Location: | Carroll County, Virginia, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 36.79563, -80.79841 |
dep_id: | 10079971 |
mrds_id: | W030841 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Copper |
Trace mineral: | Zinc, Lead, Iron, Iron, Pig Iron, Arsenic |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Cubanite, Cuprite, Galena, Goethite, Malachite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite |
gangue: | Chlorite, Muscovite, Quartz |
orebody_fm: | POD/LENS |
work_type: | Surface/Underground |
model: | 91: Massive sulfide, Besshi (Japanese deposits) |
alteration: | Low Grade Regional Metamorphism (Biotite Zone) |
conc_proc: | Exhalations From Distal Volcanic Vent(S) Produced Sulfides As Submarine Precipitates. Some Further Concentration Due To Metamorphism And Deformation, With Later Supergene Enrichment Of Copper Ores. |
ore_ctrl: | Lenticular Troughs |
Reporter: | Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.), Myers, Lesley L. |
hrock_unit: | Lynchburg Group, Ashe Formation |
hrock_type: | Schist,Gneiss |
Structure: | Blue Ridge Anticlinorium, Fries Thrust, 3 Phases Of Regional Deformation, 2, Possibly 3, S Surfaces Visible In Rocks Near Main Portal |
tectonic: | Orogen |
Year first produced: | 1855 |
dy_ba: | < |
disc_yr: | 1861 |
References: |
- Deposit:: CURREY, R.O., 1859, A GEOLOGICAL VISIT TO THE VIRGINIA COPPER REGION: KNOXVILLE, TENN., BECKETT, HAWS AND CO.; REPRINTED IN PART UNDER COPPER AND IRON REGION OF THE FLOYD-CARROLL-GRAYSON PLATEAU OF THE BLUE RIDGE IN VIRGINIA, ETC.: THE VIRGINIAS, 1880, V. 1, P. 62-64, 69-71, 74-77, 80-81, 95.
- Deposit:: ROSS, C.S., 1935, ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE DUCKTOWN TYPE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN STATES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 179, 165 P.
- Deposit:: WEED, W.H., 1911, COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE APPALACHIAN STATES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 455, 166 P.
- Deposit:: STOSE, A.J., AND STOSE, G.W., 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 72, 233 P.
- Deposit:: CONLEY, JAMES F., 1985, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA PIEDMONT: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 59, 33P.
- Deposit:: 1855 DIREXPL TENN. & VA. MINING CO.: OPENED MINE.
- Deposit:: 1911 RECON W.H. WEED: BULL. 455.
- Deposit:: 1935 RECON C.S. ROSS: PROF. PAPER 179.
- Deposit:: 1939 GEOLMAP VA. GEOL. SURV.: BULL. 72.
- Deposit:: 1948 RECON R.J. WRIGHT & N.D. RAMAN: OPEN-FILE REPORT.
- Production:: CURREY (1859)
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