A zinc mine owned by the Jersey Minière Zinc Co.
Discovered in 1969.
In 2010, Nyrstar company is reopening the zinc mines in the Carthage, Tennessee area which includes the Elmwood, Gordonsville and Cumberland mines. The Elmwood is being operated through the Gordonsville #3 shaft and incline. The first ore from the Elmwood was hoisted in November 2010.
The ore formed at temperatures between 85 and 130 C.
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References
- Rocks & Minerals: 64: 29
- Minerals Yearbook (1988)- Zinc: 9
- The Mineralogical Record Vol.9(4) 1978: 213-218; vol 12(1) 1981: 47; vol 27(3) 1996: pp. 171-173.
- Econ Geol (1976) 71: 892-903
-Canadian Mineralogist Vol. 23, pp. 83-88 (1985)
ANISOTROPIC SPHALERITE OF THE ELMWOOD_GORDONSVILLE DEPOSITS, TENNESSEE
ROBERT R. SEAL II*, BRIAN J. cooPER AND JAMES R. CRAIG
Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,Blacksburg, Virginia 2406 I, U.S.A.
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