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Outcrop Sample For Uranium

Occurrence in Sumner county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Uranium, Oil Shale
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  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. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026244
MRDS ID K002785
Record type Site
Current site name Outcrop Sample For Uranium
Related records 10202021

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -86.69443, 36.38037 (WGS84)
Relative position WEST SIDE OF COUNTY ROAD, 0.1 AIRLINE MILE SOUTHEAST OF HUDGINS CEMETERY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sumner(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White House(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nashville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nashville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Cumberland-Sycamore(hydrologic unit)

Lower Cumberland(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cumberland(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Sumner

Comments on the location information

  • THIS IS STOCKDALE AND KLEPSER'S (1959) SECTION NO. 385. LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Oil Shale Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ONE OF THE MAJOR ZINC DISTRICTS OF THE WORLD, AND ALSO A LEADING LEAD DISTRICT, BUT IS NOW APPROACHING EXHAUSTION. BEGAN PRODUCING ABOUT 1850, REACHED PEAK ABOUT 1900-1919, WANED DURING THE 1920'S AND EARLY 1930'S (EXCEPT THAT THE WACO SUBDISTRICT REACHED ITS PEAK 1918-1930), RESURGED MODERATELY IN THE LATE 1930'S THROUGH 1947, SINCE WHEN DISTRICT HAS BEEN IN THE DOLDRUMS EXCEPT FOR ANOTHER MINOR RESURGENCE DURING THE KOREAN WAR. REMAINING RESERVES ARE MARGINAL, AND DISTRICT IS VERY SENSITIVE TO ECONOMICS. PRODUCTION IN 1957 WAS ONLY NOMINAL, AND THE LOWEST IN THE LAST 100 YEARS. (MCKNIGHT, 1960?, UNPUBLISHED DATA.)
  • THE DOWELLTOWN MEMBER IS SUBDIVIDED INTO UNITS A (LOWER) AND B (UPPER). THE OVERLYING GASSAWAY MEMBER IS SUBDIVIDED INTO UNIT C (LOWER), UNIT D (MIDDLE), AND UNIT E (UPPER). THE GASSAWAY MEMBER CONTAINS THE MOST URANIUM IN THE FORMATION, AND THE UPPER UNIT IS THE RICHEST. THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE IS CONSIDERED AS A LOW-GRADE OIL SHALE, BUT IT WAS NOT TESTED FOR ITS OIL CONTENT AT THIS LOCALITY.

Analytical data

Result STOCKDALE AND KLEPSER (1959) GIVE A VALUE OF 0.0049% URANIUM FOR THHE GASSAWAY MEMBER, BASED ON FLUORIMETRIC ANALYSIS.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale > Black Shale
    Rock unit name Chattanooga Shale, Carbonaceous, Grayish-Black, Thinly-Laminated, Fissile
    Rock description Chattanooga Shale, Carbonaceous, Grayish-Black, Thinly-Laminated, Fissile
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -86.69443, 36.38037
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding; The Darker, More Organic-Rich Beds

Comments on the geologic information

  • THREE MAIN TYPES OF DEPOSITS: (1) REPLACEMENT DEPOSITS IN BRECCIAS ALONG "RUNS" (LOCALLY CIRCULAR) IN CERTAIN BEDS OF MISSISSIPPIAN CHERT-BEARING LIMESTONE; (2) "SHEET GROUND" DEPOSITS, OCCURRING AS THIN SHEETS REPLACING LIMESTONE INTERCALATED BETWEEN NEARLY HORIZONTAL BEDS OF UNBROKEN MISSISSIPPIAN CHERT, IN FORM OF "BLANKET VEINS"; (3) REPLACEMENT DEPOSITS IN CHERT BRECCIA AND RESIDUAL CLAY UNDERLYING COLLAPSED SHALE FILLED SINKS, BUT LOCALLY OCCURRING IN THIS PENNSYLVANIAN SHALE. NO IGNEOUS ROCK. (MCKNIGHT, 1960?, UNPUBLISHED DATA.)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • THE ESTIMATED THICKNESS OF THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE IS 21.5 FEET, OF WHICH 8.80 FEET REPRESENTS THE GASSAWAY MEMBER. THE BASE OF THE FORMATION IS COVERED.

Comments on development

  • THIS EXPOSURE WAS SAMPLED AS PART OF AN INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED UNDER CONTRACT NO. AT-(40-1)-1337 BETWEEN THE U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE CHATTANOOGA SHALE CONSISTS OF THE HARDIN SANDSTONE MEMBER AT THE BASE, THE DOWELLTOWN MEMBER, AND THE UPPER GASSAWAY MEMBER, WHICH IS THE MOST WIDELY DISTRIBUTED OF THE THREE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1975 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

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