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Quartz from
Moccasin Gap Mine, Del Rio Mining District, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Moccasin Gap Mine, Del Rio Mining District, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:826239
Long-form Identifier:1:3:826239:4
GUID (UUID V4):f2855c9e-5911-4344-b956-2224f4b82d5c
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
3.3km (2.1 miles) Stone Barite Mine, Del Rio Mining District, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) Wood Mine, Del Rio Mining District, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
6.0km (3.8 miles) Krebs Barite Mine (Burnett Mine; Pond Ridge Barite Mine), Del Rio Mining District, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Williams Mine (Mims Barite Mine; Krebs Barite Mine), Del Rio Mining District, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
7.0km (4.3 miles) Dry Fork Barite Prospect, Del Rio Mining District, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Willis Prospect, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
10.7km (6.6 miles) Sylvia Prospect, Greene County, Tennessee, USA
11.1km (6.9 miles) Shut-In Creek Pyrite Occurrence, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Upper Shut-In Creek prospect, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
16.3km (10.2 miles) Long Mountain Mines, Hot Springs Barite Mining District, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deformation Fabrics in Barite and Fluorite of the Del Rio District: Their Implicationsfor the RelativeTiming...Geological Sciences, The Universityof Tennessee, Knoxville,Tennessee 37996-1410 Abstract Two distinctivebarite...distinctivebarite occurrences in the Del Rio district,Cocke County, Tennessee,were recognized previously onthe...deformationalfabricswereobserved in boththe Moccasin Gap- and Williams-typeveins,includingunduloseextinction...last period of deformation that affected the district. Basedon the progressive sequence of deforma
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
Report (volume)
geology of the deposits, with consideration of mining methods and exploration, and estimates ofreserves...geology of the deposits, with consideration of mining methods and exploration, and estimates of reserves..._-_-_-________ Mountain Pass district, California..-____-.-_.._______ Central district, Missouri.._________________________..._________________________ Hansonburg district, New Mexico___________________ Kings Creek district, South Carolina.._______________..._______________ Del Rio district, Tennessee....____...-_.____.__.___ Middle Tennessee district __--__-__-_--_-_-_____
Report (volume)
barite. Missouri, Tennessee, and Georgia have been the major sources of barite since mining began there in...BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL RESOURCES production, mining and treatment of ore, as well as some descriptions...states. State references describe deposits and mining and milling techniques practiced within a particular...occurrences may be in the vicinity. In the Cartersville district, Georgia, the deposits are listed as residual...occurrence is of commercial value, as in the Central district, Missouri, symbols are combined, with the most
Report (issue)
Madison County, North Carolina By Steven S. Oriel Prepared in Cooperation with the Tennessee Valley Authority...Mineral Resources of the Hot Springs Window, Madison County, North Carolina." This bul letin is another in...being made possible by the cooperation of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Hot Springs window is an...faults , , 18 35 Criteria used in recognition 35 Mine Ridge thrust fault 36 Brushy Mountain thrust fault... i 51 Other areas 51 Gahagan mine 51 Long Mountain mines Mine Ridge prospect pits 52 52 Conclusions
Report (volume)
Resources of the Knoxville 1 °X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina U.S. GEOLOGICAL...Resources of the Knoxville 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON...mineral resources of the Knoxville 1°X2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina I by G.R....references. Supt. of Docs. no.: 119.3:1979 1. Geology- Tennessee. 2. Geology-North Carolina. 3. Geology-South Carolina...Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources- Tennessee. 5. Mines and mineral resources-North Carolina. 6
Report (issue)
Resources of the Knoxville 1°x2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON...mineral resources of the Knoxville 1°x2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina / by G.R.... Supt. of Docs. no.: I 19.3:1979 1. Geology—Tennessee. 2. Geology—North Carolina. 3. Geology—South Carolina...Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources—Tennessee. 5. Mines and mineral resources—North Carolina. 6...46 Spruce Pine District 46 Woodlawn District 46 Buncombe District 46 Bryson City District 47 Franklin-Sylva
