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Bitumen from
Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Petroleum var: Bitumen
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorite1 photo of Bitumen associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bitumen data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:831454
Long-form Identifier:1:3:831454:3
GUID (UUID V4):2b97b70b-633a-4ab5-a75f-e22535826edc
Nearest other occurrences of Bitumen
1.4km (0.9 miles) Dolly Cowan Limestone Quarry, Gordonsville, Smith County, Tennessee, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA
89.2km (55.4 miles) Franklin Quarry, Simpson County, Kentucky, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Knoxville, Tennessee 37921 taparis@msn.com Figure 1 (top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith...Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2 (above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood...Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 3 (left). Fluorite, 2.5 cm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
InclusionStudy of the GordonsvilleZinc Deposit, Central Tennessee JEFFREY F. GRATZ*ANDKULAC. MISRA Departmentof...Geological Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,Tennessee 37996-1410 Abstract A complementary...main-stagecalcitedeposition. Introduction THE central Tennessee area is well known for its surfaceexposures of...samplesfor this studywere collectedfrom the Gordonsville mine. Most of the sampleswere obtainedfrom stopeswhich...this studyshouldbe applicable menced at the Elmwood mine in 1975 and at the to the nearbyElmwood depositwhich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cd, AND Fe) IN SPHALERITE FROM THE TENNESSEE MVT DEPOSITS, USA, BY COMBINED EMPA, LA-ICP-MS, RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY...Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France ABSTRACT The zinc mines of Tennessee are known to contain high concentrations of certain...center (Central Tennessee Mines: CT) and east (East Tennessee Mines: ET) of Tennessee in order to (1)...different episodes of mineralization occurred in Tennessee. Keywords: sphalerite, wurtzite, germanium, gallium...Cu, Ga, and Ge within sphalerite from central Tennessee has been known since the 1970s (Jolly & Heyl 1968)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zinc deposits Mascot-Jefferson City district, Tennessee Implications for the age of mineralization J.F...Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA Department of Geological Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville...Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 1410, USA Received: December 1, 1991 / Accepted: June 15, 1993 Abstract. The Mississippi...the Mascot-Jefferson City zinc district of East Tennessee occurs as open-space fillings in breccia bodies...of the Mascot-Jefferson City (M-J) district in Tennessee comprise breccia-hosted, strata-bound mineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Illinois-Kentucky and Central Tennessee Mississippi Valley-type districts Sarah E. Smith-Schmitz ⇑, Martin S....Geological Sciences Building, Columbia, MO 65211, USA Received 13 June 2017; accepted in revised form 16...applied to the Illinois-Kentucky and Central Tennessee districts, which both contain ore-stage calcite...For both the Illinois-Kentucky and the Central Tennessee district, predicted ore fluid Zn and Fe concentrations...amounts of Zn in the Illinois-Kentucky and Central Tennessee districts within ranges of geologically reasonable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit or area. Nevertheless, deposits in the East Tennessee district † E-mail, greg@geology.utoronto.ca ...trapped in the host rocks or appear in the ores as bitumen, but gases might easily escape. Hydrocarbon migration...could be a deposit such as Elmwood in Central Tennessee (Fig. 5), where centimetersized sphalerite crystals...fractures in dolomite host rock, Elmwood mine, Central Tennessee (photo courtesy of Lluis Fontboté.) 1688...in dolomite host rock. Stope face at the Magmont mine, Southeast Missouri. 0361-0128/98/000/000-00 $6
Catalog/List
museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans for the area...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority...Caledonite and a dash of azure blue Linarite. The mine is now collapsed and only a memory for the lucky...Lucky Friday Pocket, Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin, USA This is one of the Chalcocite
Report (issue)
Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...MICHAEL GRAY 54 Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56 64...methane gas bubble, UVfluorescent oil, and solid bitumen. Photo Albert Gilg & BRIAN STEFANEC The Great...Castleton in Traek Cliff (Derbyshire), the Blue John mine (page 35). The term "fluorite" was coined in 1797...The Blue John Mine, Castleton. In Modern Terms A postcard depicting the Blue John mine near Castleton
