 | | Report (issue) | | Maryland Michigan New York Ohio Pennsylvania Tennessee Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin 18 20...sphalerite, galena, barite, fluorite, calcite, dolomite, and cryptocrystalline quartz) has been considered...rocks is dolomite and the association of coarsely-crystalline dolomite (called white gangue dolomite or recrystalline...recrystalline dolomite) with ore is a common feature. Breccia, formed tectonically, by solution collapse...associated minerals include fluorite, calcite, dolomite, quartz, iron sulfides, celestite, and gypsum |  | | Report (volume) | | Sphalerite and Wallrocks From Central Kentucky, Tennessee And Appalachian Zinc Districts GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Sphalerite and Wallrocks From Central Kentucky, Tennessee And Appalachian Zinc Districts By JANICE L. JOLLY...sphalerites from the central Kentucky, central Tennessee, and other mineral districts _____ . 3. Average...limestone samples from the Faircloth vein, Woodford County, Ky _. 5. Mercury content of limestone wallrock...wallrock from the Hoover vein, shaft 1, Cannon County, Tenn _____ 6. Mercury content of a wallrock suite along |  | | 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) | | 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) | | Mascot Dolomite of Tennessee and SouthwestVirginia LEon^m) D. H^•ut•s Abstract The Kingsport Formation...types--limestone and medium to coarsely crystalline dolomite• whereas in an adjacent section, most of the formation...unconformityat the top of the overlying Mascot Dolomite. Erosion associatedwith the unconformityproduceda...solution-thinningand collapsefeatures at the contact of the Kingsport and Mascot. Later mineralizing solutionsinvadedthe...Ordovicianfaciesabovethe surface. In general, Dolomite, the uppermostformation of the Knox thoseauthors(Butts |  | | Report (issue) | | District, Tennessee GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared with the cooperation of the Tennessee Department... Stratigraphy of the Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc District, Tennessee By JOSIAH BRIDGE With an introduction by JOHN...PAPER 277 Prepared with the cooperation of the Tennessee Department of Conservation^ Division of Geology...1929_____________________ Recent work in the Knox group of East Tennessee __ The geologic map and mapping procedures._______...and Canadian systems of Ulrich__ Copper Ridge dolomite.___________________ Name.______________________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 102, pp. 1345–1352 DOLOMITE FRONTS AND ASSOCIATED ZINC-LEAD MINERALIZATION, USA DELBERT D. HARPER 526...526 Walker Blvd., Maryville, Tennessee 37803 AND DAVID M. BORROK† Department of Geological Sciences...districts in the United States include those in Tennessee, southeast Missouri, and the TriState area of...and iron sulfides, fluorite, barite, calcite, dolomite, and quartz are the most abundant minerals which...between dolomite (recrystallized from limestone) to ore-bearing structures in the East Tennessee district |  | | Report (volume) | | the Mosheim and Johnson anticlines, Greene County, Tennessee, by Arnold L. Brokaw, John C. Dunlap, and...quarter of the Anaconda quadrangle, Deer Lodge County, Montana, by Alexander A. Wanek and C. S. Venable...Powell River area, Claiborne and Union Counties, Tennessee, by Arnold Brokaw, John Rodgers, D. F. Kent, R...deposits of the Steeple Rock mining district, Grant County, New Mexico, by Roy L. Griggs and Holly C. Wagner...Mosheim and Johnson ^ Anticlines, Greene County - Tennessee K ^ By ARNOLD L. BROKAW, JOHN C. DUNLAP |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralization in the Lower Paleozoic Rocks of East Tennessee ROBRTH. CARPE•TSR, JA•SSM. F•G•, •D I-Is•.•UT•...nformity at the Lost Creekbarite mine in Union County; (2) baritein basalMiddleOrdovicianbeds(AthensShaleand...Limestone)in northeastern Tennessee andsouthwestern Virginia; (3) sphaleriteand pyritein dolomite filling paleocavesin...Ordovician Mascot Dolomite at the Trotter prospectnear DouglasDam in Sevier County; and (4) oolitic hematiteand...breccia sphalerite at the Lost Creek mine in Union County; matrix that conformsto beddingin the countryrock |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ORDOVICIAN EAST D. HOAGLAND, ROBERT ZINC DEPOSITS TENNESSEE WILLIAM T. HILL, AND E. FULWEILER ABSTRACT...Copper Ridge districts, in the Lower Ordovician Kingsport formation of the Knox group within a stratigraphicrange...occursin low-iron sphaleriteassociated with gangue dolomite in dissolutionbreccias and collapsestructures...dolomitizedlimestoneand interbeddedfine-grained "primary" dolomite. The sphaleritewas depositedprincipallyas filling...a post-Knox pre-Chazyansinkholeat KENTUCKY • TENNESSEE o./• •m •e • •&•* •-•' •Sweelwaler .