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


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Sulphur
Formula:S8
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Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sulphur data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ducktown Mining District, Polk County, Tennessee, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:151034
Long-form Identifier:1:3:151034:8
GUID (UUID V4):cdc320cf-9a9b-4a44-9b0b-d22b6b5699ab
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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
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
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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._______________________________
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
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decide whether a certain metalliferous deposit or district should be included or not. The problem was also...Carrington, J. C., 1951, Current developments in the sulphur situation: Am. Inst. Min. Met. Eng. Trans. , paper...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...molten sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration
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)
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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...Geologic map and sections of the Toncrae mine, Floyd County, Va. 6. Geologic map of the Stone Hill mine, Cleburne
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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
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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...Mineral district of central Virginia, the Copper Basin (Ducktown) mining district of Tennessee, and where...undisturbed by mining are exposed in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. Dissolution...minerals; Mineralogy; Acid rock drainage; Eastern USA 1. Introduction Secondary sulfate minerals play
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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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Pavlides ............. STOP 1, 8 STOP 1A. Mineral district Chopawamsic Formation at Contrary Creek by J.E... Gair .............. 24 Ores of the Mineral district by J.R. Craig, J.W. Miller, L.J. Cox, and R.F...Betty Baker mine by J.E. Gair Drill core, Mineral district by J.E. Gair ................. ................Mineral district. STOP LA and STOP 2 shown 4. Geologic map of the Mineral district, Louisa County, Virginia...Tables Table 1. Mining history of some major sulfide deposits of the Mineral district ...............
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...anions such as sulphur. Trace metals are often partitioned with iron, manganese and sulphur minerals in...in mining-contaminated sediment, therefore the dissolution and precipitation of these minerals may influence...environmental risk these climate change events pose to mining impacted river systems it is recommended that research
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
"gossansin massivepyrite in northernCalifornia,Tennessee,Arizona, Cyprus, Turkey, the Philippines,and New...apatite in the limestones or from surfacehumus. At Ducktown,phosphorusin the gossanaverages 0.05 percentand...Rhesa M., Jr., 1949, Suggestedorigin for the Shelby county, Alabama, limonlte ores: Ecoa. GEo•.., v. 44, p..., 1927, Ore depositsof the Rio Tinto (Huelva) district, Spain: Ecoa. Gv.o•.., v. 22, p. 569-614. 5.--...1926, Geologyand ore depositsof the Ducktown mining district, Tennessee: U.S. Geol. Surv., Prof. P. 139,
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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editor of a dozen books on mining and the West, including Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier...Frontier, Colorado Mining: A Photo¬ graphic History, and Rocky Mountain Boom Town. He has three times been...Red Mountain, Colorado, by Jerry Kelly GUNNISON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES f W. H 363. 73 Srni Smith, Duane...oA ’ Mr Gunnison County library 307 N. Wisconsin Gunnison, CO 81230 j MINING AMERICA DEVELOPMENT...Editor MINING AMERICA The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980 Duane A. Smith Gunnison County Library;
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deposits of the East Shasta copper-zinc district, Shasta County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional...1972, Geology and mineral deposits of Esmeralda County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin...p. Allsman, P.T., 1940, Reconnaissance of gold mining districts in the Black Hills, South Dakota: U.S...Nutt Wilderness Study Area (AZ-020-024), Mohave County, Arizona: U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Land Assessment...Plumas County, California; Venture 63: San Francisco, Calif., American Exploration and Mining Co., unpaginated
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)
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
Report (volume)
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...Abbott mine, Calif.; the Lucky Boy mine, Piute County, Utah; and at Guadalcazar, San Onofre, and Huitzuco
Report (volume)
vols. 9, 10. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Transactions, vols...11, 12. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 79, 94-97. San Francisco...39, 40. Ottawa, Ontario. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 27, 28; Bulletin...Bulletin, nos. 153-176. Montreal, Quebec. Canadian Mining Journal, vols. 46, 47. Toronto and Montreal, Canada... nos. 1-2. Chapel) Hill, N. C. Engineering and Mining Journal-Press, vols. 119-122. New York. Engineers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
glacial sediments subjacent to a former uranium mining leaching heap Eva-Maria Burkhardta, Sylvia Meißnerb...barriers, in sediments of a former uranium mining district (Ronneburg, Germany) and to evaluate the potential...retention; Sequential extraction; Geochemical barrier; Mining; Microbial iron reduction; Manganese oxide; Goethite;...contamination with heavy metals and metalloids due to mining activities is of great concern as heavy metals...the former mining district Ronneburg (Thuringia, Germany), one of the most important mining districts
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contamination in glacial sediments at the former uranium mining leaching heap of Gessen/Thuringia, Germany A. Grawunder...Between 1946 and 1990, the Eastern Thuringian mining district in Germany produced about 200,000 t of uranium...(2009) S2, 5–19 7 Fig. 1. The Ronneburg mining district near Gera in Eastern Thuringia, Germany. Fig...and sulphur was 0.3% (3.0 g/kg). Concentrations of nitrogen always were below DL, while sulphur was detected...reference values for sulphur and nitrogen in soils in humid climate – for sulphur 0.01–0.05% (0.1–0.5
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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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Mines SP Mining and Mineral in the South-Central] Operations States B80TIAT(G ge’ MINING AND MINERAL...cataloged as follows: United States. Bureau of Mines. Mining and mineral operations in the South-Central States:...and nonmetallics. Stable and economic domestic mining, mineral, metal, and mineral reclamation industries...enjoy your experiences. This pamphlet, a guide to mining and mineral operations that may be observed or...aid tourists and students who are interested in mining. Some may wish to study our Nation’s romantic past;
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the main environmental problems associated with mining of sulphide-bearing ore deposits (Nordstrom, 1982a;...result from the continuous exposure of sulphide-rich mining wastes, derived mainly from coal fields or massive...environmental problem affecting active and abandoned mining areas around the world. Examples of contamination...described in detail in the Appalachian coalfields (USA) (Powell, 1988; Herlihy et al., 1990), in the Gangreung...operate within mine waste materials long after mining has stopped and AMD leachates can persist for many
 
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