 | | Report (issue) | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mined for copper,sulfur, iron with gold, and other by-products. The depositsat Ducktown, Tennessee,are the...•aO-depletedwater through the shear zonescontinued. minedfor copper,sulfur,andiron with gold,silver, and zincbeingby-products...Southernand Central Appalachianscontaina series town, Tennessee,are the largest among them and of massivesulfide...host rocks have been a •ubject of considerable Ducktown and the surroundingsare shownin Figure debate...existing hypotheses regardingthe origin of the Ducktown depositson the basisof an oxygen,carbon,and hydrogen |  | | 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...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. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE COPPER ORES OF ORANGE COUNTY, VERMONT. N. W. BUERGER. INTRODUCTION. Dur{ng the courseof a...a field tr{p to the Vermont copper pos{ts{n October, I927, some rather coarsely.crystall{nechalcopyr{te...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...vol. x9, PP. 289-3o3, x934434 THE COPPER ORES OF ORANGE COUNTY, VERMONT. 435 Elizabeth-Foster-Cleveland |  | | Report (issue) | | and sulfur isotope ratios in galenas from Ducktown, Tennessee, is interpreted as an original characteristic...lead from U/Pb-enriched elastic sediments. At Ducktown, however, lead and sulfur isotope ratios indicate...Ridge geologic . province 54 Ducktown district, Tennessee 60 District geology 60 Theories of origin...of lead and sulfur isotope 6. systematics of Ducktown ores 83 Comparison with similar deposits 94...Sulfide deposits in the Piedmont 129 9. Mineral district, Virginia 133 10. Description of the ore bodies |  | | Report (volume) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | obscured. Regionally there are ore depositsof barite, copper, fluorite, iron, lead, manganese, and zinc in rocks...in the Appalachian parts of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia (U.S. Geological Survey, 18831927;...small. phicvariationis suppliedby the commercial copper deposits;suchdeposits are restrictedto metasedimentsand...occurrenceof the ore, manganese 1968) and BumpassCove, Tennessee(Rodgers, possiblyexcepted,is suchthat the depositsmust...contain the ores--faults, tions in various placesin Tennessee,and in the breccias,and permeablefacies. The vast |  | | Report (issue) | | Professional Paper 179 ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE DUCKTOWN TYPE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION...bodies. __________________ Genetic history of the copper-bearing veins of the southern Appalachian region...23 23 24 24 24 26 Page Genetic history of the copper-bearing veins of the southern Appalachian region...Betty Baker mine...-----------------..---Grayson County sulphide zone. _____________ 58 58 59 59 60 60....--_--________ Copper deposits of the Ducktowu district, Tennessee History of mining development._____________ |  | | Report (volume) | | Geology of Some Copper Deposits in North Carolina Virginia, and Alabama By GILBERT H. ESPENSHADE CONTRIBUTIONS...deposits of the Fontana and Hazel Creek mines, Swain County, North Carolina, the Toncrae mine, Virginia, and...--------------------------Geology of Swain County copper district__________________________ Sedimentary...Swain County copper district, North Carolina. 2. Geologic map of the Fontana mine, Swain County, N.C....mine, Swain County, N.C. 4. Geologic map and sections of the Hazel Creek mine, Swain County, N.C. 5. Geologic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cambridge, MA 02139, USA z US Geological Survey, National Center, MS 954, Reston, VA 22092, USA Abstract. Boron...Sullivan (Canada), Broken Hill (Australia), and Ducktown (USA). Overall, the tourmalines display a wide range... British Columbia; Kidd Creek, Ontario; Ducktown, Tennessee; a n d Broken Hill, New South Wales), as...Sullivan mine, British Columbia Cu, Co, Au Blackbird district, Idaho Fe, Au Keystone area, South Dakota Cu,...both on a district and deposit scale. For example, in the Broken Hill (Australia) district (Table 3) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Henderson No. 2 mine in the Chibougamau mining district, Quebec, Canada, made an appearance on the... or thin lamellae in chalcopyrite. Cubanite is copper-iron sulfide, having the formula CuFe,S,. Most...cupriferous pyrrhotite deposits of the Great Gossan lead district, Carroll and Grayson Counties, Virginia, contain...and other mines of the nowdefunct Ducktown mining district, Tennessee. Cubanite was a minor constituent...for sulfur and copper in the early 1900s at the Little Bob and Swift mines, Padding County, and the Villa |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ............. 