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Mineral Resources of the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity North Carolina Mineral Resources of the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity North Carolina RC. 521 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 521 Mineral Resources of the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity North Carolina Mineral Resources of the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity North Carolina By Bruce Bryant and John C. Reed, Jr. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 521 Washington 1966 United States Department of the Interior STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary Geological Survey William T. Pecora, Director First printing 1966 Second printing 1967 Fr«* on application to fh« U.S. G*ofogtca/ Survey, Washington, D.C. 20242 CONTENTS Page Page Abstract __ _ __ ____ ____ 1 Nonmetallic resources - - 9 Introduction- _________ _______ 1 Mica and feldspar _ 9 Summary of geology ______________ 1 Kaolin __________ -_ - 10 Metallic resources __________________ 3 Asbestos - ____ ________ _ 10 Iron _________ _ 3 Road metal 11 Titanium ____ _____ __ __ 4 Sand and gravel _ _ - H Uranium -__ ___________ __-_ _ 5 Building stone . 11 Gold __ __ __________________ 7 Other commodities 12 Zinc and lead _____________________ ? References-___. - __- -- 12 Manganesse _____________________ 8 Copper__________________________ 8 ILLUSTRATIONS Page Figure 1. Generalized map of Grandfather Mountain area showing location of some of the mineral resources _______________ _ ______ _ __ ____ _______ 2 2. Sketch of uraninite veinlets at the foot of Bard Falls ___ _-_ _-- ____ 5 3. Map of uranium prospects on North Harper Creek--------- ______ __ 6 TABLES Page Table 1. Metal content of selected specimens from iron prospects on Big Ridge, Linville quadrangle _________________________________ ____ __ _ __ 8 2. Copper content of samples of Montezuma Member of the Grandfather Mountain Formation _"____________________________ ___ _________ __ 9 in Mineral Resources of the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity, North Carolina By Bruce Bryant and John C. Reed, Jr. ABSTRACT In the Mountain City window, weakly meta­ The most valuable and largest mineral resources presently morphosed Lower Cambrian rocks of the known in the Grandfather Mountain area are gravel, sand, Rome Formation, the Shady Dolomite, and road metal, and building stone. Mica, feldspar, kaolin, iron, the Chilhowee Group are exposed. titanium, and asbestos have been produced, and additional resources may be available in modest amounts. Uranium, lead, zinc, manganese, gold, and copper occur in small The Blue Ridge thrust sheet consists of amounts, but no deposits minable under present economic upper Precambrian schist, gneiss, ampnibo- conditions are known. lite, migmatite, and granitic rock formed INTRODUCTION during a metamorphic-plutonic event 1,000 1,100 million years ago and intruded by ul- This circular summarizes the information tramafic rock of early Paleozoic(?) age and collected on mineral deposits during a study leucogranodiorite and pegmatite of early or of the Grandfather Mountain window and vi­ middle Paleozoic age. These rocks have cinity in northwestern North Carolina and been metamorphosed one or more times presents these data independently of the de­ during the Paleozoic. In late Paleozoic time scription and interpretation of the general the Blue Ridge thrust sheet moved relatively geology of this large and complex area. The northwestward at least 35 miles over Pre­ Grandfather Mountain area comprises the cambrian granitic rocks and migmatite and a Linville, Linville Falls, Lenoir, and Blowing thick sequence of upper Precambrian sedi­ Rock 15-minute quadrangles and parts of the mentary and volcanic rocks that are now ex­ Marion 15-minute quadrangel and the Little posed in the Grandfather Mountain window. Switzerland and Marion East 7^-minute quad­ An intermediate thrust sheet, the Tablerock rangles. Geologic information on the area is thrust sheet, occurs above the autochthonous in published geologic maps (Bryant, 1963, rocks and beneath the Blue Ridge thrust sheet 1965; Reed, 1964a, b) and in the open-file in the southern part of the window. The map (Reed and Bryant, 1964). Information in Tablerock thrust sheet is composed of the this report pertaining to the Linville and Shady Dolomite and rocks of the Chilhowee Linville Falls quadrangles has previously Group. The rocks in the window and the been published (Bryant, 1962; Reed, 1964b). thrust sheet were pervasively metamor­ The specific localities mentioned in this re­ phosed at low grade during the Paleozoic. port can be found on the published quad­ rangles, for many of the geographic features The Brevard fault zone, a strike-slip fault are too small to be shown on figure 1. of regional extent, truncates the Grandfather Mountain window and the Blue Ridge thrust SUMMARY OF GEOLOGY sheet to the southeast. The fault zone con­ tains slices of exotic rock, and the zone and From northwest to southeast the area is adjacent rocks showing structural and meta- composed of the