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Natchez Trace

Prospect in Benton county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Zirconium, Titanium, Metal
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  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 10025015
MRDS ID ISM0767
Record type Site
Current site name Natchez Trace

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -88.20003, 35.83343 (WGS84)
Relative position CENTROID

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carroll(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Holladay(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Milan(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Blytheville(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 Benton
United States Tennessee Carroll
United States Tennessee Henderson

Comments on the location information

  • POINT OF REFERENCE FROM 1:250,000 SCALE MAP. ; APPROX. LAT-LONG AT LOCATION OF RIFLE MINE, THE LARGEST PRODUCER AREA FROM 1:4 000 000 SCALE MAP. DEPOSITS IN ENTRADA, AND ADJACENT ROCKS IN ENTRADA MINERAL BELT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zirconium Critical Primary
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • VANADIUM

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ilmenite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -88.20003, 35.83343
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Shoreline

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • UPLIFT AND EROSION; CEN; V-CLAYS + V-OXIDES; ORE FORMED AS UNDULANT, PENECONCORDANT LAYERS IN REDUCED SANDSTONES PRIOR TO SIGNIFICANT FAULTING.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1956

Mining district

District name West Tennessee

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner State Park

Comments on the production information

  • NOT KNOWN NONEPROBABLY MORE THAN 1 000 000 LBS OF V2O5 (ABOUT 500 MT) WERE PRODUCED IN SOME YEARS, BUT EXACT FIGURES NOT AVAILABLE. THERE HAS BEEN ALMOST NO PRODUCTION FOR NEARLY (?) 2 DECADES. POST-WAR PRODUCTION WAS LARGELY AS A CO-PRODUCT OF U3O8 PRODUCTION, AND DERIVED FROM 27 PROPERTIES.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • BASED ON VANADIUM ASSOCIATED WITH PROBABLE POTENTIAL RESOURCES OF URANIUM (CONTAINING 0,01% U3O8, ORE MORE).

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. ( MINE PLANT; X; PRESENT PRICE FOR PRODUCTS). ASSESSMENT(ROOM AND PILLAR MINING METHODS AND TRANSPORT COSTS TO MILLS (NOW IDLE) PRESENTLY MAKE MINING UNPROFITABLE. GRADE BY-PRODUCT-U3O8 IS LOW. FUTURE PRICES OF U AND V MAY REMAIN TOO LOW FOR PROFITABILITY.); IN GENERAL, THE GRADE AT PLACERVILLE IS RICHER THAN AT RIFLE, BUT ORE BODIES ARE SMALLER. MINES WOULD NEED RENOVATION BEFORE ANY MINING COULD PROCEED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HERSHEY, R.E., 1970, MINERAL RESOURCE SUMMARY OF THE SEVENTTEN CREEK QUADRANGLE, TENNEESSEE: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY.

  • Deposit

    HERSHEY, R.E., 1967, MINERAL RESOURCES UMMARY OF THE HOLLADAY QUADRANGLE, TENNESSEE: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY.

  • Deposit

    HERSHEY, R.E., 1968, MINERAL RESOURCES SUMMARY OF THE CHESTERFIELD QUADRANGLE, TENNESSEE: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY.

  • Production

    ZR/105

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.). UNDERGROUND 0 M - 1 M REFINED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1987 Larsen, Curtis E. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 01-JUN-1987 Force, Eric R. U.S. Geological Survey

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