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Hematite from
Ducktown Mining District, Polk County, Tennessee, USA


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Hematite
Formula:Fe2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hematite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ducktown Mining District, Polk County, Tennessee, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:151016
Long-form Identifier:1:3:151016:4
GUID (UUID V4):6b16f8b7-3317-4c93-b544-260c6db06395
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GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE DUCKTOWN MINING DISTRICT, TENNESSEE BY W. H. EMMONS AND F. B. LANEY...-------------------------Location and area of district ___________________,_ Topography and climate ...__ _ CH~P'l'1H!. III. Geology of the Ducktown mining district, by F. B. J...aney _________________________________...23 23 24 CHAPTER III. Geology of the Ducktown mining district-Continued. Metamorphism _______________________________...Erosion __________________________ _ CHAP'.rER IV. Mining, metallurgy, and acid manufacture, by W. H. Em
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Tennessee Mineral Locality Index 300 T ennessee covers an area of 41,220 square miles in the southeastern...part of the state. Just prior to crossing the Tennessee River and continuing through the middle of the...TRAVIS A. PARIS 5604 Malmsbury Road Knoxville, Tennessee 37921 taparis@msn.com Figure 1 (top left). Calcite...Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo.
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Wilderness Study Area and Additions, Polk County, Tennessee, and Fannin County, Georgia By John F. Slack, U.S...wilderness study area and additions, Polk County, Tennessee and Fannin County, Georgia. (Studies related to...mineral resources-Tennessee-Polk County. 2. Mines and mineral resources-Georgia-Fannin County. I. Gazdik, Gertrude...Additions, Tennessee-Georgia, in tlw Ch~._·rokee and Chattahoochee National Forests in Pulk County, Tennessee...Tennessee, and Fannin County, Georgia. Big Frog was established as a WildL'rness Study Area by Public Law
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THE COPPER ORES OF ORANGE COUNTY, VERMONT. N. W. BUERGER. INTRODUCTION. Dur{ng the courseof a...was collected,along w{th other ores,at the Orange county m{nes. M{croscop{cexam{nat{on proved th{s to conta{n...THE DISTRICT. The depositsl{e {n the eartern footh{1]sof the GreenMounta{ns {n Orange County, Vermont...PP. 289-3o3, x934434 THE COPPER ORES OF ORANGE COUNTY, VERMONT. 435 Elizabeth-Foster-Cleveland property...location of mines. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF TI-IE DISTRICT.2 The ore bodies occur on the eastern flank of
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Parry Sound, Ontario; Fierro, New Mexico; Ducktown, Tennessee;Sullivan Mine, British Columbia; Sudbury...City, Montana; Little Bob Mine, Georgia; Cook County,Minnesota;and rfianyothers. The work was aidedby...Shakan* pyriteappearsas relicsin pyrrhotite. At Ducktown,Tennessee, Gilbertodescribes XaNewhouse, W. GEOL.,vol...a Jewell, W. B.: Mineral depositsof the Hyder district, southeasternAlaska. EcoN. GEo,..,vol. 22, pp...Gilbert, G.: Oxidation and enrichment at Ducktown, Tennessee. Am. Inst. Min. Met. Eng. Trans., vol, 70
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high-temperature near-surface tin-tungsten veins if hematite is absent. It is rare in ore depositsformed at...Precombrianbase-metaldepositsof Colorado,and later the Ducktown type depositsof the southeasternAppalachians....the world's most productive mining districts: e.g., Ducktown, Tennessee; Outokumpu, Finland; and Broken...concnrred regarding the pyritepyrrhotite relationat Ducktown andfurthercommented coucerning the entire silicate-oxide-sulfide...generaltheparagenetic sequence parallelsthat of Ducktown,Outokumpu,andthe smallColoradodeposits. It wouldseemthat
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Laney 4 describeore mineral relations at Ducktown, Tennessee,as follows: It is believedthat nearly all...F. B., "Geology and Ore Depositsof the Ducktown Mining District, Tenn.," U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper...COMMUNICATIONS. magnetitecrystalspartlyreplaced by hematite. pyritecrystalspartly replacedby chalcocite. ...anglesitewere examined. Artificial Replacemen'ts.--Hematite was replacedartificiallyby magnetite in several...reduc- ing flame. No intermediateproductsbetween hematite and magnetite were observed. The replacementswere
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Potential of the Chattanooga 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee and North Carolina-A Preliminary Assessment U...Potential of the Chattanooga 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee and North Carolina-A Preliminary Assessment By...potential of the Chattanooga 1°X2 quadrangle, Tennessee and North Carolina : A preliminary assessment/by...resources- Tennessee. 2. Mines and mineral resources -North Carolina. 3. Geology-Tennessee. 4. Geology-North...Fluorite 12 Ducktown Massive Sulfide District 12 Coker Creek Gold District 13 Sweetwater Barite District and
