Livesay Cut

Past Producer in Hancock county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Zinc, Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102272
MRDS ID K001655
Record type Site
Current site name Livesay Cut
Alternate or previous names Mill Cut
Related records 10274714

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -83.29016, 36.51536 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.6 MILE NNW OF EVANSTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hancock(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Back Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Middlesboro(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Johnson City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clinch, Tennessee, Virginia(hydrologic unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Hancock

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonite After Pyrite

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -83.29016, 36.51536

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1916

Mining district

District name Evanston Zinc District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Southland Exploration Co.

Comments on the production information

  • THE MILL OPERATED FOR A PERIOD OF TWO WEEKS AND PRODUCED ABOUT 20 TONS OF NON-COMMERCIAL CONCENTRATES FROM ABOUT 800 TONS OF ORE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall length 31.39M
    Overall width 6.71M

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL OTHER OPEN CUTS AND A 75-FOOT DEEP SHAFT WERE DUG ON THE PROPERTY. THE SHAFT PENETRATED BARREN SHALE AND UPPER LEVELS OF UNDERLYING LIMESTONE.

Comments on development

  • MOST OF THE DEVELOPMENT BY THE SOUTHLAND EXPLORATION COMPANY IN THE EVANSTON ZINC DISTRICT WAS DONE AT THE LIVESAY CUT. ; ECON.COM: INSUFFICIENT TONNAGE OF ORE-GRADE MATERIAL

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 SECRIST (1924) NOTES THAT ALTHOUGH JOINTING IS PROMINENT THROUGHOUT THE CUT, IT DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE RELATED TO MINERALIZATION. ORE NEITHER EXTENDS CONTINUOUSLY LATERALLY NOR VERTICALLY WITH DEPTH. SPHALERITE OCCURS AS IRREGULAR, DETACHED MASSES AS REPLACEMENTS OF HOST ROCK. FINE-GRAINED PYRITE IS DISSEMINATED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ROCK AND TO A LESSER EXTENT IN THE SPHALERITE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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