Journal (issue)
Virginia and nearby areas of West Virginia and Tennessee, have been described by Haynes (1992,1994) and...19 exposures in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee from which titaniferous minerals in the Deicke...and grayish red argillaceouslimestones of the Moccasin and Bays Formations (Haynes, 1992,1994; Haynes&c...belts, from Thom Hill and Dodson Mountain in Tennessee northward to Goodwins Ferry and Millers Cove in...siltstones of the Moccasin or Bays Formations. In fact, where it occurs in the Moccasin or Bays Formations
Report (volume)
nearly all the sections studied, from New York to Tennessee. Before these sections are discussed, a brief...York will be presented. HISTORICAL REVIEW. In the county reports of the Second Pennsylvania Geological Survey...proposed by Claypole with reference to the Perry County section for the beds above the Oriskany was expressed...preliminary report on the paleontology of Perry County tetc.]: Second Geol. Survey Pennsylvania, Kept...characterize the horizon in New York are found in Perry County. Nor have any Corniferous fossila afforded the
Report (issue)
bearing on the possibilities of oil and gas in Wise County, Virginia, as inferred from isocarbs ............Virginia---------92 11. A, Small anticline in Moccasin formation near Tazewell, Virginia; B, Bentonite...of the area southwest of Big A Mountain, Russell County, Virginia; B, Panorama looking east across Coombs...years. During this time there accumulated in Bath County a vast pile of sediments, probabl) 20,000 feet...sandstones and sandy shales, as near Falling Springs Gap and along the road north of Flag Rock, and the fossil
Report (issue)
the State lines of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. This was a cooperative project between the United...limestone. Black River group.. Lowville limestone... Moccasin limestone. Chambersburg limestone. Trenton limestone...28 .. .. ...' .'.... .. .. .. .. il. Stone Gap shales, in part Mississippian . 11 35 (l).......Campbell, and R. J. Holden; report on the Big Stone Gap region by G. W. Stose; report on Massanutten Mountain...edition oL I92B; unpublished work on the zinc district in Smyth and Wythe counties by L. W. Currier;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bibliography] ; by George F. Kunz. ;.. 481 Memoir of Antonio del Castillo [with bibliography] ; by Ezequiel Ordofiez...Albert E. Foote died October 10, and Senor Antonio del Castillo died October 28. The last printed roll of...University have become subscribers; Engineering and Mining Journal removed from the list; Museo de la Plata...of the vicinity of Great Barrington, Berkshire county, Massachusetts: Ibid., 1872-1873, pp. 362-370;...and other kinds from the Tilly Foster iron mine. Putnam county, New York: Ibid., pp. 371-381; pp. 447-459
Report (volume)
Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Pittsylvania and Halifax Counties, overlies Hyco quartz porphyry. Varies from nearly pure greenstone to...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian...map. Occurs in vicinity of Abbyville, Mecklenburg County. Abercrombie Formationl Middle Cambrian: Western
Report (issue)
features of the southern Appalachians in parts of Tennessee and southwest Virginia _—_—-—_—————————•——— Road...————— Road log, Knoxville, Tenn., to Cumberland Gap, Tenn.-Va.-Ky ———————— Stop 3, The lower level Copper...fenster __________________———— Road log, Cumberland Gap, Tenn.-Va.-Ky., to Gate City, Va ———————— Stop 8...of the Pine Mountain thrust sheet, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Diagrams showing structural details...the Sequatchie and Cardiff Ridge anticlines, Tennessee. Diagrams showing structural details along the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rook, N ew foundland. N ew Brunswick.— In this district the Cambric rocks have long been included under...the pre-Cambric gneiss. These are the granular quartz of the Vermont geologists, which were long ago...In any case it is likely that the basal granular quartz of the Green Mountains is the time equivalent of...rock on the Susquehanna above Columbia (Lancaster county), from which locality it takes its name. From the...VER LAP 577 In the region about Knoxville, Tennessee, the Shenandoah becomes known as the Knox dolomite
Report (volume)
... 130 Fu;. 1. Section on Brooks Run, Bullitt County, Ky.......................... 20 2. Section south................... 15 16 10 17 Brooks, Bullitt County :.........'......................................Bullitt County ............................................... 22 New Haven, Nelson County ..........Riley, Marion County ................................................ Parksyille, Boyle County ............City, Boyle County.......................................... Crab Orchard, Lincoln County ...........
