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Millsap Adit

Occurrence in Monroe county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead
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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. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025328
MRDS ID K001166
Record type Site
Current site name Millsap Adit
Related records 10202439

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Centroid
Geographic coordinates: -84.24811, 35.44401 (WGS84)
Relative position Original record had no coordinates, so this was plotted to the middle of the state/county area.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Monroe(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rafter(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cleveland(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chattanooga(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Little Tennessee(hydrologic unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Cherokee National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Monroe

Comments on the location information

  • ADIT IS BESIDE ROAD

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Limonite Gangue
Muscovite Gangue

Analytical data

Result ROVE (1926) QUOTES PROPERTY OWNER THAT VEIN ASSAYED $4.50 (PER TON) GOLD AND $2.50 PER TON SILVER.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

Centroid (1) -84.24811, 35.44401
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast-Trending Strike Belts

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1913

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Oliver Millsap

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • ROVE (1926) STATES THAT VEIN IS 12 INCHES THICK, BUT SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENT REVEALED THAT VEIN MAY BE AS MUCH AS 3 FEET THICK. ROVE ALSO STATES THAT VEIN IS "CONSIDERABLY FRACTURED AND EXTENDS IN SMALL STRINGERS INTO THE BLUE SLATE WALL ROCK"

Comments on development

  • DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF AN ADIT DRIVEN APPROXIMATELY 20 FEET INTO THE HILLSIDE. ; ECON.COM: INSUFFICIENT TONNAGE, REPORTED VALUES QUESTIONABLE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROVE, O. N., 1926, RECONNAISSANCE OF THE GOLD DEPOSITS OF EASTERN TENNESSEE: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, UNPUBLISHED MASTER'S THESIS, 92 P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1900 TO 1926

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-73 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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