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Arkansas Wonder

Occurrence in Marion county in Arkansas, United States with commodity Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081008
MRDS ID W032556
Record type Site
Current site name Arkansas Wonder

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -92.68628, 36.35841 (WGS84)
Elevation 244
Relative position 5.9 MILES WEST OF FLIPPIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Marion(county)

Arkansas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cotter SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bull Shoals Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Harrison(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bull Shoals Lake(hydrologic unit)

Upper White(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper White(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arkansas Marion

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 20N;19W 16W 33;4 SW4 OF SW4 (33); NW4 OF NW4 (04) Arkansas

Comments on the location information

  • ON THE BLUFFY FORK HEADWATER OF JIMMY'S CREEK, IN STREAM VALLEY ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1969

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hemimorphite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Solution Of Sphalerite From Some Cavities

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -92.68628, 36.35841
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciated Zones And Disseminated In Silicitied Zones.

Comments on the geologic information

  • BLOCKS OF SANDSTONE OVER THE SURFACE SUGGEST THE PROXIMITY OF AN OVERLYING BED OF IT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name North Arkansas Zinc Region

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • ONLY OPENINGS WERE AN OPEN CUT AND STRIPPING SHOWING SOME WHAT BRECCIATED CHERTS BEARING DISSEMINATED SPHALERITE.

Comments on development

  • LITTLE OF THE HARD ROCK HAS BEEN REMOVED. NOTES FROM WHICH THIS RECORD WAS MADE MAY BE FROM 1892 OR LATER UP TO 1900

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ARKANSAS FOR 1892 (PUB. DEC, 1900), VOL V: THE ZN AND PB REGION OF NORTH ARK., BY STATE GEOLOGIST JOHN C. BRANNER, P. 100 USGS RESTON (241) AR5 (PERTINENT MAP IN THAT BOOK IS THE YELLVILLE SHEET)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SOME OF THE HEMIMORPHITE ("ZINC SILICATE") FROM THE CLAIM WAS EXAMINED CHEMICALLY AND FOUND TO BE A REMARKABLY PURE CALAMINE WITHOUT LIME OR MAGNSIA AND CARRYING ONLY TRACES OF IRON. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 Wright, Noel J. (Calkins, James A.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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