487 492 492 494 494 499 Ducktown, Tennessee ...........................................Appalachian pyritic depositsextending from Maine to Ducktown. On the basis of a literature survey the writer...thesekinds of deposits. An exceptionare someof the copper-or nickel-bearingsulfidesassociatedwith basic igneousrocks...interpretationthat copper mineralizationpredatesshearing. This specimenis from the copper-bearing Pearl Lake...ated along darker chlorite zones. These darker copper-richlayers are crossed, parallelto the long axis |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Isotopesand a Model for the Origin of the Ducktown Deposit, Tennessee A. P. LEHURAY Lamont-Doherty GeologicalObservatory...Abstract Strata-boundsulfide depositsat Ducktown, Tennessee,have many characteristicsof volcanogenie...above-mentioned positivecorrelation,suggestthat Ducktown lead and sulfur representthe mixing of two sources...and Zn, as well as the smallamphibolitepodsat Ducktown and alongstrike. Lead isotopestudiesof contemporaneous...the Mount RogersFormation, indicate that lead in Ducktown ores could not have been derived from a similar |  | | Report (issue) | | THE FONTANA DAM AND TUSKEEGEE QUADRANGLES, SWAIN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA by Scott Southworth U.S. Geological...THE FONTANA DAM AND TUSKEEGEE QUADRANGLES, SWAIN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA by Scott Southworth INTRODUCTION...Fontana Lake region in 1944; this unpublished Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) map is on file with the...rocks. The massive sulfide deposits of the Fontana Copper mine, as discussed in a later section, are spatially...intrusive diorite. Along strike to the north in Tennessee, Hadley and Goldsmith (1963), King (1964), and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Origin of MassiveSulfide Deposits, GossanLead District, Virginia JACOBE. GAIR AND JOHN F. SLACK U.S....much as 40 m thick--the thickest known in the district. This deposit containsabundantcoarsebreccia fragmentsof...originaldepositsignificantly.In the northeasternpart of the district,drill holesintersect severalsulfidelayersthat...structurallyrepeated. The Ashe Formationin the district is a sequenceof metasedimentary rocks and local...amphibolitefrom a muchhigher stratigraphiclevel, southof the district,differssignificantlyfrom the maficrockscloserto |  | | Report (issue) | | 218pp., 1905. Economic geology of the Bingham mining district, Utah, by J. M. Boutwell, with a section on...geology and ore deposits of the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho, by F. L. Ransome and F. C. Calkins, 203...Georgetown quadrangle (together with the Empire district), Colo., by J. E. Spurr and G. H. Garrey, with..., 1910. Geology and ore deposits of the Butte district, Mont., by W. H. Weed, 262 pp., 1912. Geology...Geology and ore deposits of the Breckenridge district, Colo., by F. L. Ransome, 187 pp., 1911. Geology and |  | | Report (issue) | | BIBLIOGRAPHY OF U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PUBLICATIONS ON COPPER, (To January 1,1952) By Gwendolyn W. Luttrell ...BIBLIOGRAPHY OF U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PUBLICATIONS ON COPPER, (To January 1,1952) By Gwendolyn W. Luttrell ............................................. . Tennessee ........................................................................ Western United States mining districts ....................... World distribution... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PUBLICATIONS ON COPPER, (To January 1,1952) PURPOSE AND SCOPE This bibliography |  | | Report (issue) | | metals. 3. Various metalliferous deposits (mostly copper, zinc, lead, iron, gold, and molybdenum) that contain...commonly contain some copper and zinc sulfides), metalliferous' deposits (including copper, zinc, lead, iron...decide whether a certain metalliferous deposit or district should be included or not. The problem was also...sulfur are available as potential byproducts from copper, lead, and zinc deposits, coal, industrial and...other forms) since 1935 is reviewed. New sulfur mining and recovery projects in the United States and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...samesuccession of developmental stages revealed by the copper-bearing pyrrhotiteveinsof the southern Appalachian...generaltheparagenetic sequence parallelsthat of Ducktown,Outokumpu,andthe smallColoradodeposits. It wouldseemthat |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...previously polishedand examined specimensin a strong copper sulphate solutionand placingin an ovenheld at 65ø |  | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY. Geology of the Ducktown, Isabella, and Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina...and sections of the Ducktown, Isabella, and Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina...Carolina. Map of Ducktown, Isabella, and Persimmon Creek quadrangles showing location of metamorphic isograds...a manuscript on the Ducktown, Isabella, and Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina...Survey Geology of the Ducktown, Isabella, and Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Virginia 20192, USA U.S. Geological Survey, 973 Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA c Dartmouth...Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA Accepted 1 June 2004 Abstract Weathering of metal-sulfide...deposits in the Vermont copper belt, the Mineral district of central Virginia, the Copper Basin (Ducktown) mining...district of Tennessee, and where sulfide-bearing metamorphic rocks undisturbed by mining are exposed...Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. 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Ducktown Mining District, Polk County, Tennessee, USA