• |  | | Report (volume) | | Jonesville District Lee County, Virginia GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 990 GEOLOGY AND OIL RESOURCES...RESOURCES OF THE JONESVILLE DISTRICT, LEE COUNTY, VIRGINIA By EALPI-I L. MILLER and WILLIAM P. BKOSGE ABSTRACT...ABSTRACT The Jonesville district is in central Lee County in the extreme southwest corner of Virginia. It...anticline consists of Cambrian and Lower Ordoviciau dolomite. The upland is flanked by parallel lowlands developed...AREA Lee County is in the extreme southwest corner of Virginia (fig. 1), adjacent to Tennessee on the south |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OrdovicianAge {or CollapseBreccias in the East Tennessee Zinc Districts as Indicated by Compactionand...STUDYOf compactionfeaturesof the Mascot Dolomite and the Kingsport Formation (both Lower Ordovician) lends...lends support to the conceptthat the Kingsport was an aquifer in early Middle Ordovcian time similar to...physical characteristics of the Mascot Dolomite and the Kingsport Formation are mostly the result of deep...Hill section /' •SCOT-J•FERSON CI• DIST•CT TENNESSEE rocks in the zinc districts(Fig. 1), recentlybegunby |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Depositsof the Mascot-Jefferson City District, Tennessee J. E. MCCORM•C•:,L. L. EVANS,R. A. PALMERAND F...limestone alongearly faultsand jointswithin the Kingsport Formation in the Mascot-JeffersonCity district...eastwardto JeffersonCity, Tennessee(Fig. 1). Ore structuresare found in the Kingsport and Mascot Formations...within the upper half of the Knox Group. The Kingsport, along with other unks of the Knox, cropsout throughoutthe...end of Early Ordoviciantime exposedthe Mascot Dolomite,the uppermostformation of the Knox Group, to erosion |  | | 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...Barite District and Other Locations 14 Central Tennessee Zinc-Lead-Barite-Fluorite District Iron 16 Manganese |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bedded-OreStructures,JeffersonCity Mine, JeffersonCity, Tennessee R. E. FULWEILER AND S. E. McDou6AL Abstract...apparentdisconform{ties betweenlimestoneand overlying primary dolomite;and tight folds in the beddingwith subsequent...literature) has thrust Maynardville Dolomite (Upper Cambrian) over Mascot Dolomite (Lower Ordovician), a stra...ore-bearingupper part of the Kingsport Formation and the lower part of the Mascot Dolomite are 950 to 1,100 feet...generallyconfinedto the upper 130 feet of the Kingsport Formation but at placesextends 764• R. E. FULWEILER |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SedimentaryFeatures at the Flat Gap Mine, Treadway,Tennessee W. T. HILL, R. G. MORRIS,AND C. G. HAGEGEORGE...localized in breccia bodiesformed in the Mascot and Kingsport Formations when the beds were flat lying. Uplift...Limestonebeds,locatedin the upper part of the Kingsport,servedas a paleoaquiferof regionalextent. Meteoric...porouslimestonebeds to the extent that interbeddedand overlying dolomite beds collapsedforming long, narrow breccia bodies...Productionwas started in 1959, and the districtof East Tennessee approximately 30 miles mine currently is producing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GangueDolomite, the Mascot-Jefferson City District,Tennessee 5•[ICHAEL L. EBERS AND OTTO C. KoPP Abstract ...Cathodoluminescentgrowth zones were observedin gangue dolomite associatedwith sphalerite mineralization in the...perfect microstratigraphiccorrelation of the gangue dolomite cathodoluminescent zones throughout the district...originof MississippiValley-typedepositsis not in the Kingsport and lower Mascot Formations well understood. In...a discussion of is white, coarsely crystalline dolomite with lesser quantities of sphalerite, pyrite, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Depositsin the Lower Ordovician Formations of East Tennessee W. T. Hn.•., J. E. McCoRM•cIc, ANI)Hm.