Report (volume)
sandstone. Permian : Central northern Oklahoma (Bay County). C. N. Gould, 1900 (Kans. Univ. Quart., vol. 9...dolomite. Permian : Central northern Texas (Fisher County). M. G. Cheney, 1929 (Univ. Tex. Bull. 2913, p...: Northwestern Colorado (northern part of Eagle County). R. Roth, 1930 (A. A. P. G. Bull., vol. 14, No...and siliceous and exhibit on the surface numerous quartz crystals. Maccrady shale. Mississippian (Osage)...Pleistocene and Recent: Northeastern Maryland (Baltimore County). P. R. Uhler, 1901 (Md. Acad. Sci. Trans., n.
Report (volume)
............................................. District of Columbia...'...'....'.. ...*............................................................. Tennessee.................................................Addison, Washington County. Auburn, Androscoggin County. Androscoggin County. County. Boothbay Medicinal...Medicinal Mineral Spring East Boothbay, Lincoln County. Chalybeate springs : 1 o 45 1,800 Alkaline, calcic...1 berland County. Black River, Aroostook County. Androscoggin County. 1 Penobscot County. Fryeburg
Report (volume)
(Pennsylvania-New York) Chattanoogan series * (Tennessee) Brian period l (New York) fWaverlyan system 1...States Late Mississippian fTennesseean system l (Tennessee) Central United States Mississippian Leeic period...and Edenian stage [see Eden group l ; Edenian l Tennessee] . (Ohio)] Trentonian stage Mohawkian stage [see...fChamplainic system l (New York) fNashvillean 1 (Tennessee) fTrenton period 1 ; Trentonian J (New York) Middle...Devonian (see also Cambrian Devonian) Yellow Leaf quartz schist 1 Middle Devonian Ragland sandstone 1 Lower
Report (volume)
as coal beds, oil and gas sands, pegmatites, and mining terms, are omitted, inasmuch as they are not considered...geology of Canadian ore deposits: Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy, p. 487. Active formation Ordovician:...G. Brown and A. S. Dadson, 1953, Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans. v. 56, p. 70. Aladdin sandstone...Precambrian: Quebec, Canada. P. B. Auger, 1954, Canadian Mining and Metall. Bull., v. 47, no. 8, p. 530. Allah...porphyry Miocene (?) : Nevada. V. P. Gianella, 1934, Mining and Metallurgy, v. 15, no. 331, p. 299; Univ. Bull
Report (volume)
Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Vermont Washington Wisconsin...Iowa, western Kentucky, Missouri, and western Tennessee. The other provincial series used in the United...rock phyllite phosphate pumice porphyry quartz quartz diorite quartz monzonite red bed rhyolite schist GEOLOGIC...AARON, SLATE 326 ABBOTT, FM (MCCORMICK GP) 304 ABEL GAP,FM (TALLADEGA GP) 374 211 ABERDEEN, SS MBR (BLACKHAWK.../ALBANY, PORPHYRITIC QUARTZ SYENITE (WHITE MOUNTAIN GP) /ALBANY, PORPHYRITIC QUARTZ SYENITE (WHITE MOUNTAIN
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c:.1pturi11g C\t'r) rhing fron1 creek beds to county line~. this ,ttl.h otTcr-; up-to-d.1te. precise...Maine 1:2 200 000 76 Maryland, Delaware and District of Columbia 1:1 100 000 Massachusetts, Connecticut...000 94 Pennsylvania 1:2 200 000 95 77 78 Tennessee and Kentucky 1:2 200 000 79 61 Michigan 1:2...Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia...Mississippi-Missouri Mackenzie Missouri Mississippi Yukon Rio Grande Arkansas Colorado Red Columbia Saskatchewan
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$1.50. II. Tertiary History of the GramlCanon District, with atlas, by Clarence ~K Dutton, Capt., U....III. Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District, with atlas, by George -:1•'. Becker. 1SS2. 4·:...atlas of21 sheets folio. Price $11.00. IV. Comstock Mining and Miners, by Eliot Lord. 1SS3. 4°. xiv, 451 pp... Prwe $1.20. VIII. Paleontology of the Enreka District, by Charles Doolittle Waleott. 1S84. 4C', xiii... 46 pl. and maps. Price $1.75. XU. Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado, with atlas, by
 
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