| Lat / long: | 35.47816, -83.7699 |
| Primary: | Copper, Zinc |
| Tertiary: | Silver, Gold, Lead |
| Ore: | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Magnetite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite |
| Gangue: | Barite, Biotite, Chlorite, Muscovite, Plagioclase, Quartz, Talc |
| Orebody form: | LENTICULAR, POD-LIKE |
| Discovery year: | 1913 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Stratabound Exhalative |
| Production size: | Medium |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| Production years: | 1926-1944 |
| First production started: | 1926 |
| Host rock: | Anakeesta Formation , Chlorite-Mica Schist And Phyllite;Thunderhead Sandstone-Feldspathic Sst, Quartzite |
| Host type: | Schist,Sandstone |
| Associated type: | Diorite |
| Structure: | Northeast-Trending Strike Belts; Deposit Is Within A Northeast-Trending Sheared Zone Within The Phyllite., Plunge Of Ore Body Is Essentially Parallel To Plunge Of Tiny Foliation Crinkles Of The Sheared Phyllite Host Rock. |
| Tectonic: | Folded Blue Ridge Province |
| Alteration processes: | Limonite After Iron Sulfides; Supergene Copper Minerals. |
| MRDS | K001693 |
| DEP | 10102275 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: LANEY, F.B., 1907, COPPER DEPOSITS OF SWAIN COUNTY, IN PRATT, J.H., THE MINING INDUSTRY IN NORTH CAROLINA DURING 1906: NORTH CAROLINA GEOL. AND ECON. SURVEY, ECON. PAPER 14, P. 72-79.}{Deposit:: ROSS, C.F., 1935, ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE DUCKTOWN TYPE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 179, P. 92-94.}{Deposit:: ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1963, GEOLOGY OF SOME COPPER DEPOSITS IN NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND ALABAMA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1142-I, P. I1 - I50.}{Deposit:: EMMONS, W.H., 1942, A REPORT ON THE FONTANA MINE: TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY INTERNAL REPORT, 57 P., MAPS.}{Deposit:: 1907 COMPILE LANEY, F.B., N.C. ECON. PAPER 14}{Deposit:: 1935 COMPILE ROSS, C.F., USGS PP 179}{Deposit:: 1963 GEOLMAP ESPENSHADE, G.H., USGS BULL. 1142-I}{Production:: ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1963, USGS BULL. 1142} |
| Reporter | Hale, Robin C., Klein, T.L. |