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Outcrop Sample For Uranium

Occurrence in Sumner county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Uranium, Oil Shale
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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. Ore body information
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10091913
MRDS ID K002782
Record type Site
Current site name Outcrop Sample For Uranium
Related records 10202637

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -86.47276, 36.4587 (WGS84)
Relative position EAST SIDE OF TENN. RTE. 109, 0.55 AIRLINE MILE SOUTH OF BENCHMARK AT BAULCH.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sumner(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gallatin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nashville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nashville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Cumberland-Old Hickory Lake(hydrologic unit)

Lower Cumberland(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cumberland(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Sumner

Comments on the location information

  • THIS IS STOCKDALE AND KLEPSER'S (1959) SECTION NO. 376. LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE.
  • PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = MILLETT 1:250000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Oil Shale Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE DOWELLTOWN MEMBER IS SUBDIVIDED INTO UNITS A (LOWER) AND B (UPPER). THE OVERLYING GASSAWAY MEMBER IS SUBDIVIDED INTO UNIT C (LOWER), UNIT D (MIDDLE), AND UNIT E (UPPER). THE GASSAWAY MEMBER CONTAINS THE MOST URANIUM IN THE FORMATION, AND THE UPPER UNIT IS THE RICHEST. THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE IS CONSIDERED AS A LOW-GRADE OIL SHALE, BUT IT WAS NOT TESTED FOR ITS OIL CONTENT AT THIS LOCALITY.
  • AN IMPORTANT PRODUCING DISTRICT, AT LEAST THROUGH 1957, THOUGH OUTPUT IN RECENT YEARS HAS FLUCTUATED WIDELY, WITH NO PRODUCTION AS RECENTLY AS 1952-53. DISTRICT WAS ONE OF MAJOR PRODUCERS OF LEAD, SILVER AND GOLD IN THE WEST FROM 1869-90; SINCE THIS TIME THERE HAS BEEN PRODUCTION EVERY YEAR UNTIL 1952, BUT THE OUTPUT HAS FLUCTUATED WIDELY; ZINE PRODUCED ONLY SINCE 1942. THERE ARE IMPORTANT DEEP RESERVES OF SULFIDE LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER, CARRYING GOLD, BUT THE WATER PROBLEM IS UNSURMOUNTABLE. (MCKNIGHT, 1960?, UNPUBLISHED DATA.)

Analytical data

Result STOCKDALE AND KLEPSER (1959) GIVE THE FOLLOWING URANIUM VALUES, BASED ON FLUORIMETRIC ANALYSIS: DOWELLTOWN MEMBER, 0.0035%
Result GASSAWAY MEMBER, 0.0045%.

Host and associated rocks

  • 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
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -86.47276, 36.4587
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding; The Darker, More Organic-Rich Beds

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSITS ARE REPLACEMENT VEINS, CHIMNEYS, IRREGULAR MASSES AND BEDDED DEPOSITS IN CAMBRIAN LIMESTONE ALONG FISSURES (ABOVE A THRUST FAULT IN RICHEST AREA). IGNEOUS ROCKS ARE A SMALL QUARTZ MONZONITE STOCK AND QUARTZ PORPHYRY DIKES OF EARLY CRETACEOUS AGE; INTRUSIVE AND EXTRUSIVE ANDESITE OF MIDDLE EOCENE AGE; AND RHYOLITE PLUGS AND FLOWS OF MIDDLE OLIGOCENE AGE. (MCKNIGHT, 1960?, UNPUBLISHED DATA.)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • THE BASE OF THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE IS NOT EXPOSED; AT LEAST 20.5 FEET OF THE FORMATION IS DESCRIBED IN AN UNPUBLISHED GRAPHIC LOG OF THE SECTION. THE GASSAWAY MEMBER IS 12.0 FEET THICK.

Comments on development

  • THIS EXPOSURE WAS SAMPLED AS PART OF AN INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED UNDER CONTRACT NO. AT-(40-1)-1337 BETWEEN THE U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE CONSISTS OF THE HARDIN SANDSTONE MEMBER AT THE BASE, THE DOWELLTOWN MEMBER, AND THE UPPER GASSAWAY MEMBER, WHICH IS THE MOST WIDELY DISTRIBUTED OF THE THREE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1975 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

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