOGY MINE INVENTORY
  • Deposit:: 1968 DIREXPL MAGEE, CHAPTER IN GRATON-SALES VOLUME
  • Deposit:: 1968 COMPILE KINKEL, USGS PP 580
  • Deposit:: BEALL, J. W., 1973, COPPER IN THE U. S. -- A POSITION SURVEY MINING ENGINEERING: SOC. MINING ENGINEERS, V. 25, NO. 4, P.
  • Deposit:: EMMONS, W. H., AND LANEY, F. B., 1926, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOS THE DUCKTOWN MINING DISTRICT, TENNESSEE: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PAPER 139, PP. 30-32 & 109.
  • Deposit:: HARDEMAN, W. D., 1970, ZINC AND COPPER MINES IN TENNESSEE: BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT, P. 26.
  • Deposit:: KERR, J. R., RAND, L. H., AND VALLELY, J. L., 1965, THE SULFURIC ACID INDUSTRY OF EASTERN UNITED STATES: U. S. BUR.INF. CIRC. 8255, P. 74-75.
  • Deposit:: KINKEL, A. A., AND OTHERS, 1968, COPPER AND SULFUR, IN MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE APPALACHIAN REGION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 580, P. 377-385.
  • Deposit:: 1926 RECON EMMONS AND LANEY, USGS PP 139
  • Deposit:: 1935 GEOLMAP ROSS, USGS PP 179
  • Deposit:: MAHER, S. W., 1966, THE COPPER-SULFURIC ACID INDUSTRY IN TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY INF. CIRC. 14, 28 P.
  • Deposit:: ROSS, C. S., 1935, ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE DUCKTOWN TYPE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PAPER 179, PP. 94-97.
  • Deposit:: SAFFORD, J. M., 1869, GEOLOGY OF TENNESSEE: NASHVILLE, S. J.MERCER, P. 470-482.
  • Deposit:: TENNESSEE COPPER COMPANY DIVISION, 1966, THE TCC STORY: COPPER,TENN., 3RD ED., PP. 6, 11 & 13.
  • Deposit:: CAMMAROTA, V. A. ET. AL. TRIP REPORT TO TENNESSEE ZINC MINE BUMINES MEMORANDUM, JANUARY 8, 1976, P. 3.
  • Deposit:: U. S. BUREAU OF MINES. ANNUAL STATISTICS ON THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF TENESSEE. MINERAL INDUSTRY SURVEYS 1948-1976.
  • Deposit:: MSHA LIST 11/23/79.
  • Deposit:: MSHA INSPECTION REPORT, 4/28/80.
  • Deposit:: MAGEE, MAURICE. GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE DUCKTOWN DISTRICT, TENNESSEE IN ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1933-1967. AM. INST. MINING, METALL., AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERS, INC., V. 1, 1968, PP. 207-241.
  • Production:: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY 1972 MINE INVENTORY
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