CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit group number Country Location Names Commodities
6 United States (Tennessee) 36.07.30 N -- 083.37.30 W East Tennessee District Zn; Cd
 
Database name: World Mississippi Valley-type deposits
Custodial agency: Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: D. F. Sangster
Release date: 2015-02-06
   
Deposit group name(s): East Tennessee District
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Tennessee
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit group status: producer
Geologic province: Appalachian Basin
Deposit object located: centroid of district
Commodities: Zn; Cd
Geological ages: Late Cambrian - Early Ordovician (host rocks)
Mississippian (mineralization)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate
Host rock stratigraphy:Knox Group
References:
Briskey, J. A.; Dingess, P. R.; Smith, F.; Gilbert, R. C.; Armstrong, A. K.; Cole, G. P., 1986
Localization and Source of Mississippi Valley-type Zinc Deposits in Tennessee, USA, and Comparisons with Lower Carboniferous Rocks of Ireland
in Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland, Edited by Andrew, C. J.; Crowe, R. W. A.; Finlay, S.; Pennell, W. M.; Pyne, J. F., Irish Association for Economic Geology, Cahill Printers, Ireland, 711 p, p. 635 - 661

Misra, K. C. Editor(s)), 1995
Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc-Fluorite-Barite Deposits of North America, Society of Economic Geologists 75th Anniversary Guidebook, June 3-6, 1995
Guidebook Volume, Society of Economic Geologists, Cirizen Printing Co., Inc., 1309 Webster Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, 22, 254 p.

Associated deposit(s): Mascot-Jefferson City District (19)

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