Mine detail: Wedlight Mine 1945

Previously called 'Langley Mine'

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Location: Smyth County, Virginia, United States, North America
Lat / long: 36.84257, -81.32065
dep_id: 10067274
mrds_id: VA01765
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Manganese
Trace mineral: Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Limonite, Manganite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR/TABULAR
work_type: Surface
Reporter: Wilkes, Gerald P. (Sweet, Palmer C.)
Structure: On South Flank Of East. Plunging Anticline.
tectonic: Blue Ridge Front
yr_lst_prd: 1957
disc_yr: 1910
References:
  • Deposit:: STOSE, G.W., MISER, H.D., KATZ, F.J., HEWETT, D.F., 1919, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE WEST FOOT OF THE BLUE RIDGE, VIRGINIA: VGS BULLETIN 17, PP. 140-142, 148-149.
  • Deposit:: MR. ERNEST TERRY, RURAL RETREAT, DEC 87, PERS. COMM.
  • Deposit:: MR. E. NICHOLES, RURAL RETREAT, DEC 87, PERS. COMM.
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