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Tennessee Valley Authority Reserves

Past Producer in Maury county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Aluminum, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10178807
MAS/MILS ID 0471190082
Record type Site
Current site name Tennessee Valley Authority Reserves

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -87.58001, 35.37011 (WGS84)
Elevation 260

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wayne(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ovilla(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lawrenceburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Columbia(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Buffalo(hydrologic unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Maury

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Tertiary
Calcium Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary
Water, Free Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Collophane Unknown
Quartz Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -87.58001, 35.37011
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 2.6M
    Length 2357M
    Width 2357M
    Area 556HA
    Depth to top 2.3M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 SEDIMENTARY
    Shape of Orebody #1 IRREGULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 REPLACEMENT
    Shape of Orebody #2 TABULAR
    Type of Orebody #3 DISSEMINATED
    Primary mode of Origin RESIDUAL CONCENT
    Secondary mode of Origin SEDIMENTATION
    Primary Ore Control BEDDING
    Secondary Ore Control LITHOLOGY
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. MODERATE
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 UNKNOWN
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 2.3
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Total Surface Area (HA) 556
    Date of Last Modification 800918

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1893
Year of first production 1942
Milling method Washing

Mining district

District name Central Tennessee District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Minerals Only

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Stauffer Chemical Co.
    Home office Connecticut
    Year 1987
  • Type Owner
    Owner Occidental Chemical Corp.
    Home office Texas
    Year 1987

Comments on the ownership information

  • OWNER IS TVA BUT LAND WILL BE SOLD IN FEBRUARY 1981 TO OTHER COMPANIES. THE RESERVES IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY WERE SOLD TO STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO. IN APRIL 1981, FOR $29,900,000, AND THE RESERVES IN GILES COUNTY WERE SOLD TO OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORP. IN MARCH 1987, FOR $10,100,000.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Ownership

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES. 1981 MINERALS YEARBOOK, VOL. 2, AREA

  • Ownership

    REPORTS: DOMESTIC, P. 463.

  • Ownership

    _____. MINERALS ALERT, APR. 7 AND APR. 14, 1987.

  • Deposit

    SMITH, R.W. & WHITLATCH, G.I., 1940, THE PHOSPHATE RESOURCES

  • Deposit

    TENNESSEE, TENN. DIVISION OF GEOLOGY BULL. J8, 444 PP.

  • Deposit

    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, 1970, GEOLOGIC

  • Deposit

    HIGHWAY MAP OF THE MID ATLANTIC REGION, AAPG MAP N/4.

  • Deposit

    BATES, R.L. U969, GEOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL ROCKS AND MINERALS;

  • Deposit

    NEW YORK, TENNESSEE PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS PP 187-90

  • Deposit

    BROWN,L.P., 1904,THE PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN STAT

  • Deposit

    ENGINEERING ASSOC. OF THE SOUTH, VOL 15, NO. 8,PP 85-118

  • Deposit

    BURT,R.B., 1978, THE MINING AND BENEFICIATION OF TENNESSEE

  • Deposit

    PHOSPHATE ROCK,SPECIAL REPORT FOR ZELLARS-WILLIAMS, INC,

  • Deposit

    HERSHEY,R.E., FLOYD,R.J., MILLER,R.A., WILSON,C.W. ET AL;

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGIC MAPS AND MINERAL RESOURCE SUMMARIES TENNESSEE

  • Deposit

    DIVISION OF GEOLOGY 1963-1970

  • Deposit

    REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO SURFACE MINING, STATE OF TENNESSEE

  • Deposit

    DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION DIVISION OF SURFACE MINING, 1

  • Deposit

    TENNESSEE'S AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS, CHAPTER 1200-3-3

  • Deposit

    GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP WILLIAMSON, GILES COUNTIES, TENNESSEE

  • Deposit

    DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, 1976, 1975

  • Deposit

    BRICK CHURCH, LEIPERS FORK QUADRANGLES, 7 1/2 MINUTE SERIES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 09-AUG-1993 Hartos U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Stauffer Chemical Co. — dissolved ~1985
    Acquired by Rhône-Poulenc in 1985; agricultural and industrial chemical businesses dispersed through multiple owners over the following two decades.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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