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Burkesville

Past Producer in Cumberland county in Kentucky, United States with commodities Zinc, Cadmium, Germanium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10307222
Record type Site
Current site name Burkesville

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.33494, 36.77508 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cumberland(county)

Kentucky(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Burkesville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tompkinsville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Corbin(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Cumberland-Lake Cumberland(hydrologic unit)

Upper Cumberland(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cumberland(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Kentucky Cumberland

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Cadmium Secondary
Germanium Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Zinc is the major commodity, with cadmium and gemanium as by-products.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Dolomite Gangue
Chert Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Dolomitization
  • (Local) Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate
    Rock unit name Mascot Dolomite
    Rock description Mascot Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate
    Rock unit name Kingsport Formation
    Rock description Kingsport Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.33494, 36.77508
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Nashville Dome

Comments on the geologic information

  • At Burkesville zinc ores occur in breccias developed in detrital dolostone formed in tidal channels between columnar stromatolites and in stromatolite biostromes, which are also mineralized locally. This mineralized stromatolite zone is named the Burkesville C-level. Dolomite grainstone deposited in the tidal channels contains bedded chert, chert breccia and dolostone casts. Some sphalerite is also localized by slump breccias and minor sphalerite is deposited within stromatolite columns (Briskey et al., 1986).
  • Paleozoic shelf-carbonate rooks in Tennessee and Kentucky occupy part of the Alleghanian orogenic belt and its foreland area. Major Mississippi-Valley type zinc districts [Central Tennessee and the Mascot-Jefferson City District of Eastern Tennessee] occur in upper Early Ordovician carbonate rocks of the Late Cambrian - Early Ordovician Knox Group. The deposits in Central Tennessee, which includes the Burkesville and Fountain Run deposits, occur in the foreland area on the crest of the Knoxville Dome. Zinc ore in Central Tennessee was deposited where metalliferous basinal brines rose into the broad crest of the Nashville Dome and coincidentally into local structural highs. In these areas sphalerite precipitated in open spaces in caverns and collapse breccias and in the primary porosity of detrital dolostone (Briskey et al., 1986).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant Yes

Mining district

District name Central Tennessee /Kentucky zinc district

Reference information

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 05-JAN-04 Woodruff, Laurel G. U.S. Geological Survey Work done in Filemaker

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