Calcite, fluorite and associated minerals from the Elmwood mine, smith county, Tennessee.
By: Kearns, Lance E.,Neely, Steve,Kielbaso, Joseph
Publication: The Mineralogical Record
Date: Thursday, May 1 2008
Publication: The Mineralogical Record
Date: Thursday, May 1 2008
The Elmwood-Gordonsville lead-zine deposit in north-central Tennessee is a classic. Mississippi Valley-type, low-temperature, hydrothermal emplacement. The ore-bodies formed within breccias and solution cavities in Ordovician-age limestones and dolomites belonging to the upper Knox Group in the
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Specimen owners:
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Bryon Brookmyer
Kevin Brown
Ralph Finley
Mark Kielbaso
Susan and Joe Kielbaso
Rob Lavinsky
Wallace Mann
Betty Lou Neely
Steve Neely
Keith and Mauna Proctor
Bill Severence
Jeff Starr
Bill and Elsie Stone
Stuart and Barbara Strife
Stuart and Donna Wilensky
Chapter authors and showcase organizers: Lance E. Kearns,Steve Neely, Joseph Kielbaso and Walter Gaylord
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