Mine detail: Yankee Horseridge Gold Prospect

Previously called 'Good Gold Prospect'

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Location: Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.81311, -79.19336
dep_id: 10067244
mrds_id: VA01730
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tin, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Thorium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Cassiterite, Gold, Pyrite
gangue: Beudantite, Goethite, Hematite, Jarosite
work_type: Unknown
alteration: Serkite - Chlorite; Oxidation Of Sulfieds, Arsenides
Reporter: As, Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.)
hrock_type: Mylonite
arock_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
disc_yr: 1983
discr: R.S. Good
References:
  • 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  • Deposit:: HUDSON, T.A., 1981, GEOLOGY OF THE IRISH CREEK TIN DISTRICT, VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE: UNPUBLISHED M.S. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, 114 P.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.
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