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Sewanee Silica Company Pit

Producer in Franklin county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Silica
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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. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025689
MRDS ID K001610
Record type Site
Current site name Sewanee Silica Company Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.8744, 35.22122 (WGS84)
Elevation 588
Relative position L & N RAILROAD NORTH OF SEWANEE AIRPORT, SOUTH OF STATE ROUTE 15

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Franklin(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Monteagle(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chattanooga(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chattanooga(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Guntersville Lake(hydrologic unit)

Middle Tennessee-Elk(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Tennessee-Elk(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Franklin

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silica Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sandstone Ore

Analytical data

Result SI02-99.5%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Rock unit name Sewanee Conglomerate
    Rock description Sewanee Conglomerate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Sewanee Silica Co.
    Home office Sewanee, Tn.

Comments on the production information

  • 1972 PRODUCTION-100000 TO 300000 TONS; TRANSPORTATION-TRUCK AND RAIL; BENEFICIATION-WET AND DRY WATER CLASSIFIER-AIR CLASSIFIER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HERSHEY, R.E., 1960, THE HIGH-SILICA RESOURCES OF TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY REPT. INV. NO. 10, 62 P

  • Deposit

    1960 RECON TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY, REPORT

  • Deposit

    MINING AND MINERAL PLANT INVENTORY, 1972, TVA, TDG, USBM, MANUSCRIPT

  • Deposit

    1972 COMPILE TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY, INVENTORY

  • Production

    TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY, 1972, MINE INVENTORY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1973 Fagan, James M. U.S. Geological Survey

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