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Dry Run Mine

Past Producer in Johnson county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Manganese, Barium-Barite
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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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025761
MRDS ID K001699
Record type Site
Current site name Dry Run Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.9179, 36.34425 (WGS84)
Relative position 1 MILE NE OF DRY RUN SCHOOL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Johnson(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Elk Mills(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Boone(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winston-Salem(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Watauga, North Carolina, Tennessee(hydrologic unit)

French Broad-Holston(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 Johnson

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Clay, Mud
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Residual Cla;Shady Dolomite, Light-Gray, Medium-Grained Dolomite
    Rock description Residual Cla;Shady Dolomite, Light-Gray, Medium-Grained Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.9179, 36.34425
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast-Trending Strike Belt

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NE
    Dip STEEPLY SE
    Thickness 4.27M
    Length 243.84M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1917
Discoverer A.H. Mcqueen
Year of first production 1917
Production years 1917-1918; 1934-1935

Comments on the production information

  • 1917-1918 CONCENTRATES RANGED FROM 37% MN, 1.75% FE, AND 23% SI TO 44% MN, 1.65% FE, AND 1 TO 10% SI. 1934-1935 CONCENTRATES RANGED FROM 65 TO 69% MNO2.

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE WORKINGS ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF A HOLLOW AND ARE BADLY CAVED. A TUNNEL IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN DRIVEN 108 FEET WESTWARD BENEATH THE CUTS, AND ANOTHER TUNNEL IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN DRIVEN 28 FEET IN THE EAST WALL OF THE 150-FOOT LONG BY 100 FEET SIDE PIT (KING, ET AL, 1944).

Comments on development

  • DRY RUN MINE OPERATED DURING 1917 AND 1918, AFTER WHICH IT WAS SOLD. DURING 1934 AND 1935, J.L. MCQUEEN OPERATED THE MINE FOR TENNESSEE MANGANESE CORPORATION. MAHER (1970) STATES THAT THE MINE OPERATED BRIEFLY FOR BARITE IN THE EARLY 1960'S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KING, P.B., FERGUSON, H.W., CRAIG, L.C., AND RODGERS, J., 1944, GEOLOGY AND MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF NORTHEASTERN TENNESSEE: TENN. DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 52, 275 P.

  • Deposit

    MAHER, S.W., 1970, BARITE RESOURCES OF TENNESSEE: TENN. DIV. GEOLOGY REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 28, 40 P.

  • Deposit

    KING, P.B., AND FERGUSON, H.W., 1960, GEOLOGY OF NORTHEASTERNMOST TENNESSEE: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 311, 136 P.

  • Deposit

    1944 COMPILE KING, P.B., ET AL, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL. 52

  • Deposit

    1960 GEOLMAP KING & FERGUSON, PROF. PAPER 311

  • Deposit

    1970 COMPILE MAHER, S.W., TENN. DIV. GEOL., RPT. INV.

  • Production

    KING, P.B., ET AL, 1944, TENN. DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 52.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit KING, ET AL, (1944), STATES THAT THE MANGANESE ORE OCCURS AS A STEEPLY DIPPING LAYER RANGING FROM 4 TO 14 FEET IN THICKNESS, AND EXTENDS FOR AT LEAST 800 FEET ALONG STRIKE. AS EXPOSED IN 1918, IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CUT, THE ORE BED IS 4 TO 6 FEET THICK AND IS BORDERED ON THE SOUTHEAST BY BARREN LAMINATED CLAY AND ON THE NORTHWEST BY A LEDGE OF JASPEROID. THE ORE CONSISTED OF MANGANIFEROUS CLAY CONTAINING NODULES OF HARD, MANGANESE OXIDES. NO DESCRIPTION OF THE OCCURRENCE OF BARITE IS GIVEN IN THE LITERATURE OTHER THAN ITS MENTION BY MAHER, (1970). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

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