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Big Flag Springs Iron Mine

Past Producer in Blount county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  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 10025772
MRDS ID K001715
Record type Site
Current site name Big Flag Springs Iron Mine
Alternate or previous names Mint Iron Mine
Related records 10201979

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -84.04934, 35.6376 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.7 MILE SW OF MINT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Blount(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Binfield(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Watts Bar Lake(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Blount

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Chert Gangue

Analytical data

Result 55.80% FE
Result 0.13% MN
Result 8.26% INSOL.
Result 0.064% P
Result CU N.D.
Result ZN N.D.
Result 8.00% MOIST.: ANAL. CARLOAD LOT - TENN. PROD. & CHEM. CORP.

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 Kingsport Formation, Ordovician, Gray, Fine-Grained, Brecciated Dolomite;Clay Residuum; Recent
    Rock description Kingsport Formation, Ordovician, Gray, Fine-Grained, Brecciated Dolomite;Clay Residuum; Recent

Nearby scientific data

(1) -84.04934, 35.6376
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast-Trending Strike Belts

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding And Breccia Zones In Bedrock; Clay Residuum For Minable Deposits

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1957
Year of first production 1957
Production years 1957, 1959.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.607HA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MAHER, S.W., 1964, IRON, ZINC, AND BARITE DEPOSITS BETWEEN MORRISTOWN AND ETOWAH, TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE ACAD. SCI. JOUR., V. 39, NO. 3, P. 103-106; REPR. AS TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY INF. CIRC. 12

  • Deposit

    1964 COMPILE MAHER, S.W., TENN. DIV. GEOL. INF. CIR. 1

  • Production

    MAHER, S.W., 1964, TENN. DIV. GEOL., INF. CIR. NO. 12

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BRECCIATED DOLOMITE IS EXPOSED IN THE PIT, AND CONTAINS UNOXIDIZED SULFIDES AND SULFIDES ALTERING TO LIMONITE. BOXWORK STRUCTURE LOCALLY EVIDENT. MINABLE MATERIAL CONSISTS OF BROWN IRON OXIDES IN CHERTY CLAY RESIDUUM. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1974 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

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