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Paper 179 ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE DUCKTOWN TYPE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION BY CLARENCE...Betty Baker mine...-----------------..---Grayson County sulphide zone. _____________ 58 58 59 59 60 60...Copper deposits of the Ducktowu district, Tennessee History of mining development._____________ Location...geology.___________________ ______ Mines of the Ducktown district.._____ 1 ____.._ Burra Burra_.---_________________..._. London..________-______-__-----__-___ East Tennessee._________.._-___.___-___ Ocoee._______________________________
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inclusions from the massivesulfide depositsat Ducktown, Tennessee DoN,q.Lo L. H.lr,r,,*Ronnnr J. BouNa& Jmms...Virginia 24061, U.S.A. ABSTRACT The Ducktown, Tennessee,mining district contains some of the largestmetamorphosed...metamorphosed massivesulfide depositsat Ducktown, Tennessee(Hall et al., 1991) indicates that fluids...compositions. Gnolocrc t'{i'i sETTTNG The Ducktown mining district is located in the southeast corner of... (4) sulfide + oxide + graphite equilibria at Ducktown. Fig+ 2}l2o cHo + 2Or: (5) ure 2 shows the projection
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....................... 177 Distribution of hematite .......................................... Economics...presence of unoxidized pyrite, entrapped air, hematite, or extraneousmaterial. In general a direct relationshipexists...goethite,with or without hematite, is the dominant iron oxide. The hematite may have formed by dehydrationof...formationof gossanand that later thishardensinto hematite(66). Gilbertalsobelieves that earthylimonite is..."gossansin massivepyrite in northernCalifornia,Tennessee,Arizona, Cyprus, Turkey, the Philippines,and New
Report (issue)
NevadaiGity —'Grass: Valley) iter ore ae ee Shasta County a eee cere asses ee avs Oe ee COlOTAMGS ee Pie...possible to designate the individual mines of which a district is composed but rather that the geological conditions...conditions from one mine to another within the district are so generally the same that what is said of...Canadian Institute of Mining*and| Metallurgye a. 12ers ee ett elt hanes Engineering and Mining Journal.........Features (Book)....................+-4..-Canadian: Mining Journal ssi elora fs aeent-< sia tac nes etare
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decide whether a certain metalliferous deposit or district should be included or not. The problem was also...other forms) since 1935 is reviewed. New sulfur mining and recovery projects in the United States and...chemical properties of sulfur, the geology and mining operations of the salt-dome sulfur deposits, the...Swager, W. L. , and Sullivan, J. D. , 1951, Sulphur: Mining Engineering, vol. 3. , pp. 403409. The history...bibliography. Brief descriptions of salt dome deposits and mining operations along Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana
Report (issue)
DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY A. S. Furcron, Director THE GEOLOGICAL...1967 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Department of Mines, Mining and Geology September 1, 1967 His Excellency, Lester...herewith Bulletin No. 79 of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology entitled, "Annotated Bibliography of...References were read, annotated, and indexed·. by county, subject, and geological age. In many entries a...a portion of the state larger than a county is discussed, so that larger subdivisions of the state are
Report (issue)
New Hampshire_____________________ Orange County copper district, Vermont___________ Sulphur Mine, Virginia...Knob copper deposit, North Carolina._________ Ducktown deposits, Tennessee_____-_--__-___---__ Similar...sulfidc deposits in North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee _____________________________________________...3. Lead isotope ratios for galenas from Ducktown, Tennessee, ore deposits and reference samples..-__-______...copper-bearing massive sulfide deposit at Ore Knob, Ashe County, N.C., is one of a large group of massive sulfide
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com/journal/minerals Review Environmental Risk of Metal Mining Contaminated River Bank Sediment at Redox-Transitional...January 2014 Abstract: Diffuse metal pollution from mining impacted sediment is widely recognised as a potential...partitioned with iron, manganese and sulphur minerals in mining-contaminated sediment, therefore the dissolution...environmental risk these climate change events pose to mining impacted river systems it is recommended that research...and precipitation of iron and sulphur minerals in mining contaminated river bank sediment; (ii) The temporal
Report (volume)
