Mine detail: Anna Mary Mine

Previously called 'F.L. Hale Properties'

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Location: Carroll County, Virginia, United States, North America
Lat / long: 36.83007, -80.74341
dep_id: 10079973
mrds_id: W030843
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Trace mineral: Lead, Iron, Pig Iron, Arsenic, Zinc
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Cuprite, Galena, Goethite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
gangue: Muscovite, Quartz
orebody_fm: POD/LENS
work_type: Surface/Underground
model: 91: Massive sulfide, Besshi (Japanese deposits)
alteration: Low Grade Regional Metamorphism (Almandine Garnet Zone)
conc_proc: Supergene Enrichment. Sulfides Emplaced Possibly As A Submarine Precipitate Resulting From Exhalations From A Volcanic Vent.
Reporter: Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.), Myers, Lesley L.
hrock_unit: Lynchburg Formation
hrock_type: Schist
Structure: Blue Ridge Anticlimorium, Fries Thrust, 3 Phases Of Regional Deformation
tectonic: Orogen
Year first produced: 1855
yr_lst_prd: 1860
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:: HENRY, D.K., CRAIG, J.R., AND GILBERT, M.C., 1979, ORE MINERALOGY OF THE GREAT GOSSAN LEAD, VIRGINIA: ECON. GEOL., V. 74, NO. 3, P. 645-656.
  • 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, BULL 72, 233 P.
  • Deposit:: WRIGHT, R.J., AND RAMAN, N.D., 1948, THE GOSSAN LEAD, CARROLL COUNTY, VIRGINIA: U.S. GEOL. SURV. OPEN-FILE REPT., 21 P.
  • Deposit:: CONLEY, J.F., 1985, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA PIEDMONT: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 59, 33P.
  • Deposit:: LUTTRELL, GWENDOLYN W., 1966, BASE AND PRECIOUS METAL AND RELATED ORE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, MINERAL RESOURCES REPORT 7, 167P.
  • Deposit:: 1855 DIREXPL MEIGS CO., TENN., & VA. MNG. 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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