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Blockhouse Iron Prospect

Occurrence in Blount county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025900
MRDS ID K001876
Record type Site
Current site name Blockhouse Iron Prospect
Related records 10154251

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -83.93434, 35.70371 (WGS84)
Relative position ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE PINEY GROVE CHURCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Blount(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blockhouse(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Watts Bar Lake(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
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore

Analytical data

Result CHANNEL SAMPLES ANALYZED BY USGS: 14.2-19.5% FE, 0.05-0.13% MN, 0.05-0.06% P, 0.01-0.02% S, 56.9-53.6% SIO2, 11.1-6.6% AL2O3, 6.9-5.4% H2O. CHANNEL SAMPLES ARE FROM A TEST PIT.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Athens Shale, Limestone & Interbedded Shale
    Rock description Athens Shale, Limestone & Interbedded Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -83.93434, 35.70371
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast-Trending Strike Belts

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding

Comments on the geologic information

  • OOLITIC, FOSSILIFEROUS HEMATITE OCCURS IN ASSOCIATION WITH QUARTZ SAND, ENCRINAL LIMESTONE, AND SHALE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • DEPOSIT UNDERLIES AN AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 3 ACRES.

Comments on development

  • SOME PROSPECTING WAS DONE DURING 1951 ; ECON.COM: IRON IS NOT PRESENT IN SUFFICIENT QUANTITIES FOR CURRENT SMELTING TECHNIQUES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MAHER, S.W., 1964, IRON, ZINC, AND BARITE DEPOSITS BETWEEN MORRISTOWN AND ETOWAH, TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE ACAD. SCI. JOUR., V. 39, NO. 3, P. 103-106; REPR. AS TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY INF. CIRC. 12.

  • Deposit

    NEUMAN, R.B., AND WILSON, R.L., 1960, GEOLOGY OF THE BLOCKHOUSE QUADRANGLE, TENNESSEE: USGS MAP GQ-131.

  • Deposit

    1960 GEOLMAP NEUMAN & WILSON, 1960, USGS MAP GQ-131

  • Deposit

    1964 OTHER MAHER, S.W., TENN. DIV. GEOL. R.I. 19

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE OOLITIC HEMATITE IS AT THE BASE OF THE ATHENS SHALE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

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