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Horse Shoe Magnetite Prospect

Occurrence in Carter 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. 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 10026384
MRDS ID K004793
Record type Site
Current site name Horse Shoe Magnetite Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.09984, 36.1737 (WGS84)
Relative position ON NORTH SIDE OF CREEK NEAR MOUTH OF DAVE MILLER HOLLOW, AND 2.4 MILES SW OF JCT. OF U.S. - 19E AND RT. 143 IN ROAN MOUNTAIN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carter(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Rocks Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Johnson City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Johnson City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Watauga, North Carolina, Tennessee(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 Carter

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS VERY APPROXIMATE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Feldspar Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result HAND - PICKED SAMPLE OF CRUDE ORE CONTAINED: 33.86% SIO2, 33.80% FE, 5.68% AL2O3, 8.87% CAO, 4.31% MGO, 0.03% S, TRACE P, NO TI, ACCORDING TO BAYLEY (1923).

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) -82.09984, 36.1737
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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

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE COUNTRY ROCK DIFFERS FROM THAT AT THE CRANBERRY MINE IN THAT IT IS STRONGLY SCHISTOSE AND VERY DARK. IT IS VERY CHLORITIC AND ITS FELDSPATHIC ZONES ARE STRETCHED AND INTERLAYERED WITH LIGHT - COLORED GRANITE. THE VEIN MATERIAL IS VERY DARK AND IS CUT BY PEGMATITE, EPIDOTE, AND QUARTZ VEINS, SIMILAR TO THOSE AT THE CRANBERRY MINE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cranberry Magnetite District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Mr. E. B. Kirby

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THESE FIGURES REPRESENT MR. KIRBY'S ESTIMATION OF AVAILABLE IRON ORE RESOURCES BETWEEN THE PEG LEG AND HORSE SHOE MINES.

Comments on the workings information

  • THE MOST - PROMISING EXPOSURES HAVE BEEN PROSPECTED BY SMALL PITS AND CUTS. ONE LENS OF MAGNETITE REPORTEDLY EXTENDED FOR 400 FEET AND IS 8 FEET WIDE.

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

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

  • 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

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Reserve-Resource

    MR. E. B. KIRBY IN BAYLEY, W. S., 1923, P. 128

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

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