Central Tennessee Brown Rock Phosphate Deposit

Past Producer in Maury county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Phosphorus-Phosphates
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Bibliographic references
  10. General comments
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400496
Record type Deposit
Current site name Central Tennessee Brown Rock Phosphate Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -87.185, 35.526 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maury(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Pleasant(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hohenwald(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Columbia(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Duck(hydrologic unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Maury
United States Tennessee Hickman

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Phosphorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Bibby-Cannon Limeston

Nearby scientific data

(1) -87.185, 35.526

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Significant Yes

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Orris, G.J., and Chernoff, C.B., 2004, Table of world phosphate deposits, in Hein, J.R., ed., Life cycle of the Phosphoria Formation: From deposition to the post-mining environment: Elsevier, Amsterdam, Handbook of exploration and environmental geochemistry v. 8, CD-ROM.

  • Deposit

    Cathcart, J.B., 1989, The phosphate deposits of Tennessee, USA, in A.J.G. Notholt, R.P. Sheldon and D.F. Davidson (eds), Phosphate deposits of the world, Volume 2--Phosphate rock resources. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 6-13.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General This record is a combination of 3 records of Orris and Chernoff (2004). Deposit)_Nos 1000, 10001, and 1002.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 29-DEC-10 Causey, J. Douglas U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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