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Occurrence

Weber Talc Prospect

Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States
Talc-Soapstone
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Description

Weber Company Of New York

Commodities
TertiaryTalc-Soapstone
Commodity typeN
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
Orebody formBEDDED
Materials
Ore mineralsTalc
Geology
Host rockMarble · Murphy Marble, White To Bluish-Gray Or-Black, Fine-To Coarse-Grained Marble
Associated rockDiorite · Metadiorite; Precambrian; Dark-Green, Locally Porphyritic, Pyroxenite And Amphibolite. Van Horn (1948, P. 15) Terms These Rocks Metadiorite Because He Considers Them To Be Metamorphosed Diorites That Have Lost Their Feldspar And Quartz Through Metamorphism
StructureNortheast-Trending Strike Belts Defining A Major Syncline
Tectonic settingGeosyncline
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10026148
MRDS IDK002635
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates35.18705, -83.7974
References
VAN HORN, E.C., 1948, TALC DEPOSITS OF THE MURPHY MARBLE BELT (NORTH CAROLINA): NORTH CAROLINA DIV. MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 56, 54 P.POWER, W.R., AND FORREST, J.T., 1973, STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY IN THE MURPHY MARBLE BELT: AM. JOUR. SCI., V. 273, P. 698-711.1948 OTHER VAN HORN, N.C. DIV. MIN. RES., BULL. 561973 OTHER POWER AND FORREST, AM. JOUR. SCI., PAPER