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Unnamed Iron Prospect

Occurrence in Sevier 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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025898
MRDS ID K001873
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Iron Prospect
Related records 10227146

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -83.706, 35.89871 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.5 MILE SW OF BOYDS CREEK CEMETERY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sevier(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Boyds Creek(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

Comments on the location information

  • PROBABLY SAME LOCATION AS THAT OF KEITH (1895)-TWO MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOYDS CREEK COMMUNITY.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Clay, Mud
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -83.706, 35.89871
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast-Trending Strike Belt

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Residuum

Comments on the geologic information

  • LIMONITE AFTER PYRITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION WAS PROBABLY SMALL.

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

    KEITH, A., 1895, KNOXVILLE QUADRANGLE: USGS ATLAS, FOLIO NO. 16.

  • Deposit

    1895 GEOLMAP KEITH, A., FOLIO NO. 16

  • Deposit

    1964 COMPILE MAHER, S.W., TENN. DIV. GEOL. INF. CIR. 12

Reporter information

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

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