Mine detail: Wedlight Mine 1945

Previously called 'Langley Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

36.84257, -81.32065

Resource(M)

Primary:	Manganese
Tertiary:	Iron
Ore:	Limonite, Manganite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR/TABULAR
Discovery year:	1910

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1957

Geology

Structure:	On South Flank Of East. Plunging Anticline.
Tectonic:	Blue Ridge Front

References

MRDS	VA01765
DEP	10067274
Reference	{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.}
Reporter	Wilkes, Gerald P. (Sweet, Palmer C.)