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White Rock Hollow Barite Mine

Past Producer in Cocke county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Barium-Barite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  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 10026043
MRDS ID K002498
Record type Site
Current site name White Rock Hollow Barite Mine
Related records 10129533

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -83.07904, 35.92231 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.7 MILE E OF MORGAN GAP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cocke(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Neddy Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper French Broad(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 Cocke

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary

Analytical data

Result TENN. DIVISION OF GEOL. ANALYSIS
Result DENSE, PLATY BARITE: 84.52% BASO4, 1.07% BACO3, 12.68% SIO2, 0.28% FE2O3, 0.38% CAF2, 0.36% CACO3, 0.60% MGCO3, AND 0.08% AL2O3.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Cochran Conglomerate, Quartzite & Conglomerate
    Rock description Cochran Conglomerate, Quartzite & Conglomerate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -83.07904, 35.92231
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 40 E
    Dip 90
    Thickness 4.27M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sheared Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • SOME OF THE BARITE IS STREAKED PALE-RED LIKE THAT AT THE SPENCE MINE, ALTHOUGH MOST OF IT IS DENSE AND WHITE AND IS MASSIVE. THE BARITE REPLACES THE SHEARED AND CRUSHED SANDSTONE GRIT IN SOME SPECIMENS. THE SHEARED ZONE AT ONE OF THE CUTS CONSISTS OF LARGE HORSES OF GRIT SEPARATED BY SLIP PLANES ALONG WHICH GOUGE HAS DEVELOPED. ACCORDING TO FERGUSON AND JEWELL (1951), REPLACEMENT OF THE SHEARED GOUGE BY BARITE ACCOUNTS FOR THE PLATY STRUCTURE OF THE BARITE. AGE OF MINERALIZATION: LATE - OR POST - PALEOZOIC ( FERGUSON & JEWELL, 1951 ).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1885
Year of first production 1916

Mining district

District name Del Rio Barite District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Mr. Stone
    First year 1916
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Forest Service

Comments on the production information

  • THE BARITE WAS SHIPPED TO A PAINT COMPANY IN CHATTANOOGA (PROBABLY GILMAN PAINT AND VARNISH COMPANY).

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 4.27M

Comments on the workings information

  • SCATTERED BARITE OCCURS ACROSS THE 14 FOOT ZONE, BUT MOST OCCURS IN THE MIDDLE WHERE 4 TO 14 INCHES OF DENSE, PLATY BARITE CAN BE SEEN. WORKINGS CONSIST OF A DRIFT, SEVERAL OPEN CUTS, AND TRENCHES AS MUCH AS 95 FEET IN LENGTH.

Comments on development

  • SOME PROSPECTING IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN DONE DURING THE 1880'S, BUT THE ONLY MINING WAS DONE DURING 1916.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MAHER, S.W., 1970, BARITE RESOURCES OF TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY, REPT. INV. 28, P. 40

  • Deposit

    1951 OTHER FERGUSON & JEWELL, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL. 57

  • Deposit

    1970 COMPILE MAHER, S.W. TENN. DIV. GEOL., RPT. INV. 28

  • Production

    FERGUSON AND JEWELL, 1951, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL. 57

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1880'S
Deposit FERGUSON AND JEWELL (1951) CONSIDER THE HOST ROCK AS BELONGING TO THE UNICOI FORMATION. TVA FILE MAPS SHOW THE MINE IN THE COCHRAN CONGLOMERATE. THE DEPOSIT DIFFERS FROM THE MOCCASIN GAP TYPE IN THAT THE VEIN CUTS ACROSS THE BEDDING AT AN ACUTE ANGLE AT MOST PLACES, AND THE BARITE SHOWS A PLATY STRUCTURE SIMILAR TO THE WILLIAMS TYPE, YET SOME IS VERY FINELY CRYSTALLINE. ; INFO.SRC : 4 OTHER SRC

Reporter information

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

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