Book
deposits — an update. J. M. Franklin ... 49 Avoca mine, Co. Wicklow: a review of geological and isotopic...Poustie 89 The Lisglassan-Tullybuck deposit, County Monaghan: Sb-As-Au vein mineraliza­ tion in Lower...Crowe ... ... ... 331 Geology of the Abbeytown Mine, Co. Sligo, Ireland. M. W. Hitzman 341 The setting...controls to mineralization in the Silvermines area, County Tipperary, Ireland. C. J. Andrew 377 A review..... 509 A review of vein mineralization in SW County Cork, Ireland. T. A. Reilly 513 GENETIC MODELS
Report (issue)
Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2. deposit size (occurrence type - mine, prospect...south and east to west. The most prevalent name of a mine or prospect which was used in reference descriptions...category. Where multiple names have been given to one mine or prospect site, generally the most recent name...stream, or town. County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude Information in the county, state, quadrangle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Louis, MO 63 130, USA *US Geological Survey, PO Box 24056, MS 973, Denver. CO 80225, USA (Received June...Processing The hydrothermal dolomite from Sweetwater Mine and the Bonneterre Formation samples were dissolved...70903 1OEE 478’ 0.094 69.9 0.70884* 0.70882 Mine 2 Hydrothermal Dolomite (Zone 3) 0.003 0.011 0...(PPm) (ppb) Hydrothermal Mine 176 34 118 residue B solid C 2.9 Mine 0.25 wash solid solid solid...Galena (CG29) 1.4’ 2.8* 1.2 2s S44 50.1 Late Mine 0.50’ COG291 21 24 13 24 Chalcopyrite (337)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reported on the carbonate-hostedMaria Esperanzalead mine, 11 km west of SanRam6n, and comparedit to the Missourilead...tons/day,which makesSanVicentethe largestzinc-producing mine Fontbot• et al. (1981), Gonzalez and Fontbot• (1986)...and 12.6 percent Zn. Aspectsof the San Vicente mine have been dis- evolution of the Pucarf• basin....JapanInternationalCooperationAgency (1979), internal mine reports,and our own observations. The oldeststratigraphicunit...V V.?+++++++ + X X ? + + + 1Okra i Closed mine 75ø25' 75'15' FIG. 4. Regionalgeologicmap of
Report (volume)
INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTI8 SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 585 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE...respective States: Alabama.........Dr. Eugene A. Smith, University. Arkansas..........Dr. A. H. Purdue...University, Baltimore. Michigan..........Mr. R. A. Smith, Lansing. Dr. A. C. Lane, Tufts College, Mass. Minnesota...Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel... 6 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES. Tennessee........Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C
Report (volume)
Secretary UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 624 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE............................................... Tennessee.....................^........................... Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature consulted...minerals of Tennessee, their nature, uses, occurrence, and literature: The resources of Tennessee, vol. 3...their respective States: Alabama_____Dr. Eugene A. Smith, Universitv.Arizona_ ___Dr. Burt Ogburn, Phoenix
Report (volume)
copper occurrences in Pennsylvania 320 By R.C. Smith II, S.W. Berkheiser, Jr., and D.T. Hoff Variations...of hydrocarbons in bitumen from shales, solid bitumen from veins, and viscous bitumen from concretions...Palisades sill near the Ramapo fault in Rockland County, New York, as an intrusion of fine-grained diabase...trace metals within and bordering diabase sheets. Smith and others provide representative analyses of sulfide...Bradford, ed., Geology and Mineral Resources of Bucks County Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological Survey Bulletin
Journal (issue)
JULY–AUGUST 2019 Articles The Auglaize quarry, Paulding County, Ohio ...........................................matrix, 5.5 cm, from the Auglaize quarry, Paulding County, Ohio. Joe and Susan Kielbaso collection; Jeff...$324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription...included a definitive suite of minerals from Delaware County, Pennsylvania (which he sold to Steve Carter of...involvement in collecting the great Bunker Hill mine pyromorphite bonanza, was born in Spokane, Washington
Book
