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Outcrop Sample For Uranium

Occurrence in Coffee county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Uranium, Oil Shale
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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. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026245
MRDS ID K002787
Record type Site
Current site name Outcrop Sample For Uranium
Related records 10299553

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -86.16803, 35.43872 (WGS84)
Relative position IN THE FIRST RAVINE NORTH OF THE WEST END OF THE DENNY WAITE BRIDGE OVER THE DUCK RIVER.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Coffee(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Normandy Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tullahoma(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Columbia(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Duck(hydrologic unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Other Federal Agencies(Department)

Department UND(Type of land area)

UND(Federal land areas administered by UND)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Coffee

Comments on the location information

  • THIS IS STOCKDALE AND KLEPSER'S (1959) SECTION NO. 387. LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Oil Shale Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ZINC PRODUCED FROM EDWARDS SINCE 1915. EXPLORATION BEGAN AT BALMAT IN 1927, BUT SPHALERITE WAS NOTED IN 1838. AT LEAST 2 MAJOR MINES IN OPERATION AT PRESENT BY ST. JOSEPH LEAD CO. MAJOR FIRST-RANK ZINC DISTRICT WITH LARGE RESERVES. (HEYL, 1960?, UNPUBLISHED DATA.)
  • THE DOWELLTOWN MEMBER IS DIVIDED INTO UNITS A (LOWER) AND UNIT B (UPPER). THE OVERLYING GASSAWAY MEMBER IS DIVIDED INTO UNIT C (LOWER), UNIT D (MIDDLE), AND UNIT E (UPPER). THE GASSAWAY MEMBER CONTAINS THE MOST URANIUM IN THE FORMATION, AND THE UPPER UNIT IS THE RICHEST. THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE IS CONSIDERED AS A LOW-GRADE OIL SHALE, BUT IT WAS NOT TESTED FOR ITS OIL CONTENT AT THIS LOCALITY.

Analytical data

Result FLUORIMETRIC ANALYSIS SHOW THE URANIUM CONTENT OF VARIOUS UNITS WITHIN THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE TO BE: UNIT A, 2 SAMPLES, 0.0025% AND 0.0044%
Result UNIT B, NOT DETERMINED
Result UNIT C, 2 SAMPLES, 0.0048% AND 0.0070%
Result UNIT D, 0.0027%
Result AND UNIT E, 2 SAMPLES, 0.0091% AND 0.0107%, ACCORDING TO AN UNPUBLISHED GRAPHIC LOG OF THE SECTION.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale > Black Shale
    Rock unit name Chattanooga Shale, Carbonaceous, Grayish-Black, Thinly-Laminated, Fissile
    Rock description Chattanooga Shale, Carbonaceous, Grayish-Black, Thinly-Laminated, Fissile
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -86.16803, 35.43872
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 7.18M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding; The Darker, More Organic-Rich Beds

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE CONSISTS PRIMARILY OF PYRITE-SPHALERITE-GALENA REPLACEMENTS OF HIGHLY METAMORPHOSED IMPURE GRENVILLE LIMESTONE, LOCALIZED IN CHANNELS OF MICROBRECCIATION. THE ORES ARE RELATED TO GRANITIC AND PEGMATITIC INTRUSIVE BODIES. THE AREA IS ESSENTIALLY PART OF THE CANADIAN SHIELD. BOTH MINES ARE ON OPPOSITE LIMBS OF ONE ANTICLINE. (HEYL, 1960?, UNPUBLISHED DATA.)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • THE GASSAWAY MEMBER IS 13.55 FEET THICK.

Comments on development

  • THIS EXPOSURE WAS SAMPLED AS PART OF AN INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED UNDER CONTRACT NO. AT-(40-1)-1337 BETWEEN THE U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CONANT, L.C., AND SWANSON, V.E., 1961, CHATTANOOGA SHALE AND RELATED ROCKS OF CENTRAL TENNESSEE AND NEARBY AREAS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 357, 91 P

  • Deposit

    1961 OTHER CONANT AND SWANSON, PROF. PAPER 357.

  • Deposit

    STOCKDALE, P.B., AND KLEPSER, H.J., 1959, THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE OF TENNESSEE AS A SOURCE OF URANIUM: U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMM. TECH. INF. SERVICE, ORO-205, P. 223. DETAILED GRAPHIC SECTIONS AND LOGS OF THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE AT LOCALITIES DESCRIBED IN THE TEXT ARE ON OPEN-FILE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE; TENNESSEE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY, KNOXVILLE AND NASHVILLE; AND THE MINERAL RESOURCES SECTION, TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, KNOXVILLE. HOWEVER, A NUMBER OF THE ANALYSIS GIVEN IN THE OPEN-FILE MATERIAL WERE NOT INCLUDED IN STOCKDALE AND KLEPSER'S TEXT.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE CONSISTS OF THE HARDIN SANDSTONE MEMBER AT THE BASE, THE DOWELLTOWN MEMBER, AND THE UPPER GASSAWAY MEMBER, WHICH IS THE MOST WIDELY DISTRIBUTED OF THE THREE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1975 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

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