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Baptist Hollow Deposit

Past Producer in Unicoi county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Cobalt, Iron, Manganese
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10129028
MAS/MILS ID 0471710014
Record type Site
Current site name Baptist Hollow Deposit
Alternate or previous names Old Embree Iron Co Workings

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -82.50846, 36.15009 (WGS84)
Elevation 640
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Unicoi(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Telford(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)

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 Unicoi

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -82.50846, 36.15009
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1890

Mining district

District name Bumpass Cove District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Minerals Only

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Tennessee Zinc Co.
    Home office Tennessee
    Year 1974

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ONEILL, J.F. ET AL, RECONN. OF EAST TENN. MN. DEPOSITS, UNPU

  • Deposit

    WAR MINERALS REPT., 1954, P. 168

  • Deposit

    TENNESSEE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 52, PLATE 1 AND P. 265

  • Deposit

    REICHERT, S, MANGANESE RESOURCES OF EAST TENN, TENN DIV OF G

  • Deposit

    BULL 50, 1942

  • Deposit

    STOSE AND SCHRADER, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF EAST TENN, USGS BU

  • Deposit

    1923

  • Deposit

    THE RESOURCES OF TENN, TENN GEOL SUR VOLS 7 AND 8, 1918

  • Deposit

    PIERCE, W G, COBALT-BEARING MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF ALA, GA AN

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 940-J, 1944

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit REC 703-709 AND 800-801 ENTERED 1976 BY SCHMIDT REC 010 COL 26 COBALT ANALYZED AT .09 TO .14% (708 PG 273)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-NOV-83 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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