Provinee, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma, USA D.L. Leaeh ........................................Valley-Type Mud Volcano Mass at Deeaturville, Missouri, USA R.A. Zimmermann and M. Sehidlowski . . . . . . ....(1966) has been subsequently shown (e.g. Cathles and Smith 1983) as not explaining the temperature gradients...development of MVT mineralization in the East Tennessee area of the southern Appalachians. Further evidence...controls to mineralization in the Silvermines area, County Tipperary, Ireland. In: Andrew CJ, Crowe RWA, Finlay
Book (volume)
Structure of the Congdon Copper lode, Ducktown, Tennessee, 165 Copper mines of Lake Superior, 171 Disseminated...large scale in all the great caves of Kentuckey, Tennessee, and Virginia; also in the smaller caves of New...The ancient shores of lake Champlain, in Clinton county, may be traced by similar ridges of sand and gravel...to Grandfather mountain, by Table rock in Burke county, North Carolina. Here are five close-pressed parallel...Raleigh, the Cape Fear near Haywood in Chatham county, or at the falls of the Buckhorn. Above the falls
Book
Comprehensive Example: The Cree de District, Colorado, USA 4.11. Summary 4.12. Recommended Reading .!CHAPTER...disseminating the information, the mine geologists and mine managers who have made the mine visits a rewarding experience...graphics. The Office of Research, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is gratefully acknowledged for a generous...concentration required to achieve the break-even point for a mine in terms of revenue and costs. Any detailed exploration...culminating with the Creede vein­ type deposit (Colorado, USA) as a comprehensive example. The second part of the
Report (Issue volume)
Bauxite duction Priтагу metal Copper Mine Refined Lead Mine Refined Market Economy Countries: European...specified) Mineral fuels Industrial minerals Zinc Mine Refined Nitrogen (N content Cement of ammonia)...into орeration at the Bulqize chromite mine, and a new chromite mine was commissioned at Vlahne in the Kukes...Bauxite* Chromium: Chromite, gross weight Cobalt: Mine output, Co content* Plant production, Co content...Metal: Pig iron Crude steel* Rolled steel Nickel: Mine output, Ni content 9,700 9,500 10,000 11,000
Report (volume)
crystalline rocks (PI. vn). It is situated in Orange county, Virginia, to the west of Orange, and is named...begins at the north near Falling river, in Campbell county, and extends southward across Staunton river to...thin seam in one mine may thicken and become the most important bed in an adjacent mine. This hypothesis...many peculiarities in the field. In the Norwood mine on the west side of the area the coal is worked................... 6 In the neighboring Powhatan mine there are five coal seams, the most important having
Report (issue)
1965. 1966. 1967. 1968. Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and..._-----------70 Kentucky .______-___--_ _____-71 Tennessee _ ___---__--_-_---------71 Mississippi ____-_...cooperators________-____________________ State, county, and local cooperators_____________ Other cooperators...of 8 to 10 sq mi in the vicinity of the King Tut mine. The gold content of these arroyo gravels is highly...within the hydraulic pit near North Columbia, Nevada County (locality .7, index map), enabled a prediction
Report (volume)
of Kentucky Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky...Analysts. Houston, Tex. Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. - Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science...Science. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Los Angeles, Calif. Los Angeles County Mus. Nat. History...History Quart.- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly. Los Angeles, Calif. Louisiana Water...Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Maryland Geol. Survey County Geol. Map Geologic Map. Baltimore, Md. Maryland
Report (issue)
.B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...production, U.S. apparent consumption, and U.S. mine production of antimony from 1900 to 2012............................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption.....................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine production from 1950 to 2011......................F4. Pie chart showing percentage of world cobalt mine production in 2011, by country.................
Report (volume)
geology and mining industry of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons, pp. 201-290, pis. xliv-xlv...595-605. Fertilizers, pp. 606-635, pis. v-vi. The Tennessee phosphates, by Charles Willard Hayes, pp. 610-630...610-630, pis. v, vi. Commercial development of the Tennessee phosphate, by C. G. Memminger, pp. 631-635. Sulphur...and hydrography Continued. The mines of Ouster County, Colorado, by Samuel Franklin Emmons, pp. 405-472...Mendenhall, pp. 473-511, pis. xxxviii-xlix. The Tennessee phosphates, by Charles Willard Hayes, pp. 513-550
 
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