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Blue Spring

Past Producer in Carter county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Manganese, Iron, Cobalt, Nickel
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067830
MRDS ID W000682
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Spring

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.11651, 36.35008 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carter(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Watauga Dam(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Iron Primary
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Nickel Critical Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Clay, Mud
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Erwin Formation
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: NODULES OF MANGANESE OXIDE IN RESIDUAL CLAY ON SHADY DOLOMITE(LOWER CAMBRIAN)NEAR CONTACT WITH ERWIN QUARTZITE. "APPRECIABLE AMOUNTS" OF COBALT NOTED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Production years UNKNOWN

Mining district

District name Stony Creek

Comments on the production information

  • 'OVER 280 TONS PRODUCED IN PAST FROM SEVERAL OPEN CUTS'....NO INDICATION OF WHAT WAS PRODUCED.(PROBABLY MN?)

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVES UNKNOWN; PROBABLY INSIGNIFICANT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KING, P.B., AND OTHERS, 1944, TENNESSEE DEPT. CONSERV., DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 52, P 190

  • Production

    UNPUBLISHED COBALT REPORT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1972 Coury, Anny B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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