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Calhoun Prospect

Occurrence in Swain county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Copper, Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025756
MRDS ID K001691
Record type Site
Current site name Calhoun Prospect
Related records 10273253

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -83.67739, 35.52093 (WGS84)
Relative position FEW HUNDRED FEET ESE OF HALL CEMETERY AND EAST OF CONFLUENCE OF BIG FLATS BRANCH WITH BONE VALLEY CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Swain(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Thunderhead Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Little Tennessee(hydrologic unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Great Smoky Mountains National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Swain

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Ankerite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicic, Carbonate

Analytical data

Result 3.2 FOOT-LONG CHANNEL SAMPLE ACROSS FULL WIDTH OF CHALCOPYRITE-RICH ZONE ASSAYED 2.66 % COPPER AND 0.47 % ZINC.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 91
USGS model code 24b
Deposit model name Massive sulfide, Besshi (Japanese deposits)
Mark3 model number 30

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Anakeesta Formation , Chlorite-Mica Schist & Phyllite;Thun Derhead Sandstone-Feldspathic Sst, Quartzite
    Rock description Anakeesta Formation , Chlorite-Mica Schist & Phyllite;Thun Derhead Sandstone-Feldspathic Sst, Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -83.67739, 35.52093
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast-Trending Strike Belts

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.98M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1943
Discoverer G.I. Calhoun

Mining district

District name Swain County Copper District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Forest Service

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • MINERALIZED ZONE OPENED FOR 20 FEET ALONG STRIKE, BUT TRENCHING TO NORTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST FAILED TO REVEAL ANY FURTHER CONTINUATION.

Comments on development

  • ACCORDING TO MR. CALHOUN (ORAL COMMUNICATION IN ESPENSHADE, 1963), PROSPECTING WAS CONDUCTED AT A POINT OF STRONG MAGNETIC ANOMALY DISCOVERED BY A DIP-NEEDLE SURVEY OF THE DUCKTOWN CHEMICAL AND IRON COMPANY. MINERALIZATION NOT VISIBLE AT SURFACE AND MINERALIZED ROCK DOES NOT SEEM TO BE MAGNETIC. CAUSE OF MAGNETIC ANOMALY IS UNKNOWN. ; ECON.COM: PROPERTY IS WITHIN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK WHERE PROSPECTING AND MINING ARE NOT PERMITTED UNDER EXISTING LAWS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1963, GEOLOGY OF SOME COPPER DEPOSITS IN NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND ALABAMA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1142-I, P. I1 - I50

  • Deposit

    1963 COMPILE ESPENSHADE, G.H., USGS BULL. 1142-

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO EVIDENCE OF MINERALIZATION AT SURFACE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1973 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1992 Klein, T.L. U.S. Geological Survey

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