| Deposit ID | 10091887 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | K002663 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Drill Hole For Uranium, Yb-17 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -85.76663, 35.92649 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | NORTH SIDE OF COUNTY (YOUNG BEND) ROAD, 1.25 MILE SOUTHEAST OF BRIGHT HILL CHURCH. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
DeKalb(county)
Tennessee(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Smithville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
McMinnville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Chattanooga(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Caney(hydrologic unit)
Upper Cumberland(hydrologic accounting unit)
Cumberland(hydrologic subregion)
Ohio(hydrologic region)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Tennessee | DeKalb |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Uranium | Tertiary |
| Oil Shale | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Shale | Ore |
| Pyrite | Gangue |
| Result | TWENTY-SIX SAMPLES FROM A 32.57-FOOT INTERVAL CONTAINED FROM 0.003 TO 0.009 PERCENT EQUIVALENT URANIUM. SELECTED SAMPLES CONTAINED FROM 0.0009 TO 0.0084 PERCENT CHEMICAL URANIUM. THE GASSAWAY MEMBER IS 14.79 FEET THICK AND CONTAINED 0.0062 PERCENT CHEMICAL URANIUM. |
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| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone > Bentonite | ||||||
| Rock unit name | Bentonite-Light Gray, Biotitic | ||||||
| Rock description | Bentonite-Light Gray, Biotitic | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale > Black Shale |
| Rock unit name | Chattanooga Shale, Carbonaceous, Grayish-Black, Thinly-Laminated, Fissile |
| Rock description | Chattanooga Shale, Carbonaceous, Grayish-Black, Thinly-Laminated, Fissile |
| (1) | -85.76663, 35.92649 |
|---|
| General form | TABULAR |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 9.93M |
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | U.S. Bureau Of Mines |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | K002663 |
WILSON, C.W., JR., 1968, GEOLOGIC MAP AND MINERAL RESOURCES SUMMARY OF THE SMITHVILLE QUADRANGLE, TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY GM 323-NE AND MRS 323-NE, 10 P.
1961 OTHER CONANT AND SWANSON, PROF. PAPER 357
STOCKDALE, P.B., AND KLEPSER, H.J., 1959, THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE OF TENNESSEE AS A SOURCE OF URANIUM: U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMM. TECH. INF. SERVICE, ORO-205, P. 223. DETAILED GRAPHIC SECTIONS AND LOGS OF THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE AT LOCALITIES DESCRIBED IN THE TEXT ARE ON OPEN-FILE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE; TENNESSEE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY, KNOXVILLE AND NASHVILLE; AND THE MINERAL RESOURCES SECTION, TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, KNOXVILLE. HOWEVER, A NUMBER OF THE ANALYSIS GIVEN IN THE OPEN-FILE MATERIAL WERE NOT INCLUDED IN STOCKDALE AND KLEPSER'S TEXT.
1968 COMPILE WILSON, C.W., TENN. DIV. GEOLOGY
1968 GEOLMAP WILSON, C.W., TENN. DIV. GEOLOGY
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THE BENTONITE, TERMED THE CENTER HILL BENTONITE BY CONANT AND SWANSON (1961), IS THE MOST DISTINCTIVE BED IN THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE. IT RANGES FROM 0.05 TO 0.14 FOOT THICK AND IS WITHIN 2 FEET OF THE TOP OF THE DOWELLTOWN MEMBER OF THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE. THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE CONSISTS OF THE LOWER DOWELLTOWN MEMBER AND THE OVERLYING GASSAWAY MEMBER; THE THIN HARDIN SANDSTONE OCCURS LOCALLY AT THE BASE OF THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-NOV-1974 | Hale, Robin C. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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