Trotter Zinc Prospect

Occurrence in Sevier county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Zinc, Iron
Sections on this page
  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. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025746
MRDS ID K001681
Record type Site
Current site name Trotter Zinc Prospect
Related records 10129726

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -83.53683, 35.95676 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 0.35 MILE EAST OF LEFT ABUTMENT OF DOUGLAS DAM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sevier(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Douglas Dam(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower French Broad(hydrologic unit)

French Broad-Holston(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Sevier

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Analytical data

Result LETTER OF JAN. 17, 1902 FROM CHARLES MOOERS, CHEMIST, UNIV. OF TENN., TO W.L. TROTTER, STATES THAT SPECIMEN SUBMITTED CONTAINED 60.9% METALLIC ZINC.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Mascot Dolomite, Dark-Gray, Finely Crystalline Dol
    Rock description Mascot Dolomite, Dark-Gray, Finely Crystalline Dol
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -83.53683, 35.95676

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Solution-Collapse Breccia Zone, Bedding-Plane Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1890
Discoverer Mr. Heal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner W. L. Trotter
    First year 1927
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Government

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT CONSISTED OF SEVERAL SHALLOW PITS AND CAVED SHAFT OF UNKNOWN DEPTH; BEDROCK NOT EXPOSED IN WORKINGS AT TIME OF EXPLORATION OF DOUGLAS DAMSITE IN 1941.

Comments on development

  • IT IS REPORTED THAT MR. HEAL SHIPPED TWO BARGE LOADS OF IRON ORE TO KNOXVILLE AND THEN CEASED OPERATIONS BECAUSE OF UNPROFITABLE RETURNS. ; ECON.COM: SMALL SIZE PRECLUDES FUTURE DEVELOPMENT, AS WELL AS BEING BELOW NORMAL POOL LEVEL OF DOUGLAS LAKE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SPHALERITE AND PYRITE ARE DISSEMINATED IN SLIGHTLY PHOSPHATIC CARBONACEOUS DOLOMITE THAT MAKES UP THE BRECCIA MATRIX AND FILLS BEDDING-PLANE FRACTURES ADJACENT TO MATRIX-FILLED SOLUTION CHANNELS AND CAVITIES. SPHALERITE IS LIGHT-YELLOW, MUCH OF IT IN THIN VEINLETS, ACCORDING TO DUMP MATERIAL. NO MINERALIZED ROCK SEEN IN PLACE. PILE OF LIMONITE NEAR ONE OF THE PITS SUGGESTS THAT PROSPECTING WAS INITIALLY FOR IRON. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1973 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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