Straight Creek

Past Producer in Claiborne county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Iron, Lead, Zinc
Sections on this page
  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. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10154376
MRDS ID K001629
MAS/MILS ID 0470250009
Record type Site
Current site name Straight Creek
Related records 10102269

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -83.64269, 36.38949 (WGS84)
Elevation 354
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Claiborne(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clouds(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Morristown(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 Claiborne

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -83.64269, 36.38949

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Straight Creek

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner N. J. Zinc Co.
    Year 1977

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MAHER, S. W., 1958, THE ZINC INDUSTRY OF TENNESSEE: TENN. DI

  • Deposit

    LOGY INF. CIRC. 6, P. 27.

  • Deposit

    USGS CRIB RECORD NO. K001629, 12/81.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONTRACT NO. G0166176 ENTERED 1977.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-84 Tennessee Division Of Geology Tennessee Division of Geology

Beyond USGS

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

External references