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Seaton Iron Bank

Past Producer in Blount county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Iron
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102294
MRDS ID K001874
Record type Site
Current site name Seaton Iron Bank
Related records 10274780

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -83.89379, 35.7876 (WGS84)
Relative position 1.3 MILE SW OF MOUNT LEBANON CHURCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Blount(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Maryville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Watts Bar Lake(hydrologic unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Blount

Comments on the location information

  • WILLIS' AND KEITH'S LOCATIONS COMBINED BY MAHER (1964). LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore

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
    Rock unit name Part Of Knox Group, Dolomite And Limestone;Clay Residuum; Recent
    Rock description Part Of Knox Group, Dolomite And Limestone;Clay Residuum; Recent

Nearby scientific data

(1) -83.89379, 35.7876
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast-Trending Strike Belts

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Residuum

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Production years LATE 1870'S

Comments on the workings information

  • MAHER (1964) STATES THAT AN OLD PIT WITH SPARSE NODULES OF LIMONITE IS FOUND AT THE LOCALITY.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: INSUFFICIENT TONNAGE REMAINING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MAHER, S.W., 1964, IRON, ZINC, AND BARITE DEPOSITS BETWEEN MORRISTOWN AND ETOWAH, TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE ACAD. SCI. JOUR., V. 40, NO. 2; REPR. AS TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY INF. CIRC. 12.

  • Deposit

    MAHER, S.W., 1964, THE BROWN IRON ORES OF EAST TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY REPT. INV. 19, 63 P.

  • Deposit

    1964 COMPILE MAHER, S.W., TENN. DIV. GEOL., INF. CIR. 12

  • Deposit

    1964 OTHER MAHER, S.W., TENN. DIV. GEOL., R.I. 19

  • Production

    WILLIS, BAILEY, 1886, U.S. 10TH CENSUS, 1880, V. 15

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WILLIS (1886) OBSERVED THAT DEPOSITS WERE DERIVED THROUGH WEATHERING OF PYRITE. POST-1950 MINING AT OTHER LOCALITIES EXPOSED PYRITE-FILLED BRECCIA IN PINNACLES OF BEDROCK. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

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