| Deposit ID | 10091882 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | K002634 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Columbia Marble Company Talc Prospect |
| Related records | 10272343 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -83.9099, 35.18705 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | SOUTHWEST SIDE OF TERRAZZO SWITCH. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Cherokee(county)
North Carolina(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Marble(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Fontana Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Hiwassee(hydrologic unit)
Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee(hydrologic accounting unit)
Middle Tennessee-Hiwassee(hydrologic subregion)
Tennessee(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Nantahala National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
Croatan National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
National Forests in North Carolina(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | North Carolina | Cherokee |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Talc-Soapstone | Tertiary |
| Sulfur-Pyrite | Tertiary |
| Copper | Tertiary |
| Lead | Tertiary |
| Zinc Critical | Tertiary |
| Marble, Dimension | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Marble | Ore |
| Talc | Ore |
| Tremolite | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite | ||||
| Rock unit name | Metadiorite; Precambrian; Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphism | ||||
| Rock description | Metadiorite; Precambrian; Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphi | ||||
| |||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble |
| (1) | -83.9099, 35.18705 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Northeast-Trending Strike Belts Defining A Major Syncline |
| General form | LENS |
|---|
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Both |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1937 |
| Discoverer | Columbia Marble Company |
| District name | Murphy Marble Belt |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | W. A. Bailey |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Columbia Marble Co. |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | K002634 |
VAN HORN, E.C., 1948, TALC DEPOSITS OF THE MURPHY MARBLE BELT (NORTH CAROLINA): NORTH CAROLINA DIV. MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 56, 54 P.
1948 OTHER VAN HORN, N.C. DIV. MIN. RES., BULL. 56
1973 OTHER POWER AND FORREST, AM. JOUR. SCI., PAPER
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, 1944, TALC RECONNAISSANCE IN THE VICINITY OF MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA: OPEN-FILE REPORT 7 P.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THE WHITE, FINE-GRAINED, DOLOMITIC MARBLE ZONE WHICH LOCALLY CONTAINS TALC DEPOSITS IS AT THE APPROXIMATE STRATIGRAPHIC CENTER OF THE FORMATION (VAN HORN, 1948). |
| Deposit | Discovery Year: LATE 1930'S-EARLY 1940'S |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-SEP-1974 | Hale, Robin C. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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