Hagan Prospect

Occurrence in Pickett county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite, Zinc
Sections on this page
  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. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026092
MRDS ID K002556
Record type Site
Current site name Hagan Prospect
Related records 10251086

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.23522, 36.53202 (WGS84)
Elevation 259
Relative position ONE MILE NORTHWEST OF PLAIN GROVE SCHOOL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pickett(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Byrdstown(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tompkinsville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Corbin(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Obey(hydrologic unit)

Upper Cumberland(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cumberland(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Pickett

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Sulfur-Pyrite Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Warsaw Formation, Limestone-Dolomite
    Rock description Warsaw Formation, Limestone-Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.23522, 36.53202

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Breccia In Fault Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • BOULDER FOUND IN CREEK BED CONTAINED LUMP OF SPHALERITE-BOULDER SOURCE UNKNOWN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE SHALLOW PITS DUG BEFORE CIVIL WAR; SOME BLASTING DONE IN BRECCIATED ZONE 40 FT FROM PITS IN 1941.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JEWELL, W.B., 1947, BARITE, FLUORITE, GALENA, SPHALERITE VEINS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 51, 114P

  • Deposit

    1947 RECON TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY, REPOR

  • Production

    JEWELL, W.B., 1947, TENN. DIV. GEOLOGY, BULL. 51

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1974 Fagan, James M. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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