Mcmurray Prospect

Occurrence in Blount county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Manganese
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10226234
MAS/MILS ID 0470090024
Record type Site
Current site name Mcmurray Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -84.0299, 35.5682 (WGS84)
Elevation 396

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Blount(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tallassee(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Watts Bar Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chattanooga(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Little Tennessee(hydrologic unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Blount

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -84.0299, 35.5682

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Knoxville Power Co.
    Year 1951

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    O'NEILL, J.F., WYNDHAM, G.E. & SPENCER, R.V., RECONNAISSANCE

  • Deposit

    EAST TENNESSEE MANGANESE DEPOSITS, 1954, P. 213.

  • Deposit

    REICHERT, STANLEY O., TENN DIV OF GEOL BULL 50, 1942, PP. 15

  • Deposit

    OWNER IS KNOXVILLE POWER COMPANY AS OF AUGUST 11, 1951.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-NOV-1983 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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