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Naff Prospect

Past Producer in Greene county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Zinc, 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. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098190
MRDS ID K001707
Record type Site
Current site name Naff Prospect
Alternate or previous names Rader Prospect, R.N. Hartman Mine
Related records 10299632

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.96376, 36.14037 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.45 MI. WNW OF HARTMAN CHURCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greene(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mosheim(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Greene

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.96376, 36.14037
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northeast-Trending Strike Belts

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE-BEARING HORIZON IS 170 FEET BELOW THE OVERLYING ATHENS SHALE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1870
Year of first production 1870
Production years ABOUT 1870

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Rollins Chemical Corp.

Comments on the production information

  • NO RECORD OF ZINC PRODUCTION. A SMALL AMOUNT OF BA WAS PRODUCED.

Comments on development

  • SECRIST (1924) REPORTED THAT PROSPECT WAS OWNED BY NAFF AND BITNER OF GREENEVILLE, AND WAS WORKED FOR BARITE, ABOUT 1870. EADES, MIXTER, AND HEALD ZINC COMPANY DID SOME ZINC PROSPECTING SOON AFTERWARDS. DOUGHERTY BROTHERS OF MORRISTOWN PROSPECTED FOR ZINC AROUND 1912. ROLLINS CHEMICAL COMPANY MADE A SERIES OF OPEN CUTS AND DRILLED FOUR HOLES AROUND 1919. DRILL HOLES ENCOUNTERED PYRITE BUT NO ZINC, AT DEPTHS OF 100 AND 124 FEET RESPECTIVELY IN TWO OF THE HOLES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SECRIST, M.H., 1924, ZINC DEPOSITS OF EAST TENNESSEE: TENN. DIV. GEOL., BULL. 31, 165 P.

  • Deposit

    MAHER, S.W., 1958, THE ZINC INDUSTRY OF TENNESSEE: TENN. DIV. GEOL., INF. CIR. NO. 6, 28 P.

  • Deposit

    1924 GEOLMAP SECRIST, M.H., TENN. DIV. GEOL., REPORT

  • Deposit

    1958 COMPILE MAHER, S.W., TENN. DIV. GEOL., REPORT

  • Production

    SECRIST, M.H., 1924, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL. 31.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ACCORDING TO SECRIST (1924), NO DISTINCT BRECCIATION AND FRACTURING OF THE ROCK WAS OBSERVED. HE OBSERVED THAT MOST OF THE CUTS HAD CAVED, AND RELATES OTHER REPORTS TO THE EFFECT THAT TWO ORE-BEARING HORIZONS WERE FOUND. THE LOWER CONSISTS "...MOSTLY OF PYRITE AND BARITE FORMING NARROW SEAMS AND VEINLETS ...BUT LOCALLY WIDENING INTO WORKABLE VEINS; THE HIGHER...CONTAINED VARIABLE AMOUNTS OF SPHALERITE..." "THE ORE CONSISTS OF INTRICATELY INTERMIXED MASSES AND VEINLETS OF SPHALERITE, PYRITE, BARITE, GANGUE DOLOMITE, SOME QUARTZ, AND THE UNREPLACED REMNANTS OF COUNTRY ROCK. LOCALLY, BITUMINOUS MATTER IS ABUNDANT." LUMPS OF BARITE, LIMONITE, AND "...SMITHSONITE OR CALAMINE..." OCCUR IN THE CLAY RESIDUUM. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1973 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

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