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Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA

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.

Mineral List

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Baryte
var: Strontian Baryte
Calcite
Celestine
Celestine
var: Barian Celestine

Dolomite
Fluorite
Galena
Marcasite
Pyrite
Quartz
Sphalerite
Vaterite


17 entries listed. 11 valid minerals.

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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.

External Links

http://rruff.info/uploads/CM23_83.pdf -ANISOTROPIC SPHALERITE OF THE ELMWOOD_GORDONSVILLE DEPOSITS

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