1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Teegarden Magnetite Mine

Past Producer in Carter county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Iron
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026372
MRDS ID K004775
Record type Site
Current site name Teegarden Magnetite Mine
Alternate or previous names Shell Creek Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -88.82199, 36.21009 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.7 MILE SW OF WILSON CEMETERY AND 2.1 MILES SE OF ROAN MOUNTAIN, TENNESSEE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Weakley(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Greenfield(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

McKenzie(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dyersburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Obion(hydrologic unit)

Hatchie-Obion(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Mississippi-Hatchie(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Carter

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Feldspar Gangue
Pyroxene Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORE PRODUCTION DURING THE TWO - YEAR LIFE OF THE MINE AVERAGED 36.36% FE AND 0.0113% P. A SELECTED SAMPLE OF LEAN ORE ANALYZED BY THE TENN. GEOL. SURVEY CONTAINED: 37.46% FE3O4, 19.30% FE2O3, 22.65% SIO2, 0.48% AL2O3, 10.24% CAO, 0.16% P2O5, 2.70% CO2. 0.28% H2O, MGO AND TIO2 NOT DETECTED.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Cranberry Granite; Complex Of Intertonguing Rock Types Including Migmatite, Granitic Gneisses, Monzonite, Quartz Diorite, Greenstone, Mica And Hornblende Schists, Abundant Granitic Pegmatite
    Rock description Cranberry Granite; Complex Of Intertonguing Rock Types Including Migmatite, Granitic Gneisses, Monzonite, Quartz Diorite, Greenstone, Mica And Hornblende Schists, Abundant Granitic Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -88.82199, 36.21009
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Westerly
Type of structure Local
Structure description Granite Becomes Less Platy And Interfoliated Gneisses Become Less Abundant As Distance From Vein Increases.

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL, LENS
    Strike N 60 W
    Dip 30 S
    Width 6.1M

Comments on the geologic information

  • BAYLEY (1923) STATES THAT DUMP MATERIAL SHOWS ALL PHASES OF THE EPIDOTE - HORNBLENDE ROCKS CHARACTERISTIC OF THE CRANBERRY MINE, AS WELL AS AN ALMOST PURE HORNBLENDITE CONSISTING OF FINE - GRAINED SLIGHTLY SCHISTOSE HORNBLENDE ROCK CONTAINING TRACE FELDSPAR AND ABUNDANT MAGNETITE. THIS HORNBLENDE ROCK IS REFERRED TO AS LEAN ORE AT THE MINE. THE FOUR VARIETIES OF ORE (THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE AT CRANBERRY) ARE: 1) MAGNETITE UNIFORMLY INTERMIXED WITH HORNBLENDE; 2) MAGNETITE OCCURRING AS IRREGULAR MASSES BETWEEN GRAINS OF GREEN PYROXENE; 3) MASSIVE OR SLIGHTLY SCHISTOSE GARNETIFEROUS ORE OCCURRING NEAR VEIN BORDERS; AND 4) LATE MAGNETITE IN THE FORM OF VEINS OR STREAKS CUTTING LEAN ORE, WHICH GRADES TO RICH ORE WITH INCREASING NUMBERS AND THICKNESSES OF LATE VEINS. MINERALIZATION OCCURRED PRIOR TO MID - PALEOZOIC METAMORPHISM; BRYANT AND REED (1966) STATE THAT MAGNETITE AND IRON - RICH SILICATES REPLACED WALL ROCK, PROBABLY DURING "METAMORPHISM WHEN THE CRANBERRY GNEISS WAS FORMED."

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1917

Mining district

District name Cranberry Magnetite District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Ellis And Kirkpatrick

Comments on the production information

  • ORE SHIPMENTS INCLUDED ORE FROM THE NEARBY ELLIS MINE. ORE WAS FED DIRECTLY TO THE FURNACE WITHOUT BENEFICIATION.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • A MAGNETOMETER SURVEY BETWEEN THE ELLIS AND TEEGARDEN MINES INDICATED A CONTINUOUS MAGNETIC ANOMALY BETWEEN THEM. S. H. HAMILTON'S ESTIMATE WAS BASED ON THE SURVEY.

Comments on the workings information

  • BAYLEY (1923) SAYS THAT A STREAK OF RICH MAGNETITE REPORTEDLY OCCURRED IN A 20 - FOOT WIDE VEIN OF LEAN ORE.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: THE MAGNETITE IS EASILY SEPARATED FROM GANGUE AND IS EXCEPTIONALLY LOW IN PHOSPHOROUS, TITANIUM, AND SULFUR.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STUCKEY, J. L., 1965, NORTH CAROLINA: ITS GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES: RALEIGH, N. C., NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. CONSERV. AND DEVEL., 550 P.

  • Deposit

    BAYLEY, W. S., 1923, THE MAGNETIC IRON ORES OF EAST TENNESSEE AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 29, 252 P.

  • Deposit

    KLINE, M. H., AND BALLARD, T. J., 1948, CRANBERRY MAGNETITE DEPOSITS, AVERY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, AND CARTER COUNTY, TENNESSEE: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPT. INV. RI 4274, 85 P.

  • Deposit

    GOLDICH, S.S., AND WEDOW, HELMUTH, JR., 1943, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE MAGNETIC IRON ORES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EASTERN TENNESSEE: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT.

  • Deposit

    1923 OTHER BAYLEY, W. S., TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL. 29

  • Deposit

    1965 COMPILE STUCKEY, J. L., N. C. DEPT. CONS. & DEVEL.

  • Deposit

    1966 COMPILE BRYANT AND REED, GEOL. SURV. CIR. 521

  • Production

    BAYLEY, W. S., 1923, P. 124.

  • Reserve-Resource

    BAYLEY, W. S., 1923, P. 126.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ACCORDING TO BAYLEY (1923), "THE VEINS IN WHICH THE ORE OCCURS COMPRISE MORE OR LESS BANDED MIXTURES OF PEGMATITE, EPIDOTIC GNEISSES, HORNBLENDE SCHISTS AND LENTICULAR MASSES OF A MIXTURE OF HORNBLENDE AND MAGNETITE, IN PLACES CUT BY SMALL VEINS OF MAGNETITE." ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Maps centered on this site