_ _ _________________ Clausthalite, cobaltite, hematite GEOLOGIC OCCURRENCE Selenium occurs in metallic...Sweden; Flin Flon, Manitoba; Sudbury, Ontario; and Ducktown, Tenn. In certain sulfide vein deposits a variety...deposits in the Silver City district, Idaho; Comstock Lode and Jarbidge district, Nev.; and Guanajuato, Mexico...with gold and silver are found in the Republic district, Wash., and in Radjang Lebong, Sumatra. The seleniferous...Nev.; San Francisco district, Utah; and the Liberty Bell mine, Telluride district, Colo., all contain
Report (issue)
Alabama, University, Ala. Department of :ty.lines, Mining and Geology State Division of Conservation Atlanta...Jr ___________________________ _ Relationship of mining to other economic sectors, by Albert E. Schreck...Manmade features _____________________ _ Strip mining ______________________ _ Subsidence ________________________...____ Marble and limestone___________________ Tennessee marble belts______________ Virginia marble belts________________...Shirley_______ Types of mica, uses, and prices___________ Mining and preparation_________________ History and p
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detection of regional contamination associated with mining activities (Schreck at al., 2005; Cohen et al....(Fig. 1). It was a vein type Sn-W mine and the mining activity operated since 1813 till 1988, but with...minerals found in the mine dump materials are hematite, scorodite, vermiculite, kaolinite, Fe-oxy-hydroxides...Fe-oxy-hydroxides, Mnoxides, scorodite, jarosite, hematite, chlorite/vermiculite, smectite and kaolinite...representing stream sediments not being affected by the mining activity (Fig. 1). S1-H and S21-D are from Viveiros
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MT 59812, USA Department of Chemistry, The University of Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID 83402, USA c NASA-Johnson... TX 77058, USA d Chemical Sciences, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415, USA b a r t i...the Heddleston Mining District near Lincoln, Montana and the New World Mining District near Cooke City...deposits at both naturally acidic sites pre-date human mining activity by several thousand years, although there...schwertmannite to goethite. The New World Mining District site showed the expected profile, which is a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nickel removal in simulated limestone treatment of mining influenced water Andrew Miller, Linda Figueroa ⇑...Engineering Division, 1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80033, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Editorial handling by R.B. Wanty a b s t r a c t Mining influenced water (MIW) is often characterized by...present day mining districts in both the Rocky Mountain and Appalachian regions of the USA, mine drainages...order to mitigate the environmental impacts of mining influenced water (MIW), there are generally two
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Resources of the Knoxville 1 °X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina U.S. GEOLOGICAL...Resources of the Knoxville 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON...mineral resources of the Knoxville 1°X2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina I by G.R....references. Supt. of Docs. no.: 119.3:1979 1. Geology- Tennessee. 2. Geology-North Carolina. 3. Geology-South Carolina...Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources- Tennessee. 5. Mines and mineral resources-North Carolina. 6
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Resources of the Knoxville 1°x2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON...mineral resources of the Knoxville 1°x2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina / by G.R.... Supt. of Docs. no.: I 19.3:1979 1. Geology—Tennessee. 2. Geology—North Carolina. 3. Geology—South Carolina...Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources—Tennessee. 5. Mines and mineral resources—North Carolina. 6...46 Spruce Pine District 46 Woodlawn District 46 Buncombe District 46 Bryson City District 47 Franklin-Sylva
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DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY GARLAND PEYTON, Director THE GEOLOGICAL...1953 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Department of Mines, Mining and Geology Atlanta, July 1, 1953 To His Excellency...Preliminary Investigation of the Geology of Clarke County, Georgia, by Eldon J. Parizek ______________________________...____ 23 Figure 3. Areal Lithologic Map, Clarke County, Georgia ---······-----------------------------------------------...Figure 7. Inclusion embedded in Granite in Clarke County, Georgia. The hammer lies parallel to Bedding Planes
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December 2004; accepted 20 May 2005 Abstract Uranium mining in the former German Democratic Republic was extensive...availability was higher. 1.1. Area description Uranium mining in the former GDR was extensive during the period...(1997). Gessenhalde was located within the Ronneburg mining area, Thuringia (Fig. 1). In contrast to the other...the valley at Gessenhalde within the Ronneburg mining area (coordinates in Gauss/Krueger Potsdam coordinate...silicates Kaolinite Dolomitea Chlorite Pyrite Hematite Phosphorite Organic material 28 50 7 5 1–3 2
 
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