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Stone Barite Mine

Past Producer in Cocke county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102293
MRDS ID K001863
Record type Site
Current site name Stone Barite Mine
Related records 10202521

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -83.0257, 35.93648 (WGS84)
Relative position 1.15 MILE N OF DEL RIO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cocke(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Neddy Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper French Broad(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 Cocke

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Iron Tertiary
Sulfur-Pyrite Tertiary

Materials information

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

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Unicoi Formation, Arkosic Quartzite, Grit, & Conglomerate
    Rock description Unicoi Formation, Arkosic Quartzite, Grit, & Conglomerate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -83.0257, 35.93648
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding Plane Fault

Comments on the geologic information

  • BARITE IS VERY PURE, COARSELY CRYSTALLINE, AND OCCURS IN MASSES UP TO A FOOT ACROSS. INDISTINCT BRECCIATION IN THE BARITE-BEARING ZONE SUGGESTS REPLACEMENT ALONG A FAULT (FERGUSON AND JEWELL, 1951). THUS, THE DEPOSIT IS CONSIDERED AS BELONGING TO THE MOCCASIN GAP TYPE OF BARITE DEPOSIT. OF PARTICULAR INTEREST AT SOME OF THE OPEN CUTS IS THE OCCURRENCE OF QUARTZITE OR GRIT CONTAINING COARSE CRYSTALLINE BARITE AS CRYSTALS, IRREGULAR KNOTS, OR BUNCHES WITH ANKERITE. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CARBONATE IS MORE EXTENSIVE HERE THAN AT OTHER MINES IN THE DISTRICT, AND HAS BEEN CONSIDERED AS A REPLACEMENT FEATURE. AT ANOTHER LOCALITY EAST OF THE STONE MINE ON THE ADJACENT PROPERTY, COARSE-CRYSTALLINE BARITE OCCURS AS PODS IN QUARTZITE, WHERE NO EVIDENCE OF FAULTING COULD BE SEEN (FERGUSON AND JEWELL, 1951). AGE OF MINERALIZATION: LATE - OR POST - PALEOZOIC

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Year of first production 1916
Production years 1916

Mining district

District name Del Rio Barite District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Krebs Pigment And Chemical Co.
    Home office Baltimore, Md.
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Forest Service

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 213.36M

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS FIRST DEVELOPED IN 1916 BY A MR. STONE; PROPERTY WAS OWNED BY TENNESSEE COAL AND IRON COMPANY. IN 1919 OR 1920, THE PROPERTY WAS LEASED BY THE KREBS PIGMENT AND CHEMICAL COMPANY, WHICH DID SOME DEVELOPMENT BUT NO SHIPPING. ; ECON.COM: WORKABLE DEPOSITS APPEAR TO BE CONFINED TO THE WEATHERED PORTIONS OF THE VEIN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FERGUSON, H.W., AND JEWELL, W.B., 1951, GEOLOGY AND BARITE DEPOSITS OF THE DEL RIO DISTRICT, COCKE COUNTY, TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 57, 235 P.

  • Deposit

    MAHER, S.W., 1970, BARITE RESOURCES OF TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY, REPT. INV. 28, 40 P.

  • Deposit

    1951 OTHER FERGUSON & JEWELL, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL. 57

  • Deposit

    1970 COMPILE MAHER, S.W. TENN. DIV. GEOL., RPT. INV. 28

  • Production

    FERGUSON AND JEWELL, 1951, TENN. DIV. GEOL. BULL. 57

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FERGUSON AND JEWELL (1951) NOTE THE OCCURRENCE OF THE BARITE ALONG A HORIZON THAT IS CLOSE TO THE MOCCASIN GAP MEMBER OF THE UNICOI FORMATION. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Hale, Robin C. U.S. Geological Survey

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