Mine detail: Wassum Mine

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Location: Smyth County, Virginia, United States, North America
Lat / long: 36.85175, -81.5815
dep_id: 10067263
mrds_id: VA01752
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Barium-Barite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Barite
orebody_fm: LENSE, PINCH AND SWELL, IRREGULAR
work_type: Surface
ore_ctrl: Fractures In The Dolomite
Reporter: Lovett, James A. (Sweet Palmer C.)
hrock_unit: Beekmantown Formation
hrock_type: Dolomite
Structure: Northeast-Southwest Trending Thrust Faults., Mine On The Western Flank Of The Marion Dome, 800 Feet East, Southeast Of Hungry Mother Creek Fault.
tectonic: Virginia Valley And Ridge
yfp_ba: >
Year first produced: 1875
ylp_ba: <
yr_lst_prd: 1906
dy_ba: >
disc_yr: 1875
References:
  • Deposit:: BUTTS, CHARLES, 1933, GEOLOGY MAP OF THE APPALACHIAN VALLEY OF VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 42
  • Deposit:: COOPER, B.N., 1936, STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF THE MARION AREA, VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 46-L.
  • Deposit:: EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 53
  • Deposit:: FRENCH, B.E., 1967, THE GEOLOGY OF THE MARION DOME, V.P.I. MASTERS THESIS (UNPUBLISHED).
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