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Calcite from
Moore Prospect, Anderson County, Tennessee, USA


Locality type:Prospect
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Moore Prospect, Anderson County, Tennessee, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:736032
Long-form Identifier:1:3:736032:9
GUID (UUID V4):d00ea5ad-709a-4832-af00-db9cdca4e27e
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
20.0km (12.4 miles) O. K. Quarry (Oliver King Sand and Lime Company), Knox County, Tennessee, USA
20.7km (12.8 miles) Loves Creek Prospect, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc Mining District, Knox County, Tennessee, USA
28.2km (17.5 miles) Lost Creek Barite Mine, Clinch Valley Area, Union County, Tennessee, USA
32.0km (19.9 miles) Immel Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc Mining District, Knox County, Tennessee, USA
34.3km (21.3 miles) Cox Prospects, Powell River Mining District, Union County, Tennessee, USA
38.6km (24.0 miles) Friendsville Prospect (Griffitts Prospect), Blount County, Tennessee, USA
39.7km (24.7 miles) Young Mine, New Market, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc Mining District, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA
45.0km (27.9 miles) New Market Mine (Asarco New Market Mine), New Market, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc Mining District, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA
46.6km (29.0 miles) Straight Creek Mine, Straight Creek Mining District, Claiborne County, Tennessee, USA
48.5km (30.1 miles) C. C. Patrick Prospect, Sweetwater Barite Mining District-Western Belt, Loudon County, Tennessee, 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...Malmsbury Road Knoxville, Tennessee 37921 taparis@msn.com Figure 1 (top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood...Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2 (above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm...cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 3 (left). Fluorite
Report (issue)
Pittsylvania counties, Bedford County, Grayson County, Fauquier County' Roanoke and Botetourt counties...------------------------------- It Carbonates calcite -----Silicates Tourmaline 12 Hornblende and ...Saunders mine ________ _________ 3l Phillips mine and prospect 32 Alteration of wall rock Hewitt mine ________...Mattox mine _-______ Cundiff prospect - Bragg mine ________ Haden ' Wood prospect Arthur mine ________ Ifamner...------ 44 44 Saxton-McMillan mines 45 area Grayson County -----------------Location ----..'--------- 45 History
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts,
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book
locall - rs where amomeor prospectors m a y still prospect f o r gems mai t e a l s a n d a l s o fossils...Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _...t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because t h e a l t i t u d e o f Mt. M i t c...Jefferson, B e r k e l e y Kentucky: E l l i o t Tennessee: Unicoi, Greene, Cocke, Sevier, Blount, Monroe...e c e n t u r y f o u r w e r e f o u n d i n Tennessee. O n e was f o u n d i n K e n t u c k y w h e
Report (issue)
____ Marble and limestone___________________ Tennessee marble belts______________ Virginia marble belts________________... Columnar sections of Pennsylvanian rocks in Tennessee and Kentucky____ 13. Tectonic map of the Appalachian...pinnacles beneath soil cover, Bluegrass, Highland County, Va_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...transverse joints cutting shale at Poverty, Highland County, V a_ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...resources in Alabama, eastern Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia according to thickness of beds
Report (volume)
Central prospect 65 Buckeye mine __ 65 Cold Spring mine_ __ 66 Norman mine- _ ; 66 Moore prospect __ _ _...Bullion prospect '. 72 Ben Hur prospect _ 74 Ajax prospect__________________ _ '74 Candy prospect _ 75 Red...Morning Star mine__________________ _ 76 Baty prospect 76 Cougar Mountain prospect____:_________________...map and section of the Jarbidge district, Elko County, Nev______________________ II. Topographic and...gangue of pseudomorphic quartz and adularia after calcite: XI. A, Adularia (microscopic) ; B, Gold-silver
Report (issue)
Livingston, and Caldwell counties, and a part of Lyon County, Ky .............................................underlying the Millstone grit, as in Crittenden County, and that the sulphuret of lead is accompanied... n published a report on the geology of Hardin County, 111., embracing the results of examinations made...and fluorspar was made in 1839 in a well on the Anderson property at Fairview. In 1841 the same vein, apparently...1849. In the meantime some work was done on the Anderson or Good Hope (now Mullin's) vein, some 350 yards
Report (volume)
Fluorspar Deposits, Big Four Fault System, Crittenden County, Kentucky GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1042-S...DEPOSITS OF THE BIG FOUR FAULT SYSTEM, CRITTENDEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY By GEORGE C. HARDIN, JR., and EGBERT...The most abundant vein minerals are fluorite and calcite with subordinate quantities of sphalerite, galena...came from veins composed mainly of fluorite and calcite. The ore bodies are the result of fissure filling...system is about 7 miles west of Marion, Crittenden County, Ky., and crosses State Highway 297 about half
Book
are reported by county of occurrence. Map 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible...,o Map 1-2. Outline map of California showing county boundaries. __ _) 4 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA...in placers of the Potholes District of Imperial County, near the Colorado River about 10 miles north of...reported from San Ysidro, San Diego County, in 1828 ; from Los Angeles County, San Francisquito Canyon, in 183...183 5; and in the Piru District, Ventura County, in the early 1840s. Then in 1848 the discovery of gold
Report (issue)
___ _______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______ _____ _____ _ Franklin ____...properties _________ .. _____________ _ Halifax County ______ - _____ - __________ ~- _'- __ _ Virgilina..._____ _ ____ __ ... _________________ _ Orange County-· ___________________________ _ Melville ____ -...________ _________________________ _ Pr~nce William County _____________________ _ Crawford _____________________..._____________________ ·- _______ _ Spottsylvania County- __ -- - - - --- 7 - - - - - - - - - - United States ________________
Report (volume)
___________ Christian prospect and vicinity__________________________ Prospect near Gaits Mills_____...Descriptions of mines and prospects-Continued Campbell County-Continued Drinkard and nearby prospects _________________________..._________ ~---------------------------------------Prospect soutij. of the Bell _____________________________..._T_____________________________________ _ Copper mmes and prospect$_ -1- ____________________________________ _ Ilistory... Nelson County, Va. Plans, projection, and section of the Stonewall mine, Appomattox County, Va. Geologic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geological Sciences,University of Tennessee,Knoxville, Tennessee37996-1410' U'S.A. J. Ar-rcx...additional hornblende * Present address: Dames and Moore, Prospect Hill, 300 Fifth Avenue, Waltham, Massachusetts02154...Plagioclase is variably altered to fine-grained epidote, calcite, and quarlz. The potassium feldspar is microcline...granitic basement beneath the Coastal Plain, Gates County, North C-arolina. Southeastem Geology, 22, t9-44...Carolinas. Carolina Geological Society, Knoxville, Tennessee, in press. westem North America" and "Magmatic
Report (issue)
71 71 Northern Quebec ............ .. Abitibi county .......... .. ... . Savard-Poulin claims. Preissac-Lacorne.... .... .. .. ...... .... .. . . Terniscamingue county .. ..... .. ............ ...... .... ..... ....... ..... . ... ... .. .............. .. Pontiac county ..... .. ............. ...... .. .. .. ...... ... . ... . . .......... .. .. Southe rn Gatineau county ...... ..... .. ... .. .. ... ...... .. ... ...... .. . ..... ....... .. .. . Northern Gatineau county .... .. .. .... .... .. .. ... .. .... .. .. .
 
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