Friendsville Quarry

Producer in Blount county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, 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. Land status
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10202053
MRDS ID K001679
MAS/MILS ID 0470090022
Record type Site
Current site name Friendsville Quarry
Alternate or previous names Friendsville
Related records 10025744

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -84.13381, 35.7843 (WGS84)
Elevation 255

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Blount(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Concord(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Watts Bar Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chattanooga(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Watts Bar Lake(hydrologic unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Blount

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -84.13381, 35.7843

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGY INF. CIRC. 6, P. 28.

  • Deposit

    # APPEARS SAME AS USGS CRIB RECORD NO. K001679, 12/81.

  • Deposit

    # CRIB LAT/LON IS N 35DEG 47MIN, 11SEC: W 084DEG 07MIN 38SEC

  • Deposit

    TN DIV. GEOL. LAT/LON BELIEVED SUPERIOR AND IS RETAINED.

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-NOV-1983 Tennessee Division Of Geology Tennessee Division of Geology

Beyond USGS

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