•4UTHW•...I)OW, Abstract Most recentwork. ers in the East Tennessee zinc and baritedistrictsare in general agreement...evidence in support of the concept that muchsecondary dolomite mayhavebeenformedby groundwater. On the otherhand...physicalconditionsresponsible for the localizationof ore in the Kingsport Formation (Lower Ordovician). On the other hand...Director, U.S. Survey. Geological the East Tennessee zinc districts since the mid- 1950's.Someof |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | residualclays derived from them. Specificallythe Shady Dolomite (Lower Cambrian) and the upper part of the Knox...in the Appalachian parts of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia (U.S. Geological Survey, 18831927;...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...sphaleritede- and manganese positsare in the Kingsport Formation in East Ten- Interestingly,no lead or |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Evolution of Thought on Ore Controlsin East Tennessee: Ro•r A. LAURENCE Abstract All early studentsof...studentsof the zinc and barite depositsof East Tennessee,noting the geographiccoincidence of the principalmining...southwest Wisconsin ore bodies and those of East Tennessee when the latter were rotatedto a horizontalposition...and zinc depositsin sedimentary Knox Dolomite in East Tennessee(Fig. 1) was rocks,origin independent...Jefferson City) to the depositsof Virginia and Tennessee: "In as earlyas 1854,large-scale miningof zinc |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alteration, and Mineralizationin the Central Tennessee Zinc District j. RICHARDKYLE Abstract Major...discoveredin strataboundbreccias in the Mascot Dolomite of the upper Knox Group in Central Tennesseeand...Tennesseeand southern Kentucky. The Mascot Dolomite is a Lower Ordovician sequenceof very finely crystalline dolostoneunits...breccias. Sulfidemineral depositionin Central Tennessee wassignificantlylater thanbrecciaformationandmay...depositnear Elmwood, the Cincinnati Arch in Central Tennessee and cenTennessee, in early 1969 rewardedfive yearsof |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alabama (Cook and Smith 1982), Georgia (Cook 1982), Tennessee (Paris 2011), North Carolina (Kenny Gay, pers...Bassett Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the older underground...fluorite crystal on dolomite from the Bassett Stone quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky. Terry...Catnip Hill facility near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing...Catnip Hill facility, Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mascot-JeffersonCity district, Tennessee;and Copper Ridge district, Tennessee. Representativesof depositsof...discoveredzinc depositsin the Lower Ordovician of Middle Tennessee are similar in all essentialr.espectsto the Tennesseesub-type...geologicinterest (Brown, Ordovician of Middle Tennessee are in their earliest 1935; Currier, 1935; Callahan...linkage between which are especiallynumerousin East Tennessee, deposits of Appalachian andMississippi Valley...characterize which is hereinafter referred to as the Tennessee the severalmembersof this sub-typeare: sub-type |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SEDIMENTARY FEATURES JEFFERSON CITY MINE, TENNESSEE DAVID L. KENDALL CONTENTS PAGE Abstract ................................................... Dolomite ................................................northeast of Knoxville, lies in central East Tennessee, in the Appalachian Valley and Ridge province...open-spacefillings in coarse dolomite, but only as fracture filling in fine dolomite. Sedimentarybrecciasof...principletypesare distinguished:coarsegrained dolomite breccia located in dolomitized limestone beds |  | | Report (issue) | | CARBONATE ROCKS OF THE DANDRIDGE AREA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Water-Resources Investigations...Report 79-1263 Prepared in cooperation with the Tennessee Division of Water Resources, and the Town of Dandridge...CARBONATE ROCKS OF THE DANDRIDGE AREA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE by E. F. Hollyday and P. L. Goddard U.S....Report 79-1263 Prepared in cooperation with the Tennessee Division of Water Resources, and the Town of Dandridge...location of the study area in Jefferson County, east Tennessee.................. 2. Map showing distribution |
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