Mine detail: Yankee Horseridge Gold Prospect

Previously called 'Good Gold Prospect'

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Location

Lat / long:

37.81311, -79.19336

Resource(M)

Primary:	Tin, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Thorium
Ore:	Cassiterite, Gold, Pyrite
Gangue:	Beudantite, Goethite, Hematite, Jarosite
Discovery year:	1983

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Mylonite
Associated type:	Meta-Basalt,Dacite
Structure:	Anastomosing Thin Mylonites Near Se - Dipping Cataclastic Zone
Tectonic:	Allocthonous Thrust Lobe Of Imbricately Faulted Precambrian Charnoukites And Graulite Gneisse
Alteration processes:	Serkite - Chlorite; Oxidation Of Sulfieds, Arsenides

References

MRDS	VA01730
DEP	10067244
Reference	{Deposit:: GOOD, R.S., IN PREPARATION, GEOCHEMICAL AND GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE FOR TIN AND GOLD IN IRISH CREEK TIN DISTRICT, ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, VDMR.}{Deposit:: HUDSON, T.A., 1981, GEOLOGY OF THE IRISH CREEK TIN DISTRICT, VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE: UNPUBLISHED M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, 114 P.}{Deposit:: FORDHAM, O.M. JR., 1978, STREAM SEDIMENT GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE IRISH CREEK TIN DISTRICT, ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY IN CRONTRIBUTIONS TO VIRGINIA GIOLOGY III: VDMR PUBL. 7, P. 75-85.}{Deposit:: EVANS, N.A. AND GOOD, R.S., IN PREPARATION, GEOCHRONOLOGY OF A XENOLITHIC GRANITE PLUTON, NETTLE CREEK, ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.}
Reporter	As, Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.)