Eagle Quarry

Past Producer in Knox county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Marble, Dimension
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. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10226772
MAS/MILS ID 0470930075
Record type Site
Current site name Eagle Quarry
Alternate or previous names Gray Eagle Quarry Pit #1

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -83.8168, 35.96479 (WGS84)
Elevation 270

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Knox(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Shooks Gap(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Knoxville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower French Broad(hydrologic unit)

French Broad-Holston(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Knox

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Marble, Dimension Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -83.8168, 35.96479

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Tennessee Marble Co
    Year 1960
  • Type Unknown
    Owner Gray Eagle Marble Co
    Year 1924

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MAHER, STUART W. & WALTERS, JOE P., TENN DIV OF GEOL I.C. 9,

  • Deposit

    P. 5.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-NOV-1983 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.