Latitude: 35°28'41"N
Longitude: 83°46'12"W
REF:Deposit:: MURDOCK, T. G. THE MINING INDUSTRY IN NORTH CAROLINA FROM 1
Deposit:: 1945. NORTH CAROLINA DEPT. OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Deposit:: ECONOMIC PAPER NO. 65, 1948, PP. 8-10.
Deposit:: LANEY, F.B., 1907, COPPER DEPOSITS OF SWAIN COUNTY, IN PRATT, J.H., THE MINING INDUSTRY IN NORTH CAROLINA DURING 1906: NORTH CAROLINA GEOL. AND ECON. SURVEY, ECON. PAPER 14, P. 72-79.
Deposit:: ROSS, C.F., 1935, ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS O
Commodities (Major) - Zinc, Copper; (Trace) - Lead, Gold, Silver
Deposit Type: Stratabound Exhalative
Development Status: Past Producer
Deposit Model: 91: Massive sulfide, Besshi
Host Rock Unit: Anakeesta Formation , Chlorite-Mica Schist And Phyllite, Clay Residuum?
Structure: Northeast-Trending Strike Belts; Deposit Is Within A Northeast-Trending Sheared Zone Within The Phyllite., Plunge Of Ore Body Is Essentially Parallel To Plunge Of Tiny Foliation Crinkles Of The Sheared Phyllite Host Rock.
Host Rock: Schist, Phyllite, Sandstone
Tectonic Structure: Folded Blue Ridge Province
Mine is in the Great Smokys National Park. No collecting allowed.
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