1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Scott Prospect

Occurrence in Johnson county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Cobalt, Nickel
Map
XML
JSON
KML
D
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067831
MRDS ID W000684
Record type Site
Current site name Scott Prospect
Related records 10129354

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.94984, 36.51675 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Johnson(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Shady Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wytheville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winston-Salem(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Holston(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 Johnson

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Nickel Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hollandite Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Clay, Mud

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.94984, 36.51675
ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: NODULES AND WAD IN RESIDUAL CLAY ON SHADY DOLOMITE (LOWER CAMBRIAN); 0.56% COO

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Shady Valley

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVES UNKNOWN; PROBABLY INSIGNIFICANT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KING, P.B., AND OTHERS, TENNESSEE DEPT. CONSERV., DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 52, P. 107

  • Reserve-Resource

    UNPUBLISHED COBALT REPORT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1972 Coury, Anny B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Maps centered on this site