following tectonic units: morphic effects related to the faulting form the Mountain City window, the Blue Ridge a belt 5 miles wide. Right-lateral movement thrust sheet, the Grandfather Mountain win­ along the Brevard fault took place in late dow, the Brevard fault zone, and the Inner Paleozoic and early Mesozoic time and may Piedmont (fig. 1). MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN WINDOW AND VICINITY, NORTH CAROLINA 82°00 LINVILLE QUADRANGLE_____45' BLOWING ROCK QUADRANGLE 81' 36°15 /UMOUNTAINV CITY N WINDOW \ ' \ ___ - -___W. GRAN DFATHERk_ - - - - - CA MOUNTAIN ^r-r Morgan ton LINVILLE FALLS QUADRANGLE LENOIR QUADRANGLE Base from Army Map Service 1:250,000 quadrangles 5 MILES Thrust fault Strike-slip fault Teeth on upper plate Arrows fkow direction qf Mica-producing area INDEX MAP . relative movement Figure 1. Generalized map of the Grandfather Mountain area showing location of some of the mineral resources: A, asbestos; Au, gold; Fe, iron; K, kaolin; Pb, lead; Ti, titanium; U, uranium; Zn, zinc. METALLIC RESOURCES have been closely related to the northwest­ latest metamorphism. Goldich and Wedow ward transport of the Blue Ridge thrust sheet. (1943) considered the ore bodies as discus- shaped tectonic lenses. The lenses mined In the inner Piedmont, which is southeast ranged in thickness from a few feet to 200 of the Brevard fault, layered biotite and bio- feet and were as much as 900 feet long. KLine tite-amphibole gneiss, mica, and sillimanite and Ballard (1948, p. 11) referred to an un­ schist and concordant bodies of cataclastic published report by Lucien Easton, which augen gneiss of Precambrian or early Pale­ stated that the ore occurs in shoots that ozoic age have been invaded by granitic rocks strike N. 57° W., dip 30° SW., and are elon­ of early or middle Paleozoic age and by ul- gate in a S. 70° W., 30° SW., direction of tramafic rocks of early Paleozoic(?) age. plunge. These rocks were subjected to one or more episodes of metamorphism during the Pale­ Surface float from the Cranberry deposit ozoic. was mined as early as 1820 (Bayley, 1923, p. 98), but systematic mining did not begin METALLIC RESOURCES until 1882 when a railroad was completed to Cranberry from Johnson City, Tenn. (Nitze, IRON 1893). In 1884 a small blast furnace capable of handling 40 tons of ore per day was built Historically, iron has been an important at Cranberry. After 1900 the ore was shipped mineral resource of the Grandfather Moun­ to Johnson City where a 100-ton-per-day tain area. A belt of iron prospects and mines blast furnace had been built. From 1882 to in the Linville quadrangle extends northwest­ 1930, about if million tons of ore was pro­ ward from near Newland through Cranberry duced (KLine and Ballard, 1948). During and and about 6 miles west into Tennessee. The after World War II the U.S. Bureau of Mines principal producing mine in this belt was the made a geophysical survey of the Cranberry Cranberry mine at Cranberry, N.C. iron belt, did some core drilling, and proc­ essed ore in a pilot plant (Kline and Ballard, The first published description of the 1948). Since 1930 the mine has not been Cranberry deposit, including several analy­ operated except during the Bureau of Mines' ses of the ore, was written by Kerr (1875) test, although in recent years some ore has before any extensive mining had been done. been salvaged from dump material which has Bayley (1923) gave a rather complete review been crushed for gravel. of the literature on Cranberry mine. During the present survey the underground workings The Cranberry mine was worked by open- at Cranberry were only partly accessible; cut; it was also worked underground on two most of the description, therefore, is sum­ levels by an adit and slopes from the upper marized from the literature. level. The workings underlie an area about 3,700 feet long and 700 feet wide (Kline and The ore mineral is magnetite; the gangue Ballard, 1948). Goldich and Wedow (1943) es­ minerals are, principally, pyroxene, amphi- timated that between 450,000 and 600,000 tons bole, epidote, quartz, feldspar, and, subor- of ore might be taken from the mine by rob­ dinately, garnet, and calcite. According to bing the pillars if the mine were abandoned Ross (1935), the country rock contains augite in the process. They estimated that there and the ore deposits hedenbergite. Other might be 1 2 million tons of ore below the minerals in the gangue include biotite, pyrite, present mine workings. Kline and Ballard pyrrhotite, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite. The (1948, p. 85) believed that there are more ore is nontitaniferous and low in phosphorus. ore shoots at Cranberry like those already The iron content is 30 35 percent. mined, and possibly others elsewhere along the iron-bearing belt. Keith (1903)recognized that the ore occurs in separate lenses peneconcordant with the Other iron prospects in the Cranberry belt foliation of the Cranberry Gneiss; he be­ in the Grandfather Mountain area have had lieved that the ore was postmetamorphic. negligible production, and many are over­ However, Bayley (1923, p.
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