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Klondyke Iron Mine

Past Producer in Washington county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Iron, Zinc
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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. Mining district
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025264
MRDS ID K000966
Record type Site
Current site name Klondyke Iron Mine
Related records 10226992

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.47903, 36.1537 (WGS84)
Elevation 549
Relative position ON SOUTHEAST SIDE OF COVE JUST TO SOUTHWEST OF YATES HOLLOW

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Unicoi(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Erwin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Johnson City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Johnson City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Nolichucky(hydrologic unit)

French Broad-Holston(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Cherokee National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Washington

Comments on the location information

  • SEE PLATE 1, TENN. DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 54.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hemimorphite Ore
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Shady Dolomite, Dolomite With Minor Interbedded Limestone
    Rock description Shady Dolomite, Dolomite With Minor Interbedded Lst
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.47903, 36.1537
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Syncline Northwest Of Thrust Fault Between Northwest And Southeast Blocks Of The Bald Mountain Thrust Sheet

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike NE
    Dip NW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Residual Clays Over Shady Dolomite

Comments on the geologic information

  • SULPHIDE MINERALIZATION MEAGER, CONFINED TO RIBBON MEMBER. PYRITE SCATTERED THROUGH DOLOMITE WITH SMALL AMOUNTS OF SPHALERITE. HEMIMORPHITE OCCURS IN WEATHERED CRUSTS OF DOLOMITE AND IN RESIDUAL CLAYS. SMALL BODIES OF OXIDIZED ZINC ORE AND POSSIBABLY LEAD MAY REMAIN IN AND NEAR MINE BUT ARE PROBABLY CONTAMINATED WITH LIMONITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1899
Production years 1899 - (?)

Mining district

District name Bumpass Cove (Embreeville) District

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • MAY BE CONTAMINATED WITH LIMONITE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1.507HA

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE COVERS ABOUT 4 ACRES

Comments on development

  • MINED FOR IRON BY HYDRAULIC METHODS 1899; ZINC SILICATE MINED ABOUT 1933. CONNECTED TO YATES MINE WORKINGS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RODGERS, JOHN, 1948, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF BUMPASS COVE, UNICOI AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 54, 82 P

  • Deposit

    1948 GEOLMAP RODGERS, J

  • Production

    RODGERS, J., 1948, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL. 54

  • Reserve-Resource

    RODGERS, JOHN, 1948, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL. 54

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MUCH OF SHADY DOLOMITE HAS BEEN BRECCIATED AND RECRYSTALLIZED ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1973 Fagan, James M. U.S. Geological Survey

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