Eastern White-rock Phosphate Deposit

Past Producer in Johnson 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. Ore body information
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400498
Record type Deposit
Current site name Eastern White-rock Phosphate Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.768, 34.435 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Laurens(county)

South Carolina(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Joanna(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newberry(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spartanburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Enoree(hydrologic unit)

Santee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Edisto-Santee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Sumpter National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Johnson

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Knox Dolomite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form In-filling; fracture filling, breccia cement

Controls for ore emplacement

  • secondary replacement

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., 1989b. 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 is Deposit _No 1007 in Orris and Chernoff (2004). I used the location of a mine instead of the location they had.

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.

Coordinate doesn't match listed state

The coordinates (34.4350, -81.7680) appear to be in another U.S. state, but this record is listed as being in Tennessee. The location data may be incorrect.