Mine detail: Unnamed Pge Occurrence

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Location: Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.02142, -77.60302
dep_id: 10048644
mrds_id: MP00248
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Lead, Zinc, Platinum, Palladium, Copper, Nickel, Cobalt
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
gangue: Apatite, Ilmenite, Quartz
orebody_fm: UNKNOWN BUT PROBABLY DISSEMINATED
conc_proc: Magmatic Segregation
ore_ctrl: Magmatic Segregation
Reporter: Peterson, Jocelyn A.
hrock_type: Diabase
tectonic: Mesozoic Basins - Culpeper Basin
References:
  • Deposit:: GOTTFRIED, DAVID, AND FROELICH, A.J., 1988, VARIATIONS OF PALLADIUM AND PLATINUM CONTENTS AND RATIOS IN SELECTED EARLY MESOZOIC THOLEIITIC ROCK ASSOCIATIONS IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES, IN, FROELICH, A.J., AND ROBINSON, G.R., JR., EDS., STUDIES OF THE EARLY MESOZOIC BASINS OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1776, P. 332-341.
  • Deposit:: FROELICH, A.J., WOODRUFF, L.G., BELKIN, H.E., AND GOTTFRIED, DAVID, 1991, CONCENTRATION AND ZONATION OF COPPER AND PALLADIUM IN THE MESOZOIC BELMONT DIABASE SHEET, CULPEPER BASIN, NORTHERN VIRGINIA - AN EXPLORATION GUIDE TO ENRICHMENT OF PRECIOUS METALS IN MAFIC MAGMATIC ROCKS, IN, GOODE, E.E., SLACK, J.F., AND KOTRA, R.K., EDS., USGS RESEARCH ON MINERAL RESOURCES - 1991, PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 1062, P. 26-29.
  • Deposit:: GOTTFRIED, DAVID, FROELICH, A.J., ARUSCAVAGE, P.J., AND RAIT, NORMA, 1989, ANOMALOUS PALLADIUM-PLATINUM OCCURRENCES IN MESOZOIC QUARTZ-NORMATIVE THOLEIITIC SUITES IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES, IN, SCHINDLER, K.S., ED., USGS RESEARCH ON MINERAL RESOURCES - 1989, PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 1035, P. 23-25.
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