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Section 6 Talc Prospect

Occurrence in Cherokee county in North Carolina, United States with commodities Talc-Soapstone, Lead, Silver, Gold, Marble, Dimension
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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. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026140
MRDS ID K002621
Record type Site
Current site name Section 6 Talc Prospect
Related records 10272413

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -84.02601, 35.10205 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.65 MILE EAST OF TEXANA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cherokee(county)

North Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Murphy(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cleveland(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chattanooga(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hiwassee(hydrologic unit)

Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Nantahala National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Croatan National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

National Forests in North Carolina(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States North Carolina Cherokee

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Marble, Dimension Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TALC APPEARS ON THE SURFACE AS FLOAT MATERIAL.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Talc Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Metadiorite; Precambrian; Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphism
    Rock description Metadiorite; Precambrian; Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphi
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble

Nearby scientific data

(1) -84.02601, 35.10205
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast-Trending Strike Belts Defining A Major Syncline

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • CORE DRILLING DISCLOSED SILICIFIED MARBLE AND ZONES OF ABUNDANT TREMOLITE. KERR AND HANNA (1887, P. 317) DESCRIBE THE OCCURRANCE AS "A REMARKABLY RICH VEIN...NEAR THE TOWN OF MURPHY, KNOWN AS NO. 6, WHICH IMMEDIATELY UNDERLIES THE MARBLE. THIS IS A SILVER LEAD QUARTZ VEIN, IN WHICH IS IMBEDDED A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF FREE GOLD."

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1985

Mining district

District name Murphy Marble Belt

Comments on the workings information

  • VAN HORN (1948) NOTED THAT ONE OF FOUR DRILL CORES THAT PENETRATED BEDROCK "...DISCLOSED THIN VEINLETS OF GALENA IN THE FRACTURES OF AN OTHERWISE IMPURE DOLOMITE." HE SUGGESTS THAT THE ORIGINAL TALC BODY HAS BEEN REMOVED BY EROSION, LEAVING REMNANT TALC BEHIND AS FLOAT.

Comments on development

  • THE HITCHCOCK CORPORATION DRILLED SIX CORE HOLES ON THE PROPERTY IN 1946. FOUR OF THE HOLES INTERCEPTED THE WHITE, TALC-BEARING MARBLE HORIZON, BUT NO TALC WAS OBSERVED IN THE CORES. ; ECON.COM: AREA IS WELL-POPULATED AND BUILT UP

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: MID-1800'S

Reporter information

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

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