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Oak Grove Deposit

Prospect in Henry county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, REE, Thorium, Kyanite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024831
MRDS ID ISM0583
Record type Site
Current site name Oak Grove Deposit
Alternate or previous names Ethyl Corp. Deposit
Related records 10129627

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -88.1667, 36.38342 (WGS84)
Relative position SHORELINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Henry(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buchanan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

McKenzie(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dyersburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Kentucky Lake(hydrologic unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Henry

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN NW PART OF STATE ON THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMBAYMENT.PLACER, MARINE"
  • WITHIN 4 KM OF CANADIAN BORDER, NEAR SHORE OF LAKE SUPERIOR; LAT-LONGS FROM THE NATIONAL ATLAS ARE FOR A LOCATION IN BETWEEN TUCKER AND POPLAR LAKES; "MAGMATIC, BASIC, IRREGULAR OR STRATIFORM, MASSIVE"

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary
Zirconium Critical Primary
REE Critical Primary
Thorium Primary
Kyanite Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TITANIUM

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ilmenite Ore
Kyanite Ore
Monazite Ore
Rutile Ore
Zircon Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Rock unit name Mcnairy Formation
    Rock description Mcnairy Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -88.1667, 36.38342
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 12M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ; ALTERED ILMN + RUTL + LCXN + ZRCN + MNZT + KYNT + STRL + TRML (+ QRTZ)ANCIENT MARINE BEACH QUARTZ SANDS, APPROX. 12 M THICK OCCURING NEAR THE BA"SE OF THE MCNAIRY SAND. THIS UNIT IS CHARACTERIZED BY VERY FINE SANDS CONTAINING UP TO 15% CLAY. ILMN PROBABLY AVERAGE TIO2 CONTENT OF 62%.
  • ; ILMN + MGNT + TI-MGNT (+PRXN + FLDP)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1956

Mining district

District name West Tennessee

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Ethyl Corp.

Comments on the production information

  • NONE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • UNPUBLISHED
  • UNPUBLISHED. PROBABLY SEVERAL MILLION TONNES OF CONTAINED TIO2 (RF2)WILCOX, J.T., 1971, PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF HEAVY MINERALS IN THE MCNA"IRY SAND OF WEST TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY REPORT OF INVESTIGA TIONS 31, 11 P."FANTEL, R.J., ET AL, 1986. TITANIUM MINERALS AVAILABILITY - MARKET ECONOMY" COUNTRIES, US BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 9061, 48 P."
  • RESOURCE INFORMATION VERY POORLY DEVELOPED. POTENTIAL FOR LARGE R1M RESOURCES IS HIGH. SEE RR16GROUT, F.F., 1949-50, THE TITANIFEROUS MAGNETITES OF MINNESOTA: ST. PAUL, " OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE IRON RANGE RESOURCES AND REHABILITITATION, 1"17 P.NATHAN, H.D., 1969, THE GEOLOGY OF A PORTION OF THE DULUTY COMPLEX, COOK CO" UNTY: PH.D. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 198P."FANTEL, R.J., ET AL, 1986, TITANIUM MINERALS AVAILABILITY - MARKET ECONOMY " COUNTRIES, US BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 9061, 48P."PETERSON, E.C., 1966, TITANIUM RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. US BUREAU O" F INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8290, 65P."FORCE, R.R. & LYND, L.E., 1984, TITANIUM MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED ST"ATES DEFINITIONS AND DOCUMENTATION: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF MINERAL D EPOSITS, US GEOLGOICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1558B"

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. ( ENVIRONMENT;). DEVELOPMENT(NO); EXPLORATION(NO); ASSESSMENT(THE PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT ARE GOOD BUT THE PROBLEM WITH THE VERY FINE GRAINSIZE MUST BY OVERCOME.);
  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. ( ENVIRONMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS; TRANSPORT/ACCESS; LABOR;). DEVELOPMENT(NO); EXPLORATION(NO); ASSESSMENT(NO DEVELOPMENT PLANS ANNOUNCED); ENORMOUS RESOURCES OF TITANOMAGNETITE ORE CONTAINING A TOTAL OF 10 MILLION TONS OF TIO2 (IN ILMENITE) ARE PRESENT IN THE DULUTH COMPLEX WHICH COVERS A LA RGE AREA (APPROX. 2000 SQ MILES) OF THE COOK, LAKE AND ST COUNTIES IN NE MINNE" SOTA. (RF5, RF4). A LARGE AMOUNT OF ILMENITE OCCURRING WITH THE TITANOMAGNET"ITE COULD POTENTIALLY BE RECOVERED EACH YEAR FROM TAILINGS DERIVED FROM BASE METAL MINING OVER THE COMPLEX (RF5).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILCOX, J.T., 1971, PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF HEAVY MINERALS IN THE MCNAIRY SAND OF WEST TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 31, 11 P.

  • Deposit

    FANTEL, R.J., ET AL, 1986. TITANIUM MINERALS AVAILABILITY - MARKET ECONOMY COUNTRIES, US BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 9061, 48 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.). NONE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1986 Force, Eric R. U.S. Geological Survey

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